With my rustic security system in place, I change out of my wet bikini, dry off, and pull on a T-shirt and yoga pants. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

They were bound for the very place where Odysseus had landed. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then the look was gone and her mask of toughness was in place again. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

They not only walked, they rolled on them and placed hot coals in their mouths. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

In places, their branches met above our heads and interlaced, nearly blocking out the light of the half moon. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

Uncle Jack and Atticus are getting white in the same places and their eyes are alike, thought Jean Louise: that’s what it is. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

"Your place is here for now. With your family." City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

But to call me a guest in the only place I ever belonged—the word cut like a jagged stone against my heart. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

He doesn’t remember exactly how many safe lodging places were listed in Birmingham, but he’s sure he wouldn’t need more than one hand to count them. Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z

Archer picked out a cube with four pips, dropping the last two in his cup and placing a copper coin in the pot. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

He figured that Javier had beaten him to their meeting place, so Moss left the phone alone, his attention focused on traffic. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

“I said it was a strange valley, but maybe that’s because I was born in a green place. Do you find it strange, Louis?” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

That reminds me: in this sparse room, is it possible that the Gideons have placed a Bible? It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

“The last place I stayed, they had a car they let me use sometimes.” The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

When I was visiting with him on the Wall, he mentioned how con- * cemed he was about finding a good man to take his place. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

He placed his sled on the top of the hill, sat down on it, and pushed himself off. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

She said that those were the next places where it was safe for Harriet to stop. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

He points to a collection of essays, mine, out of place among Papa's foreign dictionaries. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

But we’d hear the drivers giving lurid and inaccurate accounts of the history of the place and the family which inhabited it. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

And why had they come into the secret passage in the first place? The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

It puts the nature of time in its place, and also Stephen, who calls us “the teenagers,” as if he himself is not one. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Or maybe I took the place of the sister you left behind, or who left you behind. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

A road consisting of used-car lots, Dairy Queens, and White Castle hamburger places. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Without a word she bent over and picking up one end of the box she placed it upon her shoulder and, staggering under its weight, tried to rise. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

Toby placed a book on the shelf between its brothers. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

The place was crawling with soldiers and FBI agents. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

And I took a bulldozer and cleared four acres and moved in more or less like I owned the place. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

The note was returned to its proper place, and the children prepared themselves. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

And then she came into a big field, a place she’d never seen before. I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z

The strangeness of the place wore off little by little, but Naomi’s hostility toward Henry did not. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

It was the middle of the afternoon, so we had the whole place to ourselves. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

By the time we were done, the place was a bloody, feathery, eerie mess. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

M. Yoshoto looked at me as if he weren’t quite sure how I’d got into his kitchen in the first place, but nodded, and I walked quickly down the hall to my room. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

He brought the colt around to the front of the gate, had the assistant place a pair of tongs on the horse’s lips to distract him, then had him backed into the stall. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I think the world isn’t always a fair place. The sooner you get that through your thick skull, the sooner you can get on with your life.” Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

She picked up a carrot with one hand, and with the other she kept her place on the scribbled page. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

We’re talking about kids placed in harm’s way every day because of when you schedule your practice.” Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

She spat on the spectacular pile of coins, put them in three canvas sacks, and buried them in a secret place, hoping that sooner or later the three unknown men would come to reclaim them. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Carol and I busily began making arrangements for Mr. Caston's and Mr. Carter's releases, which would take place that evening. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

From her hiding place Lyra watched the Master's eyes, and indeed, they flicked toward the table for a second, where the Tokay had been. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

One of the men went up the steps and met her, took the table, opened it, and placed it for her. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

“In the orphanages? The hospitals? They're such sad places. But maybe I don't need to begin there—the Hartliebs have probably done that already.” The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

I can feel the change between us, thick and palpable, but Marcus and Ron treat us no differently, because, to them, nothing visible is out of place. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

She places the microphone into the bell-shaped speaker of the electrophone, switches on the record player, and the plate begins to spin. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

It was a bright color, not an earth or natural color, and for a second he could not place it, then he knew it for what it was. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

He chatted with Maya and Konrad and kept an arm hooked around my shoulder as we walked from place to place. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“There are invisible places in the air,” came the answer. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

As soon as they touched him, she fell into his mind, out of the dust and smoke of the fire-painted night and into...a place she’d never been. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

“I don’t think this is the time or place for a petition,” Erin said. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

“We are a family-run business, and the neighborhood loves us. Being extra-attentive will remind people of how special our place is. It’s just the right touch.” The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Isn’t there some law that protects the privacy of people in public places? Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The pumps were dry; there wasn’t even a can of oil in the place. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

I thought we were placed in front because Momma was proud of us, but Bailey assured me that she just wanted to keep her grandchildren under her thumb and eye. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

She’d be Erica’s office manager, she said, taking care of all the paperwork, answering phones, basically running the place so Erica could teach fitness classes. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Seeming confused, he looked around the small cottage, where there was no place for a person to hide. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

His friend owned the place, and the atmosphere suited his personality. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

The modern town of Tiwanaku is a poor place and few of its buildings have any heating. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

It was so sturdy looking and symmetrical, in the first place. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Anything would be better than being chased round and round the burial places of the Ancient Kings with something he dared not look at behind him. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

He could not; too many little signs were there, too many broken twigs and scuffed places and displaced stones. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

If his father had cared about him one bit, he would not have invited Leandra to Las Vegas in the first place. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

“Didn’t you find a place yet?” he asked. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Theo reached over her head to place a cup on top of the pyramid. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

“They were probably looking for this,” he said, retrieving their first draft of the treasure map from its hiding place in the bottom right-hand drawer. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

It was a wonderful place to hunt as it abounded with game. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

But first I have to think of that place every day, so my spirit will know where to run away to, when it’s time. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a creepy place, a place where it seemed people didn’t belong. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Each note had its own identifiable blob, a mark on the page, and they were placed in the order, from left to right, in which they were meant to be sung. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

He placed the thick envelope on the side of the tub and began to play a little game with it. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

I’d been listening diligently for the DJs code about when the march would take place, and the day had finally arrived. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

She placed the folded deed on top of the clumsy star bank. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The rods on the right wall seemed to reach like stretched-out arms for their home, grasping for those little holes that would serve as their resting place for the night. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Graciela cries out and pulls on the cap, hardened now like a helmet, but Felicia clamps it in place with her fists. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

But it’s usually right next to the place where you pay. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

I grabbed her hand, placing it under mine and over the hole in her chest. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

“There’s a place for you with us. We can hide you from the Scythedom.” Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

“You were small. Maybe four, maybe five. You held your daddy’s hand so tight when you walked in there. It was a Saturday morning, so the place was real loud, you know?” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Myanda firmly placed the baby in Arm’s hands and touched her cheek softly. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

It seemed like I liked Bud Searcy a lot better than I ever had before, even if he did talk too much and spit tobacco juice all over the place. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe their presence should’ve reassured Piper, but seeing all of them in one place only reminded her that the Prophecy of Seven was unfolding at last. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

The old-man sat on when the last plate was emptied, lost in his own world, his peaceful stillness diffusing through the little cabin so that the watchers sat graven in their places. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Iktoa’ak’o’ya-Reed Woman went away then she went back to the original place down below. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

“But the dogs will tire before the stag does, so we place additional relays of dogs along the trail to take over when the others are winded.” Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

After quite a struggle and a tug of war with a balky zipper, we finally got the suits on, and our helmets and gloves locked in place. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I want to froth at the mouth and swear and stomp my feet and break up some chairs and throw chicken soup all over the place. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

They're firmly fixed in place, so it's not like I can detach one and attach it to the bedroom. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

As they sat down at the only table in the place, the crystal merchant laughed. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“L. Roy doesn’t really stay in one place—he’s more of a nomad.” Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

“Difficult to know where to begin,” muttered Fudge, pulling up the chair, sitting down, and placing his green bowler upon his knees. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Heart thumping, Matt ventured from his hiding place and examined the chest. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

She placed her bag on the overhead rack and settled onto the seat, stiffly, holding her magazine, her body aligned towards the aisle and away from him. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Finally I decided she was looking for a place for us to stay. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

Clearly, this was some sort of man place, frequented and dangerous. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

But how did she get out in the first place? Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

“It was after your second-grade teacher sent her daughter to that place near the lake. Do you remember? Your dad and I did the research and everything. We talked about it.” Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

And if you don’t know Devon always says go back to the last place you remember having it and start looking there. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

The range war didn’t come to our place, but it sure tore up that schoolyard with those boys punching, kicking, and biting, the others cheering them. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

If it hadn’t been for her, Macbeth never would have killed the king in the first place. Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Are you listening to him? We didn’t decide anything. If he wants to find a place he can go ahead and live there alone,” Olanna said. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

He fdt that he might as well be in one place as another, if he was only waiting to see whether his heart would break or not. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

It grieves me to think that I have brought shame to the place that has sheltered me, that by my unwitting deeds, St. Emilion might be ruined. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

“That reminds me. What were you talking about the other day? About a place to escape?” A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

On the morning of the finale my emotions are all over the place. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

To Ralph’s horror, he found himself placed in a slippery glass bowl. Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z

She needed only one tiny little push....one gentle nudge in the right place....and that is exactly what the squirrels gave her! Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z

He threw his arm around her waist, swept her up with an animal-like grunt, and placed her before him in the saddle. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The little island was an ideal place to plant a garden. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Level 4 air lock is a gray area, a place where two worlds meet, where the hot zone touches the normal world. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Paul peeled off his ugly green hat and placed it carefully on the ground. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z

The invasion of mutant concrete-eating termites that brought the Berlin Wall down is definitely second place. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

I watch the silhouettes of other travelers as they climb on and find their places. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

The poor bird had been picturing all the fights —almost certainly picturing them quite wrong: nourishing a starved heart on secondhand accounts in secret: wondering whose token was in the place of honour today. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were the ones who had dropped Joaquin off at the coffee place that afternoon. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

If I boarded early, I could find a place to conceal myself for the voyage. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

I trotted over to Davy's place and turned in my key and gave her a big hug and a gift I'd been saving for just this moment. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

Yet after enough time goes by, and the stink of that place is gone from my nostrils, I will probably eat feedlot beef again. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

At the Summer Tournament, in only a few days, our mock war will take place in front of the royal family. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

I begin to weary of the vastness, the endlessness of this place. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Turns out it's a fairly dangerous idea, because I'm in front of the entrance at dismissal, and there's no place to keep out of the way. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I check the clock, during dessert, canned pears with cinnamon, standard for lunch, and look for Moira in her place, two tables over. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

In April we went to Colorado to film foster children who were placed for adoption with military families and remained a few extra days so I could try skiing. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

It was both small and bright, and she wanted to be in a very small, very bright place. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

They were busy placing Wes in the back of one of the cruisers and told the other boys to go home. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

We went partway down the hill to a place where we would not be seen. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

Thinking back on that, he would realize that I had had, even then, another place to live. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

Again, it may help to look backward and see why crime had risen so much in the first place. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

“It’s nice,” I said, thinking no amount of paint would make me like this place. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

Nina thought of the violent chaos of Hellgate, bribes changing hands, blood staining the sand, a world away from this sterile place. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

The place had filled me with dread after my whipping, but I forced myself to spend time there to prove to myself that I could. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

This would be the perfect place to sleep: one could see stars at night without getting rained on. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

We reach the place where the cemetery begins, on the other side of the street. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Heaven, she had explained, was up above the clouds, a place where people of pretty much every religion agree God lives. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

Let white flowers grow upon this place that you rest, Yours was a life well lived, and now you dine in the halls of the Elders at their eternal feast. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

Used to be, my daddy told me, Sistersville was one of the best places you could live in the whole state. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

The stupid and confusing ideas quit coming and got their place took by a stinging in my eyes and a loosening in my nose and a choking in my throat. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

Jabbing upward, I use the vegetable stake to poke around until I feel it—the iron latch inside the door—and I try to use the stake to swing the latch up into place. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

When I was looking at this film over and over again, I had an erroneous view of the universe that communication takes place between people. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

When we wanted to bet on our own duels, Sovoy and I placed bets for each other. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

But now the tarpaulin was unrolled at the bow; there was nothing to hold the oar in place. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

And yet a voice in her head said there were worse places. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

It hadn’t taken me more than thirty seconds to look around the room and know that this was the place where the masters of the universe ate their tuna fish sandwiches. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

Mary also knew that a native of a place so flat it was practically underwater would need a leg up before hiking for days in the rarefied altitude of the Wyoming mountains. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

The palace was made of the same clean,white, unadorned stone as the Ice Court walls, and the whole place felt as if it had been hollowed out of a glacier. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Her back was turned away so that Ekon couldn’t see her face, but he was surprised to find her voice almost sounded familiar, like the tune of a song he’d heard before but couldn’t place. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

“Prentisstown’s still got allies,” he whispers, “hidden away in surprising places.” The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

After all he had been through, it was obvious that he still remained utterly disposable, even at the crew house, the one place he had started to feel more or less at home. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Broken bottles and fast-food wrappers litter the sidewalks, a few houses are boarded up, and just about every building is tagged with graffiti curse words, but the Allens’ place is actually pretty nice. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Neither of us liked being on a road all exposed so anyone could drive up behind us at any time be-cause there was no place to hide without scrambling up a ten-foot slope. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

The crowd, frozen in place, their thousands of arms outstretched, sang along lustily. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Queer light eyes that shifted the whole time from place to place. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

The Ohio license plate was tossed into the backseat, and in its place was a West Virginia plate. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

My mother places a napkin next to each plate on the table. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

Home was not a pleasant place in his mind. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Start over in a place where no one knows me except the Ghost and the Roach. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

This awareness can lead beyond shame to a place of self-hate. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Miss Ingram placed herself at her leader’s right hand; the other diviners filled the chairs on each side of him and her. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

“And it just shows,” said Digory afterward when he was telling the story to the others, “that you can’t be too careful in these magical places. You never know what may be watching you.” The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

“And watch out for dog mess. It’s all over the place,” Crab grunted, taking the lead. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

She was associated with deeds of darkness, the Goddess of the Crossways, which were held to be ghostly places of evil magic. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the corner a narrow cobbled alley led between it and the next building, and Will went down there too, looking up, getting the measure of the place. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Oney lived atop Justice Hill, so named because it allowed one to see everything below for miles and miles, placing the world in proportion. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Dad’s grin became his Big Surprise smile, and without even meaning to, I came up with a list of all the wonderful places he could be taking me. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

That I was in this place seemed like a little miracle. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Struggling in his grasp, she watched in horror as the rest of the impressors appeared from their hiding places. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

But a girl places her hand on the seat’s armrest, looks dead at me, and says, “Are you with Alpha Kappa Alpha?” Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

It really pleased me, seeing places set for Grandpa and Miss Love. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Here a man realizes for the first time in how many places a man can get hit. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

“I say we find a quiet place to Disapparate and head for the countryside. Once we’re there, we could send a message to the Order.” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

In comparison, the sorts of sights offered in such places as Africa and America, though undoubtedly very exciting, would, I am sure, strike the objective viewer as inferior on account of their unseemly demonstrativeness. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

All the place names were starting to run together, and I’d never been good at keeping details like that straight. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

He had no reason to do so, as it did not matter whether he died in one place on the Ice or another, but he felt that he should go northward. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

I want this house to be a happy place for you. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

Ever since that day, Basta had feared this place more than anywhere else in the hills. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Such girls were placed on view at 10:30 a.m. for the express purpose of allowing the women of their age who had remained enisled in Maycomb to examine them. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

It was, as far as she could imagine, a perfect life in a perfect place. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

To set is to place something; there’s always a “something” that’s being placed. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Alex stared at the three cards that would carry his sisters and himself to a place of safety. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

Her face was made-up and the little sausage curls were all in place. Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

The American Bottom, with its plenitude of easily cleared, maize-suitable land, was one of the best places to grow it for a considerable distance. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

The best place in the world to hide. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Our family stayed only briefly in Milwaukee, for my father wanted to find a place where he could raise our own food and perhaps build a business. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

By each child’s place stood a tall glass of milk. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But sometimes I wish Dallben hadn’t given it to you in the first place. It’s bound to lead to trouble.” The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

He sighed, and put the rapier back in what Citra realized was a place of honor. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

A boy called Tarber tossed a handful of acorns on top of Praed's body, so an oak might grow to mark his place. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“I’ve asked around, but there’s only one computer in this entire godforsaken place, and only one person gets to use it.” The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

The dark place was like a long tunnel with brick wall on one side and sloping roof on the other. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

It made the place look darker and more sinister. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

By Euergetes’ time, the situation was embarrassing—a spring planting festival, for instance, would actually take place in spring only once every 1,460 years. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

Sugar was the product of the slave and the addiction of the poor factory worker—the meeting place of the barbarism of overseers such as Thomas Thistlewood and the rigid new economy. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

I try to move the seat forward a little to give them room, but the seat continues to slide without clicking into place. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

All the other Library Olympians, including Marjory’s worthless teammates, were at the pizza place next door to the motel, having dinner and probably playing more mind-numbing video games. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

She talked incessantly and pointed out places of interest. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Three-quarters of its ruins were still covered with shifting sand; she liked the thought that she was named after a mysterious place of buried secrets. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

It happened after our game against a team from a place called Moreno Valley It goes like this: I am just standing there, and first I smell something sweet—like flowers or maple syrup. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

There are always and forever obstacles placed in our path. Louisiana's Way Home 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

If the Pharos had somehow been plucked off the North African shore and placed on Lake Michigan, it would have topped the Chicago skyline until the construction of the Wrigley Building in 1922. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

“They found summat when they searched her place. Better take a look at this, Matthew.” The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

My face smiled through the cold as I thought of my dog climbing down the mountain into open arms, helping hands, warm places. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

“I went to church. It didn’t help. In those days that was the best place to meet a girlfriend. In church! All of us praying to be different.” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

I must look uncomfortable, because Dr. Ashworth places a gentle hand on my shoulder. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

I wasn’t, and the army was the place I was going to get away from all the questions. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

It sounded like Riverbank was a place where he could be his own master, do the work he loved, and earn good money. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Matty blinked, took a deep breath, got to his feet, and hurried on to the small cottage around the next turning, the place where Kira lived. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

“We don’t chew gum. We don’t eat food. We don’t talk loud. We don’t play. Church is a place where we show respect and reverence.” While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

I place the pen in his hand, but he immediately drops it. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

“There are few hiding places Arawn’s hunters will not discover.” The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

She was relieved that it was not a windy day, for everything was still in its place, every water-filled plastic cup weighed down the paper tablecloth as it was meant to. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

“Well, we might, if it was the right place, you know, like a mansion or something.” Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

He unfolded a pair of half-moon glasses that hung around his neck and placed them on his nose, and Mia’s knees trembled. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I lingered for a while at the graveside, trying to burn this spot into my mind as Stick’s new place in the world. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

He had dug a round, shallow trench, and placed the stones in a half-circle, like a wall behind it. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

Gray asked, “If you were permitted to sit any place you wanted on the bus, would you be willing to ride it again?” Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

As he touched each place, he said, “The seal of the gift of the Holy Spirit.” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Two days ago I never even knew this place existed.” We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

Then Mr. Kelly died and Adam Trask was appointed to take his place on the draft board. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Ron gave Harry a meaningful look as he passed and did not reappear for some time: When next they met at the entrance, Harry had shown a dozen more people to their places. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

It was now my object to trace that horrid cargo of the Count’s to its place in London. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

“She knew about this place, and what was outside the fence.” Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

He placed the flashlight next to him on the floor and started to inspect his fingernails. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

A strained smile was frozen into place on her thin lips, but her eyes brimmed with reverence. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Housewives, priests, doctors, lawyers, traders, students, and workers took their place in the front lines of the protest. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was just about to forbid him to set foot on the property when Clara convinced him that this was hardly the time to place his political enmities before the peasants’ Christian fervor. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

She knew nothing about the place—and of course, neither did I. Nothing. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The Wall is no place for a woman.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

We were each given a thick rubber ring, made from tires, in which to place the stones. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

They spread the word: someone has plague medicine for you, come to the ten-second place. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

When he did, he felt the curved indentations, the places carved here and there with names: Tank. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

“It’s quite safe. And we’re going to the most wonderful place in the world!” Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z

And then: "Both of my daughters are talented, sir. And both must be placed in these gifted classes." You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

He turned the block so that I could hold it along the sides, where there was a place to grab onto. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

The boning of the waistline cinches me in all the right places and lies flat. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Another day, Johnny brought in a pair of crudely made wood book ends and placed them on the bar with a flourish. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The defense took place in December, in a small, simply furnished room. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

There is, then, no reason to place a premium on realistic representation for its own sake. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

She says, “There are kids there, living there, in that dark and dirty and cold place. A bunch of them. Eight or ten. Maybe more. They’re skinny and hungry and dirty. It is extremely tragical.” The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z

We counted eleven places we had lived, then we lost track. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Radar darted right in like he owned the place. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

Before writing the letter, Clinton had placed an hourglass-shaped mask on a piece of paper and then had formed the secret message within that shape. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Does this place feel familiar to you?” asked Mini. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

He lifted the boy clear of his head and placed him gently on the ground. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Of our last name written in neon lights in the window of Travis’s new place. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

“Washington...is anything but a happy place for me to be right now,” she wrote. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Zero and the infinite were at the very center of the philosophical war taking place during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Tiny Cooper doesn't have the nuts to walk into a place like that. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

We all sort of inched forward slowly when she did this, but then settled back to our places and watched. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

Sighing, I mark my place mid-sentence with a semicolon, tuck the pen and notebook under the quilt, and climb back into our bedroom. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

He leaves his place with the other electioneers and stops us before we get to the parking lot. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

She had a mail-order business to stores in places as far away as Maine and Vermont. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

And they went to Junior Jay's, or the candy store, or the pizza place, or they went to CVS to buy random stuff. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Even the sun was frozen in place halfway across the sky! Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

Candice quickly snapped pictures of all the photos, then placed the frames back in the boxes. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

In so doing, the Court made clear to all lower courts that, from now on, the Fourth Amendment should place no meaningful constraints on the police in the War on Drugs. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

As we head up alongside the stream, we pass the place where I found Peeta camouflaged in the weeds and mud. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

When you are part of a place, growing that moment in its soil, there’s never a need to say you’re from there. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

It was the first place I ever lived away from home. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

From her hiding place Jess tried hard to stifle her giggles. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Michael was a brilliant theorist and was working on policy matters for the Communist Party and needed a quiet and safe place to work on this full-time. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tristran packed a bag, and his mother brought him six red, ripe apples and a cottage loaf and a round of white farmhouse cheese, which he placed inside his bag. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Edward, I sent you here to work so you’d have food and warmth and a place to belong, and instead you’re playing knights with the chickens. What be you thinking?” The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

As a result, the first meeting of the two men who were between them to lay the foundations of scientific astronomy took place at Benatky Castle on 4 February 1600. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

The Vegas’ place was like my second crib. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

It didn’t lead to her route, but it lead to a place where she could safely traverse across mostly stable ground. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Hank said wearily, “The thing I hate most about this place is you always have to climb back up.” Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

But I had stitched her crepe wool hair back down and tied the bright scarf back in place, and she was good as new. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

It's as if a grime tornado hit the place. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

This time the place was milling with people who had come into town to celebrate. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

So after much debate, Kitty and I have decided to get him settled into one place for his last three years of high school, and then he can apply to college. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

Nathan worried about how he was going to tell Pond and Darkness that they should find someone else—another Holy Being, and not a flawed chubby human—to go in his place. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

“Ready? One...two—” And on three Kelton pops his shoulder back into place. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

The reason why we can be certain is that the arrivals took place in modern times and involved literate Europeans, who described in innumerable books what happened. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Jinx and Finn were standing in the clearing surrounded by a circle of trees and bushes, cutting them off from the town, from Shady’s place, from help. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

I actually didn’t have a game in mind in the first place and had to make one up on the fly. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I thought I’d stop in and see what your place was like,” the man said with a smile. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Initially, we found no place to stay in Ghetto A. Door after door closed in advance of our arrival. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

Highboy bowed elaborately to Jake and placed on the table two fruit jars of wine. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

“Tennis will take me places, sir,” I said. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

The place smelled of old paper, dust, and cinnamon. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

“That way if he turns up at any of those places, they’ll know to call us.” A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

“Today this place is full of noise and happiness. The guiding spirit of the General stands over us Like a great tree: let all who are afraid Take shelter under his mighty shadow!” The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Ollivander stared at the place where the shattered wand had vanished, and did not look away until Harry had taken from his pocket the two wands he had brought from the Malfoys’. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

She says if they had pills for that, they wouldn’t need places like this in the first place, would they? It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

After taping the paper in place, they returned the frame to the wall. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Cecilia’s enthusiasm, for example, seemed a little overstated, tainted with condescension perhaps, and intrusive too; her big sister wanted each bound story catalogued and placed on the library shelves, between Rabindranath Tagore and Quintus Tertullian. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

He placed the twenty-dollar bill in his pants pocket and picked up the pace to the girl’s house. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

The top of the mast was one of the few places on board where Nico could be alone. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

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’m getting used to this place. Now that I have a friend here.” A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

“Aye, well enough, though I do not know my head from my tail in this place, as the cat said when she tumbled into the fowler’s net.” The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

“I know a lot about that. And they are everywhere. Miami, New York, Boston. Some other places I’ve never heard of. But not in Detroit.” American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Upstairs, I sift through the stacks of Lucy’s records before placing one on the player. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Her parents said that so often with every place they lived, it had become an inside joke. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Then she would bring other foods—like hash brown potatoes, bacon, and sausage—out of the refrigerator and place it all near the grill as well, ready to be cooked when an order was placed. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

In the summer once, when I was on my way to the place where the sea elephants lived, I had seen a young dog that looked like Rontu. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We need to find a place to hide.” The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

I place the reel of wire on his lap. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

But he’s always there with me, every single place I go.” We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

He was wrapped in some fair memory: and as Frodo looked at him he knew that he beheld things as they once had been in this same place. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Having rejected medicine, law, and business, Morrie had decided the research world would be a place where he could contribute without exploiting others. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Because it had not taken place immediately, the oncoming fight would lack spontaneity; it would be calculated, uninspired, and deadly. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

The skin is cut deep in a few places, torn by the rusted fence. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

“Leave this place clean of your foul presence,” the arcanist muttered to himself as he watched them go. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

On the front is the name of the play, its author, and the date and place of the performance—Thursday, June 23, 2011, at the Lied Center for the Performing Arts, Lincoln, Nebraska. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

She had placed him in the hands of the Lord, and she waited with patience to see how He would work the matter. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

The first place he took Ged was the wardrobe room, where as a student of the school Ged might find himself another such cloak that fitted him, and any other clothing he might need. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

“He’s at work with Jasper, and then he has to go by the house later. The farm. The old place.” Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

The earliest arrivals found places as close as possible to the steps of the great marble monument. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

Stephanie placed her hands flat on the table and looked at them for a moment. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

A voice cut right between them, reminding them why they’d come down the hill in the first place. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

And having to stop and correct myself, remind myself that I was in an alien, dangerous place. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

I spent the spring of 1993 working furiously to set up an office and hire a small staff so that we could have a class of Allies in place by the fall. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Closely examined it shows seams, ill-glued cracks and weak places beyond which is anything. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

A common boy was kept in the castle to be punished in his place. The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z

Ugwu entered the kitchen cautiously, placing one foot slowly after the other. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Some kids were afraid to walk through strange places in the dark, but she wasn’t. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

We landed, to lie down in that place two days and nights, worn out and sick at heart, tasting our grief. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

A consultant was taking charge and a rough triage system was in place. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

“India is an unbelievably rich place for recruiting people, not only with technical skills but also financial skills,” said Glocer. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

Sometimes Rowan would catch her reading in various places around the mansion: mortal age books made of paper that had apparently been collected by the owner before he surrendered it all to Scythe Goddard. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Or else he feels sorry about himself for being faithful in the first place. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

"We have to stop the bleeding. Just let me put this on the wound, and you can hold it in place. All right?" The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

Something—the absence of disaster, threat, in any constant evil—permitted him to forget Jefferson as any place which he had ever seen before, where his life must resume itself. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lord Petyr flicked at the dagger with his finger, setting it spinning in place. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

What worried me was the thought that I actually belonged in Valencia's house, that of all the homes in New York, my place was here with the Barefoot Contessa. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

“Well. ... Er. . . . I—I—I don’t think they’d like to live any other place.” Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Like him, she was bornin Florida—a place called Kissimmee, up near Orlando. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

Since there were piles of papers all over, and since he was very small himself, the cricket found lots of good hiding places. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was delivered in the summer to my little fishing place at Sag Harbor near the end of Long Island. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

She felt it instantly in the place her skin made contact with it, buzzing and humming through her hand. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

There wasn’t supposed to be anything but schools here, so this was the last place a gunter would think to look for the Copper Key. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Officer Delinko stood on his tiptoes and retrieved the tom piece of fabric, which he carefully placed in one of his pockets. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then he came to a place where he could not push between two heavy warren bucks. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

But today, the attic was the only place she hadn’t checked in which she’d felt a ghostly presence. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

She went to the school to enroll and took her place in line with the other prospective students. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

As daylight approached, they looked for a place to rest for the day. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Coalwood was, after all, a place for work above all else: hard, bruising, filthy, and sometimes deadly work. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

"Come to my place tonight, and I'll prove the Nazis are lying. But wait until after nine, after my grandparents go to bed." The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

“The orphanage stopped taking in children when Jason was five years old. All the orphans were placed out, with foster families. Except him.” Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

“I don’t think the seagulls like this place any better than we do,” James answered. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

I reached the edge of the pool of light and stepped through the last fringe of ferns into the loveliest place I had ever seen. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

The second was to help users memorize the alphabet by placing the letters in a fixed sequence and giving them easy-to-remember names. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

People have places to go and things to do and the new episodes come on in half an hour, and besides, they are all much too polite to notice that the coffin is empty. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

Constitution Hall clearly was the most appropriate place in Washington for a concert by Anderson. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

“This never would have happened if he’d listened to me in the first place,” Old Cob muttered. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Not long before his departure, the doctor came and placed his familiar small dry hand on Briony’s forehead, fingered her pulse and was satisfied. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

It could seem very complicated, but for Fadi, once a camera was in his hand and he was looking through the viewfinder, it all fell into place. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

The boy was right that it was a good place and he wanted to check for any sign of other visitors. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

I wanted to tear off the roof and light up the whole place so that I could see it all at once, instead of one flashlight beam at a time. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

Seven pulled out her flora field map, where she’d marked all the places they could find the flower beyond the Cursed Forest. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

In its place was a story about a walrus and a camel. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

Of course, it was home, the place where he lived, but tonight it seemed different. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

“Remember when I told you I saw him naked awhile back and it made me feel some strangeness down in my secret place? Well, in these dreams, he’s like...God, this is embarrassing!” Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

The fair, according to one later appraisal, was a more dangerous place to work than a coal mine. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Every time I had been here before, the place had been a beehive of activity, with swarms of workmen everywhere, getting things ready. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

During the annual amateur Memorial Day tournament that May, he placed twenty-first. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

He placed a set of brass knuckles and box of wooden matches on the table. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Certainly the Ring had grown greatly in power as it approached the places of its forging; but one thing it did not confer, and that was courage. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

And Father, this is sure one bad, wicked place. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

But gradually, as the months and years went by, if they’d not been placed elsewhere, they were shunted farther and farther back, to the dark, low-ceilinged, airless rooms at the tail of the house. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

She ran to one of the glass walls and placed her hands against the crystal surface. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

The locker room became his home, the one place where he always felt he belonged. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Defender’s founder, Robert Abbott, had been born in the South, and like the Barnetts and Gustavus Swift, he recognized Chicago as a place where he could do big things. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The post was splintered and gouged, gnawed in places. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

Because so many houses are being searched for hidden bicycles, Mr. Kugler thought it would be better to have a bookcase built in front of the entrance to our hiding place. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

“There are plenty of mice around this place — go and chase them. Go on,” he added, nudging Crookshanks down the spiral staircase with his foot. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

People sometimes told Joseph his own accent was hard to place, since it was partly English and partly American, and had hints of the other places he’d lived, like Switzerland and the Middle East. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

He ran but there was no place to hide because his life ran out of him faster than he could run for cover. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Many of the internationals understand the trauma of trying to get an American visa and that is a good place to start a friendship.” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Perhaps because they don’t have home towns, just places where they were born. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But it doesn’t matter because none of them will be this place.” The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

As usual, I go straight to the place where I know The World at the End of the Tunnel will be. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

Everyone went to Ritchie’s place this time, and I made sure to drop in around midnight. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

The road stretched empty as far as I could see, with heat shimmer making the air seem wavy in places. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

What took place next was the creation of the earth, but this, too, no one ever tried to explain. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I remember that place. How did you know about that?” Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

The lieutenant was sharp, his brass belt buckle and insignia were shined, and his uniform was creased in all the right places. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

A table that, at one time, was Hannah’s other safe place. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

As advertised, Disneyland, to Terryl, was the happiest place on earth. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

My trip to the sky takes me many places I can’t remember, across many days that I can’t count, before I arrive back where I started. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

As he was flipping through for the place, Grandma looked up. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“No. This place is—it isn’t right. We must take him with us, but we have to bury him before nightfall.” Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

He shakes his head as he places the plates in the sink. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

He led her to a secret place far from the house, whetted his pocketknife on a stone, and cut the offending halter of speech. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

But the place was so packed with refugees seeking protection, we couldn’t all stay there. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

It looked as if two photographs of two different places had been jammed together. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

One day Dad was just gone, and we stopped talking about him like he’d never existed in the first place. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

My sisters will be placed at one of five imperial teahouses, or will stay at home to tend to Orléans's newborn citizens. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

The next morning, the day of the fatiha, a flock of neighborhood women descended on the house and took charge of preparations for the khatm dinner that would take place after the funeral. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

The failure or success of this generation of Mexicans in the United States will determine the place that Mexicans will hold here in years to come, Sarukhan said, and the outlook is not encouraging. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

“Where was the last place he was at?” Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

“So it’s not even like we get a chance to learn about them in the first place.” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

So Sam planted saplings in all the places where specially beautiful or beloved trees had been destroyed, and he put a grain of the precious dust in the soil at the root of each. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

“Yes, this is a fair place. I shall rest here.” The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

Why don’t I just learn to mind my place, like Miss Anderson is always harping on about? Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

When they gave me a form to fill out, I wrote in the appropriate places that I was a Muslim, and that I was a conscientious objector. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

The men, on the other hand, had their own special place to meet, greet, and exchange secrets. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Then I placed the twigs on top of the grill, where the green wood would smolder rather than burn. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

He was holding the lamp high up, so as to illumine the whole room, and in the warm dim light the place looked curiously inviting. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

All it took was a few chosen whispers in the right places. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Will said, “This place where the dead are. Is it a world like this one, like mine or yours or any of the others? Is it a world I could get to with the knife?” The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

When I came here, The Wells was the prettiest place I ever moved to in my life—I thought I had moved into heaven. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

As much as he had missed Uncle Jet, he didn’t like how his presence had changed the atmosphere around the place. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, it’s a rough place,” an instructor who’d recently worked at Sing Sing told our class. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Of the higher brain functions, some—reading, writing, speaking—seem to be localized in particular places in the cerebral cortex. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was sad to see a place all empty and cold that had been so bright and warm before. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

The place seemed deserted, though she didn’t understand why. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

It seemed as though she would never be able to master the art of sewing, to make the needle go through the material in the places where she wanted it to go. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Clem Ostler placed his forefinger between my eyes and pushed me, so gently I hardly felt it. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

I ask, settling into a very comfortable looking brocade wing chair that is completely out of place in the otherwise functional lab. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

He wrapped the dried barks for her, and she placed them in her carrying basket. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

I went to school early the next day, since I needed some private place to practice the curses. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

If nothing else, it was a place to start, and he’d go from there. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

The early homeowners had come mainly from one of two places: Philadelphia’s teeming neighborhoods, as my parents did, or from coal country in upstate Pennsylvania. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

“That old place may be full of rats, and if so, I’ve got an antidote on call.” Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

In fact, they have so much power behind that they find going downhill awkward, and sometimes, in flight down a steep place, they may actually go head over heels. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

And exact location mattered in a map blackened with the names of five thousand places. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

On top of his head was a little platform, and on it, Chucha placed a small cup of water. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Soon, they knew, following the president’s lead into space might mean choosing between the place that had given them a community and the passion for the work that gave their life meaning. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

“When I was a little girl up at Grandma’s,” Mother said, “I was certain that Maple Hill was the place where all the miracles had happened.” Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

I didn’t agree with the radio announcers who described Little Rock as a nice, clean Southern town, a place where my people and whites got along peacefully. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“This is a preliminary maneuver, to place you in an advantageous position.” The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Mom brings the steaming casserole dish to the table and places it on a hot pad. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

In some places, rules were put in place forbidding the judges from speaking among themselves during auditions, so that one person’s opinion would not cloud the view of another. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

Well, I wasn’t gonna stay no place where I couldn’t get nowhere or make something of myself, an’ where they stole your letters, I ast her if she stole it, too, an’ she says no. Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

My fingers fidgeted with the woven place mat. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

Carefully unlocking her strong talons, I place her on the ground and offer her a drink and a squirrel part I saved for her. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was like being held in place by a huge magnet. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Then he rolled his big bellows camera into place and started fiddling with it. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

I placed my palms on the desk, breathing deeply. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

How had he gotten from wherever Marshall had left him to the hiding place beneath the altar of Set? The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Yes—you win! It's Armstrong all right. But where the devil did he hide himself? We went over the place with a fine-tooth comb." And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

She could see the place in her mind. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

I was thrilled with what we were doing, as with a discovery, like finding a new place you like, or a good book. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Find a restaurant or some place with a bathroom, get cleaned up. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

That house in Arizona, that place was intense. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

“Well, it’s a place to start. I’d been wondering how to begin. Move to the bed, and lie face down. Remove your tunic first.” The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

“No, no. Nothing like that. This place is paid off in a few years. I think I can make things work until then. I don’t want you worrying about that.” Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

The mother-in-law problem is abated because the new daughter has a privacy she never had and a place of her own in which to build the structure of a family. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ethan comes up behind me and places his hands on my shoulders. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

She shook her head, and, coming back, sat down in her place. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

“That place there has the best boiled peanuts in North Carolina.” Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

The word I cut out stuck to my sweaty fingertips, and I carefully placed it on the floor, where my zine supplies were spread out around me. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

Abra said softly, “Listen, you remember when we came to your place that time?” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

I sit back in my seat and wonder if Grandpa would be able to put the bullies at school in their place also. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

And so the Marked Girl stepped up to the Sacred Rock and placed her scarred cheek against its body. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

One weekend it turned out that Gregg and another cute boy from Lynn and Amber’s class were going to be going camping near the same place where Uncle Katsuhisa used to take us. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Let’s find a place to build our castle stronghold.” Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

While I was out of favor, Cristiana slipped into my place and worked her malice on the queen’s mind. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

He also places Mr. King in the drugstore with him on the 22nd of December. Monster 1999-01-01T00:00:00Z

This place was different from every other room in the school. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

I wanted him to leave this evil place and help Ultima. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Soon the van’s tires crunched into the pebbly driveway at Jenny’s place. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

The neighbors to the south of us moved out and their place is in foreclosure. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

Madoka and I had wandered off to a few places in the city before our scheduled sightseeing days. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

I was the one who was out of place there—I was actually a year ahead; normally AP bio was for juniors and seniors. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

I placed her away from a possible direct fall, but that didn’t mean that the whole top of a tree might not fly fifty feet through the air and smash her. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

If identity was geography instead of blood—if living in a place was what really mattered—then Ishmael was part of her, inside of her, as much as anything Japanese. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

And, yes, there was still a trace of the sweat and rubber, but overall, the place looked magical. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

It’s a place in the 400-meter race where every cell of your body locks up. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

Great changes were taking place in the country, and his customers, like Americans everywhere, had to get together to talk things over. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Judging from her pace and the fact she apparently knows every single person in the building, I wouldn’t be surprised if she were actually the mayor of this place. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

I give them the grand tour, starting with my favorite place in the house—our safe room. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

The fish and bean pie place run by the Black Muslims. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

I detected in the bathroom, but the only place to look was in the airing cupboard and there was nothing in there. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

But before any decisive combat had taken place, a youth in Thebes not yet grown to manhood had died for his country and in his death had shown himself the noblest of all. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her living room looks like she bought a whole showroom at a furniture store—everything matching and perfectly in its place. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

“I’m sorry, but I never fit in at that place.” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

The baskets and pots Amah had placed on the floor near the gang trembled as the beating came closer. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

“Communism only works in theory, and goes against human nature. This place won’t last.” Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

The exclamation point said it all: Aberdeen Lake was the place for fun! 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

“He changed. But you came into this dark place filled with mysteries, wonders, and terrors beyond your imagination”—she stuck her hand out, palm first, and swept it though the air dramatically—“to save him.” Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

The orphanage was not a bad place—better than sleeping on the streets. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

Then Seanie said, “Why do I suddenly feel like we should go back to your place and make out or something?” Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“I’m not saying anything against it, Fiver,” replied Acorn, “but we need holes. It’s a bad place not to be able to get underground.” Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

As they passed, each warrior stripped off his treasures and tossed them into one of the carts that the stewards had placed before the gate. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I think Malloy had just taught me the left hook, and I hadn't really got it down yet, so my arms were flying all over the place. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

He placed his large elbows on the table, took off his sunglasses, and rubbed his eyes. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The only place in Idaho Jesse was insistent on showing me was their clubhouse—Mike Brown’s classroom. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I look everywhere, even the places I already searched. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, there’ll be some camping. A lot of driving. And seeing some interesting and important places.” In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

I explained to Mr. de Klerk that we could not tell our supporters to relax sanctions until he had completely dismanried apartheid and a transitional government was in place. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He checked the place cards on the tables and saw that he was, as usual, seated next to El Patron. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mother places her tiny, angular hand on mine, so frail the joints show through the skin. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

They could see tombstones placed in neat rows. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

The place where his uniform lay made a wet spot on the cement floor. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had earned my place in the brotherhood of warriors and could take part in community decisions. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

Estha waited until Rahel got in, then took his place, sitting astride the little boat as though it were a seesaw. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Legolas took a deep breath, like one that drinks a great draught after long thirst in barren places. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Amari made the introductions, telling him briefly of their adventures on the journey and their desire to stay there as a place of refuge. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

I help her cook soup, chopping the potatoes and onions, just wanting to get the visit over with so I can go back to the hotel and school, places where I’m comfortable. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Always like kids that hold to their religion. Important thing, religion. Wouldn’t mind some of it in the ring. Tough place, the ring. Tony Savo’s my name.” The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

He places his hands on Alex’s thighs, bracketing him with his full attention, and when he looks up into Alex’s eyes, his are clear blue and focused. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

I will trick you and deceive you, lie, cheat, and steal to find you, tempt you out of your hiding place, and chase you until you have nowhere else to run. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

I crawled to its base through the mud and rain and placed my hand against its rough body once more. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

As Ma finished, she sat herself down at Ba’s feet and, like a child, she placed her head in his lap. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

The Constitution contained no provision that committed the newly created federal government to a policy of gradual emancipation, or in any clear sense placed slavery on the road to ultimate extinction. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

That would be a good place, I knew. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t imagine how Susie felt being trapped in one place, alone. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

The place says, “Quiet, please,” But three birds Talk to us Loudly from the window. Neighborhood Odes 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Marselen felt they would be better placed at either end of the main battle line, where they could beat back any attempt by the foe to turn their flanks. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Dr. Fiona placed a gentle hand on my wrist and sighed. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

“What do you mean ‘especially in a place like this’? Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

The instructor placed his boot on the chest of an imaginary prone inmate, pumped five times, then straightened up, looked down, and blew five times loudly toward the floor. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“If you've seen Friday Night Lights, that was us. Same kind of place, same kind of problems,” says Dallas Miller, Reggie’s best friend. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Using their saw, the Shouns cut through her cranium, then carefully lifted her brain and placed it on the plank. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

“I think the place where you grow up is always really boring,” she replies. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

I put my hand on the top of his head, the only place that seemed totally dry. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

Like I’m always going to be fighting some uphill battle to make a place for myself in this world. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

Then the final jigsaw piece fell into place: what the woman security guard said as we left Earl’s Court. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I suppose so. I suppose I would. You spend day after day in this place. Yeah, it’d be good to see something like that.” Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

The place smelled of their beer and hair tonic, their punch-clock misery, their frayed nerves, their trade unionism. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

There was only one place he could have come from and that was the other side. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

I was number one again the following year, but then in grade three, I took second place. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Others countered that if they hadn’t found her in the first place, she would have died anyway. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

He could spend six hours in the hiding place and another nine in his own bed. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Before I truly know this place, I will be gone. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

She opened her mouth as she was told, and Scythe Faraday placed the pill on her tongue. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

The perfect place didn’t necessarily mean the place we lived in. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

He learned that railroad stations, post offices, courthouses, and churches were places to escape from the cold for a few hours in the late night. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s...just a place you go when you’re waiting to meet with Mr. Curtain. An...unpleasant place.” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

When she was in the fourth grade, her class had gone on a trip to visit historical places in Manhattan. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even in church, a place where many people seek solace in times of grief and sorrow, families often keep secret the imprisonment of their children or relatives. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

But if they were accidents, then it was like putting a jigsaw puzzle into a tumble dryer and having it come out with all the pieces in the right place. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

She kids me about my locking the door, and I kid her about the mess her place is in. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

That was the trouble with the AT—it was all one immensely long place, and there was more of it, infinitely more of it, than I could ever conquer. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

“Either. This place I’m looking for is private.” All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Now, even though everything is in the same place, it feels like I’m stepping into a strange house. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

We talked about our challenges and how we were trying to find our place in the world. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

At first I thought of inviting her over to my place, but everything was too neat and orderly—too many straight lines to erase—and I knew it wouldn’t work here. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

Genoa was the place to see the bad marbles. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

We hustle and take our places on the hash marks on the ground so Coach West can take roll. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

He felt another urge to leave, but he forced himself to stroll over toward Henry and Bud, his hands in his pockets, casual, so no one could tell he felt out of place. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The fireplace used up all the oxygen. I’ve got to ventilate this place.” My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was the beauty of the place and also the pleasure of finding things. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

No doubt, tonight he had eyes for nothing but the events taking place on the brightly lit football field. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Kainene’s house seemed to have become a meeting place for the man and his friends. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Someone had placed a damp rag on her forehead. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

The place doesn’t even look open, but Cressida pushes through the front door, setting off a dissonant chiming. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

We needed food, a job, a more permanent place to stay. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

While this was happening near the fire, more errors were taking place a mile and a half away. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

Things are finally falling into place and I’m over here like, Is this life? From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

The woman kept her left hand out, pinching the air with clawed fingers, keeping Luna in place from several yards away. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

The voice sounded so sad that Coraline put out a hand to the place where the voice was coming from, and she found a cold hand, and she squeezed it tightly. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

He came to a deeper rut, and recognized it as the place where he had fallen, and where the crow had perched on his shoulders. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

The place reminded him of a pancake, round and large and flat. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

The others had gone to their own places to rescue what they could. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Stole some stuff. We got in touch with his mother. She says it’s not her fault because he hangs around your place all the time.” Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Obviously you might cure a cancer of the womb by not having a womb in the first place. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hyperborean giants kept appearing in the strangest places. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

The countryside is rolling and open in some places, forested in others, and sometimes swampy. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

Once she tried the door of one of these places, only to hear a groan from file bench a foot away in the darkness. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

I recognized the place as soon as I saw the group of children in stiff new overalls who played near a rickety fence. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

“No choice? We can choose to leave, like almost everyone else. We can’t stay in this place of death.” Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

And banishment from his realm would last forever; there were always others who’d take the offender’s place. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Earlier in the day the post had brought a note from Maurice to Francis, mentioning that he was now about to go full steam ahead on DNA and intended to place emphasis on model building. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

“All three clues are sending us to the same place.” Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

Eleanor looked at Park's face, so full of something she couldn't quite place. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

Helmuth feels his thoughts changing, charging ahead to a dangerous place. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Lots of people come here from other places, right?” Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

She has full hips, and breasts that are too large for her height, like a rubber squeaky toy that’s been pushed down on the top of the head and has bulged out in these places. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

“If my friend, the one who stopped by this morning, was going to wait for me here, where would he be likely to find a place to stay? Any rooming houses around here?” Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

The towels are skimpy and thin, the sheets have worn places in the middles, rubbed there by other people’s bodies. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

"Camellia, you must really love Ambrosia so much to tell that lie. You were thrilled to take Ambrosia's place at court. You believed you should've been chosen from the very start." The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

And Josiah—if only I had let him continue sleeping on the first day of training, perhaps he wouldn’t have gone to the front line in the first place. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

One girl even burst into tears; she’d once been to the Waiting Room herself, apparently, and was distraught at the mere mention of the place. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

“There are a number of cities and towns, but there’s also a lot of undeveloped land—not a bad place to hide out.” The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Not far beyond the place where they had camped a path led through the wood. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

A wooden stair ascended the south face, anchored on huge rough-hewn beams sunk deep into the ice and frozen in place. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Papá said they reminded him of places in Mexico. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

The places here were laid with gold, not silver, and the fourteen seats were not oak benches but mahogany chairs with velvet cushions. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

I’d placed at state in all my events, and now Ted was expecting something from me, and that was sort of a scary place to be: in the scope of his expectation. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

She placed Sissy’s dollar and Evy’s fifty-cent piece on the table. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hermes appears first in that capacity in the Odyssey, but he does not take Iris’ place. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

The place was soon crawling with woodland creatures curious to hear more about the garden project. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

I know I have been a victim of many things beyond my control—but in this moment, in this place, here is something I have the power to choose. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

Wormtail walked out of the circle to the place where Cedric’s body lay and returned with Harry’s wand, which he thrust roughly into Harry’s hand without looking at him. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

We set down our satchels, and Granddaddy unpacked the microscope and assembled the barrel and the lenses, each of which had a cunning nesting place in the velveteen-lined box. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

I can believe all the rumors Ollie told me, about what might happen to the people who are taken from that place and never returned. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

She looks back down at the paper to find her place again. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

These things made me feel like I could stand in one place my whole life and never run out of new things to discover. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

A quick examination of the Berg’s body showed several places he could wedge his feet. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

The cap’n had his back to the street but kept taking looks o’er his shoulder at the place the man worked. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

Then we drive through a place called Indian Village, where I finally get to see the beautiful American mansions. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Microphones had been placed on the prosecution table as well as in front of the judge. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was originally placed along the wall to the left of the doorway, rather than in the middle of the room as now. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Brooklyn ain’t what it used to be. Sometimes I look around and hardly recognize the place. ‘Artisanal’ this and ‘organic’ that. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

He has Post-its all over the place with random quotes on them. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

“So, I really have to hit them with the hammer? It’s going to get shards all over the place.” The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

The grey hood and elven-cloak they folded and placed beneath his head. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

It is critical to note that Washington's crusade took place against a backdrop of terror and intimidation in which the genocide of black people in America appeared a very real possibility. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

We order from the bad pizza place with the yellowy cheese. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

He would slay the rebel lord himself and carve a place out for himself in all the histories of the Seven Kingdoms. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, it’s cool, man, nobody messes with me over there. I have the place on lock,” I started, unconvincingly. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

It was as if she had the Tibetan gift of placing her skinny adolescent frame in her client’s hands and transporting her soul to some distant place. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I remembered pictures of men in the papers, leaving places like that, and being taken away. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

I think about saying something too, like I know a lot of good black men, but I also know my place in the neighborhood. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mrs. van D. has yet to take a bath; she’s waiting to see which is the best place. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

They go in the boys door and end up in the same place we do. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Still I did not know where to place the first arrow, whether in his shoulders or in his head. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Recon was a notoriously dangerous posting with a high fatality rate, and Root didn’t think it was any place for a girlie. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

Suddenly the floor gave a great heave, as though an earthquake were taking place. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

As he’d looked around for a good place, he’d found the den, filled with three cold, stiff kit bodies and one little ball of gray fur still warm and breathing. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

It was discipline from a place of love. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

No man thinks of walking in this desolate place.” Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

It not only explained mathematically the orbits of heavenly bodies, but also identified the attractive force that got them moving in the first place–gravity. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

As he hung them up in a safe place under the bridge, he said, “The potter’s trade passes from father to son here in Ch’ulp’o. Is it thus everywhere?” A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

I stopped in a parking place to look at her and the necklace bridge over the entrance from the sea that led to her. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

She unzipped her coat, placed her hands on her hips, and stood with her chin thrust upward, superhero-style. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

“We’re looking for another place in the neighborhood, Mr. Jones. If you hear of anything, please let us know,” Mama said. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

She approaches me, placing her hands on my shoulders. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

I would stand in one place and tremble and wish the welling tears would just dry up. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

The place is dark and dismal with a stench of grease and gunpowder. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, it’s important. Later on in life I’m sure you’re going to run around talking Latin all over the place.” The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

I found a place near the door with my back to the wall and sank down onto my haunches. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“Since we were going different places to do our training anyway,” she said, “it didn’t seem worth it, to split up properly. So we just stayed together until I left.” Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

In no time, he has shot out of his side of the car and is headed at a run toward the Miranda place. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

She dreamed of black shapes that slid from place to place, avoiding the light, until they were all gathered together under the moon. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

He was so prosperous a smith that he did not live and work in the same place. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

And now that foul weather had come, he had no place else! Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Moss’s heart pitched to his feet and the nausea rose in its place. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Odin took Mimir’s head back to the well beneath the world-tree, and he placed it there, beside his eye, in the waters of knowledge of the future and of the past. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

Papá cleared his throat, ready to respond, but Mamá quickly placed her hand on Papá’s right hand and burst out, “Of course you have our blessing.” Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

Gilly nearly tripped over herself, leaping down and grabbing up “Sarsaparilla to Sorcery” from the chair seat, stretching her guts out to tip the book into its place on the shelf. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

It’s the place of his dreams, the place where he was married, where his children were born, where he was given the trust of his neighbors. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Granddaddy got a handsome box of cigars all the way from a place called Cuba. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

A single candle lit Shady’s place, and the mood was equally dark. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

He looked in the side mirror and watched his father place two heavy suitcases into the trunk. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

Then, because he had to get back to Isabelle’s house as quickly as possible, he moved all the boxes away from the automaton’s hiding place. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

The bustle of the North End was an arresting sight, and in the middle of it all, dwarfing almost every other building around it, stood an enormous structure that seemed completely out of place. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

I needed a warm place, music, sweet-smelling rooms. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

For a moment she imagined that Pilate, who had brought her son to life in the first place, was now bound to see him dead. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

But Neel guessed the cub would be too terrified to venture out of her hiding place, except maybe to scavenge for food. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

San Piedro lived and breathed by the salmon, and the cryptic places where they ran at night were the subject of perpetual conversation. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Tom’s father noticed that, thirty paces from where the victim lay, there was a spot of trampled earth and a burned ammunition wad; it was the place where the killer had stood. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

The word phobic has its place when properly used, but lately it's been declawed by the pompous insistence that most animosity is based upon fear rather than loathing. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

You made sure the world heard about the beauty of maple sugar children, and the artfully tattooed backs of Black sailors venturing out to foreign places. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had to call me on my mother’s phone because, even though we had a computer, there were frequent power cuts and few places in Mingora with Internet access. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

At one point, when Morrie’s ashes were placed into the ground, I glanced around the cemetery. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘At any rate,’ Thalia said, ‘we’re keeping an eye on Nico and the satyr. Unauthorized males aren’t allowed anywhere near this place, but we left them a note so they wouldn’t worry.’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

It's the most gorgeous place in the world! The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

A tavern is a safe place, a refuge of sorts. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

They’ve got to the place where they can see the bridge clearly. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

That day her geography teacher had said Arabs and Jews should trade places for a while and see what it felt like to be each other. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

She knew right away that he was African-American, not Caribbean, not African, not a child of immigrants from either place. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

As it happened, I had a cousin who worked for Kenya Wildlife at a place called Voi, in southern Kenya near Mombasa. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then she takes my hand and places it on her left breast, right where the nipple must be. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

My grandparents, who would meet us out there, had never seen the resting place of their youngest son. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

“How are we ever going to search this whole place?” Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

We should be able to predict which countries are best at math simply by looking at which national cultures place the highest emphasis on effort and hard work. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

I scraped my hair back from my face in the severe headmistressy way they used to fix it, and holding it in place with one hand, I straightened my shoulders and clicked my heels together. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

Maybe what they’d done had proven to the weapons that they were worthy of wielding them in the first place. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

And she said that my father was looking for a place to park the car. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Hizdahr is not the husband you would have chosen for me. “It is not my place to choose your husband.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

"Your Boy King lost ten thousand men taking the place, and another fifty trying to hold it. Someone should have told him that war isn't a game." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The whole place stank of garlic and fish. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

After the crown is placed on her head, she takes her ceremonial walk down the runway. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

“Well, I’m fixed so I don’t have to live on a place like this.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Kyushu would have seemed a paradise to Korean rice farmers, because it is warmer and swampier than Korea and hence a better place to grow rice. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Håkon struggled against the creature, but it held him in place, so close that it was on the verge of enveloping Håkon in the cloud swirling around it. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

She hesitates, and thinks for a moment that it would be better to leave it alone, to return it to its resting place. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

At least, Jonas thought, after Gabriel was placed next year, they would still see him often because he would be part of the community. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

After lighting a cigar, Chandresh begins his speech, punctuating it with purposefully placed puffs of smoke. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

I grabbed up the book and took it back to my room and placed it in its place, alphabetically on my shelf. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

No. Above us, on the giant screens placed around the City Circle, everyone can watch the whole thing being played out. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

He placed a box of instruments on a stand where Tendai could see them. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Arobynn would have flogged her for saving Nox, jeopardizing her own safety and place in this competition. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

“Don’t worry. You’ll be all whacked for a few days, but then you’ll get used to this place. I have. We live here, this is it. Better than living in a pile of klunk.” The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Revisiting the place where Salim had disappeared was a good idea. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were still in the same place and they were looking with the same indifference at the spot where we’d just been standing. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

The package was placed on a charter plane and flown to Edwards Air Force Base in California. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

The straws were different lengths, and when she came near the end of one straw, she put a new, long one from the tub in its place and went on braiding. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

From his place leaning against one of the stable’s walls, he was partially obscured in shadow. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

“His heart’s in the right place, Abbey. It really is.” Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

A place...beyond the farthest place you can think of. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

You can see Laman never moved a thing since his mother died and now we have to clean up so that we can live in this place. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

The battle was taking place on the other side of the world, in the dark. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Max walked over to Bigger and placed a hand on his shoulder. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

When he had done, he left the place and turned back to his steading in the hills. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

After some brainstorming and doodling, I decide on the Art Institute, which is one of my favorite places in the whole world. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Most of the big shore places were closed now and there were hardly any lights except the shadowy, moving glow of a ferryboat across the Sound. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

“It’s really dark once you get inside, and we started out too late—the sun went down. But what we did see—the place is unreal.” The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

And this thing we’re doing, in this place at the edge of a river with buildings and row houses on one side, and the cityscape on the other, is just chillin’. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

The Old of the community did not ever leave their special place, the House of the Old, where they were so well cared for and respected. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

‘You shouldn’t sit in such a place, if you feel sleepy.’ The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, well...I got no problem with Negroes, long as they stay in their place.” The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

The only cushion still in place was the one he was lying on—all the rest were tossed every which way. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Rather, Sarai became aware that something was softly different, and she understood what it was: She was no longer in multiple places, but just one. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

"I will speak to Helya when we reach Pyke, and see that you have an honored place at the feast," he said. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

If I squeeze my eyes nearly shut, the swirling lights ain’t so bad and everything sort of stays in its place. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

And the scabs forced me to remember that I had been away from this place for only a few days. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

Rashid closed his eyes, tilted his head, and frowned as Diana placed a hand on Z’s shoulder to keep him from shouting again. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

“This is no place to start anything,” he said. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

He tells me these tips of survival as if preparing me for his rank, his position, his singular place in the city that he is letting slip from his grasp. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

The place feels borrowed to me, unlived in. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was the kind of place that could well inspire a deep, honest talk that might help us get along with one another. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The court system, however, was perhaps the only place in South Africa where an African could possibly receive a fair hearing and where the rule of law might still apply. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fischer’s and Bronstein’s places at the table were indicated by a small American flag on Bobby’s side and an equally small Soviet flag on the opposite side. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

"This place helped my parents when they arrived in America. So Mama and Baba usually bring over a pot or two to pay it forward." City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

“I want you to show people in America the beauty of Pakistan. They don’t know this place like you do now.” Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

"Is that wise? You are strongly placed here. It's said that the old Kings in the North could stand at Moat Cailin and throw back hosts ten times the size of their own." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

There isn't a private place in these apartments. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

The only places I seem to go these days are to the shops, my Pilates classes and the therapist. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

As the third day of the riots began, some leaders, black and white, horrified by what had taken place thus far, began to seek ways to bring the mayhem and slaughter to an end. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

Sandy removed a paper from the inside of his cap and placed it on the desk. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a place of energy and creativity and intellectual stimulation the likes of which we’d never seen. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

I wish to prove to them that we have not flown here, so much as settled upon a firm place, from which we shall sally forth. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

In this place great quantities of food were stored, so much more than I had seen at the Green Man. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

This place felt unnatural, hostile, and very dry. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

John, drowsing in the sunlight, put the toes of his right foot into his mouth and ran them along the place where his teeth were just beginning to come through. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

“There’s a place deep in the hoof—anyone can miss it if they don’t know. It was Coll who showed me how to find it.” The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

Du Barry places a warm hand on each of our cheeks. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

A block away, I retrieve the napkin from my pocket, rip off my message, and place it on my tongue. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

I, too, had been picked up from one place and set down in another. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

Then he placed the seventh key in the lock, threw open the lid, and Harry let out a cry of amazement. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

“Come on, the best place to talk is over here.” It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

“Old Trueba’s got his balls in the right place,” the President said. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

After all, these press briefings had been his idea in the first place. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

"Your place is here. There must always be a Stark in Winterfell." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

She sat holding it in her hand, while the music penetrated her whole being like an effulgence, wanning and brightening the dark places of her soul. The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z

He would need someone to place wooden blocks on the trailer so he could offload the stack. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The pages were serving the food with the formal movements of a ballet Wine bottles were being placed on the tables, but ale, being less respectable, was being put beneath. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

I saw what I had been fighting for: It was for me, a scared child, who had run away a long time ago to what I had imagined was a safer place. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

It seemed the coolest, most magical place on the island. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were under the thatch awning of the veranda, on a wood bench placed against the wall. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

The old words ran through her head: “There is no place but Ember. Ember is the only light in the dark world.” The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Then he shouted, “Too many, too many. It’s not safe. My place was searched last week. It’s not safe!” and slammed the door in her face. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the right moment your attack opens in another place. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Shoes are worn inside, trays of cat litter are placed in the kitchens, dogs bark and jump when Ashima and Ashoke ring the bell. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

She leaves the kitchen and follows Charlie, who is already checking out the rest of the place. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

Captain Black was deeply disillusioned by this treacherous stab in the back from someone in high place upon whom he had relied so confidently for support. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

She placed her hand on his knee for a second. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The place is just waiting to fall in on you. It’s not worth going in. Like you said, it’s just a lyre.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

But one of the farm workers was already pulling the puppy out of the pen and placing her in my arms. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

There is nothing to be proud of working in this tejas place. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

But then another shift in things took place, because he realized that they, both girl and stoat, were profoundly afraid of him, as much as if he’d been a ghost. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Move on, to higher ground in another place. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

A single glance was enough to make him understand that it would take a Hercules to rescue the place from desolation. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

But other scientists thought there was a layer of dust on the surface which in places might be thirty or forty feet thick! Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yeah. And I said something about Hamlet taking place in 1400, and that kind of irked him.” Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

I closed Clematis, keeping my place with my finger. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

‘I think those are their faces above the doors. This place isn’t just a shrine to Ares. It’s a temple of fear.’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Then I pulled up a map of the game’s playing field and placed it in the corner of my display. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Everything about him is out of place here. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

I pulled my hat further down over my face and scooped the punch as fast as I could without making a mess all over the place. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

“Anyway, I don’t really have a choice since my parents own the place. Free child labor and all, you know?” The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

On that day, the country was rocked by an occurrence of such magnitude that when Chief Luthuli returned to testify a month later, die courtroom — and all of South Africa — was a different place. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mayors of far-off places requested the honor of his company. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

“Summerland is a city on a hill, a place where people can raise their families without worrying about any of this nasty shambler business.” Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

“Know your place, McManus. Don’t be like your grandfather. Be like your dad.” Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then she folded the towel into a square, placed it on the counter as well. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

“So can I visit your place now? My parents are ready to buy a toothbrush for Vee. How come I don’t get to meet hers?” The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

We could not return the cattle, as they had already been accepted, so the family decided that Mabel would take Baliwe’s place, and she did so. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He staggered backward, but there was no place to stagger. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

She placed it in a glass case and kept it for years in the family’s photography studio. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

For but a heartbeat he felt most peculiar, as if thick, black treacle were running through his veins in place of blood; then the shape of the world changed. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

The place was loud, thumping with music and voices, and she asked me to repeat my name three times until she got it. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

By the time she’d saved enough to move to her own place in the East Village, she was thankful to be alone. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Some are so old or wasted by illness, drugs, or drink that I can’t place them. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Yet in the midst of her pain she could still think of me, and one day she beckoned me near and placed in my hand a small stone lingam, symbol of fertility. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

Electrodes, which are conductors of electricity, would be placed on the skin in those areas. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

Or it may simply be that he humored her and did not think much of her opinions in the first place. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Someone had called Baby-Who-Would-Be-Hazel something before her parents flew in on their rocket ship to get her, in the place where there was culture. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

The place smelled of mildew and disinfectant, and the yellow wallpaper in the foyer was peeling at the corners. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

It’s hard to place where he is, until he sees the elegant ivory curtains at the edge of the frame. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

He had hoped to find the machine room deserted, but the place was packed. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Because we’re juveniles, she said, as long as the suicide didn’t occur in a public place with witnesses, they probably wouldn’t report it in the news. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

All countries and islands, afraid for the same reason, refused to receive her and give her a place where her child could be born. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was, naturally, a big basketball scene— a league, in fact, with prison-paid inmate referees and a scoreboard and games that took place about every other day. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jam shoved the kit back into its place and ran to her room, pulling her bloodied shirt off over her head. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

She places my crusty feet in the large bowl and instructs me to place my hands in the small bowl. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Finally we called on some distant relations, who scolded us profusely for not having come to them in the first place. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The goal was to deny the enemy hiding places by killing all vegetation. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

It hadn’t just been the idea of their own place that had spurred Mama—it had also been the promise of a better life, the chance to own her own hair salon. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

“We have agreed you shall have a place. Though manhood,” he added softly, with a trace of sadness, “may not be all that you believe.” The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

“You know why I like it here? It’s not just the view. What does this place remind you of?” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Brandon stuck a finger in his book to save his place. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

The analysts knew that Soviet engineers had placed sensors and alarms around the whole apparatus. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Nhamo chipped off a portion of the termite nest with Uncle Kufa’s knife, while watching carefully for the mambas that inhabited such places. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I drive around and around this not-very-big place looking for whatever it is Finch wanted me to see. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

The chamber occupied the place where hearts would go in a true body, so that was what they called it, but that was just their own term. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Horace said earnestly, “If I was to give you that place—would it clear me up with you?” Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

The tidings of my high fortunes having had a heavy fall had got down to my native place and its neighbourhood before I got there. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

The bottom floor was entirely flooded, and the place was caving in on itself, but the upper floors held a slew of squats. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

My first solo campaign event took place in early April inside a modest home in Des Moines. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

I was envious that Rocco had grown up in America, a place where people could date across cultures and it was not an issue. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

“Terrible, ain’t it, how fevers and pox tear through this place?” Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

I barely looked at it when Ms. Finch placed it on my desk. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

It was one of the few places on Earth where the People could pass unnoticed. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

Yet a new hate had come to take the place of the rankling racial hate. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

The cage seemed out of place, but I didn’t think about it too much, because just then I saw the lady who’d been singing ... and whoa. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

His Uncle Eze’s hut was a good place to take her, or perhaps even the quiet grove by the stream, as long as the little children did not bother them. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

“How are you going to make your payments if me and Carl’s picking your berries?” she asked from her place by the stove. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

People were leaping up and down in their places and shouting at the tops of their voices in an effort to drown the maddening bleating voice that came from the screen. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

The ninth grade was seated in the worst possible place in the classroom, at the front, and to the right, away from the window. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Before 1915, space and time were thought of as a fixed arena in which events took place, but which was not affected by what happened in it. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

She decided to go to Kano because, if there was a place where she could think clearly, it was in Kano. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

In the kitchen Beans placed the carcass in the microwave. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

I knew the place well; it was walking distance from my own village. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

Every living thing had its place in this field of energies. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

She placed a bouquet of flowers on the altar along with a framed picture of Abuela smiling. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

"I don't think you need to sneak out of the hospital to see places. Your parents are here. Can't you just tell them you want to go and see stuff?" The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

The place was growing like a weed—too much traffic, too many tourists, and, yes, even crime. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

This conversation took place in the last part of the fifth century B.C. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the end of rehearsal, I am sweating in places that I didn’t know could sweat. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

When the waiter walked through the door and brought us coffee, placing the cups carefully on the table as if they were live grenades, Vidal didn’t even bother to look up. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, not too long now, but that’s not exactly where you want to go. See, they working on the levee between those towns, probably a good six- or eight-mile walk from either place.” Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

This time, he closed the gap between them, placing a wrinkled hand on Ekon’s shoulder. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

The voice was strangely familiar, yet it took Ned Stark a moment to place it. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

My mother tells us the Black Panthers are doing all kinds of stuff to make the world a better place for Black children. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

Now the hot-dog stands, the ice-cream parlors, the curiosity shops, deerskin-moccasin-and-glove places, were all shuttered and closed, many of them with cards saying “Open Next Summer.” Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mother wanted to have a place on the charts for saying prayers, but Dad said as far as he was concerned prayers were voluntary. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mom, as in my mom, dressed in work clothes and looking slightly out of place. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

When things started turning dusk outside, he showed me all the places he and Brad would meet. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

Thandiwe placed her forebear on the ground and stepped on it, then looked at me and raised an eyebrow. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Phil helps me into my seat, then wanders into the back and reappears with two heaping plates of food and places them on the table. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, well, what do you expect from a place that’s made up of a bunch of foreigners? They come here and can’t even speak good English.” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

I grab a Butterfinger from the rack and place it next to my drink. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

We circle around the ghetto fence to a new place, near a small basement window. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

“Before you do,” said Malcolm, “what is that place back there? That garden?” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

Papa was in a camp, yes, but perhaps he was a tailor there and worked in a warm place inside. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

They and their families had fled violence and chaos and found themselves in a place with a completely different set of values and customs. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

Jomo placed the watering can aside and began to pick the umbrella tree fruit; they had fallen during the previous night, and lay, oval and pale yellow, on the lawn. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

She wasn’t yanked from one place to the next. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

His job was to make candies and sweets, uncrate the fruits, and to keep the place clean. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Why not go to the place that will hurt the most to see how much I can stand? Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

Stick stepped away, tugging the lines of his jacket back into place. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

He then places over it a cast-iron grill. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

We were in the beer place at the corner table. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

She found a place in an alcove for the men with crutches to sit, told them not to move, and took the rest up by the stairs. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

He reminisced about the stimulating conversations that took place in rustic pubs over warm beer. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

He walked for two hours, feeling the nausea gradually subside and a slow, pounding headache take its place. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

The gap was nowhere: only an empty place waiting to be filled with life and with existence. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

“You can't have a lock. If you want to keep your stuff safe, find a better hiding place. Or better yet, go talk to Max and you can clear up this entire misunderstanding.” Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

She isn’t finished with her survey of Merryweather’s social scene, but she thinks the International Club and the Select Chorus will be a good place to start. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

Vonetta rolled cow eyes up at us in place of answering as we stood over her. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

Of course often those places went very cheap—islands didn't suit everybody. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

“It feels like Woman to Woman takes us to all these places outside of our neighborhood, as if the places in our neighborhood aren’t good enough.” Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

But poisons that have no normal place in the body may also be detoxified. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

“Jackson, Mississippi, is the closest place to heaven there is,” he say. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

He bends down, placing the mugs on the metal table on their patio. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Richard decided not to have a funeral for his mother, and Mrs. Caruthers was placed in the family tomb with a minimum of ceremony. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

How could anyone have allowed such a place to be harmed? The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

The trackers stopped at the swept place and studied it, and the horseman stopped. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

The geography of the place they landed made it impossible for them to escape except by crossing the Potomac. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The black Labrador was back in its place. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

The worst story would’ve been never finding each other again, or never meeting in the first place. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

“When we found out you had vitiligo, I was so worried that your world might become a cruder place. I know how awful kids can be about stuff like this.” How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

“So I’ll show you to a place where you can get some rest and food.” Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Even before I stepped foot onshore, I was startled by the place. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

Like a good book, a good song takes me places. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

Either she’ll tell you a lie, and you still won’t know, or if she tells you the truth, you might not have wanted to hear it in the first place. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then she asked, “Where shall we stop tonight to sleep? Can we find a place that will be safe?” Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

It was the star Mom had placed on my forehead this morning, which I had flicked across the room. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

Their flanks were so massive that it would not be hard to imagine them pulling Malaga Island right up to the mainland, if they could only find the right place to tie on to. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

He placed them in a handkerchief, tied it up, and covered it with his hands. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

She balanced the immense rectangular can of oil on her head while she chatted with me, and looked so comfortable at it that I tried placing my plastic demijohn on my own head. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

So from place to place he went until he saw that there was no kindness left for him in his own land, and his crime would not be forgiven.* The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

Bono said, “She is a treat in that garden. That’s a very fine place to see her. She fix the borders different this year? She and Mr. Gitney had a plan last summer.” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

I pulled and peeled, until finally the stupid foil snapped away from the plastic and cranberry juice spilled all over the place. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

That night the cops came to our place. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z

“But don’t be too trusting. The world’s not always a kind place for two poor girls like you.” The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

It took us two more hours to find a place to bunk for the night. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Odilia, it’s not very comfortable, but you can sleep down here with me,” Juanita whispered from her place on the floor by the window seat. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

I don’t want to spend my life in this place. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

“That evil soaks into the soil. Some say it steeps and gets stronger. Maybe this isn’t the place. Maybe Gloria and I should have kept going after Virginia.” The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Her shack of plastic tarps and old boards and scavenged palms was the safest place he knew. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

I asked where it was going: the driver named a place a long way off, and where I was sure Mr. Rochester had no connections. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

Now that I had in my possession these keys, I might slip from the house with my mother, when she was well, and together we might run for— My fancy convolved places of flight. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Be not sad for me! I am at peace. I took my vows two years ago. Now I know I shall die in this place,” she says. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

When I got back I found him in the middle of a snowball fight in a place called the Fields Beyond. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

“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

In talking to Aunt Rose’s husband, Ophie was reminded that it wasn’t places that ghosts haunted, but people. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

It had a deep and abiding sense of place and history, so unlike the town, where not even the origin of the name itself could be vouched for with any confidence. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Back to my place. Your mom is taking a nap, and Heidi wants to talk to you.” Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

Ito took a seat at the head of the table, took out his checkbook, and placed it in front of him. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

“In a short time, man will be able to see what is happening in any place in the world without leaving his own house.” One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

It was said that his keep was a grim place where servants disappeared unaccountably and even the dogs were afraid to enter the hall. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Not when the Resistance is placing their trust in me. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Because in some way we changed places, and I’ve forgotten when. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh, fine. He’s probably at a place over on South Dearborn, called the Masthead.” The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

The far end of the island had no springs, and if I moved there I would have no place to hide the canoe which I might need. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sovoy waved me over to join them and pulled over an unoccupied chair so I would have a place to sit. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“Others will need a place to stay too.” Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

“Blackberry,” said Fiver, “do you know the place where Hazel was shot?” Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Suddenly, magically, I see shapes emerging from the tops of the cars, from the sides, from myriad hidden places. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

Then a group of gentlemen go off to search for a place for us to settle. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

Which I think is a little crazy, considering that there are plenty of old houses they could just buy in the first place. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

The tip had been hammered flat, and a jagged blade, three feet long and rusty, had been welded into place. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

They were all in such beautiful places, with beautiful things and luxuries I had never imagined. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The trees were thick in some places and sparse in others. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

Cuba has become the joke of the Caribbean, a place where everything and everyone is for sale. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

The next day, when I arrive at Seaside, Brandy and Tressa are heading to Sundae School, a fancy ice cream place. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

After a moment he added through clenched teeth, “We won’t go back to the highway. They could be waiting there for us. Let’s go down the road and find a place to rest.” Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

And inside the front cover there was a big map of London with places on it like Abbey Wood and Poplar and Acton and Stanmore. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

The girl stared past Sean, lips pursing, as if there were a place, but she didn’t know what to call it. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

At NASA’s High-Speed Flight Research Center on Edwards Air Force Base—the place where pilot Chuck Yeager first cracked through the sound barrier in 1947— engineer John Perry manned an X-15 simulator. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

The machine of her body—every gear, every spring, every well-honed lever—had altered, rearranged, and clicked into place. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

His hand strayed limply to the place where the pearl was hidden under his clothes. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some pools would be left in the deep swirl places under a high bank. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Here’s your place floating over Asheville on a day when the clouds are as gentle as dolphins.” Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Having your place searched by police does that to a guy. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

I’m remembering the time we went to Indianapolis to eat at that pizza place, the one with the organ that came up out of the floor. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

But when I glance at my fantasy paintings, they no longer look like any place I want to be. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The place, he once told me, where no one can define you if you possess enough will. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“She wasn’t brought up to be running in public places. No, sir. She surely wasn’t.” P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

I am standing outside the library debating the Republican takeover of Congress or the place of Wu-Tang Clan in the canon. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

She invited the others to Oklahoma City for the second phase of testing, offering her home as a place they could stay. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z

Incredibly, no one from the sheriff’s office had searched the place yet. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

“No .. “Well, it is not my place to tell, then. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

I stayed tucked into my secret place all that night and woke late the next day to find my body had stiffened into a tight knot of pain. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Only one of the eight towers of the Ferris Wheel was in place and workers had not yet completed repairs to the Manufactures and Liberal Arts Building. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

The hopelessness of their chances had no important place in his thoughts. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Half a mile ahead and two thousand feet up, Jon judged, and perfectly placed to see anything moving in the pass below. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Our neighbors might call our place Mr. and Mrs. Leith’s house, which would be both right and wrong. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

He was visiting when the vandalism took place and was as shaken by it as the rest of us. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

There were two places where a student could study: the dining hall with its tables cleared for work, everyone chanting during the common memorization sessions; or the table in her own room. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Does a man who commits suicide stab himself in ten—twelve—fifteen places?” he asked. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Sir,” said I, “I am still apprehensive of my health, lest this new fever spring into the place vacated by the old.” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

The chariot whirred into motion, but the right wheel stayed in place, so Triptolemus. spun in circles, the chariot beating its wings and bouncing up and down like a defective merry-go-round. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

But here tonight, in the candlelight of a nice place with white tablecloths and heavy china, she looks like a goddess across the table from me. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

I realize something about all the suicides traipsing north, north, north to a nowhere place where the Highlands melt into the sea. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

From his hiding place Adam could see only a darkness in the dark. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

She placed my hands on her belly and held my wrists. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

By placing these book-matched pairs on either side of the keel, he could ensure perfect symmetry in the boat’s appearance and performance. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Picture this: We lived in a small cabin in the Sierras of northern California, at a place called Wheelerville, which is located on the Salmon Creek. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

He also hadn’t realized how big the place was. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

A few minutes before it was time to give his talk, President Johnson took his place at his desk. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

Baby snakes all over the place, though, hiding. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Only place I ever fit was with T. Thinking about it only makes me miss him more. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

How do we help make the world a better place for all the hurting, desperate people and animals? My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

She took a small step toward him and placed his hand on her waist. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Room 203 is a place where they can seek refuge from all the mayhem. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Lily is the kind of place you’d like to move to some short time before you die. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

"First place, we didn't have any president----" Gatsby's foot beat a short, restless tattoo and Tom eyed him suddenly. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

There were two such places on the island—one on the headland and the other less than a league to the west. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

"I'm not upset. I mean, I was, but I was just all over the place, that's all." What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

There wasn’t time to search for the dry grassy places now. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

Everywhere they went, the girls were assigned places around him. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I could imagine Diane and her rich husband strolling around up here, close to the clouds, but Rose and me were out of place. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

Josiah looked at his own reflection in the truck window, stroking the hairs of his mustache into place. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

There were reading desks with books lying open on them, held in place by brass chains that shone like gold. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

In those days a doctor’s office could indeed be a fearsome place. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

But somehow I had ended up in this place called Birmingham, in a room full of machines, with only the green teddy bear at my side. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

On the table he placed three special plates of the last evening meal, two bowls of soup, coffee, and dessert. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Instead of the squeal I knew wouldn’t come out of me in the first place, I sighed. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

The place hasn’t been this crowded since the championship game of the basketball tournament last spring. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

Later his family had a headstone put in place that bore this warning verse: An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

‘Do you wish then,’ said Faramir, ‘that our places had been exchanged?’ The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

And in the still, cold nights of winter, terrible howls issued from the dark place, as if the castle itself were weeping and moaning. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

Now that he could see into the place it looked more private than ever. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

Despite the warmth of the night, Lola was beginning to shiver and Briony longed for something she could take off and place round her shoulders. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Glancing over his shoulder, he watched Miguel place a slip of paper on the table in front of the semi-translucent librarian. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

Inside, it was busy, a popular place, the only table open a small one near the bar. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Hens and cats gave up their places on the steps as he approached them. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

These fireballs were brujas on their way to their meeting places. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

There the bier was placed on a specially prepared altar in the middle of the floor. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Picture a fat person's hell, and I don't mean a place with no food. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Finally, two unexpected phone calls were placed, one from England, the other from Washington, D.C. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

All wild places were his home, thickets and forests and mountains, but best of all he loved Arcady, where he was born. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

And they had a strange smell—one that seemed familiar to Luna, somehow, though she could not place it. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

The operation, he told Julia, would take place on Christmas Eve. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

My father’s shoes are all over the place. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

His long, stubbled face looked pale, and he wore a thick bandage over his right eye in place of the black patch. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

“There’s no better place to pick up wedding knickknacks than Wal-Mart,” she said as she got out of the car. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

“Not in the ground: and the soil’s so light that we shall be able to scratch some shelter easily when we find the right place.” Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Before they came for Lynn, I cut off a lock of my hair and placed it in the pocket of her pajamas. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

“You could relinquish him to an orphanage here, then file an orphan petition. Start your 1-600 form and your home study while he’s in a safe place.” The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Champion, who would hold the title for twenty-seven years, would always have a place to live with his family and to play, teach, and conduct tournaments. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Bologna is what they eat in the county home, and the county home is the place of no return.” Louisiana's Way Home 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

As he heads down the stairs and disappears from view, I close my door and place a quiet call to Hideo. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

It was the “newest city” of the world, Twain had written—a place where scientists, writers, philosophers, and intellectuals were gathering in cafés and salons to forge a free and futuristic society. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

When he felt the lump where he’d struck it, he made soothing sounds and stroked the sore place. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

What happened next took place in a flash. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

In the first place, he’d get to swishing his tail and stomping his feet at flies and maybe scare off my game. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

I guess it wasn’t the largest arena I’d ever been in, but it seemed pretty spacious considering the whole place was underground. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

“It’s the one place we never have to hide.” Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

For years, Nan and I had searched for a place that felt absolutely head-to-toe “just right” perfect. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

And once, when our team is out on the field, I dash from the edge of the trees where Shanti places me and race to catch the ball. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I reach out and place my arm around Mama’s shoulder and she leans toward me and smiles. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

Lev asked quietly from his place at right of the table. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

The word settler is used so frequently that most people do not recognize that it means more than just a person who settles down to live in a new place. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

Surrounded by a wall made of logs covered with earth, it carried no markings to indicate what it was, but Amari knew in an instant that this was the place. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

I kept sneaking peeks at him as we drove from my house to his place. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

"That how they just happen to come to your place, of all the places in this town?" Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

Like its fields and rivers and lakes, Ludus’s forests were just computer-generated landscaping, placed there to fill up the empty space. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Whatever you tagged it—a roll call of evil or a litany of character flaws—Laura’s list had pressed into all my dark places. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Welch wasn’t like those other places we had lived, he said. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

This time, he actually went to take a look at the place, checked out the neighborhood, liked what he saw. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s not my place to say. She said I shouldn’t tell you.” Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

The slaughterhouse wasn’t a busy place any more. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

By twilight the place seemed even grimmer than it had that morning. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

A better way would be to place a ruler gently next to the pencil, but in fact, comparing the lengths of the two objects also changes the pencil’s speed a tiny bit. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

The wafer gave him a quiet place to think out his escape plan. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

At sunrise, Chou and I greet Pithy at our meeting place on the road. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

It doesn’t cling in all the right places like Miss America’s dress did on the night she won. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Tar had been placed upstairs in a wire cage, and amazingly, she was sleeping soundly. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

It was now getting dark, and so they carried the great pumpkin down to one of the fields and placed it in the middle. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

The place was palatial, with a large central structure topped with a golden dome, and walls of the native honey stone. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

The place looked beautiful and cosy, with overgrown grass everywhere—a novelty to us. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

He's the type of dude who could be daydreaming about anything, from doing something crazy like sticking up a place, or something cool, like making sure his brother's taken care of. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

“Our first two teams to compete tonight will be Woodland Elementary and Spaulding Street Elementary. Take your places, ladies and gentlemen.” Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

Fix himself a little place up country—like he talked of doing—and work the world his own way? Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

I think of the image in my mind that got me here in the first place: Mom, at the helm, steering us across the sky, keeping the course. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

“The museum is one place to search. But, uh, Jason, you said there were two?” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Where do you run when there's no place to run? The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

He placed the pistol on the desk and grasped my shoulder. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

He needs a new heart if he’s going to survive, and there’s only one place to get it.” The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“This dart will slay any being that was ever mortal, including the enchanted or undead, if I can lodge it in a lethal place.” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

One could trace the illusory properties of the Potomac’s waters all the way back to John Smith, who first explored the mouth of what the Algonquin Indians had named “Petomek,” meaning “trading place,” in 1608. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

But he gets out quick because he doesn’t drive when he drinks—he just winds up in stupid places and he gets a little belligerent with people. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

Circling above the city, I had thought, Nobody will ever find out anything about this place. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

She believed that the light pained her eyes, and also that the gray room was a cave to hide in, a dark burrow in the earth, a place where no eyes could stare at her. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Docked at the North End waterfront, it was a fireboat, ready to spray tons of ocean water on the many fires that often took place on the wharfs that extended out into the harbor. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

“Only you can answer that, Magnificence. It might be that you wished to put another woman in her place.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

He used to think he wanted to work for the F.B.I., but this didn't seem the appropriate place to mention that. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

“This is my eleven-year-old daughter, Stella,” her father said, placing his hand on her shoulder. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Finally, Ferula wrapped it in a cloth and placed it in a leather hatbox. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

As if when someone close to us dies, we momentarily trade places with them, in the moment right before. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

When they had come to the time and place for their last meeting, they would meet. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

“Sometimes I just need to find a quiet place to let my mind think,” Axel adds. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Texas wasn’t such a well-off place in those days. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

They passed the place where the tribe had danced. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

Holding it in her right hand, she places her left palm down on the billiard table, over the scattered cards. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

A granite bench had been placed near Uncle Edisto’s grave, but I wanted to get closer than a bench would take me. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

I backed and filled until I found a level place where I could hear the eager stream rattling; it was almost dark. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I haven’t done anything other men—even you— wouldn’t have done in my place.” The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Elected officials deduced that a strong percentage of kids reading below their grade level by third grade would be needing a secure place to stay when they got older. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

“What awful event has taken place?” said she. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

They have known each other all their lives, been paired and teased by their mothers ever since the two babies were placed in the same playpen during family gatherings. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Normile sweetened the pot for second through fifth places and offered extraordinary breaks in the weights, giving them between twenty-two and thirty-two fewer pounds than Seabiscuit. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

I carefully place the vials inside and seal it off. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Ella starts bringing dishes to the table while I set our places. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mealtimes, instead of eating both my tortillitas, I stuff one into a pocket when I can, hoping that a hungry rat will not nose it out from its hiding place beneath my petate. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

When he placed it on the kitchen table, me and Jay rushed over to look inside. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

The sun was nearing its autumn place in the sky, each day dropping lower, leaving more and more of the sky undilute blue. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

And then we ran to the pizza place down the block. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

There was a click, as Czernobog picked up a black piece and jumped it over one of Shadow’s white pieces, placing it on the square on the other side. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

Using his foot to spin the base of the wheel, he placed dampened hands on the sluggardly lump, and for the hundredth time Tree-ear watched the miracle. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

This fervor was also brought about by the many labor strikes that were taking place throughout the nation. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

Teresa placed her other hand on his arm, gripped his bicep. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

We had nothing, no furniture, no mosquito nets, just thin mattresses placed flat on the ground. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

But I would never have been born in the first place if not for the great and selfless kindness Miss Peregrine had shown my grandfather. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

“How did you know about this place? I have always hid my path hither.” Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Had McNaughton used some trick out of a spy novel, like laying a strand of hair over the binder—a strand that would remain in place only so long as the binder was not touched? Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

“We saved the baby. Dr. Martin placed the eaglet in the bag so gently. We saved it.” A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

And besides, she hadn’t wanted Ms. Morales to know about the key and its secret hiding place in the couch leg. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

The pants and socks had been placed on top of the stool, each laid out the exact same way. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

An undercover private eye was placed in Savage’s boardinghouse. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

I closed my eyes and took deep gulps of air, trying to breathe in the place. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

I follow the gold organza that drapes the ceiling and trails the flower-strewn aisle leading to the mandap—the traditional wedding canopy under which the vows will take place. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

Chester had thirty-four hits to five misses—which was quite good, considering the hard places Mario found to put his fist. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Morning Glory Cottage was and is my favorite place in the world, besides the Spinney. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

It is as if I am drifting away into another place, into the deepest recesses of my mind to hide from the pain. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

What was the reason for keeping the place open all through the night when every other café in the town was closed? The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

And just as, before the victory, the victor could place no hope in them, so afterwards he should not fear them. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z

“Where it says ‘the dwelling place belonging to’ and so on. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

The sheer noisiness of them, of their heavy boots, and loud voices, buzzed on by their sense of urgency, ricochets through the quiet hush of the hospital and breathes some life into the place. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not too far along I found a pleasant resting place where I could sit and munch and contemplate and stare out over the stately brown, slow-moving Father of Waters as my spirit required. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

He always seemed to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

Lancelot withdrew from the field while he could still sit his horse, and galloped away, lolling in the saddle, to find a place where he could be alone. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

He placed a pot of ground millet, a packet of snuff, cooking utensils, and a calabash of beer at the top. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

To learn that they contain chlordane or dieldrin one must read exceedingly fine print placed on the least conspicuous part of the sack. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

He wanted Dimple to like this place, he realized. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

They stayed pretty much in the rooms and avoided public places. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

She placed some salad tongs on top of Aaron’s box. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

That place, called the heliopause, is one definition of the outer boundary of the Empire of the Sun. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The both of them make up the lifeblood of this place. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

The Warraskoyack village is a busy place, and I want to do my share of the work. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

“I’ll tell you later. It’s not the right time or place.” Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

Lola plants kisses on both of my cheeks and places a ring of flowers atop my head. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

And if Margo had gone to the pseudovisions never to come back, she knew about a place I hadn’t uncovered in all my research. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

No place in the house; and now, with Grover Ding returning, no place outside of it either. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

I read and reread, finding out more about this place I would have to make myself think of as my home. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

We left the place secretly—it was utterly abandoned—some four or five hundred of us issuing forth in a dismal parade to the north. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

The music seeps into my soul, lyrics transporting me to a place far beyond the moment. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

She wanted me to play out the string, to find the place where she had stopped and was waiting for me, to follow the bread crumb trail until it dead- ended into her. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

I was shaking my head at the lame antics when they cut over to my place and gave what little background they could on me. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

The flames of the place where Red Devils are said to come from. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

I'm going to need to take life from what I can find in the neighborhood around me in Bakersfield to landscape this place. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

His tools still lay on the worktable: small chisels with which he had been meticulously recarving, reshaping the worn, smooth places on the elaborate staff that the Singer used. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The whole place is wired for surround sound. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

There can’t be any place on the planet scarier than a school cafeteria. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

He watched as I folded down the top edge of the gift shop bag and placed it in my lap. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

He ripped off the compress, applied a fresh one, and told me to clamp it in place with my fingers. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

After traveling nearly eleven billion miles in my lifetime, my atoms and I had arrived at a place where we could confidently make such determinations about love. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

They’d carried the smell of wet snow into the room—it had melted against the wool in their coats—and were grateful to be in a warm place where something of interest was going forward. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

I ain’t sure how I feel about the need for work songs in a place like this. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

“I wish they had some place to go.” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

Each of these items, too, must be returned to its precise place, matched by color, pattern, price, and size. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

"This place looks like a prison," she tells me. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

He learned where to place the green-faced lieutenant and the captain, and, high ground being priceless, to set the machine gunner on a book, a children’s dictionary. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

I imagine myself in this place, getting dressed for class, walking with my new friends to the dining hall, joining the poetry club. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Down on the floor boards, I fixed a nice place for my dogs. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Finally, he was able to place both feet on the first rung and grasp the second one with his hands. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

It’s amazing how places like this can be here, cutting right through your own neighborhood, but for most people, it’s completely off their radar. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Either that or the things were already on the plane, in pre-arranged hiding places, because nothing metal gets through the X-rays these days. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

“You were probably searching in the wrong place,” Grandma said, leading them down the hall to her room. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

Pieces begin to click into place in my mind. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

Eastern private schools, modeling themselves after elite British institutions like Eton, taught rowing as a gentleman’s sport and fed their young-gentlemen oarsmen into the nation’s most prestigious universities, places like Harvard, Yale, and Princeton. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

This huge, gloomy auditorium was certainly a strange hiding place for a bunch of homeless children. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

The idea basically belonged to Count Rugen, who helped the Prince architect the place. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Up die hill from the campsite the same windstorm that left him a place to land the plane—had that only been three, four days ago?—had dropped three large white pines across each other. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

Word of a fiasco at a place in the East called Ball’s Bluff came while people were still stunned by the news from Bull Run. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ellen asked Jenny to find something for Shadrach to eat before he went on down to his place next to the schoolhouse. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

She examined the questions—they were good ones—and hardly noticed when the children had come out of the kitchen and taken places at the table on the side opposite her. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

In the place of neat, orderly lines was mass chaos. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Your Honor, injustice blots out one form of life, but another grows up in its place with its own rights, needs, and aspirations. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

I wonder what they pay to clean that place. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

We stay there, watching the parade, and I don’t think there’s a single other place I’d rather be in the world. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

I slowly push back my chair and stand in my place by the table. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

He removed the small black Bible from his coat pocket and kissed it unself-consciously before placing it at the rear of the table. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You aren’t supposed to need to be in two places at once,” said Ben. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

The whole evening radiated an Old World ambience, as though the event were taking place in 1872, in a huge European beer garden, rather than 1972, in a covered Icelandic arena. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

The palace might have been the most amazing place I’d ever seen if it hadn’t been in the process of getting destroyed. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

He can’t afford a store anywhere else but where she lives, and she has no other place to buy a good apple or a fresh loaf of bread. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

After I was done, I placed my hands on the heap of mud and quietly wept. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

He supposed it was as good a place as any to store wildfire, and better than most, but it would have been nice if the late Lord Rossart had told someone. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

We were among the last out, so we saw the bartender—the only sober man in the place—pick up a phone and make a call. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

“My queen,” replied the captain, “your servant Stalwart Shield had no duty last night. He had gone to a ... a certain place ... to drink, and have companionship.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Not wanting to end on such an experience, he places the strange little bottle back on its shelf and decides to choose one more before leaving to catch up with Poppet and Widget again. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

As she recited her lines, my sister faded away, and in her place appeared a girl embarking on a quest. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

“If it please my lord, who died in my place?” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

This was what happened when you went places you didn’t belong. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

I placed him flat on the ground and picked up my gun. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

We were on a stretch of country road—no place youd notice if you didn’t break down there. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

Gabe thanked her quickly for the place to eat and sleep after such a bad day. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

She sat the pan on the top of the stove and placed a platter on top of it. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

He might have filled the place at the center of himself with the answer to who he was, but he had lost so much more. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

The noise was coming from the riverside, the place where Gabe had been working for weeks on the little boat. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Although they tend to cluster in certain places–notably around the rim of the Pacific–they can occur almost anywhere. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

I expected something gritty and grimy, but this place looked more sterile than a doctor’s office. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

The Augarten proves a thorny place to search, full of narrow streets and tall apartment houses. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

People said that he had come, already named, as a new one some years before, and had brought with him what he knew about trading from the place he had left. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

The air felt perfect, and it made him wonder again about the weather of the place. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

“She’ll have no place to go with the baby and mother.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Clouds and thunder. That place up the field—it’s like the bottom of a river. Anything could be happening in there.” Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Shock ran up my spine and jolted me into awareness as I watched a tall, narrow-hipped blonde woman walk past us in the hall like she owned the place. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

She agreed at once to all he said and sent him to the ship to tell Jason to meet her without delay in a certain place. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every Clock Watcher in the place focused on him. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Turning twenty on the farm, he believed he had found the place where he would grow old and die. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

How can you miss a place where you only spent a few days? Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

“Maybe he wrote it in an out-of-the-way place,” Ruthanne continued, “or stashed a note somewhere...someplace where his classmates might see it but the teacher wouldn’t.” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

I drag it the rest of the way, ignoring the banged-up floor’s protests, and place it under the window. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

He hangs up and opens the phone book, looking at his choices of places to stay. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

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

I think of it as a place, like the middle of a river, the middle of a bridge, halfway across, halfway over. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes I think the boys switch places in the middle of the game just to mix us up. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

His voice is real quiet as if we’re in a secret place together. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

Past the House of Elders, the place where the governing committee lived and studied. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Wrong place, wrong time no call for art in suburbia, not in this economy. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

When they finished, she placed a phone call to activate a network of distributors already in place. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

“I figured we could mark the places we look and it will help us keep track.” Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

The naked Americans took their places under many showerheads along a white-tiled wall. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“So while I was drawing this, I remembered a few places that I thought nobody else knew about.” Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

I told her, “As you know, I’m extremely brave, but I can’t spend eternity in a small underground place. I just can’t. Do you love me?” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

“The Villac Uma will give you the dried leaves that all shamans carry, and you can place them inside.” The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

No ordinary clasp would suffice for such a weight, so the greatcloak was held in place by a matched pair of miniature lionesses crouching on his shoulders, as if poised to spring. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

He nodded and felt ashamed that his anger over Shad’s letter had made him forget the battle and the thousands of boys lying on the ground at a place called Shiloh. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

And then I’d skip over the part in the hospital when the doctor said, “Hold on, son,” and snapped my thumb back into place. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

“They will be back,” said Nathan, my husband, “or others will take their place. And did you not benefit from their stay, selling your pumpkins and plantains for better prices than you did before?” Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Germans, who’d heard rumors about the place, called it “International Gangster School.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the spring of 1956, “clean” devices were placed on the program for Operation Redwing, a series of tests in the South Seas. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

The gods gasped when they saw Sif's naked head, bald and pink, and then she carefully placed the dwarfs’ golden wig on her head and shook her hair. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

He went over to the kid and somehow calmed him down, got him focused so the meeting could take place. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

"Rakharo, go forth and look on the rest, and tell me what you find. Take good men with you—and women, to go places where men are forbidden." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

But it gets to a place where I'm kinda having fun with it. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“Him, or perhaps the person who created him in the first place.” The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

My mother says that if people want to live in a place where every tree and shrub is put in place by a landscape architect, why don't they go live in a theme park? The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

If reporters and television cameras wanted to follow me, then I was going to take them places. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“What kind of medicine man lives in a place like that, in the foothills north of the Ceremonial Grounds?” Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

“To drop your pencil here, of all places.” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

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

Defendants are typically denied meaningful legal representation, pressured by the threat of a lengthy sentence into a plea bargain, and then placed under formal control—in prison or jail, on probation or parole. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

The Hungarian woman, her bracelets and beads jangling, took her place alone at the bar. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

Grey Wind nipped at her fingers, playful, and trotted back to his place by the fire. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

But though she sometimes longed to rise up and intervene, especially if she thought Briony was in need of her, the fear of pain kept her in place. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

I figured she was just disappointed in the outcome of the meet, and sometimes, when you’re not in a good place, you can say the exact wrong thing. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

A man with a bad leg needed book learning to find his place. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

She was back twenty-five years earlier when I was her little Charlie and she was willing to fight for my place in the world. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

Each evening I found a pleasant auto court to rest in, beautiful new places that have sprung up in recent years. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the McIntyres’ a coffin was placed in front of the door, and Mr. McIntyre rose from it in silence, his face covered with chalk, and deposited a fistful of candy corns into our sacks. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

Roamer says, “They keep that door locked and barricaded. That place is harder to get into than your pants, from what I hear. ” All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

In many places in America now, it is not actually possible to be a pedestrian, even if you want to be. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

I squeezed inside and dragged the heavy lid back into place. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

Why, in a first floor that’s only one big room, have only one place to look out? A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Its floor-to-ceiling windows coupled with the bright summer sun were turning the place into a greenhouse. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

“I mean, all Henry wants to do when he finishes school, if he finishes, is to find some place where he can write his books and study the Twelve Great Cultures.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

I shook her hand, and she opened an envelope of name tags and placed one on my shirt. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

This car—this had been a safe place for them. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

I kept it all in somehow, and congratulated myself that the Bible wasn’t the only place where slaves broke free. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

How long it would take Voldemort to get to this place, once he knew that Harry was here, was another matter.... Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Our desks are pushed up against the back wall, and lots of pillows, like they sit on in them Arabian movies, are scattered all over the place. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

I smile at the thought of having a secret about this place. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t just that they placed too much emphasis on sip tests. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

Angel’s the last person I want to see in a place like this. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

“Don’t blubber. I’ll show you a place to go. You have to wait until I have finished work. Sit over there, and I’ll come back for you.” Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

Just as I was backing the mules into place on either side of the wagon tongue, here came trouble in the form of Grandpa Blakeslee. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

They placed him, weak and bleeding, on a couch. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

In most places, spring comes around March or April or even May. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Warren was the logical place—the deep freeze where I could be put away for the rest of my days. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

I've heard stories, and it definitely don't sound like the place for me. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

Rising to his feet, he saw the field through drifting gauze but held on until everything settled into place, like a lens focusing, making the world sharp again, with edges. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

"My place is at your side. I am your sworn shield ..." "One of seven," the king reminded her. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Byrd might try to put it in the ground, see if something else could grow in its place. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Later that day, I took Barack to lunch at the fancy restaurant on the first floor of our office building, a place packed with well-groomed bankers and lawyers power lunching over meals priced like dinners. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Lawrence planned to place Lomanitz in charge of the electromagnetic separation work at Berkeley, but the security men had other ideas. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

The Kites’ place was definitely looking for a new family. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

He was standing in the Temple of Lkossa, the oldest and most hallowed place in all the city. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

At night, however, the apartment was theirs, and it was a place where Fabyan couldn’t interfere in their lives. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

But he had soldiered on the job and the place was deserted. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

How the paranoia and fundamentalism were carving up my life, how they were taking from me the people I cared about and leaving only degrees and certificates—an air of respectability—in their place. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“A maze. The third task’s really very straightforward. The Triwizard Cup will be placed in the center of the maze. The first champion to touch it will receive full marks.” Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Both kids could imagine Ms. Hussey using it as a hiding place. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

Two places are antipodes to each other if they are directly opposite each other on the globe. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

There’s no real furniture in our place except an itchy tweed couch and an old black-and-white TV. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

He thought of the letter to Abelman, and then his mind was recalling another place where he had heard similar language. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Charlie didn’t come out the entire time Miles was there, even though my mother had set a place for her. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

All six boats were loosely bunched up, roughly a length and a half separating the German bow in first place from the American bow in last place. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

She was in a strange place where the trees tossed in a high wind. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

But conditions in the two prisons into which the women were placed were deplorable. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

Butler plucked a set of night-vision glasses from his belt and placed them in Artemis’s outstretched hand. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

Missing settled over the girls like a sudden coat of snow shaken loose from an awning, and they moved forward on autopilot, dazed smiles in place, and stated their names and representative states. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

“Maybe the four of us can get a place in Mexico?” says Chris. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

“I’d have to see the spot—some places thirty feet, some places a hundred and fifty, and in some places clear to the center of the world.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

A Post-it in a place so I have to step over it and cannot miss it. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

On the table he’s placed two slices of cheesecake. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

“Your dad had to pull some ‘old baseball buddy’ strings with the doctor—who is apparently his college teammate—to get permission for us to be in here in the first place. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

That was the odor I couldn't place before. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

What if she'd never left her husband in the first place? Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

And I really felt that he and I were going to go places, because we had been able to interact up until the night of the incident. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He strapped Robb's shield in place and handed up his helm. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

It was as if he had forgotten where he stood in the universe and only those words coming from Vera could reorient him to his place in the cosmos. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

But I thought I saw something different in their faces, a determination to make Little Rock a different place than it was before. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

While the other treasure hunters kept calling out weird word combinations, Kyle slowly rotated in place, scanning the park and the playground. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

“I’m telling you, this place is haunted,” came another boy’s voice. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

From then on, the baths usually took place at night. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

She opened the door and met Maria in the landing place, who, breathless with agitation, cried out— Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z

With one sixth earth’s gravity, the moon would be a comfortable place to live. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

He could go right down there to that horrible place and get Nathan out of jail. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

The strings holding them in place sometimes slipped outside the short sleeves of her well-pressed white shirts, and she had to turn her back to us in order to adjust them. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

“This particular design will only work in one place. My ma’s garden.” The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Indeed, it was unwise to be seen in such places, unless you had definite business there. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

"Keep out of matters that don't concern you, Lan-nister. You have no place here." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

As they neared the place where she was hiding, they saw the intention craft and stopped. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

It took place in a small conference room on the top floor of the county attorney’s office. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Papi wouldn’t live in such a place because he couldn’t stand strong smells. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

There’s actually an exclamation point, which makes this place seem extra exciting. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

After each violent attack, I started to fear that maybe it wasn’t food poisoning, but rather that something far more insidious was responsible for the gut-wrenching torture taking place in my body. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

The redness was up in her brain and her fear was gone and in its place was cruelty without caution. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

There’s none of that extra care most people have when they’re in a new place for the first time. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Being technically a truck, Rocinante took her place in the rear, and I soon made acquaintance with the truckers. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

The car was parked a couple of blocks away, very close to where the meeting had just taken place. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

They demanded that the sick be moved and the corpse be disposed of properly—and they threatened to burn the place down if action wasn’t taken quickly. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

She leaned back in the chair and spun in place. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Each had its own outline on a Peg- Board, but nothing seemed to be in the right place. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

We talk about other times, other places, other persons, and lose our living hold on the present. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the center of the table he placed a gigantic stoneware pitcher full of milk. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Mom wanted Mbandaka, I guess in honor of what the city had gone through, but I refused; I couldn’t think about that horrible place every time I saw this sweet little bonobo. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

She said it was an important place, and she seemed like she knew what she was talking about. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

Mother Bear was too badly hurt to make the journey, so Nettle came in her place. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

It was almost time for a new batch to take their place. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

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

He took off his boots to feel the sand against his feet, as if the world were a place he was only beginning to live in instead of somewhere he would soon be leaving. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Standing there in the dark with the music running through me, propped up by a thousand other bodies, I disappeared into the greater, wilder, more joyful whole flooding the Palace, the perfect place to be. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

She wanted him dead, so she could steal his place as their father's heir. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

I was just blood and bones spreading all over the place. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z

He ran his fingers around the edge, searching for a place where the powerjack could get purchase. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

The Old Grange on the west side had been knocked down, and its place taken by rows of tarred sheds. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

It’s the vegetarian diner a couple of blocks from the church, the place with chill music, hemp bagels and petitions at the cash register. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

When we picture the place, we tend to think of it in modern terms: a dedicated building full of racks of books, in this case papyrus rolls. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

They know who stands behind Mobutu, and that in some place as far away as heaven, where the largest rules are made, white and black lives are different kinds of currencies. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like a choreographed dance, vacant pods are being floated from the center of the hold, while metal supply crates take their place in the belly of the hold in preparation for offloading. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

And seen that Chacko had disappeared and left a monster in his place. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He placed his goods on shelves that felt right. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

I went out to his place—it had been my old home, too, my grandparents raised me for a couple of years—to clean it out. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

At the felt mats placed ready for the coffee urn. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

As I started to walk past him to enter, he placed his hand on my shoulder. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

If we could see one another’s pain and empathize with one another, it would never be worth it to us to commit the crimes in the first place. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

“It’s a place far, far away from here, across many oceans.” First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

What was new was only the frequency with which they took place. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then, as our drinks were placed before us, Brother Jack came alive, his mood changing as though in the instant he had settled whatever had been bothering him and felt suddenly free. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I got so used to it that I don’t even notice all the cracks or places where it’s peeling away.” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

The moment he had passed the place where the Patronus cat patrolled, he felt the change in temperature: It was warm and comfortable here. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

It was not a good place to live any longer, and the people began to think of where they might go to lead a new life. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

But, if Piper’s visions were right, the suitors were now back, haunting the place where they’d died. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

It was the first time I had ever had my wife and children and grandchildren all in one place, and it was a grand and happy occasion. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Watching me make sure the water bucket is in place. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Although the wild dangler may lurk almost anywhere in a sentence, the seasoned hunter will look in the most obvious place, right at the beginning of the sentence. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I guard this place from all who would harm it!” The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

It was, like, a message for whoever she thought hid it in the first place.” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

They decided to take a detour round the place where they had seen the monster tied up, and marched away through the darksome trees without a thought of danger. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Similarly mournful love songs were cropping up all over Europe during this period, their woeful lyrics gaining popularity in courts, noble houses, and other places where a sheet of printed music could be afforded. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

This place, though, didn’t feel like the canoe lake back at Camp Half-Blood, or the streams in the woods where Piper normally met nymphs. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Even wound properly, the tokar required its wearer to hold it in place with the left hand. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Academic types drifted down from Boston, looked around, began explaining things to each other, and the place was off and running. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

She found in the outer court a beautiful lad in priestly attire intent on purifying the sacred place with water from a golden vessel, singing as he worked a hymn of praise to the god. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was, Washington complained, “a delicate situation for the President to be placed in.” An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

“Look at my frog!” said Avery, placing the frog on the drainboard and holding out his hand for pie. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

The queen, his step-grandmother, became regent in his place, and would handle all affairs of state until the prince was old enough to take over. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

“I’m not sure it’s possible for a lone black woman—or even a black man—to be protected in that place,” I said. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

It was he, too, who placed his gun to Master’s head and said, “Are you sure you are not hiding Biafran money here?” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

They started it not with the big logs and rocks I had used but with shrubs and saplings placed butt-ends upstream. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

He said the best place would be the Tombs of the Ancient Kings on the very edge of the desert. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

I’ll stop in at some corner store on the way back, some place where they sell milk till midnight and slightly stale sliced white bread. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

So Pa would take the ramrod from its place under the gun barrel, and fasten a piece of clean cloth on its end. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

I intend to have another small place of my own next year. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the radio was on, music has stimulated memory of times and places, complete with characters and stage sets, memories so exact that every word of dialogue is recreated. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

"I just mean I want to help you both find a safe place to stay. No child should have to live on the streets." Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

I expected it to roll off into the open backpack, but it stayed in place. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

“We’ll only be staying a few days,” Dad said, “until we find a place of our own.” The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

But he didn’t think Nali was the right person to go in his place. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

I have to wonder what sort of fluke allowed such a pleasing place to be built here. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

“There’s no camera in here, but keep your voice down anyway. Sorry to be mysterious, but the bedrooms are the only places the drones and cameras can’t get to.” Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

In her life ever after she would have nightmares of her time in that hold, and she would wake up screaming with the taste and stench of the place in her throat. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

When the first compress was dyed red, I had Sander cut another and pressed it to the wound until at last the bleeding slowed enough to allow me to bind it in place. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

Across the street, in front of the barbershop, I saw three colored men frozen in place. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were other locked doors in the University, places where dangerous things were kept, where old and forgotten secrets slept: silent and hidden. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

On fine days, the mist of the falls made rainbows, and she began to smile when she reached that place, instead of weeping as she had the first time. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

By now the streetcar was on its side and we were hanging from our places. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

But though her windows didn’t shine and her curtains drooped with dust and nobody could of eaten off her floors, she kept the bed made, the dishes washed, and things in place. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Shay looked out over the river at the spires of the party towers, placing a thumbnail firmly between her teeth. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

His customers were wide-eyed, interested as terriers, cooperative, and did not interrupt, but as he began for the third time Will saw that he was getting no place. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

I might not miss these walls as a dead man, but I will miss the wind and the scents it carries, of faraway places where freedom can be found in life instead of death. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

“There have been two failed attempts at placing out. The Byrnes and the Grotes. Trouble with the woman of the house in both places.” Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

I suspect the latter is what got me into this predicament in the first place. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Dimple would say one thing for these ridiculously expensive places: The service was impeccable. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

“If you really want to see it,” he said, “keep going past the bog and through the woods. It’s a big old place. You can’t miss it.” Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

With great satisfaction, Rumpy sat down in the place she had vacated. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

He made her take the two hundred and put it back in the secret place. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

Rocks held one edge of the tarpaulin in place along the wall of the bridge. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

She still has no idea what kinds of places I go to in my head, and I don’t try to explain. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s Ms. Wyman’s hand on my shoulder and her voice in my ear saying, “Well done, Bobby,” that wakes me up to the fact that the place is going nuts. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

It was a nasty place and the Austrians should not have let them hold it. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

“But that’s why you created the game in the first place,” the boy answered. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

A manager told me that one of the first considerations in his business was to find and buy a place where television reception is good. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

“She gave up the baby in the first place,” Mrs. Richardson said. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“You’ve got to speak proper English, baby. I don’t want you going places and people thinking you don’t got no home training or nothing.” Monday's Not Coming 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Then I took a stick and drew lines on the ground from my sleeping place to the spring where I had met my new neighbor, the snake. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

“When I held you as a baby and looked into your face, the Spirit revealed it to me. Your place is here. Working hard, living simply. Living in a godly way.” The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

It was a place called Reno-Benteen Hill, four miles from Last Stand Hill. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

More than this I cannot say without fear of breaching the Official Magical Secrets Act or, more importantly, the confidences that Dumbledore, most private of men, placed in me. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

For a long moment, the hill is silent, listening, and then people move to their places. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“But of course, Bernard. It’s this horrible place.” Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Drs. Atchley think of this place as their quiet, protective cocoon, and also part architectural novelty that they still seem bemused the bank ever let them borrow to build. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

It was a dark, primal place, three acres of old forest un-touched for ten thousand years as the gloomy castle rose around it. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

He quietly made a fire and heated the grasses and then placed them underneath each of our hanging feet. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

She glanced round the room to make certain that nothing was disarranged or out of place. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Then the queen would return the book to its place and wish me good night I would go to my room heavy with guilt yet consumed by curiosity. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

“When I scouted you for this place, you were all in.” Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

The air-handling equipment still wasn’t working, and the temperature in the place seemed as if it was above ninety degrees. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Maybe you could talk him into taking my place.” Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

The Americas were a great laboratory of evolutionary experimentation, a place where animals and plants unknown in Africa and Asia had evolved and thrived. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, don’t you take pictures all over the place of things left around? Towels and stuff?” Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

The devil seems to put himself in your place, but in fact, fatally, he puts you into his. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

Here, with the issue of whether the Carter Cowboys would stay in the playoffs or be replaced by the Plano East Panthers, the place was packed and frothing. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Just because you can’t travel comfortably in a mousehole doesn’t mean that it isn’t a perfectly suitable place for Stuart,” said Mr. Little. Stuart Little 1945-10-17T00:00:00Z

Later, after she had found a place in his program, Volpe discovered that her boyfriend had been physically abusive to her. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

Out of the corner of my eye I could see Mom sway in place, smiling, like she wanted to jump in and dance too. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

That night I slipped into the place in my head where I could talk to Edmond and for once I had good news. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

He told Serber he was about to be placed in charge of “fast-neutron research”—the study of speeding neutrons and fission. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Uncle made me a beautiful wooden box in which I placed her chewed-up pencil, a lock of her hair my mother had cut, her toenail clippings, and other really sacred items like that. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Unferth was unpopular, and they liked the way this mild- tempered stranger had put him in his place. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z

I have inherited her name, but I don’t want to inherit her place by the window. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

A great deal of their money and perseverance and they found a place to sleep. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

I say goodbye to Aunt Louise, pick up the knitting, and place it carefully on the sofa. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

The faded mole by her lips holds the folds of thin flesh in place like a flat black button. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

He said the school was really a place where boys like me could have time to see their mistakes and start a new life and become somebody everyone would be proud of. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Such buildings made perfect places for crack houses and numbers joints. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

“I found it,” I said, twisting at the back of it to make it stay in place. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

These television shows, especially those that romanticize drug-law enforcement, are the modern-day equivalent of the old movies portraying happy slaves, the fictional gloss placed on a brutal system of racialized oppression and control. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

He quickly drank it down, then took his place in line, behind Magnet and in front of Zero. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

He stands in front of a tabletop divided into compartments, placing tiny rectangular prisms of leaden letterforms into a bracket in his hand. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Ah, I thought, touching the place above my heart where I did not yet know the cells were multiplying like crazy. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It's not such a terrible place to start, but the joy of accomplishment wears off fairly quickly. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

“Do you remember what day it was placed on your door?” Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

At first her questions were legitimate enough: Arithmetic, spelling, languages, geography, and the sort of purposeful confusion—about ringing numbers and underlining words—in which some psychologists place particular store. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

As Conor gratefully left the room, his grandma placed her hands on her hips and looked at his mother. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

The only place they couldn’t access was DEIGN, because the sign pointed up, and there weren’t stairs or anything. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

There are books all over the floor, like someone tried robbing the place. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

One by one the cut stones of the ribs, called voussoirs, were hoisted onto the centering and mortared into place by the masons. Cathedral: The Story of Its Construction 1973-09-19T00:00:00Z

There was a place called the Black Cat? Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

A large wooden roof covered the area so that rain would not prevent a gathering, and in the cold months the enclosing sides would be slid into place. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

Even though all the regulars are hard-core old-time hustlers, Small’s carries on as an upstanding, respectable place. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was as though it came from some deep place, like lava in a volcano. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

My insides sink to the bottom of the deepest, darkest place here. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

“No. Needed to find a place to sit. The field hockey girls took over the living room, so I thought I’d come down here,” I lied. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

“You know, if we were in a canoe and had a lunch and a cooler full of pop, we’d think this was the most beautiful place in the world.” The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

First Ladies had no place in the West Wing. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Despite the fact that I was seldom there, it was good to know there was one place in the city where I wouldn’t be kicked at, chased, or spit on. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“Ow, I’m just trying to figure out how different this place is from home.” Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

He places his jacket on my shoulders and then takes my palm and rubs it with his own. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

Our hair is shiny, every strand in place, our lips pink, our teeth smeared with Vaseline to make them glow. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

After recovering from serious medical problems relating to his abandonment, he was turned over to authorities, who placed him back into foster care. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Silently, they placed their coiled ropes underneath them and sat in a line with their knees around the man in front—tobogganers with no toboggan. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

I filled the big earthenware jug with water in the kitchen, and Brett put the roses in it, and placed them in the centre of the dining-room table. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

“By the end of the interview he was sending me links for the best places to get food in town, and how to get student prices for the movies.” Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

Zooey abruptly placed his hands over his now quite damp face, left them there for an instant, then removed them. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

What had I to do with his selling the dolls in the first place? Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

How could she miss her first Easter service here in the place where everything had really happened? Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Wei took a wad of bills out of his pocket and placed the twenties on the outside, then flicked past the tens and fives till he got to the ones, in the middle. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

The hedges under the windows were trimmed so perfectly, I doubt I could have found a single leaf out of place. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

This explains the fact that in some places the frontiers between the superstates are arbitrary. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

A very soft place would also appear poorly reflective because of the many interstices between individual sand grains. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

She feels slightly out of place in this gathering of people who have known each other for so long. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Montag's face was entirely numb and featureless; he felt his head turn like a stone carving to the dark place next door, set in its bright borders of flowers. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was on my feet needing to go someplace, but there was no place to go. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was more money than I’d seen in one place for a long, long time. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I said, “Let me find a level place and put it in order, then come down for a cup of coffee—or something.” Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

In its place was a white marble tomb, encasing Dumbledore’s body and the table on which he had rested. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

The burial took place amongst the other paupers’ graves in the walled cemetery behind our church. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

The curfew was still in place, but I needed to leave the city before the sun came out. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

The skin deemed damaged but salvageable looks red, hot, and melted in places. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

The boy sat in the same place as before, absorbed in Puzzle Power. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

It is such a mysterious place, the land of tears. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

So in the end she believed that it was the mischief of elves and she decided to secure everything in the place where she would use it. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Actually, I’d just make it so that they don’t exist in the first place. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

He found two places, all the same, where he had to trust wholly to it: smooth surfaces where there was no hold even for his strong hobbit fingers and the ledges were far apart. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Professionally, the recognition that the world was flat was unnerving because I realized that this flattening had been taking place while I was sleeping, and I had missed it. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

The earth has become, just in the last decade, too small a place. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

It comes from a place so deep inside, it’s like it’s coming out of the ground. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

Then we can go see our new place. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

Maybe it was too much to ask to have a place of my own; maybe I was always going to be Hattie Here-and-There. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

Then he’d staple them together and drop them off at random places throughout school. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

The sun was getting low by the time Joe Pepitone had smacked them out, and Mrs. Baker stood at home plate, surveying the place like she was considering buying it. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

Bodega went back to Vera, sat next to her, placed his arms around her. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

I'd never noticed till I saw him roar by my hiding place. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

The event took place in a small, luxurious private hotel. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

I wandered on, wet and miserable, looking for a place to conceal myself, hoping I might stumble upon the Green Man. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

Again he waited and squeaked beside his beautiful burrow in the beautiful place but no female ever came and after a while he had to move away. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

And then maybe you will come upon the place you are looking for, if you do not get lost. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

William had a comfortable place in a settled society and suffered none of the hardships experienced by Kepler; he studied at the local grammar school, then went up to Cambridge in 1558. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

It seemed out of place to think of consequences during the fiesta. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

On the parachute sits a small metal object that I can’t place. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s a place for burying dead folk,” I say. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

Why was she there in the first place? The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

For it soon became clear that he simply wanted a place to die privately but not quite alone. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

I try and read his Noise to see if he’s telling the truth but it’s almost all shiny and clean, a bright, warm place where anything you want could be true. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

They were a lot scarier than this place, she told herself. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

She pulled a sheet of paper out of her folder and placed it on her desk where I could see it. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

I would be the one to find this place, and I'd come back and rescue everyone. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Lmatarion, who was about 11 years old, was placed in the first grade. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And a skin of water too. Or I will burn this place down around your ears and dance among the ashes and your charred, sticky bones.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

In her head she began to imagine the story that would go with that place. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

Suddenly all those feelings I had about going to a new and beautiful place seemed wrong. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

On the screen, Philby is answering another question: “In the second place, the Burgess-Maclean affair has raised issues of great”—he pauses—“delicacy.” Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

His hopes sank lower and lower, and he felt utterly despondent, bitterly regretting his offer to take the animals in the first place. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mother echoed him, adding that God had placed a veil over her eyes so she wouldn’t stop the contractions. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

It was one of those high, out-of-the-way places Sefia liked, one of the few places where she felt safe enough to sleep on the ground. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

He hardly spent any time there, as if he didn't even want the job in the first place. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

He was in a confused, noisy, foul-smelling place. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

He had squirreled it away in all kinds of hiding places at the Institute, where other people couldn’t find it and rip it off. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She sees my attention is caught by the Rubik’s Cube, and she places it in my hands. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

But "the enemy just went on and on; when you got rid of one spy, another would take his place. How would you get satisfaction?" Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Soon the houses sat closer together and the welcome sight of a small shopping center placed on two sides of a crossroads greeted them. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

I focused on finishing the workbook pages that were due by the end of class and placed them on Señor Ascencio’s desk. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

There was a memory that he could not place, of being carried on his father’s shoulders, up a hill toward a great attraction, toward the source of a huge excitement. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

I chase him into the scrap-metal structures, but he’s too quick for me, and this place is a maze—I lose him in seconds, and then I am alone. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

“It isn’t your place to write to the Crown Prince.” Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

I ask Ritchie as we all get together at my place on Sunday night. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

Wash thought he saw a hand disappear behind a window shade when they passed Fannie’s place. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

“This place is already full of dead people.” The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’ve read some myself out of pure curiosity and you can see why those officers are glad to be in Ireland after all they put up with in India and Africa and other desperate places. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

The firemen had axed their way through what seemed to be every wall and every door, leaving the place looking like a bomb had gone off. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

“My father is trading at a giant’s farm, where a wedding will take place soon. He wrote that giants’ weddings are interesting. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes, on the streets near my house, I can see places where the yellow lines used to be. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

The Forest drew close to the hedge in many places. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

In his place were three words: “I must learn” on a note pinned to his pillow. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Every guy in this place has a ticking clock hanging around his neck. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Stannis himself looked out of place in this rich and royal company. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

A relatively large number of officers—eight to a dozen—were assigned to each meal because of the prison mess hall’s well-known reputation as a place where in-mates can “go off.” Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“So, Mama,” he said, “why don’t you let me put some money into fixin’ up this place? As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Escaping to that other place, wherever it was, and leaving everyone else behind in a fracturing world. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

“We used to go there all the time as a family, and she ran away there, apparently. She told us she rented a place, but she didn’t give us an address, or even a town.” Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

You can see the place, under the lily, where the lettering was painted out, when they decided that even the names of shops were too much temptation for us. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

In a place so filled with people, spaces seldom stayed empty for long. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

The police searched drawers and cabinets and closets, any place where contraband might have been hidden. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It cleaves through flesh and bone, revealing places within that were never meant to be exposed to the light of day. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

Zero-point-two miles from the place I needed to be at four o’clock the following afternoon. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

Walking through the woods behind the wagons, the girls kept jostling one another for the place of honor by Hannah’s side. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I placed a table for her to rest her hands on,” Harriot later remembered. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Instead of sleeping six to a room, as they had the year before, they now had to find places to stretch out eight or nine of their long frames in each room. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

He dislodged it from his waist and placed it in the corner. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Her heart and her legs have brought her to this new place. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

A more intense place in the brightness of snow and ice. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

I struggled to free myself, but his powerful grip held me firmly in place. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

Matt searched for weak places in the mesh. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The silence of the world roared steadily in his ears while he came to recognize that he did not belong here, he had no place in the tree any longer. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

She had hoped her friend would stay, but couldn’t blame him for wanting to get away from this place as fast as possible. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

When it got late, Sophia and I would go to some of the after- hours places and speakeasies. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“As both will take place here, I’m sure I can—” “You have little time.” An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

The home of the Little family was a pleasant place near a park in New York City. Stuart Little 1945-10-17T00:00:00Z

I asked Mam why they had no hair and she said their heads were shaved so that the lice would have no place to hide. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

For all the tantalizing and provocative character of the Viking results, I know a hundred places on Mars which are far more interesting than our landing sites. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

She’d kneel down, place his feet gently inside, and massage them. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

The dockyard was vast and isolated—the ideal place for, say, a renegade god and his horde of demons to settle in. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

I don’t know how any of those people in line will get in—this place is already super packed. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Her black shirt was tucked neatly into her jeans, and a black utility belt was there to keep them both in place. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

His lord father took his place on the hill where he had slept. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

It was an ugly, dangerous place, and it made him feel bad to think of the dog all alone out here. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

This time, he didn’t release her until he’d placed her in the car. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

So her soul crawled out from its hiding place. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

It's all taking me to the same place. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

If we can get a scab off a finger we put the finger under and watch the place where the blood oozes out, bright red, in a round button, like a berry. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

As she placed the sacrificial parts upon a blazing altar, the earth rumbled and quaked beneath their feet and from afar dogs howled through the darkness. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Y’know, it strikes me that it’d do the Father Abbot’s heart good to see that tapestry back in its rightful place again.” Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

The silence pressed upon him: There was no bustling or talk or swift footsteps here; the purple-carpeted corridors were as hushed as though the Muffliato charm had been cast over the place. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Lenore knows her way around this place and a lot of people say hello. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

He bought a bottle of Coke and placed it at the foot of my stool before he left. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

After Mr. Costa left, the school was a silent, deserted place. Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z

He was probably told to watch the newspaper for the date and place to meet.” On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sage — low-growing and shrubby — could hold its place on the mountain slopes and on the plains, and within its small gray leaves it could hold moisture enough to defy the thieving winds. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

We can never stand long in any one place. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Your Grace could not have known—” “I am the queen. It was my place to know.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“Hopefully in a couple of years we’ll be in a better place financially, and we can get you your own piano.” A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

Instead, I place the full glass on the table next to Dray’s cake. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

And Mars is just the beginning, an obvious place to start because it happens to be close at hand. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I thought I placed the boy's face then. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

She places a gleaming silver spoon and fork on the dirt-encrusted table and leans back to survey it. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

I sometimes think it would be a good idea if math professors and elementary-school teachers switched places for a few weeks each year. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“No, you don’t have your own place here,” said Sheriff Elwell. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

My cousins are frozen in place, but their eyes look past me, behind me. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Durham was also the first place he had encountered a black community so clearly divided along class lines. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

It had been a place to get away to—a private lair—a secret seclusion meant to be shared with best friends only—a life unknown to grown-ups and lived by kids alone. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

We dispatched men to strategic places around the townships to watch the trains, buses, and taxis in order to determine whether or not people were going to work. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m a captive, sir. I couldn’t get away even if I had a safe place to flee to. From now on, I’m harmless, you can take my word for that.” The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

And as he relaxed with his family around him, he decided to write down his thoughts all in one place. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The air temperature in the building had soared beyond ninety degrees, and the place had turned steamy, odorous, alive with monkey calls. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He told me people are deserting the place as quick as they can.” Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

No wonder Mong never ate anything and was always tired and throwing up all over the place. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

If she were a fugitive, trying to disappear from the eyes of the law, there was one place she'd go. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

That Jackie was gone and in her place was this new Jackie with blue streaks in her hair, out on the porch telling Bertha how much she loved the Blue Ridge Mountains. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

I started to get up, but my belly full of food kept me in place. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

From time to time he got up and looked around the cave, and Ama, getting cramped and uncomfortable in her narrow hiding place, wished ardently that she’d waited outside and not gone in. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

He was all alone with Maria, being pulled through the halls to some place she’d decided was safe. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Each death row inmate was placed in a five-by-eight-foot cell with a metal door, a commode, and a steel bunk. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

The rehab was in a place that, according to the pamphlets, looked more like a spa vacation. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

He had to find some place to hide, some ambush from which he could fight. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

To discover how Americans regard class and where they place themselves, The New York Times conducted a nationwide survey in March 2005. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

Dustfinger spent most of the time perched in one of the oaks that had once given the old woman a shady place to sit outside her cottage. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Where do I begin telling strangers about a place whose smell is on my skin and whose memory is always in my head? Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

She gestures toward a puffy chair in the nearby corner for me to sit on, before retreating back to her place near the window. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

In a hidden place in the garden, surrounded by bushes, we had our “camp,” where we could light a little fire and boil water in a tin can, balanced on rocks. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

“What a night! Red arrested! Snowstorm. And this place down here looks like somebody’s been murdered.” Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

The place on Minnesota Avenue is close enough to the bridge so that we can get customers from Missouri as well. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

She went to a camp meeting that took place after a rainstorm, and the damp wood of the benches was bad for her. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Old guy who owns the place,” Mullet Fingers whispered. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s the place to apply for public assistance when a father is dead or disappeared and there’s no dole money, no wages. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

They did not, in the first place, behave at all like contractors. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some of them I could absorb by sitting in my little office in Houston, but others required trips to far-off places. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Kneeling there with her head bowed, she was not aware that the priest was left with the choice of placing the wafer on her hat or skipping her. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

The dog had calmed down, as if she’d finally found the one place in the world she most wanted to be. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Anyone who has ever revisited the place of his birth after years of absence is shocked by the differences between the way the place actually is, and the way he has remembered it. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once she left this place, if she could find a way out of this place, she knew she would never be able to find her way back. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

She’d wept bitterly when her mother had died of the disease as well, but not one tear had given her a bite to eat or a place to stay. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once I have the scissors, I place my shoes on top of a sheet of newspaper. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Another grenade landed nearby, and shrapnel tore into him in a dozen places. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

The dark things that were driven out in the year of the Dragon’s fall have returned in greater numbers, and Mirkwood is again an evil place, save where our realm is maintained. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

The path curves through the trees toward the pond, and I squint into the sunshine sparkling across the water, knowing that in places it's too deep to measure. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

In this place, the last thing you want is attention. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

It’s a second home, this place where everyone speaks my language, and where those who might otherwise be powerless in real life can now be incredibly powerful. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“What happeened?” she asked me as I held her, standing on my tiptoes so I could place my chin on top of her head. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

The Simbas have cleared the place of Europeans without ever setting foot here. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“This is a neoprene material, like what wet suits are made of. The sleeve will create a vacuum between you and your prosthetic leg that will hold it firmly in place.” The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

They came around a corner and Rowan saw their destination: some sort of compound made to look like an old adobe mission, completely out of place in the cold of MidMerica. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

After several hours I began to get a feel for the place, an understanding of which way I needed to go. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I was all smiles as I lashed the lander in place. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

As so often happens in desperately poor places, the worst elements came to the fore. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The words have barely left my mouth when the boy leans closer and places his hand on my cheek. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

“You remember how to get home from school tomorrow, right? To the new place?” Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

And then He will place His holy hand upon our heads and straightway us will be white as cotton. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

He buckled them into place with a strap that dented my forehead, and gave me a wire to bite. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

Daddy places my suitcases in the trunk while Pop Pop, Tanisha, and I wait in the car. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

The general arrangements, though not the details, are familiar to us, though we’ve never seen so many mice in one place before and are awed by their numbers and stench. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

There were generally a few rioters around but they never came into the library so it was a good place to work. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

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

She sat at Dad’s place at the foot of the table, and we resented this, too. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

It took him only three days to earn the place of honor in her nightly prayers. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“What the hell,” Dad said, “this place is as good as any other.” The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

“How did you hear of this place? Do your friends at school go there?” Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

And now it wasn’t just getting taken to a new place. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

“I was at your place. But to stop another fire. Not start one.” Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

There're dreams where right people appear in wrong places, and this was like that. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

I entered the contest, and with more than four hundred other students participating, I won first place—out of my city, county, and state. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

It ain’t right for this place to suck the strength of their youth, then cast them off like dry husks to the wind. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

He made a careful note of that in his black book and strode up and down, his hands clasped behind his back, surveying the wreckage in the market place. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Perhaps you should encourage him to live within the confines of our rules, lest he risk his place on this campus.” Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

“Guys, remember at the Wolf House? Our favorite ice princess, Khione? She talked about spilling Jason’s blood, how it would taint the place for generations. Maybe demigod blood has some kind of power.” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

She asked each student in my seventh-grade English class to pick one place for a pen pal program our school was starting that year. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Mr. Flux placed the hat atop Sheed’s head, the brim resting on his brow. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

“That’s the place where people go when they forget. You seen the fog on the other side?” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z