| 单词 | plain |
| 例句 | Between them was a narrow space, and there upon a floor of polished stone, written with strange signs, a man might stand five hundred feet above the plain. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z Amma must have worn colorful saris, too, when she was a maid, instead of the plain uniform of old shirts and long skirts that all the women wear in jail. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z She had long straight hair on her legs, which everyone said made them even prettier, and small feet encased in plain brown shoes with a low square heel. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z A plain, timid girl painted her toenails kelly green. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z When it was finished, it sat in the display room along with the projects of his classmates, including wooden plaques and a plain box that someone called a telephone base. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z Some shiny, some speckled, some covered in wooly cocoons, some wrinkled and plain except for a curious sling that held them to a branch. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z When Alex breaks off to look at him, the intention on Henry’s face is as plain as anything he’s ever read there. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z This again was never put into plain words, but in an indirect way it was rubbed into every Party member ffom childhood onwards. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z She was dressed in a plain brown skirt and white blouse. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z One thing I got onto that morning, with the house full of Granny and empty of her at the same time, was the notion that she’d of hated dying so plain. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z Collision with a floating mine might explain explosion, but seems fanciful, besides highly unlikely as sinking started at stem, which in all likelihood would mean that hull breach was at stem too. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z The icy air blowing across the plain reminds me that the Games are not over and may not be for who knows how long, and there is still no guarantee of victory. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z From the Pueblo communities of the Southwest, travelers took roads eastward onto the semiarid plains along tributaries of the Pecos River. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z The last stop on our tour was at a small market where Akhi had me buy a package of plain crackers, bottled water, almonds, and two bananas. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z The book has a plain ivory cover, a title written in French. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Catherine was lying in the narrow bed wearing a plain, square-cut night-gown that looked as though it were made of rough sheeting. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z Across the foaming water, to and fro, the boat careered like a ball of tumbleweed blown on the autumn plains, but intact still. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z She used plain white labels and cut out dots and dashes for Morse code and then stuck them on a black shirt like this: Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z In his book the card stands out against the others I’ve made, plain as a field of new snow. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z When she had gone, Lady Nym said, “I know she loved our father well, but it is plain she never understood him.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Bloopers make the danger plain: Guilt, vengeance, and bitterness can be emotionally destructive to you and your children. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z I thought he was just a plain doctor. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z She frowned a lot as she talked, and I couldn’t decide if she was plain old coffee or something worse, like the vinegar pooled at the bottom of a jar of pickles. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z When Pearl returned, she found her mother in the kitchen setting a plain manila envelope on the kitchen counter. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z I must be too excited to see something happening after all those hours, because I plain forget I’m supposed to be hiding. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z The dressmaker thought of the clue Chris had dropped; no stock symbol had five letters or even resembled the word plain. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z “The rich man gave us two bowl, special bowl and plain bowl. He was very good man.” A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z A Renaissance man of the plains, he is a farmer, welder, businessman, machinist, ace mechanic, commodities speculator, licensed airplane pilot, computer programmer, electronics troubleshooter, video-game repairman. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z After he started over in the cattle business again, he often slept in a tent on the cold, windy plains, alone in his fury. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z On one side flat sagebrush plains trailed off into soft round foothills that led into mountains beyond. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z It was grainy, black-and-white security-camera footage, but you could see what was happening plain as day. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z Miss Honey paused and leaned back in her chair behind the plain table that stood in the middle of the floor in front of the class. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z It was plain that many people regarded them now as the companions of a travelling magician of unknown powers and purpose. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z “You’re as plain as the nose on your face,” said Mr. Pennyworth. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z Which was when I remembered what Osh always said: If you want to hide something, leave it in plain sight. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z I let my imagination wander, seeing the first explorers on the moon as they worked their way back to their station after a day of walking among craters and plains. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z I'm hiding in plain sight, which is often the best way to be concealed. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z The rest were either too distracted by their troubles or just plain unmotivated, so pretty much everyone grudgingly accepted some form of public aid. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z But where we were, right below Suribachi, it was just plain impossible. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z One who passed in and came at length out of the echoing tunnel, beheld a plain, a great circle, somewhat hollowed like a vast shallow bowl: a mile it measured from rim to rim. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z In the morning they found, for the first time since they had left the Chetwood, a track plain to see. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z When the clouds eased up and let loose of the moon’s light, I could see the cap’n plain and clear. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z They both wear plain black silk dresses, which, while excellent for sneaking around and keeping slaves’ cuffs hidden, don’t blend so well into the rainbow plumage of the throng. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z “After all, the home warren was fairly plain to be seen.” Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z She could see it as plain as day. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z There he could see the heads of the trees descending in ranks towards the plain from which they had come. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z The plain fact was that the police were not quite ready to dismiss him as a suspect. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z You never see her cry for plain old hurt. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z I saw a bank of storm clouds rolling across the Midwest plains. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z She’d been plain, wearing her hair in two braids all through high school. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z He was very certain that some day his own oasis of oaks and elms would stand upon those shadeless plains: “Some day. God willing.” In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z This was because she was ‘plain clothes’; he wasn’t. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z He said this in just the plainest everyday voice, as if discussing that the dog had gotten into the garbage again. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z ‘Where are their flocks? What are they, Gandalf? For it is plain that to you, at any rate, they are not strange.’ The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z A hollow voice rolled across the plains, shaking the warm fleshy ground. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Her uncle's craggy face showed his pain plain. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z When Herbert Stead returned the next morning, a plain of wind-rippled water still covered portions of the park, but the empty boxcars and packing debris were gone. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Okay, I know we’re just talking about a few puny little owls, and I know everybody is crazy about Mother Paula’s pancakes, but what’s happening out there is just plain wrong. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z In less than a month, crossing the Nebraska plains in the yellow school bus and going to school in Grand Island had become a familiar routine. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z She always calls her husband Mr. Washburn, as if no one will know whom she’s talking about if she calls him plain Henry. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z Almost every street came to be as plain to her in the night-time as her own home block. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z Cut off from civilization, the Nhambiquara Indians were adept at hiding from plain view in the rain forest. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z A deep war cry bellowed from somewhere above, echoing across the plains of Tartarus, and a Titan dropped onto the battlefield. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z And now here it was, plain to hear as a Flop’s whistle. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z There’s a new chap at the club named Quinzy who’s itching to meet them, and the fellow’s a judge so it’s plain common sense to throw him a bone, so to speak. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z It was located in Hwaseong, a city of about five hundred thousand people in the low plains of the central Korean Peninsula, near the Yellow Sea. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z I looked at her without favour: it was plain enough why she had come. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z She barely managed it, gulping it down with plain water rather than her usual orange-flavored soda. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z “That’s just plain old nature. I mean ghosts and dead children and crazy people—things that give me nightmares. I want to leave, like you.” The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z At the front of the room sat a plain pine casket. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z Still, she wouldn’t have traded anything for this moment, standing there and looking down at the plains spread out below. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z “The dress will be modest and plain. You would not want to be mistaken for one of the guests, after all.” The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z This was the plain coffin of a rail splitter. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z But she also just plain likes rubbing her hand on the V of his jeans. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z “They don’t really care. In poems you can’t say plain out what you mean.” Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “What I meant quite literally,” she says/grinds, “is that the inimitable Grandma Sweetwine, dead and gone, was in the car, sitting next to me, plain as day.” I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z It was just a plain Timex on an old, really worn yellow-and-blue-striped fabric band, but it had been his dad’s watch. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z The dress was simple, light blue with plain lines, like nothing she had worn before. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Brown hair funneled into a ponytail by a plain rubber band. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z When the soldiers burned our clothes, Ma was wearing this shirt underneath a plain black shirt and was able to hide it from them. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Napoleon would have whipped the Austrians on the plains. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z “Just plain, no gravy or butter or nothing?” Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z The meaning was plain enough; Khal Drogo was as like to return from the dead as she was to bear a living child. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z It is plain indeed that in spite of later estrangement Hobbits are relatives of ours: far nearer to us than Elves, or even than Dwarves. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z In the end, we’d bury our dad in a compromise casket—nothing too fancy, nothing too plain—and never once discuss it again. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z I compare her to one of those destructive rivers that, when they become enraged, flood the plains, ruin the trees and buildings, raising the earth from one spot and dropping it onto another. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z By the time the Termites reached adulthood, Terman’s error was plain to see. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z Doha missed eating plain white rice, but he knew of so many who had so much less. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z And he didn’t have to worry about scholarships or stupid school counselors or just plain feelin’ useless. Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “I like my socks plain. I never learned any patterns either.” The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z It’s a pocket mirror, the small plain oblong kind without any rim. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z At every step he took the strangest facts and made them as plain as possible. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z I’d never heard him laugh in my life and here he was shrieking like a gull over garbage about something that was just plain insulting. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Ged did not know what she meant, for to him the enchanted gate was as plain to see as the stone archway of the court through which he saw it. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z Though plain, she did not look at all like Fourth Cousin. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z The girl’s cheek was blistered and raw and scabrous; a plain girl this was, young. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z With the headlights turned off, the car careened over a rocky plain, rattling the passengers’ teeth. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z She can memorize long pieces of music, and she has one of those plain faces that turns beautiful unexpectedly, and she is so capable, she never loses her car in parking lots like Annabelle does. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z He was no less memorable for speaking plain. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z Some of them were even striped like bathing tents, but the most part were in plain colours, yellow and green and so on. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Maya wasn’t sure if it was love, fear, or just plain stupidity, but the colors picked up speed when she saw Claire waiting in the parking lot for her. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z I’m wearing the same plain navy shirt and khakis I always wear when I see my father. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z The masthead of the newspaper was on the front page, as plain as the nose on Dr. Barnes’s face—and his nose was very plain from where Cara was sitting. The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z And every day I feel a little bit more like plain old Malala, just another girl in the class. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z If you looked closely through the mesh, you could see the levers and mechanisms and hard plastic appendages in plain sight below the seat pan. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z “Of course I will make you a dress! You can’t attend a holiday ball looking like that. The dressmaker jerked her head in the direction of Penelope’s plain frock and apron. “ The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z “Old Man Rawlins was a bit of a story. See, he was never given a choice in the matter. He had to box, plain and simple.” Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z That the plain way about him was the plain way about me. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z The Warlord leaped down from his rostrum and seized the trembling miscreant, booting him forward into plain view of the army. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z The radio was in plain sight, on the table next to the armchair. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z Chima and Obiora used plastic ones while the rest of us had plain glass plates, bereft of dainty flowers or silver lines. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z I had decided to ask a yes-or-no question, which might at least make plain the extent and kind of obscurity or ambiguity in the answer. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z Dylan and Elsie dare me to try Banshee I-Scream, which seems like plain old ice cream to me until the urge to shout my lungs out takes over after the third bite. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z At the cemetery, there was a plain wooden box standing beside a deep hole. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z It plained of its gaping wounds, its inward bleeding, its riven chords. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z On the surface, Atzerodt’s plan is an act of genius, allowing one of the most wanted men in America to hide in plain sight. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z I pulled her across it and her hand was small, but warm, and then she stood before me, short and thin and plain and in all ways unremarkable—except that she had jumped first. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z “Handsome! Oh! no—far from it—certainly plain. I told you he was plain.” Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z The door to the roof of the tower was stuck so fast that it was plain no one had opened it in years. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z By the following day Hazel saw it plain. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z And then suddenly she sees it herself, sitting in plain view, on a shelf she’d scanned a minute ago. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Across the Colorado River from Needles, the dark and jagged ramparts of Arizona stood up against the sky, and behind them the huge tilted plain rising toward the backbone of the continent again. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Sneaky likes his plain, but he always gets an extra syrup for me. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z Harry raised himself slightly in his seat and saw what looked like plain water boiling away inside it. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z Most times, she just sits there pulling from a plain ol’ cigarette and talking to her clients about any- and everything. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z A wide plain spread out beneath them, bare and brown, its flatness here and there relieved by long, low hummocks. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z The cabin they approached was small and squat, built of logs and entirely plain, a typical pioneer’s cabin. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z Now she was confused, now she was just plain scared. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z The usual description of the duel’s location—the plains of Weehawken—is misleading. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z It felt cooler way out here, however many miles we were from shore, and some spots were plain cold. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z He decided that he himself, at any rate, would be perfectly candid and plain. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Before him to the north the cliff fell away sharply to the Kum River, a broad stroke of silver ribboning its way through the hills and plains. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z I like plain water better, so I took some from the faucet before I sat down. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z The light from the east struck it and made it all plain and clear. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z It did indeed smell vilely—like the old chapel at Carfax—and with our previous experience it was plain to us that the Count had been using the place pretty freely. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z ‘But let us not speak of it again! Not yet. Say nothing to the others, I beg, not until it is plain that there is no other way.’ The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z I realize now it was just plain foolish of me to think he ever would. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Like instead of just a plain scoop of cold ice cream, a scoop with some chocolate chips hidden inside. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z When we were undressed, we were thrown the plain khaki uniforms of Robben Island. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z He sat at the table watching the snow fall past the window and many things became plain. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z They were appropriately amazed, though they did tell me in plain terms that next time I would leave a note for them or there would be hell to pay. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z He was sitting with his knees drawn up and his arms across them, looking out across the plain as she’d done, and marveling at the extent of it. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z They seemed less intimidating, particularly the youngest, a plain girl with bed- springs of bright orange hair. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z Of course, there’s sometimes a reason to have a “real” quarrel, but the verbal exchanges that take place here are just plain bickering. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z You can hear the regret of a Head Gamemaker who can only dream of such toys, who must make do with hovercraft and land-to-land missiles and plain old guns. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z When he looked more closely, it was plain that many of them were wounded. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z “Then these—” she picked up a box of plain saltines—“are probably the best bet.” Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z From the way he moved it was plain that Sigom had never danced before, but he had drunk enough mulled wine so that it did not seem to matter. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z The furniture, while obviously good, was scarred and plain and there wasn’t much of it. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z “You’re always so worried, King,” Sandy says, his voice cracking, and I don’t know if it’s because he’s about to cry or is already crying, or if it’s because his voice is just plain squeaky. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z “Your husband needs milk and vegetables and butter, not plain rice day after day.” Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z Like the dragons living in temple eaves, my mother looked down on plain people who were lonely and afraid. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z They were so plain I couldn’t help but understand them. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Like the sidewalks, it’s red brick, and must once have been plain but handsome. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z A plain brown bottle with a plain brown label, both stylish and salutary. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z Papito doesn’t exactly congratulate me on my success, but at least he no longer com- plains that I’m leeching off them. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z I was the plain robin among them, longing for freedom and unable to sing for the bars around me. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z Now the three travelers were standing on a desolate plain, with no signs of any kind of life whatsoever. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z If the Beni becomes a reserve for the "natural," they ask, what international organization would let them continue setting the plains afire? 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Crossing the fields to the north I had seen a train pass on this railroad, visible a long way across the flat plain, and I thought a train might come from Portogruaro. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z The young lords had not seen, then, beyond that plain face of the kitchen slave. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z This time she left off all the divining gyrations and jingle-jangle antics and just started her story, plain and simple. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z Her mother said comfortable with a faint shudder, and Olanna almost smiled because her mother had Odenigbo’s basic university house in mind, with its sturdy rooms and plain furniture and uncarpeted floors. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z That was how we got our color TV and a plain television stand. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z I screamed because I hated stuff that was just plain stupid. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z “To me, that’s probably the best half of you, the part that makes you smart and funny and lovable and just plain cute!” he told me with a big smile. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z There far away there was a pale green glimmer that Merry guessed to be a glimpse of the plains of Rohan. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z Between roads the woods and plains moved too; the land was peopled—the Han people, the People of One Hundred Surnames, marching with one heart, our tatters flying. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z While he fried the plain bamboo shoots in the pot over the fireplace, Minli looked around the bare room. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z It was as broad as my hand and had a yellow 8 on each clear wing, as plain as if some careful schoolchild or God had painted it there. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z I could not understand the words they were growling out, but their intention was plain. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z My soul wandered over the dark plain until it came to a cluster of adobe huts. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Right in the plain sight of God he has two wives, a young and an old one. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z The sage is all things to these birds of the plains. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z So they set off across the floor of that great desolate plain, and the harpies wheeled higher and higher overhead, screaming and screaming. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z She thought of the orchids spreading across the plains below, choking the life out of other plants, out of the soil itself, selfish and unstoppable. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z The woman answered in her plain voice, “I have been kitchen slave since I went into the House of Hwang. There were meats at every meal.” The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z To the Dothraki, water that a horse could not drink was something foul; the heaving grey-green plains of the ocean filled them with superstitious loathing. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Rays of sun dance through the valley, painting light on the plains even as the floating isles cast patches of shadows; flocks of white birds cry out in formation below us. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z They come sliding down toward us, one by one, all metallic and plain. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z He made it plain that he wanted to fight just as bad as the first bull. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z “The lesions are easy to miss unless you know what you are looking for,” she said, “and then it’s as plain as the nose on your face.” The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The fields were bare and wet; a long way away 1 could see a campanile rising out of the plain. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z They are as sweet and plain as butter- cake. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z “Let us be thought over-much plain and simple, even bare, rather than gaudy, flashy, cheap and meretricious. Let us manifest the taste of gentlemen.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Not plain as in homely plain, but even plain. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z "When you named me to command the Watch, you told me you wanted plain truth, always." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Far he ran over the plain of ice and over the lands of Earth. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z Purple oranges are just plain unusual, and so is she. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z She was wearing one of her navy blue, immaculate suits with a plain, snow-white blouse showing in the V of the neck. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z The hosts met on the broad plains of the Reach, amidst golden fields of wheat ripe for harvest. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Each square had a plain white background, but in the center was a pinwheel-shaped flower, every petal a different colored fabric. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z With horror she read what had happened, all as plain to her as if in print. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z She was wearing a plain black cotton dress and had short gray hair that was permanented into sausage-like curls that bounced and jiggled on her round head. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z Her dark hair was smoothed back into a bun and she wore long, plain robes. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z I couldn’t tell if she was trying to warn me, or if the look in her eyes was just plain fear. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z When you’re fourteen and your body is changing as mine was that summer, you just plain get tired, but I couldn’t admit it. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “Prince,” says I, “you cannot divert me. You planned a Martyrdom as plain as a Catholic.” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Brothers and sisters, newly men and women, had to efface their sexual color and present plain miens. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z To the east, forested slopes stretched away to a vast, barren plain. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z He walked halfway to the rear and, struggling to keep his voice under control, said: “They don’t want to sit with you people, don’t you know that? They don’t want to—is that plain enough?” Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Lorraine Daston has distinguished what she calls ‘strange facts’ from ‘plain facts’. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z A square, plain face, silver hair, a heavy build, and no humor whatsoever. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z If someone were to get killed, I wouldn't be rubbernecking but just plain old flesh necking. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z “Some of us started believing our own tale. That it might be healing water, hallowed ground. But it was just water and dirt, plain and simple.” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z I showered and brushed my teeth and put on dark jeans and a plain black T-shirt. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z Momma comes from the other hallway in her plain yellow scrubs, following a teary-eyed boy and his mom. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z Mark them china doll, brainiac, Or plain dumb jock. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z She doesn’t like me, that much is plain. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z We had much more of the Lord’s work to do here, that was plain. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Away to the eastward the distant fires flickered, and now it seemed that here and there they crept across the plain. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z When he saw the plaque under the peregrine falcon, the one that was just plain wrong, the day took on a different tone. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z Alex gawks, watching Henry feel around the edge of a seemingly plain wall. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z There were many voices round about, and though orc-speech sounded at all times full of hate and anger, it seemed plain that something like a quarrel had begun, and was getting hotter. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z It was a great example of a message hiding in plain sight. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z The walls, the ceiling and the floor of our bedrooms were made of plain unvarnished pine planks. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z Peewee couldn’t drink anything except plain water and a little warm milk. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Old Mr. Rivers, she said, was a plain man enough, but a gentleman, and of as ancient a family as could be found. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z “Oh! no. You are very obliging to say such things—but certainly not. There is no comparison between them. Miss Campbell always was absolutely plain—but extremely elegant and amiable.” Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z Hester was no beauty; she was about as plain and scrawny as a hare could be; but her eyes were marvelously colored, gold-hazel flecked with rays of deepest peat brown and forest green. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Plenty of theories which we now regard as plain wrong have been successful in the past. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z The pony’s tracks were plain enough, dragging through the frostlike dew on the young grass, tired tracks with little lines between them where the hoofs had dragged. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z Even though I’d finally figured out these were expressions and not the plain, factual truth, I expected Cecile Johnson to, at the very least, be bad off. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z But when parents apologize, it’s just plain weird. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z Amongst the letters and cards there is a plain grey envelope. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z The fabric looked like plain cotton, but she felt as warm as if she had put on a thick fur. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z He's probably somewhere out there on the plain, hungry and yellow-eyed, a shell of the boy I once knew. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z So I take off my mother’s church dress and put on a plain sweatshirt that belongs to Chantal and a pair of new jeans. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z So many appetites wake up that Brother Vu just has time to cook rice and serve it with plain fish sauce. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z I assumed supernaturals like Mrs. Walters were rare, but they’re all over the place, hiding in plain sight. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z It was no accident, but rather the result of long ages of experimentation by nature, that the great plains of the West became the land of the sage. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z The lights of the car showed him up in front of them very plain. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z On the plains of the American west, where steer 534 was born, bison and the prairie grasses lived together in partnership for thousands of years. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z “The fate of those empty, wide plains and those miserable mountain regions seems dull to me as well.” Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z Plus, she knew how to read lips, and that was just plain creepy. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z In northern Peru a third range rises between them; the altiplano, a scoop of high plains some five hundred miles long, fills the gap in the south. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Her father’s fingers were plain now, like her mother’s. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z “Out in the plains...Is that smoke? Another firestorm down there?” The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z “Sit here,” she said, gesturing to an open spot on a plain brown bench against the wall. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z So I just say it, plain out loud. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z And there will be Sarah, plain and tall. Sarah, Plain and Tall 1985-04-25T00:00:00Z I have literally just dragged myself into the tangle of hushes at the base of the trees when there's Cato, barreling onto the plain, soon followed by his companions. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z On his nose sat a thick pair of glasses with plain lenses that made him look slightly dim-witted and completely harmless. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z The landscape below them was a bleak, ash-gray plain bristling with black trees, like insect hair. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z By the time I got it loose, the clickety-clacks were plain as day and getting louder, louder, LOUDER! Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z But they were plain, unpainted wood like the ones she’d resided in. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z The plains hid no rodents, no grubs, no worms, no snakes, no scorpions; they gave rise to no other trees, no shrubs, no grasses, no flowers. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z Carthage, South Dakota, population 274, is a sleepy little cluster of clapboard houses; tidy yards, and weathered brick storefronts rising humbly from the immensity of the northern plains, set adrift in time. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z “You can tell that when she looks down at that baby in her arms, she doesn’t see a Chinese baby. All she sees is a baby, plain and simple.” Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z I try on a plain navy blue suit. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z I preferred to think the plain have their rewards, and this was mine. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z She might fall asleep in plain view along the road. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z I walked to the house, around to the front, and stood in the road as before, in plain view of the windows. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z “I should be plain angry the way you be gone long enough.” Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “All these houses they’re building without maid’s quarters? It’s just plain dangerous. Everybody knows they carry different kinds of diseases than we do. I double.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z The simplest way of making strange facts plainer was to replicate them. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z His angry roar rolled across the plains like a nuclear blast. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z Yet this great plain of numbness was not the worst place to be. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z “Yeah, but listen, it’s still true. Those six guys, they heard wicked sound out there. They heard sound you just plain won’t believe. “ The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z They found themselves in a wide clearing or plain. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z A hole opens in the plain and as if on cue, the remaining mutts bound into it, disappearing as the earth closes above them. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z It was plain that though he was a brave man, he did not like to hear about Grendel. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z A plain, ordinary sofa just to sit upon. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z The mountain is a biological island of rain forest in the center of Africa, an isolated world rising above dry plains, fifty miles across, blanketed with trees, bamboo, and alpine moor. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z My plain black jacket didn’t stand out, I noticed with relief. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z “So, in plain English, are we friends now?” Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z The girls wore their hair cut above their chins, with bangs, and had plain skirts or monpe. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z ‘In the language of Orthanc help means ruin, and saving means slaying, that is plain. But we do not come here to beg.’ The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z They were still ten feet away from the forest, in plain view of Hagrid’s back door. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z We emerged at the base of a cliff, on a plain of black volcanic sand. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z If she tried, he’d argue and wheedle and sulk and bully and plain wear her down. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z Of course, we didn’t have any dressing to put on the heart of palm, but we just munched it plain and raw, like chewing dry, tough celery. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z The woman leans down and picks up the money and shows everyone that, yes, it’s just a plain old American twenty, unaltered, not sticky. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z “That dress is just plain beautiful,” she whispered. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z His panic was plain on his face, and mounting. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z We lock them into a flat Tupperware container he’s confiscated from his house and leave it sitting out in plain view for the next person who comes here. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z As I flip through all the pictures, I notice how plain I look next to my friends. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z Sixty million of them would have been more than sixty billion pounds of grouchy, fast- moving mammal pounding the plains. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z We traded information on Mommy the way people trade baseball cards at trade shows, offering bits and pieces fraught with gossip, nonsense, wisdom, and sometimes just plain foolishness. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Mama was a plain person, like Granny, and didn’t dress fancy the way Aunt Loma did every time she stuck her nose out of the house. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z Young lieutenant delivering military mail: days alone across an enormous white plain. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z If that ain’t a plain out lie, I don’t know what is.” Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z I do not mean simple as in simple-minded—I mean he likes plain and simple things. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z “It is very plain that as things are, we are not going to be able to do our duty here.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z I grew silent and reserved as the nature of the world in which I lived became plain and undeniable; the bleakness of the future affected my will to study. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Not for the first time in my life, I’m glad that I’m small and plain. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z Most people would assume that if a child intended to cheat, then surely she would call as little attention to herself as possible, would be as quiet as a mouse and as plain as wallpaper. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z Their hiding place on top of the rock would be in plain sight to a creature that tall if he chose to look in their direction. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z Even with her hair so plain and her eyelids swollen from crying, Miss Love looked beautiful to me, for she had come alive! Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z Sometimes he is dressed in a plain suit, and the next time he will be black with dirt and smelling bad and in the overalls he wears to work. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z Maybe it’s been medically prescribed: ten rows a day of plain, ten of purl. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z Her tunic was as plain as her blanket, and tufts of white hair peeked out from the edges of her cotton head wrap. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z She could at least give them names in plain English, you would think. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s funny, or maybe just plain pitiful, that my friends know that everything I do depends on which week it is. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z If I got to be so indiscriminate about what I ate, it was not simply because of appalling hunger; it was also plain rush. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z The law was plain; a deserter’s life was forfeit. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z There was a palace just ahead, sitting in the middle of the plain like a gift. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z "Very good. See that my horse is saddled and ready. I mean for us to ride within the hour. Have you eaten? Craster serves plain fare, but filling." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Why couldn’t she bring a plain black one? The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z She made it plain from the start that she was not a guest, but the temporary commander-in-chief. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z They made her aware of her own lowliness, her plain looks, her lack of aspirations, her ignorance of so many things. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z Smaller and smaller the circle ungrew, with all the former life of a broad grassy plain trapped inside. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z One story, headed “Class in Cryptology,” stated that Elizebeth “had conducted a class in solving code messages,” showing “how experts translate into plain language the most complex of code and cipher.” The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z I felt that the truck was going east, and couldn’t get rid of this impression even when it became plain that it was going west, farther and farther into Orgoreyn. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z The path was now plain before them, well-tended and bordered with stone. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z The bottom line was that Weirdos were just plain weird because of their unpredictability. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z As for the train ride to New York — famous mountains lumbered by, famous rivers, plains, canyons, the whole holy American spectacle, without his looking up once. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z Four were made of plain wood, the kind of chairs in my classroom, and the other two were black and padded. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z But it was plain to see he was put out, too, something fierce. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z And there was the piper whose flute had called to the farmer; she was a young woman wearing a relatively plain gown in comparison to the dancing ladies. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z No one would ever suspect there were so many rooms behind that plain gray door. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z When I finally arrived on the frozen plain of the ice cap, I found that my tracks had long since drifted over. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z The cut was clean and deeper than she thought a plain Band-Aid could handle, than she would’ve thought a razor blade could cause. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z She barely noticed the hills give way to the dusty plain, or the lights of Mtoroshanga as they approached. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z He looked surprisingly plain, with mousy brown hair, tan skin, and average height, though Celaena had trouble not staring at his scar-flecked mouth. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z The reflection stared back at me, sallow and plain. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z The plain bitter truth is that this day chills me to the bone. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z He was clothed in the familiar habit of a Redwall mouse, plain, with no trimmings. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z Penelope briefly imagined those round, doll eyes were taking in her plain dress and sensible footwear, but shooed away the thought as fast as it came. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z But I was grounded and domesticated by the plain fact that should I now go down, I would not go down alone. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z There lake and plain smile fair and free, ’Mid rocks their guardian chivalry. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z “No.—But then, it is the obvious which is so difficult to see most of the time. People say ‘It’s as plain as the nose on your face.’ I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z Some would flow blazing towards Barad-dûr down great channels; some would wind their way into the stony plain, until they cooled and lay like twisted dragon-shapes vomited from the tormented earth. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z “I asked Constantine, just as plain as day, ‘Is that what you told her? The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z Without telling my story in plain language, I didn’t know how to ask the next bit, so I just followed the pencil where it led. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z T. Ray said Rosaleen’s religion was plain wacko, and for me to stay out of it. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z She wrote in a plain style and folded the page a moment afterward. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Dozens of plain wooden coffins of all sizes lie in a trench surrounded by the small crowd, all that remains of the Jewish community of Kielce, once twenty-five thousand strong. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z The Japanese had waited until we Americans had swarmed up the first slope and were like sitting ducks on the wide plain before the next terrace. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z A plainer gun was cheaper, but Guiteau chose a fancy one because, undoubtedly, it would soon be displayed to the world in a museum. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z We went through the forest and the road came out and turned along a rise of land, and out ahead of us was a rolling green plain, with dark mountains beyond it. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z She looked around and realized that every object on this vast plain had grown a vaporous comet’s tail—all pointing toward Tartarus. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z After church I go with the Smeaths through the vacant Sunday streets to watch the trains shunting monotonously back and forth along their tracks, on the gray plain beside the flat lake. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z She probably hated my father’s plain face on me. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z He has urged me to put aside my fears and speak my heart plain. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z On the plains, it is easy for elephants to find salt in hardpans and dry water holes, but in the rain forest salt is a precious thing. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z It seems like an overwhelming task, a mountain of adversity, separated from what few friends I have and a plain full of shamblers between me and where I want to be. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z But Tally was out in the open now, the plains spreading out below her as huge as ever. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z Finally she turned her face toward them and Olanna looked at her: a plain village girl curled up on the bed as if she were cringing from one more furious blow from life. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z They were probably walking around in plain sight, hidden nicely by smiles and Lucille’s optimism. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z It became even more plain that the ground near the river was too wet for rabbits. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Then O-lan came forward and spoke, and her plain, slow voice rose above the men, “Not that—not that yet,” she called out. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z Mr. Gideon’s flare has nearly gone out, darkness encroaching on the plain once more. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z In a way, she was being held captive in plain sight. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z Now she had only one plain pencil left, and it was rapidly growing shorter. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Every now and again, a plain grey cardboard box was dished out to each boy in our House, and this, believe it or not, was a present from the great chocolate manufacturers, Cadbury. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z First of all it went just south of the fisherman's cottage to the little river which there ran into the sea, and took care to leave in the mud some very plain hoof-marks pointing south. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z He was not sure how long he slept, but when he awakened the raft was drifting on a large, flat plain of water, bobbing sideways. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z There’s no such thing as plain joy or grief. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z He didn’t talk plain English like us; he said I can not instead of I can’t, and they are and did not and such. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z She placed the plain sheet of paper over the Instructions and put the box on top. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Is he a person of low stature, phlegmatic, and plain. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z I wasn’t mad that Vonetta had gotten the Timex with the pink wristband and couldn’t hold on to it, while mine is plain brown and still on my arm. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z What had killed him was plain to see—even to someone who had never seen such a thing before. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z They gazed at him affectionately and it was plain to see that he was their great spirit, a royal leader who held his group together with love and wisdom. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Rice fields are carved into mountainsides in an elaborate series of terraces, or painstakingly constructed from marshland and river plains. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z If plain men hide their true name from all but a few they love and trust utterly, so much more must wizardly men, being more dangerous, and more endangered. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z So today my face is plain, unadorned except for a thin mist of shiny sweat on my forehead and nose. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z Tobias and I walk through it and enter a plain office that contains just a desk, a computer, and two empty chairs. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z They let me and another prisoner stay in the dormitory, simply left us there in our sleeping-bags as if by oversight, when it was plain that we could not stand up on our feet. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z In the picture beneath the headline is a young man with a plain face and a beard. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z She wore a white blouse, a navy blue skirt, a pair of plain black flats. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Behold, we must sully the plain snow with footprints, in order to get anywhere. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z He’d unzipped it once, glimpsed something sleeveless, to the knee, with a plain round neck, reminding him of a tennis dress. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Everyone agreed that since Theresa could now see the real Mona and Callie as much as she liked, the cats should go back to being plain cats. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z Three concrete steps led up to the plain front door. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z “It’s a shame the rest of you is so plain.” Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z “If language has any meaning,” Stanton wrote, “we have in these texts a plain declaration of the existence of the feminine element in the Godhead, equal in power and glory with the masculine.” Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z They’d already scouted the modern city, which, strangely, reminded Piper of Albuquerque - a bunch of low, boxy, whitewashed buildings sprawled across a plain at the foot of some purplish mountains. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z Things that we could neither throw away nor keep in plain sight. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z ‘Just wait a minute. Just let me find brain room so I can study it all out and tell it to you plain.’ The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z “Will you dance with me, hidden here in plain sight?” Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z The grave, now with a two-foot-high plain marble stone, had become one of Iceland’s sightseeing attractions. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z On this metal- covered plain several trains are shunting slowly back and forth. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z He cut the cake and stuffed a piece in his mouth before Piper could warn him it might be poisoned, or inedible for mortals, or just plain bad. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z Though you murder the world, turn plains to stone, transmogrify life into I and it, strong searching roots will cracky your cave and rain will cleanse it: The world will burn green, sperm build again. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z Just a plain pair of dark slacks, a white shirt with a button-down collar, and a jacket with patches on the elbows. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z The village of Holcomb stands on the high wheat plains of western Kansas, a lonesome area that other Kansans call “out there.” In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z As the brush began to thin, and the yellow house was in plain sight, Genie could hear something. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z The shutters were open and the window ought to have been a square of dim cut from the dark, plain and empty against the night. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z But a blackbird, singing undisturbed on the outskirts of the wood, showed that there was nothing alarming there, and in the other direction, along the brook, all was plain to be seen, empty and quiet. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z They were all dirty and in plain shorts or draggle-tailed knickers or old everyday dresses. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z Half of each face is plain and sad, the other half is plastered with thick clown makeup that is fake-happy. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z The authorities know that it is not so, for they have made it plain in their every act that they mean to keep Bigger Thomas and his kind within rigid limits. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z “Why are they coming after you so fiercely? Why is a whole army chasing you across towns and rivers and plains and the whole stupid planet?” The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z When you got out on the fifth floor you faced a flat cream-colored wall broken only by a metal security door with the company logo in plain block lettering. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Those mounted plains warriors and Navajo sheepherders and weavers now figure prominently in white Americans’ image of American Indians, but the basis for that image was created only after 1492. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The impact with the hard-packed earth of the plain knocks the wind out of me. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z His massive, plain, blunt presence was enough to calm them. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z The road east to the plain, or the pass back westward, those they would first search most thoroughly. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z Sigh not for jealousy, Mrs. Fruhling—she cast no eye upon me, and I made no overtures to that imperious individual, being of far too plain and low a stature for Her Highness. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Half of its farmland is devoted to labor-intensive, high-yield, irrigated rice agriculture, facilitated by abundant rivers flowing from the wet mountains onto sloping lowland plains. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z When she put her hand down you could see the bruise just as plain. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Even after the Bull was out of sight, the laughter followed Virgil like a buzzing housefly until he finally reached the plain redbrick home of the Tanakas. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z His wife answered nothing at first and then she said in her plain, heavy way, “It is better not to say lend. There is no lending in that house. There is only giving.” The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z The meerkats were abandoning the ponds—indeed, the whole plain—and rapidly making for the forest. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z Once we entered Arizona, the green fields and rolling hills gave way to desert plains and rugged mountains. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z She imagines her footprints sinking invisibly through the streets and the sidewalks, below the condensed archaeology of the city to underground plains of rich alluvial clay. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z I gave them all away, making do with plain old spirals, and the five girls I offered notebooks to became my closest friends. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z The drawing envisioned a mile-square plain on the lakeshore sculpted by dredges into a wonderland of lagoons and canals. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Those fish were slippery and desperate, and I was just plain desperate. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z For he recognized that Jackson Park had something no other city in the world could equal: the spreading blue plain of Lake Michigan, as comely a backdrop for a fair as anyone could hope for. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z I got to wear an apron when I had my birthday party at the bakery, but that one had been plain black. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z His garb was plain as well: old boots, brown breeches and blue tunic, a woolen mantle of undyed wool, fastened with a wooden clasp. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z “It is as plain as the daylight that you are in love.” Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z “I hope it’s plain rice,” the freckled girl with the too-loud whisper says. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z The two plain ones were smiling, but the beautiful one was rapturous. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z The men on the Comer were southern working men: plumbers, carpenters, painters, drunks, con artists, retired army lifers from nearby Fort Knox, tobacco workers for Brown and Williamson, and some just plain ol’ hustlers. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Father nodded at the other building, a large one of plain, straight design. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z He could tell they were American soldiers by their plain clothes. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z Her mom’s in a pink Minnie Mouse number and her dad’s is plain navy blue. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z They camped that night in the woods on a ridge overlooking the broad piedmont plain where it stretched away to the south. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z Maybe she came from a good family, which back home was the reason men married plain, bucktoothed women. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z Not to mention that I knew cheating was just plain wrong. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Ged doled their food out sparingly, and the portent of this was plain, but both of them chewed their bit of salt fish and wheaten cake, and neither said anything. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z It’s really just a basic plain lobby, and lemme tell you: If you think everything in New York is high class, like the inside of a yacht or something, it isn’t. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z I imagined she was plain, and that it was all right to be plain. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z Soon the school and its outbuildings look like toys on the white plain below. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z She looked past the stocky man in plain clothes and saw ten— maybe more—cops lined up behind him. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z To the north, the wind had destroyed all vegetation, and she could see the immense plains of dunes and distant hills quivering in the sweltering light. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z We weren’t talking about Beatrix the nun, that was plain as day. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z So it stayed in the back of the truck, its four-foot hose hiding in plain sight. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z “Remember to stay very quiet. My father is just plain mean.” Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z “It doesn’t have to be anything fancy mind you. Just plain old pig-iron would do nicely.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z In her eagerness to make a good impression Kit had selected this dress with care, but here in this plain room it seemed overelegant. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z He was born in the cattle country near Mexico, and raised by a family that had run beef and then gone into cotton when the big Bureau of Reclamation dams completely transformed the plains country. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z He’d told me that they had to bury her quickly, because it gets hot in the plains, especially in this part of the country. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z And again it was O-lan who said in her flat plain voice, “Yet a little while and we shall see a thing. There is talk everywhere now.” The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z “You see,” I laughed, “under the fancy trappings, I’m just a plain lady.” From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z Out across the plain, where the horse and cattle fair would be, some gypsies had camped under the trees. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z I demanded of Fay when I saw him, my stress making itself plain. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “Take this to Dadi,” Papa said to me, and handed me the plain bowl of rice. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z “I want a Scotch and soda. In a tall glass. Heavy on the Scotch, light on the soda, lots of ice, a glass of plain water, no ice, on the side. That’s what I want.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z Cold, but totally plain and perfect with nothing green and lots of fries. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z The infraction was so cut-and-dried, and my writing so plain and direct, that I was about to explode from frustration. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Miss Love plain admitted that it was her fault. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z Occasionally he’d point to a small plain rock poking through the earth and say it was a cousin or an aunt. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z It’s masculine, too, in French, not just a plain noun like it is in English. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z Perhaps they said that of me too, but I was plain and she was pretty, so it didn’t make sense in her case. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z His most promising scheme had involved getting a book 011 munitions from the library, constructing a bomb, and mailing it in plain paper to Myrna. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “It says ‘PRIVATE’ in plain English on the cover,” I grumble. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z And he just plain didn’t know the meaning of surrender. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z The Phlegethon flowed in the same direction until about halfway across the plain, where it met another river of black water—maybe the Cocytus? The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z The room itself was plain—a gray floor with swirls that gave it the impression of movement and that was illuminated by four or five lights beaming from the shadows. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z There was a full-length mirror on the door, and when I saw myself, I realized I wasn’t plain old John Conlan anymore. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z The stern horizon-fenced plains of the Panhandle are foreign to the little wooded hills and sweet streams in the Davis Mountains. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z The rest of us are still poised around the plain, sizing up the situation, and she's got hers. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z It was plain in the web of premature lines that spread from the corners of his deep blue eyes. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z But he’s the coolest adult in our school, and to prove it, he’s got a Grammy Award for best rap song sitting right at checkout, in plain view for everyone to see and touch. Booked 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z What made the words “onion” or “tea bag” so plain? Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z This was a good decision: The first ten was made up of first years and it could not have been plainer that they had hardly ever flown before. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z Back when she was plain “Miss Smith,” she had yearned to make her mark on the world. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z This morning, when I was sitting in front of the window and taking a long, deep look outside at God and nature, I was happy, just plain happy. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z Their short skirts rode up, flashing warning lights of flesh: backs of knees, the curve of a calf, a smooth plain of thigh. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z “Don’t it beat all how a man that good-lookin’ would marry a wife that plain?” said one of the farm women, who’d have known a thing or two about plainness. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z Others joined them, coming out of the East across the Great River: their trail is plain to see a little north of this spot. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z When we walked in the first day, the whole space looked plain and a little unfinished. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z I let out a whoop as I soar over the plain, the music egging me on. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Leah blurted out all in a rush, “So the plain simple grass of God’s creation can be just as strong as, as rubber or whatnot!” The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Among the four sisters, she was considered the plain one, with her tall, big-boned body and large-featured face. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z With its silvery green binding it looked plain, a poor thing among all the other grand and lordly volumes. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z The ice-shapes climbed up out of the abyss and stood on the plain of ice. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z George, who was wandering up Carondelet with an armload of packages wrapped in plain brown paper, heard the cry and went up to the gargantuan vendor. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z She doesn’t know if she’s scared or nervous or just plain terrified, but there’s no going back now. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z Most to the North he looked, and would pause at whiles to listen as if by some ancient art his ears might hear the thunder of hoofs on the plains far away. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z As for the droppings of the white bird, scattered in the wood, it was plain that they were old. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z It was plain and comfortable, unlike my stiff and fashionable courtly dress, and it gave me an ease of movement that I relished. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z Sansa threw a plain grey cloak over her shoulders and picked up the knife she used to cut her meat. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z But she, after listening, mused and said in her plain and unmoved way, “Wait a few days. There is strange talk about.” The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z The next day, the eastward curve of the coastline was plain, straight ahead of us. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z The only decoration on the plain white walls was a small, sketchy illustration in a black wooden frame. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z What does he think he’s doing, trying to hide in plain sight when the mayor’s boys roughed him up not two days ago? Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z I don’t remember what it felt like, of course, but I can see it plain as can be in the pictures. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z It was so plain and austere, very different from most West Side houses, with their gaudy furniture and show-off decorations. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z Then he noticed a thin spiral of blue-grey smoke, plain to see as it caught the sunlight, rising from a thicket above him. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z Classic style also differs subtly from plain style, where everything is in full view and the reader needs no help in seeing anything. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z We got some that were plain and some cinnamon. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z In England, she claims, plain facts replaced strange facts much earlier than in France; in other words, facts became regularized and routinized. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z I saw Madrid come up over the plain, a compact white sky-line on the top of a little cliff away off across the sun-hardened country. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z Jude’s temper flared just a bit as he looked at this friend of his wife’s, this slight woman, not exactly plain, but not fine either, with a copperhead over her eye. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z A cavalry soldier, restless and caged in the tamed and political East, who loves the great plains and the memory of snow. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The men tended to be taut and well built regardless of age, dressed in beige or gray pants the color of the plains and cowboy boots that were worn for function. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Her face is open and guileless, her beauty plain. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z They looked like capsules, but they were plain white. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z Nevertheless, the trial’s last session found a fair segment of the local Establishment seated alongside the plainer citizenry. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z Someone made it plain to her why she couldn’t see it. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z His excitement was plain on his face as he held up the balsa-wood airplane model kit. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z They had come in so recently from the plains and the hills that it was necessary that they make their shifting in values gradually. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z He was known as a diligent worker, and his skill and leadership qualities were plain to all his subordinates. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z The absurdity is plain: he remains smaller than most of the fourteen-year-olds. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Maeve was solid and plain, but when she smiled, it was like sunshine peeking through clouds. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z But Desdemona set out for the streetcar in one of her plain dresses, gray with brown polka dots. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z He was referencing Ray’s job as a Schwan’s man, delivering frozen foods across the plains of eastern Montana. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z “No, I wouldn’t, for the smart caps won’t match the plain gowns without any trimming on them. Poor folks shouldn’t rig,” said Jo decidedly. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z The woman who spoke had a plain face lit up by a special smile. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z And I'm out, dashing off the bus, dashing through the terminal, frankly feeling just plain dashing. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z Her face is as plain and expressionless to me as everyone else’s. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z By some huge oversight on her part, Beth left her diary right out in plain sight when she went to California. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z The boys ordered their lunch, plus a baked potato for Reggie and a plain burger for Freebie, who was on a potty break. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z Between the trees lie wide-open plains of despair. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z “No, no, sir! think of other subjects, and speak of other things, and in another strain. Don’t address me as if I were a beauty; I am your plain, Quakerish governess.” Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z It takes most of the rest of the afternoon to get to the other side of the plain. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z They couldn’t leave the twins behind with Henry, though, and that letter had made it plain that there was nothing left for them in San Antonio. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z I was awed by the immense beauty of South Africa, seen from high up in the clouds: rolling hills and plains, meandering rivers and mountain ranges, thick forests, magnificent coastlines, luscious farmland. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z “Congratulations,” Cecile said to Mrs. “How are you feeling?” she asked plain and factual. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z Whether it’s the emotion of the moment or just plain nervousness, it’s hard to tell, but Mommy has never given a speech before. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z As her eyes adjusted, Hanako could see that the barrack was long and plain and empty. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z But the strawberries were sweet without sugar, and although it seemed weird to eat it plain, the Smokies’ bread had its own flavor without anything added. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z Yet she detested that “most meaningless of phrases, ‘plain Miss Smith.’” The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z Most discussions of style over the years have followed Cicero in identifying, at least roughly, three kinds—the high or grand style, the low or plain style, and the middle style.* Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z Sure enough, even from half a block away, I could see plain as day that Aston was one of the children. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z ‘There are none. It is quite plain, and it never shows a scratch or sign of wear.’ The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z “You were caught in our trap, plain as day. We knew the trickster would send someone, but children? He is truly desperate.” Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z That howl, the Director made it plain, discouraged the earliest investigators. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z They found themselves on a great plain that extended far ahead into the mist. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z While I looked them over, Sander rummaged through an ironbound chest and tossed me a short kersey tunic and a pair of plain breeches. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z New instruments are plain as pikestaffs; new intellectual tools are not. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z And secondly, here and there on the plain were stands of the tallest trees Mary had ever seen. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z At the top of the stairs was this plain old bathroom with a shower curtain that had all kinds of fish designs on it. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z Three times he whistled; and then faint and far off it seemed to them that they heard the whinny of a horse borne up from the plains upon the eastern wind. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z He leaped up and saw the Trojans in flight and Hector lying gasping on the plain. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z But maybe there’s also a little magic in cooking, taking all the plain old ingredients and turning them into comfort and memory. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z She could have left something there for me in plain sight and I wouldn’t know it. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z There were other questions, too, like what the relation was between her and the little white kids that she watched and also between her and her “daddy,” who plain as day was not her daddy. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z Reek could hear the wind sweeping across the rolling plains beyond the town. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z “Better to be in here than out there in the open where the grizzlies can see ya plain as day.” Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z If you let her, Lorraine would eat until she dropped, and if she keeps going at that rate, I’m afraid she’s going to be somewhat more than voluptuous, She could end up just plain fat. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z He placed them in a plain white envelope. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z If I have to eat one more plain tortilla or boiled potato, I swear I’ll cry. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z So I wrap my head with plain white fabric because I want this Ochún out. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z She wore a plain shift dress that likely fit her when she first entered the Tower, shortly after her thirteenth birthday, but she had grown taller, and it barely covered her knees. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z Though Orcs will often pursue foes for many leagues into the plain, if they have a fallen captain to avenge.’ The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z Sirens blared from behind him, and they all turned to see three police vans, white and plain, roll up on 4th. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z In the narrow ravine a rough path descended like a steep stair into the plain. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z The song of Here still feels like it’s being sung, even if I can’t hear it, even if it’s miles away back on the plain. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z His farm lay in the river plain and was already alive with shoots of new corn. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z But even when the animals are in plain view, many have protective coloration, which acts as camouflage. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z But after a time it became plain that El-ahrairah was ill from shock and exhaustion. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z The mountain was darker than the plain, but it was alive and it was real. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z And there, if you look closely, the difference between the two becomes plain. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z Sprawled out across the yellow plain, they covered an area about the size of a football field. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z “I don’t care as long as I get to eat the rest of your food. But why do you want that much plain rice? Ain’t you tired of it?” Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z The sky had turned to cotton candy and the city had become a plain again. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Being a plain old doctor or a plain old scientist isn’t challenging enough, so she decided she wants to combine them. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z Now it was plain and obvious: the ship was listing badly. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z What had once been a fairly smooth plain was now broken and fractured. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z There was an air of menace about them as they loped slowly across the plain with long lolloping strides, heading for the BFG. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z His anguish was plain; I yearned to comfort him, but I was at a loss to know how. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z The third section was plain and simple vocabulary building, where I'd write words and definitions I wanted to learn and use. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z I am not one to hold a prejudice against any animal, but it is a plain fact that the spotted hyena is not well served by its appearance. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z I uncovered the small form, beautiful, strong, but quite plain, a girl’s body. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z “He screamed for days, my lady,” the white knight replied, though it was plain that it pleased him little to say so. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z In college chapels I would listen to folk singing and see plain altars draped with bright applique banners: JOY! Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z “Oh, do be more plain to me! Perhaps grief and trouble are dulling my brain.” Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z He still didn’t look at me, but the fury was plain on his face. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z A plain white shirt, a pair of jeans, a belt, and a zip-up hoodie. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z Then their hearts rose, for it seemed plain that they had come further already than they had expected. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z “My dear, you said that Miss Campbell would not allow him to be plain, and that you yourself—” Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z Taken together, these discoveries forced Dewey to consider again the possibility of “plain robbery” as a motive. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z Every morning, Ranee folds and tucks a long, plain ivory or white cloth around herself, fingers recalling the complicated maneuvers she learned as a teenager. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z The next day, dawn broke as they were crossing a cracked and fissured plain of hard red earth. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z The English for part of the poem goes like this: A lake of new milk I beheld In the midst of a fair plain. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z He was wearing the plain black cap and robes of his station, but they were made of the finest silk, embroidered all over with phoenixes in black thread. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z ‘Would you have my plain answer?’ he said. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z The mountains on the other side of the lake were all white and the plain of the Rhone Valley was covered. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z Even when we have an inkling that we are speaking in a specialized lingo, we may be reluctant to slip back into plain speech. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z She is about my mother’s age, with wavy brown hair cropped close to her head and plain, strong features. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z Normally they make you feel floaty and think of puffy clouds and hear harps, but right now they look just plain scared. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z Barely a mile out into the plain it clustered like some huge nest of insects, with straight dreary streets of huts and long low drab buildings. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z He is the son of a famous professional hunter named Iain MacDonald, who was killed at the controls of a light plane that crashed on the African plains in 1967, when Robin was thirteen. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z I brought a couple of plain white T-shirts, and Cap showed me how to scrunch, twist, and tie them up, securing them with rubber bands. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z Granddaddy looked at the envelope’s plain white aspect. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z The soccer field had become the plains of northern Kenya, the great savanna. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z There was her face, plain brown eyes, three braids and the nose her mother hated. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z Noah said, "I don't think you can say just plain and apply it to Leonardo." The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z There was a portrait of a very plain dark woman on the wall. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z I liked him all the better for his plain attire and the easy manner he put on with it. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z “If ye press on with it, ye will but split the clan. I have told ye plain that none of us will help ye. Ye will be left to yer ain stour.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Kit had no idea of what happened to her thin plain features when she smiled. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z He used his power and influence to protect and conserve 230 million acres of American forest, desert, and plains, including the Grand Canyon, Muir Woods, Yosemite, and the Painted Desert, to name a few. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z Then he takes out a piece of plain paper and pulls the cap off of a marker with his teeth. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z For supper that evening my grandmother had a plain omelette and one slice of bread. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z It’s dustier than the room below, and there are some cobwebs, but it’s plain as day that this was once some kind of “man cave,” as Daddy would put it. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z It was a silvery building, nothing fancy, with plain white curtains and a carved stone owl over the doorway. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z But when we got inside the trailer, it became plain to me at once that they didn’t need to do any great changing to make a little girl happy. Missing May 1992-03-01T00:00:00Z Marked inside the boot, plain for all to see, is the name J. Wilkes. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z “Conjured folks can conjure you,” the boy’s mother always said, “if you get yourself plain carried off by their soft spell-talk.” Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z The landscape—at least what she could see of it—was rocky black plains, punctuated by jagged mountains and fiery chasms. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z From the front, Brooklyn Collective Elementary is plain, all concrete. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z He was afraid he would destroy everything by trying to force the magic on his own, when it was plain that the magic was reluctant to come for him. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z And trying to follow classes taught in English was just plain hard. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z Yet some-times she sat on a platform in plain sight of an audience and went sound asleep just as she had often done on the long road to the North. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z “With your current celebrity status, I thought it best if we hid you in plain sight, put you on one of the teams. It will allow you to be physically closer to the other players.” Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z The schoolroom is plain, but the wall paint is fresh and the wooden floorboards newly oiled and the desks worn. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z That Monday, the sixteenth November, 1959, was still another fine specimen of pheasant weather on the high wheat plains of western Kansas—a day gloriously bright-skied, as glittery as mica. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z On the floor of the endless plain, there was a vast, slow movement among the uncountable ghosts. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z I stuck my long-handled brush in the bucket and made a few grudging passes at the thatch, then paused and looked out over the plain of red-tiled roofs below me. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z I don't know what time it was when I found a modest wooden home—a small place that was plain without extras. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z They sheltered no life upon that plain, for all their power, without a fortress wall. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Then the aged King heaped a car with splendid treasures, the best in Troy, and went over the plain to the Greek camp. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z I remember what I have on—jeans, a plain sweatshirt, sneakers, and Pri’s oversized coat. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z "All right, then. It's plain I'll get no useful criticism from you." The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z “Ill or well, she would always be plain. The grace and harmony of beauty are quite wanting in those features.” Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z I was standing in plain sight now, my head and shoulders well over the top of the short flight of stairs, but I didn’t care. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z Asra liked best to tell long meandering tales about his young days on a Commensal farm in the Kunderer Valley, that broad splendid plain I had driven through coming from the border to Mishnory. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z She is completely still, her features plain—if we walked away right now, I would not remember her. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z Ivy got up and limped toward the checkout counter, where she found a piece of plain white paper in the printer. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z In those days Nebraska stood on a vast, hot plain very like the Serengeti of Africa today. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z There was tomato soup for lunch, coffee with skim milk because they were out of plain. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z Thresh and both large backpacks are vanishing over the edge of the plain into the area I've never seen. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z I hated her instantly too, for I saw her plain for what She was: a hag, a stooping harpy, a feaster on the flesh of beloved brothers. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z From the upper plains, the heat and aridity radiated across the country. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z We thought it was plain old cussedness that kept him in that park, day after day, rain or shine. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z McKinley and its satellites surrender to the low Kantishna plain, a series of lesser ridges, known as the Outer Range, sprawls across the flats like a rumpled blanket on an unmade bed. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z He pulled on some clothes, went over to the table, and took out a sheet of plain paper. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z She had relinquished her daughter to another family so that she would be safe; now she watched as Little Anna, in her small plain box, disappeared into the grave. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z It was plain that the punt would drift against the bridge and be held there. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z It was plain that Hermione didn’t have the faintest inkling that she had visitors, and that they might just as well tell her bedside cabinet not to worry for all the good it would do. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z Brian Greene’s explanation of the multiverse in chapter 2 shows how a classic stylist can explain an esoteric idea in plain language without patronizing his audience. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z When I caught up to Emma she was standing near the plateau’s edge, gazing out at the countryside below, sloping green hills falling away to a distant plain. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z The contrast with Brutus is made, and reinforced when later he says: I am no orator, as Brutus is; But, as you know me all, a plain blunt man, That love my friend ... Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z The hatbox is plain and round, covered in black silk. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z I knew plain shooting couldn’t account for that much blood. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z I open my eyes and find that I'm not, in fact, lying on a fair netherworld plain. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z I could see a few tents set up, the first rows of black barracks, and beyond them, blurred by sand, rows of barracks that seemed to spread for miles across this plain. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z All alone, outside the pueblo, on the bare plain of the mesa. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z Blind impulses welled up in his body, and his intelligence sought to make them plain to his understanding by supplying images that would explain them. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z A wide expanse of lush plains turns into a crystal-blue lagoon, surrounded by towering cliffs and smooth, steep rocks, their tops covered with vegetation. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z In her plain black dress she sat there like a cuckoo that has forced its way into another bird's nest. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z Beyond the outer wall, the tracks were plain to read in the soft ground; the pawprints of the wolves, Hodor's heavy tread, the shallower marks left by the feet of the two Reeds. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z And when it was made plain who Kino was, the doctor grew stern and judicious at the same time. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z As the wind blew, it shifted the smells: sweet spices to bitter moss to a plain funky, nasty stink. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z The advice to bring zombie nouns back to life as verbs and to convert passives into actives is ubiquitous in style guides and plain language laws. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z And so we found ourselves at sunrise upon a wide, marshy plain, all shapes gray and indistinct, with the sky a seam of red. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z One can guess that their boats were not made of wood, because they had long lived on the almost treeless plains of Beringia. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z A tall plain one, with a trust fund. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z The king moved forward on the plain wooden bench. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z Henry didn’t look at her, but his irritation was plain. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z The division in the two tubes that resulted was very plain: the centre tube was white in colour, while the tube that surrounded it was decreasingly green as it approached the inner wall. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z It was plain that he had never before considered the possibility that his bride-to-be might refuse him. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z I don’t know if he’s serious, if he’s joking, or if he’s just being plain mean. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z The dress is plain black, with a V-neck that shows the tattoos on my collarbone, and goes down to my knees. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z Outside of Europe, in places such as China, Arabia, and Mexico, people enjoyed their hot drinks plain. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z They never elaborated about just what diseases the toilets contained, but they made it plain that the ailments were both contagious and dire. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z The tracks the wolves had left were plain enough- "Pawprints, yes. So?" A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Unlike his usual selections, she was plain, short, and plump, her weight somewhere between 140 and 150. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z I said, it’s the planet Neptune I’m talking about, just plain ordinary Neptune, not Paradise, because I don’t happen to know about Paradise. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z Dasch showed him the plain white handkerchief and told him about the invisible ink. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z For the second time on that frozen day, they didn’t need to look further for whatever clue, obstacle, or plain old terror came next. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z Judging by the way she was nodding her head up and down and moving her lips, it was plain she was screaming, “Yes! Yes! Yes!” The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z Didn't seem like a good idea to be too close to the window, y'know, in plain sight. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z And I would be well hidden, indeed, hidden in plain sight. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z He led her to his brother’s house, and went on eastward into another land, the bluegrass plain of Argos. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Below, the wide plain blazed with torches and Taran saw a great ring of flames. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z Such a dress could be made of leather or linen, it might be plain, or Mo might imprint a pattern on it with his tiny decorative stamps. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z When I opened the door, there before me stood a sad-eyed, droopy-eared dog carrying a large, plain envelope in his mouth. Bunnicula 1979-03-01T00:00:00Z His face was clean-shaved, smooth-skinned, ordinary, not handsome but not quite plain. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z There was the just plain ice, the kind you couldn’t see through, that covered the lake and hid the water and the fish below. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z In English, they would be free of the sharply defined gradients of Korean hierarchy: formal deference, informal deference, blunt, familiar, intimate, and plain. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z So it was a shock when I came upon the scent on my fifth- grade teacher, who said it was nothing but plain ordinary Ponds Cold Cream. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z It was plain that he was getting a big laugh out of how that show-off squirrel had made such a fool of himself. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z Hard to put your finger on it, but it's plain for all to see that's got eyes.' The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z He had been too long out in the plains. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Still, when Aunt Eva lit the holiday candles, broad hands encircling the light, her plain face with its deep- set coffee-colored eyes took on a kind of beauty. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z The 437th Regiment was stationed near Stalingrad in a plain surrounded by watermelon fields. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z In the late summer of that year we lived in a house in a village that looked across the river and the plain to the mountains. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z “Yes, it is plain on the outside,” Keisha says, half smiling at Shay, “but it’s the inside that matters.” Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z The vestibule had clean, white walls; the table and benches were of dark wood; and the priest was dressed in a white cassock—it was all neat, plain, simple. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z A plain old peanut butter and jelly sandwich. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z He was dressed in this plain white T-shirt and gray sweats, but he still managed to look heart-stoppingly perfect somehow. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z I’m getting to a point where I can hide it in plain sight. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z It was plain that no tolerable relationship could exist between Estraven and myself. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z She pulled a plain white envelope from her bathrobe pocket and handed it to me. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z Davos was a slight man, his low birth written plain upon a common face. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Eased the hammer back and lowered my gun and plain walked off. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z Like the gun, it was a plain weapon, but it was sharp and well cared for. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z It was just as in so many civil rights organizations, he mused: the flamboyant male leaders make the speeches while the workaday women, most of them as plain as bread, make it happen. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z Some of it was ornate, some plain; not a bit of it matched, or fit as it should. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z The house was of wooden planks, very plain, painted gray. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z The way his grandfather broke it down, plain. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z “Your lordship might try Bentley’s. It’s plain stuff, but it’s only a street or two away.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z “I guess it was plain jealousy. I gave it another name, but maybe I didn’t want them to be able so easily to go away from me in a direction I couldn’t follow.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Her attire was simple, all plain colors and straight lines, but she seemed frazzled. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z We passed the pot around, spooning in our warm breakfast, and again I couldn’t believe how good the plain undercooked lentils and rice were. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z The sea briefly imitated every land feature— every hill, every valley, every plain. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z His face was so ordinary and his garb so plain that Arya might have thought him one of the villagers before she had seen him at his work. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z He just plain had a lot of pepper, and he’d made it clear that he thought he belonged in the first boat. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z The expression on his face is like he’s showing me a frill-necked lizard or a leafy seadragon, not a plain old hunk of nothing. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z It would be cool if she fixed it up like an antique, but it’s just plain old. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z Some biographers, pursuing the same interpretive line, have suggested that his deep-rooted insecurities drove him onto the plains of Weehawken and then into the fatal gaze of Aaron Burr. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z It was plain, mostly, wood or metal painted blue, but a single Hebrew letter—shin—had been inscribed in gold on the front. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z The police on the bridge gathered like a shoal of fish and began shedding their plain clothes costumes. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z This music was her—the real plain her. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z A plain, brown linoleum, tacked to the floor, took its place, and extended down a corridor lined with shut white doors. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z “Call me Sticky, please. Just plain Sticky is fine. You don’t even have to use my last name.” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z The plain to their right was dim and smoky, and they could see there neither camps nor troops moving; but all that region was under the vigilance of the forts of Carach Angren. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z Her hair was pinned back, and she wore a plain gray dress similar to what Mama wore to work. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z When the sun was bright we ate lunch on the porch but the rest of the time we ate upstairs in a small room with plain wooden walls and a big stove in the corner. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z ‘My people were brought from the great plains, and the dark, green jungles,’ he said once to Mr. Singer. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z The police officers were sitting on the sofa in the living room, a fortysomething man in plain clothes and a younger one in uniform with acne on his neck. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z No recriminations lay hidden under the plain statement, nor was there boasting when he said, “If I’m living a little better now, it’s because I treats everybody right.” I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z He saw that riders away eastward were already level with the Orcs, galloping over the plain. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z “The Mayor will be disappointed to hear about yer untimely departure from the earthly plain, boy,” Aaron says, taking another step. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z Even more troubling was something Kermit found while walking near the campsite—two freshly cut branches, laid carefully side by side, in plain view. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z More than my long legs, I’m sure it’s my plain face that throws them off. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z At the top, a wide, flat plain dotted with huge ant mounds stretched for a mile, and Joe left the dirt ruts to slalom between the mounds for a ways. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Pong had never been to a temple before, but based on what he'd seen in books, this one was on the plain side. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z As soon as we were done eating, he stood and held a plain white envelope up in the air like it was a trophy. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z Theon chose plain boots and plainer clothes, somber shades of black and grey to fit his mood. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z She used plain white labels and cut out dots and dashes for Morse code and then stuck them on a black shirt like this: Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z Up from the plains the riders sped, bent over their saddles, urging on their steeds. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z Perhaps eighty years earlier, dust storms had engulfed the high plains, blackening the glaciers in the peaks above. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z “I have no intention of dragging her into anything. I just want to make it plain to her that none of us have seen Bunny for three days.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z “So — Apparition,” said Ron, his tone making it perfectly plain that Harry was not to mention what had just happened. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z “Thank you, but plain is fine with me,” she said. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z “Hi!” she said, her voice as calm and plain as their social studies teacher. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z They are primarily animals of the plains, and in winter when the first snows come those that have summered in the mountains move down to the lower elevations. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z And she said: ‘I do not wish to play at riddles. Speak plainer!’ The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z “This is science, plain and simple,” he says to me. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z As they struggled across the dusty plain, the fog became so thick that Percy had to resist the urge to swat it away with his hands. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z My da used to eat the apple core and all—“where all the nutrients are. It’s plain ignorant to throw it out,” he’d say. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z The Puritan service seemed to her as plain and unlovely as the bare board walls of the Meeting House. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z It’s the plain truth: without Richard Parker, I wouldn’t be alive today to tell you my story. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z Miss Granger, a plain but ambitious girl, seems to have a taste for famous wizards that Harry alone cannot satisfy. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z Her face was pale and plain, never a single drop of makeup. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z Isn’t it plain to a dolphin what a dolphin is like? Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z "The little girl who was with her," Uncle Tony made plain, his voice sharp. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z The other sharks paid a longer visit, coming and going at different depths, some in plain sight at hand’s reach below the surface of the water, others deeper down. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z The waiting room is set up like a doctor’s office, only the chairs are plain molded plastic, and instead of carpeting there’s chipped linoleum. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z “Scrubbing down the joint,” he says plain as day. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z My brother says there’s nothing special about the stairs inside, they’re plain ordinary stairs. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z The room held a dresser, a desk and chair and a wardrobe, all of plain wood. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z From this he drew a flat rectangular package, and he undid the plain cotton cloth about it. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z Things were growing plain now in the dawn and I went fast. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z Many foes stood before it, and on the further half of the plain were other hosts still unfought. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z It was plain that there would be no true sunset. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z She is irritated and peeved and just plain over it, over every metaphor from storm clouds to raging rivers, and she used to love metaphors. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z They had gone some miles, and the road was at last running down a long slope into the plain, when Frodo’s strength began to give out and his will wavered. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z There, in plain sight on the floor outside the crate, were his spectacles. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z She had not forgotten, but merely remembered anew, how understated his manner was, his plain dark jeans, his leather slippers, the way he walked into the bookshop with no need to dominate it. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z As if Taylor were hiding in plain sight. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z It could not have been plainer that he thought this lesson was a waste of time. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z But he always took it too far; it’s one thing to have a little fun with someone, teasing and stuff like that, but R.C. was just plain mean. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z Three sols later, Lewis Valley opened into a wide plain. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z But they made it plain how upset Bunny was, and how disagreeable he might make himself if provoked. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z Koalas far too big to be cuddly and cute rustled in the trees and flightless birds twice the size of ostriches sprinted on the plains. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Well, when he got through figgerin’ he showed it to some other fellers and there it was, plain as anything—the earth wasn’t the big kingpin at all. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z The plain, meanwhile, was becoming bare and depopulated. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z Two policemen in plain clothes bundle him off a train while a dozen passengers stare. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z The stones are square and arched, black and gray, more often plain than shiny, caked with lichen and moss. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z This plain of snow shone a powdery white that morning; the sun blazed icily somewhere too low on the horizon to be seen directly, but its clean rays shed a blue-white glimmer all around us. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z Classic style overlaps with plain and practical styles. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Up close, it was plain the burden of so many souls had exacted its toll. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Same with the rocks and the houses and the horses and everything else that I could compare, but the growned folks could see big differences that waren’t plain to me. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z ‘Christ’ sake, man, speak out plain, because I can’t understand a thing you say.’ The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z It showed the Osage from the time they roamed the plains to their first encounter with European explorers and missionaries, and to the black-gold rush. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Each island rose as much as sixty feet above the flood- plain, allowing trees to grow that otherwise could not endure the water. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z It’s mad bright, maybe kneeling over here is stupid, but staying in plain sight might be a good hiding spot. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z Following its south-easterly course across the dark plain their eyes were drawn to the majestic buildings of the Slough Crematorium. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z She passed concrete plains, vast expanses cracked by thrusting grasses. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z Mars could do nothing to them, for they were bred to plains and prairies as open as the Martian fields. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z Gently, he cut a generous lock of hair and sealed it in a plain white envelope. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z "The plain fact is", my grandmother said, "that your son Bruno has been rather drastically altered." The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z I opened a can of beer from my refrigerator and sat well inside the shade of Rocinante, looking out at the sun-pounded plain, dotted here and there with clumps of sagebrush. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z We start out for the front plain soldiers, either cheerful or gloomy: then come the first gun-emplacements and every word of our speech has a new ring. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z My mouth falls open, part shock and part plain old rudeness. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z Ten thousand spears I might have sent riding over the plain to the dismay of your foes. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z Penny was used to things falling off my chair, so she couldn’t know I was being just plain horrible. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z I imagined the plain wooden crucifix above the altar swinging back and forth as Father Amadi raised the host at consecration. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z And he looked past the Wall, past endless forests cloaked in snow, past the frozen shore and the great blue-white rivers of ice and the dead plains where nothing grew or lived. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z She was afraid, plain and simple, just as she had been afraid to face her powerful feelings for Lio. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Mollie had to remove the Indian blanket from her shoulders and put on a plain dress. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z It now appeared plain and smooth, without mark or device that he could see. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z It was one room with a makeshift bathroom in plain view. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Never had such a plain meal brought such satisfaction. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Of course, there are many different opinions on this topic, and it’s not surprising to hear it frequently discussed in times of war, but...arguing so much about politics is just plain stupid! The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z Everyone agreed that the reporter’s saying bad things about their school in order to sell more copies of the Cucaracha Voice was mean, unfair, and just plain sneaky. Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z Was there no simple, plain idea that might get them—or some of them—on the move? Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z “How dare you call me Mrs. Wigg! No, thank you! I’m plain Miss Persimmon and proud of it. Mrs. Wigg indeed!” Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z She scorned pretense, and she believed in plain speaking. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z With Miss Maggie’s help, I wrapped pieces of it in newsprint, tucked them into plain little boxes with no return address, and sent them off to orphanages far and wide. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z On both sides of us stretched the wet plain. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z ‘Yes,’ he said, ‘they are quite plain: a hobbit’s footprints. Pippin’s, I think. He is smaller than the other. And look at this!’ The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z “Jean Louise, I’m only trying to tell you some plain truths. You must see things as they are, as well as they should be.” Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z Instead, she simply chose what she wanted and headed for the door, the article in plain view. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z It became plain that they thought of their life in the hutch as dull but safe. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z We hanker to go on, even in the face of plain evidence that long, long lives are not necessarily pleasurable in the kind of society we have arranged thus far. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z It had been plain from the start that he had nothing left and, indeed, there was little reason for him to return to Efrafa without the General. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z She caught a fugitive hiding in plain sight! A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z Members of the hoity-toity Mount Zion Baptist Church mingled with the intellectual members of the African Methodist Episcopal and African Methodist Episcopal Zion, and the plain working people of the Christian Methodist Episcopal. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Or perhaps she was reading in bed, her abada wrapper spread over her like a blanket, wearing plain black boyshorts and nothing else. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z Was he even now lying dead in France under a plain white cross? A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z I excuse myself to change out of my dress and into a plain shirt and pants. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z All of them, giants and the dead and the burning sons of Muspell, will travel to the battle plain called Vigrid. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z Then Aunt Ruby and Aunt Docia put on their flannel petticoats and their plain petticoats and their stiff, starched white petticoats with knitted lace all around the flounces. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z Near the far edge of the flood plain I find Alice’s footsteps in a stretch of muddy sand. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Left to themselves, like cattle turned loose upon the plains of Argentina, they had reverted to a style of life that appeared to be natural to them, a sort of ancestral pattern. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z Now, I know that cops love to get you to invite them in because then they won’t need a warrant and anything you have that’s illegal and in plain view they can arrest you for. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z On the wall opposite the picture is a plain wooden Cross. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z It gave her otherwise plain face a broken excitement and blue-blade threat like the keloid scar of the razored man who sometimes played checkers with her grandmother. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z “Sounds to me like she’s just plain crazy,” she says in a low voice. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z How could something like that be anchored above the Empire State Building, in plain sight of millions of people, and not get noticed? The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z They looked at the plain blunt stubborn face and saw nothing but dull Dutch eyes, the great darkness, the silence. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z One who had been taught to calculate her appearance and demeanor down to the plain red color of her cell-phone case. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z Over and over during the day she passed her hand across the flat plain of her belly, as if inside she might feel something that could give her clarity. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z “I saw it just as plain as anything.” Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z “You mean the one with the plain moon?” From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z “Lucky you’re so plain. Guests couldn’t leave the last girl be.” Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z The plain grew thick with meerkats, and the noises of their day started filling the air. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z She motioned me closer, curiosity plain on her face. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z Inside it is lit by a line of black iron sconces along the rounded wall and contains nothing but a ring of plain wooden chairs. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Like, so plain and normal that it was something to be proud of? The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z The iris that was nothing special, nothing magical or important, just a plain old nothing iris. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z You were liable to arrest if you did not have one worn in plain sight. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z In its wake it leaves the sort of rich volcanic plains that are ideal for growing potatoes, as Idaho’s farmers long ago discovered. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z “Just some chips. I didn’t know what flavor you liked, so I brought them all. Except plain.” All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z ‘Not Saruman’s, that is plain. Is there some mightier sage, of whom we have yet to learn?’ The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z She couldn’t look at her aunt any more, that familiar, unfamiliar, plain, beautiful face. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z It was old grey wood, splintery and plain . . . but it stood to the right of the door through which she'd entered. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z “There — see how much better you look now that those jewels are gone? You were always too plain to wear anything so grand. You should never have tried to rise above your station.” Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z And yet, here was Anatole looking back at Father with his eyebrows raised very high, like “Do you understand plain English?” The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z I was left there alone for a further ten minutes before Gaskill and a woman, also in plain clothes, turned up. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z Olyvar Frey offered it up hilt first, and her son drew the blade and laid it bare across his knees, a threat plain for all to see. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z When they came into the glade they halted in amazement; and then they stood a moment with heads bowed in grief, for it seemed to them plain what had happened. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z Dad’s in a plain white T-shirt and pajama pants. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z At home we have no level runs or meadows, but highland, goat land—prettier than plains, though. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z That dog’s gonna be right jealous you dumped her so easy for something as plain and homely as that skinny, knock-knee Foster girl. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z When Con came out to join them, Taisin and Kaede hastily scooted apart, but the expressions on their faces were so plain that he laughed out loud. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z If God said in plain language, “I’m giving you a choice, forgive or die,” a lot of people would go ahead and order their coffin. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z “I will search for berries as my ancestors did upon the plains before hunting the buffalo,” Shanti said dreamily. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z He finds nothing to take with him, as he is unwilling to steal a sign, and the only other things out in plain sight are scraps of paper and the occasional smushed piece of popcorn. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z And day after day we crept on eastward over the plain of ice. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z Someone outside the close community of Japanese Americans had actually seen the camp, with its multitude of people and its swarm of buildings on the plain between the mountains. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z The secular calendar made plain note of the hot first day of summer. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z She must have realized this, for it’s a plain fact, right there for both of us to see. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z In the first place I am flat-chested, just plain too skinny. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z The room is empty of everything but the bed in which I lie, a small table, and a plain wooden chair occupied by a dozing Helene. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z He had only made it halfway across the plain when a large black shadow began to circle around him. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z At that time it would never have occurred to me to say, “I don’t feel like it tonight,” which was the plain truth every night. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z Late in the afternoon there was talk of tonics and purgatives and cod-liver oil, but at that point I managed to rally and take some plain boiled chicken, averting such drastic management. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z I like pizza, but only if it’s plain. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z Away in the east the evening light lay pale upon the dim lands of distant plain and wood. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z The uniform for a man was a plain shirt, faded “Nantucket red” Bermuda shorts, and Topsiders. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z Other roads led from the northern Rio Grande to the southern plains of what is now western Oklahoma by way of the Canadian and Cimarron Rivers. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z She’d vamoosed into the tall grass, and off she was headed for the jungle, where it was plain to see he’d never find her. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Those mountains are in proximity to gentle lowlands with rivers, flood plains, and deserts suitable for irrigation agriculture. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z I’ve learned that white people, especially fathers, are good at hiding in plain sight. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z That’s also when the man came out into the hallway and saw us, then the blinking light laid bare and in plain sight. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z He threw his two pebbles off into the plain and said, “You know that your griffin-riders won’t come to get you, right?” The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z In November, he paid eighteen pence to a Uruguayan farmer for a piece of a colossal skull of yet another extinct mammal—the rhinolike Toxodon, with giant squirrel teeth—that had once roamed the plains. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z In the background, to be sure, but nevertheless plain to see. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z “You knew she was my mother all along,” I said, uncertain whether I felt anger, or betrayal, or just plain surprise. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z If he were fat, older, poor, plain, eccentric, or dreadlocked, then it would be less remarkable, and the guardians of the tribe would be mollified. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z “Like a k is turquoise blue, whether I think of it, read it, or hear it. It’s just there, inside my head, plain as day.” A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z It was a good enough voice, not loud, not soft, plain, and not ill-tempered. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z The dry, scorched plains around Meereen were flat and bare and treeless for long leagues, but the Yunkish ships had brought lumber and hides up from the south, enough to raise six huge trebuchets. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z The early bird gets the worm, for example, is plain. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z In the old days, the winds swept through the irrigated plains around Jalalabad where farmers grew sugarcane, and impregnated the city's air with a sweet scent. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z But Granny was a fine lady anyway, never mind her grammar or her country ways and never mind how plain she was. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z But so was the green, life- giving ribbon of willows that traced its way across these plains, following the meandering streams. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z The Blackfoot were a tightly organized confederation of groups that inhabited the plains between the Missouri and Saskatchewan Rivers. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Hawk Mountain is a picturesque mountaintop in southeastern Pennsylvania, where the easternmost ridges of the Appalachians form a last barrier to the westerly winds before dropping away toward the coastal plain. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z It was a plain wooden santo with no name, and, contrary to the other carved or plastic saints, it was grotesque. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Sandor Clegane stood at his shoulder in a plain brown doublet and green mantle, his burned face hideous in the morning light. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z It was as much acceptance as she could give tonight, he saw that plain enough. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Liza was a good plain cook, and her house—it was always her house—was brushed and pummeled and washed. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z “I’m saying that I’ve come to fight,” she says, straightforward and plain. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z “The most excellent place one could be in a lightning storm is stranded in the middle of a wide, featureless plain, chest-deep in water.” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z The plain was covered with warriors, on foot and on horseback. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z I walked up the bridge in plain sight, straight toward the enemy. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z “Oh! as for me, my judgment is worth nothing. Where I have a regard, I always think a person well-looking. But I gave what I believed the general opinion, when I called him plain.” Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z As I sat eating my pizza, I tried to remember that I always performed better if I was just plain having fun. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z He had a plain face, beardless and ordinary, notable only for his queer pale eyes. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Hulking towers rose up, cast- ing jagged shadows, their human-made shapes obvious against the plain of treetops rippling in the wind. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z Hannah wrote a report on giraffes last year when we were studying the African plains. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z It was like this plain had birthed it, just for Jack, and now it presided proudly over this kingdom of nothing. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z Me and Diego separated quick, turned to Principal Cody, straightening out our plain white T-shirts. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z The orphans’ tears had ended and now it was just plain old raining outside, harder than ever. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z The cold does not detract from the area’s beauty: Tiwanaku sits in the middle of a plain ringed by ice-capped mountains. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z The tins of Ramses and Romeos were kept behind displays of aspirin and skin lightener in a plain wooden box labeled “para hombres.” Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z In sixth grade he told me glumly, as we stood in line in front of the auditorium door, waiting to go in for Friday square dancing, that I was plain. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z Ishtar cries out, and her voice rolls like thunder across the plain. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z Just as deceptive is the plain language of Greene’s explanation of the multiverse. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Maybe we just plain wanted everything he offered. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z Let me suggest another story: strange facts are always aspirant plain facts. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z The placard had been there on that day too. brad bolitar, it read, in plain black ink on a white index card in a weather-protected plastic case. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z I look down, expecting the onion to be in plain view or something else I forgot I was carrying for luck today, but it’s not that. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z They drove south in the powerful car, while outside on the right the sagebrush plain stretched west, and the mountains rose on their left, dark and shining. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z It is plain from the rest of the story that the priestess knew what Eurystheus was like and that he would beyond question purge Hercules thoroughly. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z He became a plain on which, like the cowboys and Indians in the movies, she and her husband fought. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z Everyone wore neat, plain coats except for Hanako, who of course wore her purple one. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z Now, I don’t really blame him—I’d met his mom, and I wouldn’t want her mad at me either—but I was just plain mad too. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z But two days later a multiple telegram which almost overtook the previous one announced another uprising on the southern plains. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z The coin sat in the palm of his right hand, in plain view. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z “Tell me a story about eating something delicious,” the stonecutter said, “so I can imagine I am eating something other than plain rice.” When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z The door opened and a woman dressed in a plain, homemade-looking dress and two children—a boy and a girl—stepped out. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z Pegasus’s wings were the colours of an eagle’s - gold, white, brown and rust - which made him look much more handsome and regal than plain white. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z Not being brave is easier to understand than being plain mean. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z But the girls were nimble-witted — far cleverer than we doltish lads — and would often confer among themselves and choose one boy, usually the plainest fellow, and then tease him all the way home. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z But what must come next was plain betrayal. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Not the details, of course, but the plain fact of crisis. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z This was a bedroom with a plain iron bedstead overlaid with a thin white quilt. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z I hadn’t wanted to give it to her plain, so I swiped a nice hinged case from the bureau in Ella’s bedroom. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z “I want to teach,” she says plain as day. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z I had seen her once, with one of my chemises over her arm, examining the plain material with its small edging of lace. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z She was standing in the middle of a vast plain in the snow-shimmer night. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z Her eyes had the plain blue look of a rainless sky. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z There was a big book with plain red leather covers; its tall pages were now almost filled. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z I wanted to wear the little black dress I’d bought for my fifteenth birthday party, my death dress, but I didn’t fit into it anymore, so I wore a plain black dress, knee-length. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z “Here we are!’’The tinker turned around holding up a shirt of plain grey homespun. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Simple pieces of furniture, plain lamps, and only a few things on the walls. Missing May 1992-03-01T00:00:00Z Best place to hide is in plain sight. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z This much was plain from the moment his gang turned down the road to the big house and saw the three gallows. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z And she will forget me, plain, rough, miserly Lyddie who only bought her ribbons because she was shamed to it. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z He removed that as well, revealing a plain grey shirt of homespun. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Monday arrived cold and raw, with a rising wind that brought a smell of snow from a sky the color of plain carbon steel. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z She liked to sit by the train window and watch the thick woods sliding past, the grassy plains unfurling, the cattle swinging their tails as they were herded by bare-chested nomads. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Just as the first ray of sun glints off the gold Cornucopia, there's a disturbance on the plain. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z Pitzer led diem down the grass, pointed to a flat space just above the road, the masses of guns and wagons, in plain sight of the headquarters. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z She was angry at him; that was plain. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z Hunger and soreness from running, climbing, wailing on his blues harp, and plain old not-eating. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z When he got to Phoebe’s desk, Mr. Birkway lifted up her plain journal and peeked inside. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z He eyed the girl sourly, suspicion plain on his face. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Sean took off his fly, tied on a plain hook, picked a buttercup and stuck it on the hook, cast, and caught a fish. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Applied to an opponent, it means the habit of impudently claiming that black is white, in contradiction of the plain facts. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z I believe most plain girls are virtuous because of the scarcity of opportunity to be otherwise. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z It was plain that she was injured, but how badly Hazel could not tell. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z They had left the truck parked in plain view, at the edge of a pine ridge. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z She argues that strange facts came first and plain facts came later; first, there were Siamese twins, hermaphrodites, furry babies and virgin births, then there was Boyle’s air pump. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z What I needed to do was find an apartment in town, the kind of building where single, plain girls lived, spinsters, secretaries, teachers. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z The plain truth of the Terman study, however, is that in the end almost none of the genius children from the lowest social and economic class ended up making a name for themselves. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z Sometimes, when they passed in procession, chanting, he joined in the singing, for most of the plain songs were known to him. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z We had not spoken about the incident in my room several nights before and, in the drowsy silence of the car, I felt the need to make things plain. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z Every time she waited at a bus stop or was at a party with boys and alcohol or was just plain alone, she felt the high alert of vigilance. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z I mean, nobody goes out and kills someone without a motive, not unless he’s just plain nuts. Twelve Angry Men 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z We flew southeast, over the dry, flat plains of the Orange Free State and the green and mountainous Cape peninsula. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Not just plain old Emma, but a girl who is totally one of a kind. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z My parents had four children before me, and I should have been born, plain and simple. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z Now it’s come to the point, he’s just plain terrified. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z Across the lowland downriver plain Grand Trunk rose before Milton’s Cadillac. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Jody thought of the wide plains and of the wagons moving across like centipedes. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z “You want something specially designed for you! That’s just plain brilliant, Melody!” Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z Up from the dark plain below came the crying of fell voices, and the howling of many wolves . The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z Miss Honey looked at the plain plump person with the smug suet-pudding face who was sitting across the room. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z At their feet lay a straggle of low buildings, a criss-cross of walls; and on three sides the precipices fell sheer into the plain. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z For example, the decorated Ta-p’en-k’eng pottery on Taiwan gave way to undecorated plain or red pottery, which has also been found at sites in the Philippines and on the Indonesian islands of Celebes and Timor. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The fabric looked like plain cotton, but she felt as warm as if she had put on a thick fur. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z Matt heard no sound from the far plain. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z “I’ll learn plain cooking for my holiday task, and the next dinner party I have shall be a success.” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z This one had the same plain walls, cement table, and bed. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z “Except that there’s not much which matters a great deal. The last six months have made that plain. And lately it has seemed important to find a thing or two which do. That’s all.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z He waved his hands like a magician revealing the table, which was in plain sight. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z “The cashier at your store was very rude to me. My son ordered a burger, plain, no cheese. You see, he’s allergic.” Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z He stood next to Deborah, whose arm in his shivered incessantly with the cold, and watched while the long, plain box was lowered into the ground. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z He decided that it would be best to be plain and friendly. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Dragons battle on the plain:yellow and black blood spills. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z The Fen River which ran through the middle of my family’s land flooded the plains. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z He was the only one in his immediate family to survive a tornado on the Kansas plains. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z “Hamlet, I warned you that I cannot bear your teasing today, is your lightness a ploy to put me off from you? Tell me in plain words that you regret our embracing!” Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z “I reckon you just think you are plain wonderful, don’t you, animule?” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z First Wife looked quite ancient and frail with her rounded body, bound feet, her old-style padded jacket and pants, and plain, lined face. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z She painted them very plain, with great big block letters and a picture of a clock. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z She was a frosty girl, plain and colorless, who protected herself against a world she disliked by a mask-like expression and a hypertrophy of intellect. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z Nana packed me a ham sandwich on white bread, a bag of plain potato chips, a peanut butter granola bar, and a fruit punch juice box. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z Situated in the coastal plain of southwest Alabama, the fertile, rich black soil of the area attracted white settlers from the Carolinas who amassed very successful plantations and a huge slave population. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z It was now plain that we would not attempt to use legal niceties to avoid accepting responsibility for actions we had taken with pride and premeditation. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z When he looked up, he saw her, plain as day. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z They reached the shanty, Burnham wrote to Margaret, “just in time to hear Col. Rice tell some yarns about the war and life in the plains among the scouts and Indians.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Then Pa said in his plain, warm voice, “Darnell’s coming home.” P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z Then as now, when a knight took the black, tradition decreed that he set aside his former arms and take up the plain black shield of the brotherhood. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z The big top was plain white, or at least started out that way. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z I slept through most of it and awoke at first light and was startled when I couldn’t see any mountains, just a flat plain as far as I could see. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Hoagland had retired him, plain and simple, after Jack requested a quiet exit. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Icy winds cut across the plains and howled through the ravines and rattled tree branches. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z But even on the plains the Inka could have won. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z All old and hard-covered in plain red or blue or black. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z They had ridden for some five hours and were far out upon the western plain, yet more than half their journey lay still before them. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z The earthen wall of the fortification that faced the river was bare and ugly, and the houses beyond were no more than plain wooden boxes. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z The white man who stands before us has the reddened skin of someone who has spent many long days in the shadeless sun of these plains. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z It was plain to him that the spell hadn’t worked, and he could see she knew it too. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z They weren’t horses, they were oxen and they just plain didn’t move fast. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Marco’s flat was once plain and spare but now it is crowded with an assortment of mismatched furniture. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z I loved him because he made it plain, never mystical or esoteric, because his science was not rooted in the actions of spooks and mystery gods but in the work of the physical world. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z For the first fifteen years of their married life they had called each other just plain Biff and Alice. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z “Sugar, now don’t you trip over that, you’re tuckered out, it’s plain to see.” The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z But alas, I would have bartered my high estate to be plain Jill to Hamlet’s Jack. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z Two arched, narrow, plain glass windows were set into the side walls. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z “At least not on purpose. If she beats you fair and square that’s one thing, but submitting yourself to her blade because of raging hormones is just plain stupid.” Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z He did not mention the incident at all, but asked me if I could bring him the following things: some pencils, plain white paper, a ruler, a protractor, and a drawing compass. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z It was Thanksgiving week, and Lowell Lee was home for the holidays, as was Jennie Marie, an intelligent but rather plain girl who attended a college in Oklahoma. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z It was now the sweetest hour of the twenty-four:—“Day its fervid fires had wasted,” and dew fell cool on panting plain and scorched summit. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z A narration might ask for the clarity and emotional temper of the plain style, for example, whereas the peroration— where you typically seek to stir your audience—gives the opportunity for a higher style. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z Every month, it’s a knife fight or money trouble or wife trouble or mistress trouble or just plain trouble. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z He could make out little more on the dark plain, and as yet he neither saw any hope of morning, nor felt any wind, changed or unchanged. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z She is just plain beautiful— movie-star eyes; long, curly hair; and a tiny pixie nose. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z “That Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt is plain as a mud fence.” A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z But mostly it was a heartwarmingly plain, sincere machine, promising good fun and few breakdowns; the sort of car that, especially in soft yellow, looked like nothing so much as a bar of soap. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z Rolling her eyes at herself, she threw on her Silly Boys, Coding Is for Girls T-shirt and plain gray fleece pants. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z When I crossed over to meet him, he hesitated for a moment and then handed me the slip of paper, curiosity and excitement plain on his face. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z The men arrived with a plain pine box. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Packs of hellhounds prowled the plains, baying and snarling and attacking any monster that dropped its guard. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z These cloud shoes, they speak to me as plain as anything. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z There was no need to ask which way to go: the tracks of the sledge led straight out from the courtyard and over the plain, and Iorek leaped forward to follow them. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z The road trips to Irving and Abilene and San Angelo in that endless caravan of RVs and Suburbans and plain old sedans rising forth so proudly from the bowels of West Texas. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Upon the west to their right the land was treeless also, but it was flat, and in many places green with wide plains of grass. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z “And I am so plain, you see, Die. We should never suit.” Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z He had pledged himself to marry a daughter of Walder Frey, but she saw his true bride plain before her now: the sword he had laid on the table. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z He was back in thirty seconds with a glass of cider for me, but he handed Annemarie what looked like plain water. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z No one was as handsome as my father was, even when his face was long, plain, and sad, which was always. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z The genius had written the numbers on a piece of tape and hung it in plain view— where else—inside his locker. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z They had left the downs behind them and were crossing a wide plain with a forest about half a mile away on their left. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z “He’s on a special farm,” JimmyTrotter said fast and plain, like when he “Yes’m-ed” Miss Trotter about the cool in the air. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z I don’t like anyone at this school, because all the boys here are plain dumb-acting and behave like they have no home training. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z Huge herds of reindeer and other large herbivores roamed the plains and valleys, preyed upon by the ferocious ancestors of today’s lions and tigers, as well as by our own ancestors. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z The only Mary story we talked about was the wedding story— the time she persuaded her son, practically against his will, to manufacture wine in the kitchen out of plain water. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z The scent of apple blossom was plain enough. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z If I didn’t say it fast, plain, and clear, she’d hang up on me and write me a letter-poem telling me about myself. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z So we mounted again before night had passed and went on with all the speed that our horses could endure over the plains of Lebennin.’ The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z She never orders my burger plain, and I have to pick off those little onions every time. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z “That way the stuff’ll not be in plain sight, in case someone else happens along.” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z With the words “extremely dangerous” fresh in the children’s ears, the car rattled out of the woods into plain view of Nomansan Island. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z When a scouting party spotted a herd, Ne-kah-e-se-y and the other hunters raced on their horses across the plains, the hooves pounding the earth like drums, the manes whipping the riders’ sweating, gleaming faces. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z I fiddle with the curly mass of my bangs and slouch down, feeling like the plainest girl ever next to the fashion plate that is Katherine Deveraux. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z It was too plain on all their faces, and they knew it. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z As he gazed Frodo became aware that there was a great stir and movement on the plain. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z Its beauty lay in its simplicity, the plainness of its curve; even its wooden scabbard was spare and plain. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z His armor was iron-grey chainmail over layers of boiled leather, plain and unadorned, and it spoke of age and hard use. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z "No, plain, like ordinary. Like the wide open plains." The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z The temperature had dropped a good forty degrees in the night in one of those unpredictable fronts that swept down from the Amarillo plains. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z There’s a high ceiling, with lights shaped like morning glories hanging down on chains, and a plain gold cross up at the front with a vase of white flowers. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z But he said it so quick and plain I was sure he didn’t feel a thing. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z But already Sam was more than half way up the base, and the plain of Gorgoroth was dim below him, wrapped in fume and shadow. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z So Annie and Doc Mom settled on a pair of plain red lifeguard baggies that were exactly the ones I would have chosen for myself about an hour and a half earlier. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z Now Surtr, the burning giant, who was there before the beginning of all things, looks out at the vast plain of death and raises his bright sword to the heavens. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z “Let your fingers brush the wall. There are markings there, invisible to the eye, plain to the touch.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z He scratched his chin, his eyes lifted to the plain wooden cross nailed to the wall by the choir box. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z And besides them, she had to worry about plain old wolves and zmeyoks. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z Joe hadn’t built a drone that could fly a microphone up to Mom, in plain sight of the whole auditorium. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z I wish I had something of hers in my small, plain face. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z But then, incredibly, he stood up, waved that he was O.K., and started lurching toward Camp Four, which, at the moment was in plain sight, 500 feet beyond. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z I was asked by a plain woman in a large black velvet tarn. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z “She look more like my mother’s people,” Ma Charles said, which was her way of saying “plain old Negro.” Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z I got myself into this mess and now I got to row myself out of it, plain and simple. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z “It’s like she’s trying not to be seen. Like she wants to hide in plain sight.” Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z She thrust my two-year-old niece Z—that was her name, just plain Z—into my arms and we headed out to Daddy’s car. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Babou had changed into a plain white shirt and loose white pants with a drawstring waist, and he had hitched them halfway up his torso. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z It’s crisp and bright purple, totally plain except for three white letters: NYU. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z Langley was one of the United States’ most powerful offensive weapons—a secret weapon, or nearly secret, hidden in plain sight in a small southern town. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z An address on a package wrapped in plain brown paper was as damaging as a fingerprint on a gun, Jones thought. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Outside, the box was plain, but perhaps inside . A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z When we got tired of plain falling, we tried different styles of falling. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Mrs. Stockton was a beefy, no-nonsense woman in a plain blue skirt and blouse. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z Down the embankment they swayed and there it was, a plain, homely little house, barn-red, and below it the last of the sun flashing on the wrinkled surface of a tiny lake. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z Mom was running around, tying up more balloons, her hands still stained with dark dirt after planting all of the new, pale flowers that flooded over what once had been a yard of plain grass. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z There was low coarse grass on the plain and here and there a little mound. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z It was unsigned, but there were several clear references which made it plain that Bunny Corcoran, or someone purporting to be him, was the author. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z But the words seemed plain and clear: “Is it to ask my help that you have come here, little wizard?” A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z In plain sight of Erudite headquarters, if anyone cares to glance down the street. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z Three people stared up at her from the plain board table. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z Violet said that it was important to start with the plain, so that the cinnamon seemed more like a change. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z They soon left the kingsrolad and took off across rolling plains dark with mist. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Everything was plain and straightforward, a modern structure devoid of concealments. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z Hrothgar could not help liking this plain young man—there was such an air of simplicity about him. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z Countless horsemen had run their eyes over that plain bay body. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z “How about a carrot? Would you eat a plain, raw carrot?” Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z If the lights came back on, all of them would be in plain sight. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z “Not plain old tea. Earl Grey. It’s British. It was my grandmother’s favorite. I thought, ‘What if we make Earl Grey-flavored ice cream and put the halwa in it?’ A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z We could look across the plain and see farmhouses and the rich green farms with their irrigation ditches and the mountains to the north. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z She would speak in a clear voice and look down at the white chalk lines all over the floor, some faded from years, some simple straight lines, others elaborate curves, still others plain initials. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z The watch part might have been waterproof, but the plain brown leather band didn’t care for soap and hot water. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z There were straight, plain kitchen chairs for Singer and an overstuffed sofa for Antonapoulos. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z I saw Scabious, as plain as grass—and heard him crying, too: and I saw the Threarah and Toadflax and Pimpernel. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z The Korean language has no fewer than six different levels of conversational address, depending on the relationship between the addressee and the addresser: formal deference, informal deference, blunt, familiar, intimate, and plain. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z What will befall me, now that my long-held secret has been brought from the darkness into the plain, full light of day? Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z Bod wondered just how long ago you had to go back before the deepest tomb inside the hill was on a plain, and he knew it must have been an extremely long time ago. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z After a moment Goree said, “General, I tell you plain. There are times when you worry me.” The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z When the squadrons of Indians who had remained in the plain outside the town saw the other Indians fleeing and shouting, most of them too panicked and fled. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The ceiling was plain plaster, but it would do. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z Since I would not be joining them there, I wore plain old regular underwear, or “long johns” as they are called. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Dark skin, big lips, and hair the texture of a briar bush—they were just plain unpleasant to deal with. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z I take a plain doughnut from the bag and go back to my room. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z The Courters preferred fancy salads, but Gay would make me a separate one with chunks of plain iceberg. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z They were given soft slippers and fresh clothing, plain but clean. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z It was a miniature model of the Greasy Grass River, the hills to the east of the village site, and the flood plain where the village had stood. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z But despite Mama had a lot to worry about, there was a smile on her plain face and a light in her blue eyes that we hadn’t seen in weeks. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z “Sir,” he said, “kindly put your seal on the back of the portraits as they are scientific exhibits, and the images themselves must remain plain.” The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z There were the others: the conspiracy theorists, the morbidly curious, the wannabes, and the just plain crazy. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z When Celia procures him a black-and-white-striped paper bag of popcorn, he insists he wants caramel as well, and will not eat it plain. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Not by a rainy season come and gone where none was supposed to be, nor by the plain green bushes changing themselves bang into poinsettias. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z She was a horse galloping across a plain, she was a mountain spring, she was a shoot thrusting through the earth, a red flower in the barley. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z The place came furnished, but it didn’t have the kind of plain furnishings you might expect from a rental apartment. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z “No other head of hair so dull, no other face so plain.” The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z She wears a high-necked white blouse with vertical pleats, a dark paisley scarf, and a plain gray skirt. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z We can no longer afford to eat plain rice but have to mix it with mushrooms, banana stocks, and other leaves. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I was asked by a plain woman in a large black velvet tarn. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z “Later on, Jasper,” Vetch said in his plain way. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z Whether you were up meeting God, down in Brazil hating Yankees, or out West somewhere loving a Mexican woman, to those left behind, you had just plain disappeared. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z That’s what they called it, but it sounded like a plain ambush to us. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z There are so many things Miss Celia is just plain ignorant about. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z “Your wife and I?” she said in plain English. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z She had long frizzy hair, a plain white blouse, and jeans covered with hand-drawn ink designs. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z So if we suffered in our little house on the peanut plain of Bethlehem, it was proof that one of us had committed a failure of virtue. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z It was a long plain iron bridge across what was usually a dry river-bed. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z No longer could any sight of them be seen in the level plains. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z Edward pulled me toward the far left side, standing me in front of a small square oil painting in a plain wooden frame. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z He looked into the little cabinet, and there he saw, neatly stacked, about ten packages wrapped in plain paper. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z I’ll say it plain: he was not a man of imagination, so he wasn’t afflicted by suspicions and worries. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z But he was in hiding, that was plain. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z Otherwise his dress was plain: studded leather jerkin over quilted doublet, worn boots, breeches of brown roughspun. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z In Cleopatra’s day, six cataracts, or waterfalls, carried surging floodwater into Egypt where it overflowed the banks of the Nile and spread out across the plain. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z The Commander has a key to the door, which is plain and gray and flush with the wall and, I think, made of steel. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z “Imagine it, a utopia on the Western plains, safe enough to withstand any shambler attack.” Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z The woman, wearing a plain black dress, looks like a sterner version of Miss Larsen. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z On that stony plain there was no cover, and across it ran the highways of the Orcs and the soldiers of the Enemy. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z ‘If we speak of poisoned tongues what shall we say of yours, young serpent?’ said Saruman, and the flash of his anger was now plain to see. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z There was a plain room behind it, with only a table and one chair, and another door in the opposite wall. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z The bar is full of plain ordinary folk, some looking down on their luck, some looking to celebrate. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z “Another impossible dream,” Ma said, looking at the plain rice in her bowl with bitterness. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z The memories of the hard work in the rice fields, her father’s careworn hands, the plain rice in the dinner bowls, and Ma’s sighs washed upon her like the splashes of water from the lake. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z As usual, he fell back on plain honesty. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Given our late start to the day, when we reach the plain it's already early evening. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z As he followed the plain trail, a shadow cut across in front of him. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z I said, “Officer, I’ve driven this thing all over the country— mountains, plains, deserts. And now I’m back in my own town, where I live—and I’m lost.” Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z His reply was a whimper: “The situation is plain.” The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z When we check the picture, it’s plain to see that neither of us looks great. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z “Oh sweetie. It was plain as day. Did you really not know?” The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z How does Kazi take all these plain boring foods—bitter vegetables, dried lentils, flour, oil, spices—and turn them into something so warm and delicious every time? The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z Right smack in the middle of flat plains were jagged peaks and steep gorges. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z That’s what his look said to her, as plain as day. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z Down below there were grassy plains and clear streams, and then we crossed a stream and went through a gloomy little village, and started to climb again. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z There’s no need to invoke any special parapsychological abilities; the ordinariness of apparently predictive dreams does not need any ex plaining. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z The morning before my high-school graduation ceremony, while we’re eating our eggs and bacon in the kitchen, Pop hands me a plain white envelope. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z The habitat of the zebra is in wide open plain. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z She was clad all in black, from head to heel, and wore no gold nor gems, but she was highborn, that was plain to see. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z After leaving Virginia, Chris drove south and then west across the flat Texas plains, through the heat of New Mexico and Arizona, and arrived at the Pacific coast. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z I open my eyes to the words “Fear God Alone” painted on a plain white wall. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z He speaks them so plain, you believe every word. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z A little tufty-haired man in plain black robes had got to his feet and stood now in front of Dumbledore’s body. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z The altar was covered by a simple linen cloth; above it hung a plain wooden cross. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Ms. Warner tells Mandy that our flag is in plain view. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z “Why, I should say it was just as plain as plain could be. The man in my compartment was the murderer. Who else could he be?” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z Knowing he wouldn’t be able to pull that off twice, Smith tried his most ingenious move: hiding in plain sight. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z By the time I settled on a plain glazed, Calista was behind the counter, showing him pictures of her “work in progress” on her phone. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z It was plain to see they weren’t soldiers at all. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Now, finally, he was truly Professor Chang; he wasn’t sure he was ready to return to plain Ralph, or, worse yet, Yifeng. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z They wondered which takeout place would deliver a plain cheese pizza on Thanksgiving Day. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I take a bigger bite out of the sandwich, and crunch on the plain potato chips like they’re the best thing ever. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z Seven rings, three plain gold bands, one gold with a small diamond stone, one gold with an opal and four pearls, one man’s ring with garnet and eagle insignia, one silver initial ring. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z And if you zoomed in on one of those letters, the notches stood out as plain as day. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z “They all had massive pain. And loss of sanity. Darnell was hallucinating— plain crazy. And then Misty. And the Toad ...” Trina posed a question. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z Bruno was right—the universe was infinite and there were other earths; and Kepler, who had always insisted that the sun and the Earth were unique, was plain wrong. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z I had the pair of jeans that I'd worn over but my shirt was too plain. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z Soon we saw the entire plain full of Indians, halting periodically to wait for more Indians who kept filing out of the camp behind them. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The plain was rich with crops; there were many orchards of fruit trees and beyond the plain the mountains were brown and bare. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z I loved the breeze blowing through, and my privileged position firmly astride the prison wall, with both sides in plain sight. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Lips moving, Vega seemed to be reading something written on it: words that weren’t there, but he could see them just as plain. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z Each pallid leg, each steel-rimmed eye, is there as it was, as plain as bread. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Wide brimmed and narrow, some tall, some not, some fancy, some colorful, some plaid, some plain. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z The answer, then, to the salient question—What were these two prominent American statesmen doing on that ledge beneath the plains of Weehawken?—is reasonably clear. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z The coastal plain rivers in leaden serpentine across the wasted farmland. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z I’m sleeping in Etienne’s room now—“hiding in plain sight” taken to extremes. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z In the early nineteenth century, and even today, the Chewa people were the rulers of the central plains. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z I rose; I dressed myself with care: obliged to be plain—for I had no article of attire that was not made with extreme simplicity—I was still by nature solicitous to be neat. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z Not to wear—like Miss Maggie, I was happy enough with plain. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z “She was just making an excuse to spend time with him,” he said as if it were plain as day. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z “Speak with a plain tongue or not at all.” Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z It is an absolute masterpiece of the plain style. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z In the outstretched palm of Jesus, I see it—a plain, nonglittering rock. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z I heard Madam ask the doctor plain when the old lady would die. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z Two young men in plain brown kaftans were running across the lawns and toward them with purpose, their silhouettes blurred against the blood-orange glow of the roaring fire at their back. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z The rest of the house was plain and uncomfortable and noisy with the complaints of twenty relatives. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z It was cut by fences and the white of the road showed through the trunks of a double line of trees that crossed the plain toward the north. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z Rice, boiled plain and white, with no meat or sauce, was a rare treat now. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z The remedial reading program was going to lose its funding, and the principal would be either furious or just plain disgusted. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z It’s maroon and very plain, worn over a faded pair of jeans as if tonight is an ordinary winter night. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z Also there were the folks who let things fall or plain dumped them when they no longer had a use for them. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z The last bit of distance was a wide sand plain, revealed in low tide, and made easy walking. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z They’d found separate places to change clothes in the stable before heading into the market, and now he was wearing a plain brown kaftan instead of the white one befitting a servant of the temple. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z He grunted and bellowed and snorted and just plain screamed in her face. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z Or perhaps it was the same dream: a pack of wild dogs, all kinds of dogs, running with furious speed across a bare plain this time, intent on hunting and killing something he couldn’t see. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z “The gruel we have been swallowing has been almost plain water these last few days.” Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z It was plain now that she wasn’t black. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z Andrea had different shades of gold already in her hair, but I didn’t see what could be hidden in my plain brown hair. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z As far back as 3500 B.C., the Sumerians, the original inhabitants of this area, mastered irrigation and flood control to create a fertile oasis amid the sandy plains of what is now Iraq. The Annotated Mona Lisa 1992-06-01T00:00:00Z Now a great whirlwind of flame rolled up from the plains. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z But we kept slowing down, groping our way across the totally unobstructed plain, and it took a strong effort of will to speed up to a normal pace. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z When the alpine sun filled Awkaypata, with its boldly delineated horizontal plain of white sand and sloping sheets of gold, the space became an amphitheater for the exaltation of fight. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z But the philosophers themselves disliked this penchant for telling tales and insisted upon their own, much plainer history. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Her ceiling is ordinary, plain white with a simple, square glass light in the middle and two hooks, like upside-down question marks, holding nothing. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z The plains are golden yellow, fading into a sky so pale it's like a sun-bleached version of the sky back in Maryland. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z When she spoke, she spoke truly with the plain right words. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z The Rebs were in plain view, moving, firing. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z We need Aretha Franklin’s voice to fill plain words with music—her life.’ Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z ‘But Quickbeam and some others are watching it. Not all those posts and pillars in the plain are of Saruman’s planting. Quickbeam, I think, is by the rock, near the foot of the stair.’ The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z Then some friends who had heard the news appeared with four boxes, plain simple pine without even a latch. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “Sit back, Fern,” I said in my plain, firm voice. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z But there was only the one grocer here as far as she knew, and the man had told her plain enough to come back during colored hours. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z We can hardly pride ourselves on being the world’s preeminent democracy, after all, if large numbers of citizens spend half their waking hours in what amounts, in plain terms, to a dictatorship. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z She would hide in plain sight and come home just before Winter Conclave. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z In my dark blue cloak and plain mask I moved about the hall, watching my actors. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z “I don’t do Valentine’s Day,” she said, plain. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z Not a tree grew anywhere to break the monotony of the gold-green plain, for the soils of the tundra are permanently frozen. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z And, setting aside the question of raw spam, the plain fact is that some information is simply more interesting than others. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z For the same color is plain around the keystone of each arch of the Old Bridge, which soars beautifully over the river upstream from the arch. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z It’s also possible for a lawyer to be just plain stupid, isn’t it? 6TH JUROR: YOU sound like you’ve met my brother-in-law. Twelve Angry Men 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z And catfish have mustaches for some reason, which is just plain weird finally, Mary Alice took the rusty hatchet out of my hand. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z It then seemed plain to us that the attack had been made for his rescue, and that he knew of it beforehand. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z “Then I should think it would have been perfectly plain—even to you—that my lips are sealed.” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z The smell of warm tar was now plain on the evening air. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Except for all the things that are just plain bigger. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z It’s selfish and horrible, but in this terrible moment, all I want is to be a plain old American teenager. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z There the white Snowbourn, joined by the lesser stream, went rushing, fuming on the stones, down to Edoras and the green hills and the plains. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z He was starting to ex- plain its destructive power when Kurnakov cut him off. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z “Isn’t that plain enough? I said it plain. There’s only one meaning to dishonest.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z She shows me a wide range of photos of rooms ranging from fancy to simple, elaborate to plain, ugly to beautiful. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z Like the two women he’d encountered before, most wore plain brown tunics, and some had even accentuated their attire with brightly colored leaves woven into their kinky white hair. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z After her father’s cruel remarks, Stone told him that she had no intention of ever marrying and that she wished she were even plainer so that no one would ever ask her. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z She was a short Romanian immigrant with plain features, curly brown hair, and the energy of two women. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z The basin floor was rumpled with smaller hills, golden plains, and stretches of forest. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z A plain lunch box with no ponies or rainbows. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z It was a plain blue rolling duffel, by the way: no logos or artwork. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z “Anyway,” Reynie said, “it’s in plain sight and you’d surely be spotted. I don’t think that’s what Mr. Benedict had in mind when he told us not to take unnecessary risks.” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z Then she has the nerve to tell me that my plain taffeta dress is unsuitable for the Tropicana. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z We are still beset by plain diseases, and we do not control them; they are loose on their own, afflicting us unpredictably and haphazardly. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The Lord Steward’s tone made it plain that he did not think that it would help enough. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Pong didn’t wear the Junior Patrol disguise anymore, just plain clothes. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z It would be vandalism, plain and ugly, defacement of school property. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z The tractor had come out of the trees and ran in plain view down the blacktop, covering the last half mile to the store. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z There in the land of the dancing plains and rolling hills, there in the land which is the eagle’s by day and the owl’s by night is innocence. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Why had Dr. Fanning, who was tall and somewhat handsome, married this plain, bucktoothed woman? How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z With a sense of relief, Mrs. Richardson had gone down to the mailbox and found a set of keys on a plain ring, with no note. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z The woman wore black boots and a plain gray shift dress. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z She had often studied the map of the United States and crossed its plains, mountains, deserts, and rivers in her imagination. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Shoulders slumped, head down, hair pulled back tight and plain. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z ‘Ride to Helm’s Deep! Go not to the Fords of Isen, and do not tarry in the plain! I must leave you for a while. Shadowfax must bear me now on a swift errand.’ The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z As plain to feel as the heat on a hot day, or the tug of a fish on a taut line. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z I pulled open the plain white shower curtain and ducked into the stall. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z It was a plain stone coffin, with a cracked lid, and the name that was once on it could no longer be deciphered. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z They were out on the plain now and drawing near the entrance to Udûn. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z Her sneakers were plain white, but I bet they cost more than our monthly rent. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z The banana company's city, which Patricia Brown may have tried to evoke for her grandchildren during the nights of intolerance and dill pickles in Prattville, Alabama, was a plain of wild grass. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z The plains of Tamil Nadu were beastly hot. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z Now she had a plain tie-dye wrapper tied loosely around her waist and that white T-shirt she wore every other day. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z On the table there, polished now and plain, an ugly case would stand containing butterflies and moths, and another one with birds’ eggs, wrapped in cotton wool. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z Everybody grabs a hand—some cleaner than others, some with painted or plain nails, some brown, some white, some colors in between. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z To the biochemist Phoebus Levene, one of Avery’s colleagues at Rockefeller University, the comically plain chemical composition of DNA—four bases strung along a chain—suggested an extremely “unsophisticated” structure. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z They have to figure out how to do this for real now, how to love each other in plain sight. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z They saw that they had only come some three or four miles into the forest: the heads of the trees marched down the slopes towards the plain. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z It was plain that most of them desired to go first to Minas Tirith, and to escape at least for a while from the terror of the Enemy. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z They rode now at an easy pace and dark came down upon the plains about them. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z Here was a man who was not against books, that was plain. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z I scolded myself, “You fool! Why did you say the main gate? At any time there will be a crowd of people there. Have you forgotten how plain he looks? You’ll never recognize him!” Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z The furrier, a plain woman with spindly arms, leaned over the counter, digging her hands into a stack of fox pelts. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z “They hide in plain sight, with uniforms and badges.” All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z Sohrab was wearing the plain white T-shirt and new denims I had bought him in Islamabad just before we’d left—the shirt hung loosely over his bony, slumping shoulders. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z I was allowed to spend two weeks with him there on the wind-swept plain, mostly waiting in the strange vacancy of a cold apartment, trying to compose cordial things to say to the other wives. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z But it occurs to me that I’m still in plain sight if one of the nurses comes into the lobby. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z In the trees at the edge of the plain, I can see the mockingjays flitting about. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z They were as plain as their mother, with big teeth, thick lips, and eyebrows as bushy as a caterpillar. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z It would be a plain green flag from now onwards. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z I took one good look at the plain white cover and set it on my desk where it managed to collect dust. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z I don’t take to dogs, but this one is just plain pitiful. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z After that, we got into the habit of doing the one-to-ten scale for anything that hurt, like if 1 just had a plain old sore throat, she’d ask: “One to ten?” Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z He stood on the other side of the door in faded jeans and a plain white T-shirt, his beard scruffy and his eyes bloodshot. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z We made our way across a dismal plain, groping for detail, sight obscured. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z Those last couple of weeks, I’d go from feeling excited to nervous to just plain scared back to excited in a matter of minutes. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z I saw the plain black ink on the white index card. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z “He said that the greatest of gods made the world, every wonder-bright plain and the turning seas. He said—” “Ridiculous.” Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z He wore a plain canvas jacket and a checked shirt, like many gyptian men; there was nothing to mark him out but the air of strength and authority he had. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z She has vanished completely despite the plain evidence that there was nowhere for her to go. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z I’m already dressed, wearing one of Donna’s uniforms: a gray skirt, a plain button-down white shirt, and a navy V-neck sweater. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z He crossed a yellow plain where the echo repeated one's thoughts and where anxiety brought on premonitory mirages. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z "I like him," I said, plain, unsure of what she was getting at. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z They still followed the hills along the Ystrad valley, but at midday the dwarf turned west and once more began to descend toward the plains. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z When we were kids, I figured R.C. was plain mean, but after what happened to Emmett, I knew R.C. was worse than mean. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z But he made no complaint and it was plain that he was determined to show what he could do and not to be left behind. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Note, too, his use of the plain style—establishing an ethos connection with Dud. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z The faucets were inverted and she thought that soda water came out instead of plain water. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z In back of the plateau were the mountains, and every way you looked there were other mountains, and ahead the road stretched out white across the plain going toward Pamplona. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z Spurge did look, and he saw that there, in the midst of the plain, a goblin army was on the march. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z We having fetched breeches and a plain shirt, I tore another shirt into strips and bound the man’s hands. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z In most newspaper writing, for example, all titles are in plain type, though not all go inside quotation marks. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z There was no handle and no keyhole: nothing but a plain expanse of aged wood, and a bronze knocker in the shape of an eagle. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z In political terms, the Hamilton pamphlet was fully as fatal, and perhaps suicidal, as his subsequent decision to face Aaron Burr on the plains of Weehawken. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z Caldwell is forty miles west, in the center of a flat plain known, for reasons that may have made sense long ago, as Treasure Valley. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Nor was she impatient with Corinthians’ undistinguished everyday cooking, for Michael-Mary ate several small plain meals. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z The men wore plain, casual jackets and baggy pants, and all of them had caps on top of their heads. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z But neither the delivery boy nor the judge limped, and he still hadn't figured out she or plain. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z To the east the land was lower, the ground flattening to a rolling plain that stretched away as far as the eye could see. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z No one had bothered us when we were in plain sight along the railway. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z A deep, hollow drumming throbbed over the crowded plain. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z The city’s fortress walls were so plain, so blank, and then he would go through a gate—and everywhere, Werfel thought joyously, everywhere there was life. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z The use of chlordane for grasshopper control on the high western plains has been followed by the death of many stream fish. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z He spent weeks out on the vast and remote plains, working in the intense heat and rains. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z But however anxious their guides might be, it was plain that the hobbits could go no further that night. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z They were crossing the broad coastal plain where the secular winds drove them in howling clouds of ash to find shelter where they could. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z He hated it, as he hated the Texas plains, the Nevada desert; spaces horizontal and sparsely inhabited had always induced in him a depression accompanied by agoraphobic sensations. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z “If we don’t do something quickly, living anything down—or even just plain living—will be out of the question.” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z A song could simply be a nice meandering tune, plain and simple. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z She put into his hand a little box of plain grey wood, unadorned save for a single silver rune upon the lid. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z He was in the middle of a great empty plain, a flat desert drenched with sunlight, across which all sounds came to him out of immense distances. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z The Thaw is the bad time on that plain of many rivers. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z Always a plain man, Ned now seemed to become part of the background, a bystander to his own life. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z He walked slowly and spoke slowly, and almost everything he said publicly was bland, or a cliche, or just plain stupid. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Cops in plain clothes are easy to spot, because they still walk like cops and talk like cops, no matter how much they try not to. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z Then the sound came drifting across farm and field and rolling plain, indistinct as the murmur of some distant sea, but swelling as they rode closer. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z And, sir, let me make this plain: We do not consent. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The shimmering dry heat made visions of water on the flat plain. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z And there it was, a plain wooden crate stamped with the words: I Survived the Sinking of the Titanic, 1912 2010-06-01T00:00:00Z But no, she could see herself, plain as day. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z That way, too, on the plain, the enemy’s ground forces waited: machines glinting brightly, flags astir with color, regiments drawn up, waiting. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z “When we finish the shower, can you run home and bring me some real clothes, please? This hospital stuff is just plain nasty!” Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z But by being there beneath the plains of Weehawken for their interview, they managed to make a dramatic final statement about the time of their time. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z But the plain, humble shell continued to roll, oblivious to the splendor around it. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z It was plain to see the man was in a hurry. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z It was plain and nourishing, and that was all Will could cope with. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z The other women carried plain cloth panels showing the colors of the American women’s suffrage movement: purple, white, and gold. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z But I do now: a bit of plain bread, and a mug — aye, half a mug — of beer would go down proper. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z They are in plain sight around us, right there in the sand. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z It was plain that they were afraid of the great, bristling buck, with his strange shock of fur and his smell of fresh blood. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z I admit on that day I was just plain lucky. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z Our lead actress, and she was hiding in plain sight. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z Henry’s car was there, right where I’d parked it, plain as day. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z They glittered in the last light of the Moon, as they spread over the plain. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z The tidy, tiny room was furnished sparely—a large bed with a plain blue cover, a dresser, a night-stand, groups of old family photos on the walls. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z Under the low red glare of sunset, the beacon, and the gibbet, and the mound of the Battery, and the opposite shore of the river, were plain, though all of a watery lead colour. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z He said, “She real partial to having things done fancy, don’t want nothing plain, so I put some decorating on it.” Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z The hobbits, bent nearly double, toiled along behind the taller folk, but it was plain that they could not go much further, if the snow continued. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z There Vetch for all his plain quiet ways was both a powerful wizard and a lord in his own house. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z He didn’t know how to comfort her, because it was plain that she was right. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z They put the cloth-covered casket with its shiny handles into the plain box. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z And he had always thought her a skinny, plain girl. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z He would have been thrilled to get a crack at plain old regular opportunities, much less special ones. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z And the outfits, even the special-occasion dress, were so simple, so plain. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z On a great plain, where no light shone from the iron-dark sky, and where a mist obscured the horizon on every side. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z She could just make out the blob of land in the distance, beneath the plain sky. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z The people of the United States know, as I know, that that is just plain hooey. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z The giants roared and screamed and cursed, and for many minutes the noise of battle rolled across the yellow plain. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z He curls up into himself on the ground, agony plain on his face. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z My plain, mannish appearance also let me pass unnoticed. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z Books and books and books, right out in plain view, no locks, no boxes. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z It was like looking into the plain eyes of a toy doll. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z Beside the plain blue home- spun and white linen which modestly clothed Aunt Rachel and Judith, Kit’s flowered silk gave her the look of some vivid tropical bird lighted by mistake on a strange shore. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z The plain box held five smaller boxes—a small round one in the center and four curved boxes that fit around it perfectly. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z He was plain, and his manners were not polished. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z Then he thought No. If I had been there I could not have seen it this plain “But that dont explain the other three,” he said. Absalom, Absalom! 1936-01-01T00:00:00Z Now I knew for certain she was Lucinda, the only fairy in the world who would disappear in plain view. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z Smoke drifted in the air, a brimstone scent to singe the nostrils, and right in plain view was a long syringe. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z “You speak too plain. She must understand you.” Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z She was really heavy and moved around her place really slow, hunched over a plain black cane made of wood. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z “Ba, tell me the story about Fruitless Mountain again,” Minli would say as her mother spooned their plain rice into bowls. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z She was obviously Cree, but looked more plains than northern, so she was far from home. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z Eastward he looked into wide uncharted lands, nameless plains, and forests unexplored. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z And the voice I’d heard the day before, saying, Lily Melissa Owens, your jar is open, speaking as plain and clear as the woman in navy speaking to her daughter. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Nevertheless, they knew that a fox in the open, plain to be seen, is not dangerous as long as it is spotted in time. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z It is grounded in a web of advantages and inheritances, some deserved, some not, some earned, some just plain lucky—but all critical to making them who they are. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z “Some small plain ones. We’ll learn about patterns later. Cast on a row of, oh, let’s say forty stitches, and we ’ll start at the calf.” The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z Aaron Burr and Alexander Hamilton are being rowed in separate boats across the Hudson River for an appointment on the plains of Weehawken. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z Immediately it appears: four wedges on a plain white plate. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z They lived together in the same place, near some hills that came out of the plains, and where there was good water and cool places to sleep. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z Out on the plains of West Texas everyone knew how the Panthers routinely bludgeoned opponents from El Paso and Abilene and Amarillo. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z I settle on a plain black skirt and white blouse. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z He was holding two pieces of pottery: one a plain, boring blue-gray bowl, and the other an amazing blue-gray bowl with random cracks that were filled with shimmering gold. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z Instead, he said, the giant figures were landing signals for space travelers; the whole plain was a sort of gigantic extraterrestrial airport. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z In the spring and summer, the green ears of corn sit out in plain view with all the other fruits and vegetables. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z My eyes scan the woods just in time to see the first creature leap onto the plain. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z His amber eyes were steady but sad, as if he knew he’d never see the plains of Africa again. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z This was plain and unadorned for the most part, but all well and fairly made: round platters, bowls and dishes of glazed brown clay or turned box-wood, smooth and clean. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z Having to stand up at the end of a long day within plain sight of an empty seat was both depressing and infuriating. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z Right through the charge Merry had been borne unharmed behind him, until the Shadow came; and then Windfola had thrown them in his terror, and now ran wild upon the plain. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z The sub gives everyone else a piece of lined paper and she gives me a plain one. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z “Is that your name?” she asks shyly, pointing to Felicia’s left shoulder, where “Otto” is stitched in plain lettering. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z It seemed much too fancy to have in a house, and Ophie thought of the plain polished wood floor in Aunt Rose’s parlor. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z Whether or not this heartening intelligence took some of the weight off Mr. Wilson’s troubled shoulders, Dad never made entirely plain. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z Our room was very plain, so I hung my dowry quilt on one of the walls to make the room more cheerful. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z “A face plain as a clay saucer and no gold threads woven in her sari,” Tanu whispered. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z He tuned in to my guilt like I had been wearing it plain as day on my face. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z ‘A plain road, though it led through a hedge of swords,’ said Boromir. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z ‘Parts which have been sea are now land,’ he said, and ‘mountains have been turned into plains, and plains into mountains, and the like.’ The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z His voice was quiet, but all the other boys suddenly fell still, for in his tone as in Jasper’s the spite between them now sounded plain and clear as steel coming out of a sheath. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z It was not a plain wall: Like everything else in Persepolis, it was oversized, carved, and the color of cargo pants. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z Carefully, he tucked a strand of hair behind Petra’s ear and let his hand rest for a moment against the soft, wide plain of her cheekbone. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z How was it possible that such effort, such plain virtue, could overnight be reduced to this—smoke, thinning as it rose and was received by the big, annihilating sky? In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z And how on the opposite side, the plain, white, unlined side, it said, “Visit Axel at least every other Saturday.” A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z In the kitchen, I couldn’t help but notice that my dad’s mysterious pile of depressing papers was just sitting on the table, in plain view. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Finally, after more woods and fields, the plain square house was before me, its downstairs windows full of yellow light. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z They take plain flower juice and turn it into something everyone in the world loves to pour on biscuits. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Now she looked to her father, in his plain, old black coat that he’d come to camp in. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z Eastward Sam could see the plain of Mordor vast and dark below, and the burning mountain far away. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z “May I cut in, sir? “You look plain pretty, Scout,” Henry said. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z The story droned on, speeded up for the attack, grew sad over the wounds, struck a dirge at the burials on the great plains. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z Amaya came downstairs and ducked past them, still in her plain orphanage dress. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z Then I dug out one of my plain white T-shirts. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z Grandma was like a child whose parents have gone off and left her without making plain where they have gone or when they could be expected to return. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z We ran outside with the wind from the blades tearing down on us from just above the trees, whipping our plain white nightgowns into a froth. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z He must have known already, but the plain words were a sucker punch. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Again, the line moved forward, and now the gates had almost swallowed me; I was almost out upon the plain. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z In Tom Smith’s younger days, the Indians would watch him picking his way over the open plains, skirting the mustang herds. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z To their right, the Phlegethon split into branches that etched the plain, widening into a delta of smoke and fire. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Going to the bathroom at school just plain sucks. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z The room has Harold’s minimalist look to it: the twin bed with plain white sheets and white blanket, polished wood floors, a bleached oakwood chair, and nothing on the slanted gray walls. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z “As rapidly as the systems were broken, each day’s traffic was translated by me into plain text.” The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z On the dusty plains before the walls of Troy, thousands upon thousands of soldiers take part in the dance of death. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z Her voice had the tender concern of a healthy person speaking to an invalid, and her plain statement rang thrillingly true: “I’m thankful.” I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z This birthday party is at a nightclub—a plain, short, and wide building. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z He wears plain T-shirts or unfashionable shirts that he shares with his old man. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z That all my plans for the summer are just plain stupid, and Tyler Croft is right about me being a swampy good-for-nothing. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z Before I start chanting at them in a language they don’t understand, I owe them something important—in plain English. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z Arthur, reserved and unhappy in the new atmosphere which had begun to pull away from him instead of with him, moved about the palace in his plain dress, trying to be polite. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z “Just plain decent is what it is,” she said. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z Even my life so far has been plain. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z After that, you just wanted someone to say the plain truth, and maybe Bobby Kennedy would be that someone. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z The agent ushered the girls into a plain white tent outfitted with chairs and a desk. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z For all its array of officials, Siuwensin was a very small, plain place, sunk deep in rural torpor. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z Then I put down just plain X for the last amount. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z Across the plain it was dark, and we could see the mountains. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z Among all those precious jewels on the back of his chair there was a plain black stone above his head. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z A woman wearing a plain foreign dress and large, ugly shoes walked toward us. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z Her hair was lank and dull and she had a plain, pale, rather heavy face. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z These plains were a part of them . . . and of her, now. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z She took a piece of plain white paper and stared at it. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z She looked up at Robin, who was dressed in pajama bottoms covered in pineapples and a plain light gray T-shirt. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z A moment of carelessness or bad judgment or plain stupidity carried consequences that lasted forever. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z “However,” Toby continued, “this is not a matter of plain and simple finking. Letting you Egyptians get away with all this secret stuff just might be considered—like, unpatriotic, or something.” The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z There was no profit in it—that was plain. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z When we walked into the schoolyard, I saw that all the other girls were dressed more like Lynn, in jumpers or plain skirts with white blouses. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z Under his dark blue uniform he wears a plain black T-shirt and a black string around his throat. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z Lately he’s been tying the chicken-house door shut with a rope when he turns in for the night, but now it was plain to see no rope was going to be strong enough. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z It presented a face of definite elegance to the street, although behind that wings and ells dwindled quickly in formality until the house ended in a big plain barn. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z “Dessert is probably hiding in plain sight. Just like the bonus codes in Squirrel Squad. Follow me.” Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z I was excited by the prospect of new clothing to replace the worn and plain attire that I had long outgrown. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z So far I’m thinking either God’s too busy or just plain deaf. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z There was a loud rumbling sound, as of stones rolling and falling, and suddenly light streamed in, real light, the plain light of day. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z It was so mesmerizing to see plain cupcakes become beautifully decorated within seconds. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z “Oh, happy the men who fell gloriously on the plain of Troy!” he thought. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z But working on stuff the teachers in the regular classes assign is just plain awesome. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z They were an exuberant, restless people, wandering across the ocean of the plain. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z And then at last over the miles between there came a rumble, rising to a deafening crash and roar; the earth shook, the plain heaved and cracked, and Orodruin reeled. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z On foot they came, and horsemen, filling the river plain with dazzle of bronze; and Zeus lord of lightning threw my men into blind panic: no one dared stand against that host closing around us. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z “A modest bodice is what I’m thinking, with a minimum of frill. Simple and plain. A gathered skirt. You can wear that pinafore on top when you’re working. Do you have more than one pinafore?” Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z The shield was a plain round steel thing of the type carried by the warriors of old. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z I just let my plain face and plain words speak for me. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z A few days later, Henrietta’s body made the long, winding train ride from Baltimore to Clover in a plain pine box, which was all Day could afford. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z It was only in retrospect that they came to call plain heartsease a happiness too; and though they sometimes thought that a shame, other times they thought differently. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z In winter the wind of the plains may keep the city clear of snow, but when it blizzards and piles up they do not clear the streets, having no streets to clear. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z She is wearing her sturdy black shoes and her plain black dress and over the top of the dress is a pink bedjacket. The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z So much of his job was just plain grueling, the challenges huge and often seemingly intractable. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Bakers began frosting their cakes with plain sugar—it was cheaper than luck and just as sparkly. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z The gray clothes, the plain hairstyle, and the unassuming demeanor of my faction are supposed to make it easier for me to forget myself, and easier for everyone else to forget me too. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z The light from the Mason-jar window falls on a note lying in plain view on the furs. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z “When it was set loose, it ranged everywhere, from the mountains and plains to the towns and cities; rivers and oceans never stopped it.” Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z Looking out over the great plain, far away the riders saw it for a moment like a red fire sinking into the grass. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z The gravestone was a plain piece of slate carved with her name: Elinor. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z There it was written out for me to see as plain as if I were reading it in a book. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Robb shook his head numbly, the pain plain in his eyes. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Her coat is decent and clean, her jeans are plain, her boots look new, and her face is hard, but safe—like a schoolteacher’s. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z Seven on bottom, four in the middle, and one on top, but it looked misshapen, so I took it apart and settled for plain rows. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z My mother kept telling me nobody wanted a plain English major. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z It was also the first time I saw anyone cry—really cry—from being just plain happy. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z Old or young, lovely or plain, rich or very rich, he’ll keep them company and take their extravagant gifts, but he never stays, and once he’s gone he never comes back. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z A plain young woman in a linen apron and cap was busy at the fireplace. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z “But,” 1 said, “in the old days the Austrians were always whipped in the quadrilateral around Verona. They let them come down onto the plain and whipped them there.” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z And then I spotted a plain white envelope with my name, Zoe Washington, and my address handwritten in neat, blue print. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z “I am very glad to see you. My study is cold, and our hospitality is plain, but come in, come in.” The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z “First, nobody I'm driving calls me ma’am. It makes me feel like an old lady. I'm just plain Mei-li. Mei-li Chen.” We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z It was later, after another dinner of plain white rice had been consumed and tea forgone again on account of the drought, after Rasheed had smoked a cigarette, that he told Laila about his decision. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z Surratt’s place was hard to spot at night—the plain two-story structure was unpainted, and the dull wood boards reflected no moonlight. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z It ran down swiftly into the plain, and beyond the feet of the hills turned across their path in a wide bend, flowing away east to feed the Entwash far off in its reed-choked beds. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z He was a plain horse who was born strong and sturdy. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z Now we know what terrible wickedness those people are capable of, we can see our duty plainer than ever. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z "But you're from another country, so it's different for you. I bet you eat different foods and speak a different language and all that. You're not plain old American." The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z Everyone spills out of a plain, whitewashed building with a cross hammered onto the door. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z From the chair Millard replied, “I’m sorry, but it says right here in plain calligraphy: The Land of Serendip. The peculiar cartographers who made this were not in the business of making things up!” Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z These words coming out of any other boy’s mouth would sound like hyperbole or plain old trash talk, but Boy21 is dead serious. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Every time you turned around she was threatening to go tell on you or was whining about something or being just a plain old pest. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z What’s more, he insisted, making the Pentagon Papers public was just plain wrong. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Elizabeth shakes her head at me and picks up a plain white sticker. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z The desert plains are giving way to bumpier terrain, strewn with ejecta that never got buried by sand. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Now I go only at night when all is plainer: plain-lit shapes inside, his face and radio ringed with bright devil halos in kerosene-lantern light. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z “Which in plain English means they didn’t want Black people to be freed. Ever.” Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z The vast plain was hairy with dead grasses. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z No one spoke of it, but the message was plain to read for any man with eyes. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z The fireplace in the living room, with its plain marble mantel, was blocked off, and we put Tata’s television in front of it. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z I feel like a book laid wide open, where my story is written in plain words for her to read. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z In the bank on the further side of the bay the rabbit holes were plain to see, showing dark and distinct in the bare ground. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z I'm dressed in a plain denim skirt, flowery top, and a pair of Janae's sandals. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z He wore his thought plain as day on his face: You’re still here? The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z He saw the problem before him as plain as a map. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Mr. Hofacket fumbled in a drawer and produced a sheet of plain white paper. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z Over the plains Shadowfax was flying, needing no urging and no guidance. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z She handed Pinmei her plain bowl, the cooked grains shining like a mound of pearls against the dark pottery. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z The king enjoyed his food and drink, that was plain to see, yet he seemed neither glutton nor drunk-aid. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z The boys among us had no trouble getting past the plain clothes and laying down plans. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z Even the two plain buildings looked particularly pleasant. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z His mom made him get roasted chicken and a plain baked potato. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z They decided to hide in plain sight, sweeping and cleaning the courtyard, looking busy and useful. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z Below them, at the bottom of a fall of some fifteen hundred feet, lay the inner plain stretching away into a formless gloom beyond their sight. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z The orc-band began to descend a narrow ravine leading down into the misty plain below. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z They were out in plain sight, all of them; anyone who passed would recognize them for what they were—runaways, fugitives. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z Kira covered the spread-out robe with a plain cloth to protect it. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z In an article about sewing, she wrote, “It will be a glorious day...when men and boys make their own clothes, and women make theirs in the plainest possible manner.” Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z They left the plain and gathered round Treebeard, standing quite still. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z The office was plain, stuffed full of gunmetal gray filing cabinets, but little else. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z In the middle of the room was a plain, unlacquered screen. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z There plain for all to see were the footprints of two hobbits, one somewhat smaller than the other. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z I stare at the rows of plain, black- and-white cards and wish that all his cards were colorful. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z I could put anything in my mouth, chew it and swallow it—delicious, foul or plain—so long as it wasn’t salty. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z There could be no fanciness—no gaudy calendars or lace pillows or knickknacks—but everything in the house must be plain and dark and indicative of work and the real true purpose. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z It was plain that she wanted to be invisible, but no amount of wishing was going to stop us from noticing her, not even in that faded dress and ratty cardigan. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z They told jokes all afternoon and Francie laughed at them all, whether they were funny or just plain dirty. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z "If a treasure is hidden in a grain shed on a mountain plain, I sure don't have time to look for it. Do you?" The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z This corner of southwestern Idaho is unrelentingly poor and plain, with vast stretches of empty roads and treeless farmland, intersected by equally vast swatches of fast-food franchises and car dealerships. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Here and there was a cup or basin of polished bronze; and a goblet of plain silver was set by the Captain’s seat in the middle of the inmost table. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z 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 He wore a plain white kaftan with light blue embroidery around the neckline and hem. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z Far over the plain Éowyn saw the glitter of their spears, as she stood still, alone before the doors of the silent house. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z She might be found sitting sound asleep, not a mile away from the plantation, motionless by the side of the road, in plain view. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z Having my feelings pulled in every direction wasn’t any better than just plain hating John Worth. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z She was baking plain white bread instead of buying it at the store. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Father and Mother complained regularly about Mrs. Gandhi, but it meant little to me. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z It was plain that whatever “everyone” was saying, she was not going to believe it until Dumbledore told her it was true. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z And even if wars didn’t keep coming like glaciers, there would still be plain old death. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z I have to show him that I’m sorry, so I’ve dressed the part: plain and simple, jeans and T-shirt, hardly any makeup. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z In other words, keep the answers simple and plain. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z Her face seemed plain, like it would on any other day. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z Instead, there was only a flat plain, as if the whole home had teen scooped from the earth. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z He was carrying a plain brown package under his arm. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z The plain white sheets that we usually covered the bed with had been replaced by a large piece of purple cloth. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z He examined her knife-pleated skirt, the blouse she wore with long darts through the shoulders, her hair bound tightly to the back of her head, the plain hat held in her hand. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z It was a long bright plain room, the kitchen. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z Too proud to just plain ask for help! In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “You stepped right out in plain sight,” he shouted. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z He makes several of his drawings on grey paper instead of plain. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z The life of an animal is misery and slavery: that is the plain truth. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z They really were leaving, but Mother seemed just plain desperate to keep the conversation going. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z “My uncle's guilt is now plain. The ghost is an honest one!” Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z I know Hideo wanted to hide me in plain sight—but I didn’t think he would make me the number one draft pick. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z In its absence it left an aura, a palpable shimmering that was as plain to see as the water in a river or the sun in the sky. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z The bitter upland plains, the purple wastes of sage, the wild, swift antelope, and the grouse are then a natural system in perfect balance. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z What hand, Darwin asked, had guided the creation of such different varieties of finches on those distant volcanic islands or made small armadillos out of giant precursors on the plains of South America? The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z He kept turning around the tree limb to keep it between him and Little Arliss, till he was on my side in plain sight. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z A gun barrel pressed to my spine urges me forward, through the front doors of Abnegation headquarters, a plain gray building, two stories high. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z It goes with my shorts and plain tee, but if I were wearing a dress, it’d go with that, too. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z At the end of the room, in the corner, stood the wooden door, which had once, in another place, opened onto a plain brick wall. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z But no matter how bad I wanted it, I was still going to be just plain old me. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z Walt grew up in Greeley, Colorado, an agricultural town on the high, windswept plains up near the Wyoming line. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z It made her seem plainer, and her face was made up in pale colors that weren’t flattering either. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z Along the plain to the south of the fortress glimmered thousands of lights, marking the camps of those who had arrived from far off. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z About two o’clock the mist cleared away, and we beheld, stretched out in every direction, vast and irregular plains of ice, which seemed to have no end. Frankenstein 1818-01-01T00:00:00Z The thick-set plain man whom Johnny had already noticed, put a heavy hand on his shoulder. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z |
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