| 单词 | pipe |
| 例句 | The ghoul in the attic howled and dropped pipes whenever he felt things were getting too quiet, and small explosions from Fred and George’s bedroom were considered perfectly normal. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z Working with a round tin of metal polish, they waxed a dim gloss on the dull zinc pipe rising from the cement on his groin. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z He reached up with his hands and grabbed the pipes that fed chemicals into the shower, to hold himself up. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Jefferson's version of a classless American society was therefore a pipe dream, because the source of the problem was not European feudalism but human nature itself. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z The Ziploc, a dirty camouflage green flashing glassy sparks of pipe, tumbled along the highway before being obliterated by the car behind us. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z He managed to get to his feet again, but Grover put his reed pipes to his lips and began to play. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z She was often chartered for special moonlight cruises, during which an elaborate loudspeaker system piped live music from the observation room throughout the ship. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z A weird funnel device was attached to the forges chimney, trapping the smoke and heat and channeling it through a pipe into the floor, next to a big bronze manhole cover. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z He towelled himself vigorously, making the muscles of his biceps ripple, then he sat down on the rocks and reached for his pipe. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z Did a woman kill him and did she deliberately drop a pipe cleaner to make it look like a man’s work? Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z You can substitute lead piping for glass, so again the material cause is irrelevant; any pipe sealed at one end will work. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z It looks like a mannequin’s foot with a metal pipe sticking out of it. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z I showed him my talent pipes and bargained for a pleasant fifteen minutes. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Joseph waited for his uncle to tell him to stop lighting candles, but Albert just stuffed his pipe with tobacco and said, “Bring me a match.” The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z Racists are not the pipe- smoking type, I thought to myself. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Perhaps it’s only steam escaping a pipe or the far-off whoosh of one of the trains. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z I worried these assertions could mean only one thing: my mom was secretly hitting the crack pipe. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z He felt that black shapes were advancing to smother him; but when he sat up he saw nothing but the back of Strider sitting hunched up, smoking his pipe, and watching. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z His father taught him how to work a punching bag and made him a barbell from two lead-filled coffee cans welded to a pipe. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z He suffered a cracked skull from being hit with an iron pipe, a broken leg, and many cuts and bruises. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z “He’s really a terrorist making pipe bombs. Go get in his truck and drive away. Drive it off a cliff.” Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z Maybe now, Mama Lessie, no other black child’s beloved grandmother will have to die beneath the dripping water pipes in a cold, dingy hospital basement. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z There was a sweet, sticky taste on the end of the pipe. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z Mr. Patel brought over their slices, piping hot and fresh from the oven. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z They called me spider legs, skeleton girl, pipe cleaner, two-by-four, bony butt, stick woman, bean pole, and giraffe, and they said I could stay dry in the rain by standing under a telephone wire. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z They seem to have no idea what a pipe dream this is. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z We had a leaky pipe for a week. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z Harry bent down and looked up the long, dark pipe. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z Uncle Holt tamped the Prince Albert tobacco down in his pipe. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z “You think the railroad company was going to lay drainage pipes on top the ground?” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z “Those old ladies seem to be dropping like flies,” he said, and pressed more tobacco into the charred bowl of his pipe. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z One of the gentlemen lit a large pipe and the odor of it nearly made her retch. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z “You in here?” he asked hesitantly from the doorway, trying to adjust his eyes, the smoke from his pipe smelling nice. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z He thought a pipe might have broken, but that couldn’t be it; the sound wasn’t right. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z I’m aware of tile changing to concrete, of crawling through a tight, stinking pipe onto a ledge about a foot wide. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z "Not a complaint, an opinion. If we are still allowed to express our opinions," the brother with the pipe said. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z We were piped awake at sunrise and mustered in preparation for disembarkation. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z The lawn looked like a war zone, with smoking craters and trenches from the blown-out irrigation pipes. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z I went and stared out of the window at the little clearing where the satyr played his pipes. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z Jax appears, but he stops when he sees me like a clog in a pipe. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z The air inside was filtered and piped in through a vent on the ceiling. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z Liz was at the big metal table in the middle of the room, using a piping bag to pipe shimmery dark-blue icing onto what looked like vanilla cupcakes. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z His arms and legs looked like he was made out of twisted-up pipe cleaners. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Bloom eased the lid down on the toilet, seated himself, released a pungent comfortable puff from his pipe. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Flanking the doorway were two armored manikins—like skeletal scarecrows made from bronze pipes, outfitted with full suits of Roman armor, shield and sword. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z As soon as he had sprung to earth from heaven he laid aside everything that marked him as a god and approached Argus like a country fellow, playing very sweetly upon a pipe of reeds. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z We went on like this, loudly inhaling and exhaling, until the pipe was finished. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z When we piped down he smiled at JimmyTrotter as if he hadn’t raised his voice at all. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z Grayson was joking, but Maniac was serious when he piped, “Great! Where to?” Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z "I wish only to point out that a scientific terminology exists," the man said, emphasizing his words with his pipe. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z Then he added the remaining ingredients to the ground meat and used a long pipe to force the mixture into the casings. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z Water splashed out of the pipe, which our mother called a faucet. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z “And if a little bit of the rewards of success should find its way into a drain pipe where lives an old and trusted friend of Chester— well, who is the worse for that?” The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z “I tried to stop them,” the desk clerk piped up. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Albert stared at Joseph and puffed on his pipe. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z On the left, huge concrete pipes from an older sewer repair job lay scattered around. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z In a second he was on dry land once again, standing beside Merlyn on the piping drawbridge, panting in his stuffy clothes. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Effluent spills into the water from a three-foot-wide pipe close by. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z They had returned with a crew of ten more men and two trucks—one hauling the giraffe-drill along with other mysterious equipment, and the other loaded with plastic pipe. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z They examined every inch of it, inside and out, including the pipes below. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z This was not a Pipeworks tunnel they were about to enter, they were sure; it wouldn’t be dripping with water or lined with spurting pipes. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z He filled and lit a pipe, puffed for a moment. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z It was just a woman—a woman smoking a pipe. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z The river of chocolate was flowing very fast inside the pipe, and the Oompa-Loompas were all rowing like crazy, and the boat was rocketing along at a furious pace. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z To illustrate nature’s musical laws we can use a piece of pipe or tubing. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z He continued smoking for perhaps an hour, and then, his pipe still lit, he died. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Beneath them were his boating knife and a hash pipe. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z ‘Apples for walking, and a pipe for sitting,’ he said. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z People reading or absorbed by the music piped in through earphones. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z Far to the north a foghorn groaned, reaching them less as a sound than as a trembling in their bellies, as if their bodies were pipes in a somber old organ. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z The third was the same figure, white on white, the raised parts pipe cleaners contoured side by side and glued onto a white cloth-covered backing. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z When a cowboy brought out an iron pipe instead of that old stick and started whaling away, the horse got a wild look in his eyes. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z From the drain pipe the animals watched Paul put out the fire. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z He clears his throat, and it’s harsh, like he’s got something stuck in his pipes, and some spit flies out of his mouth. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z Against the opposite wall was a glass-fronted cabinet, and inside this were the dolls, dozens of very small dolls, all female, and made of wool-covered wire, like pipe cleaners, with embroidered-on faces. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z Whenever Chapter Eleven asked what was in the pipe, Lefty wrote on his chalkboard, “Turkish mud.” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Our cots were made of iron pipes welded together, about as heavy as you’d think a bed could be. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z He spilled tobacco crumbs unconsciously as his short fingers fumbled with the bowl of his pipe. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z He went on to the sagebrush line where the cold spring ran out of its pipe and fell into a round wooden tub. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z A gray-haired man with an unlit pipe rattles his newspaper. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z “It sneaked onto the molasses ship and then wiggled through the pipe into the tank.” I Survived the Great Molasses Flood, 1919 2019-09-03T00:00:00Z The mouth of the hole was a bit of old earthenware pipe and if a man had pulled it out, the opening would have fallen in and showed no trace of the run inside. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z We start to laugh, but as soon as I say it, Edna pipes in. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z Accompanying the noble few in the tombs to the world of the deceased were copper beads and bracelets, stone tablets and collars, textiles and awls, and, sometimes, stone pipes in the shape of surreal animals. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z “Would you mind terribly lighting my pipe? We have no matches here; I haven’t had a real smoke in years.” Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z There seemed to be hundreds of twistings and turnings, and many other pipes that opened off the main route, but Tucker Mouse knew his way perfectly— even in the dark. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z The drug dealers who’d lived there before had spray-painted curse words and psychedelic patterns on the walls and the ceiling pipes. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z Mr. Stine showed him the collars that formed the connections between the heaters and the gas pipes. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z He was just about to turn into the drain pipe when he heard a very strange sound. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z As they whirled around the bonfire she caught sight of the musicians with their pipes and drums, dressed like jokers in pointed caps with long gold tassels and jingling bells. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z So he put down the pipe and off he went. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z Javi came around the corner of the stands and leaned on one of the scaffolding pipes holding them up. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z The party clambered on the truck—Gay drove and Mack sat beside him; they bumped around the corner of Lee Chong’s and down through the lot, threading among the pipes. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z The boatman sat at his tiller smoking a pipe, looking stolidly ahead. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z She’s a short round ball of a woman with a sturdy build and hair the color of plumbing pipes. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z The Sphinx started to follow, but Grover raised his reed pipes and began to play. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z They wandered through a blood-colored room filled with old theatrical organs, huge organ pipes, and what appeared to be enormous copper brewing vats, liberated from a brewery. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z It was used in heavy industry to render other compounds like refined gasoline or polyvinyl chloride for plastic pipe production. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z Even the smoke from his little corncob pipe smells good, the way it blends in. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z As much as I love playing piano, it stinks to be stuck in the background while other people shine onstage, a soundtrack no one pays attention to, like the music piped into The Voice. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z She even looked a little too warm as she bent near the fire, pulling a burning stick out to relight the new wad of tobacco in her pipe. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z Then a piping voice would say, “Praise the Lord!” dragging out the first word as long as she could. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z I reached for Lovey’s hand as we watched the cars start, smoke blowing from the exhaust pipes, kicking brown and orange and yellow leaves up. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z Frodo and his companions huddled round the fire, wrapped in every garment and blanket they possessed; but Strider was content with a single cloak, and sat a little apart, drawing thoughtfully at his pipe. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z But his pipe is in his left breast pocket. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z I just sat there fiddling with some piping on the bedspread. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z “Why do they play that silly pipe when people get married?” The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z “That is more difficult. The English, they do not stab. You are right there. I incline to the view that someone else dropped the pipe cleaner—and did so to incriminate the long-legged Englishman.” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z “Where does that pipe go to? Quick! Call the fire brigade!” Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z “Sure they know Billy’s going hunting,” piped the little one, “and I know why.” Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z The first time the power went off after he arrived, the buzzing, whirring, piping sounds of her UPS startled him. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z Outside there would be a porch with rocking chairs, where you could sit and smoke your pipe and watch the sun sink into the lovely distant hills. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z Uncle Wilson and his pipe seemed so strong and wise. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z An extraordinary lightness seemed to spread through his whole body and the next second, in a rush of wings, they were flying upward through the pipe. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z Using a network of concealed vents and channels, priests piped loud, roaring sounds at those who entered the temple. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z The rich green smell of tobacco curls up into my nose, and I think of my father, smoking a pipe as he drew pictures of efrits and wights for me. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z Nailer sank, thrashing and scrabbling for the thin pipe. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z One of them was smoking a long pipe. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z And when Lincoln himself piped up at Gettysburg, he began with the words: “Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth...” Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z Then he realized, first that the pipe might be in his pack but he had no leaf, and next that he was hundreds of miles from Bag End. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z Sheed glanced behind the machine, didn’t see any sort of pipes for water or power cords for electricity. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z Baba and Rahim Khan were smoking pipes and sipping brandy when I came in. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z The engine sizzled and creaked with heat and the jet of steam that blew down the overflow pipe sounded like the hiss of an alligator. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Calvin holds up a piece of plastic pipe like they use for plumbing. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z Vonetta didn’t notice, or she pretended she didn’t notice, but Fern had stopped clinging to Uncle D. Fern heard him hollering at night like the boogeyman howling and rattling in the radiator pipes. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z In her lap is a kelly green Bermuda bag with pink piping and wooden handles; inside the bag is a tube of 7UP-flavored lip balm that she draws from time to time across her mouth. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Then maybe, if she’s even here, Sherrie climbs up, stays for a while; I think I can hear the chant of their voices conducting through the iron pipes. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z She then blew a note on her pitch pipe, and the children, like so many underage weight-lifters, raised their hymnbooks. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z The foot is still attached to the bottom end of the pipe, and having him do this feels strange. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z He filled his pipe and lit it, puffing noisily. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z The old soldier shifted about and smoked his pipe indifferently. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z The bolts and pipes will hold it down. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z I knew the water rattling through the pipes when my uncle showered and how the dog in the backyard across from ours barked every morning when its owner let it out. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z A few melancholy birds were piping and wailing, until the round red sun sank slowly into the western shadows; then an empty silence fell. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z “And yet, Mademoiselle, we found a pipe cleaner on the floor of the dead man’s compartment. And Colonel Arbuthnot is the only man on the train who smokes a pipe?” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z She wore another sort of chador entirely, with piping and epaulettes. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z “Don’t let him talk to you like that,” Matthew piped up. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z There were hundreds of people dressed in crimson and gold and emerald dancing to the music of flutes and pipes. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Uncle Holt busied himself with filling his pipe and tamping down the tobacco. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z With his other hand, he turned a handle that was attached to a pipe, running down the side of the boat, into the water. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z Harriet saw a little old woman, rocking her body back and forth, sitting on her heels, in front of the fire, sucking on a clay pipe as she grieved about her boys. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z On the tray next to his pipe was a plate of pistachio cookies. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z Slouching along with clubs in their hands, lengths of pipe. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z A small antara of six bound wooden pipes rested by his side. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z But while he was doing this, the wretched boy was being sucked closer and closer toward the mouth of one of the great pipes that was dangling down into the river. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z Owen the Oaf took up his fiddle, and several of the free folk joined in with pipes and drums. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z I recognized the sounds of a carnival in the distance: the arrhythmic wheeze of pipe organs, the dull roar of a crowd. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z When the old man finishes his pipe he goes back to his bench and takes out a different plane. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z Towering behind one building was a gigantic three- story-high ribbed-metal pipe, like a caterpillar loosed from the mind of H. G. Wells. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z The pipe seemed to go into the building. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z “Who’s there?” he pipes, coming to the edge of the ring. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z I didn’t mean for Margo to hear, but she piped up. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z The old soldier took out a pipe, but having no light, merely sucked on the stem. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z Mr. Hannon takes his pipe from his mouth and tells me this is the best morning of all, Saturday, half day. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z Aarfy would puff reflectively on his pipe throughout the whole chaotic clash, gazing with unruffled curiosity at the war through McWatt’s window as though it were a remote disturbance that could not affect him. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z I open my mouth to say something, but Britain pipes up first. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z He leaves the room with the pipe and foot, and before long he’s back. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z The pipes, he knew, would begin to thaw now, and he decided to sit and listen to the house while it came back to itself. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z Fitting words together makes time go through narrower pipes but faster. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z He skimmed it over, and with his pipe jammed deep into one tobacco-stained corner of his mouth he spoke out the other. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z He was stuffing a pipe outside the tobacconist’s shop and blathering on about politics to a woman who was barely listening. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z Then it was that Mr. Malloy took to renting the larger pipes as sleeping quarters for single men at a very nominal fee. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z NO REFUNDS—but she carefully avoided looking at the corners of the room because she knew that clumps of moldy newspapers would be stuffed beneath pipes and grime and things long rotten. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z Then Sitti filled the jug slowly from a pipe jutting out of a ledge. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z At the center of the camp, water from a geothermal well had been piped into a pair of shallow, steaming pools lined with rocks and shaded by palm trees: Oh-My-God Hot Springs. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z She made it within two meters before her foot struck a discarded pipe segment. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z This mechanism opened or closed shutters on a box containing the pipes, thus allowing organ sounds to get progressively louder or softer. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z Senor Leal feeds His goat, and Then lights his pipe. Neighborhood Odes 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z “An obit for a house?” he questioned as he relit his pipe. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z “There was no pipe in any of his pockets, and no tobacco or tobacco pouch.” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z “Very well, my love,” said Mr. Popper meekly, and he settled down with his pipe, his globe, and his book of Antarctic Adventures. Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z Sierra’s voice boomed across the building, echoing back and forth amidst the empty light fixtures and dusty piping. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z Aarfy seemed a bit unsettled as he fidgeted with his pipe and assured Yossarian that everything was going to be all right. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z “Me and my twin know all the words to your song!” this snaggle-toothed girl pipes up. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z The guard wore a serape and a rusted miner’s helmet, and smoked a long-stemmed pipe. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Lit- de by little, as they approached along Michigan Avenue, he began to be aware of a monolith looming in the distance, a building like a gigantic church organ, pipes running into die sky. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Crocodile Guts knocked the ashes out of his pipe and packed it again with tobacco. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z George made him a soap bubble pipe and a bow and arrow. Stuart Little 1945-10-17T00:00:00Z It moved with a deafening roar from its rusty motor, spewing smoke and bolts from its exhaust pipe. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z The rear length of exhaust pipe had been crushed, too. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z The steam then condensed, drawing water up a pipe into the cylinder. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z This early model was known as a hydraulis organ because it used a tank of water to pressurise the air for the pipes. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z His father had just lit his pipe, and the sweet tobacco scent of it was curling around the room and mixing with the smell of leather and polished wood. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z The pipe passed around the circle twice before any of the men said a word. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z From his hand the pipe dangled and then fell, spilling sparks of red ash so that for a moment the earth floor glowed like a deep, star-filled sky. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z A semi appeared around the bend, blowing black smoke from an upright exhaust pipe. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z The taps began to leak, the pipes to sweat, the roof tiles to'crack, and green stains to spread across the walls. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z The sides of the glass are piping hot. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z The bowl of his pipe was made of meerschaum clay, and it had a flexible stem about three feet long so that the bowl rested on his lap. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z There was the same zinc pipe rising from the hard stone mass over his groin and leading to the dear glass jar on the floor. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z The pond water was piped into what looked like a giant plastic bag—a bag big enough to fill the entire bed of the truck. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z Pipers piped for her, tumblers tumbled, and jugglers juggled, while dyers draped her in colors she had never known existed. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Perhaps sensing that the conversation was moving from stupid to stupefying, Mini piped up. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z He had lugged out a huge and filthy pipe which was already half full of charred tobacco. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z The disgusting smelly pipe was never out of his mouth except when he was eating or swimming. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z It took me another five minutes to get through there, and I thought I’d suffocate with all the cigars and pipes, but at least I was near the ground where the air was slightly fresher. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z The fountain spurted a few inches into the air from a rough length of pipe, threw up its hands, collapsed and drowned its ragged dribble in a stone basin of yellowing water. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z Unshaven and cradling his pipe in his right hand, Welles took his seat in front of flash and newsreel cameras. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z Below the boiler on the hill there were numbers of large pipes also abandoned by the Hediondo. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Winston let out the water and disgustedly removed the clot of human hair that had blocked up the pipe. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z "Because we must strive to reach the people through their intelligence . . ." "Exactly," the brother with the pipe said. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z A crimson bird the size of a swan had appeared, piping its weird music to the vaulted ceiling. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z From behind an ornate Myrish screen carved with flowers and fancies and dreaming maidens, they peered unseen into a common room where an old man was playing a cheerful air on the pipes. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z A piping bag lay on the table beside it, trailing a thread of red icing. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z “Now, now, sweetie,” Pa said to Miss Hendrix, the same way he told Fern, “Now, now baby girl. Ain’t no bogeyman in the radiator pipe.” P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z When the pipe froze like that, we got our water by melting snow or icicles in the tin pan on the potbellied stove. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z To get to Tunnel 97, they followed a complicated route through passageways lined with crusty, rusted pipes that carried water to all the buildings of Ember. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z They wore feathered caps banded with wildcat fur and smoked long pipes as they dozed in the heat. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z But it samples the air from nine small vents that pipe back to the main unit. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z He wore bell-bottom jeans and a red T-shirt with black piping, and his hair was permed and gelled like a New Jersey girl’s on homecoming night. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z Speed heats the brain to a full boil, leaving the mouth to function as a fulminating exhaust pipe. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z The man with the pipe was looking now at me. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z All the old pipes and wires are hanging down, and everywhere underfoot is broken glass the color of smoke. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z In his pocket was a set of reed pipes his daddy goat had carved for him, even though he only knew two songs: Mozarts Piano Concerto no. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z They finished their dessert quietly, and watched Wilson clean and refill his pipe. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z Uri was howling like a wolf, and even as the oven chimney pipes toppled like trees, I laughed and pulled and pulled the clanger rope. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z Then the cousin laughed coarsely and he said to Lotus, who sat there smoking her water pipe, “These town women are too finicking, are they not, Old Mistress?” The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z They listened to the snores from the pipes and laughed a little. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Wilson came into the front room, puffing out clouds of pipe smoke. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z Rusty pipes ran ahead of him, disappearing into darkness. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z When the repair guy came, he said it was going to cost over three hundred dollars to fix the pipe. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z Talent pipes were recognized as clear marks of distinction at most sizable inns within two hundred miles of Imre. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Two days ago, when he offered to take me wherever I wanted, I called out in my piping voice, “Top of the Pontch!” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Every year during the month of March a family of ragged gypsies would set up their tents near the village, and with a great uproar of pipes and kettledrums they would display new inventions. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z Joseph watched him swirl the match along the top of the tobacco and light his pipe. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z On the small smoking table beside the stand of pipes, I caught sight of the mechanical bank, swaddled in an apron. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z “I’m surprised there are still some in the river,” Ivan piped. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z And so saying, Mr. Wonka scuttled across to the far end of the Inventing Room and went out through a small secret door hidden behind a lot of pipes and stoves. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z Painted wood, pipe guardrail...Some teachers try, but there’s nothing anyone can do to camouflage it. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z I wanted to learn how to pipe the icing on the cupcakes like Liz. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z With that sweet thought curling around my head like Uncle Holt’s pipe smoke, I fell right to sleep. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z Looking again at the long, blue pipe, I thought, “There’s no one around. Maybe I could have one slide anyway.” Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z The music on the stand in front of me is illuminated, and I fall in love with the light, the alto clef curlicuing around the cloudy patterns from Papa's pipe. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z It repaired roofs, walls, pipes, cars, furniture, and boots. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z “That was a crime,” he insisted, and removed his pipe then sharply pointed the stem at me. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Music drifted up from many windows, the soft sounds of lyres and reed pipes. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z Miss Peregrine drew a pipe from her pocket, and bent to light it in the lamp flame. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z "We shall see," the brother with the pipe said. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z A dank hallway with exposed pipes in the ceiling greets us, but it’s only ten feet long. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z There was some kind of a dark tunnel ahead—a great round tunnel that looked like an enormous pipe—and the river was running right into the tunnel. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z It sounded like she spoke through a long wooden pipe. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z Wilson wandered away after his pipe, and Alfred and Jeff went into the front room. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z While Reston sat at his desk, puffing on a pipe, Sheehan told the group of the origin of the Pentagon Papers, and of how the study clearly documented government lies about the war. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z During a rally on May 4 to support workers seeking an eight-hour workday, a pipe bomb exploded in Chicago’s Haymarket Square, panicking both the demonstrators and the police, who opened fire. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z “You smoke, you say—a pipe, cigarettes, cigars?” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z Threpe began to play and I could see immediately why he had never earned his pipes. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z His lips sucked happily at the pipe, which was as long as my arm. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z The man paused and puffed on his pipe. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z In the pipes and under the cypress tree there had been no room for furniture and the little niceties which are not only the diagnoses but the boundaries of our civilization. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z My mother did, certainly, to see those philosophers grubbing as they did before her in the dirt. 03-01 clapped, and smoked his pipe. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z The old veteran, he sits quietly and smokes his pipe—a covered pipe of course. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z A huge centipede blew across the floor to the shelter of a water pipe. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z It was a sort of pressure, like water in a pipe. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z He set the cage down and took the clay pipe out of his pocket. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z Some pipes carry oxygen to breathe, others carry water to drink or to cool equipment. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Once he’d put the pipe back together, he had nothing else to do. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z He put his reed pipes to his lips and began to play—a frantic jig that sounded like something pirates would dance to. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z I plugged the pipe — rolled the glass — twirled it on the marble slab, and now my right hand burned and ached and the glass was off—lopsided! Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z When I asked my da where I got it, he joked that there must’ve been rust in the pipes. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z Even from several feet away, I can make out the protrusion of the pipe in his jacket pocket. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z The doorman, in a blue uniform with gold piping, hurried out from under the awning and insisted on carrying the milk crates into the lobby. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z He took his pipe from its bag to smoke it in their honor, and each girl felt a warm, proud sensation. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z Nokomis’s tobacco pouch was decorated with blue and white beads in the shape of a pipe. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z Inside the drain pipe, Tucker’s nest was a jumble of papers, scraps of cloth, buttons, lost jewelry, small change, and everything else that can be picked up in a subway station. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z Beyond it is a huge, dank space with graffitied walls and exposed pipes. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z When I finally convinced myself there was no money hidden in the room, I took Hamilton's hash pipe and smoked a bowl and fell asleep. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z Going underground or into hiding has become as routine as the proverbial pipe and slippers that used to await the man of the house after a long day at work. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z It filled the night air as if it had been only waiting for Meggie's footsteps: strange music, a carnival mixture of bells, pipes, and drums, both boisterous and sad. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z Tidbit piped up as he tried to scrape the mud off of his arms. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z “I noticed them. There’s not enough pressure in the pipes for the water to come out of the firedemons’ hoses.” Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z Sometimes I have to slip off my thongs to throw at them before they’ll pipe down. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z He does, however, decide to pipe up when, at the next traffic light, she hangs a right instead of a left. Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z I think EJ was hoping someone else would pipe up, but none of us did, not the white kids, nor any of the kids of color. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z “It’s a wonder to me,” said Mr. Gloop, “how that pipe is big enough for him to go through it.” Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z With the tobacco ration at a hundred grams a week it was seldom possible to fill a pipe up to the top. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z Just as the carcasses were sent down below after slaughter, the blood and offal were probably pumped to the sublevel through a network of chutes and pipes. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z Then they send starving rats down the pipe. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z It was a collection of over five hundred individual stacks, all connected to each other by a makeshift network of recycled pipes, girders, support beams, and footbridges. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Great black pig-iron pipes a man could crawl through small, bright brass pipes no bigger around than your thumb There was a vast network of stone tunnels, branching and connecting at odd angles. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z “Yes, that is quite enough,” another voice piped up. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z The guard, wearing a heavy blanket, and smoking a pipe gave a terse reply, “Six.” Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z She needed her pipe—needed to calm down before she had a fit. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z In about fifteen minutes, puffing on his pipe, Pavey captured Bobby’s queen, thereby ending the game. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Grandpa Nyles took pictures and then offered pipe tobacco to the four directions. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z Hunch against the wall with the others as the explosion rocks the platform and bits of mutt and human flesh shoot out of the pipe and shower us. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z Percy took the lead as they crawled down the drainage pipe. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Tied to a metal pipe in the bayou, surrounded by marsh grasses and lanky palm trees, the boat was the Farmers’ new home. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z She sat crouched over, on the doorstep of her cabin, sucking on an empty clay pipe. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z “My head was in a bad place in the hospital. He thought a pipe leg was something I should be thrilled about. But if he can get me walking, let’s go.” The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z I carry books around, and I’ve started to smoke a pipe. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z Michael, who had mostly been quiet until then, suddenly piped up. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z They cut paths right through the house, tunneled through the pipes, took over the pantry. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Ruby helped her out by piping on some of the icing. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z His head butted the top of the hood and his right wrist came up against the red-hot exhaust pipe. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 The water pipes broke and the landlord wouldn’t fix them because the house was too old. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z Sitting on the ground, he had wedged himself into a corner, pipe in hand. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z His fingers scrabbled for the thin pipe, miraculously caught hold before he sank again. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z “You know, I’ll tell you why I’m really anxious,” Bobby pipes up, leaning in over his coffee. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z Then she saw her husband sitting over there in the corner with his long bony legs all crossed up smoking his pipe. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z Bystanders shouted out their good wishes to her over the pounding of bass drums and flutes piping “Yankee Doodle” as our family watched the town’s Fourth of July parade from a set of bleachers. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Then, as I played the pipe and Bear beat his drum, we two cantered forward on our journey. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z Two night riders, tall and densely proportioned, idled on the porch smoking their pipes with complacent sloth. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z The fuzzy red flowers on the branches were like pipe cleaners. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Sometimes I saw them up on the roof of their apartment, smoking a water pipe and talking together in their funny Ningbo accent. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z It was such a pipe that made South Africa the most productive diamond mining country in the world, but there may be others even bigger that we don’t know about. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Senor Leal inhales On his pipe And then admires The sky some more. Neighborhood Odes 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z But I’m not so much afraid of the pain as I am of not being able to work this pipe leg. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z A carved wooden mermaid holding a pipe rack. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z Mr. Morrison smiled and fidgeted with his pipe, which must be one reason people smoke—it gives them something to do while they think of what to say next. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z He picked up his pipe from the ground slowly and pondered about his third son. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z The bums who retired in disgust under the black cypress tree come out to sit on the rusty pipes in the vacant lot. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Larkspur, one of the youngest of us, pipes up. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z He went through my dresses hanging from the pipe in the bedroom and picked out one with blue flowers that buttoned up the front. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z Beatty leaned forward in the faint mist of smoke from his pipe. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z Fifi piped up, but then backed down when her mother and her sisters eyed her. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z “I want to see the alligators,” Bobby piped up as they drove through the Everglades. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z The prisoners had dug a trench that ran parallel to the wall of the isolation section and had actually removed the pipe altogether. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The wet mill is like a giant steel beast, with a maze of pipes and machines inside. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z “I’m sorry,” Hank says, transferring the sock from the pipe onto my leg as he pulls the pipe off. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z Geologists know that somewhere in the vicinity of northeastern Indiana there is evidence of a pipe or group of pipes that may be truly colossal. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z The old man has to throw out his hat and his pipe. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z Matt filled them again from a pipe running out of the Gulf of California. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z I pipe up with, “Thanks again for the books, Marisol. Tell Fabiana I’m really excited to read them.” The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z The room still held his presence: his books on the nightstand with an old pipe. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “Don’t bother answering,” Lewis said, pointing the bowl of his pipe at Wash. “There’s always a girl.” Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z In a little clearing outside the museum, an American Indian person was sitting on a tree stump smoking a long peace pipe. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z The gaslight shone upon the heavy, leonine lines of his features—a mane of sandy-brown hair, eyes the piercing blue of gas flames, a firm mouth shaped around the stem of a briar pipe. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z Still, he could not speak out, and he only looked east and west and feigned to have mislaid his pipe in his garments, and he fumbled in his girdle. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z Just in front of the shoes, I swing the pipe and smack the canvas. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z I looked away, at the pipe under the sink, at a smudge of rust on the linoleum. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z “You didn’t ask me if I know anything about the emperor,” Akira suddenly piped up. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z Percy heard machinery creaking in the darkness, huge gears turning, and water rushing through pipes. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z The old crone “nichered” a laugh under her bonnet and bandage; she then drew out a short black pipe, and lighting it began to smoke. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z He lit his pipe, and the scent of tobacco and dried peaches started to cover the smell of spice and wood from the cabin. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z He holds his breath to clear the exhaust pipe. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z It was a large room, with an oval table of polished rosewood on which stood various decanters and glasses, and a silver smoking stand with a rack of pipes. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z He put his pipes to his lips and played a shrill, lively tune. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z There was black smoke pouring out of the exhaust pipe. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z Several pairs of argyle socks were draped over one of the exposed pipes hanging from the ceiling. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z The satyrs were playing their pipes in the strawberry fields, making the. plants grow with woodland magic. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z The picture had not yet started and they sat listening to the pipe organ playing low and soft. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z Tall vent pipes on the roof discharged filtered exhaust air that was being pumped out of sealed biological laboratories in side the building. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Even if somebody ties me to a chair, sticks headphones on me, and pipes “Link Rowley!Link Rowley!”in an endless loop at top volume, I will train my brain to block it out. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z They went on smoking the pipe for a while as the sun began to set. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z The maze of pipes and grilling before him was immediately illuminated with an unnatural red light. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z Lionel, the busboy, entertains us for the rest of the shift by standing just behind Stu’s back and sucking deliriously on an imaginary joint or maybe a pipe. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z “Yes,” piped a girl’s voice, thin and high. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Though nervous, I put the pipe to my mouth and began to make music. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z Every morning, after Miss Lumley blows a thin metallic note on her pitch pipe, we stand up to sing “God Save the King.” Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Armpit picked up his shovel and began filling in the dirt around the pipe. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z The room grew so quiet I could hear Uncle Holt’s pipe click against his teeth. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z He jabbed his pipe stem at me for emphasis. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z He fished out his acorns and threw them into the sand, then played his pipes. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z She heard the pipes of the brownstone clinking lightly as they carried water inside and outside their home. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z Albert puffed on his pipe and tended the fire in the fireplace. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z “Back there,” said Ron, still looking puzzled but jerking his head up the tunnel toward the pipe. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z The road crossed a dried slough where pipes of ice stood out of the frozen mud like formations in a cave. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z Pipeworks laborers worked below the storerooms in the deep labyrinth of tunnels that contained Embers water and sewer pipes. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Entertainers dressed as mythological creatures played pipes and strings. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z “I’ll go over and get a bunch of paper from the drain pipe,” volunteered Harry Cat. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z He'd been playing pickup basketball at the Y; after two hours he went off for a drink of water; he used a jump rope; his friends found him hanging from a water pipe. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z “Son, it’s really not my place to say this, but do you really want to try for your pipes with someone you’ve never even practiced with?” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Albert, the pipe clamped in his teeth, continued to fold Joseph’s clothes and put them in his suitcase. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z They lapsed into silence, Wilson comparing his pipe clouds, Alfred slouching in the porch chair. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z As a kindly afterthought, he told the boy that he wouldn’t have to pay the damage caused by the burst pipes; the Board of Education would see to that. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Before the day was half done, I managed to pipe out his simple song. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z On each table rested a nut-oil lamp, which was used to heat up the pellet of opium before it was put into the longstemmed pipe. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z He and Papa smoke their pipes and stay up late playing cards. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z On one wall, chunks of plaster had crumbled away, revealing the wooden ribs and pipes and wiring. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z Chester looked around at the newsstand—the box of Kleenex, the alarm clock, Papa’s pipe. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z Chiron turned to his left, where the satyr Grover Underwood sat in silence, fingering his reed pipes. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z A match was struck and applied to the pipe. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z Malachite had made a birthday cake for her each year and even taught her how to pipe bright, glossy icing to spell out her name in a sugary cursive. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z It was made of rough fabric and smelled of pipe tobacco. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z So I'm left with my homemade weapons, PVC pipe slingshots, and other trinkets. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z The gas pipes to the cookers had a worrying coat of rust on them. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z Albert lit his pipe, clamped it between his teeth, and proceeded to move all the chairs into the exact spots he wanted. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z A kimberlite pipe could explode in your backyard as you read this. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Despite his previous protest, Kamau took the pipe from him eagerly, taking a long, practiced draw. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z “We can open the cage. You could come and live in the drain pipe.” The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z But he persisted in calling for it, and eventually Nodayimani filled his pipe, lit it, and then handed it to him. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Using a piano/keyboard, pitch pipe, or some other melodic instrument, find the correct starting pitch for the range of students in your class. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z I stayed behind a pipe in the laundry room, ignored the pulsating beeps coming over the audio system, and watched a spider construct a web. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z Joe raised his arms, urgently wiggling his fingers until every body piped down. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z “All right, John; all right, my boy!” piped the old man from within. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z “I nearly sent him some pipe- tobacco once.” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z The editor frowned as he tapped tobacco into the bowl of his pipe. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z Unfortunately, it turned out to be too thick for tying his exhaust pipes in place. Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z There are exposed pipes in the bathrooms, wires stapled over doorsills, nails protruding from beams. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Most of the oil field work was for whites only, but because of the oil there were fat cats to chauffeur, dance halls to clean, ditches to dig, pipes to lay. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z Left . . . left . . . hook . . . cross, once he thought Hubbard's head jerked back, but then the iron pipes were ramming into his stomach, one after another. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z Albert puffed on his pipe, but didn’t look at Joseph. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z It’s the only time Papa smokes a pipe. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z Bono and his companions sit only four feet away, smoking pipes and murmuring. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z It was for a sawed-off pipe found in his backpack. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z A few customers had left, the rest were smoking their pipes and enjoying their conversation. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z His feet tapped show tunes at breakfast, and during dinner he often pointed at the mountain, his eyes shining, and described where he would lay the pipes to bring water down to the house. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z He was walking around the room, sticking his ears up to anything that made any noise, including very quiet things, like pipes. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z “But....but....but...” shrieked Mrs. Salt, “where does the great big pipe go to in the end?” Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z “As soon as you finished playing. Before you’d even got your pipes.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Some people touched the hot pipe if you called them chicken as well. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z Mr. Penney picked up his pipe, filled it with tobacco from a small pouch, and lit it. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z “But in New York we gave up those old habits long ago. Harry is my oldest friend. He lives with me over in the drain pipe. So how was scrounging tonight, Harry?” The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z So I just toss the ball from beside the pipe railing and teach Sherlock to put the ball in my hand instead of at my feet. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z I drove, and he smoked his pipe and told stories. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z He heard distant laughter, the plaintive sound of pipes. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z “It’s not either,” the little one piped in a defiant voice. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Then Wang Lung muttered into his pipe, “Well, and the land is mine and you have never put your hand to it.” The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z A leaky pipe destroys an entire rack of pressed botanical samples: it’s the diamond. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z “Some dance, some sing, one plays the pipe and one the drums. Good washerwomen too.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Inej noted the glint of knives tucked into their belts, lead pipes, weighted chains, axe handles studded with rusty nails, and here and there, the oily gleam of a gun barrel. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z But standing on the street with my pipe leg and a sign? The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z Whatever poor Billy saw through the pipe, he had no choice but to say to himself, “That’s life.” Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z He went directly to his mother’s bedroom, where Aureliano had boiled mercury for four months in his grandfather's grandfather’s water pipe to conserve the body according to Melquíades’ formula. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z We’ve covered about three more blocks via an overflow pipe and a section of neglected train track when the screams begin. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z They were on pipes that came out of the cast. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z After watching them hit the pipe like there is no tomorrow, I know that they have a serious problem. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z Every day the man with the silver pipe marched up and down the streets. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z Sadly, no one had considered the hazards that might result from stagnant water in the pipes. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z Above us the air teems with invisible swift movement, with howls, pipings, and hisses. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z “Let those sociologists stuff this in their collective pipe. Puts the kibosh on the deprivation-breeds-antisocial-behavior chestnut. This Fowl character has never gone hungry in his life.” Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z Water poured out of an exposed pipe on the far end of the hallway. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z Mariam could hear the buzzing of a fly somewhere, could make out the outline of the cast-iron stove in the corner, its pipe jutting up, then making a sharp angle just below the ceiling. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z “We just want you to stop repairing the bridge until the end of June,” she piped. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z When my turn comes, Sam pipes up, “I know Anita already.” Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z Poulsson tapped ashes from his pipe into the palm of his hand. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Aborigines did acquire from the Macassans some loan words, some ceremonies, and the practices of using dugout sailing canoes and smoking tobacco in pipes. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “We don’t want to come to your house,” Marcy piped up. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z Our father suddenly piped up with, “So, Dale, what's your sport?” It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z Their suites all had bathrooms with deep mesarthium pools in them, but water no longer came from the pipes, so they used a copper tub in the rain room instead. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z I took the pipe, gathered the glass, sweated — blew —my cheeks puffed out — the iron pipe banged my teeth —I blew like the Angel Gabriel sounding the horn for Judgment Day. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z A rusty iron pipe ran a thin stream of spring water into an old green tub. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z When they reached the station, Harry led the way through a maze of pipes and deserted rooms and back halls down to the level where the trains were. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z A small pipe cloud left the corner of his mouth. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z His left hand patted around the air searching for something: a shot of whiskey, his pipe, a whip, a shotgun, the Democratic platform, his heart—Vera Louise never knew. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Mr. Boatwright laughed so much he had to put his pipe down. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z Father Olufemi touched the candle to the pipe again and nodded. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z His boots came to my shoulder, and his gray uniform was piped and spangled with silver. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z I'm piecing together a makeshift slingshot out of old PVC pipes. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z Dancers wearing bells stepped high, clapping to the beat of tabors and the whisde of pipes. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z Meanwhile, the plant continued pumping out heavy water, which was piped into barrels and shipped to Germany. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z He smiled and puffed on his pipe, blowing a smoke ring or two to entertain us. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z Between them the stucco is spiderwebbed, and pipes poke through in two places. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Water burst out of the busted pipe and sprayed all over us. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z If you had your set of talent pipes, you were admitted to the Eolian for free and could play whenever the fancy took you. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z There were straight pipes, curved pipes, and even a pipe with a lid on it. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z This new surge underscored for Burnham the urgency of completing his plan to pipe Waukesha spring water to the fair by Opening Day. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z They spent their days stopping up leaks and replacing pipe joints. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z They lingered by the road after their lunchtime meal, the white men smoking pipes by the horses and reminiscing an escapade. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Then he uncoupled them and fastened the hose to the coupling pipe and fitted the other end of the hose to the gasbottle and carried it out to the saloon. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z "Someday I will take you to America, where my son lives," Mr. Luftig promised me as we sat together cleaning his pipes on his side of the blanket dividing the apartment. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z I got Dad his knife with the carved bone handle and the blade of blue German steel, and he gave me a pipe wrench, and we went looking for Demon. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z When it came, the shrieking tones blew up like a pipe bomb between my ears. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z I look at the copper pipes, the hand pump that brings water up out of the ground, the water heater that looks to be pressurized. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z “Your pipe is near to burn a hole in the table. And where are those coffee beans? We’ll have customers soon.” Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Down a block they had put in new pipes under the street and dug a swell deep ditch. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z And Wang sat and smoked his pipe and he was proud of himself that when he was an old man he had done what he wished. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z There was a potbellied stove there, and a pipe leading from it to the wall to let out the smoke. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z I can see brown-tinged water rushing through one pipe, disappearing into the machine, and emerging clean. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z She found books with no pictures, a tobacco pipe, bottles with beads inside. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z The boat and the chest of drawers don’t appeal to me, only the pipe cleaners. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z “Plumber told me this dang tree is plugging up some of the pipes. Least bit of rain and the yard turns into a giant mud puddle.” Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z The one poor pipe of water pumped up from deep near the house was the only source; sometimes it got dangerously low, and twice it went dry. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z The room contained a twin bed under a sloping ceiling, a brown oval rug, a basin with an exposed pipe, and a chest of drawers. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z He sucked on his pipe, staring out at a row of purple flowers. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z People were coming into the square from all sides, and down the street we heard the pipes and the fifes and the drums coming. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z “Destiny wants us to write,” piped another little girl, and took out her notebook and pencil. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z Dive in and you will be piped straight to it. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z “More like a babysitter,” Mom piped up from the kitchen. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z She filled the bowl with kinnikinnick, tamped her pipe carefully, and lit it with a glowing stick. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z Smoking cigarettes was like sucking on the exhaust pipe of a car with a running motor. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z Calmly he struck a wooden match and sucked noisily at his pipe with an eloquent air of benign and magnanimous forgiveness. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z Sam made Oksi comfortable inside the tree, then took the trail to Mrs. Strawberry’s farm and her collection of pipes and lumber and wheels and scraps of metal. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z I unpinned my silver talent pipes from my cloak and slid them across her desk so they lay near Rhetoric and Logic. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z I thought it was a pipe dream, and told her as much. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z He nodded and pointed with the stem of his pipe to the wall behind them. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z During heavy rains, river water flowed in a greasy plume far out into Lake Michigan, to the towers that marked the intake pipes for the city’s drinking water. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Sounds from the tank were piped into the dressing room. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Bay Boy piped up, “Go on, gal! Ain’t nobody bothering you.” The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z In fact, nearly every inn, tavern, and boarding house had some manner of musician strumming, singing, or piping in the background. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z We tried to thaw the pipe by running a burning piece of wood along it, but it would be frozen so solid there was nothing to do but wait for the next warm spell. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z “Banging on the pipe is sloppy. It could mean anything. It could be Mr. Gervais complaining about the heat.” Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z Inside, huge dry waterslides and tubes and pipes curled everywhere, leading to empty pools. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z For aesthetic reasons the boilers were to be located seven hundred feet outside the Midway, the steam shunted to the engines through ten-inch underground pipes. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Mrs. Lonsdale was running some water into the little chipped basin, to the accompaniment of a great groaning and hammering from the pipes. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z To pass the hours, I counted the beads of water as they dropped from the pipes. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z But in both of those instances, they would have piped the noise directly into whatever building the kids were in. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z After some polite small talk, Evan told me that he was quitting pot and needed to find someone to bequeath his beloved pipe to. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z ‘My pipe!’ he said, and with that he woke up. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z As Katz raced past me, I seized hold of the rope tethering my wrists to the pipe overhead and swung myself forward, kicking out with both my feet. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z Sometimes Daddy smoked a pipe, but he wasn’t a cigarette man and Mother didn’t smoke anything at all, even though most of her friends did. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z I heard a dry popping sound and saw the man sag, and the pipe rang upon the walk; then someone caught me hard in the stomach and suddenly I knew that I was fighting too. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z In one of the porch’s three rockers, Lewis sat smoking his pipe and nursing a bottle of Pearl. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z He looked for some signs of what had been there, but all that was left was a hole in the ceiling where the stove pipe had been. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z He was also strapped to a steel lattice which was bolted to a flatcar on rails, and there was no way he could turn his head or touch the pipe. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z He leans on the bicycle or sits on the steps outside houses, grinding down on the pipe in his mouth. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z The pipe was like a toy in his large hands. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z The first was from early on—a jokey pose to answer his—of her peeling potatoes and pretending to smoke one of Miss Peregrine’s pipes. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z They speak a language that burgles and rains from their mouths like water through a pipe. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Even she had a bib apron, blue flowers with navy piping, even she wore it, from time to time. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z The church had a great old organ, with pipes that went from behind the organ to a point high overhead. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z The rat scuttled across the floor and stopped again at the box and searched quickly for the hole; then it reared once more and bared long yellow fangs, piping shrilly, belly quivering. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z There was a cluster of men, all smoking pipes, gathered around an exhibit in a glass case that gleamed in the dim light and lit their faces ghoulishly from below. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z “Yeah. Like, You have to avoid this truck. Don’t get hit in the head by these metal pipes. Make a right. The rules are defined and you follow them.” It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z A rusty tin pipe ran from the corner of the roof down to the cistern where the children were playing. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z The scythe attack came less than a minute after she was given her slice, piping hot from the oven. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z Dadi nodded and nodded, and the air smelled like the smoke from pipes. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z Lurvy sat down under an apple tree and lit his pipe; the animals sniffed the familiar smell of strong tobacco. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z “How long?” said he, taking his black pipe from his mouth, and dropping his jaw as he stared at me. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z I took her hand, uncurled her fingers, then laid the silver pipes on her palm. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Grover danced around the boar, playing his pipes while the boar snorted and tried to gouge him. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z Water was received through two small pipes extending from the grass. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z And Wang Lung stammered and muttered, and would have spoken, but when he took his pipe from his mouth, no sound came, and he stared at his son. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z There were so many pipes, valves, levers, knobs, brackets, dials, and handles—and I didn’t have any idea what most of them did. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Carl lit his pipe and scratched behind his ear, and Zenhichi pointed with his hat to the west, made a sweep, put his hat on his head. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z And then he sold casing pipe during the boom, and that worked out pretty great for a while. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z When Roy got to the golf course, he locked his bike to the pipes of a water fountain and set off jogging down the same fairway where he’d gotten clobbered. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z First I checked out Fang, standing in the bathroom doorway, one arm resting on the chin-up bar we’d mounted there a few years back to keep his pipes steely. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z He could sit on the pipes with Mack and the boys any time. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z There were those too who claimed that their snores echoing back from the pipes woke them up. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z His cob pipe in his teeth and a thin drool swinging from the pipebowl. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z Then Frank Wild tapped the embers from his pipe and stood up to recite “The Wreck of the Hesperus,” by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z Spassky, looking uncomfortable, sat on Bobby’s right, and Vasiljevic, smoking a meerschaum pipe and appearing relaxed, was on his left. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z This man had a set of reed pipes and played them better than anyone I had ever heard. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Some of the young men sucked lazily on briar pipes, and the sweet smell of Prince Albert tobacco smoke drifted among them. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z If it stuck in the plumbing pipes, our plan would be ruined. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z This was the trip to Michigan in the wintertime when I put congolene on my head, then discovered that the bathroom sink’s pipes were frozen. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Languages also have grammatical functions whose job is not to distinguish the cast of characters but to pipe up with other kinds of information. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Mrs. Hyatt, the kindergarten teacher, loved that messed-up snowman, just three huge balls of yellowing Styrofoam, stuck together with pins and pipes. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z “What do you want to go see an old Indian smoking a pipe for?” Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z Across the road some troops stood in the church doorway smoking pipes. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z He stood under the trellised porch, quietly smoking his pipe, and watched them for a while. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z We saw his blank pockmarked face as he went by, piping, the children close behind him shouting and pulling at him. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z “I had no idea...it’s quite unusual,” he said, scratching his forehead with the stem of his pipe. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z I said, “Our toilet was broken so my stepdad made me dig trenches in the backyard to find where the pipes had split open.” Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z If you had earned your pipes, you could be called upon to play. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z “More like half and half,” Jinx piped up before Shady could shush him. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z “As you will recall, you all registered as Democrats or Republicans in the sixth grade—” “Or Independents,” Addie pipes up. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z The troll didn’t even seem to notice the pipe hitting its shoulder, but it heard the yell and paused again, turning its ugly snout toward Ron instead, giving Harry time to run around it. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z Workers had already laid pipes in Jackson Park for two hundred springwater booths. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z At that Turner crossed his legs the other way and kept right on smoking his pipe. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z I pictured Ambrose, listening to me glide through the most beautiful song he’d ever heard, and realizing I’m about to win my pipes. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z He cut off a gram and lit the pipe. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z There stood Stella Armijo, a two-foot piece of lead pipe gripped tightly in her brawny fist, over by the bunny bin, methodically annihilating the cute little critters. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z “Count Threpe, actually. He plays here all the time, has for years. Great patron of the arts. He stopped trying for his pipes years ago. Now he just plays. Everyone loves him.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z "People always gonna need food, Alfred," said Wilson, pointing his pipe stem. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z Ariana was helping Liz with the icing, and I watched in amazement as she piped a whole row super fast. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z He stuck a pipe that wasn’t lit into his mouth and walked off the stage. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z Aunty Ifeoma had written the works department about the pipes, but, of course, it would take ages before anybody did anything about them. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z He made peeping sounds from a silver pipe that he held to his mouth. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z In the drain pipe Tucker Mouse, who had been keeping count too, sighed and scratched his ear. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z She caught hold of my hand and pressed the pipes back into it. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z He tied a spool of fishing line to the handle and lowered the can down a pipe leading from the roof. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z The far end of the pipe rested on a bi-pod which was also bolted to the flatcar. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Some of our neighbors would come, and Papa would smoke cigars or his pipe with the other men outside on the veranda. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z There was no running water, no electricity, and nothing to buy but the pipes and wires needed if you wanted to live with plumbing and electricity. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z He pulled his pipe out of his pocket. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z When you leave the grocery, if you walk catty-cornered across the grass-grown lot, threading your way among the great rusty pipes thrown out of the canneries, you will see a path worn in the weeds. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Nene piped up, “I know it’s hot town summer in the city but it could rain tomorrow.” Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z These rock gardens had outlived the barracks and the towers and would surely outlive the asphalt road and rusted pipes and shattered slabs of concrete. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z At the steps I put both crutches in my left hand, grab the pipe rail with my right, then hop up. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z I said I hoped it would be something better than digging up cast-iron pipes. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z As the watchman approached the ice-cream truck, he whacked one of the fenders with what sounded like a lead pipe. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Mackenzie sat at a table, puffing peacefully on a pipe, and working at the minute, intricate rigging of a model schooner, while his wife read Three Men in a Boat aloud to him. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z “Good. Yes. It’s a piece of an ancient pipe.” The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z As a small boy in Tilsit, I once found my way inside the pipe organ of a local church. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z Liked to wander in his fields, chat with his pickers, taste his berries, smack his lips, smoke his pipe, go to town for a sack of nails. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z This catches me off guard, until I realize he’s talking about the fact that I’m walking on a pipe. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z Around his neck hung a set of reed pipes. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z “I hear the New Dealers took over a building downtown to organize the volunteers,” Kermit piped up. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z On the sign was a picture of an Indian smoking a pipe. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z The tub was filled with clean water that had been gathered in a cistern or pumped from distant pipes. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z Wynn wore dark jeans and a white Western shirt with bright yellow panels surrounded by brown piping, paired with matching brown leather boots. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z He brought out the forgotten water pipe and put a kettle of mercury to boil next to the body, which little by little was filling with blue bubbles. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z I put my thumb on the mouth of the pipe, sucked air — blew out, and all this while the glass is getting colder duller orange blood red mud red black. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z Fortunately, another gentleman reminded him sternly that there were ladies present, and the first man reluctantly tapped his pipe against the metal fixings of the door. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z Fawkes was circling its head, piping his eerie song, jabbing here and there at its scaly nose as the blood poured from its ruined eyes. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z "I'm going to drain the pool today, Mr. Gatsby. Leaves'll start falling pretty soon and then there's always trouble with the pipes." The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z Joe had been at the Three Jolly Bargemen, smoking his pipe, from a quarter after eight o’clock to a quarter before ten. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z Celaena eased farther up the pipe, her toes sticking to the metal. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z Doc moved his pipe around in his mouth. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z Through the door came the soft sound of the high harp, mingled with a trilling of pipes. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z “But don’t you tell anyone. No sense causing a panic. They might get the pipes fixed before there’s a serious fire.” Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z Using borax, water, and pipe cleaners, we made our own crystals. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z Behind him, in the tall sagebrush, the birds were scampering on the ground, making a great noise among the dry leaves; the squirrels piped shrilly on the side-hills. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z She tamped the bowl of the pipe with huge hands; her arms were long and sinewy. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z Hubbard was marching in place, like a soldier, marine, pounding, pounding, iron pipes, sledgehammers, belly, chest, throat, chin. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z He pointed to a cauldron hanging over the fire on an old lead pipe. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z “Both fully realized,” Alexander wrote later, “that War Admiral’s connections would pay no attention at all to the pipe dream of a mere newspaper columnist.” Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z “Pan’s pipes, Valdez! Maybe if you hadn’t been staring into Hazel’s eyes, holding hands for so long—” “What?’ The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Lewis pulled on the pipe and nodded at the rocker on his left. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z The captain tapped his pipe against the side of the boat. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z You know the campaign called “Pipe Down”, against the use of piped music? Eats, Shoots & Leaves 2003-11-06T00:00:00Z He entertains pipe dreams: the Frenchman will invite him in. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z He was fully dressed and smoking a pipe. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Devi looked at the lute, the book, and the pipes, and drew a long, slow breath. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z She winds her way through to me as the band pipes up with a fresh jiving number. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z Its roof beams sagged in the middle, its shingles clung loosely, and the chimney pipe swayed with each wave, trying to be jaunty but not very good at it. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z The round tunnels for drainage and pipes disappeared and were replaced with squared-off hallways and stairways strewn with rubble. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z With her tennis shoes she would have landed like a cat—but the high pumps made her slip and her stomach hit this pipe. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z He had a bushy goatee, curly brown hair tucked into a Rasta-style cap, and a set of reed pipes around his neck. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z They were all moving—shifting gears and lowering pipe, waving others into position or, at the very least, talking at full speed. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z Panic shot through me like icing out of Liz’s piping bag. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z The sounds of Papá’s coughing, the rattle of his aspirin bottle, and the rolling of Mamá’s twelve-inch lead pipe as she pressed dough to make tortillas were absent. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z The officers requested more coffee, lit their pipes, and unrolled their maps across the tablecloth, stained now with splashes of turtle soup, butter, wine, and candle wax. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z Mr. Wood well puffs on his pipe for a bit. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z You don’t want to raise your child in a house with exposed piping. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z The old gentleman leaned back in his chair and lighted an enormous meerschaum pipe—Good gracious, he breathes fire, thought the Wart, who had never heard of tobacco—before he was ready to reply. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z The locker room was in the school basement and it was so quiet right then that I could hear water coursing through the pipes. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z I stared at the pipe that was lying there on the rocks. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z On the first floor, all of the chairs are covered in white cloth and tied across the back with flowing pine-green ribbon that has silver piped along the edges. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z He smokes a smoldering pipe stuffed with seaweed skimmed from the ocean. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z There was now constant talk of government intentions, plans to meet in council, invitations to smoke the pipe. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z The mouse’s name was Tucker, and he was sitting in the opening of an abandoned drain pipe in the subway station at Times Square. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z Chief Sasenticum shares his pipe of tobacco with Captain Smith, and shares some advice as well. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z We laugh and I pipe up, surprising myself. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z The mill itself is a maze of stainless steel pipes, valves, filters, and tanks. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z The pipes symbolized an orderly and civilized world beyond the control of the Nazis. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z He would inform you with quiet pride, between whiffs of his pipe, that he had put in an appearance at the Community Center every evening for the past four years. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z He filled the thimble bowl with tobacco so fine- cut it looked like hair, then lighted the pipe, took four long puffs, and let the pipe go out. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z “Nonsense! I’m only redistributing the wealth. I need to repair the roof and fix the robot, have the tennis court put to rights and replace the pipe in the fountain. The stables are collapsing, too.” The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z Then I heard him start the washing machine and I heard the boiler starting up and the water in the water pipes going into the washing machine. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z The bottom set of images went the other way: first the pipe- cleaners, then the same image in collage, then the final one in full-colored realistic detail. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Big Time felt himself easing out but with the pipe sucker watching him he had to fight the nod. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z I set the can on a steam pipe until the water evaporated, leaving bits of solid food in the bottom. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z There was the woman, Ahjuhma, stirring a beaten egg into the pot with long chopsticks; she was wearing the yellow- piped white apron that my mother had once sewn and prettily embroidered with daisies. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z When the men took out their pipes and lit their tobacco, 'S Ruth sneezed, and the company all turned and considered us. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z He lit his white clay pipe and the old Chinese gentleman lit one too. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z He lined up a hammer with the end of the pipe and swung down. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z “I’m going back to the drain pipe, where I can stretch out.” The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z In one corner of the room was a potbellied stove with a pipe leading up to the ceiling. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z The pipes that carried heat to the radiators banged restlessly within the walls. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z Opposite him Shreve had filled the pipe and smoked it out again. Absalom, Absalom! 1936-01-01T00:00:00Z I could stop a puck from passing between the pipes—but I had to make it all the way to winter before anybody would care about that. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z “Nothing I can’t solve. All I need is one small piece of pipe.” Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z He wanted all pipes left in the open. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z He had a tall tankard in front of him, and was smoking a long-stemmed pipe curiously carved. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z The cat and the mouse had to make several trips back and forth between the drain pipe and the newsstand, carrying the money in their mouths. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z Madam let loose on me in the kitchen after the gentlemen had taken Master Lockton to Ashley’s Tavern for a night of beer drinking and pipe smoking. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z Grover began to play with pipes, and stalactites rained down from the ceiling. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z I tell Mr. Hannon if he wants to smoke his pipe in comfort I’ll take the reins and when he hands them over I’m sure I hear the boys gasping. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z Fishtail drew thoughtfully on the pipe and the fragrant smoke clouded his face. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z On land, the old fisherman stopped to light a pipe, and then, with the pipe clenched between his teeth, he walked home, carrying Edward atop his left shoulder as if he were a conquering hero. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z The pipe would Hit with a thud and the horse would scream. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z This afternoon it pipes up with a longer message, courtesy of Monica. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z From another came a dissonant piping that made the dragon lash his tail wildly from side to side. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z “If it’s legal to get the pipes, isn’t it legal to get the rails?” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z The goat can’t baa, Because his lips Are gripping the pipe — A funny sight for The chickens, Who stay clear. Neighborhood Odes 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z “Coach, you told her to look it up,” pipes Zion, proud of his big sister. Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z It looked so strong that Ralph was sure that just one of her hairs would be perfect for tying his exhaust pipes in place. Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z “I would if I did not have a dwarf piping in my ear.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z When she was finished, Sam piped up suddenly, from across the fire circle. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z I picked up the pipe and knocked all the tobacco out of it. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z It was a small, dark wooden pipe no larger than his hand. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z We were under a steel grate made out of metal pipes. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z I say, and Jordan pipes up, breaking some rule I’m sure, and says, “I’m sorry, do we know you?” Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z I woke up yesterday feeling like somebody had taken a pipe to my entire body. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z Wintergreen struck open a water pipe while digging in one of his holes and almost drowned to death before he was fished out nearly unconscious. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z I watched the group from behind the pipes. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z A big plow came down Forest Avenue, scooping snow right into the front of it and throwing it out the top through this pipe contraption. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z You can hear only what is piped in over the radio; you can breathe only 100 percent oxygen, and it is usually odorless; you can’t feel much through the gloves. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z "Perhaps we should allow the Brother to express himself as to how he feels about all this," the man with the pipe said. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z With infinite caution Ranofer held the tip of the wire in the flame, blowing a light, steady stream of air through the pipe. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z The front lot was a forest of statues: cement animals, cement children, even a cement satyr playing the pipes, which gave Grover the creeps. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z The Marines had taken the mountain and as they climbed, one of those guys had found a metal pipe discarded on the slope. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z Armpit had finished digging his trench and was attaching PVC pipe. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z “Pan’s pipes, Jackson! What were you doing in there?” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Then, after an intense session, I'd step out of the bathroom and pace the carpet while smoking my hash pipe. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z I wondered if he was going to turn the pipe on me, but he just shrugged and headed toward the rail. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z A meter to Katz’s right, a pipe shuddered as the bullet ricocheted off it. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z It’s like you got piped out in the same shipment. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z Slowly, Father Olufemi lifted a lit candle from one of the tables beside him and held it to the pipe until it began to smoke. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z He picked up his pipe and fiddled with it; he liked the feel of it in his hand. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z “I was not intending to steal your pipe!” Louisiana's Way Home 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z Suddenly the dispute evoked an idea in me and, forgetting that I had no right to speak without permission, I piped up and had my say. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z “So I’m just learning,” said Tucker, and threw himself into a wild twirl next to Papa Bellini’s pipe. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z He held up a small pipe with a wide flattened bowl, and handed it to Gimli. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z The camshaft flies around the factory until a man unhooks it, attaches it to the engine block, growing eccentric now with fan blades, pipes, and spark plugs. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z I say, “I don’t know a reason for plumbing pipes to be that big. What you’re showing me is way bigger than the flushing hole of a toilet, Calvin.” The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z I stood up in front of the class and told them how the Quapaw smoked the peace pipe with the Europeans. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Other vehicles Luke couldn’t identify were digging holes for huge concrete pipes. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z At night he listened to his rebetika records in the attic and smoked his hookah pipe. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z I wish I had a pipe like Mr. Hannon and a tweed cap. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z It was so much like Grandmother’s pipe, Nhamo suddenly felt her throat constrict. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z “See me later, kid; I’ll tell you,” someone would pipe up. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z When we finished uncovering the pipe, we looked like the mud men of Borneo worshiping a fallen idol. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z He gave me a long, suspicious look and spat upon a hot pipe, causing it to steam furiously. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z He ran on, weaving in and out of the pipes, trying every door he came to. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z “Because, you see,” continued the little man, “the pipe cleaner, it is of no importance. I can myself think of eleven other excellent explanations of its presence.” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z Our first job was covering up some newly laid pipe and we were on a small hill and could see some of the island, which was wild and lovely. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z He’d built the frame from long beams, the roof and walls from decking, the chimney from a vent pipe off a lost steamer, one window from a porthole. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z He took one more look through the drain pipe. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z Then we could hear the hissing of gas from the broken pipes, like dozens of angry snakes, and people, trapped inside the mounds, began calling. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z They will even attack motor vehicles—the headlights, the exhaust pipe, the side mirrors. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z Pan made the pipe of reeds which can sing as sweetly as the nightingale in spring. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z “So I wanted to say something,” Grace suddenly piped up, and Maya turned to look at her. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z The developer had even started running pipes across National Park land in the confident—but, as it happened, mistaken—presumption that the Park Service wouldn’t have the will or money to stop him. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z I wish they could see me on Thursday after school when I’m on the float and Mr. Hannon hands me the reins so that he can smoke his pipe in comfort. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z “Gardens—where we grow the crops. Water’s pumped in through pipes in the ground—always has been, or we’d have starved to death a long time ago. Never rains here. Never.” The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z I opened the valves, hearing the sound of liquids rushing through the huge pipes. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z I could see it in the worried glances he gave the sun as it moved across the sky, in the anxious way he appraised every length of pipe or cut of steel. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z While his father was involved body and soul with his water pipe, the willful first-born, who had always been too big for his age, had become a monumental adolescent. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z He jerked awake when the final blast of water jets hit him, and he found himself slumped against the wall of the air lock, his hands still gripped around the pipes. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Tucker Mouse had volunteered to let them use the drain pipe, but Chester didn’t want to eat amid all the waste paper and rubbish his friend had collected. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z The only bad news: Grover insisted on playing those pipes all afternoon long, and his musical skills hadn't improved much. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z He is sucking on the end of an old wooden pipe that his not seen any fire for a very long time now. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z I replaced the pipe on the rock, and all of us sat back to await the return of the victim. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z Then from his sack he took out a music pipe—a recorder, he called it—and began to play the same melody, after which he sang the verse again. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z “At least you got him to pipe down,” she said. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z They stuffed their pipes—except Baba always called it “fattening the pipe”—and discussed their favorite three topics: politics, business, soccer. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z She bent and sucked greedily at the pipe for a moment and the sharpness passed from her eyes and a film of forgetfulness came over them. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z “Why don’t you apply for one thousand?” he said, bringing his pipe to a standstill and glancing at me. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z “Estha Mon!” he would call out, in his high, piping voice, frayed and fibrous now, like sugarcane stripped of its bark. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Rymund played his harp, accompanied by a pair of drummers and a youth with a set of reed pipes. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z “Have you heard, Joe,” I asked him that evening, upon further consideration, as he smoked his pipe at the window, “who my patron was?” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z Ten or twenty board the train, armed with machetes, knives, bats, lead pipes, and pistols. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z The sound of someone playing the antara, wooden pipes, alone and quiet, suddenly filled the early morning. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z They leaned back a little, looking into the fire, and Nokomis also took out her woman’s pipe. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z The scent of the spring night filled their nostrils until the sweetly burning smoke rising from Booth’s pipe flavored the air. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z He undid the pipe, rammed a long thin brush down it, and a jet of water spurted into his face. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z I watched hot water pouring out of pipes not just in the kitchen but also into washbasins and bathtubs on all three floors of the house. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z All these things—the flags, the pitch pipe songs, the British Empire and the princesses, the war orphans, even the strappings —are superimposed against the ominous navy-blue background of Miss Lumley’s invisible bloomers. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Roli pipes up first, naturally, and I wish I were closer so I could kick him hard under the table. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z "I wish only to point out that a scientific terminology exists," the man said, emphasizing his words with his pipe. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z She stayed in the yard, smoking her little pipe, while they made a fire outside to roast the meat over the coals. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z Parsons, stirred to vague enthusiasm by the bombardment of figures, took his pipe out of his mouth. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z We set up camp in a small clearing and then went looking for our first pipe. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z The man came up, smoking a short bamboo pipe, and it was the father of the family in the hut next but two to Wang Lung’s hut. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z Old Tallow’s legs stuck out like poles, tattered makazins flapped on her wagging feet as she drew impatiently upon her pipe. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z Doc filled his pipe with dried peach skin and tobacco leaves. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z Eventually, we could install insulation, run a water pipe into the house, and maybe even add a water heater. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z Suddenly, Grover seemed very interested in playing notes on his pipes. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z “If the school gets on fire, they open the door. The children jump in the pipe and slide out to safety.” Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z He has nothing left to buy tobacco for his pipe, the only luxury he allows himself. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Not infrequently, the others who played the British jigs and hornpipes with me on fiddle or pipe were of my Africk race. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Little Hobart Street led up into one of those hollows so deep and narrow that people joked you had to pipe in the sunlight. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z Fishtail lit the pipe, and the fragrance of burning red-willow tobacco hung peacefully in the air. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z He took time to prepare and light his brass pipe and puff out a great smoke cloud. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z Later, when Hale was being held on a separate tier from the cell housing Blackie Thompson, he passed him a note through a hole where a radiator pipe went through the ceiling. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Their coats all had brass buttons or tinsel or piping or numbers or stripes or eagles or moons or stars dangling from them. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Upon his pipes of reed he played melodies as sweet as the nightingale’s song. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Immediately his mother piped up: “Honey, I’ve got two pounds in the fridge. How much do you need?” Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z This wasn’t the water that the workers had been piping into the borehole. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z He was sitting in one of the rockers, packing his pipe with tobacco from a pouch. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z What I want to tell you is, Never smoke another man’s pipe. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z A pipe in the shape of a tomahawk dangles precariously from his mouth. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z Ray threw down his shovel and said, “Clear out around the pipe,” and he left. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z He pushed the dry tumbleweeds farther into the pipe with his feet and tried to get comfortable; he would stay there until morning. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z Nine years ago he had sworn that the children’s home where he’d lived was protected by one—by “a bird who smoked a pipe.” Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z Halfway through his opening remarks, he found himself figuring from the way the pipes ran that there was a bathroom upstairs. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z "Wait a minute," he called, going over and turning a valve in an intricate network of pipes. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z And attached to a pipe with a bit of shoelace tied to a piece of wire tied to a length of string — a grimy, coffee-splashed booklet, its edges soft with age. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z At the bottom of the pipe was the hydrophone, a piece of equipment that could pick up the shark’s ping from the tag. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z When he does, he lights his pipe and reads his Bible. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z As soon as he left I made a pipe out of some plumbing fittings and aluminum flashing. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z He wore a beret long after other people abandoned them, he smoked a calabash pipe and his dark hair fell about his face. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Lee took up the pipe and picked out the ash with a little brass pin and filled the bowl again. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z And the guardrail made of pipe—the one attached to the right side of the porch stairs. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z It was a small, closed- in space, with sweating water pipes climbing across the walls and ceiling. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z She rustled in the tatters of her dress, groped for her smoking pipe, then remembered she was out of tobacco and let her hands splay restlessly in her lap. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z They smoke their two pipes of opium in the afternoon and it rests and sharpens them, and they sit through the night and their minds are wonderful. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z “This pipe is always falling,” he said as he picked it up and put it back in place. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z A leaky pipe had dripped water all day and messed up the carpets. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z He was puffing on a pipe made from a long-stemmed calabash with a clay tobacco bowl inserted in the round bulb of the plant. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z When it was lit and a thread of smoke was curling up from the bowl, he used the pipe to emphasize what he said, drawing little designs, like Chinese writing, in the air. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z We climbed over a jumble of bricks and splintered wood and twisted pipe. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z Some of these plans were no more than pipe dreams. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z On Saturday evening, May 7, 1892, McElroy loaded a special train with pipes, picks, shovels, and three hundred men and set off for Waukesha to dig his pipeline under cover of darkness. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z The pipe cracked along the lines he scored into it. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z The pipe is about eight inches long and an inch and a half in diameter, with two metal connectors—one down by the foot, and one up where the pipe attaches to the socket. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z Outside we made a crazy golf course with planks, pipes, and old horseshoes from the choked orchard where Dean’s garden stops. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z I took the next turn at the hammer, smacking the pipe over and over until a crack appeared. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z At the well he reined in and the girl slid off to drink from the flowing pipe. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z In Kentucky they lived in a real town, ten to fifteen houses on a single street, with water piped right into the kitchen. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z Dust cloths, monthly cloths, rags tied around pipe joints to hinder freezing; pot holders and pieces to test hot irons and wrap their handles. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Hacked off the fingers of dead Russians and smoked them in a pipe. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Webb piped: “John has a great-great-grandfather, and he’s a hundred and fifteen years old!” Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z He blew away a section of the guy’s pipe to demonstrate. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z And the next time your pipes spring a leak and a panel truck marked ''Licensed” Plumber pulls up to your door, don’t say I didn’t warn you. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z He usually has a pipe in his mouth, though he has very few teeth left, and those that are left are rotten. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z The captain found a tattered old map and jabbed at it with his pipe, saying, “This valley here, we now. You take, go on.” The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z “All of which means that you’ve got a pile of loot back there in the drain pipe,” said Harry Cat. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z Albert LaPautre drew on the pipe and frowned, tamping and adjusting the tobacco burning in the bowl. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z We were on our tenth pipe when I clambered into its deep hole to take my turn at breaking it up. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z The whole idea was insane and yet the others were looking at me calmly; one of them was lighting up an underslung pipe. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z Immediately alongside was the abandoned railroad ditch that carried the pipe that carried the aviation gasoline down to the fuel trucks at the airfield. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z Next second, the sink began to move; the sink, in fact, sank, right out of sight, leaving a large pipe exposed, a pipe wide enough for a man to slide into. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z A purple hat sat crookedly on his head, and a white pipe was clamped between his teeth. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z A few men lit clay pipes with hot coals and puffed out a rank smoke. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z Fifteen feet below her pipe, a mercenary was clutching the horns of a gargoyle as he set about fastening his rope around its head. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z “Since I decided to become a rock god. It’s Zachariah like—” “Messiah,” I pipe in, getting his joke. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z Francie was on her knees trying to poke out some dirt from behind the water pipes under the sink. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z "If you please, Brother," the man with the pipe interrupted, "I think you should speak more concretely." Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z Maria Teresa pipes up in her little girl’s voice, not wanting to be left out of the future. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The man with the pipe in his hands looked at me. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “It’s a metaphor for adolescence,” my mother piped up. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z The drums pounded and the pipe music was shrill, and everywhere the flow of the crowd was broken by patches of dancers. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z Mr. Derby finished a last glass of wine, then lit his pipe and stretched his long legs out from his chair just as Amari was walking by with the final platter of leftover blackberry pie. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z He took the pipe out of his mouth and pointed with the stem of it at a star in the purpling sky. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z The old man with the pipe just asked, “Konpè, what are you writing?” Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z Besides, a prom dress and a pipe leg would feel ridiculous together. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z After lunch, I cleaned the pipes, swept off the floor, and started the boiler. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “Let’s try this,” he says, and reattaches the pipe to the socket. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z Doc placed his unlit pipe between his teeth. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z He filled in the last section of the guy with the pipe, then added some wings and sharp teeth. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z Whenever he came to a knob in a pipe, he turned it. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z At dinner, we sit at a massive table carved along all four sides with images of piping fauns and dancing imps. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z He pulls it through a short length of wide PVC pipe, then folds the top part of the sock back over the pipe. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z Liddy pulled the tobacco pouch and a pipe from his pocket, and stuck the pipe in his mouth. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z I hear the pipes moan when E.J. turns on the water in the kitchen. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z Beyond the door, the music called them, lute and pipes and drum. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z He coughed and then elaborately refilled and lit his pipe. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z He was carrying a large concrete pipe on his shoulder with Uncle Fan and two other men. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z I struck a match to light my pipe. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Roy piped up: “I’m the one your son tried to strangle the other day. I’m the one who slugged him.” Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z In the evenings she would sit and write and I’d pretend to be sucking on my pipe, but actually I was looking at her from the corner of my eye. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z He could still hear the door slamming too, and there, that clatter, that was the muffler pipe. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z Before she could reply, Mrs. Martin piped up. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z Find a warm pipe to hide behind in a laundry room. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z And our house would have running water and pipes that worked. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z “Sure,” I said, and after I got her set up I ran down to the newspaper office where Mr. Greene was smoking his pipe. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z I slowed up to check out Hank’s window display—all tacked-up Ts, glass pipes, bongs and black velvet boards of jewelry—then ground to a halt at the entrance. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z Mrs. Hickock rethreaded her darning needle; her husband rocked his rocker and sucked on an unlit pipe. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z "There was no caucus and the opinion still holds," the brother with the pipe said. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z “There’s one thing we haven’t tried,” Olive said, piping up from the edge of our group. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z There were vent pipes in the walls covered with wire mesh and there were drains in the floor. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z He paused to take a drink, and as he turned his head I saw a golden set of pipes hanging from his ear. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z But Miss Sadie was sitting out back on her metal patio chair, smoking her corncob pipe, like she hadn’t budged since the day before. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z He went to the fireplace, touched a taper to a live coal, and lit the pipe. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z He dropped his pipe which he was filling and stared at her. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z He walked out one day and sat on the pipe. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Carl scratched beneath his arm, massaged his chest with his thick, heavy fingers, picked up his pipe again and fiddled with it. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z The back doors of the truck were opened and a long, flexible pipe unrolled. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z I turned and held my pipes aloft for everyone to see. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z I barrel into the smell of pipe tobacco and the scratch of his tweed suit. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z From somewhere overhead I heard the shriek and groan of water pipes. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z I knocked down walls and lugged heavy beams, ran pipes and wires, and became a familiar dust-masked face at both the dump and the pharmacy. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z My dad smiles and taps on his pipe. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z We had to leave the faucet under the house dripping or the water froze in the pipe. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z But his friend would shake his head, puffing at his pipe. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z No instrument, just his high clear voice that rose and flowed like the pipes he had played before. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z The scent of pipe tobacco hung in the air. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z The fur on his coat was soft and his pipe smoke smelled sweet. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z It might just be something the doctor is piping into his brain. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z “I’ll go with you if she doesn’t want to,” Sam pipes up. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z He wore a spotless green uniform with blue piping. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z The fragrance of his pipe tobacco preceded him, reassuring me. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Busted water pipes forced residents to cart water from neighbors’ taps. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z The ad pictured a cup of orange juice and a piping hot blueberry muffin. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z He walked out one day and sat on the pipe. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z I’ve seen her do stuff like this before—fix leaky pipes, unplug a clogged sink, or smack a glob of spackle on a hole in the wall. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z “It can only mean one thing when you walk into my office,” he said as he tapped out his pipe. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Smell of them cedar shavings is nice, too, or maybe it’s the smell from Mr. Woodwell’s corncob pipe. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z She used a twelve-inch lead pipe to roll the dough on a flat piece of board atop the wooden boxes that served as our dining table. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z They tell of an older woman who welcomed a migrant into her home and was beaten to death with an iron pipe. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z In places, blood had dripped from the drainage pipes and congealed on the floor in puddles of black and burgundy, some blotched with mold. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z Then, he rolled the newspaper up into a tight paper pipe, grabbed the brown bag next to him, and stood. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z The rest were silent, the brother with the pipe looking at me unbendingly. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z It reminded me of being at home, submerging my head under bathwater and hearing the pinging in the pipes. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z With his pipe, genially self-effacing manner, and electrified hair, Einstein was too splendid a figure to remain permanently obscure, and in 1919, the war over, the world suddenly discovered him. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z The molasses was pumped from the ships into the tank through a giant pipe. I Survived the Great Molasses Flood, 1919 2019-09-03T00:00:00Z The cane was put down and the Headmaster began filling his pipe from a tin of tobacco. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z Jennings used a gas-powered fan to blow cold air from a huge container full of ice water through pipes into Garfield's room. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z There was a chauffeur with a short pipe in his mouth who was lounging outside the car. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z Uncle Wilson smiled into the cloud of smoke rising from his pipe, and he crossed his bony legs. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z Doc was setting out his pipe and tobacco. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z Below, it was a hot, humid labyrinth of shadows, strange vats, and rumbling pipes, not a place of storage but a place of process, the slaughterhouse’s digestive tract. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z It’s a bare white box and big clanking pipes and one framed show poster from a production of Grand Hotel at Walnut Street Theater. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z Checking to make sure there was no stray gunpowder on the top of the pipe when she closed it. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z Then Dad pipes up with “Have we ever told you about your mother’s weird pregnancy cravings?” I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z When the rain starts we cover ourselves with old coal bags and Mr. Hannon turns his pipe upside down in his mouth to keep the tobacco dry. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z Mr. Penney took a puff on his pipe and placed it on the ashtray. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z A forest composed of stacks of used books loomed around him, the usual spicy-vanilla scent of pipe tobacco and old paperbacks wafting in the air. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z Down one way, a man was puffing a pipe under a tent, and curls of sweet-smelling smoke rose from the gnarled twigs of his beard. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z In the corner of my eye, I spotted a figure moving among the pipes, like a hallucination in her absinthe-green blouse. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z Slowly he drew the pipe out of his mouth and blew a puff of smoke into the air. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z Inside lay two bedrolls, a pipe and tobacco pouch, and a shirt dropped in the middle of mending, the needle still threaded and stuck in the fabric. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z "It was a most unsatisfactory beginning," he said quietly, punctuating the "unsatisfactory" with a stab of his pipe. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z “Have you lived your life under a rock? Were you born of sheep? Do you know nothing of drums, horns, and pipes? Do you even sing?” Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z Here the hallways are dim, the ceilings crossed with bars and pipes. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z If your performance impressed the audience and the owners enough, you were given a token: a tiny set of silver pipes that could be mounted on a pin or necklace. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z "I beg to differ," the brother with the pipe said. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z All this time together and he had chosen an hour before we were to die to pipe up. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z “An impressive pipe bomb, to be sure,” he mused. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Directly underneath, a circular opening shimmered into existence, like a sewer pipe, just big enough to crawl through. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z They placed a large container of ice in one room of the White House and connected it to the sickroom with tin pipes. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z The old one, who had entered ahead of Jonathan, had taken his place at the table and had already started to work on his pipe, trying to light it. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z He came out of the square, the children following him, and piped them past the café and down a side street. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z A wall, a solid brick wall, erupted out of the exhaust pipe. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z There was an old man in front of the yard smoking a badly carved wooden pipe. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z Now he was stuck in the muck of the Pipeworks, patching up pipes that would leak and break again in a matter of days. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Three prisoners in chains—and, among them, the little pipe, the sad eyed angel. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z It was swimming in grounds and little flecks of pink tissue, but it was piping hot, which was the main thing. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z “See him on the stool? If you decide to try for your pipes, he’s the one you want to talk to. Name’s Stanchion.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z “I need my pipe,” the woman murmured, rubbing her temples. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z Then Wang Lung flung his pipe down upon the ground and he shouted, “Am I never to be in peace?” The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z In his reedy, piping voice he urged them on to revolution. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z I watched the smoke from Doc’s pipe curl in the air. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z Stuffing leaked from a fresh rip in the couch, a multitude of empty beer cans poked from underneath its ratty fringe and there looked to be a hash pipe resting precariously on one arm. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z Well, I’m a mother of black children, and nobody will ever deny me my children, and they can put that in their Nubian pipe and smoke it. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z The sea was full of sound: shouts and calls, warhorns and drums and the trill of pipes, the slap of wood on water as thousands of oars rose and fell. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z A green frog pipes, a star shoots, and a light comes on in Mrs. Strawberry’s farm kitchen. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z It was then removed from the pipe and allowed to cool. Cathedral: The Story of Its Construction 1973-09-19T00:00:00Z We looked over the bank to where the pipe protruded. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z "We were hiding," I piped up in his defense, having had moments to collect my thoughts. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z Then the man with the pipe spoke up, a swift charge of tension building with his words. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z His back was more stooped than I remembered, and he was awkwardly using his hands to take the weight of the pipe off his shoulder. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Doc shook his head at us and took his pipe from a drawer in the worktable. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z Dirty, cement floor, wires and pipes, and terrible lighting, but at least I couldn’t see the cobwebs or ghosts who’d probably been hanging around since Lincoln was president. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z “This covering up of pipes is all a mistake, they should be exposed everywhere, if necessary painted well and handsomely.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z An iron pipe rammed into the pit of his stomach, turning his legs to rubber. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z Lizzie’s granddaddy was not sitting on the doorstep smoking his pipe, and Turner felt the loneliness of the place. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z ‘There’s nothing like a good pipe after a bracing swim. ’ Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z Inside all was as the diagram showed—the motor, the belt, the wheel, some pipes leading down. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z He put down his reeds pipes and stared at me. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z His disembodied, piping voice stayed on and sent out slogans. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z The man passed Gramps the pipe, and Gramps sat down on the grass, took two puffs and passed it to Gram. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z Sitting in Lucy’s room with her as “Jolene” pipes out from her record player. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z Dad emerges from the garage, greasy wrench in hand, clearly still trying to squeeze water from the pipes. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z The major pulled his pipe from his mouth and proclaimed the Japanese commander laughable in this regard. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z Mr. Luftig had determined that whatever his destination, he wouldn't be needing his pipes. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z “I think she was intending to steal your pipe,” she said. Louisiana's Way Home 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z Some of the pipes were threaded through with lengths of chain fitted at their ends with every manner of bludgeon. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z There is the aroma of mulled wine and sugared candy, peppermint and pipe smoke. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z “We are the Vanderbeekers!” piped up Hyacinth as Oliver reached a crescendo in his song. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z It was one of those lofts you see in movies and at parties, the one cavernous nearly-empty room of windows and hardwood flooring, some exposed brick, steam pipes. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z About five feet under the trench, the pipe going to our house must have burst and turned all the surrounding dirt into sewage. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z He gripped the stem of the pipe in the most manly fashion between his strong white teeth and kept it there while talking to you. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z You could read it as a materialization, out of the white pipe cleaner mist into the solid fight of day. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Finally a voice piped up from the back of the room: “His brother was worse.” The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z ‘Put that in your pipe and smoke it,’ she said to him. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z From the gallery above drifted down the merry strains of pipes and fiddle. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z I gathered the glass —white hot, glowing and put the pipe in my mouth. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z Over the wind that was piping among the webs of the bridge, Frightful heard Sam’s whistle. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z The cap was gone and the man dropped to his elbows to smell the pipe but the odor of gas was only a rumor, faint and stale. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z We lived near this market—my father, my mother, my nine sisters and brothers and I—underground in a big pipe that had once been part of a storm sewer, but was no longer used. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z The man blew his pipe smoke in his wife’s direction. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z There was a big hole in the recently whitewashed wall, and a tangle of rubber tubes and pipes was sticking out of it. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z In just a few minutes, he had made a rudimentary pipe bomb. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Freak is all dressed up, too, he's wearing this tweedy new suit jacket that has patches on the elbows and Grim says all he needs is a pipe and he'll look like quite the professor. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z What if it gets stuck in the pipes? The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z ‘It would,’ said Gimli, ‘if I had a pipe to go with it. Alas, I lost mine in Moria, or before. Is there no pipe in all your plunder?’ The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z “I don’t know .. . it’s a little like the pipe you smoke, I guess.” The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z Out of the hollow pipe spurted a boy. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Wilson sat down and watched his pipe go out. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z The waitress comes out with our food, piping hot, but suddenly I don’t feel like eating. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z It was as though she was suddenly impatient to be done with all this and to be left alone in the stillness of the great room with her opium pipe. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z “Gone for a run to Mattapoisett,” the dockmaster said through his wild beard, his long pipe clenched in his brown teeth. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z “If what everyone has told me is true, if only real excellence can win the pipes, then one of those women will know Aloine’s part.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z “Still ain’t no water to it. Reckon we run a pipe out yonder from the road.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z A diamond, the locksmith reminds himself, is only a piece of carbon compressed in the bowels of the earth for eons and driven to the surface in a volcanic pipe. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z A chubby, moon-faced navigator with little reptilian eyes and a pipe like Aarfy’s had trouble, too, and Yossarian used to chase him back from the nose as they turned toward the target, now minutes away. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z Archie pulled the pipe from his mouth, as if to better digest my words. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z He grabs a water pipe and pulls himself over the wall and onto the roof of an adjoining house. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z A good performance of a single song might not get you your pipes, but it might earn you a wealthy patron instead. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z I ran out and yanked the pipe from her hand, screaming, “No!” In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Then I saw them: huge water pipes behind the mirrors, where the spiders had come from. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z Then he leaned back against his leaning tree, as it had come to be, and puffed silently on his pipe. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z Around us, on all four walls, water tumbled from huge pipes. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z These men who looked steadily into their platinum igniter flames as they lit their eternally burning black pipes. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z Grandfather tapped his pipe on the arm of his chair, calling for attention. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z And sure enough, because the pipe was made of glass, Augustus Gloop could be clearly seen shooting up inside it, head first, like a torpedo. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z Two men, blackened with soot, sat upon the wheels, and smoked pipes. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z He waved the pipe in the air and called out: “Children! Children! Come with me! We go to the candy mountain! Follow me! Follow me!” Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z He was dressed for batde in an armored shirt made from tree bark and twist ties, with his wooden cudgel and his reed pipes hanging from his belt. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z Gary pipes up, "Me too," and I'm tensing my fists, my jaw locked, and I just want to scream, but instead I say, "Whatever, I'm going home," because / don't have a fake ID. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z He puffed thoughtfully at his pipe, then continued. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z Six days later, four Sundays after the last Sunday, the Colonel and I were trying to shoot each other with paintball guns while turning 900s in a half pipe. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z Here he is pushing the bicycle and puffing away on the pipe in his mouth. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z Colonel Arbuthnot was sitting in a corner smoking a pipe and reading a magazine. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z He picked up his pipe and loaded it with cherrysweet tobacco. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z Miss Sadie sat in a metal patio chair, smoking a corncob pipe and giving me instructions on how to put my weight into that shovel to turn up the dirt. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z There was no plumbing, no pipes to carry water that a Tidemaker might abuse. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z We were willing, though going to the pictures for us was the Oriental Theater in Chicago, featuring a first-run movie, a pipe organ, and a stage show with a dog act. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z This time he held out on the palm of his hand—a pipe cleaner. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z Glittering stalactites hung from a maze of piping. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z When I reached the pipe, I carved out a space beneath it, and it was there that I placed the largest of the three containers. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z A solar panel gleamed like shadowy obsidian atop a tall metal pipe that reached beyond the canopy of broad leaves. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z So the husband of the lady downstairs looked at the pipe, realized it shouldn’t be there and what it meant, and called the Gestapo. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z We eat our lunches in the chilly dimly lit cellar of the school- house, where we sit in supervised rows on long scarred wooden benches under a festoon of heating pipes. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Fern piped, “Like a bird in the sky.” Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z He pulled the pipe out of his mouth and poked the air with it as if typesetting an exclamation point on his accusation. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z “She went looking for pilchards,” I piped up. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z He hollowed something in their language and everybody began to pipe down just a hair. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Most streets in the city were unpaved and had no system of covered sewers and pipes to channel water away from buildings. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z The colour of cinders and ash about them, and the continual smell of burning from their pipes. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z It was a fancy pipe, made of a piece of sumac wood marked with a sweet grain. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z She cut pipe and welded metal joints, installed shocks and stripped down engines—you name it. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Over against the building, a large blue pipe ran up on an angle from the ground. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z I saw a group of old men, two seated across a folding table playing a game of chess, others smoking pipes, eating peanuts, and watching. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z Yes, we can eventually kill them, only there are so many, an endless supply pouring from the pipe, not even hesitating to take to the sewage. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z Turner removed his pipe and answered: “Yeah, and you see how Ah did swell up too, didn’t yuh? You tell Tea Cake he better be keerful Ah don’t swell up again.” Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z And even though my gait is now smoother and people swear they don’t even notice, I never forget that under my pants is a pipe. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z Wilson rocked in his chair and pointed his pipe stem at Alfred. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z “Yes, I’m kidding, but pipe down. I’m trying to find something to properly impress you with my vocal stylings.” The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z ‘It’s his pipe!’ shouted the small sister, still convulsed with laughter. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z I said, waving the pipe wrench in the air. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z “Hydrangea,” Miss Sadie said, tamping down a wad of new tobacco into the pipe. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z Stretchers and wheelchairs were beached here and there against the hissing, knocking pipes that ran and branched in an intricate nervous system along the glittering walls. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z He took a puff and placed the thick black pipe on the ashtray. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z She heard their piping voices — “Uncle Grover! Uncle Grover!” — and knew he was speaking to them all, the whole family; and that they, in turn, were all listening. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z The skin of her hand that held the pipe’s end was stretched over her little bones as smooth and as yellow as the gilt upon an idol. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z He ignored the icicles too, a whole row of glistening two- and three-footers dripping from a pipe. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z While he slept, a spark must have lit the powder bag—a spark from someone’s pipe or from the slow match on someone’s musket. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z The manly lover put the pipe between his strong white teeth and struck a match. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z Every so often he’d bang the pipe loudly on another junker, as if he were trying to scare something out of the shadows. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Doc tapped his unlit pipe against his lip. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z In the afternoon she made her own sausages, spiced with fennel, and hung them over the heating pipes in the basement. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z I started to answer him when the little one piped up. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z He pulled the pipe slowly from between his lips. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z Noises of trumpets and horns, pipes and flutes, and other musical instruments. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z By midafternoon the front room of the coffeehouse was thick with customers, pipe smoke, and loud arguments. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The pipe was at the bottom of a hill, and I would walk down there and huddle with other poor people from the neighborhood, collecting drips of water. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z “And the second question—the pipe cleaner. Did Colonel Arbuthnot drop it, or somebody else?” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z The wooden rocker where Pa sat and smoked his pipe by the fire. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z And in a voice that seemed to me very weak, I piped, ‘Hi.’ Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Seagulls circled overhead, while two ospreys piped at each other in a nest on top of a concrete utility pole. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z The drums kept on pounding and the pipes were going. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z When he looked up from the pipe, his eyes had gone glassy, pupils dilated. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z Aarfy was tapping the bowl of his pipe against his palm leisurely as he paced back and forth in corpulent self-approval, obviously delighted by the stir he was causing. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z Alex grabbed her by the hand and dragged her sideways out of the pipe. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z If I want that job in plumbing at Menards, I have to make myself into an unobstructed pipe: water in and water just as pure and drinkable coming out. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Soft and silent as a shadow, Harry slipped out the opening in the side of the newsstand and glided over to the drain pipe. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z Wang Lung shook the ash from his pipe and pushed the fresh tobacco in slowly with his thumb. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z "Sorry!" she pipes in her silly Capitol accent. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z She wished for her pipe, but hours remained of this court session, and it wouldn’t be proper to leave until Georgina departed. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z Then a small voice piped up behind her, through the doorway she’d been conspicuously blocking. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z Papa is pacing the sitting room, chewing on his pipe more than smoking it. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z "This is no time for cheap sarcasm, Brother," the brother with the pipe said. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z Julie had shot the factory from a crane, so that the effect for the viewer was of floating just above the snaking pipes and smokestacks. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z “Sit on the bench and hold the pipe steady,” he said. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z “I don’t think you can give away your pipes ” “I can, actually,” I said. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z An incident later in B-block had called my bluff: I’d discovered a fire in the service area that ran down the center of the block; welders upstairs had unwittingly ignited a length of PVC pipe. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The captain leans closer, the acrid smoke of his pipe stinging my eyes. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z Bloom shifted, rustled, tapped his pipe out into his palm; the ashes made a sprinkling noise going into the wastebasket. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Mr. Broadwas hadn't heard 'cause of the water noise, but now he put down his pipe on the step, and stood up. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z The two things I remember most about Bestepapa were that he wore black boots and that he smoked an extraordinary pipe. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z Mr. Penney picked up his pipe, tapped it lightly against the ashtray, and rolled his eyes to the back of his head, looking for the right figure. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z Werfel gathered his courage and piped up: “Regibald du Burgh, this elf is my guest and my responsibility, and any violence you wish to do to him must first be done to me.” The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z Alfred followed his uncle out to the back porch and watched him carefully fill his pipe and light it. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z ‘And who cares if you’re crazy,” Abbey piped up, “as long as it’s a good crazy.” Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z When we reached the waterfront, I saw the old dockmaster coming along toward us, the smoke from his pipe trailing behind him like a dirty veil, and I hurried ahead to meet him. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z He took a long pull on the pipe. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z In ancient music-making, pitch was fixed - defined - only by the length of your string or pipe, hence the need for a label like ‘A’ to denote the same sound made on different-shaped instruments. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z “See this pipe connected to our faucet? Watch. It stretches all the way down and turns here, under the pier. It never touches the water.” When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z I would like to stay this way for a year, or ten, but she leaps from my lap and pipes, “Outside!” Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z One man had just put his heated pellet into his pipe. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z Father had to go to one of Mr. Alger’s houses to fix some pipes that had just broken, so that left us without anything to do. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z Ross Milton had taken a brand from the fireplace carefully between his long fingers, and he waited until he had lighted his pipe before he answered Jethro’s question. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z The f-holes are spindles of his pipe smoke on Sunday evenings by the radio. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Even farther in, the silence was broken by a cacophony of strange sounds—the skittering of rats; hissing steam; the hollow, recurring tap of pipes, like the desperate scratching of a premature burial. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z They walked along the shore while his uncle studied the treestumps, puffing at his pipe, a manila rope coiled over his shoulder. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z Like somebody had backed the cement truck up to the honey house, swung the pipe over to my chest, and started pouring. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Enormous ingenuity is apparent with some of the loners in placing the water supply higher than the unit and connecting it with plastic pipe so that a gravity flow is insured. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Money to install water pipes, or to repair the electric wires that had gone down in the storm and hung like limp, useless, dried-up worms. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z He was a graying man in a little gray store, a crossroads place where I stopped for a box of dog biscuits and a can of pipe tobacco. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z She looked down again and slowly closed her hand around the pipes. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Every heads-up penny found and daydream and night dream and even when people say it's a pipe dream . Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z Fishtail took extremely good care of his pipe, cleaned it often, prayed with it every sunrise. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z I take Kalinda around the corner and alongside the gate that leads into the unpaved field and trees and pipes that spill out to the ocean and isn’t covered with concrete. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z He was walking across the yard, his Wellingtons covered in mud, grumbling to himself and holding a piece of piping. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z Then he wondered if maybe the guy had some kind of busted pipe or groundwater down there. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z He returned to his picture, a rough sketch of a mean-looking guy with a metal pipe. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z He would just have to dig along every inch of pipe. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z And the pipe was dangling so low that it was almost touching the carpet. Louisiana's Way Home 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z He turned to take a sight on the far shore, cradling the oarhandles, taking the pipe from his mouth to wipe his chin with the back of his hand. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z If he smoked he would be smoking a pipe about now, but he didn’t smoke. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z He squinted his eyes as though trying to peer down a dark drain pipe. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z Every few yards, ceramic pipes jutted from the walls. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z As the audience entered, an organist played Chopin’s “Funeral March” on the hall’s giant pipe organ. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z The man puffed at his pipe thrice and then spat upon the ground. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z With spit, he wipes clean the length of the wire and coils it a hundred times around the base of the pipe, making a new tuning coil. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Albert locked the pipe between his teeth, took the candle, and walked to the door. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z All Billy could see was the little dot at the end of the pipe. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z “Or maybe the pipe found her. Anyway, they still together.” Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z At this moment a window at the front of the cottage was flung open and a thin voice—her grandmother’s—piped, “Winifred! Don’t sit on that dirty grass. You’ll stain your boots and stockings.” Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z It is a thousand years old, roughly contemporaneous with a report of an organ at Winchester Cathedral that boasted an extraordinary four hundred pipes. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z The pipes were old, Amaka had said, and every rainy season, earthworms made their way into the bathtub. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z The pipes formed one giant rectangle, with no way for any water to enter the system. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z He started the motor and picked up a tobacco pipe from the dashboard, packed in fresh tobacco, and lit it. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z At first the Underthing was exactly what I had expected Tunnels and pipes. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z In the shop attached to the pipe museum, Gramps bought two peace pipes. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z “No, I haven’t seen your pipe. And I adore winter. My favorite part was skating around the ships locked in solid by the ice. The Bensons were there, and the Peales, remember? It was delightful.” Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Then Mom piped up, Oh, Stevie, it’s great to have you back. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z She wanted peace, an absolute quietude; she wanted an interlude of darkness, warm water, the pipe tobacco smell, security. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z He jumped down to the floor and scurried over to the drain pipe. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z A green sky replaces the exposed pipes above me. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z The pipe that leads to the tap has to be held to the wall by a piece of twine looped around a nail. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z A minute later, the house shook a little, and the pipes inside the walls groaned. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z Without thinking, I reached up to the collar of my cloak and unpinned my talent pipes. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z “Don’t let him talk to you like that,” Matthew piped up. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z Then I put on the liner, push into my pipe leg, and roll up the suction sleeve. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z With a set of talent pipes I could support myself playing at local inns. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Then all at once, the powerful suction took hold of him completely, and he was pulled under the surface and then into the mouth of the pipe. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z “It goes into, uh, a pipe before it gets to the road, but it’s still dangerous. Stay away from it, Fidelito,” he warned. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Old radiators had been dropped here and pipes and slate shingles from the roof and even a bathroom sink. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z Just smoking on his corncob pipe and looking kind of wistful. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z His head is over mine on the bike and the smell of the pipe is lovely. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z He paced his office, holding his pipe in the palm of his left hand and rubbing it with his thumb. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z The baton looks like a foot-long pipe, but it’s light, it’s made of aluminum. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z We also know a little bit about the mantle from what are known as kimberlite pipes, where diamonds are formed. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Daddy stood up from his chair and took his pipe out of his mouth and said, “Hello! Come in, come in.” Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z Albert lit his pipe as Joseph sat down next to him on the sofa. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z Puffing on a pipe, Skardon asked Fuchs a long series of questions about the scientist’s back- ground and family. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Intent and serious, Nokomis filled her red stone pipe with tobacco. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z Keys depressed, cymbals crashed, pipes blew compressed air into clarinets and oboes. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z Grandmother sat in the shade outside her hut and puffed on a clay pipe. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z He turned the mahogany bowl of his pipe upside down and rapped it with his knuckle. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z I watched for him to wipe it on his pant leg or grip the hot bowl of his pipe, but he didn’t. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z Dad also scavenged a couple of tables and chairs, and he built some makeshift closets—which were actually kind of nifty—by hanging lengths of pipe from the ceiling with wires. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z The man took a long drag on his pipe, exhaled, and said, “Who wants to know?” The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z The whole idea was insane and yet the others were looking at me calmly; one of them was lighting up an underslung pipe. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z Before that, he’d confronted her after finding a pipe in her closet. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z A church organ piped a shoulder-rocking beat, soon followed by Mahalia Jackson’s deep, soulful voice belting “Oh Happy Day.” Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z Then when the table was cleared, and he had lit his pipe, he said:— Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z “They don’t pipe down soon, the whole neighborhood will turn out to watch.” Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z “Come to the drain pipe!” said Tucker Mouse. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z Only the tiniest piping of the flute sounded in his head. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z When he saw how determined I was, he stopped fooling with his pipe. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z I walked over to where Mr. Benson sat in one of the porch chairs, smoking his pipe. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z Now he stared once again at the pale green pipes. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z "Perhaps we should allow the Brother to express himself as to how he feels about all this," the man with the pipe said. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z Doc had his hat off now since there was practically no chance of getting his head wet unless a pipe broke. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z He was wearing a silk vest over his shirt with dragons embroidered on it in red thread, and he was smoking a long white clay pipe. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z For birthdays his mother orders a cake on which his name is piped across the white frosted surface in a bright blue sugary script. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Dugout sailing canoes and pipes, yes; forges and pigs, no. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “We don’t hate you,” Bobby Gene piped up. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z Homes nods to the pipe, where the mutts are slithering onto the ledge. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z But I like the smell of the pipe tobacco. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z He wore a pipe in his face and probably asked you what college you went to. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z Stewart smoked on his pipe and looked at them. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z I rolled again as Luke’s sword slashed the deck chair in half, metal pipes and all. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z The guards had been targeting Zoe, and before they could figure out that the kid with the pipes was the bigger problem, the wooden planks at their feet sprouted new branches and tangled their legs. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z “You got to have a balanced diet,” Derek piped up again. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z Their exhaust pipes rattle as they wait for us. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z He raised his pipes to his mouth and played a quick riff. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z I see crackheads getting high in the “cut” smoking their pipes. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z Ben mentioned Evan's name, and before I had time to react, Kia piped in with: "How dare you mention that name in front of my sister?" Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z I found the two wine-bottles in the pack, and carried them up the road to where the water of a spring flowed out of an iron pipe. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z There’s a clank as Pollux slams a cover over the pipe and locks it in place. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z Merlyn had finished his breakfast, and was puffing at the meerschaum pipe which made his pupil believe that he breathed fire. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z You won’t find half so much fault in me if you think of me in my forge dress, with my hammer in my hand, or even my pipe. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z Our old pipes notify me as Mom begins to do the dishes after work, and the floorboards announce her as she climbs the stairs. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z Mrs. Popper picked up her mending, while Mr. Popper collected his pipe, his book, and his globe. Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z Kate’s ear had been to the pipe when she heard the splash—she’d barely had time to jerk her head back before the hot water gushed out. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z “Peregrine falcons are nesting on this bridge,” Molly piped. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z No longer did he wear the proud, somewhat disdainful look he’d worn when walking seriously along through the woods, his pipe cradled in his arms. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z My youngest sister piped up, “Did you stay all night with some robbers?” Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z He could sit on the pipes with Mack and the boys any time. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z The cattail pond now had steel gray and rust brown pipes running up from it toward the groves, like someone had connected straws together in four crooked lines. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z It seems that “the pipes had become foul from the deposits of the muddy stream from the river. The consequence was much sickness for about two weeks, especially among children.” The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z The child's voice went piping on from behind the white conch. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z I heard stories of how they had “persuaded” people with lead pipes, wet cement, baseball bats, brass knuckles, fists, feet, and blackjacks. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Waiters offered drinks of every description and brought water pipes for those who wished to smoke. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Our car is idling by the curb; the engine is rattling, the exhaust pipe emitting fumes in the icy air. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z Led by Fawkes, whose wide scarlet wings emitted a soft golden glow in the darkness, they walked all the way back to the mouth of the pipe. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z When Henrietta’s cousin Emmett Lacks heard somebody at Sparrows Point say Henrietta was sick and needed blood, he threw down the steel pipe he was cutting and ran looking for his brother and some friends. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z “David!” their voices piped, and they rushed out to embrace and pat him on the back and move around him. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z She follows cables and pipes, railings and ropes, hedges and sidewalks. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z The watchers below could see the chocolate swishing around the boy in the pipe, and they could see it building up behind him in a solid mass, pushing against the blockage. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z Held up by a series of metal pipes as thin as dowel rods. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z I turned my back and the moment I unpinched my nose the blood gushed out like a busted pipe and spattered all down my jeans and over my sneakers. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z For me, a quick line has turned into a fast hit from the glass pipe. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z The only responsibility the talent pipes carried was that of performance. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z For drinking water, sometimes Mom managed to get a jug of tap water from neighbors, or I would be dispatched to sit beneath a leaking pipe connected to another home. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z My throat tightens, thinking of Papa standing by the window, chewing his pipe. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z He pushed my composition book back on his desk and looked at me curiously, sucking at his pipe. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z "If you please, Brother," the man with the pipe interrupted, "I think you should speak more concretely." Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z In fact they will form a cavity between them, a bit like an organ pipe that will resonate only at certain notes. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Over in the drain pipe Tucker Mouse and Harry Cat were listening too—Harry with his eyes closed like Papa Bellini. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z The metal piping that served as the toaster’s innards heated to a glowing red. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z Reverend Abbott, when he had been at the church the summer before, had put barbed wire on the pipe to keep us from climbing it to get balls that went up there. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z I think the shrug meant, “Let the horse do you in instead of my iron pipe.” Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Reverend Obertask reached forward and took the pipe from my hand very gently. Louisiana's Way Home 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z Captain Morse was idling on the porch, smoking a pipe. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z Exposed pipes crisscrossed the high ceilings, snaking in and out of some fleshy-looking gooey substance. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z “Be careful. Don't say nothing,” pipes Simeon, his clothes still wet. Ghost Boys 2018-04-17T00:00:00Z “Nine and three-quarters!” piped a small girl, also red-headed, who was holding her hand. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z Some of them stopped gurgling on their silver or bamboo water pipes to greet the sisters. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z A man sat in his doorway, smoking a pipe. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z She patted my arm condescendingly and reached for a length of plastic tubing that hung nearby; it was connected to a pipe that ran up the ladder to the surface. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z I asked the man smoking a pipe on the front steps. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z Velia and Delia purchased piping hot ears of corn on a stick, wrapped in their own leaves and enveloped in newspapers to keep them warm. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z “I tried running on this leg the other day,” I’m saying as the camera zeroes in on my pipe leg. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z There was a big drainage pipe there that jutted out on the other side. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z It was a baby pike, absolutely rigid and probably asleep, and it looked like a pipe stem or a sea-horse stretched out flat It would be a brigand when it grew up. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z The teapot is sitting under a thick quilted dome to keep it piping hot. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z He took the bird, a scrawny item, and set to work while Mr. Boatwright sat down and stirred the fire up before lighting a pipe. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z “What’s the bell for?” asked Tucker when he arrived at the drain pipe. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z It was Dr. Cramp piping in here, plugging his wife. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z These pipe cleaners were identical with the one he had found on the floor of the dead man’s compartment. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z Someone came around with a stack of small jars and fastened one to my cage; a little pipe led through the bars like a sipping straw—drinking water. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z That old image of myself as a hero, as a man of conscience and courage, all that was just a threadbare pipe dream. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z The hiss of heat and water in the pipes all around us. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z When someone flushed you could hear the water and other matter, which the children named, running inside the big pipe above the drinking spigots. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Sure enough, Old Tallow sat upon it smoking her pipe. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z The pipe organ wheezed out the opening notes of a familiar tune. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z The soldier in white was like an unrolled bandage with a hole in it or like a broken block of stone in a harbor with a crooked zinc pipe jutting out. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z There was only one eyehole through which he could look, and welded to that eyehole were six feet of pipe. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z A great stone monster with wide-spread wings stood with its mouth open and you could still see a bit of piping at the back of its mouth, out of which the water used to pour. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z He did not want her to notice the bins full of yellowed towels waiting to be washed on Monday, the graffiti on the walls, the loose tiles, and the rusty pipes that dripped continuously. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z He had a hundred things on his mind, and a pipe at one of the rental properties had just burst. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z Dust, paper, warm pipes, all day, all winter. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z The airtight fittings, the iron walls, and the mineral-wool insulation deadened most of the sound, but he had found with experience that if he listened at the gas pipe, he heard everything much more clearly. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z “We dig up those pipes, bust ’em into pieces, and sell the lot to a scrap yard. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z It was boxy and angular, and it poured so much smoke out of its exhaust pipe, I was certain the Forges of some Dark Lord were firing deep within its catalytic converter. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z The drum was as tremulous as a maiden’s heart, the pipes high and sweet and beckoning. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Father made an exaggerated sound of surprise and sat back, filling his pipe. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z One end of wire Werner crimps around a shorn pipe standing diagonally up from the floor. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Sparks flew as the electronic wings scraped a protruding pipe. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z “I saw that pipe when I was in the Kuhani’s study looking for Nkrumah’s journal. It was on his desk, but I couldn’t see what was in it.” Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z Some men were smoking from a gigantic pipe that they passed from one to the other. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z He propped his feet up and lit his pipe. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z Liz looked up briefly to give a quick wave and smile before going back to piping. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z He waited while the furnace gradually warmed the house, and then Ishmael heard water moving in the pipes and the drip from the taps he’d left open. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z He'd picked up bamboo lengths on the beach and had fitted them together into a short pipe to funnel the rain water into our ten-gallon keg. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z The little flag was fastened to the end of that pipe and the pole was jabbed into the soft soil at the north rim of the crater. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z He has a pipe clenched in his teeth, and the smoke blurs his ravaged face. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z Remember in 1284 when the Pied Piper of Hamelin who, when the king refused to pay him for ridding the town of rats, turned the irresistible music of his pipe toward the children? Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z I could hear the wet cracking of the pipe. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z He carried his pipe in the cradle of his left arm, close to his heart. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z “Because that pipe doesn’t go to the Marshmallow Room!” Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z He was for once without words himself, and he pressed the tobacco diligently into a ball between his thumb and forefinger, and picking up his pipe he fitted the tobacco into the bowl. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z “I discovered her sneaking around Reverend Obertask’s office yesterday with his pipe in her hand. Can you imagine?” Louisiana's Way Home 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z Grover frantically hit the snake with his reed pipes, but he might as well have been banging on a stone wall. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z Then Pa got for himself a pair of galluses and some tobacco to smoke in his pipe. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z So I barely spoke as we gathered in Adam's backyard and passed around a glass pipe. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z By the time she gets a few hundred dollars saved up here and there, the pipes start leaking or the roof needs fixing. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z The pipes, he noticed, shaded to powdery gray on top — dust. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z A major stood in front of them sucking on his pipe stem, with his right elbow tucked into his left palm. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z We walked through the strawberry fields, where campers were picking bushels of berries while a satyr played a tune on a reed pipe. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z It hit him on the left hind leg just as he vanished into the drain pipe. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z When you flushed, you could hear the water gurgling down the pipes from the overhead box. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z The powerful magnets jolted the fourteen-ton vacuum tanks out of place, which threatened in turn to pull apart the superstructure of pipes, pumps, and cables. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Mazen takes a long draw on his pipe, contemplating me, before shaking his head. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z They saw piles of rolled rugs, broken benches, a tangle of plumbing pipes, even a claw-foot bathtub. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z They were playing the riau-riau music, the pipes shrill and the drums pounding, and behind them came the men and boys dancing. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z Over in the drain pipe opening, Tucker and Harry were sitting side by side. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z When I found a few potato peels, I would dry them on steam pipes running through the factory and share them with David. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z Sighing, the man took another draw from his pipe. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z Dressed in silver halters, robed in see-through shifts, they danced, reciting strophes that didn’t scan to the eerie piping of flutes. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z He shoved his papers aside, took up a pipe, and filled the bowl of it with tobacco from an earthenware jar. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z He fussed with his pipe and then with the papers on the pipe stand next to his chair. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z Then came a voice, piped in like a loudspeaker from heaven. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z There must be a way out of these pipes. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z Mr. Boop asked, picking up a can of pipe tobacco and handing Grandpa the money. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z They found pipes and other bomb-making materials in Herbert's car and front yard. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z But it’s very strange to look down and see a pipe leg and a fake foot attached to me. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z All these things—the flags, the pitch pipe songs, the British Empire and the princesses, the war orphans, even the strappings —are superimposed against the ominous navy-blue background of Miss Lumley’s invisible bloomers. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z “I like Luke’s idea,” Jeffrey piped up when he got the mike. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z The giants raised it above their heads, preparing to throw, and Percy caused a water pipe to burst at their feet, shaking the floor. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z And when I had finished, he nodded and said, “We should probably discuss this over a piping hot plate of Resurrection.” Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z The hull rumbled as more pipes burst and sinks overflowed. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z He pulled the bolt and bored out the collet with a hand drill and resleeved it with a section of pipe he’d cut to length with a hacksaw. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z She was in a blue dress with green piping and the short sleeves displayed a long number tattooed on her arm. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z He sawed off a two-foot section of the damaged pipe, then attached a new piece. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z There was an assortment of papers and books there, but also, to her surprise, a pipe. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z The Candor in the corridor yelp and dive out of the way as we spill into the hallway like a burst pipe, Dauntless water spreading to fill the empty space. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z It looked like Sherlock Holmes’s pipe, curved and drooping from her lips. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z I try to be big about it but can’t help wondering if I’d have a date, too, if I wasn’t walking around on a pipe. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z If you say something to Pa he doesn’t like, he’ll answer, “You’ll be the death of me,” while calmly reading the newspaper and smoking his pipe. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z A hundred geysers shot into the air along with clods of dirt, pieces of pipe, and very heavy sprinkler heads. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z Even the stove was gone, nothing left but a hole in the ceiling where the pipe had been. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z When Farmer’s bus pulled into the Greyhound station in Anniston, Alabama, on May 14, 1961, it was met by an angry mob armed with clubs, bricks, iron pipes and knives. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z The merchant didn’t respond, but that afternoon, after saying his prayers and closing the shop, he invited the boy to sit with him and share his hookah, that strange pipe used by the Arabs. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z He had broad shoulders, strong pipes, no gut at all. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z The little old lady finally pipes up in a creaky voice: “We wanted to wait until the children were dead.” Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Mr. Vernor in the apartment below never used to complain, but now he’s always banging on the pipes or on the ceiling of his apartment so that I hear the pounding beneath my feet. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z Every morning, after Miss Lumley blows a thin metallic note on her pitch pipe, we stand up to sing “God Save the King.” Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Kathy thought that the main part of the man-uscript, which was buried under the pipe, would probably be safe, but that the other two were vulnerable. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “I mean, I could just bang on the pipe, right? You’d know it was me.” Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z There's probably a whole system of pipes down there, something that leads all the way out to the lake. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z They pump that virus into the slum sectors through a system of underground pipes. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z “Some are good with pipes or paint. Some have skill in love,” he says finally. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Grandfather tapped his pipe once more, calling the clansmen to order. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z Sissy brought Francie a present, a corncob pipe that you blew into and a rubber hen popped up and swelled over the pipe bowl. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z He stopped and bought some kind of steamed bun, still piping hot, from a Chinese vendor who didn’t speak English. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z 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 When Senor Leal Finally grabs his goat, The pipe is smoked. Neighborhood Odes 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z The ocean is warmer than what comes out of her pipes, but I’m getting used to cold showers. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z From the foot of the ski run, the imitation log cabin lodge piped its popular songs into the overhang of silence. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z He cleaned his pipe, knocking it about the ashtray until I was ready to offer to clean it for him. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Sometimes I hear strange sounds, something like a bubbling test tube and a sigh of steam pipes, a breath of air. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z Four fountains gurgled in the meadow, each shooting water from the pipes of stone satyrs. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z Artists have infested it; in fact the first wave of artists has almost come and gone, and brass lettering and heating pipes painted fire-engine red and firms of lawyers are taking .over. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Beyond that milled a tribe of two-headed men dressed in rags and blankets like homeless guys, armed with a haphazard collection of slings, clubs and metal pipes. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z “How many pipes will be here tonight, roughly?” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Nhamo saw Crocodile Guts packing a string bag: He put in a pipe, fishing lines, and a reed flute she remembered him playing as he waited for fish to blunder into his net. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z The kids fear water, yes, and when a pipe burst last year there were screams and nightmares, but slowly they’re growing stronger. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z “That was just a cover story,” Poulsson now informed them, touching the match flame to his pipe. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z To preserve his cover, Pike, who smoked a corn pipe and had a smudge of a mustache, met Hale at a concealed spot near Whizbang. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Cornflower’s parents sat inside the cart, her mum helping Mrs. Churchmouse with the little ones, while her dad chatted away with John Churchmouse as they shared a pipe of old bracken twist. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z Tonight she has on a green dress with black piping. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z The Haitian American engineering feat at Cange was not a case of simple technology; the pipe bringing up the clean, sparkling water from the underground river could not have happened without sophisticated engineering. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z Gramps pets the puppy and smokes his pipe as I drive, and we both play the moccasin game. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z I loved the idea, even though the gallery seemed like a pipe dream. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z He played his pipes frantically, and his music sent another power line pole whacking against Talos’s thigh. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z The pipes were decorated with gold, red, yellow, and green threads and beaded like holiday clothes. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z It broke my heart to leave behind Mr. Luftig's treasured pipes. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z They brought me into the hospital, handcuffs still on, blood still pouring from my nose like a faucet with rusty pipes. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z The smoke came into my mouth, and I held it there while I passed the pipe back. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z But there’s a sloppiness that comes with speed: the poorly placed boot that results in a splash, the accidental clang of a gun against a pipe, even my own commands, issued too loudly for discretion. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z In one leap, he sprang down all the way from the shelf to the floor and dashed over to his drain pipe. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z “Thanks for inviting me to your bar mitzvah,” Ryan pipes up. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z The shirt was a screen print of a famous Surrealist artwork by Rene Magritte in which he drew a pipe and then beneath it wrote in cursive Ceci n’est pas une pipe. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z A week before, he’d help lay the pipe for a new Parade Oil bleed-off line that ran straight across the school grounds. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z The girls had been sneaking the dog pieces of their cheeseburgers, and the cheese was clogging her pipes. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z He stopped abruptly as something with dry whispering feet flitted across his path, emitting as the rush of its flight died a thin, piping wail of lonely fear. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z She had been walking for just over an hour when she heard the music in the distance: pipes and lutes and high, clear voices singing. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z "So rather than look craven, you will dance to Lord Tywin's pipes?" she threw back. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z She drew a bonelight from her pocket and gave it a shake, casting a pale green glow over the pipe. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z Of these there were many: small fowl whistling and piping in the reeds, but they were seldom seen. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z “Come on, Janey, serve that cake before I go light this up. Cake and pipe smoke don’t go together.” Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z “The train starts again. You smoke your pipe. You discuss the state of Europe—of the world. It is late now. Most people have retired for the night. Does anyone pass the door—think?” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z Beatty knocked his pipe into the palm of his pink hand, studied the ashes as if they were a symbol to be diagnosed and searched for meaning. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z A second later, music is piping through my earphones, the familiar beat of his track. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Once some old chief went with him; they came back with arrowheads and sat on the porch smoking pipes until two o’clock in the morning. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z “Probably just a mouse. Now pipe down before you wake someone.” Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z She led him past the engine room, which looked like a very dangerous, mechanized jungle gym, with pipes and pistons and tubes jutting from a central bronze sphere. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z He grinned as if he had unearthed a store of treasures, banging a pipe here, examining a wire there. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z At age seven I’d taken this statement literally, but the headmistress in the picture was smoking a pipe, and her name was Peregrine, a kind of hawk. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z Above me, I hear the old pipes shake into action with a thunk! and then the water running in my sink dwindles to a trickle. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z “For three thousand men, I suppose I can endure some pipes and porridge,” the king said, though his tone begrudged even that. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z At night, instead of sitting and reading and smoking his pipe in the living room, as he had done before, Mr. Popper would put on his overcoat and take his things downstairs. Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z Harry stood aside as Ron came whizzing out of the pipe, too. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z The goat, With pipe hanging From his mouth, Runs around the yard, Through the patch Of chiles and tomatoes, The purple of Eggplants. Neighborhood Odes 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z There was an enormous amount of worry involving the Alaska pipeline and caribou and whether or not the pipe would act as an iron barrier and stop the normal migration patterns of the caribou. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z Donal MacGregor took a slow drag from his pipe and let the smoke curl out of his mouth like the story itself. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z “It’s a drawing of a pipe. Get it? All representations of a thing are inherently abstract. It’s very clever.” The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z At which he shrugged, his pipe bobbing in his teeth. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z Albert carefully lit his pipe and clouds of smoke escaped from his mouth. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z In San Juan, New Mexico, in 1991, a pipe at a power plant burst. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z The construction had come a little further along on this floor; half-finished plaster dividers rose up between the metal beams, and electrical wiring snaked alongside the ceiling pipes. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z They had plastic feet, a pipe for a calf....They were Frankensteinish. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z By the time I got the money doled out, the boys were dressed and Mrs. Diamant was stuffing empty bottles into knapsacks, because there was no water coming from the pipes. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z The smoke from his pipe smelled like potatoes and Cora’s stomach made a noise. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z He was sitting on a large rock, looking up at the sky, smoking his pipe. I Survived the Sinking of the Titanic, 1912 2010-06-01T00:00:00Z “Some of them are. They might be out filling up the smudge pots, or hauling out pipes for the water pumps. Whatever a family has to fight with, that’s what the kids are working on.” Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Alex was standing in a metal passageway leading to a tangle of pipes and cylinders, like the boiler room of a ship. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z Pens, pencils, paper clips, a box of matches, a pipe. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z The radiator pipes clang and there’s a hiss. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z He ended up having to work overtime, digging a new trench, cutting into the pipes, and attaching the main water line. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z Sitting on the large stone that marked this spot was a thin, white-haired man in a cloth cap, smoking his pipe. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z The dog was on the other side of the maintenance yard with his head inside a four-foot-wide concrete pipe, tail rigid, back feet bouncing nervously. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z She still wears the green dress with black piping when I come over. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z The goat, not knowing Better, grabs the pipe From Senor Leal’s hand. Neighborhood Odes 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z “Throw your head back, close off your wind pipe, and just let the beer flow down your throat. Don’t gulp, and goddammit, don’t try to breathe.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z The pipe came down the corner post and into a concrete tank. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z The air smells like pipe smoke and fried meat and gas lamps. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z I thought Grover might chew up his reed pipes in anxiety, but he straightened up and brushed off his T-shirt. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z That was his greatest pleasure, even though the pipe was empty. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z We followed the dock toward the shore, where the pipes, now joined by many others, disappeared under the cement sidewalks leading to San Juan. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z Denna stared at the pipes in her hand, then looked at me with deliberate attention, as if she hadn’t entirely noticed me before. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z The Englishman says, “I’m going to my club to smoke my pipe, sip some sherry, and chat with the blokes.” The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z We watched other American Indian persons making pipes out of the stone. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z On the side of both fenders, Roberto installed six-inch chrome pipes in the three portals and strung tiny white lights underneath the car frame. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z “But Asher Wing is one of the most talented captains in the games,” another pipes up. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Malcolm’s first thought was that a pipe had burst, but that wouldn’t account for the old nun’s terror. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z Emma obliged him, touching a lit finger to the bowl of his pipe. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z If we had a piece of coal burning in the oven, he would sit in front of it and warm his hands, with one of his pipes dangling from his mouth. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z “We have to turn the shut-off valve, take the pipe apart, put on a new connector, and stick it back together again.” The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Until he slips the pipe over my stump. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z “Hmm,” she murmured with little interest as she blew some tobacco ash from her pipe. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z “It doesn’t go anywhere near it! That pipe—the one Augustus went up—happens to lead directly to the room where I make a most delicious kind of strawberry-flavored chocolate-coated fudge....” Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z “To begin with, you see this pipe cleaner?” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z Yesterday, on the way home from school, their bus had to take a fifteen-minute detour because of a busted sewer pipe. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z He lowered himself slowly into the pipe, then let go. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z “Thought it only fair I pipe in before things went any further with that hand of yours.” I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z Having indulged a while in this sedative, she raised her bent body, took the pipe from her lips, and while gazing steadily at the fire, said very deliberately— Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z Evan said he quit smoking pot, and I asked him what he was going to do with his pipe. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z Somehow he had kept hold of it throughout our near disaster at sea, but now it was stove in on one side like a bent muffler pipe. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z I could hear the wet cracking of the pipe. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z Kamau took the pipe again and inhaled, a small moan escaping him as another hit of the hallucinogenic leaf flooded through him. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z The two men could have walked past each other in the train station, both with pipes in their mouths. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z The last thing he saw as he retreated into the darkness was Kamau taking a final draw from the pipe, lost to a madness Ekon did not know. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z I start banging on the heating pipe, three quick, three slow, three quick. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z He took the pipe from his mouth and looked straight at me. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z He was bald and scrawny; his voice piped and squeaked like cracking eggshells. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Ma slipped piping hot baked potatoes into their pockets to keep their fingers warm, and Aunt Eliza’s flatirons were hot on the stove, ready to put at their feet in the sled. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z Well we’re going to surprise the big city boys by cleaning their pipes real good. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Grover brought his pipes to his lips, played a quick jig, and their spears turned into Christmas trees. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z The only thing he did while he was “cleaning out the garage attic” was take a few hits from the pipe he hides up there and exhale out the exhaust fan toward Bob’s house. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z The golden monkey leapt for Father MacPhail, but not to attack: he scrambled up and over the man’s shoulders to reach the complex heart of the wires and the pipe work, the resonating chamber. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z I gripped the links of the fence with one hand and swung down until my feet got a purchase on the pipe, then ducked underneath the fence and came up on the other side. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Once his seven or eight pipes were cleaned, Mr. Luftig proudly lined them up on a table. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z Bando puffed his pipe, looked at me wistfully and said, “Are you ready to listen?” My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z They pay a family friend to look after it, wrap the pipes, run the water. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z “Sherlock Holmes cleaned his pipe with these. Between smokes.” Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z One thing I knew for sure—we would not find a kindly old couple enjoying an evening pipe and needlepoint in the drawing room. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z The plumber was at work downstairs on Wednesday, moving the water pipes and drains from the office bathroom to the hallway so the pipes won’t freeze during a cold winter. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z Then he removes the pipe from the socket. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z She sneaked up behind them and whacked them on the backs of their knees with a metal pipe. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z Mr. Morrison sighed and pulled a pipe out of his shirt pocket. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z He circled his arms in a wide embrace around the pipe and rubbed his hands together. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z There was tea, in a great silver urn, and coffee too, and on the heater, piping hot, dishes of scrambled eggs, of bacon, and another of fish. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z I was rarely appeased by the words piping hot. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z I took the iron pipe and held it in the fire till it glowed red hot. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z That is, they lived in the pipes when it was damp but in fine weather they lived in the shadow of the black cypress tree at the top of the lot. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Lee took a pipe from his pocket, a long slender ebony stem with a little cuplike brass bowl. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Anna and Mr. Archie got in the act, swinging a rake and a length of plastic pipe respectively, swatting Clock Watchers like giant bugs. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z Some musicians played with little hope of actually gaining their pipes. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z The pipes rumbled companionably within the brownstone walls. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z But if I reversed the process, and closed my left eye, all I could see was machinery—a huge pile of it, rocket and gantry and cables and pipes all jumbled together in confusion. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z When he began to wipe his exhaust pipes, he discovered they wiggled, loosened by all those tugging paws. Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z |
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