| 单词 | piles |
| 例句 | Josh, in a Santa hat, made piles for each person. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z In addition, hunter-gatherers frequently shift camp and leave behind their own piles of feces with accumulated microbes and worm larvae. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z He attempts to sort through the contents of a table, pushing aside piles of newspapers and a birdless birdcage. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z His desktop is buried with piles of papers and used books. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z He had noticed the books before, rows and piles of them that kept growing; but their being books, he didn’t think much of it. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 “And indeed I have been,” said a voice, and out from behind the desk where he’d been sitting, hidden by the piles of books, appeared a bespectacled, green-eyed man in a green plaid suit. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z He could hear the waves beat under the piles and he could hear the scampering of white rats against the wire. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Big piles of nachos, cheeseburgers as wide as plates, cherry pie, potato chips, all the good stuff. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z Everyone piles out of the truck, Amar shivering in the cold and bouncing on his toes. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z 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 Every morning a snowy avalanche of manuscripts swelled the dust-gray piles in the office of the Fiction Editor. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z Sometimes when the hurt piles up, Axel can’t do anything but feel every tap, tap, tap of it. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z 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 He lifted his mattress with one arm, propped it on his head, and began rummaging through piles of paper hidden beneath it. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z 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 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 While you walk toward her, she sorts through piles of paper and tickets. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z We were pecking through the piles, looking for all the green and black ones. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z It resembled some of the other throw-away things she brought home from the discarded piles outside white ladies' houses where she cleaned or the hotel where she worked as a maid. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Two wooden gates hung open, and from the other side of the road, Alex could see a shed with a security window and beyond it the tottering piles of dead and broken cars. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z 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 There were piles of creased paperbacks, dusty boxes full of postcards or trinkets. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z I made piles of light, dark, and bright fabrics and one pile I thought was too ugly for keeping. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z ‘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 We began to sort the debris into piles—aluminum, iron, steel, copper—so it could be sold. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z “Looks creepy,” Fina murmurs, staring down the narrow, gravel road with piles of dead leaves strewn across it. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z Me: “John Mark’s family—I’ve met a few of his cousins, but there are piles of them coming in from Michigan and Tennessee and California. He’s never been married before.” Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z I hear Mom’s key in the door and flip over my word piles so she can’t peek. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z 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 She started noticing little piles of money everywhere. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z 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 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 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 We sorted them into two piles: one ; bout money and the other about food. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Two broken washboards, piles of moth-eaten quilts, chairs with split seats. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z He piles the bubbles together like he is making a sand castle. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z There's a big old TV with a doily on the top, and an empty goldfish bowl, and piles of newspapers tied up neat with string, and a Bible on this little table by the TV. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z I wish there weren’t so many huge junk piles for things to hide behind, or all that rustling dead grass, or the weird twisted trees. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z We watched a lot of videos that showed piles of snow. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z “Personally,” he said, “my great ambition is to count all this”—he waved vaguely at the treasure around him—“and possibly sort it into piles. ‘Know thyself,’ that’s my dictum. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z Their leaves littered the terrace, blown into piles in the corners. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z Instead, I watched the tiny projectile land and lodge itself amid Cap’s cascading piles of long hair. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z 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 Kate arranged the pictures in four piles and slipped each pile into a heavy manila envelope. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z 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 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 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 Isobel piles the cards and shuffles them back into the deck. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z He heaped piles of dirt into the corners of the house and hummed a song under his breath. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z As they rounded the piles, the domovoi appeared as a cat, strolling by her leg without looking at her. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z Boxes of garbage and piles of junk were heaped around wrecked porches. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z 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 The tree transformed into my truck, full of merchandise—piles of blouses and skirts and shoes, and I bounced on the limb, beeping and roaring my engine to far- off places like Quito and Colombia. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z When they’d finally dropped anchor, Inej was led on deck and handed over to one of the most beautiful women she’d ever seen, a tall blonde with hazel eyes and piles of golden hair. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z Eric and the boy I thought was named Ben gathered broken branches of driftwood from the drier piles against the forest edge, and soon had a teepee-shaped construction built atop the old cinders. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z 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 It was filled with animals and machines and piles of straw, and two robots. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z He picked his way about the farm carts, the piles of whitish green cabbages, baskets of yellow corn, rows of plump, pale, plucked turkeys, orange pumpkins, country cheeses—big as a baby’s head. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 Gay created piles of filthy pots as she cooked the holiday meal. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z 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 Stanley sifted his fingers through the fresh piles of dirt, in case he had missed anything. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z They had taken away her physics books and the piles of dusty spiral pads full of lecture notes that had ringed her room, and she was confined to grounds again. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z We were served heaping piles of meats, bread, and cheese. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z 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 He motioned to the piles of paving stones and the logs waiting to be dragged into position. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z My shoes were stained green, I couldn’t smell anything but fresh-cut grass, and I dreamed about endless lawns and enormous piles of clippings. Lawn Boy 2007-06-12T00:00:00Z The fortune-teller nods and stacks the three piles of cards back into one deck, leaving Bailey’s chosen cards on top. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Breathless and stunned, I wander the trove, struggling to walk within the muck that fills the space between treasure piles. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z 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 Jaimito sits on the ground playing with piles of sawdust while we work. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z There were piles of paper everywhere, printouts, torn maps, boxes...and then there was Clancy himself, his hair falling into his face, wearing the same rumpled white shirt I had seen the day before. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z “Smooth,” said Ron approvingly as the waiters popped up on all sides, some bearing silver trays of pumpkin juice, butterbeer, and firewhisky, others tottering piles of tarts and sandwiches. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z 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 He was sitting behind a brown table upon which stood piles of dust and cobweb-covered books and papers. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 All the piers around our little bay had disappeared under water, and only their piles or hand rails showed. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Mama had warned him that he’d get piles from sitting on a hot stove. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Regression analysis is the tool that enables an economist to sort out these huge piles of data. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z 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 Gabe looked around at the piles of boards, the sawdust, the mess on the ground. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Lana Lee started snapping a rubber band around the pile of bills and making little piles of nickels that she was taking out of the cash register. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Roman demigods tried to chase him, tripping over piles of cannonballs and dodging tourists, who screamed and ran in circles. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z There were scraps of paper on which he had written his evil ideas in an illegible scrawl, lying in messy piles on top of the copy of Nuptial Law he had taken away from Klaus. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z There were so many piles, you had to wriggle through their apartment in little pathways between the clutter, like you were stumbling through a tight maze. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z “Oh. They wanted the floor cleared for the blood drive. Maybe it got tossed into one of those piles over there.” Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z She opens each piece of mail one by one and sorts them into piles. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z He lay in a shallow depression and heaped piles of dry leaves over himself until he felt warm again. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z 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 All the docks looked the same—all the boats and ships and piles of cargo. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z The floor of the pier was four feet under water, but piles stuck up and offered hand-holds. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z There were piles of things spread out along the tracks, as if they had been dropped by a fleeing army. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z They rolled on the floor and tumbled down from the piles in the corners, hightailing it to where Uncle Cotton lay with his eyes closed, a heavy sigh escaping his lips. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z “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 They were white—he was right—but the shorter one had piles of curly hair that looked a lot like his own, and a nose that leaned to the left like his did. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z The rest of my family piles into the car. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z Mama gestured at the mess of boxes stacked in unstable piles throughout the living room. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z 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 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 The space was cluttered with piles of papers and stacks of magazines. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z 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 Everything was standing about in piles and the piles were thick with dust. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z When he was done he covered the two piles with grass he tore from the lake shore to keep the flies off and went back outside. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z Celia regards the three piles of cards thoughtfully while she sips her tea. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z “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 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 My worry for her piles on top of itself. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z After an hour, the ground all around the table would be littered with piles of durian husks, stinking like a dying mongoose. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z The exam was in twelve weeks, and Neel lugged home piles of extra geometry problems that made his tired brain feel as thick and sticky as mud. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z 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 Mostly he fusses with piles of clothes the way he usually does, muttering under his breath, and glancing up at the clock. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z There was nothing left of them but weapons in the sand and piles of smoking, empty uniforms. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z Jessie, wearing jeans and a baggy navy hoodie, was perched on the steps leading to the dungeon with a pile of colored gumdrops and wooden toothpicks in neat piles around her. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z I paid for some photocopies of documents which I arranged into orderly piles for my own archives. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Servants park lunch carts beside us brimming over with cheese towers, spires of tomatoes, and piles of sweet rope bread and sliced meat. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z 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 “Come in here dressed like rag piles and act like they own the place.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Inside are tidy piles of hummus, carrot sticks, and edamame beans. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z She scurries from the bedroom to the living room, taking pictures of our family and the Buddha off the walls and piles them into her arms. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Lacey, in turn, is sorting items into piles based on an organizational schema only she understands. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z Two piles of earth lay on the grass. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 It’s a huge place filled with broken furniture, piles of books and ledgers, and rusty weapons. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z First, we divided the treasure into two piles, one bigger and heavier than the other. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z 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 Near the bank the ice piles up in chunks. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Oranges, cocoanuts and alligator pears lay in neat piles on little tables. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 “By all accounts, we seem to be off to a great school year. Teachers are already handing out piles of homework, and the cafeteria is serving veggie sloppy joes. It makes a principal proud.” The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z 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 Ali Rodriguez lifted three boxes of flyers at a time and placed them in neat piles in a corner. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z “Make piles of similar colors. Doesn’t have to be perfect.” Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z Maybe I had been infected by the smell of evergreen boughs being gathered into piles and set ablaze in celebration of Tehlu’s triumph. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Regardless of whether the engineers conducted a test in a wind tunnel or in free flight, the output was the same: torrents, scads, bundles, reams, masses, mounds, jumbles, piles, and goo-gobs of numbers. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z After two hours of backbreaking labor, hauling the boats through wet, heavy snow, detouring around piles of broken floe, they were only one mile from Endurance. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z 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 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 Near it was another, sturdier, bridge built low to the water, carrying an enormous conveyor belt, which appeared to be transporting piles of rock and gravel from one side of the river to the other. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z By our language, which was both hard and wistful, we transformed the bodies into piles of waste. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z After she left, I went clear down one side of the boathouse, raking, making piles, and periodically stuffing the junk into one of the two black leaf bags. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z All about us in the store were piles of goods; white men and women went from counter to counter. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 She left the creature where it lay in a crumpled heap atop piles of jewels. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z Then he crossed the little beach and disappeared among the piles and steel posts which support the piers. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z The dirt, to start with, the piles of rubbish, the dust, the dogs, the flies. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z She oinked several times and pushed the nearest piles carefully out of her way before rolling onto her back and rocking back and forth, a pig gleefully wallowing in mud. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z All I see are piles of shiny winter coats and snow pants. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z 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 To Joseph’s shock, it was now a huge vacant space littered with rubbish and a few piles of leftover packing crates. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z He’d found more blankets upstairs and they dragged in great piles of wood and stacked the wood in the corner of the room to dry. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z Many tents have wet clothes hanging all over their fines, piles of wood by the crackling fire, and homemade wooden benches. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 On a footstool, tattlers sit in piles like stacks of warm sugar crepes. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z 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 Sometimes there were piles of them, built neatly in rows of four, one level turned this way, the next level turned that way, so they would stack evenly. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z They looked like messy piles, but to her they were organized messy piles. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z His own room was forever the same, just steadily more stuffed with lacrosse trophies and piles of AP coursework. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z It’s the end of the day, and she is cleaning up her classroom, straightening rows of desks, and sorting piles and piles of paper. Watch Us Rise 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z There they hung, three live men and one dead one, as the Lord of Light’s devout stacked split logs and broken branches under their feet, then doused the piles with lamp oil. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z We splashed through shallow puddles, startling flies from their perches atop piles of rotten food. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z Into two of these I went, but saw nothing except fragments of old coffins and piles of dust; in the third, however, I made a discovery. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z Mama asked as she browsed through the piles of videos that cost only ninety-nine cents each. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 The blacksmith’s shop, the mill, the church, the stores, so busy and alive in daylight, were hunched, deserted now, dark piles and shapes without a purpose or a meaning. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z Everything sleeps save the snails climbing the rocks and the rats scurrying among the piles. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z It made no sound against the piles of the bridge. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z I hated the piles of manure purposely hidden in the grass to spoil my shoes. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z Also, there were piles of bundles outside every house. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z 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 Everywhere she looked was chaos—piles and piles of wood and rock and metal. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z Then he was out the other side of town, and there were piles of stacked Union muskets, blankets and canteens and wagons, the abandoned implements of war. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z He got to his knees, kicking over his colorful book piles in the process. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z Ifemelu imagined her combing through the piles of secondhand shoes and clothes in the side stalls of Tejuosho market, finding the best pieces and then haggling tirelessly with the trader. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z How many men decompose in the piles of stone before them? All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Most of the cabins were gone—piles of charred wood and stone. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z I wanted to ask her about it, but she lay back down behind the piles of hay, invisible again. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z I would scoop the flowers out of the water and arrange them into piles. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z I stole into the ditch, taking the piles of books with me. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Uhmma is sitting on the bed and arranging my clothes into neat piles for the dresser we will share. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z “Here you are,” she said, sorting them into two piles. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z Filthy clothes and blankets heaped in piles on the ground. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 A small table with piles of dog-eared fashion and lifestyle magazines. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z 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 Three- foot-high piles of them decorated the steps between the benches. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z “Okay, give me the last few days of each section—make piles along the table, in order from Section One to Section Eight. One here”—he pointed at an end—“to Eight here.” The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z He kept giving us more and more goldfish crackers, and then we all put our piles together in the middle of the table and helped each other count them. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z 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 Ignatius pushed past her and lumbered down to the car, opening the rear door of the little Renault and climbing in among the placards and piles of pamphlets that covered the seat. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 There’s been next to no rain to disturb the piles of ash left by the attack. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z Soon there was nothing left but piles of dust and assorted hooves and horns. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z “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’s just standing there looking down at something and so I shine the flashlight and see that she’s standing by two long piles of clothes. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z 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 “You are to make two separate piles of homework each day. If you have a cold, you are to place your homework in the pile marked ‘ill.’ A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z We got to jump over puddles of dirty water and busted-up furniture, piles of trash. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z But there are piles of reasons I can’t tell the absolute truth. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z The white lunch lady with her hair in a net has a huge gap-toothed smile as she piles sloppy joes and too-cheesy slices of pizza onto plates, along with cartons of milk and browning bananas. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z In one of the tottering piles in my office, I found the logs from the private detectives hired by Whitehorn’s estate after his death. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z That night, and each night afterward, I separated the tobacco into equal piles and said to Steve, “Choose.” Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Now I'm picking my way around the heaps and piles and sagging shelves. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 She came to that marriage with her slave Noah, lots of land, and piles of money, which is what ol’ Massa wanted.” Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z Five piles of stones are neatly sorted by size. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z I open the first trunk, and light spills across the shimmering contents—piles of sequined, gold-threaded, and patterned fabric. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z The lingering despair had disappeared with the piles of garbage. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z He puts Natalie’s buttons down in two careful piles, gets up and brushes his uniform off. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 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 The driver was a beautiful red-headed girl, and she left piles and piles of books. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z 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 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 The piles were outside his five-foot circle, but he could see he was going to run out of room. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z Young white girls with piles of golden hair hung on the arms of flashily dressed men. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z My impulse was to turn and retrace my steps, but I told myself that I could not possibly be far from the river now, so I kept on, dodging piles of muck. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z The piles of gravel grew larger each day. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z “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 In the kitchen, there were several towering piles of empty tuna-fish cans. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z Then I stepped around my piles and had a fine idea. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 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 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 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 Everything started became nothing finished, and all her projects and my homework and hobbies just ended up in piles collecting dust. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 They have some men arrange the tables into long rows, and everyone helps make piles of clothes: women's, men's, boys' and girls'. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Anorak throws open the double doors, revealing an immense treasure room filled with piles of glittering gold coins and jewel-encrusted goblets.* Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z We slept on piles of our own clothes. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z The house and barn were gone, and smoking piles of ash and charred wood were all that remained. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z 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 It gives me an odd comfort to sort this money into piles of cut-off heads. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z What you would chiefly have noticed if you had been there was the smells, which came from unwashed people, unwashed dogs, scent, garlic, onions, and the piles of refuse which lay everywhere. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z Here, Burnham realized, contractors would have to drive piles at least down to hard-pan, an expensive complication and a source of additional delay. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z A few outbuildings, a toolshed, a little barn had all sagged into piles of faded slabs and rusty nails. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 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 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 “We can give you such piles of treasure,” he said, “that I have nothing left to pay an army with. Then you’ll be safe.” Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z They collected piles of rocks and stones and tied them up into bundles using sturdy cloth. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 It was littered with belongings: brass beds, chairs, kitchen tables, pots and pans, cribs, and piles of clothes. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z I was disgusted by the piles of dirty diapers, the snotty noses, and the screeches of children vying for any sort of attention. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z He looked at the sky and saw the white cumulus built like friendly piles of ice cream and high above were the thin feathers of the cirrus against the high September sky. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z I cross the lot, making a wide arc around scattered piles of canvas. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z And he practically buried the Chincha leadership under piles of valuables. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z The piles were decayed and the planks were green with slime, and there was nothing else; nothing beyond it; the path ended where the jetty began, and where the jetty ended, the mist began. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z 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 They walked deeper into the neighborhood, avoiding the puddles of dirty water that overflowed from the gutters and dodging the piles of garbage in which cats were digging like silent shadows. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Hugo headed toward the door to leave, but the bookstore was warm and quiet, and the teetering piles of books fascinated him. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z Then their hands flew, throwing cards on top of cards until Bridge yelled “Out!” and banged her hand down on the smaller of the two spit piles. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z Finally, in frustration, he would grab one of the piles and go off and begin to smoke. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z I climb the ladder, pull myself over the ledge, dodge around various piles of junk. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Mark and Marc, organizing piles of headshots behind the table, giggle for some reason. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z 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 Once she finishes, she helps Pithy with the other two piles. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z As the prow scraped the landing piles, Nat leaped ashore and caught the hawser. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z There were piles of books in his study. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z 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 It was always there in my collection, in one of my little piles next to the skirting board. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z The door was hidden in a dark corner, behind piles of boxes and old furniture. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z Papa sits at the table with a rag, polishing all of our silver, which lies in neat piles around him. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z A man with a bamboo rake pulls shotgun shells into piles. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z Their rifles were off to the side, stacked in piles. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z She points to the piles of books on the back shelf. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z They walked through the center of town, stepping over piles of clothes. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z Vikus was sitting at the table alone, surrounded by piles of scrolls and maps. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Though it was still August, the air already had the smell of October, football season, piles of yellow-red leaves, everything crisp and clean. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Behind him, sitting on piles of scrap and rubble, was the blue kite. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z I can’t see what the piles are until I am a foot away from them. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z Later that day he searched again, prying hastily through piles of scrolls and hastily restacking them, staring defeated into that dusty, innocent cupboard. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z I sit down at my desk and search through the piles of Ibo books for a good picture of the ship. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z I tramped out of camp by headlamp behind Rob and Frank, wending between ice towers and piles of rock rubble to reach the main body of the glacier. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z He takes her hand to help her over the piles. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z At the base of the cliffs, hundreds of men with sledgehammers and crowbars climbed over piles of fallen rock, loosening them for the front loaders. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z They were holding piles of presents all wrapped decadently in striped paper and abundant ribbons. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z He moved aside a cardboard box, and a huge spider, with a lumpy, greenish-grey back, scuttled out, and over some piles of newspapers. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z 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 It took another hour to empty it completely, throw away the useless items, and sort the remainder in piles according to whether or not he would need them from now on. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z Everywhere on the floor, piles of books leaned into each other. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z Her violin mostly sat on a shelf these days, calling out to her, almost mocking her as she washed endless piles of dishes and dirty diapers. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z 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 And the Romans had six onagers, all stocked with piles of ammunition. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z When they stood before the large house, Dicey noticed oddly shaped piles. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z Soon the beggar children disappeared, and Alba noticed that the stray dogs and piles of garbage were gone too. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Sean raised a brow at the piles of papers and photographs and said, “Art project?” Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z 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 The flashlight beam fell on a teddy bear, a stuffed toy rabbit, fishing rods, a toolbox, piles of books, and a plastic sword that stuck out of a sleeping bag. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z 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 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 He set up a door on brick piles for a table. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Sagging piles of rotted wood and fabric had rebuilt themselves into fainting couches and armchairs, and sunlight streamed through high windows once so grimy I’d thought they were blacked out. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z 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 The piles were a lot bigger than his hole was deep. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z The real reasons were buried beneath piles and piles of unsaid things. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z Around me each day were dour faces eclipsed by large piles of books. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z I mean piles of things with tubes and wires. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z She looked at the piles of worms, confused, just like me. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z Light snores curl out from beneath her door as I let myself into Lucy’s room, careful to avoid any creaking floorboards, and begin to search through my mother’s piles. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z Pick it apart, leaf by twig, stone by rock, until I have orderly piles of the material. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Everything else—the piles of dirty laundry, the opened Doritos bags, the empty cans of generic soda pop, two ratty old chairs, and a moldering beanbag chair—was dispensable, an afterthought, props. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z He even saw a few humans lying lifeless here and there—sometimes piles of them. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z Once again, he realized, he was going to have to move the piles. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z 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 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 He rolls the blueprints and piles the papers and books. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z They had clothes folded in piles along the wall and a mattress wedged into the corner. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z At other times they crowd into my brother’s room, lying on their stomachs on his bed or on the floor, reading his huge piles of comic books. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z 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 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 But five- and six-piece dance bands were turning out huge piles of graphophone records, and we tried to buy them all. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z They’d left manure and hoofprints on graves, crushed flower arrangements into piles of stems, ribbon, and Styrofoam, and knocked over several tombstones, which now lay flat on the ground next to their bases. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z Once, at a party at Sally and Oliver’s, they’d wandered off to make quick, giddy love in Sally’s walk- in closet, piles of her sweaters looming over them. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z When she opened it, she found piles of the finest velvets and damasks the Free Cities could produce . . . and resting on top, nestled in the soft cloth, three huge eggs. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z I say, frantically looking behind the sheaves and the piles of fruit baskets. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z 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 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 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 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 In my closet, piece by piece, I pry away parts of my heart, stripping off every picture, shredding them down, building little paper piles as the tape sticks to my nails. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z She kept walking around, looking over the boys' shoulders, and sticking her pitchfork through the dirt piles. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z 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 We pick our way through family groups, past piles of bags and bundles. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z On a thick wooden table by the window, piles of colored yarns lay ready for sorting. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The vendor ladies squatted, scowling, resting their chins on their crossed arms, behind fortresses of stacked kola nuts, bundles of fragrant sticks, piles of charcoal, salvaged bottles and cans, or displays of dried animal parts. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z The Donkey collected great piles of thistles and threw them in, but Uncle Andrew didn’t seem to care about them. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z 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 howled, a long deep shivery cry, a howl to wake the sleepers, but the piles of man-rock were dark and dead. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z She searched through piles and wandered through racks, pressing back hanger after hanger, until she found a cocktail dress made of a slinky silvery material that matched her eyes, with little chains for straps. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z In his office he constantly altered the position of his coffee mug, his stapler, a jar of pens, he shuffled papers into neater piles. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z He would look at both piles, his head swinging back and forth between the two. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Luke groped blindly, fighting through what felt like piles of hair. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z But they were not allowed to stop by the piles, simply pushed closer to the boxcars. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z There were no haphazard piles lying around as they did at home. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z Swiftly I made piles of cracked nuts, smoked rabbit, and crayfish. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 stared for a moment at the piles of fruit, bread, and dried meats the yumboes had packed for him. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z In twenty-four hours it was all gone except for some lovely shady patches in the woods—white-laced branches dripping rain holes in the crust—and the slushy gray piles at the roadside. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z Buried under piles of feather comforters, snoring demigods nestled in their bunks. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z 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 was sorting quickly through the boxes, making piles of people of my mother’s side of the family, then my father’s, and then one of faces I didn’t know, a growing stack of strangers. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 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 The cars remained, as did piles of garbage and human waste. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z His hole was almost up to his shoul-ders, although it was hard to tell exactly where ground level was because his dirt piles completely surrounded the hole. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z The fire was so intense that piles of pig iron melted like wax left in the sun, granite blocks split in two, and limestone and marble turned to powder and blew away. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z There are still mounds of bodies waiting to be buried, like cord wood or piles of matchsticks. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Its Ark was a gutted mass of charred wood, its four Torah scrolls were seared black, its holy books were piles of gray ash blown about by the wind. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z 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 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 Abby came over and sat on the couch while I quickly organized our supplies into piles. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z Inej saw guards emerge with little piles of brooches, porcupine quills, even sashes that Inej assumed must contain metal or wire. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z The master bathroom is covered with piles of wet clothes and towels. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z She had dug to the bottom of fabric piles and explored the shadows underneath awnings. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z We wound through the piles of junk until we reached a small trailer. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z Huge stinking piles of human feces lay everywhere; it was impossible not to walk in it. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z 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 Now trees were growing up again, but there were tangled old limbs in piles and ancient stumps overgrown with lichens and moss and little green leaves and ferns. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z In the fall he burned brush piles and raked leaves for Virginia Gatewood, a stick figure at twilight in cloth gloves and a threadbare mackinaw coat ragged at the elbows. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z He’d left piles of clothes in the closet and the armoire, but no shoes anywhere. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z 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 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 Abby and I want to take our piles up to our rooms and start using them. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z “Everything. Food, clothes, boxes, cans. Light bulbs, stacks of them. Everything. Piles and piles up to the ceiling.” The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z She’d sort all the clothes into piles and start to washing early in the morning before cooking breakfast. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z The other half of the hut was divided into two piles of dry grass. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z The Sokoloff penthouse was dramatic and modern but cluttered with piles of books, magazines, and keepsakes. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z He had opened the metal case and was methodically laying everything he had been given out on the back seat in neat piles. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z 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 I was lookin’ through my football cards, putting them in piles by position. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z As the space around me diminishes, the piles of “treasure” are ripped away, becoming debris spinning in the contracting circle of water. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z Only Aliya makes a move and stacks the folded piles into a laundry basket. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z As it was she felt an unwilling respect that made her hold her tongue and set to work folding and replacing the piles of clothing. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z After digging through piles of old books, they’d quickly make their purchase. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z And in the doorways men sat on the stoops selling various newspapers gathered in piles around them. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z He scooped the piles together and started over setting them up. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z She saw piles of butchered chickens and was able to buy as many as she wanted even though they cost three times as much as usual, since free pricing had been decreed. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z The wood was stacked as high as a man could reach, in orderly piles on either side of a central aisle. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z I look at the markers for a second and then get back to my word piles. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z "Keep the fishpaste," said his traveling companion, and he rapidly divided the remaining food into two equal piles. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z Looking at the rubble piles where buildings used to be, in the windows of the shops or watching the factory workers—the factories were all German now—go to and from their shifts. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z She sits folding clothes into neat piles on the carpet. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z The biggest thing that had come through recently had been a snowstorm that drifted up huge piles of fluffy white snow. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z 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 Because of the piles of newspaper it was impossible to take more than two steps in any direction. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z 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 Me and Kermit had dug through steaming piles of garbage from one side of Key West to the other, looking for milk cans. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z I kicked through piles of crisp, brown leaves and savored the sound. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z “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 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 Which is why I spent all weekend clearing piles of clothes and papers out of the living room, piling everything into my closet in one giant, precarious stack. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z 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 But Mom said my idea was too time-consuming, so all we ended up doing was straightening piles of paper into stacks and stuffing dirty clothes into the chest of drawers. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z Orange curtains framed windows that reached nearly to the ceiling, and piles of books were stacked around the room. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z Their light dances on the jewels and piles of gold, making the treasure that much more enticing. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z More disappointment piles on top of the growing mountain inside me. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z All over the house things were still in piles. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 The golden morning light enters the cottage through the crevices in the piles of wood I’d stacked on the window ledges. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z We kept our piles separated with an oversized pencil. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z He sees spare lengths of rusted rails heaped in piles. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z 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 A rose garden looked like piles of boiled spinach. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z The children spent all day arranging the corn into two mammoth piles, inside a border of red leaves. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z At that point, it didn’t even matter that Chloe and I were often standing knee-deep in piles of garbage and filth in the shadow of rich-people floating houses. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z 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 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 From time to time, the Doctorita piles us all in the truck for a trip to her relatives’ house in Santa Rosa, a couple of hours away. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z When he was a younger man, the freezing temperatures and piles of snow hadn’t bothered him so much, but last winter was too brutal. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z In another, heaps of stained cloth, bent nails, and bones had been sorted into even piles. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z I became very intent on moving ashes into piles. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z The once-perfect grass was brown and the parts that weren’t buried under piles of rotting leaves were about six inches long. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z Sauceda circles the water trough, sweat trickling down his face, searching among piles of cow manure for clues. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z When it finally sprang open a crack, Victor realized that it had been barricaded with piles of trash. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z On his return, he carefully lifted all the magazines from the boxes and set them in separate piles atop a redwood picnic table beside the pit. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z “No, no. I’ve got piles of things to do before tomorrow’s pageant board meeting.” Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z Bailey nods and she shuffles the cards again, over and under, and then divides them into three piles and places them in front of him, above the card with the knight. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z It could cure burns, sores, piles, colic in babies, bleeding dysentery and even rheumatism. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z The piles of feces in the bathtub were dried, obscene stonelike lumps. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Next to the mounds of fruits and spices at the fairs were piles of a medicine that the Italians also bought from the Muslims: sugar. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z I divided the meal into two piles: one for me, and one for grandfather. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 Precious jewels made up for the lack of flowers, piles of rubies as big as my fist, clumps of raw diamonds. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z I cleaned the hen in the barn on my father’s workbench, cut it up into frying-size pieces, and divided it evenly into two piles, one for him, one for me. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z Cardboard boxes and plastic storage bins are stacked everywhere in haphazard piles. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z 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 Through a small opening in the debris and the molasses that pinned him, he saw Ryan working his way through heavy piles of wreckage. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z Helen noticed a red rug, piles of books on the floor, white eyelet cafe curtains on the windows. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z Later, Rosita collects our empty glasses, slipping her arms between our piles of books and papers, unnoticed, well practiced at being invisible. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 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 Kira could see that doors had been opened in an outbuilding beside the Council Edifice, and from the storage place long spears were being brought and placed in piles in the center of the plaza. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The augmented piles of clothes have been put away, and the windows have been opened to dispel the diminished air. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z 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 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 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 When she’d first stumbled across the notion of Wyrdgates, days ago, it had seemed interesting, and so she’d researched, digging through piles of old parchment, only to find more puzzling theories. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z 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 Henry gamely piles his plate with some of each and eyeballs it as if waiting for it to reveal its secrets to him, and Alex realizes Henry has never eaten barbecue with his hands before. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z And he’d of thought to gather piles of wood when we first got there, instead of keeping just enough ahead for the next campfire. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z PS What were you saving all those piles of junk for? Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z Squatting or kneeling beside large piles of laundry, they used stones to rub the clothes clean. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z His men chaired him around the piles of naked cobs, hoarse with cheers. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z She’s standing on a street I know but do not recognize, among piles of smoldering autumn leaves, holding a coiled skipping rope, licking one half of an orange Popsicle. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z “I wasn’t hiding from you” Mateo crouches and puts the books into piles. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z Overjoyed, I quickly removed and stacked them in crude piles next to a ditch nearby. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 Joseph joined the chase and tried to intercept the straggly dog as he leapt up onto the sideboard, scattering piles of old candles and oyster shells. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z They took piles of books out of the library They found out about cave art in France, about papyrus scrolls in Egypt, about Mayan petroglyphs in Mexico, and about stone tablets from the Middle East. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z Against the far wall of the chamber sat piles of jewels and weapons. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z 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 He couldn't actually see their holes but could tell by the size of their dirt piles. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z Neatly stacked piles of paper and pencils lay about the table s surface, one for each chair. The Maze Runner 2009-10-21T00:00:00Z 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 On the sides of her desk and in front of her desk, more piles leaning. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z He led them past floor-to-ceiling bookshelves, haphazardly organized with piles of books on the floor in front of them. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z It was easy to tell the people who had not fallen: they were the ones with the highest piles of snow on their shoulders and heads. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z Jumbled piles of debris that had once been fixtures and conveniences inside the prison lay scattered all over the grounds. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z 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 Great disorderly piles of books were heaped so high that Elinor could hardly make her way through the ruins. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z You can still see small piles of sawdust, smell fresh paint. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z In the dusty light Hugo saw broken model ships and heads of statues and old signs and piles of shattered doors. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z Next to the slingshots were little piles of things I figured the woman was gonna shoot. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z Each night, piles of cousins packed into the crawl space above a little wooden kitchen house just a few feet from the home-house. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z 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 Judging from the piles of soggy, chewed-up scraps that littered the steps, the boys had been gnawing their way through each one. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z Amid piles of oyster shells and several brass candlesticks, Joseph found the case. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z They joined Mel Willis’s honey clusters and piles of sandwiches and vats of chili and dozens of bean and tuna and macaroni casseroles on the counter. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z He wanted her to be permanent, an edifice whose piles touched the heart of the earth. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z The gifts mounted up aroiind her in great piles, more gifts than she cpuld possibly imagine, more gifts than she could want or use. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Soon I was digging through piles of clothes and toys, checking all the nooks, crannies, and zippered compartments of Mama’s luggage. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z They passed farmhouses, barns and an occasional weathered gray shack raised off the ground on piles of bricks. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z Bicycle riders and mule-drawn carts swerved around kids, stray dogs, and piles of debris. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z "But first you can have a look at the piles of money we've brought with us. What do you say?" The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z Piles and piles of words I learned to read. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z From nowhere, as it seemed, piles of dry brushwood for fuel, a little anvil, hammers, tongs, and bellows were produced. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z My small bookcase was jammed with books, and there were books in piles all over the small room. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z Maybe he had friends that snuck their junk in his piles too? Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z Next to the fan were combs, packets of hair attachments, magazines bulky with loose pages, piles of colorful DVDs. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z Everyone has come and gone, piles of shells pulled in and out of waves, and I'm still here, a skeleton of a sea creature, dropped in this tide pool, living, watching, still living. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Small piles of old flowers were scattered around it. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z 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 More clutter on the third floor: boxes of jars, metal disks, and rusty jigsaws; buckets of what might be electrical components; engineering manuals in piles around a toilet. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z In winter the wind of the plains may keep the city clear of snow, but when it blizzards and piles up they do not clear the streets, having no streets to clear. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z 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 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 Masks are returned to the baskets in the courtyard and by the gates, jumbled piles of empty eyes and ribbons. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z I’m sitting on my hands in her cramped, sweltering office that has shelves covering every wall, each stuffed with piles of books and loose papers looking ready to whip around the room in a windstorm. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z 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 “But twenty-five? Are you looking for big stones or unusual piles of stones, or are you marking any old stone you see?” Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z We’re sitting among piles of T-shirts and markers and fabric pens, knowing other bands are already putting the final touches on their outfits. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z 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 Could there really be piles of wizard gold buried miles beneath them? Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z Their scything weapons left our dead in piles, but some they took alive, into forced labor. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z George laid down his cards thoughtfully, turned his piles of three. Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 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 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 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 Matt saw piles of bedding and boxes of equipment as they made their way through. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z The piles of paper on his desk and the top of his file cabinet had grown. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z 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 She was dragged fighting and protesting downwind and forced against a neighboring pier, and we could hear her hull crying against the oaken piles. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z What was different this time were the piles of marked-up college admission essay drafts. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z But her mom was furiously scribbling in a yellow notepad, with piles of books surrounding her at the table. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z And in the half-light of evening the dung carts had come out, attended by half-naked slaves whose task it was to shovel up the steaming piles left by elephants both great and small. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z My boat cried and whined against the piles, and plunged like a frightened calf. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 Then we would trade piles and read again. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Old rusted cars or piles of tires sat in the yards. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z The coats were stiff and dome-shaped, having conformed to their piles. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z We settled onto the floor with piles of blankets, huddling together for warmth. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z Disheveled piles surge toward the sea, shouldering each other for a place on the shore. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z 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 The cars were surrounded by piles of junk and boxes—furniture, rugs, computers. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z Covering the reading desk there were endless piles of petitions and memorials, all annotated with the royal decision and signature. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z In between the lines of the moon sands, the diamond dust fell onto the desert floor and into sparkly piles. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z 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 Behind the trees the walls rose, piles of dead man- rock that loomed all about this speck of living wood. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z When the lightning stopped, the First and Second Cohorts were facing one surprised-looking giant and several hundred smoking piles of ash. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z 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 I sit next to Chou and Geak on our small piles of clothes, listening to the sound of shrieking birds while the others stretch their bodies. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Towels floated through the air, folding and stacking into neat piles. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z It was packed with piles of papers, journals, and reference materials, each standing two or three feet high. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z 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 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 But she could see by the way he was smiling dreamily into space that he was thinking now of a thousand colorful mochigashi, maybe sitting in piles around him on the floor. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z We did pretty well, considering the lukewarm temperature of the liquor and the piles of cheap pizza it was following after. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z 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 He looked at the large piles of dirt near where X-Ray was digging. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z 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 Though he tried to convince himself otherwise, he'd been aware for a while that his piles of dirt were too close to his hole. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z Then at one point Ruth was running a finger up and down the cassettes stacked in little piles along my skirting board. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 There were rumored to be vicious feral raptorpacks lurking amidst the stink piles, and possibly even a wild tyrannosaurus or two. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z 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 There were piles of the strange, thick, cloth-like paper of the demons on one corner of the table. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z “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 crumbled into piles of bones, armor, shields, and weapons. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Dried-up leaves, piles of brush, big pieces of plastic from a kids’ old swimming pool. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z "No, let's just finish it. The groosling's getting old anyway, and the last thing we need is to get sick off spoilt food," I say, dividing the food into two equal piles. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z Even though winter was long over, there was still some snow in piles around the building. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z Huge piles of leaves start appearing on the sides of the road, and Boomer makes it his job to run through every single one. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z There were piles upon piles of books and papers on every surface. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z And none of them knew why the opposition had painted that Asiatic word on the walls; they had never heard about the piles of corpses in the streets of that distant city. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z “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 At Jesus’s feet, people had thrown piles of change, wilted daisies, and two roses —one fresh with thorns, the other cloth with plastic dewdrops. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z 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 I wonder if Tris is watching it sweep across the pavement and gather in piles by the airplanes. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z All three of us had paper plates with microwaved corn dogs and big piles of ketchup and mustard. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z It’s cold and dank, with piles of pelts that I’m guessing haven’t seen the light of day in years. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z Pinmei did not know how long they wandered, half running and half staggering through the piles of snow and frozen stone streets. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z She was so interested in imagining the piles and piles of kindlings she would cut that she forgot to listen to what Mother and Daddy said next. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z There are piles of scientific periodicals and little china figurines of fat-faced children that belonged to my grandmother. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z 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 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 My job was to follow in his tracks, take shovelfuls of loose dirt and rocks and clumps of old crabgrass, toss everything into piles on my right. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z 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 Within minutes, the karpoi had been reduced to piles of seeds and various breakfast cereals. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z “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 They were mixed somewhat, but still in their separate piles for the most part—red on the left and orange on the right. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z His boots crunched through piles of old snow. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z There was nothing on the back porch but a metal watering can and piles of dried-up leaves that had been pushed into a corner. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z 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 He could see, across several fields and through a few young Chinese elms to Joe’s house, the jumble of outbuildings and rusted machinery and the ten-foot-high piles of pinon. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z We walk up behind him while he is organizing his papers into piles. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z There were piles of meat on green leaves near him, and fruit, and coconut shells full of drink. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z Hoping I was truly alone, I made my way around boxes, barrels, piles of newspapers, and broken furniture. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z The mirror stood between the piles, tied with a blue ribbon, reflecting the orange flicker of the jack-o’-lanterns. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z A clerk sat at the desk, between two tall piles of encyclopedias. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z There was a stream, and piles of yellow-orange leaves. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z 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 Large piles of something that looks suspiciously like feces dots the lane. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z He counted out thirteen for the big piles. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z We flew over gray piles and gray piles and gray piles toward home. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Along one entire wall, arranged neatly in small piles, stood the raw materials he had collected: roots, seeds, dried leaves, pods, strips of bark and shriveled mushrooms. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z 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 And then she pointed to the bra rack, and a part of me wanted to crawl under the discarded piles of kids’ pajamas and die. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z 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 Benji had hoped to see piles of cash on the table. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z 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 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 Injuries were being treated, families sleeping on cots, piles of clothing everywhere. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z To this day you can find piles of sugar cane heaped in tropical markets—offering buyers a refreshing treat that is somewhere between a candy bar and an energy drink. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z 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 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 Seven crates were stacked in two piles at one side of the tent. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z 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 On top of this we added piles of feathers, and finally the blood, which now was as thick as house paint. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z 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 There were no piles of trash to worm into, no burned- out buildings to climb through. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z He believes mice are spontaneously generated in piles of straw. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z She flipped the switch, and the darkness dissolved into wobbly piles of dust-covered junk and crooked cardboard-box towers. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z He pushed the blazing ivy pot to the other end of the table, closer to the piles of books and mail, making it even more difficult for them to see each other. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z Just a narrow sandy stretch of shoreline, a few piles sunk in the river with rough planking for a platform. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z |
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