| 单词 | pine |
| 例句 | His face was in the pine needles where he could smell all the tree, from roots deep in the damp earth to the moonlight blue branches, the highest tips swaying in the wind. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z A stony beach, a stony ledge or two, some pines—a few toppled over with their heads in the water, a few tilted, most of them still straight. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z “You rent a mountain cabin,” he said, “in an area still verdant. It’s rustic knotty pine with a huge fireplace.” Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z When we arrived on Christmas Eve, we put up the tree and strung popcorn chains with cranberries on the pine branches. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z “I shall find thee a piece of soft pine and will lend thee my knife. ’Tis sharp and of good steel. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z Not long afterward, there arrived the first of several witch clans, the sound of the air through their pine branches whispering in the dark sky for a long time. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z But when he looked through the window, to the row of underbrush and pines that was the border of Forest, it looked no different to him. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z The moon hung low over a ridge lined with pines and oak trees. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z She jerked out the hatchet and let it fall to the soft pine needles beneath her. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z The sun was hanging low in the branches of the pines at the top of the ridge; the thicket and clearing were in deep shadow. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z “It’s like a teen movie cliché. You have the choreographed group dance number and the weird pining eye contact, and then the big smoochy kiss.” Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z The boy stood on the porch, watching until the light was lost behind pine branches. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z He found himself in a big square kitchen, an old-fashioned place with white china on a wooden dresser, and a scrubbed pine table, and a hearth where a black kettle stood cold. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z “I was talking to Tommy on the phone and he said all that pine rubbish was pretty ordinary and wouldn’t last.” I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z In the air was the scent of pine. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z The trees that were shedding the last of their leaves stood bare but dignified among the loyal green of the pines. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z The thin stream of smoke from the chimney, the indentations of recent footprints, the smell of steaming pine needles. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z On a shelf I find a book of landscapes filled with illustrations of every stinking tree that grows: sycamore, linden, aspen, willow, fir, tulip poplar, chestnut, elm, spruce, pine. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z “What’s there? I’ll tell you. Two long coastlines, a hundred hidden coves, otters in the lakes, salmon in the rivers, clams along the shore, colonies of seals offshore, tall pines for building ships.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z After we ate, I headed to a patch of grass under a pine tree. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z It took me about two hours to figure out that the pine pitch wasn’t necessary. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Next to Thalia’s pine tree, at the very edge of the camp’s magical boundaries, a family stood silhouetted—two litde children, a woman, and a tall man with blond hair. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z Keep looking and it's spring again, the light's gold now, and dancing across the pine floors. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z They reach the edge of a frozen pond, where a pine grows as tall as a cathedral. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z “The Black Tortoise needs help,” hissed the snake, its voice like the wind through pine needles. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z The faces in the pews around me were waxen with candlelight, and pine boughs, left over from Christmas, sent up a sepulchral incense in the cold air. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z You know the scent of pine and the many ways root bark can heal. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z The statue settled on the crest of the hill, about twenty feet away from Thalia’s pine tree. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z “And, for thou wast a spirit too delicate/To act her earthy and abhorr’d commands ... /she did confine thee. . . into a cloven pine—” he whispered, and Meg recognized Mrs Who’s words to him. A Wrinkle in Time 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z My drawing takes shape under my hand: lemon for the stars, cream for the moon, pine for the trees along the fence, charcoal gray for the darkened windows, all but one. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z They made camp in a sloping pasture rimmed by enormous oak trees and pines and nut trees, a stream moving down through the center, over steps of rock. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z He was pushing through a world of invisible pine sap that threatened to smother him. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z She could still smell the salt water and the pine trees. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z “Of course not. And it looks like beautiful country,” I said, glancing out at giant pine trees. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z She crouches down in the soft pine needles and Shiloh starts leaping up on her with his front paws, licking at her face. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z At the edge of the woods, they flung themselves down in the pine needles and waited for Wash to catch up. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z The charcoal from the cedar she would keep to mix with pine pitch. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z I got up from where I'd set up by the tent to count and recount ammo and followed her through the pines. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z We ran toward the woods and swatted at them with pine branches. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z Qhorin came and stood over him as the first flame rose up flickering from the shavings of bark and dead dry pine needles. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z So we ran again into the deep woods of Salisbury Park, the damp smell of pine thick in the air. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z I lay down, staring up into the branches on the pines that towered over me. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z Naomi pointed out a sunny patch just off the path in the woods, and they spread an old sheet over the pine needles. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z The sound was sharp—seasoned pine on hardwood—and rang out like a rebuke. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z The property had a small pasture with two feet of grass and a three-sided shed, was surrounded by tall ponderosa pines for shade and little else. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z The pine trees above them swayed back and forth. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z In amongst these chestnuts and elms and soldier pines he had found secret places where he could hide when he wanted to be alone. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z So now we were walking in the grove behind the college, down by the scrubby little pine forest at the base of the mountains, with one of them on either side of me. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z I guess maybe you can take pine trees for granted. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z If Lizzie had been down on the beach, they would have towered above her, but up in the pine, she was just about eye level with them. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z Through the backyards of the neighboring houses I ran, ducking under pine branches. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z I looked and saw that there were many tiny bits of walnut meat scattered about; some of them had been smeared into grease spots on the clean, white pine boards. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z No longer the hard-working pulpwood man, known to white people almost exclusively for what he could do with a saw in the pine trees, Walter now represented something more worrisome. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z 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 When the mountains and the pines turned into blue oxen, blue dogs, and blue people standing, the old couple asked me to spend the night in the hut. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z We have shade all year from scrub pines that look like the crooked trees in a Dr. Seuss book. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z Joey hung the smelly green pine tree from the rearview mirror and scooted out of the car to let me and Rufus smell her fingers. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Entering the gallery was like stepping inside the pine grove—the huge vaulted marble, the cool splash of the fountain, and the green growing all around. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z I found myself at the top of a hill in a dark grove of pines. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z The scent of pine and what I imagined the bottom of a lake would smell like filled the room. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z “It’s not like we’re going to run out. Those pines grow up like weeds, don’t you worry. Hey,” he touched her arm lightly, “you can smell the oil.” Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z He was taken in the back by some mad force and driven into the shelter on his face, slammed down into the pine branches of his bed. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z Picture these white boxes tucked under pine trees. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z We hadn’t seen anything but pine trees, a bloodhound, chickens, and two cows. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z Who is to say she should not have run to the forest with her hair and umbilical cords flying, and knelt to deposit each of these three at the base of its own pine tree? The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z And a group of small birds chatted with some clipped formality in the pines on the other side of the clearing. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z On a steep slope, a paved road runs parallel to our route, bordered with pines and a stone wall. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z Like if he looks hard enough, some squirrel will appear between the pine needles you can touch and the ones cast by pine shadows. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z Beyond the tall pines, stars glittered like snowflakes reluctant to fall. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z It won't be warmer inside or blink with lights or smell like pine. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z Women, young and ferocious, dressed in scraps of black silk and riding pine branches through the sky—there was nothing like that in his world, but he faced them with calm wariness. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z As in the two other rooms, there was a skylight framed in rough pine. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z As if it heard them, the eagle spread its wings and dropped from the pine tree. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z Brian set aside the tinder and found some dry pine twigs, as small as matches. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z He would let thee starve and pine — A callow,^ shallow, pampered youth. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z The domesticated wilderness of pine, maple and oak rolled to a halt and stuck in the frame of the train window like a bad picture. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z Just tall oaks and pines, not burning, lining the endless road. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z “What’s here that you should hold so tight to it but pine and mud and foes? We have our ships. Sail away with me, and we’ll make new lives upon the sea.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z But Turner saw that the pines sidled awful close to the left-field line, and he could spin a ball to make it touch in fair, then scoot off into the trees. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z The stars didn’t so much twinkle through the pines as sever them. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z Biting my lips to keep from crying, I pick up my pine knot and return to the road and the dawn. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z The place was filthy and the old pines hewed down and those left standing were dying, and the pools in the courts were choked with refuse. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z “I believe I was informed that those near the pine tree are nasturtiums.” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z We’d sung along with any group or singer who joined us through speakers as the bass boomed low and the treble pined high. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z He motioned me over to a thin elm in front of a semicircle of pine. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z To their right the moon, smoky and yellow in thin night cloud, stood over a clump of distant pine trees. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s too cold to climb my pine tree, and last time that was a disaster. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z The pine twigs and straw burst into flames that licked the dry, weathered boards. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z He looked behind him at the four crude pine crates the marionettes were packed in, strapped to the back. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z This second night they sheltered in a small stand of pines, a few yards from the road, and within sight of a big brick house. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z He made the same sounds as when Sheriff Charles came riding up in his police car and again when Miss Trotter, JimmyTrotter, Sophie, and Butter came from out of the pines. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z She pined away sitting on the ground out-of-doors where she could watch him, turning her face and following him with her eyes as he journeyed over the sky. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z I gathered leaves and pine needles, covering the body as best as I could. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z An hour before dawn, a long, timber-loaded train that smelled sweetly of pine resin stopped them at a country crossing. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z The pines stood out dark against the pinks and oranges creeping across the sky, and a breeze stirred around her. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z The pines above them soughed in the fresh sea wind. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Each time she paused by the grove of pine trees to observe the traffic on the main road. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z It was a different universe down there, the water shining with flecks of moving light and kudzu vines draped between the pine trees like giant hammocks. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z I stopped by a dried fruit stand, described Hassan to an old merchant loading his mule with crates of pine seeds and raisins. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z In the distance, beyond the shacks, I saw spruce and pine trees interspersed with farmlands. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z To his right stood a tall pine tree that did not touch the ceiling. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z The farther west the trail went, the higher it was; the pines were tall and thick, and brushy pinon and cedar filled the spaces between the big trees, blocking out nearly all the light. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z “The poison used on Thalia’s pine is something from the Underworld, Percy. Some venom even I have never seen. It must have come from a monster quite deep in the pits of Tartarus.” The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z The trees agreed, each after its kind, oak and ash, pine and beech, birch and fir, that their wood could never be used to hurt Balder. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z She knew she was safe because pine trees were scattered here and there, and they warded off negative energy. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z At the bottom of the pyramid went a bed of dried pine needles. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z Lizzie held close against her grandfather as the people of Malaga Island came out from the pine woods, gathering around their preacher on the shore to hear what had been said. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z There was a great wrenching as the wings caught the pines at the side of the clearing and broke back, ripping back just outside the main braces. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z The tops of the pines tickle into a wilderness of blue and white, and all I need now is red. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z Tall pine trees loomed over the valley, casting pitch-black shadows, though the morning was sunny. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z They had come from the mountains, maybe, or pine woods that were now two or three levels of suburb, but the hawks sat in our cities like kings. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z She loved the smell out here, of earth and bark and pine and...and...what was that other smell? Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z The old man laid a pine branch at the doorway. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z She paused to look at a pine tree framed by the living room window. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z The smell of promised rain, pine, and muscadine made him giddy. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z We strolled through fields of wild wheat and from there into the skirt of pines at the mountain base. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z She looked around, sitting on her pine branch proud and unafraid, though her heart was beating with the strangeness of it, and her dæmon fluttered to sit close to the warmth of her body. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z The men arrived with a plain pine box. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z They were members of the town’s trash-collecting corps, and as they huffed and bent to lay the box over the hole, they smelled vaguely of pine and rotten fruit. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z He unbuttoned his stiff collar as he passed through into scrub pines and laid it on a branch. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z Freshly turned dirt, manure, pine, something rotten and something sweet. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z I put my back to the big pine tree and waved my red jacket in front of the bull-man, thinking I’d jump out of the way at the last moment. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z “To the grove of the pines,” she answered. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z Trees blaze on top of Eagle’s Ridge, and pines, oaks burnt, half burnt, make crazy, pockmarked paths. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z He was shorter than her, but he was very strong and always stood so straight that he seemed tall as a lodgepole pine to me. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z One time there was a kind of big pine tree at a fork, but Papa strode left as if he walked this path every day. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z For some reason, it was pitch dark and smelled like pine trees. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z I wrapped one leg around a skinny scrub pine in front of me. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z Turner and Lizzie spent most of the afternoon skipping rocks into the waves—he was better than Lizzie—and climbing up to sway in pines—she could go higher. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z The path was here rocky, there carpeted with pine needles, occasionally damp and mucky where tiny springs trickled across. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The larvae eventually drop to the ground and form cocoons in the peat of tamarack bogs or the duff under spruce or pines. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z I want to lean my head back against the headrest and close my eyes and smell the pine and listen to the birds. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z On the other side of the parking lot, just past the visitor center, was a dark little stand of pine trees hunched down in the wind. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z Then they scrape the mud from their backs on that pine tree there, the one where the lower bark is rubbed smooth and tan. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Or to the top of a tall Florida pine where a vast pile of twigs and sticks in ordered disorder holds three large white eggs, cold and lifeless. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Tall, head forward, eyes fastened on a rock, his arms higher than the pines, his hands holding a melon bigger than the sun, he paused an instant to get his bearing and secure his aim. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z Embroidered sachet pillows that smelled like pine, probably handmade. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z Shortly before dusk, the trail led downward toward a shallow basin set with scrub and pines. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z The top branches of the tallest pine slammed into his body as the Berg swung him into it. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z Everything in this forest is drenched in a cold sweat: the stiff pine needles, the skinny twigs, the leafy ferns. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z As Easter Sunday dawns, Herold and Booth are camped in a grove of pine trees a quarter mile off the main road. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z His eye searched the pine shadows across the water for the girl, as if he sensed her watching him. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z And so we walked, hour upon hour, over rollercoaster hills, along knife-edge ridges and over grassy balds, through depthless ranks of oak, ash, chinkapin, and pine. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z “They pine. They are very loyal. They cannot live without their masters. It comes from a line of canine genetics.” Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z In the mists rising from the water, he could have been a woeful little bush planted between the willow and the pine. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z When it widened through a stand of old pines, the eighth graders looked behind and saw me, and they strung out to cover the whole path. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z Then, in the quiet of that whitening night, standing in new snow with the pine boughs coated above him, Turner felt the hand that he had feared all night long grab him by the shoulder. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z The smell of pine liquor is alive in the air. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Considering how tightly packed these pines—which look suspiciously like towering dragon-giants in this moment—are, moving even the slightest bit in the wrong direction could be disastrous. Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z Stella looked away from him and stared at the thick forest of pines that framed the road like whispering dark-green walls. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z The one tree in Francie’s yard was neither a pine nor a hemlock. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z She could knock the head off of a chicken-hawk sitting up a pine tree. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z Alice was walking on a road that wound through the pine forest. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z Each time they approached the grove of pine trees where the asphalt loop met the main road, she leaned forward, pinning all her weight against the brake as cars hurtled past. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z In the western doorway, Roman and Greek demigods in full armor fought one another on a hillside under a large pine tree. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z But her ghost was always wandering about the woods, gazing over Hailsham, pining to be let back in. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z They came to a wooded section, mostly pines, and walked at its edge, as far from the traffic as they could get. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z The poor creatures perched on the bottom barely moving, obviously pining away for flight. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z She rushed straight between two knotty pines, the thick undergrowth in between the trees swallowing the sounds of her and Mama’s footsteps. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z On one side was a row of tall Australian pines, and on the other side was a milky man-made lake. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z I unfasten the wire next to the pine tree, legs like rubber, hardly holding me up. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z From the elegant boardwalk surrounded by pine and birch trees, I looked out at these naturists and wondered what I always wonder: What is it like to feel free like that? Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Under the pine tree that used to be Thalia, daughter of Zeus, Chiron was now standing in full horse-man form, holding his bow high in salute. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z As they approach he sees that after a certain expanse the yard falls away, and then he sees the lake, a blue a thousand times deeper, more brilliant, than the sky and girded by pines. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z “There’s no shame in a pine box,” I told them. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z As he spoke, a bird, a little pine siskin, flitted through the corral fence, zipping low to the ground, and for some reason did not register Carl’s bulk in its way. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The street ended at a wall of scrub pines and Ricky hung a sharp left into my grandfather’s driveway. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z You track the other person by observing broken sticks or footprints or even clues that a person sets out, like an acorn under a pine tree. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z These are morels that come up in the spring following a pine forest fire. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z So the three of us sat in silence, watching the sun sink behind the mountain and the lightning bugs twinkle off and on among the pine trees. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z What worried me was that the bulls were ranging all over the hill, even around the back side of the pine tree. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z Then some friends who had heard the news appeared with four boxes, plain simple pine without even a latch. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Booth and Herold ate the food Cox offered them, saddled up for the ride to the pine thicket, and rode off with Cox’s overseer as their guide. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Living in Faerie, it’s impossible not to notice that everyone else smells like verbena or crushed pine needles, dried blood or milkweed. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z When we had all the hives covered, we stood under the pines and gazed at them, this little town of black buildings. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Behind us, a ten-ton pig tank was knocking down pine trees and crushing boulders under its hooves as it chased us. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z The crisp pine scent of a fir tree. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z “I am not interested,” she told them, and even as she said it, she hoped that it would not get back to Odenigbo because she did not want him to think she was pining. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z On the day the fire started, over 55 miles of pine- block streets and 600 miles of wooden sidewalks bound the 23,000 acres of the city in a highly combustible knot. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z The shadows of the massed black pines were lavender in that bright light, and I walked with Valerie awhile, down the familiar labyrinth of shoveled asylum paths. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z The train headed north and it wasn’t long before we left the pine forests. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Tall pines pierced a pale morning sky, and a bunch of crows argued noisily in the top branches. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z He didn’t have the words for it, the feeling that the high, straight pines gave him now that he really saw them. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z The stump from the fallen white pine now holds one of Byrd’s clay planters on top. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z Before the girls got to the porch I heard their laughter crackling and popping like pine logs in a cooking stove. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z The grass was burning in huge swathes around the pine tree. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z "On the final day of the year we take down the pine tree in our living room and eat marine life." Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z Once she was far enough away from the little farmstead to be sure she wouldn’t be disturbed, she sat under the pine trees and opened her rucksack. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z From here I can see the creek, the gorge, and a pine plantation. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z It sat on a rise above Little Traverse Bay, guarded by tall pines, all its windows blazing. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z One by one they crawled from beneath the pine boughs and stood up. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z Sometimes we went off the road and on a path through the pine forest. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z Tomorrow the women who came to mourn Ultima’s death would help my mother dress her in black, and my father would make her a fine pine coffin. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z “Loblolly was one of the pine trees in the answer Mr. Lemoncello gave you guys!” said Haley. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z Joey pulled her hand out of the bag and said, “It’s a smelly green pine tree!” The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z The car moved deeper into the Georgia countryside, prayer breaking out of the windows in wavering harmonics spilling into the ditches and moccasin strung creeks of the pine counties outside of Atlanta. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Rather than the thick, unbroken, monumental snarl of trees imagined by Thoreau, the great eastern forest was an ecological kaleidoscope of garden plots, blackberry rambles, pine barrens, and spacious groves of chestnut, hickory, and oak. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z I stepped into the woods, looked around, could not see the crow, but noticed a big stick nest in a scrabbly pine. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z By the time the two of them finished trimming it — their tree-trimming instincts having languished for so many Christmases — hardly a pine needle could be seen under the tinsel and balls and whatnot. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Odors of the night and autumn and the swamp entered to mingle with the inside odors of children, kerosene, cold beans, urine and the dead incense of pine ashes. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z The valley was surrounded by rolling hills, and the tallest one, directly in front of us, was the one with the huge pine tree on top. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z I let Charley out, and suddenly an angry streak of gray burned across the clearing in the pines and bucketed into the house. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z We walked toward it through red dirt and dried leaves that cracked under our feet, the air smelling of wild roses, pine, and cows. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z Then the king saw by the tears in Beowulf's eyes at the mere mention of the word "home" that he did indeed pine for his own country. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z He went to a shelf above the table where he kept his tools and took down a piece of light-colored pine small enough to fit into the palm of his hand. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z They were all in a small clearing completely surrounded by thick oak trees and towering pines—older ones that hadn’t been completely consumed by the sun flares—standing on dry, brittle undergrowth. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z He scuttled halfway up a pine tree, and from the safety of his perch shook a fist at the astonished Ellidyr. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z Fifteen years after the eruption, the ravaged slopes were dotted with trees and woody shrubs: red alder, lodgepole pine, willow bush. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z The trees were mostly stunted olives, cypress, and pines. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z New trees growing, old trees recovering, squirrels dashing through the blackened pine needles, green sprouts and buds all around. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z She got hit, and now she’s in some dream state where Luke Messenger spoke the lyrics she was just listening to, and has now handed her a towel that has the scent of pine trees. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z Figuring the big tree would eventually destroy the small deformed pine anyway, Cole chose it for his Christmas tree. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z The young guardian dragon was dozing, coiled around the pine tree, but he lifted his coppery head as we approached and let Annabeth scratch under his chin. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z Each afternoon Mrs. Sen stood in a grove of pine trees by the main road where the school bus dropped off Eliot along with two or three other children who lived nearby. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z We travelled for ten days before we were ensconced in Precambrian rock and vicious pine. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z I follow her gaze out across the pond to the fringe of pine and white birch trees on the other shore. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z The forest is a twelve-hundred-square-mile swath of pine and cedar stretched between Lake Tahoe and Yosemite. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z He hadn’t wanted her to know, because believing in spirits in the pines wasn’t American. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z They lit a small fire down under the gnarled roots of an old pine, that hung over a shallow pit: it looked as if stone had once been quarried there. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z She thought she smelled the scent of pine burning: a spicy, woodsy scent from a campfire. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Then, with all the strength in her legs, Roz launched herself high up into the snowy branches of the nearest pine tree. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z Her house sat eighty feet from the sidewalk and was backed by four huge pine trees, from which she got the needles she stuck into her mattress. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z “Only that tall pine, with the eagle in it.” Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z I trudge through ever deeper snow toward the wall and the pine tree. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z On these pines, the needles hung like pompoms in sparse clusters along lank branches. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z The sharp, clean scent of pine was in the air. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z It scorched the pine trees standing by in witness. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z Everything was richly green: the color of newly budded leaves, of luminescent moss, of every possible shade of pine needle. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z “One, on the exit sign to Milford...Two, on that light post...Three, in that white pine...” A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z We had a lot of pine forests in East Texas then and the coffins were made of pine. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The front room had its own fireplace, floors made of pine instead of the usual tile, and wallpaper. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z The layer of pine needles that muffles my footsteps also makes tracking animals harder when I need their trails to find water. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z The air smelled of pine wax, fresh paint, and cigar smoke, and only when we passed the paddock did I catch the faintest whiff of horseflesh. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z Now she was moving away to a land she knew little of, except the skillet of olive oil with crumbles of garlic and pine nuts browning on the stove. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z The pines along the road pointed up so straight and stark against the blue of the sky that it seemed like the clouds might catch on them. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z As it floated up and out of the shape on the floor, I smelled the scent of lemon and pine. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z Vola passed the pine block from one hand to the other in silence for a moment. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z Sometimes she dreamed that she was walking in the Wood, passing the same stand of pine trees repeatedly; she would grow increasingly frustrated until she woke herself up, her hands balled into fists. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z She liked the sharp smell of the pines and sentinels, the feel of grass and dirt between her toes, and the sound the wind made in the leaves. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z When I put my hands down to look again, I recognize the old brown man and the old gray woman walking toward me out of the pine forest. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z The best meal was lunch, which Zach and I ate under the cool of the pine trees. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Another flash of lightning, and through the smoking hole in the roof I saw the tree she meant: a huge, White House Christmas tree-sized pine at the crest of the nearest hill. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z With my handkerchief I wiped away the gravel, leaves, and pine needles. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Woods grew up on both sides, pines and hardwoods, with none of the stone fences the children had come to expect. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z She reached for her pine branch and silently took to the air, not to disturb him but to see that he came to no harm. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z The scents of pine oil, tar, and sawdust hung in the air. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z Before I could wheel around, Jasper Muleman Jr. grabbed my bike and Bull grabbed Abbey’s, and together they dragged us backward into a stand of Australian pines. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z One huge branch had recently broken off and fallen, and three pine trunks lay bent double under its weight. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z A thick, dark green forest of oak and pine crowned pink-orange sand-rock plateaus that extended north and south beyond Nathan’s vision. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z The view of the woods out my dorm window, the Hudson River in the distance, the smell of pine trees. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z The pines were planted in ranks and files. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Elves race around the pine in miniature Dodge sedans. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Only the streets aren’t covered in snow, and the trees here are palms, not fir or pine. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z Huge pines were twisted and snapped off, blown sideways. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z Last year Mrs. Peterson kept them in line easily with her pine “board of education.” P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z The sun played across the surface of the river, and the breeze carried the scent of leaves and pine needles. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z A few pines along the edge of the wood had been scorched, but deeper in the damp soil and green wood had defeated the flames. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z It’s not like I expected him to sit home all weekend, pining for me, but would it have killed him to act a little disappointed? We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z They swarmed up the beach, and back down, and finally disappeared abruptly into the pines, Perlie the last in line, looking back at him and holding her nose. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z Through the window he sees that dawn is creeping into the sky, only a handful of stars still visible, the shapes of the surrounding pines and cabins growing distinct. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z From a distance, you could see the impression of a woman’s body on the mountain face: her legs formed of huge ravines, her hair a spray of pines fanning over the northern ridge. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z When the fire truck arrives, Saucepan Lynn folds her arms as she looks up at the giant pine tree in the middle of our neighborhood. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z The soldier pines and sentinels wore thick white coats, and icicles draped the bare brown limbs of the broadleafs. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z A late-afternoon sprinkle had stirred up the dust, and now a slow breeze carried in an almost-radiant smell of dust and dry pinon pine and sage. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Here and there scrub pines and bushes jutted from the granite surface. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z He stands over you like this little mountain, and he’s got this dark beardy shrubbery all around the peak, and arms like pines, and legs like oaks, and feet the size of small lakes. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z Beyond was dense forest of pine and spruce, and the mountain like a black wall, but the steps were there, chiseled deep into the rock, ascending into the sky. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z She would have walked beneath yellow-ringed pines rising to a brilliant eastern sky, and her senses would have succumbed to the joy of the morning. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z Bored, it lowered its head and began to root around among the shrubbery below the pines. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Mr. Woodwell trails a hand in the water and smiles with his eyes, staring off at the tall pine trees along the shore. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z Shovels were leaning against a nearby pine tree, and Kaede realized that she was looking at a grave. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z “The one you’re pining after. The one you dressed up for that one night. The one you’re so completely in love with.” From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z Miss Larsen’s room is tidy and bright, and about the size of a storage closet—barely big enough for a single bed, a tall oak dresser, and a narrow pine desk with a brass lamp. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z They joined for a meal of tortillas and beans and chokecherry wine; they ate sheltered by spruces and pines. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z She couldn’t even see the house until she had passed under the pines, walking now on a thick carpet of needles that seemed never to have been disturbed. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z The cabin smelled like a flower shop inside a forest: fresh-turned dirt, sweet spices and pine, surrounded by new blossoms. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z She’s always leaving me messages, usually not on paper but in the mud, written in pine needles, or scratched on a leaf. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z There are those who secretly deplore these great discoveries, who consider every step a demotion, who in their heart of hearts still pine for a universe whose center, focus and fulcrum is the Earth. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The witch turned away and bent to pick up the pine branch that lay on the ground beside her. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z They had waited in the pine thicket for four nights. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z The growth of pines was not thick enough to do more than interfere with the rain, and the needle-carpeted ground underfoot was damp. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z Two more trucks, one a one-ton flatbed carrying two bundles of unedged pine slabs, pulled in almost immediately, and several more old men got out and came over to talk. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z “Not a single pine to be seen three days past.” 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z New sweet wood was going in, pine sharp with resin and velvety redwood and a new roof of long split shakes. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z With her pine branch she could escape, and with her knife and her bow she could fight. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Quick on his feet, he often dashed across the Jungfem Bridge and hid in the pine forest around the New Johannes cemetery. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z “Keep your eyes open for a big pine tree, and then we’ll take the path on the right.” A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z They lay on the soft bed and looked up at the dark-green pine clumps against the sky. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z Behind the pines a possible path led up the slant. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z I saw them through the mist; I saw them on the clouds; I saw them big on the mountain- top when distance had shrunk the pines. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z He recognized a dead pine tree that had been split by lightning in a nearby clearing. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z Bending down, he felt along the edge of the carpet near the wall for the pine bar—part of a music stand he had hidden there that afternoon. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z He stopped, staring at the tawny body lying on the pine needles, and then at the white face of his son. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z “Do you pine for her, Harry? Do you sigh?” The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z Get me as far as the shadbush next to the pine, and then I sit down and hug Shiloh. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z They had left the truck parked in plain view, at the edge of a pine ridge. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z She flapped to the pine tree where the blue jays had nested, landed, and lost her balance. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z He groaned, looking up at a massive pine tree he’d just shredded. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z They leashed up both dogs and set off down the road and into the pines, the dogs baying and pulling. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z My painting is of sometime in July, when the pine needles on the forest floor will smell sweet and hot. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z The lantern threw her shadow up the hill, a black ghost attached to her feet, and she shivered as the wind came rattling through the pine branches. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z They just happened to be bringing three rice bowls and three pairs of silver chopsticks out to the plank table under the pines. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Her bright fur shone at the base of the large pine that towered over the meadow, the pine under which her sister had died. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z Brush rustling, the sharp snap of a dry pine branch. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z They started with a creamy chestnut soup, crusty hot bread, and greens dressed with apples ami pine nuts. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z And what was all that nonsense about pine trees? Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z The next day while we were hiking across the field, through the pines, and over the creek to see JimmyTrotter, Miss Trotter, and the cows, I told Vonetta, “Don’t tell her everything Ma Charles said.” Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z In some Canadian forests a virus that affects pine sawflies has proved so effective in control that it has replaced insecticides. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z My eyes fall like a pine cone to the ground, my pulse thudding. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z The ferns, the pines, the leaves, the moss—everything. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z So I tried sealing the leak with pine pitch, and that worked all right, but then the funnel over the fire bed cracked, and I had to put wooden props under that. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z The bamboo, pine, and plum leaves seemed to shine in the sun as if carved from emeralds, and the accents of the pink and red flowers were like nestled rubies. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z Percy was staring longingly at a sunset view of Half-Blood Hill, where the Golden Fleece glittered in the branches of the tall pine tree. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z In the early darkness the halting, hesitant swing of the lantern marked the slow path from fields to pine woods toward the lowlands. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z The trail took us past glades of juniper and dwarf birch, blue pine and rhododendron, thundering waterfalls, enchanting boulder gardens, burbling streams. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z The sea breeze bent the pines behind them, blew across their backs, and sped out over the water, tearing the whitecaps back even as they came to shore. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z He was leaning casually against the shabby pine desk, which is all the permanent furniture in that room, flexing his bony hands in front of the electric heater. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z Golden light poured out of a circle of pine trees at the far end. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z She could smell the spicy pine, the dampness of bark after rain, and the exotic fragrance that clung to Sidhean. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Ski lifts didn’t cut swaths into the mountain’s pine forests. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z The fire spat fat sparks up at pines lining the quarry, up at the moon. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z Over at the pine tree, Peleus the dragon dozed under the Golden Fleece as if nothing had happened. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z Pulling on her powerful wings, Frightful sped to the top of the tallest pine and alighted on a slender twig. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z The living room, paneled in stained pine, served also as a dining room, with a fireplace at one end and a glass-fronted gun case against the side. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z I was lacing up my boot when I heard a faint noise off in the forest, out of sight behind a stand of thick pine trees. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Among the evergreen pine trees, Nazis had stealthily planted larch trees. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z "What? Has love gone from the world? Are there no more heartthrobs left? No screen goddesses to adore or cheerleaders to pine for?" City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z Dicey went back to the woods to get needles and dry branches of quick-burning pine. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z Herbie killed the motor, and they both remained immobile for a moment, grinning stupidly through the windshield at the lovely stream and at the golden sunglow on pine tree tips rising along the slope beyond. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z At this time of evening, at this season, in the old days, the whippoorwills would fly in and we would hear them singing in the pine trees, sometimes so loudly they kept us awake. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z Inside is a thick, dark ointment with a pungent smell, a combination of tar and pine needles. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z In the grove behind them, three marble statues of women stood beneath the shadowy pines, their hands raised and touching, their legs extended as if frozen in mid-dance to some long-lost music. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z Ryan scooped up a handful of snow, squeezed it into a ball, and threw it at the branch of a pine tree. Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z The trio of towering shrouds emerged from the pines. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z Outside, there's the sound of wind through the pine trees. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z Directly below the aerie was a pine tree where two blue jays had built a stick nest. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z I saw the grocery bags in the trunk and I ditched my bike under the pine tree. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z I felt myself shrinking to a small black dot against all those red and white rugs and that pine paneling. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z On the mountain itself were mostly majestic pines. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z And the smaller oak and maple trees, which from Dr. Hyde’s classroom had been invisible beneath the more majestic pines, showed hints of an as- yet-thermally-unforeseeable fall: Their still-green leaves were beginning to droop. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z Henri, when his shaking had subsided a little, rushed out of his cabin, leaped over the side of the boat and hurried away down the hill through the pines. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z At the shattered pine tree, a woman knelt at a cave entrance that had cracked open between the tree’s roots. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z He had smelled the sharp resin of the pines. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z He pours himself another cup of coffee and I shuffle through photos of the pine serpent. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z His mouth full of the taste of muscadine, listening to the pine needles rustling loudly in their anticipation of rain. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z In the distance, the Bonecruel Mountains rose up, green with pines but so far away. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z I take out a flask of pine liquor, nicked from the kitchens, thick and heavy as sap. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Hair like dirty rocks, or was it like pine bark? Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z The walls, the ceiling and the floor of our bedrooms were made of plain unvarnished pine planks. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z Once we made it over the creek and ran through the pines, Vonetta was galloping to the house looking for Miss Trotter. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z He slowed only when he reached the stand of Australian pines into which the running boy had vanished. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z He imagined the follicles on the cusp of drying out and falling to the ground like pine needles. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z In this sudden change of heart, Richard Hoggart notes: He longs for the membership he lost, ‘he pines for some Nameless Eden where he never was’. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z For one, it was easily accessible to the apartment complexes around Clarkston, some of which were visible through the pine trees on the field’s northern side. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z The wide schoolyard, enclosed by a trimmed whistling pine hedge, was cluttered with long buildings as if they had all sprung up at will, unplanned. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z The road to Montgomery led the marchers through cotton fields and scraggly pine thickets, across twisting rivers and creeks and into dark, gloomy swamps where dead trees draped with gray Spanish moss hugged the roadside. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z Captain Cox told Thomas Jones that Booth and Herold had spent the night in the pine thicket. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Nothing beats the smell of fresh-cut pine, it says, and below the sentence are photographs of three types of fir trees: Douglas, noble, and grand. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z Citra bounded down the snowy hillside, careening off pines in her way. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z Along a dusty brown path in the pine needles, Jenny Simonson was advancing in a red, white, and blue swimsuit. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Frightful saw the clearing before her and the leaves on the bushes, even the shiny needles at the tops of the pine trees. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z I leaned forward, too, right up against his chest, where it was warm and smelled of pine and old books and thousands of possibilities I had never known. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z Here and there I passed a motel or bait shop, but otherwise the country unfolded in great sweeps of pine and birch and sumac. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z "You have forests of tall pine and old oak. Lord Manderly has shipwrights and sailors in plenty. Together you ought to be able to float enough longships to guard both your coasts." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Their beds were on the soft meadow grass; under the thick-leaved trees; where the pine needles fall year after year. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z They brought the scent of the Sahara and Christmas, and yanked the slender, ovate leaves down from the frangipani and the needlelike leaves from the whistling pines, covering everything in a film of brown. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z The closest I came to seeing a dragon whole was when the old people cut away a small strip of bark on a pine that was over three thousand years old. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z The poor truck was rattling to the point I expected the hood to fly off and decapitate a couple of pine trees. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Poring over her childhood memories, she remembered a dark-skinned boy, the library, the fireplace ablaze with enormous pine logs whose perfume filled the room, evening or night, and herself sitting on his knees. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z And there was a kid stepping up to the plate, swinging his bat low, the pine tar sticky on his palms. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z I look at the hundreds of long pine needles, each perfectly aligned with the next, each end carefully pushed into the loose soil, forming a curved snake that flows in and out of the ground. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z He squatted cross-legged in the pine needles on the ground and sipped his coffee. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Jinx climbed into the pit, then helped lower the pine box. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z They were just past the entrance to the Egyptian Walk, out of the direct sunlight, under the pines and the sprawling monkey puzzle tree. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z I looked out the window to tall pine trees rising on either side of the highway. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z When they got her into the hallway, they opened the pine box, and Sadie began to cry. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z The sun was warm, but the pines and the rhododendrons kept the worst of the heat off their shoulders, and the air was fresh and clear. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z The left would take him past Byrd’s garden shed, and the picnic table, and the tall, tall pines, and the hammock near the creek. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z When he got to the pines he knelt and laid him in the gritty duff and covered him with the blankets and sat watching him. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z But it was the wind, a medium wind in the pines had made some sound that brought him up, brought him awake. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z They formed an honor cortege that wound its way across the Jungfern Bridge and through the pine forest to the New Johannes cemetery. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z Scientists think that morels are a mycorrhizal species that live on the roots of the pine trees. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z The cool evening air and the overwhelming scent of pine hit me in the face, bringing me back to reality. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Most every plank of pine wood inside the house was covered with old newspapers. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z He pointed across the valley, to the pine tree where I’d fought the minotaur. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z Cox has his trusted foreman, Franklin Robey, take them to a thicket of pine trees where they can hide. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z Another was using a pine tree as a toothpick. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z “He’s retired now, good for him to have something to do. But I couldn’t leave poor old Ripper. He pines if he’s away from me.” Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z I passed through towns with familiar names, through the pine forests and down to the prairie, and then to Vietnam, where I was a soldier, and then home again. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Lenny stooped, and Doreen went flying up on to his shoulder, and her glass sailed out of her hand in a long, wide arc and fetched up against the pine paneling with a silly tinkle. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z She made a beeline for the pine grove. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z Ma Charles, who had been sitting on the porch in the pine rocker her father made, called out to the bloodhound and joined the noisy welcome, shaking the tambourine that she always kept nearby. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z So the hut became my home, and I found out that the old woman did not arrange the pine needles by hand. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z The white speckles that dotted her feathers, which rose to the ceiling, made her plumage look like a snow-covered pine tree forest. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z I lay awake thinking about her, wondering how she was, and pining, grieving. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z He sat in the clear space between the bank and the first line of trees and bent a pine bough into a circle, tying it with a piece of wet string from the castle. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z All was still and silent except for a quick, high movement of a monkey tail disappearing in the shadow of the pines. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z Tiny flakes, just visible at the tops of the pines. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z When she was over the pine woods where she had been held captive, she flew faster. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z In that vast space you can sail unaccompanied for hours, afloat on pine and brush and rock. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z I climbed a hill and turned right into pine woods on a smaller road, and turned right on a very narrow road and turned right again on wheel tracks on pine needles. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z I drove across the upraised thumb of Idaho and through real mountains that climbed straight up, tufted with pines and deep- dusted with snow. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z The hot air tinkled the silver bells that decorated the white artificial Christmas tree that never dropped a single pine needle in the Perfect House. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z “More cruel than ever. Don’t you see how I’m pining away?” and Laurie gave his broad chest a sounding slap and heaved a melodramatic sigh. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z The sight of Hatsue’s face in profile elicited in him the smell of pine needles strewn in the courtyard outside the tearoom. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z A hundred yards ahead, the boy cut sharply to the right and disappeared into the pine trees. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z It was good to sleep where the village dogs didn’t bark all night and where the only sound to disturb their dreams was the pine trees sifting wind in a lulling roar. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z I dropped her in a heap next to the pine tree and turned to face the bulls. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z When Sam opens the door, a wave of fresh pine tickles my nose. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z "He's high as a Georgia pine," I laughed, turning to the group nearest me. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z Narnia is a weird patch of pine trees in the middle of an empty field behind the gym that we don’t use. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z After eating his porridge, Sam got a bowl he had chipped out of stone and filled it with chunks of pine resin. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z Vivian told her stories about decorating the family store for the holidays, putting these ornaments on a real pine tree in the window. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z Thalia had gotten herself turned into a pine tree when she was twelve. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z Its pine floors creak, windowpanes rattle, flies buzz near the ceiling, curtains flap. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z A gust of wind rustles, scratches pine needles, oak leaves. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z The grove of aspen and pine trees filter the sunlight like the Jonah and the Whale stained glass panel at church. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z That part of school, on the North Hampden side, was usually peaceful and desolate, the snow trackless and undisturbed beneath the pines until spring. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z “Now, this leg. Oh, this leg is heavy, boy. Solid heart pine. But I carry it around, don’t I.” Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z As Yule approached, with all of its attendant memories — the smell of pastries in the oven, the spicy tang of pine boughs in the house — she thought the pain might never cease. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z As she reaches for it, she watches the way the light slips through the heavy pine needles, dapples everything with sweet September light . Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z The dearth of boughs and pine needles made it light and easy to carry. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z He ran from die shelter to the pines and started breaking off the low, dead small limbs. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z He followed the stream of cars and pickup trucks down a dirt lane that wound through pine woods and emerged into a large open pasture. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z It had been a cold night, and in the adjacent room a baby screamed behind a quarter-inch wall of pine board. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z The pine woods rustle and the wind cries over open country that is like Dartmoor. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z They took turns sleeping in a white pine coffin. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z He held it for her to sniff the woodsy pine scent. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z They told stories of an oak forest in Sonoma, a pine burn in the Sierras, and a backyard in Berkeley. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Here, standing on the living room’s rift cut pine boards and studying the carved spandrel ornaments on the staircase, she seemed to have come to a place long destined for her. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z He fixed his eyes on the cottony bits of cloud stuck in the gaps between the pines above him. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z And at that very moment, riding through the pine trees just in time to see it all, came the Treegap constable. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z The landscape passed swiftly under her, and in mere moments she was above the pine forest where she had been a captive of the two strange men and where Alice had set her free. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z A cool breeze blows through the trees, lifting my loose hair and bringing me the scent of pine. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Beneath the granite ledges, Turner found two gnarled pines that begged to be shinnied up, a cave that would just about die to be explored, and mudflats where herons longed to be chased. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z I pulled my sweaty body towards the other side of the pine, scrapes popping up red and puffy on my thighs and torso. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z But before the consul could answer, the door opened and Lyra came in bearing a little branch of pine. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z At the front of the room sat a plain pine casket. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z He set out on a path that threaded through knots of pines, looking into them and nodding now and again. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z They walked down a tiny hallway, and Zeebo tapped at an unpainted pine door. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z So George took his time, carefully and meticulously handcrafting a single sculling shell from Norwegian pine and mahogany. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z A small group came into view from the denser pines by the rock. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z They took the next hour to gather wood, stacking it until they had a large pile to the side of the camp, and Derek used the time to cut pine boughs for beds as well. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z When the snow stopped, I saw that we had sheltered beneath the great pine at the top of our ridge. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z The sound caromed off the trunks of pine trees, carrying past the meager beach out over the water, where I floated on an inner tube, reading Love Story. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Across the stalk land, into the pine woods, into the climbing, brightening glow of the dawn, the boy followed the dog, whose anxious pace slowed from age as they went. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z The scrap lumber he sent me to look at behind his shop proved to be a stack of beautiful tongue-and-groove pine boards. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z She saw ruins—a few crumbling walls, a single column, a stone floor covered with moss and dead vines—all clustered on a grassy hillside dotted with pine trees. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Grandma had planted a pitcher of glads from her garden at either end of the pine box. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z You can’t quite tell where the shore lets off and the water begins, and the tall pines look like they’re melting into the sky. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z He brought out a bowl and decanted a slow blob of pine pitch into it. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z We always chose whistling pine because the branches were malleable, not as painful as the stiffer branches from the gmelina or the avocado. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z The hogs were the first order of business, chopped on the long pine table and covered in dipney sauce. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z When they had taken what they could carry, Will dropped a gold coin into the drawer in the big pine table. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z I could smell his deodorant—something medicinal, like cough syrup mixed with pine needles—and then I couldn’t remember if I had put on my own deodorant after showering. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z Where Thalia had made her last stand, a tall pine tree now rose. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Then she brushed the pine needles out of her hair. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z I start shuffling some pine needles into a pyramid with the toe of my shoe. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z Before I can introduce my pine tree, Madge is on top of the wall, grabbing the branch, and climbing up and up. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z Seeing the pine trees started him thinking about her mouth; how she loved, as a girl, to chew pine needles and as a result smelled even then like a forest. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z When the pines die in a fire, the fungi face a crisis. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Then he tried a blade of grass, a pine cone chip; there was no way to throw something—anything— into that water and not catch a trout. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Slash pine some of the time, sawmill most of it. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Most of the acreage was maple and beech, some pine, dogwoods, ash; and here and there a glorious hickory. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z There was a finished silence after that so that for the first time they could hear the wind picking at the pine trees. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z The whole way up they moved in the shade of pine trees. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z There were long brown mountains and a few pines and far-off forests of beech-trees on some of the mountainsides. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z Tayo watched it with his head against the ground, conscious of pine needles tangled in his hair. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z The sharp pine needles poked at Ophie’s bare feet, filling the night air with their clean scent, and something small and scurrying ran across the path in front of them, but Ophie barely noticed. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z The ground was uneven, treacherous with roots, but the pine needles were soft underfoot. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z The Maeonian drakon spread its frilled collar and hissed, its poison breath filling the battlefield with the smell of pine and ginger. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Then he had gone on to explain how the color was because of something the pine trees released into the air. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z “But he did make my nose bleed. I’ll find someone just as amazing as him. Or I’ll pine for him for the rest of my life.” Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z She'd worn a corrective brace for the first two years of her life, and wherever she roamed she left a trail of scratch marks in the soft pine floor. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z The poor black-and-white rodent had been by himself for the past eighteen months, and Virgil couldn’t help but think he’d been pining the hours away in desperate loneliness. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z It was all sandy pine country full of heather. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z Slowly, occasionally stopping at an area that his instincts told him was a likely exit from or entrance into the trees, he probed with the glasses along the pines bordering each lake. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z She pointed out, too, the maidenhair fern nearby; the black stems, she said, retained their shine in a pine needle basket’s weave. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z The problem with sitting in a pine tree is that, eventually, the tree’s sticky resin will find you. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z I entered the immaculate little shop, redolent of freshly sawn pine and oak, and found him working at a shrieking band saw. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z It worked again and again, his own iron fact, in alleys and pine barrens and swamps. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z The smell of wood and pine was so intense that for a moment I was distracted from the business at hand. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z At last, we set the mattress and the children on the dusty pine boards of the front room. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The Parson sat motionless in a dead pine tree about two miles off. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z They turned their eyes upward again, for the fight was coming lower, and the firelight glaring up showed a swift-rushing swirl of black silk, pale limbs, green pine needles, gray-brown scabby leather. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z He would take her there, of course, for he wasn’t such a coward that he would mind a little exploring now and then farther in amongst the ever-darkening columns of the tall pines. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z He took one extra breath of the fresh air, scented with clover and honeysuckle and—coming from far away—pine smoke. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z A landscaping crew was setting pink and white petunias into the new pine straw mulch around the shrubs. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z The light filtered through the leaves and pine needles above as if through lace, the ground spotted in shadow. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z He smells like pine trees and fired tobacco, expensive soap the likes of which my family’s never known. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z Then I remember the triumphs of making a fire, catching a fish, and sleeping on a bed of pine boughs all alone in the wilderness. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z This was once the land of air sprays, pine and floral, and people retain the taste; especially the Commanders, who preach purity in all things. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z "I saw blue sky, white clouds, and pine trees above me," Gordievsky remembered. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z The next hill was covered with pines, and the sharp scent of their needles filled the air. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z The wind picks up as we hike back to the car, a rustling hush through the pines and foliage. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z A complex of white buildings, like a museum or a university, nestled in a grove of pines to the left. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Under the pines even the rain lost its driving power. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z They followed a path into the deep pine forest. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z Its thick and long legs were as large as pine logs. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z He had obviously never stopped pining for his own home and master; although he ate well and his coat was glossy with health, he never maintained anything but a dignified, unyielding distance. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z How can a pine serpent be in him? The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z I looked at the narrow black ribbon of the highway stretching out between the tall, dark pine trees. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z She moaned a little, but the excitement collecting inside him made him close his eyes and regard her moans as no more than pine sighs over his head. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z Another of the carpenters came through the door with a stack of freshly sawed pine boards. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z The gutters filled with rust-colored pine needles and the pungent effluvium of alder leaves, and the drainpipes splashed with winter rain. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z Just as I reached him, he picked himself up and clung to a pine sapling like it was Aunt Goldie. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z All the walls in Granny’s house were horizontal pine boards, painted to look like plaster. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z The Link house stands on a cul-de-sac, up a slight rise with tall young oaks raining acorns over a small front yard and a curtain of cedar and pine bordering the back. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z We all had mud up to our knees, and most of us had draped our sleeping bags on pine branches above us; water dripped from their corners. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z Which smells like pine mixed with a little bit of truck exhaust. Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z He spiraled upward, perched briefly at the topmost branch of an enormous pine. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z The smelly green pine tree was hung from the rearview mirror and all the lists and figuring were done, but Byion acted like he didn’t notice. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Then everyone let go at the same time and the Po-2, heavy with bombs, struggled up from the sandy soil to climb above the pine or birch trees. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z He breathed deeply, and each breath had a distinct smell of snow from the north, of ponderosa pine on the rimrock above; finally he smelled horses from the direction of the corral, and he smiled. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z The queen’s men had made it from the trees of the haunted forest, from saplings and supple branches, pine boughs sticky with sap, and the bone-white fingers of the weirwoods. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Sinis, who killed people by fastening them to two pine trees bent down to the ground and letting the trees go, died in that way himself. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z The sound of the wind in the pine branches and the smell of snow from the mountain made him alert. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z She sent me pictures of a cabin with some pine trees, and a fire, and two people with smudged faces that could be her and me sitting there under one comforter. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Sees her from a spot that once was covered in pines, now open to his home. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z An orange, completely pierced with small star-shaped objects, sat on a bed of pine needles in a ceramic dish. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z He had no trouble finding enough pine boughs to make a new bed. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z The boys lay in the pine needles and looked at the lonely sky through the pine branches. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Soon, Olive trudges across the neighborhood, pine needles flying, looking all Olive-like. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z The pine had been here ever since, strong and healthy. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z The pine floors were shimmering and dangerously slick. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Spending time together around that newly decorated tree with its aroma of pine filled us with jokes and hugs and laughter. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z He walked out and stood looking across the fields toward the pine wood where the boy lay sleeping. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z When I finished putting my clothes in the old pine dresser, I took my bag of bathroom necessities and went to the communal bathroom to clean myself up after the day of travel. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z The main building, which stood in a cluster of pines on high ground, seemed to lean heavily to one side, like a cripple, the roof sagging toward Canada. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z While they were cleaning more dust and sand blew in to settle on the newly mopped pine boards. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z In the morning, the path had been only dirt covered in fallen pine needles, but by midmorning, the pine needles were swept away, and by noon the horses stepped onto pavement. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z For five days the previous October the “power fire,” as it was called, had roared across these mountains, consuming seventeen thousand acres of pine and cedar. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z He kept his head low, and his eyes closed for protection against the pine needles and sharp branches. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z The boar shouldered aside the low hanging boughs of the nearby pine, snuffling and huffing. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z But then my mind would go to the curve of his perfect thumbnail, and my body would flame up like pine pitch. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z They set the tree up in the front room after spreading a sheet to protect the carpet of pink roses from falling pine needles. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z The pine needles gave good traction under my feet. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z The tops of the pines and oaks rushed in. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z I could see the lights, like stars strung in the pines. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z Fragments of burning debris had fallen into the space between the iron stack and the inner walls of the tower, made of smooth white pine. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Approaching the Eagle Mountains, Taran felt his burden lighten, as he inhaled the dry, spicy scent of pine. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z You can see the tall pines standing like an army of zombies along the shore, with stars for eyes and the wind moving their ragged arms, but they can’t find you. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z For an hour he pegged over ground that was so springy with decades of fallen pine needles, it seemed to lift him. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z It’s a pretty big barn, 200 to 250 feet from end to end, maybe, and about half full of baskets of crested pine. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z There was a faint rustle in a high pine nearby. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z The interior voice nagging me not to be a fool—to save my skin and take off my skis and walk down, camouflaged by the scrub pines bordering the slope—fled like a disconsolate mosquito. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z The branches of the tall pines stirred in a rain-bearing wind. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z The ground was covered with a thick carpet of pine needles and the charred trunks of pine. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z He pined away, leaning perpetually over the pool, fixed in one long gaze. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z The tang of pines, soft air, some mustiness from rotting vegetation. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z Mr. Canton and Mr. D’Ulney, and my father and I, we held the ropes that lowered Joseph into our family, beside the high white pines. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z Pitiful, injured survivors were camping out in sheds made from pine trees. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z Small children, bored, played along the edge of the pine grove. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z “We’re not sure, really. I remember seeing someone do this with pine needles on the Hunger Games a few years back. At least, I think it was pine needles,” says Twill with a frown. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z The fields had small trees scattered over them, pine and maple saplings, and the grass was thick and tangled, as tall as Dicey’s waist. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z She was looking up, at the pine vigas that held the roof. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z They picked agaric mushrooms in April and pine mushrooms in October. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z I cover the floor of the cave with a layer of pine needles, unroll my sleeping bag, and tuck him into it. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z JimmyTrotter took a chance and ran through the pines and over the creek to check on Butter and to get whatever afternoon milk Sophie was willing to give. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z For a moment, my eyes are dazzled by the bright sunlight and I'm conscious only of a strong wind with the hopeful smell of pine trees. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z I climb a pine and knock off an old limb stub rich in resin. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z The forest was largely made up of pines and spruce, with stands of some low brush smeared here and there and thick grass and some other kind of very small brush all over. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z The fields were bright and green and the sharp smell of pine trees was in the air. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z He found the spear and bow where they were hanging on the pegs of the shelter wall and brought his weapons to the bed he had made of pine boughs. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s a Friday night, and were not at the Waffle House, and we’re not playing Assassin’s Creed in Nick’s basement, and we’re not pining for Blue. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z Now he turned his head toward the mountains of the east, the Gabilans, and they were jolly mountains, with hill ranches in their creases, and with pine trees growing on the crests. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z The plane skidded for two thousand feet, severing an oil pipeline and snapping pine trees, before falling into a ravine and bursting into flames. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z He dropped his gaze to the worn pine table to hide the shameful headline he felt burning across his face. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z “Of course you did, and spoiled your story by beginning at the wrong end. Now, start right, and tell me how it all happened. I’m pining to know.” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z She presses the bundle of pine needles to her nose and closes her eyes. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z He’d started carving designs into the pine beams and had installed a homemade skylight in the roof, which was awesome. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z There were tall pines, the kind with no limbs until very close to the top, with a gentle breeze sighing in them, but not too much low brush. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z Jon went to gather fuel, digging down under deadfalls for the drier wood beneath and peeling back layers of sodden pine needles until he found likely kindling. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z He started to crack the black lower limbs off pines. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z The ball went about as high as a young pine, then turned, slowly spun its seams once or twice, and sauntered on down until it bounced softly on the granite plate. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z The warblers had gone inland to the pine forests. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z Stringy, where once mighty oaks and sturdy pines stood. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z Sentinels and soldier pines grew thick about here, and there was nothing as dark and gloomy as an evergreen forest. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z The water was cold and tasted of copper and pine and moss. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z He had good vision but that was a far distance, and it was difficult to pick out a figure among the gray rocks, scraggly pines, and greasy green bushes. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Every once in a while, the view out the window changed from woods, thick with pine trees and ferns and moss-covered rocks, to a wide-open view of the mountains stretching on forever in the distance. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z Why do chanterelles live on oaks and morels on pines? The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z He arrived at the station punctually just as the sun was filtering through the pine trees that still grew in thick groves in the white working-class neighborhoods south and east of Durham proper. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z She could, however, smell the charring pine, tinged with...what? Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z The ground was rocky, but the rocks were thick with moss and pine needles, and the slopes they climbed were not precipitous. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z By evening the pines around the lake were lit from below by a hundred fires, and the greatest fire of all was built in front of the gathering cave. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z An old villa nestled in the shade of some weird-looking pine trees with thin curvy trunks that shot up thirty or forty feet, then sprouted into puffy canopies. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z The black-guard of crows rose from the pine trees on the dunes with merry cheers. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z The grainy rocks, the swaying pines, the cascade of stubborn blue mussels, the water splashing up green and streaming back white—they were all the same, as if the frock coats had never been there. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z The truck bumped as it traveled on the rough road that snaked between the pine trees around them and jerked his body around. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z But in the middle of the circle is a regular pine tree that towers over everything else. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z She had seen him whittling, worrying blocks of pine with his curved carving knives. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z A blackbird feather nestled in the leaves and pine needles beside the creek. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z Claudia had a longtime crush on a guy named Connor, pining for him through most of high school and at the start of college. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z There was something familiar about the fumes that filled the air and I had just thought pine, when a high-pitched Negro voice rang out above the machine sounds. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z I tried pine on the first batch, and ruined them with black tarry smoke. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z There were a lot of pine trees, and the snow was sticking to them. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z For example, a few minutes ago I gathered a handful of acorns and placed them at the base of the pine tree near my fallen log. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z In the distance what looked to be a pine wood, raw and black. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z Inside the City walls the merchants had decorated their shops with pine boughs and winterberries, and the bright sunlight reflected off freshly polished shop windows. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Just below this spot another great branch, itself as big as an ordinary tree, jutted out over the tops of the pines, and on this at last Jeremy fluttered gently to rest. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z He poured a mound of grits the size of an anthill onto the pine floor. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z The farther south the forest went, the more dry birch and pine would give way to the swampy shores of the messy, meandering Sogozha. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z He stared at the line of pines across the oil-top road. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z Lyra slid onto the cushioned bench behind a well-scrubbed pine table top as the low rumble of the gas engine shook the boat. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z “Did you get your pictures of the pine serpent?” The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z He stared out the window, pine trees rushing past. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z The pine tree was only a few more yards, but the hill was getting steeper and slicker, and Grover wasn’t getting any lighter. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z So I heaped pine needles and soft branches in a bed, rolled myself underneath the canoe in my blanket. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z This lovely day makes me pine rather to be with you and the dear little ones on the lawn. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z So he followed the breeze out of town and through the pines and across the granite ledges to the shore. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z She was kneeling on the hardwood in the living room, plucking pine needles one after another from the tree skirt, an antique lace one that my mother had loved. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z Henry stands near Olive’s enormous pine and brightens when he sees me. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z He was used to working outside among the trees with the scent of fresh pine on the cool breeze. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Thomas Jones kept the secrets of the pine thicket until, almost twenty years later, he told his tale to a writer. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z I fell asleep biting a piece of shoelace, leaning against the pine trunk, wishing Mom would find me. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z Among them were the mighty water monsters, giant lizards whose toes were as thick as the trunks of fully grown pine trees. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z Farid and I walked past street peddlers selling cigarettes, pine nuts, and biscuits. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z We walk over wooden floors, polished to a sheen with pine- scented wax, past stairs that curve up to a wraparound balcony that overlooks the gardens. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z As she watched, he found the pine tree he had in mind, and pulled a length of one supple branch loose. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Axel smells the pine scent, too, but certainly not as strong as Ray. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z Derrick—with a braid almost as long as mine hanging over his neck and dangling like a vine—was in a pine straight across the road from where I was perched in sticky balsam. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z She fingered a glazed white bead painted with the image of a pine tree, one of her clay end-of-summer tokens. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z As Dicey emerged from the pine woods, she saw the two figures standing far off, across the road by the mailbox. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z Gnarled roots wove their way through pine needles and fallen leaves. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z It is all pine trees here, too skinny for their height, built like I am. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z You may find yourself inspecting a nearby ponderosa pine, perhaps, or an aspen or sweet gum, puzzling out the magic. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z Lost, we crawled under a sweep of pine boughs, and I curled myself around my sister, who was so much smaller. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z And across the water, Malaga’s pines waved their boughs at him. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z She can see the new, light pine set against the dark worn wood. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z There was a hot blaze in the iron stove, a festive tree smelling of pine needles, professional entertainers from Moscow, and an amateur talent show. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z Suddenly she would be there, standing in the thick pines beside the river, watching him as he worked. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z The city darkens as I reach its border, a wide dirt clearing a few yards wide that separates Lkossa from the first of the Greater Jungle’s towering black pines. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z They are moving fast through pines and elms, past billboards and fields, yellow lilies and purple lilacs. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z On each side of the depression there were large trees—white pines that went towering up and shaded the whole place to make it feel like a quiet garden. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z A low, one-story white house looked out from a stand of pines. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z Each pine tree was itself and separate even if it was a part of a forest. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z It was a dæmon, and as Lee watched, she turned her head and delicately took a spray of pine in her powerful beak and drew it across the space like a curtain. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z He takes off, past the fence, through the field, the tall pines like open arms in front of him. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z Frightful sat calmly under her hood, turning the sounds in the pine forest into mental images. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z Ma comes around to the trunk of the pine tree, unfastens the wire that holds the fencing closed, and lets herself in. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z “Is that cyclone why the woods around here are full of uprooted pine stumps?” the Methodist preacher said finally. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z She turned into a Scotch pine and he kissed the trunk at top speed. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z A little spring mud remains under the pine trees near the fence. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z He being placed again upon the pine needles, he curled and put his hands in his mouth; his lips were dry with clay. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z At the summit, lightning had splintered the giant pine tree. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z The woods begin to evolve, and the pines are intermixed with a variety of trees, some I recognize, some completely foreign to me. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z Even though her feet were bare and the ground was covered with sticks and pine needles, she felt no pain, for this walk was leading her, perhaps, to that destiny that Afi kept speaking of. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z A pine tree had fallen through the roof. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z “Oho,” she laughed, “these mountain goats have cloaked themselves in pine boughs.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z The first of Loki’s children was tied to a pine tree and was now longer than the pine tree it was tied to. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z Physicist Mark Oliphant, arriving at the Cavendish from Australia in the mid-1920s, remarked on its “uncarpeted floor boards, dingy varnished pine doors and stained plaster walls, indifferently lit by a skylight with dirty glass.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z He must have been feeling particularly nasty that night, because he’d combined pine sap with the knots. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z But once I drove a few feet down a dirt road through the initial roadside stand of oak and pine trees, it was every bit as desolate as Grovepoint Acres. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z He drove ahead of me in the jeep and helped me find a level place in the pine grove. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Outside Lewiston, we found our first bit of hope in a little Baptist church set back from the road in a bunch of tall pines. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z There was a delicious pine smell, too, from the Christmas garlands that were hung all down the hall. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z Mr. Underhill prepared a pine box and was quite put out when Donal said he would take care of the rest. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z Here, too, were boys of gold on pedestals holding aloft bright torches of pitch pine to light the great rooms, and the night-time feasting. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z I sat down against a tall pine tree, pulling him down beside me. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z They still smell of resin, and pine, and the forest. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z “Last year, I dropped a guy off at the trailhead,” he told us as we tooled north through darkening pine forests towards the rugged hills of north Georgia. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z He lay down beside them and slept under the pine trees. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Though these mountains were unfamiliar to him, the trees were the same as at home—maple, oak, and wild plum giving way gradually to pines as he climbed higher. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z I spotted a tiny toolshed tucked away by some snow-covered pine trees. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z They were out of breath and sank down in the green-and- purple grass on the edge of the pine woods. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z Leslie’s favorite place besides the castle stronghold was the pine forest. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z Mr. Mwila didn’t raise his voice or take out the “pine board of education” like Mrs. Peterson had done time and time again. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z One year a neighborhood kid climbed a pine tree for a kite. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Between a pair of wishbone pines I squeezed myself out of sight. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z Bristle watched from the base of the pine above them. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z He did not yearn or pine for the girl, rather he thought about her, and decided. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z In between, it chugs through the lush rolling hills of Mississippi, through mile after mile of cotton fields and pine forests, past towns and small cities dotting the landscape. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Kenny Hall, the old guy down the street who was still pining away for me, didn’t count. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z I bit the pine gum off my fingers. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z The spiny, flat tail of layered pine needle quills. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z For example, Jeanne lived in a small cabin in the middle of the desert, while I lived in a small hut built of straws and pine tree leaves. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z It’s hidden behind the eastern pine, its yellow tail popping out from behind the rough bark. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z There were wide fire-gaps cut through the pines, and you could look up them like avenues and see wooded hills way off. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z Above his head, on the lowest branch of the pine tree, the Golden Fleece shimmered, its magic protecting the camp’s borders from invasion. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z Very gently Mama worked the entrails out and in a pan of warm soapy water, washed them clean of the pine needles, leaves, and grit. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z There was no sound except from the water and a breeze singing high up in the pine trees. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z Flames crackled, adding the scent of burning pine to the overwhelming smells from all of Doc’s potions and oils combined. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z It arched up and hit the ceiling of pine branches above me, slamming back to the ground not a foot in front of me. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z When she stirred, the sun was up and Caesar paced between two pines, talking to himself. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z But the younger children couldn’t go past the pine clump toward the big house and the town, or the bramble patch where they picked blackberries in summer in the other direction. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z He also likes his room and the view from his window: gardens with pine trees and poplars, and a large old house covered with ivy. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z The rain started again just after noon, and I sat under a dense pine nursing my last tin of meal replacement, the last-resort tin with the expiry dated for the previous year. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z She had assumed she was never going to see the woman again; now here she was, smelling of pine and honeysuckle, sweet and flowery like the best kind of summer day. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z I expected to see the Fleece missing from the pine tree, but it was still there, glittering in the first light of dawn. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z That morning, we had scrambled eggs spiced with pine bark, which came from the sticks we used to stir them. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z Sky darkened by thunderclouds, hundred-foot pines close to the road, heavy evergreen. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z I leaned against a knobbly pine sticky with sap that matted the back of my head to the bark and watched the sky betray me into navy. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z Along the roadside, oaks were spectacularly red against the green of pines. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z I could almost smell the lemon and pine of her favorite soap still on the dress. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z At the top of the hill there was a pine tree. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z The light of sunset filters through the trees, and I take a deep breath, drinking in the scent of pine needles. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z The shade beneath the pines was cool and fresh, and the air smelled like summer and freedom, the smell of never having to go home. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z Each nail I drove in the rough pine boards caused the knot in my throat to get bigger and bigger. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z The voice of the wind in the pines reminded him of one of the stories his mother had told him about King David. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z "He's high as a Georgia pine," I laughed, turning to the group nearest me. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z Farder Coram touched the spray of pine as if for luck, and on his face was an expression Lyra had never seen before: almost a longing. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z An egg-shaped clearing beneath high pines rounded out a bend in a running stream. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z We lived once again in married student housing, a plywood apartment complex set among pine trees, and the singular topic of conversation among our young neighbors was the inadequacy of these rattletrap tenements. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Shirtless and barefoot, he leaned casually against the trunk of a tall pine. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z Richard walked sturdily down the hill through the pines until he came to Lighthouse Avenue. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Once they were in the Botanic Garden, Pan ran away over the grass chasing a mouse toward the wall, and then let it go and sprang up into the huge pine tree nearby. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z The boulders diminish to rocks that eventually turn to pebbles, and then, to my relief, we're back on pine needles and the gentle incline of the forest floor. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z I thought about the pictures again, the cabin and the pine trees. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Taking flight, she sped around the barn and into a pine tree at the edge of a woodlot. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z We did find mushrooms, acorns, mosquitoes, and raccoon scat cleverly concealed by pine needles. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z If I help him, I could end up riding the pine this season, and if I don’t help Boy21 acclimate to Bellmont, I’d be disobeying Coach for the first time in my life. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z “You might find somewhere to stay in Tal Al Karama, a village near the Roman road. You should reach there this evening. A quiet road through pine woods and bare hills.” Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z This late, its scent is distinct, a sharp blend of ozone and pine. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z It was the young soldier who discovered the great pine tree, its lowest branches four feet off the ground. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z The swallow pulled itself to its feet and clutched the green tips of the pine bough. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z Jessie studied Isa, wanting to ask more, but then Oliver threw a handful of pine needles on her head and Jessie’s thoughts turned solely to revenge as she chased him down the street. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z The air under the pines was thick and shady. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z Across the Black Belt, more and more acres were converted to growing pine trees for paper mills and industrial uses. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Pine needles covered the floor in thick patterns; someone had carefully arranged the yellow, green, and brown pine needles according to age. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z He directed her to capture smaller things: a seedling pine reaching upward from a crevice; a stone balanced on a tree stump. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z “What kind of reception would you get? We’re in a freaking pine forest.” The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z It's dawn and the birds have come alive, chasing each other from maple to pine and back to maple again. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z A boy could walk out through the garden gate and straight into the rye, and beyond that into meadows strewn with wildflowers to pick, pine forests to ramble in, and streams to follow. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Up die hill from the campsite the same windstorm that left him a place to land the plane—had that only been three, four days ago?—had dropped three large white pines across each other. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z To his left stood an oak tree about half the height of the pine tree. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z A few days later, Henrietta’s body made the long, winding train ride from Baltimore to Clover in a plain pine box, which was all Day could afford. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z Then he sat at the base of a sturdy pine tree and waited to die. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z Like where a henna carpet of pine needles was shin-bone deep. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s crisp and clear, and it smells of snow and concrete and pine trees. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z The sky was clear to the south, and a fresh-scented breeze was just lifting the twigs and stirring the pine tops. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z When I awoke, the Georgia pine trees had become Alabama pine trees. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z The pine trees would look down forever on a lantern burning out of oil but not going out. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z She blindly felt with her hands and recognized the thick roots and trunk of a pine tree. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z She closed her eyes and let her ears fill with wings beating air and early acorns falling onto the soft pad of pine needles. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z A light wind was moving in the tops of the pines—cool sweet air, gentle and clean. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The two stood face to face without a word, as lofty pine trees when the wind is still. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Georges and Robert make a fire wif pine needles and sticks. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z I sat at the top of Half-Blood Hill and watched the dryads come and go, singing to the dying pine tree. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z Mack and the boys slept peacefully on the pine needles. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z The Crabtrees were so mad and hurt and ashamed, they took a pine casket out to the cemetery and put him right under, and to this day there isn’t a marker on his grave. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z And it laid its veil over the island, so that Malaga shone with a luminous silver—every stone, every pine—as if an artist had engraved it and set it on the water. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z Located where the cold, clear Spokane River tumbled in a white froth over a series of low falls, the town was surrounded by ponderosa pine forest and open range country. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z But the extra visitors left just as a huge tray of dinner appeared, hunks of baked lamb surrounded by rice and pine nuts. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z The boy listened to the wind passing through the tops of the tall pines; he thought they moved like giant brooms sweeping the sky. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z And inside the room it smelled like socks and pine air freshener. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z I explained he’d have to stick with moss and pine needles until the first of May. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z I stared at the pine in the distance. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z Seven years ago, Thalia had been turned into a pine tree by her father, to prevent her from dying. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z Kote pressed the iron shim to the black side of the creature, and there was a short, sharp crackling sound, like a pine log snapping in a hot fire. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z I felt them pounding their horses’ hooves into our land, and saw them riding past the fields and into the pines. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z I could see smoke from the dragon guardian at the pine tree, the glitter of the distant Fleece. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z Done sweeping up ash in the fireplace, the servant girl stacks new wood into a pyramid with aromatic pine for kindling resting on top. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z He kicked through the dry pine needles and leaves, checking for its mate. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z It was as if the people in this city with the tall whistling pines wanted to grab all they could before the war robbed them of choices. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z These pines were not like the thick, cone-shaped trees of New England. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z The half-moon hung over the pines, partly hidden by small, glowing clouds moving slowly across the sky—the sky changing each moment. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z Mosquitoes bit at her but she lingered outside anyway, listening to the wind in the pines and the frogs croaking across the marsh. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z She went to the window and put her head out, heard the wind rusding in the pine trees and the white birch. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Whenever we first opened its door at the top of the creaky narrow stairs we smelled the fresh veneers of pine oil and bleach and lemon balm. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z The forest had turned to deep pine, the tall evergreens casting thin shadows from the moonlight. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z I take a deep breath of pine and eucalyptus, hear mockingbirds and seagulls and the rumbling surf in the distance. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z And she snapped a little twig off the pine branch she flew with, and sniffed the sharp resin smell with greedy pleasure, before flying slowly down to join the sleepers on the grass. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z “They were gathering cottonwood branches and weaving a coffin. That proves she was a bruja! A bruja cannot be buried in a casket made of pine or piñón or cedar.” Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z The pine paneling was gone from the walls leaving just the furring strips. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z Jones mounted his horse, maneuvered through the pine trees, and vanished from sight. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z “If you pull over that way behind those pine trees nobody could see you from the road.” Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z “Beds and a fire. You use pine boughs to make the beds.” The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z “And you do not lie dead in some ditch under some stream? And you are not a pining outcast amongst strangers?” Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z They grumbled, but we pulled into shore, dragged our canoes up to the drier ground under the pine trees. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z They all followed the path as it fell down between the sharp halves of a cracked boulder, came into pine woods again, and finally rounded into a sudden clearing. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z “What are three different kinds of pine trees?” said Charles, just to show off—and to let Kyle’s team know their bonus answer didn’t give them any kind of advantage. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z Grass is even better than pine needles, and tomorrow I am going to try the outside bark of the river birch. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z Over bare rock they rode, through gloomy pine forests and drifts of old snow, over icy ridges and across shallow rivers that had no names. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z He guided Joe to a lumber rack and pulled out samples of the different woods he used—soft, malleable sugar pine, hard yellow spruce, fragrant cedar, and clear white ash. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z The pines and sentinels gave way to huge dark oaks. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z IV The Levy home stood among the pines on a small rise overlooking the gray waters of Bay St. Louis. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Deep in the pine woods, along a deserted logging road, the boy and dog came to a small open space where there had once been a log ramp. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Twenty or thirty of them were sitting in one of die pines. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z As we walked, I saw that monster pine tree ahead of us. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z Right in front of her, out of the fog, the island materialized—-an acre of pine trees, boulders, and snow with a black sand beach: If the island had a name, she didn’t know it. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z They wait to die amidst the grove of red pines, sitting naked, leaned against the scaly flanks of the trees. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z Booth and Herold entered the pines, dismounted, and tied off their horses. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z The image she shared then—her sister’s frozen corpse at the base of the mighty pine—seemed to exhaust her. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z Her pine tree was still there, the Golden Fleece glittering in its lowest branch. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z He smelled clay and old pine from the vigas in the ceiling. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z And an indication that I was pining for the high times we had had in the big city. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Minerva boiled cedar branches and pine needles into medicine and fed it each of us every two hours. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z It looked like glitter scraped from the underside of clouds by the scrubby top branches of the pines. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z Across the road there was a big empty field of grass, and beyond that a fringe of pine woods. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z Although they had stood deliberately in the dark of the pine trees, they were unprepared for the deeper darkness that met them there in that room. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z The young bears caught up with him as he was entering a grove of pines. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z Frightful moved out of the aerie to a pine stub. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z He and his friend of the moment had to stroll away among the pines. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z “How come the sewer started smelling like a pine tree?” Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z My eyes barely registered the patchwork of corn and potato fields, or the dark hills covered in pine. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Soft pine again was used, because it was easier to cut. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z The pine trees gave way to a tangled thicket of Brazilian peppers and dense ground scrub, which looked impenetrable. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Tayo stopped the mare by a pine tree on a ridge near a scrub- oak thicket. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z It was still night, but the first red glow of dawn was rising in a faint crescent over the pine woods. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z There were trees, and flower beds, and pine tables covered with red- and-white-checked tablecloths. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z Now, alone on a bed of pine needles, he remembered that he could never answer his mother. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Sometimes the two limped together to the edge of the fields, or wandered off into the pine woods. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z The pine shelves smelled sweet and clean, like they were fresh cut, and were filled with bottles and jars of roots and dried flowers. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z I gather pine boughs for my bed, cook the frogs legs and cattail tubers, then put out the fire. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Cecile’s gaze roamed from the hanging sheets, up the broken pecan tree, to the animals, the garden, and then out beyond the pines until I was sure she was staring off into her mind. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z She touched Thalia’s pine tree, then allowed herself to be lead over the crest and into the mortal world. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z There was a fire in an iron range, and Lyra sat freshly changed in the center of a large pine table. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z The intervening year helped her make the transition to everything but the Virginia heat; many was the night she pined for White Sulphur Springs’ brisk summer nights. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z She got to the place she could shoot a hawk out of a pine tree and not tear him up. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z I kept having second thoughts that pushed needles into my feet, and I stood and started to run back more than once only to stop short and talk myself back to the pines. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z The next he knew, he was lying on a bed of pine needles beneath a dark stone roof. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z After spending so much time in the pine thicket—a lost week—it felt good to be on the move again. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z He headed to a clearing he knew of, a place that lay just beyond a thick stand of bristly pines. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z Between a pair of wishbone pines I squeezed myself out of sight. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z At daybreak we scavenged in the wreckage of the box, but what hadn’t been eaten was mashed into the wet pine needles. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z Gradually, the needles on the pine tree started turning from brown to green. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z We got the fire going pretty high—almost as high as where Danny hid the flag—and the crackling and snapping and small explosions of pine resin sent out sparks that looked like rising stars. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z In a drift of khaki pine needles I saw antlers, like Herne the Hunter’s. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z She was still as tall as a pine tree, but definitely a lot less scary. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z The scent of pine is overwhelming as you enter the next room to find yourself in a forest full of evergreen trees. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Riverbanks, hillsides, the cool sloped rooms under the pine trees—China provides her soldiers with meeting places enough. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z He gazed into the room as though it were full of great art rather than pine boards and wood curls. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Crawling out on the ledge, my hands trembling, I lay a small pile of pine needles and twigs, then, taking out my flint and steel, strike a spark and start a fire. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Men crowded into restaurants lit by flickering kerosene lamps and sat down to eat cheap steaks and drink stale beer at tables that were not more than pine planks resting on two sawhorses. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z I break off branches from the holly bushes and a few sprigs of pine and carry them inside. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z The pines threw their roots around the shore’s boulders, grappling with the living rocks and wrestling them into position. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z The crowd was gathering, a good twenty men and boys and a few women, carrying flaring pine torches. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z The crevice burst open into a forest of scrub pine and fir. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Tall soldier pines and gnarled old oaks closed in around them. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z When his car hit a truck, he launched through the windshield in a perfect arc until he landed, tangled and speared, in the arms of a pine tree. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z I looked at the pine trees surrounding the football field. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z As long as the wretched Goodacre was well out of our lives, some degree of pining and sighing might be indulged in strictly as a romantic exercise. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z I wanted to ask him how it felt to have slanted eyes, hair like pine needles, and coppery-colored skin. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z “Only people who have been in love can make fun of my pining.” Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z In silence, they took off their skis and hid them under pine trees. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z They were still a little under a half mile from the borderlands, but already he could see the tops of the Greater Jungle's oldest and tallest pines peeking above rooftops. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z So I pull him over to a pine tree, take the belt off my jeans, loop it through the raggedy old collar Shiloh’s wearing, and fasten the belt to the tree. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z At the graveyard, a few depressions, but otherwise the ground was filled with pine boughs the snow had brought down. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z Across the road, where the farm itself lay, overgrown fields stretched back to meet a thick woods of pine trees, oaks and tall, topheavy loblollies. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z He could smell the scent of the pine grove that bordered the area. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z I could see Half- Blood Hill ahead of us, with its giant pine tree at the crest—Thalia's tree, which contained the life force of a fallen hero. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z A cool wind blew down through the pines, and the trees swished secrets among them. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z The snow clung to their boots and breeches, and the wind rattled the pines and made their cloaks snap and swirl. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z But the pines, they just keep on living. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z This would have been during the holidays, five months earlier, because I remembered the porch banisters all decorated with pine boughs and an enormous, sweet-smelling bayberry wreath that hung on the front door. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z “Or are you one of the fragile creatures who will fall in love with a lord’s son and pine away?” The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z Even the pine trees down to Thayer’s haymeadow put on their darker green and hunched their branches closer as the mornings came in colder and colder. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z A shower of sparks leapt to the pine needles. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z The land here was hilly and green, forests tucked in close beside the road, and the air smelled of pine. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z After a few seconds she reached forward and unhesitatingly picked out one of the many sprays of pine and held it up. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z I tune out and focus on my doodle, a pine tree. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z The forest fragrances of pine trees drifted around them. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z And she did not pine: she added new material to her lectures, cooked long meals, read new books, bought new records. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Then we climbed into some scrub pines, where the wind came on and cooled our backs. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z He followed her down the long screen porch to a narrow pine door. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z I haven't been careful enough about my own tracks, counting on a light tread and the pine needles to conceal my prints. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z I pull up my hood and lie down on the pine needles. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z Frightful watched Chup wing over her pine stub at the edge of the cliff. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z It hit the trunk of an alder tree and tumbled into the arms of a pine. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z Cole hiked the shoreline a few days early and found a little scrubby pine tree barely three feet tall growing against the trunk of a larger tree. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z At the top of Half-Blood Hill, Thalia’s pine tree burst into flames. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z At night she had seen the lamps shining in Mr. Fitzgibbon’s house, and at Christmas time the lights that his sons strung on a pine tree outside. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z Huts made of tree trunks and mud and bristles of pine needles. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z The air was laced with the warm, festive scent of pine smoke. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z I stuck the two bits of metal together with pine pitch. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Brother Luke brought small slender pieces of pine and showed Robin how to smooth them into mast and bowsprit, then found scraps of linen for sails and pieces of yarn for rigging. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z He reached his horse, jumped into the saddle, and disappeared with a terrifying scream into the shadows of the pine trees. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z “A marten,” he said, finding the name for Pantalaimon, “a pine marten.” The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z I stared out into the darkness, saw the moss hang like drool from the pines. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z It sat among the pine trees on a lot Henri rented for five dollars a year. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z I tried to breathe in that ranch smell of pine and earth, but it wasn’t anymore the place it had once been to me. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z There was still an echo as of following feet in the cutting behind them; a rushing noise as if a wind were rising and pouring through the branches of the pines. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z It didn’t take long for her to select the most crooked, most pathetic, patchiest pine tree in the bunch. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z We were stopped near the same pine forest we had been trekking alongside for hours. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z He walked out of the compound, to the street, and looked through the plants on the roadside until he saw the rumpled leaves close to the root of a whistling pine. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Layers of reddish brown pine needles sank softly under his feet, and he brushed aside the pine cones before he sat down. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z The telephone poles stood firm, but the pines, both narrow and thick, had fallen, like soldiers in ugly army green had been shot up in the road. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z I would go out onto the cliffs, with their pine trees and gorse bushes, or down to the beach. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z The cages are behind the building, tucked into pine trees and landscaping. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z Or go up, into the tall pine tree on the other side of the wall. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z I was moved by the extreme poverty: the only furniture was a pine table, two crude chairs, and a bed on which several children were sleeping. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z It took a while to get to it: first they had to scramble down into a deep river valley and then up again through the pines. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z “I don’t care what she says,” muttered Dolorous Edd, as Val vanished behind a stand of soldier pines. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z A place to think, and smell pine, and walk and walk. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z I pined in my heart to be in a dark theater with popcorn and larger-than-life actors on the screen in the latest hit movie. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Like standing mean mouthed over Vonetta and Fern until they swallow a tablespoon each of hard pine cough syrup. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z Robin and Marian went on an expedition which took them six weeks, and sent a whole gown made out of the skins of pine martens. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z The East Wind was streaming through the bare branches of the trees, and seething in the dark pines on the hills. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z The sun was just beginning to drive its first splinters of light through the pines, bouncing against tree trunks and earth. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z And the young man turned himself away stormily and made as though he would knock his brains out against a twisted pine tree that stood there in the court. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z Booth and Herold must not leave the pine thicket, make any noise, or do anything that might let anyone know they were there. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z As I walk out on my hunt, I notice how the breezes move the pine needles. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z He had unsealed the fireplace and kept it laid with pine logs. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z Moss hung off the tall pines around us, and the full moon shone through the moss. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z In the woods, I find a pine tree and strip handfuls of fragrant needles from the boughs. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z Outside were snowy mountains dotted with pine trees, the sun rising red between two peaks. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z The drakon hissed, spitting jets of green poison that smoked on the mossy ground and set tar pits on fire, filling the air with the scent of fresh pine and ginger. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z The beam searches out the pine tree, the fencing, the lean-to....And then I see this big German shepherd, mean as nails, hunched over Shiloh there on the ground. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z Ahead, the pines towered up, promising long, cool pools of shade. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z The smells filled his nostrils,- the sharp fresh tang of pine needles, the earthy odor of wet rotting leaves, the hints of animal musk and distant cooking fires. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z The sun, rising against black pines and leafless trees, filled the grove with a baleful light. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z His pining for our father is unbearable, but he is the man of the house now and cannot speak openly of his suffering. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “Judith, light a pine knot for him to see by.” The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z In mid 1943, the Soviet government established “Laboratory Number 2,” a secret lab in the pine woods outside Moscow. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z “Sire, we must go at once to the grove of the pines and give thanks for our victory.” Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z Forest and pine and kelly and grass, all flowing together like a green ocean. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z The hill is grassy, but the site of the Confederate stand is toward the back of the rise, under the cover of broom sedge and pine shrubs. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z And then, from the tall pines and birches that ringed the pond, a wood thrush caroled. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z The path was soft with pine needles, and squirrels hurried up and down the trees with acorns in their mouths. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z Instead, they would hide in a heavily wooded pine thicket some distance away. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z “Yeah,” said Peach, dodging a scrub pine and picking his way carefully on the rock. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z She went on to tell me about making a bird feeder by putting peanut butter on a pine cone and rolling it in bird seed. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z Outside, across the playground, I see the one tall pine tree, branches lifted above the school’s brick wall. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z It lit the lofty places in the mountains, the ravines filled with pines, the pointy crags of granite. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z Hanging on a pine limb, he watched her go, half expecting her to turn and come back to run over him again. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z Windstorms over the years had knocked down pines and spruce trees and many of them were the right diameter to use for making a raft—six or eight inches and straight. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z So many textures—prickly pines, rough, crackling wood, smooth leaves, velvet brush cover, and weeds and dirt. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z He pulled her into the next driveway, between a pine tree and an RV. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z The pine coffin that held Miss Mary Finch—wearing her best dress, with her hair washed clean and combed—bounced in the back when the wagon wheels hit a rut. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z Beneath was an open space blanketed with a mass of brown pine needles. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z I knew and could picture the very oaks and pines that had nourished the pigs and the mushrooms that were nourishing us. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Though only half the height of the tallest eastern pines, the chestnut had a weight and mass and symmetry that put it in another league. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z Roz stumbled on until she found a patch of ground that was flat and open and carpeted with pine needles. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z The two men standing near the pines on Darling Street—right near the brown house where wine drinkers went—could smell the air, but they didn’t think of ginger. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z But so thick were the pines that the morning sun barely touched the ground. The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z I string the fencing around the trunks of three small trees, for corner posts, and then back to the pine tree again where I fasten it with wire. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z It was a lax sunny day, warm and with the scent of pines heavy on the air. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z No longer a tall eastern white pine, instead a slanted one with all branches hanging like sad arms toward the ground. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z Afterwards they rested in the deep pine needles under the trees, the terrier panting heavily with his eyes half closed, and the cat busy with his eternal washing. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z But I just followed him through the thick brush, weaving through pine trees and threatening, chest-high brambly bushes. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z Both of them sat silent on the moss-covered rock in the slant of sunlight through the old pines and thought how many tiny chances had conspired to bring them to this place. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z A colorful mushroom grows beneath the pine tree. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z In those days, the pine forests was all over East Texas. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I could smell the warm pine scent of hair tonic. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z We followed the sound of running water down the hill until we pushed through a thick stand of pine trees and came upon a lovely, deep stream about twenty feet across. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z The train cut through deep green pine forests where the ground was covered with the slick brown needles and the tops of the trees stretched up virgin and tall into the sky. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z This explained what Raymie was doing in Ida Nee’s backyard, under Ida Nee’s pine trees. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z I hear Grammy’s tires rolling up the driveway, so I stand and brush the pine needles off of my legs. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z He walked along Lighthouse and up through the pines and he came to his house and let himself in. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z The woodsmoke grew stronger, and he passed a stand of thick pines and was there. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z Pervading everything was the odor of pine and fermenting fruit. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z It was behind a pine tree, and out of the ripping wind. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z I looked out over the rolling hills, gold with autumn leaves and wheat fields, green with pasture and stands of pine and fir. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Here, there were hardwood trees, sycamores and maples and oaks, as well as the pines that grew everywhere. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z JimmyTrotter pleaded to let him have a few more eggs but Ma Charles sat up straight in the pine chair her father made, looking every bit as “onchee” as her sister. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z He turned his back, contempt in every line of his body as he flicked the scales from his pine cone out into the dark. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z The shacks were built of one thickness of pine planking covered with tarpaper. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z The riders had long ridden past us and into the pines. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z Some of the pines are ninety feet tall and more than three hundred years old. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z Several feedings later, the second man put Frightful on a perch in the pine forest. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z “Like hell you are,” she whispered, her face pale in the shadow of the pines. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z The rolling hills scattered with lava rock and the pine ridges between clearings were almost indistinguishable from one another. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z Beyond the bridge, the dirt path abandoned the banks of the Dudh Kosi and zigzagged up the steep canyon wall, ascending through aromatic stands of pine. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z It sits in the ashes, filled with a handful of pine needles steaming in water. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z The trees I’d been near, for instance, were pine trees, tall and straight with branches and needles mostly at the top. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z The boys were ready, were proud to be able to help out the U.S. of A. and whatnot, although the chubby girlfriends and mothers admitted they’d be pining for their men. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z I walk ahead on the sidewalk, kicking away pine- cones and rocks and sticks so his chair won’t get stuck on them. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z Snowflakes drifted down soundlessly to cloak the soldier pines and sentinels in white. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z The closer they came out of the pines and into the field and toward the grass, the more real it became. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z It was as tall as a pine tree and covered with carved words. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z By the time I stopped I was high enough to see over the squatter pines and over the roof of the barn where Miig and Chi-Boy were scouting. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z She picked a pine needle off her dress. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z Frightful slept on the stub of the pine tree, Chup on the dead limb of his oak. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z He was whisked by car through the dense pine forests surrounding the airport to an address on Durham's North Side. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z On the tallest Half- Blood Hill, Thalia’s pine tree stood with the Golden Fleece hanging from its branches, magically protecting the camp from its enemies. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z The mists were rolling back from the valley, and a pale sun was lighting the sky when the old dog came through the windbreak of tall Norway pines and down outside the farmhouse door. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Most stood by watching the yellow-orange flames leaping from roof to roof and listening to the horrible crackle pop of dry pine being consumed. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z Mr. Croker’s dæmon, a green woodpecker, drilled vigorously into a waste piece of pine with a sound like a machine gun. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z Mercy’s spinning wheel faltered, and Rachel’s hand, lighting a pine knot, trembled so that a spark fell on the table unheeded and left a small black scar. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z I jumped, grasping a low, sticky pine branch beside me for balance. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z Outside, the smell of pine trees wafted in from the yards of the houses that bordered the back of the school. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z Henry studied an old loblolly pine that towered behind Pastor Tom. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z From among the dried flowers and the pine sprays a bright yellow eye looked out. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z The girl opened the pine chest by the hearth and removed their quilting. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Liyana ate a mound of rice and onions and sizzled pine nuts, but steered clear of the lamb. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z I breathed in the welcome scent of pine. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z It sat far back from the road in a clump of pine trees and to a child might have been the house where Goldilocks met the three bears. Missing May 1992-03-01T00:00:00Z I had never before left the mountain and I ached for it, for the sight of the Princess etched in pine across the massif. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z As a pink sun rose over the pines, vast patches of grass in the field flared up and crackled. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z The most visionary of the brain busters pined for the day when a pilot could take one of their creations for a hypersonic joy ride: Mach 5 or faster. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Finally he brought the knife and the piece of pine he had promised. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z In the yard surrounding it were two large pine trees and several others Hanako didn’t recognize. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z He led the wounded fox to a mossy circle of shade beneath a pine. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z Without the filtered light of the sun it was almost dark, and the sound of the rain hitting the pine branches high above their heads filled the grove with a weird, tuneless music. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z Chi-Boy looped back and guided us to a swatch of even ground under a ridge of thick pine where we’d spend the night. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z He walks over to the chair, takes the sleeping bag, and spreads it over the damp pine floor, then lies down. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z He hoisted out a smaller, metal box lying within the pine coffin. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z As they passed the primary school with its trimmed hedges of whistling pine, Ifemelu suddenly imagined that she was indeed pregnant, and the girl had used expired test chemicals in that dingy lab. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z The monkey dæmon dropped his pine cone and came with her. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z She might be pining for England, like always. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z Then we continued on through the skinny pines, more open fields, a little less than half a mile before we crossed the old wooden planks. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z Hurriedly Roy made his way through a forest of towering lodgepole pines. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Then Tea Cake came prancing around her where she was and the song of the sigh flew out of the window and lit in the top of the pine trees. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z Or maybe we are stupid in the exact same way as every other idiot mortal who’s pined away for another bite of goblin fruit. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z We missed hiking through the pines and wading in the shallow end of the creek. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z He took Jones deeper into the pines, through thick undergrowth, to a man partly concealed by the brush. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z He was watching the granite ledges slip past, the. pines above them bending with the wind out to sea. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z The following day they passed through the boarded ruins of a seaside resort and took the road inland through a pine wood, the long straight blacktop drifted in pineneedles, the wind in the dark trees. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z Just as she would never align a pine needle with the leaf of a cottonwood tree, she would never put the jars of tomatoes next to the green beans. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z It was a cinch he hadn’t gone far, up, down, or sideways, because it would have been impossible to advance through the dark pines at night. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The pine knot flares and throws off so much black smoke I do not see a fourth passageway on my left. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Still ravenously hungry, and growing weak from lack of food, she left the pine and circled above an alfalfa field. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z Such places, the watersheds of the great coniferous forests of spruce and balsam, of hemlock and pine, provide the kind of spawning grounds that salmon must have in order to survive. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z A number of things are kept there: stockpiles of metal used by the convicts to manufacture automobile license plates, lumber, old machinery, baseball paraphernalia—and also an unpainted wooden gallows that smells faintly of pine. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z Joseph had come to associate the smell of pipe tobacco with the house, and it mingled so deeply with the pine and fire and wood that he couldn’t imagine the house smelling any other way. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z Brian moved him and rearranged the pine boughs to make a softer bed. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z They were lazy men; it was easier to drift downstream and row over to Winston Swamp than to thrash through underbrush and pine slashes. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z The mountain was beautiful and crisp; the air smelled of leather and pine. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z He could tell by the smell of pine resin in the trees and the sound of pine needles crunching underfoot. Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z I didn't want him to be self-involved and distant like the stoner boys I pined for in high school. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z Since roosting overnight in a tree isn't sensible anyway, I scoop out a hollow under the bushes and cover myself with leaves and pine needles. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z "I'm through with that Doctor Gordon," I said, after we had left Dodo and her black station wagon behind the pines. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z The kindling of twigs and pine needles was lit with a spark from a flint stone, and when the fire was well on its way, the door of the kiln was sealed. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z Back in California, Papa had asked their landlord if he could plant a pine in the backyard. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z JimmyTrotter had already taken what he needed and was crossing the field, heading into the pines. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z So we just began walking, figuring they must be out on the trail, which didn’t have the best reception from all the giant pine trees and stuff. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z “Because he doesn’t want me to have to ship you back to him in a pine box.” Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z The window was uncovered and looked out at the beach and tall dark pines, and I had my own television and a huge bathroom with an ice-block shower cubicle. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z Who could love this place—where no pine trees grow, no porch swing moves with the weight of your grandmother. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z That close—twenty yards — and I could see the delicate latticework of the leaves, the texture of the soil, the browned needles beneath the pines, the configurations of geology and human history. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z His knees buckled, and he fell into the old pine needles and cones under a tree. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z The guard dragon Peleus curled contentedly around the pine tree underneath the Golden Fleece and began to snore, blowing steam with every breath. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z It was good to be circled by hands that smelled of pine cleaner and to be blotted by her coffee-breath kisses. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z But as I paint Buddy Gui with his chain saw, standing in the wood chips, buzzing away at another pine Buddha, I start to slow down. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z He could still remember the smell of the smoke mingled with pine. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z The broad-leafed trees become smaller, there are more pines, the air cools, the sky turns an icier blue: we’re heading away from spring. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z The holly bits were tied with pine branches and set on the sills of the street-facing windows. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z The gnarled, smaller trees became taller pines, the undergrowth thinning, the brook breaking into occasional rapids. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z Or maybe it’s because I’m spending every minute pining for some boy who doesn’t want to meet me in person. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z Then I went to the kitchen, stuffed my pockets with handfuls of pine nuts, and ran outside to find Hassan waiting for me. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z The air smelled of pines instead of salt. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Satyrs brought their reed pipes and played nature magic songs, and for a while the pine needles seemed to get fuller. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z A one-room schoolhouse sided with cedar shingles stood among pines on a flat piece of land above the camp, but there were few children, and the school was sparsely and irregularly attended. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z The wooden watchtower was the tallest thing this side of the mountains, rising twenty feet above the biggest sentinels and soldier pines in the surrounding woods. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z As we trudged back up Half-Blood Hill to the pine tree where the Golden Fleece glittered, I half expected to see Thalia there, waiting for us. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z From rough pine slabs, I made a box for my dog. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Red said he liked the white tiles, which were an improvement over the pine boards that had been there formerly. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z |
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