| 单词 | pole |
| 例句 | When she was little, her grandfather had told her that if she counted a hundred telephone poles in a row, an electric fairy would grant her one wish. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z The Cong above us shifted his position, then pushed the pole in again. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Air raid rules, the Review reminded readers, were now posted on many electrical poles: keep calm and cool; stay home; put out lights; lie down; stay away from windows; don’t telephone. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z Torn plastic bags snag on poles and awnings. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z They were sitting on the dock, feet dangling in the water, fishing poles in hand. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z With the tips of my fingers, I reach forward and touch the cold metal pole. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z But Lina dashed across the street, took off her shoes and socks, and wrapped herself around the cold metal of the pole. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z The north pole becomes the south pole and the south pole becomes the north pole: zero becomes infinity and infinity becomes zero. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Passively, he hungered for another orbit between two poles that would let him live again; for a new mode of life that would catch him up with the tension of hate and love. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z Also, she planted a three-meter pole with a bright green flag over where she buried it. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z She pulled a tool from her backpack, an arm-length pole that telescoped out almost to Tall/s height. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z The scaffolding was made of poles lashed together with rope. Cathedral: The Story of Its Construction 1973-09-19T00:00:00Z Like a Manichaean nightmare, the two sit on opposite poles of the number sphere, sucking numbers in like tiny black holes. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z “I did better than you did! That was a stupid idea anyway, a stupid, stupid idea to climb that pole....” The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z “Well, Delsie, I think this may be as big as yours! But it’s hard to hold on to the pole. Man, this thing is heavy.” Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z Gus whistled while he hoed around the tiny tomato plants, stepping carefully between the pole beans and zucchini that were just beginning to poke through the warm spring dirt. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z Althea stood on top of it clutching a net on a pole, ready to wield it. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z In reply I had raised the pole and beat, beat, beat. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z I grit my teeth and roll to the edge, grabbing the pole that supports the net, and swing my leg over the side. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z The peace I’d enjoyed earlier was gone, so I picked up my pole, walked back to the truck, and headed home. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z In effect they "remember" where the magnetic poles were at the time of their creation. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z She had a curtain—it looked like an old sheet that had been sewn—slid across a pole nailed in a corner of the room for privacy. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z This time, not being rushed, I was able to use a pole to leverage the table off Martinez's suit. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Now it was nothing more than one storey, maybe two, of jagged edges, melted poles, and broken cement. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z I had left the handle standing straight up when I had taken the pole away. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Above us, I know, there are floodlights, attached to the telephone poles, for use in emergencies, and there are men with machine guns in the pillboxes on either side of the road. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z She had been to New York only once, in college, in the days when you had to hold your purse tight with both hands and didn’t dare touch anything on the subway, even the poles. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z The Captain fetched the pole from the kitchen, and after he had handed it in to me in the stern, he climbed in and sat down facing me, his arms tightly folded across his chest. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “Hey, hold still,” Gideon ordered the man, who immediately tried to stand up again, reaching for the subway pole and missing. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z Yandry pulled up the anchor, slid one of the long poles off the cabin roof, and pushed them off. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z I heard people moving away from the base of the pole. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z She hauled the poles up into the lucky-beans with Crocodile Guts’s rope, and experimented with various configurations until she had a floor that was more or less level. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z He poled the boat over to the rock slope. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z After consulting the horizon on all four sides, she tore what was left of her quilts into several strips and resolved to polish the banister poles at a later time. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z Moreover, this axis was not the north-south axis of the poles but an axis through Jerusalem and the geometrical centre of the universe. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z The pole holders walk onstage first, carrying the long bamboo reeds, their silhouettes on the screen the only thing visible to the audience. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z W hen I saw that water ripple with a huge tail, I just left my pole with the fish still on it. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Perhaps ten minutes later a boat floated down the serene surface of the canal, a tall lank man with black hair poling it along with leisurely drives of his arms. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z But it was just that we were too much on opposite sides of the pole, that's all. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z The boys, flashing wide grins, said little but began handing out miniature totem poles. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Dad bought me a brand-new pole for my birthday but wouldn’t give it to me until I learned that song. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z Usually my pole was only a foot or so in the water, but then suddenly it would go down three feet and I knew I had found the gut again. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z She hooked the steel pole to the screw that unrolled the awning. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “I’m kind of glad,” Winnie admitted, easing her rigid grip on the butt of the pole. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z He carried water to them day after day after he had given up the wheat, the heavy wooden buckets slung upon a bamboo pole across his shoulders. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z Dark red ribbons that wind around the stems like a barbershop light pole. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z I expected it to be on a floating buoy, but the pole is actually a wooden post that drops into the depths, presumably all the way to the bottom almost seven miles below. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z The corporals had bound two tent poles with twine to make a cross. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z The cowhides stood about two feet off the dirt floor, stretched tight inside a pole frame Papa had built in one corner of the room. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z As I walked toward the pennant pole, I felt the weight of the crowd’s eyes on me. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z “You don’t walk into a telephone pole because of a boy.” Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z I could pole a skiff quickly and quietly, and nearsighted as he was he could spy a crab by just a tip of the claw through grass and muck. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Rondell could go get himself a fishing pole and sit out there all day in a boat trying to hook himself a trout. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z Alex called to the dog, who had stopped to sniff a light pole. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z Once our roof was up, we pulled the other tarp around the poles, securing it as best we could to make three flimsy walls. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z Then they crossed the road, found their skis and poles, jumped into their white camouflage suits, and sped across the snow away from the road. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z With a long pole and wire, I’d drag the hide on top of rail fences, swing it through the air, and let it touch the ground twenty or thirty feet away. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Specifically, the length would shorten as you moved away from the poles. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z She could see a number of cars, some up in the air on gleaming steel poles, others over pits in the ground, and still others parked here and there. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z R.C. set his pole down to bait his hook. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z I grab the loose Halloween picture of Esme dressed in waders, holding a fishing pole, and Henry dressed as a giant fish. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z Wooden poles, metal spikes, large pieces of mesh—like what covers a chicken coop—rolls of barbed wire, saws, knives, swords. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z Six queen’s men were wrestling two enormous pinewood poles into holes six other queen’s men had dug out. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Shay’s feet slipped backward, but she leaned her weight into the pole, keeping it wedged under the cross-tie. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z When it gets to the end of the day we stop again and put up our tent, heavy canvas with wooden poles. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z All I saw was the pole, bent at an acute angle. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Yandry stabbed out with his pole to keep them from smashing into a pier. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z He held a long pole with absolutely nothing on top. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z Often you see a beginner either leaving his pole behind, or clinging on so desperately that he is pulled from the punt and splashes into the water. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z With one of my shoelaces I tied the wire to the end of the cane pole. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Christina is perched on one of the horses, her long legs crossed and her hand around the pole holding the plastic animal upright. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z Because, as corny as it may be: I want to be a wobbly people pole that tries to bring joy into the world, not one that takes joy from it. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z The Hyperborean was cradling a Native American totem pole wrapped in furs, humming to it like a baby. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z Two soldiers stood by the metal pole stretched across the road from one gutter to another. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z Sheed said, “Can you two get this rope tied around that pole way over there? Without the man on the Time Suck seeing you?” The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z A girl wore a striped vest and stood next to a silver pole with a velvet rope hooked to it. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z They were a club of some sort, and all wore workmen's blue smocks, and red handkerchiefs around their necks, and carried a great banner on two poles. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z Days passed working, burning, cutting, gathering food, and each day I cut another notch on an aspen pole that I had stuck in the ground for a calendar. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z After catching his horse, Light Hair tied drag poles to the bay. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z He stood on one thin leg like a stork and twisted the pink lace curtain into a pole, staring at Chacko with his mother’s eyes. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z The washers stirred the clothes in the washing machines with long poles. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Before departing, Franz gave McCandless a machete, an arctic parka, a collapsible fishing pole, and some other gear for his Alaska undertaking. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z More flat cars pass, loaded with what look like telephone poles. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z This arc of the belt brought them through Cleopatra Park, where Tally threaded the slalom poles for old times’ sake. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z To give away his fishing pole, his skinning knife—every piece of his gear but one, and borrow a suitcase for their things. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z I set him down on the floor, kneeled, and took hold of the long pole by my side. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z She grabbed the microphone pole like Diana Ross, stepped out in front of us—her Supremes—then cleared her throat. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z There was a picture of a young girl taped to the pole, and sympathy cards and tiny stuffed animals were scattered around it. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z He guesses it makes sense—they’ve always been fixed points in each other’s worlds, little magnetic poles. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z “I just remember that it was a ship for crossing the pole.” Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z The music starts, the poles clap, but déjà vu. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z The sound echoed queerly in the fog, and for a moment it was as if poles were falling around them. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Screamer landed on a telephone pole, then skimmed the meadow, scaring the starlings into the air. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z When Grey Wind bounded out, one of them dropped his pole and lurched back, stumbling and sitting down abruptly in the river. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z One of the black vapory ghosts was wearing the lion’s-skin cape of a standard bearer and holding a pole with a golden eagle, icicles frozen to its wings. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z Ladders click along poles and hold servants squeezing books into nooks. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z “Maybe the flagpole could be a plan B when there isn’t the threat of storms, because avoiding tall metal poles is actually a good rule of thumb when lightning may be in the picture.” A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z Train Ear ran down the aisle and swung himself around the pole. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z “I don’t think we brought my fishing pole.” Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z She’d stayed up with her father, watching the villagers drag the river with nets and bamboo poles. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z He was hunched over a fishing pole and did not appear to notice them. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z There was supersized Jupiter - no, this was Zeus, his original form - riding into battle in a golden chariot, a lightning bolt the size of a telephone pole crackling in one hand. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z Rubin grabbed a pole, saying, “He may come out on this side.” Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z They flew to the quarter pole, still sustaining a fearsome clip. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z The Royal & General occupied a tall, antique-looking building with a Union Jack fluttering from a pole about fifteen floors up. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z The spinning water dips in the center, revealing more layers of sea life clinging to the scarecrow’s pole, which has become its own vertical reef. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z She made sure the poles were deep enough in the ground that a stiff wind wouldn’t blow it over. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z I looked around for the rods and reels, at least some bamboo poles, but didn’t see anything. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z For fishing, we made our own poles out of willow branches. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z He cut off the motor and lifted the pole out of the water. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z Montag slid down the pole like a man in a dream. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z Spiked on a pole atop the bridge is the severed head of a traitor—a man who betrayed the crown of England and paid for it with his life. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z He had metallic golden skin, armor made from platinum links, and an iron staff the size of a totem pole. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z She’d eaten about three bites when a raven settled on the telephone pole above and began to croak at them. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z At the prow of the Shy Maid, Young Griff stood with the third pole, to push them away from hazards as they loomed up through the mists. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Nathaniel asked, pointing to the edge of the clearing where a leafy stack of thin poles waited. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Early on the morning of the second day he was home, he cut poles and used basswood twine to rope together two platforms, one on either side of the cornfield. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z “Where are we?” he asked, peering around at a fresh mass of trees as Hermione opened the beaded bag and began tugging out tent poles. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z The tent is enormous, as tall as the sky and supported by long, straight poles jutting at various angles. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z On the other side of the road, all I could see were more farm fields; a line of telegraph poles led my eye over them into the far distance. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z The road past the rail yard is lined with poles, and beyond it are houses, which I can get a better look at now. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z They each hung on their pole beneath the wooden canopy, and seemed to float. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z "There. That pole. The one with the forcefield generator on top." Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z From a distance, a small person hanging by the neck from a telephone pole. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z The curtain that had been hung between two poles parted. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z To make it easy for her to feed our stock, I cut some poles from the hillside and boxed up one of the stalls in the barn. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z It had been four years since he and Emilio Segre had crossed the Berkeley campus with a bucket of ether infused with microscopic quantities of plutonium and suspended from a long wooden pole. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Mama and Nokomis hung the smoky woven bags of rice and tools and medicines from the willow poles above. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z He climbed onto the back of the raft, kneeling at Derek’s feet as he had before, and used the pole to push it away from the bank and out into the current. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z She hugs me from behind, and twists a few of my curls around her finger like they're ribbons on a pole. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z How were we supposed to know that semi was going to skid into a telephone pole? Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z Then came a ceremonial drum carried on a pole between two men. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z I poled the boat in close before he heard us and looked up. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z They found a catching net, a pole with a baglike net at the end. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z In Under- standing Our Universe, I read that a magnet’s north pole attracts another magnet’s south pole, but it repels another magnet’s north pole. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z In the center of it was a pennant pole with a stone bench underneath it. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Side note: Mars's atmosphere does condense at the poles. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z This was a long-tail boat, designed with the motor, orb, and rudder all attached to the same long pole. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z Her paper-thin skin, so pale he wonders if they need to attach a bag of blood to one of those poles and give her a refill. Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z Light poles are like palm trees, bus stop benches like hammocks, and corner stores like island bungalows. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z He was low man on the totem pole, the bottom of the ladder. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z The puppy at the Palace was growing like a pole bean, and having a thousand generations of training behind her, she began to train herself. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Pools of the stuff dotted the narrow space between the buildings and the line of poles. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z “I’d take what I could get, then. I can catch just as many fish with this pole as I could with a twenty-five dollar one.” The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z They cut a stout pole from a young alder, lashed the gaff hook to it, and then stealthily approached the swift, cold river. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z The lights were brighter than the ones back home, and I kept looking for the utility poles that the electric wires hung on, but I couldn’t see any. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z “How medieval. However, he seems to have some very modern powers. What has he done to the magnetic pole?” The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Because the poles are flexible, bark layers can be sandwiched in or removed at will, depending on whether the householder wants to increase insulation during the winter or let in more air during the summer. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z He came to a few moments later, just in time to see an enraged Harry Secor chasing the warden down the river, wielding a gaffing pole like a spear. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z He stuck his caduceus in the sand like an umbrella pole. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z A rusted pole stood about eight feet high by the side of the road. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z MaWee grabbed a lighting pole and went ’round the tent lighting the candles up high. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z This part of South Carolina seemed to consist mostly of overgrown fields, punctuated by telephone poles and trees covered in kudzu vines. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z Anybody who knew even the tiniest bit about totem poles knew that the most important was at the bottom. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z I cling on to the scarecrow’s pole in the center of the tightening circle. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z I stand in the aisle and hold on to a pole. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z It stood at Old Main’s junction with the narrow, single-lane Route 17, and one dull, squash-colored light hummed atop a pole in the parking lot. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z My heart nearly stopped when I saw him at the far edge of the narrow catwalk, nearly a boat’s length away, dangling over the ocean like bait at the end of a fishing pole. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z The others jump and twirl into and out of the poles while I stand off to the side. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z He and Harry were building a little fence of sharp poles clear around the house, weaving it together with willow boughs that crissed and crossed and wound together. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z He grabbed the pole, lifted his feet up over his head, against the pole, and climbed down using his hands, until his palms were flat on the ground. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z It’s packed with evening commuters and were standing, holding on to a pole. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z His legs whirligigged like blades, then they clamped around the pole, and he held up his hands to suspend himself like Spiderman. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z He counted our golden coins into his pouch, then took up his pole. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z A telegraph pole at the corner held Fire Alarm Box No. 2475. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Shirley flinched when the teacher went straight to the long mean pole. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z Duck stood squinting, clutching his pole with both hands. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z The ship went through the bridge, moving under bare poles like a ghost in broad day, with three gulls hovering above the stern like toys on invisible wires. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z At twenty paces, he hit a telephone pole with a stone sixty-one times in a row. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z In place of roses it was full of thick pole beans and hard green cabbages and strong carrots. Missing May 1992-03-01T00:00:00Z The door closes just as I bump into a man who is trying to keep his balance by holding on to the silver pole that is covered with sweaty hands of all colors and sizes. Watch Us Rise 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z The men poled the chunks away with their oars as well as they could, but the danger of being “holed” by ice was too great. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z A lamplighter scuttled along the edges of the crowd igniting the gas jets atop cast-iron poles. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z He was so busy laughing at the runt, he lobbed him a lollipop and the runt got lucky and poled it. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z And then I found myself atop a slender wedge of ice, adorned with a discarded oxygen cylinder and a battered aluminum survey pole, with nowhere higher to climb. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z The shade of the pole lamp was askew and cast a crazy irregular light over the room. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z He sends out his bamboo pole to stop it and draw it towards him. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Flags, with various designs of blue and gold, hung on poles. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z She hung him from a pole in her vegetable garden. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z As Ronan laughs, his pole is yanked hard—a great white shark comes out of the water like a rocket off a launchpad. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z A canopy, which had been carried on four poles over somebody or something, was sinking with the poles askew, like a liner foundering in Atlantic. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Clayton’s sneakers hugged the shaky floor as he made his way from pole to pole. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z The pole holders line their thick bamboo reeds flat on the floor, and we plaster on big smiles. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z We tied Laney to a pole outside Ben's favorite taqueria and watched all the hipsters stop and pet her. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z He took an ordinary stick of kindling from the box and smelled it and said, “Maple. Good!” and proceeded to make a neat little totem pole out of it. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z Tall battle standards of cloth-of-gold flapped atop lofty poles along the perimeters of the camp. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z If you’ve got a circle that goes through the north pole of the ball, the shadow is no longer a circle. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z The hooks at the rope ends were clinking against the poles. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z We hang blankets and woven rugs from the top pole to divide the remaining space, so each family has some privacy. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z The youth cursed under his breath and flung his pole down onto the deck. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z At the top of the mountain was a white pole marking the border between Elfland and the domain of the goblins, defiantly flying the flag of Ghohg. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z His children needed him and it seemed like he hardly ever got his own pole in the water. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Everything went red for a moment and I leaned against the rough, tarred wood of the pennant pole. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z His eyes seemed too big for his face, like a child’s, and his cheeks were chubby, though the rest of him was skinny as a pole. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z I crawl through that Troll Hole into a room lined with clothing racks, the stainless-steel poles still bolted into walls wine- stained with water damage. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z My pole was going down too deep for me to dare venture out too far. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Meanwhile, he worked out a design for a large-scale calutron plant employing an array of vacuum tanks arranged in large ovals between the poles of huge electromagnets. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z He made sure she had fresh water, let her relieve herself, and tied her gently to the deck pole, which he told her was called a “mast.” Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z “These are our fishing poles,” he said excitedly, handing one over to me. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z He only had to whack the ball once and it spun spun spun around the pole until it got so high Lizzy couldn’t reach it even when she jumped up on her tippy-toes. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z She rested after every turn and left the pole hanging. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z He squatted on the pole, then threw himself sideways and across to the ledge outside Ian Rider’s office. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z Perched on top of the pole where the raven had been, a fat ugly gryphon glared down at them. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z I stand next to the pole holders and wait for our signal. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z He removed one of his hands from the pole and waved it back and forth in front of his face. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z The day Jose mailed his letter complaining about the utility poles, Screamer came to rest on a transformer on a pole outside Bovina. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z Each visit, the totem had a new carving, but Edwin always seemed to focus on the blank space at the bottom of the pole, although he made no comment. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z From the useless pole lamp in the living room it oozed out, meshing with the empty and wordless descent of itself from the fly-specked ceiling. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z She hit the tetherball as she passed and sent it spinning angrily around the pole. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z She’d been glaring at Briares, but Tyson got her attention as soon as he nailed her in the chest with the pole, pushing her back into the wall. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z I tied my lantern on a long pole, held it out over the water, and looked for Old Dan’s body. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z They would’ve wrecked us completely if Tyson hadn’t whacked them aside with a quick swipe of his pole. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z Over their shoulders the vendors had heavy poles, from which they balanced baskets at either end—some with vegetables, others with pastries, or candies, or toys. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z For a moment, Henry and Bud were swept along with a group of parents pressing toward a telephone pole. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z As long as the cadmium poles were in place, they would absorb the neutrons shooting out of the uranium. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z One day in early March, Seaborg and Segre carried a hot sample of bombarded uranium out of the Crocker Lab in a lead bucket suspended from a long pole. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Nelson with a pole twice as tall as himself waited for us. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z She nailed his velvet ears to the wooden pole and spread his arms out as if he were flying and attached his paws to the pole by wrapping pieces of wire around them. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z Not the end—I genuinely can’t remember getting in the car, almost running over my father, hitting the telephone pole. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z She walked back and threw the tube into the sea, holding onto the pole. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z The views are dreary: a bare brown hill, a chain-link fence, searchlights stacked on a pole. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z “He knows the poles better than I do.” Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Along the back wall stood a display of banners and wooden poles studded with bronze medals—military symbols, Percy guessed. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z After drying myself out the best I could, I took the lantern handle from the pole, bent it back to its original position, and put it back on the lantern. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Most of the men who lived here were out fishing, some not far from the shore, poling their sampans through the shallow water. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z There were all kinds of posters in those days; they covered the telephone and telegraph poles. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z He tied the end to the fence pole and climbed up and over. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z With the rigging on the poles, it looks like the deck and mast of a sailboat. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z Hung up by their tails from the poles of the roof, they made much odor, but burned with a very clear fight. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z I opened my eyes and craned my neck back, catching a quick look at the white pole. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z The ship rocked to port with a massive commotion, like telephone poles snapping in half. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z “In fact, it would make a lot of children happy if you fixed all the utility poles.” Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z Thereafter the Sun will slowly become red and distended, presiding over an Earth sweltering even at the poles. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z A few poles remained of the village that had once been there, and a few pumpkin mounds with vegetables gone wild. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z My father assembled his long bamboo fishing pole, a pole he had made with his own two hands, remembering its design from his childhood in China. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z He stood swaying in the dim light, holding the bandage with both hands, while his shadow moved grotesquely round the tent pole. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z The children especially are so dirty you wouldn’t want to touch them with a ten-foot pole. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z It was a pole that had a socket on one end. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z With another twist of her wrist, the pole began to shudder, and a groaning sound came from the wood. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z I had taken the heavy oak pole with which I guided my skiff. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z We pulled in the pole and threw out the grapnel hook, watching the attached rope spin from its coil on the boat floor. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z I let the pole drop from my stinging blistering fingers, pride taking a distant second to fatigue. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z Bullets snapped the rope that held his forehead to the pole. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z One morning the hobbits woke to find the large field, south of Bilbo’s front door, covered with ropes and poles for tents and pavilions. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z I wonder how knights moved their huge poles on horses? Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z At the bottom of the hill it charged across the road, knocking over a telegraph pole and flattening two parked automobiles as it went by. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z Finding a small floe near an open lead, they jumped onto the floe and began paddling around with ski poles like boys on a raft. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z Above them hung a sign, a sheet stretched between clothesline poles. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z “Yes,” agreed the repairman, “a fine day. I am looking forward to climbing my poles.” Stuart Little 1945-10-17T00:00:00Z It was electric cable, the heavy, black kind used for outdoor wiring and strung on telephone poles. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z I don’t even remember winding the fishing line around my pole, but all of a sudden I was clambering up the bank. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z I tag walls and windows, mailboxes, manhole covers, sidewalks, doors, poles—anything that doesn't move, plus buses and boxcars, which do. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z There Ernest installed the new magnet, its pole faces specially milled to accommodate a new vacuum tank twenty-seven inches in diameter. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z One man pushed the boat with a long bamboo pole and we glided between other boats. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z He ran over close to my pole and started digging at the ice. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Or it may well be that they’re resting happily in China, their spirits dispersed among the real Chinese, and not nudging me at all with their poles. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z She was already an expert pole fighter, daughter of a teacher trained at the Shao-lin temple, where there lived an order of fighting monks. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z The Hab is normally a dome, with flexible support poles maintaining the arch and rigid, folding floor material to keep its base flat. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z There wasn’t a fence for as far as he could see, but there was a line of poles that could have supported a fence. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z “I’ll make you give her to us!” the foreman shouted, leaping forward and swinging his pole at Baba. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z Johnny came out with a fishing pole and a rusty tin can filled with worms in mud. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Carefully, he dried his face on his coat sleeve, then stood for two whole minutes staring at the shadow of a telephone pole on the alley pavement. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z The tent emerged in a lumpy mass of canvas, rope, and poles. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z Lining the walls, there are platforms made with poles, reed mats, and skins. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z But just as suddenly the pole whipped straight again and the line went slack. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z Joe rigged up a net on a long pole, and whenever he wanted fish for dinner he simply took the net out behind the house, picked out a fish, and hauled it in. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z She grabbed the microphone pole like Diana Ross, stepped out in front of us—her Supremes—then cleared her throat. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z Men knocked them down with poles or toppled the trees they were sitting on. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Wanda and Martin grabbed under Moss’s arms, and his mother helped guide the chain up the pole. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z Now he showed the lighter to Lloyd and then swung to the opposite side of the silver pole, closer to Sasha. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z The poles clipped by, blurring in the riders’ peripheral vision. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z He perched on the pole and screamed a dark message in Edward’s left ear: Caw, caw, caw, without ceasing. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z Flying past the three-eighths pole at breakneck speed, Modern Youth suddenly spooked, bolting to the right, and headed straight for the outer rail. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z The two fellows take them at the right moment on their poles and lift them over behind us. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z That summer, after hearing one of Smith’s sermons, over three thousand slaves grabbed their machetes, their long poles, and rose up against their masters. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z On lower levels, there are large poles driven through multiple platforms, though Bailey cannot tell if they reach all the way to the top. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z I said, “You see any telephone poles in Cushie Springs, Grandpa?” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z Behind the figure he could see all the rest of them—the swarm of them with their blank faces and staring, harrowed eyes, and he couldn’t wrest the pole free. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Kyle couldn’t move closer to examine the screen, because the area fifteen feet in front of it had been fenced off with a series of brass poles and velvet ropes. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z I cut a sapling for a pole, found some worms under a log, and went fishing. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z ‘Here is the dream-catcher,’ he said, grasping the pole in one hand. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Once there, I intentionally slide off the well-polished pole, and the maiden—the ship’s figurehead—catches me, as I knew she would. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z If he were set free from his pole, I wonder, would he walk on water like Calliope did? Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z They leaned on the rail, looking down into the water, the three poles like three slanting threads of yellow fire in the sun. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z She grabs hold of the wooden pole holding up the tent, and instantly everything around it disappears—the orange cloth, the stool, the reed mat, and the bowl of golden mangoes. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z According to Newton’s theory, the centrifugal force of the Earth’s spin should result in a slight flattening at the poles and a bulging at the equator, which would make the planet slightly oblate. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z At the people leaning against or gripping poles. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z He and his team cut roads, built bridges and telegraph stations, installed telegraph poles, and strung thousands of miles of telegraph lines. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z He had pulled it out of the pole as the wagon went by. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Vendors rented space on the curb before a store and stretched a rope from pole to pole and leaned the trees against it. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z If it had been up to Griff, the Shy Maid would continue downstream by night as well as day, but Yandry and Ysilla refused to risk their pole- boat in the dark. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z He held up a long pole wrapped in canvas. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z It’s got steps that go up the front and a little flag flying from a pole out front. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z A descendant of eighty pole fighters, I ought to be able to set out confidently, march straight down our street, get going right now. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z There was assembled there flat Boats to take us across, and Oyster Boys to pole them along through the Rushes. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z I didn’t see how I could pull with a pole, but nodded. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z They were armed with glaives—long poles with sharp blades attached—as well as bows. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z They went to Fernway, his old elementary school, where they clambered up the slide and shimmied up the pole and tumbled from the catwalk to the wood chips below. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Broken wooden poles ripped through the canvas as it flapped upward. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z He tried to plant his feet at the threshold, but it only lasted for a split second; the pole sent him into the Maze with a lurch. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z Officer Delinko was mulling his situation, watching the rain stream down, when a lightning bolt zapped a utility pole at the end of the street. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z As soon as a wagon’s front wheels hit the sloped wooden tracks, the man guiding its pole leaps out of the way. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z “So what do you want me to do? Coach track? Maybe the high jump? Or the pole vault? I’m a heck of a pole vaulter.” Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z There was nothing but the padded pole Soulzeren kept for pushing the sleigh clear of obstacles when maneuvering to a landing. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z She tells us they are made from thick pieces of canvas tied onto poles, and they are large and airy inside. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z Gilded harpies stood atop the center poles of each of its nine peaked roofs, shining in the sun. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z A few tiny lights blinked from poles to the west and the south. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z When I return to Westeros, it will not be as a skull atop a pole. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z There I was, laughing and smiling and enjoying the day—fishing pole gripped in my hands, bare feet propped on the railing—when the nausea would strike. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z Unlike me, he left the theater two hours later, to find a dead man hanging from a telephone pole at the far end of the unpaved parking lot. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z With the aid of the camaradas’ poles and paddles, they continued down the river. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z The curve 1/x has a singularity at the point x = 0—a very simple sort of singularity that mathematicians dubbed a pole. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z I heaved at the end of a log as Granddad and I slid it into the empty top slot of a pole. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z It was mosdy a skeleton of wooden poles, with canvas stretched only over the wings. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z Somewhere a wind had blown down a pole. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z He was holding a fishing pole and wearing a floppy hat. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z They also had never seen or used a fishing pole and hook to catch a fish. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z Then my father stood up and admired his fishing pole, its grace, its strength. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z The hands of a man holding on to the pole. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z George didn’t really believe in the electric fairy anymore, and sometimes she didn’t even know what she was wishing for, but counting telephone poles had become a comforting habit. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z A common prank was to send a new bug boy all over the track looking for the phantom “key to the quarter pole.” Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z I set my pole down and stood up. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z If there were a tiny light at the north pole of the ball, any figures that are marked on the ball would cast shadows on the plane below. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Seagulls circled overhead, while two ospreys piped at each other in a nest on top of a concrete utility pole. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z There was a gray gas can in one comer next to a bunch of gray rakes and a pile of gray rags, and a gray tire next to some gray fishing poles. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z Had she picked pole beans out in the garden with Gus? Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z Sal would be holding on to the silver bus pole, and I would grab the pole right above his hand. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z When I change shifts with the evening workers, he’s leaning against a wooden pole for a telephone wire. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z However, whenever Octavian’s ships drew close, Mark Antony’s soldiers attacked with poles and battle-axes. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z It was hot but not enough to burn, so I walked on it a piece, arms spread-eagle, balancing with my fishing pole like a tightrope-walker at the circus. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z It is like stretching the rubber cover away from the north pole and toward the south pole. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Sunlight slid patchily across his walking shoulders, glinting along the pole like yellow ants. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z Next, a sign, taped haphazardly to an upcoming light pole, promises souls saved and a free waffle at some church in Harlem. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z When they reached Jerusalem, after passing the usual daily things—vegetable carts, sheep, stores, family vineyards propped on poles—the taxi turned sharply onto a gray industrial-looking street. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z A sunken temple loomed up out of the greyness as Yandry and Duck leaned upon their poles and paced slowly from prow to stem, pushing. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z He closed the lid, picked up the suitcase in one hand, took the pole with the net on the end in the other hand, and marched towards the entrance of the cave. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Lawrence can be seen seated with his hands clasped on the lower pole face, near the center of the photo, with the omnipresent Cooksey at his left. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z The pole, reacting, slid upward, and took him through the ceiling, quietly. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z We were out in the desert now, the telephone poles snapping past. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z While I was considering it, he took up the hoe blade that had crossed the Atlantic in our mother’s purse and shoved it onto a long pole he’d whittled to fit its socket. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z She was horribly stiff and cold, but she managed to pull herself upright enough to see that the sledge was driving swiftly between a row of high poles, each carrying a glaring anbaric light. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z The pole holders reach their spots and assemble the poles in parallel lines on the floor. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z I looked out the window at the utility poles and the sloppily hung streetlights; their lights seemed brighter than the moonlight. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z Dawn was breaking and pale ripples of light shimmered an the surface of the river, shattering under the poles and re-forming when the ferry had passed. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z There was a pole up on the stage. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z “There’s a sign on that pole, up on the corner,” Chess murmured. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z The maneuvers had her flying an open-cockpit biplane upside down about 10 feet above the ground and slicing through a ribbon stretched between two poles. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z “So the flag should be hanging straight down, like a rag on a pole.” Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z Tents drop to the ground, and poles topple. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z Riemann merged projective geometry with the complex numbers, and all of a sudden lines became circles, circles became lines, and zero and infinity became the poles on a globe full of numbers. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z But the pole was padded with batting and canvas, and it stopped Azareen’s skull from being staved in. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z I looked all around us again, at the rusted border poles coming out of the water, the headlights shining across the waves. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z The poles were all even—unlike Anya’s crooked and twisting poles at home—and lashed at the corners with more colorful ribbon. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z Right above our heads, two tall men in thick coats and knit caps hold the pole, talking about the Knicks. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z Corporal Whitcomb sauntered back in wearing a shiny new smirk and leaned his elbow impertinently against the center pole of the chaplain’s tent. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z He tossed the pole back to the shore. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z I counted one, two, three...nineteen telephone poles, and then the wires dangled into space, and try as I would, I couldn't see a single pole beyond the nineteenth. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z Pixie squealed as the other end of the pole bounced around in her face. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z I gave the picking pole an expert twist. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z I’m staggering down the sidewalk, sun blinding my eyes, careening from car to telephone pole, trying to get away from the truth, from the frenzy of emotions chasing me down. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z You fitted a syringe into the socket, and you slid the pole into the cage and gave the monkey a shot. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s the reason people fight to get into this course, and the reason some people wouldn’t touch it with a barge pole. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z Multiplying by zero is like sticking a needle on the north pole and everything winds up at zero: anything times zero is zero. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z They carried him in the litter, mounted on poles resting on their shoulders, so he wouldn’t tire on his travels. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z In the faint moonlight that came through a high small window, I saw only flags on wooden poles. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z He walked carefully, pushing an IV pole along with him. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z There was no answer beyond the suck of the pole through the murk of the river bottom. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z In the afternoon we all gathered for an hour under a grass roof whose walls were criss-crossed poles. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z With great effort she was able to get through — she had to use a metal pole she’d found on the ground to lift the lock and lever one of the doors open. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z Then the pole went into the dirt near my head. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z I am not sure because I have not recently counted the notches in the aspen pole that is my calendar. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z He and his ink laugh long and loud—then there’s silence...and then he begins pounding on the barrel of the cannon with an iron pole. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z She knocked the pole away and shook her head to clear it, and Lazlo saw... Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z And on the floor of the thing were two poles, each flattened at one end. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z We cannibalized Dragonwings to make a stretcher for Father out of the wooden poles and canvas. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z To this lifesaver, she tied the fishing line from my father’s bamboo pole. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z We started out for the pond, with him wearing my father’s coat and carrying David’s fishing pole. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z What seemed to be a long, black pole began to rise slowly out of the heart of the whirlpool. . . and then Harry saw the rigging. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z I had lost weight and was as thin as a bean pole. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z A hut dominated the exhibit, its walls wooden poles lashed together under a peaked thatch roof. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Every seat filled, every pole leaned on or clung to. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z He lined Seabiscuit up at the three-eighths pole, positioned a sprinting stablemate fifty yards ahead and set them off at the same time. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Artemis hunted the small magnet from its niche in the toolbox and applied both poles to the tiny screws. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z Nothing else was out there but the trash heaps, great moldering, stinking hills that stood on rocky ground and were lit by a few floodlights high up on poles. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z From the pole hung a rope with a noose tied at the end. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z Vast numbers of them are trapped far above the clouds and are condemned to bounce from pole to pole until by chance they encounter some high-altitude atmospheric molecule and are removed from the radiation belt. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z He stood six foot three or four and was skinny as a pole. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z The pole careens sharply forward, toppling at an angle against the wall of the building. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z “I don’t have stuff to go fishing. I don’t have a pole, and I don’t have clothes for it. You know I don’t even have a bathing suit.” Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z “Better the pole go in the water than one of you.” Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z Then I saw him looking at me, his kite string tied to a pole. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z At the last moment, when disaster seemed positive, he pulled his hands from his pockets and broke his fall by grasping the golden pole. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z They pried the stela from the ground with wooden poles, but it was blank. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z There were tufts of hair snagged in the barbs of wire, and in some places a strand of wire had been pulled loose from a fence pole and was hanging slack like old clothesline. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z When she was out, she lifted the end of the ladder with a pole and draped it over a convenient branch. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z He could see every pole along the course, glowing in lunar blue. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Charon was poling us across a dark, oily river, swirling with bones, dead fish, and other, stranger things—plastic dolls, crushed carnations, soggy diplomas with gilt edges. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z We were in a blue room with tons of throw pillows on the floor and a small round stage with a pole in the center. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z She whips the pole back over her shoulder, and Ronan dives into the bushes. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z Bamboo poles morphed into snakes, slithering up my ankles, with thousands of people in the audience pointing at me. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z He sat as stiffly as he walked, straight as a pole, his head thrown slightly back and to one side, with a sidelong glance that held a mixture of pride, distrust, and myopia. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z We cut some tamarisk branches for poles and dug worms for bait. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z I mean, I’d always been the lowest Indian on the reservation totem pole — I wasn’t expected to be good so I wasn’t. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z The quilt betrayed a crookedness in her thinking: run it up a pole as the flag of her wild country. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z “When Jon Wood showed us a peregrine falcon that had been electrocuted on utility poles, we wrote letters to the company.” Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z You and Muthu dragged some fallen branches over to use as tent poles. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z A metal pole holding up a Stop sign, its reflective letters visible even this far away. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z He sits on a chair in the corner, whittling on his mop handle, like he’s turning it into a very thin totem pole. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z Michael tries to knock on one of the tent poles, but there’s no chance he can be heard over the generator. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z “There’s blood on the mast and the spar pole,” said Abel. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z Every section has the name of a saint whose picture is painted on a shield stuck on top of a pole by the prefect’s seat. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z Even though Reyna insisted on following tradition, every time the eagleless pole was raised, Hazel could feel embarrassment rippling through the legion. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z Nok spun around to see Somkit standing among a cluster of people holding poles with Gold orbs swinging from the end. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z Billy found it stuck into a telephone pole. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Crying farewell, the Elves of Lórien with long grey poles thrust them out into the flowing stream, and the rippling waters bore them slowly away. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z There were no houses or buildings as far as I could see, only wheat-colored fields patchy with dirt and cracked wooden telephone poles with drooping black wires strung between them. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z The red diagonal strips are thick as a barbershop’s pole. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z The train jostles us and I hold on to the pole with both hands. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z Each of the women carried an oversize cloth banner suspended from an eight-foot pole. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z A seventeenth- century globe as big around as a small car, with rubies to mark volcanoes, sapphires clustered at the poles, and diamonds for world capitals. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z The dandelions at the base of the telephone pole. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z She lifts me with the pole, the way the nurse showed her, and slides the bedpan under my backside. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z It does not recede into its background of leaden sky, nor harmonize with the gray frame houses and black telephone poles around it. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z She pitched her pink Barbie camping tent nearby and tied the toy sculpture to one of the poles. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z But halfway down the block from the bus stop there was a barber pole reflecting a candy cane of light from the window. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z “Okay,” I said, “one last chance. Hit the telephone pole. Ten stones.” Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z I would cut a pole at the creek. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z By the time Maniac caught up, they were gone and the car was shuddering against a telephone pole. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z The older shrew appeared out of a reed bed, balanced upon a large floating tree trunk which he propelled skillfully with a long pole into the side of the bank. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z After several hours the others had still not returned, and the next morning, when there was still no sign of any of them, he remembered the names of the poles. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z Electric lights had been strung from behind the pulpit to the entrance flap and continued outside on poles made of rough two-by- fours. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z When the stone man moved aft, Duck blocked his way, pole in hand. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z I had a split lip and a bruised wrist, the latter inflicted upon myself when my swing at Kim’s shoulder missed her and landed squarely on the pole of the volleyball net. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Merry then pushed slowly off with a long pole. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z Finally he dragged to his tent a huge ram which to his distracted mind was Odysseus, bound him to the tent pole and beat him savagely. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z “He’s four feet tall and as skinny as a bean pole.” The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z High-roads, and telegraph poles, and the monotony of passing traffic, the slow crawl into London. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z The supporting poles were entwined with white and gold flowers. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z Infinity and zero are simply opposite poles on the Riemann sphere, and they can switch places in a blink. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z When a charged particle bounces from one magnetic pole to the other, it must cross the equatorial plane of Saturn. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z I looked at my calendar pole one day, and realized that it was almost Christmas. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z I pulled back abruptly and, putting the thwart between us, grabbed up the hard, solid pole, stood and jammed it down into the water. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The next day someone lent me a pole and I was fishing in the surf. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Somehow it’s us again, with a few motley additions to our wobbly people poles, but us. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z He indicates the mast-like pole that pokes out at the front of the ship, like Pinocchio’s nose after the second or third lie. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z Marlena ducks flat against her head to avoid being scraped off by the pole that runs across the top. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z The north pole is like the point at infinity that Kepler and Poncelet imagined. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z She cut the drag in two pieces and, pushing the poles under one piece, she erected a tent. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z There was a thin trail of smoke coming out of the top where the poles met. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Moss shifted his position on the ground, trying to stretch his aching back and move it off the pole. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z He shipped the pole and climbed out after me. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Then I plant it at the base of the pole, careful to position it so that the explosion will break the pole in the right direction. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z He struck again with the pole, aiming for the man’s hand, and knocked the knife from his grip. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z The cylinder was placed between the magnet poles and nestled right up against the beryllium target that produced neutrons when struck by deuterons. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z She showed her that a magnet operates within a field, increasing in strength the closer one comes to its poles. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z Actually his view was screened by a tall line of beans on poles; but above and far beyond them the grey top of the hill loomed up against the sunrise. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z Its crew built a rude shelter with a defensive wall made from poles. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z The two bay horses pawed the hard ground and threw up their heads so that the shined pole jumped and the doubletrees squeaked. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z A stack of logs rises around my feet, and I see a pole behind me. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z “No problem. I was just fishing downstream a ways. Actually, I was napping with my fishing pole and you woke me up.” Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z A bargeman, poling away from the shore, found Chicken late that afternoon stuck in some rocks and weeds, his knickers ballooning about his legs. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z There were blue jays, which are very quarrelsome birds, and black-and- white peckers that pecked holes in the yucca stalks and the poles of my roof, even in the whale bones of the fence. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z “Cree,” she called softly to her nest box on the raccoon-proof pole. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z There was a lean clothes pole in the back of the yard from which six washlines on pulleys connected with six kitchen windows. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z On the southwest, he found an open gate flanked by a pair of animal skulls on high poles: a bear to one side, a ram to the other. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z To learn this, mathematicians had to venture into the world of the imaginary, a bizarre world where circles are lines, lines are circles, and infinity and zero sit on opposite poles. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z The first went on, flecks of sunlight slipping along the pole across his shoulder and down the back of his shirt. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z With my pole I fished the lantern back to the bank. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Back in Drake there had been a whole field filled with totem poles. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z He had a fishing pole, but he needed that and loved it. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z “OK. Did they ever tell you about a kid who climbed a utility pole to get his kite back, and he got electrocuted?” Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z There had been heads of enemies erected on poles for decoration, and their king had built himself an underground treasure chamber which was also a subterranean passage for escape. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Mom explained that Dad had hooked up every squat in the building to an insulated cable he’d hot-wired off a utility pole down the block. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z All the while, Spoon Man quietly meandered through the crowd, selling a frying pan, a box of buttons, a kerosene lamp, and a fishing pole. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z Telephone poles were covered with posters faded by the winter rains, and every available inch of space was filled with the slogans of the two opposing sides. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z There was a flag on the pole at the top. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z Cordelia takes off her mittens and scoops up snowballs, throwing them at trees, at telephone poles, at random. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z He lets go of Adam, whose body slumps like a scarecrow taken off his pole. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Mr. Kleiman was phoned, the poles were removed from the doors, the typewriter was put back in the chest. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z I just turned my head away and watched the telephone poles some more. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z Finally, leaning against the pole she was tied to, she managed to fall asleep. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z I wandered over to a big map that was posted between some poles. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z At best he had a padded pole, a true hero’s weapon. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Auk XX zipped up the launch pole, accelerating a hundred feet in an instant, climbing to two hundred feet, three hundred feet, hurtling vigorously toward the blue spring sky. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z He was galloping around his enemy, using sword and shield, while the giant swung a javelin the size of a telephone pole and the crowd cheered. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z He steps back as much as he can to make room for me and moves his hand an inch up the pole. Watch Us Rise 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z Outside, his own American flag hangs from a pole above the front door. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z Ayanna held on to a metal pole that ran from floor to ceiling, an exasperated look on her face. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z That old cane pole didn’t slow R.C. down at all; he seemed to snag fish at will. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z The cap’n hung his coat on a pole with hooks on it. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z Kendra tried to pretend she was on a surreal playground, where the kids waded in milk instead of sand and slid down thick, meaty poles. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z And then there is a building, its front laced with scaffolding made of bamboo poles held together with plastic strips. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z Brian used the pole—the bottom was four or five feet down—and pushed the raft sideways out into the center. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z The Count in his box, then, was on a river in an open boat—propelled probably either by oars or poles, for the banks are near and it is working against stream. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z My mouth hung open, and I almost dropped my borrowed pole in the water. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z He slumped down the pole, crumpled to the ground. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z Alex and his mom slumped on the sofa, leaning into each other like two poles of a teepee, holding each other up, both asleep. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z But as I scrambled to my feet, the fishing pole got wedged somehow between the rail and crosstie. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z Call ran home to dinner, and I rowed back around the island as far as the South Gut, where I traded oars for the pole and poled the rest of the way home. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z He waved a bamboo pole with long paper streamers fluttering from the tip. The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z The only light outside came from a single bulb which hung from a pole—high and far away. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z He pecks for a moment at the scarecrow’s pole that rises in the center of the whirlpool eye, dislodging a tiny phosphorescent sea slug and devouring it. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z Our landing sites had to be not too high, too windy, too hard, too soft, too rough or too close to the pole. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Before long he’d put together a miniature track, a lap pool, a pole vault, even a hurdle run. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z It was made in the Indian way of a circle of poles stuck in the ground with their tops bent together and tied. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The muscles in my arms grew numb from the weight of the pole. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z And I turn to the pole dancer, she of three teeth and a tattoo of an alligator on her elbow, and she says, “You don’t worry about them, baby.” Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z And farmholds spread over the land, first in the valleys and then up the foothill slopes, small wooden houses roofed with redwood shakes, corrals of split poles. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z We sat on the stone bench beneath the pennant pole where I’d been whipped. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z I inspected the poles, and none of them had broken. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z When the Channel between Hog Island & the Mainland was at its lowest, we was to drive the Livestock olT the Islands over to Chelsea, with the squatter Animals poled over to the mainland on Scows. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z I have a brief vision of the semi sliding across the intersection into that pole, the showers of sparks from the damaged transformer. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z “Cover for me,” Chess said, reaching for the sign on the pole. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z “And here’s another word, on these poles: ‘Paddles.’ The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z He made his decking fast to close-set ribs before he closed the side with longer planking, then cut a mast pole, and a proper yard, and shaped a steering oar to hold her steady. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Then he pulled forward his own weapon, a twenty-foot-long steel scaffolding pole that had been converted into a crude spear. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z It was the simple swiveling kind, with a black leather seat and a built- in holster for a fishing pole. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z The pole holders kneel onstage and grip their bamboo. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z It was as if her magnetic poles had reversed and where they had once attracted now repelled. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z Graceful purple martins congregated around an elaborate miniature apartment house on a pole nearby. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z It was made of diamond-mesh wire, attached to poles and scaffolding with a grille at the front and top. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Had Jean Harlow been dancing stark naked around the sixteenth pole, the press box could not have cleared out any faster. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z No tree has ever grown long enough to birth such a pole. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z A multicolored flag hung limply at the top of the pole, no wind to reveal its pattern. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z Everyone has an Aunt Matilda who had a vivid dream of a fiery car crash the night before Uncle Mortimer wrapped his Ford around a utility pole. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z In the middle of the market, a tall wooden pole supported a bell. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z To invite a stork to nest, families would nail a wagon wheel to the top of a tall pole. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z He thrust his pole out ahead of them and pushed them away from a towering green obelisk. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z “Let’s see you two do the limbo. Come on. I’ll get a broom we can use for the pole.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The bus came and we went down the hill to Tim Miller’s house, where the Confederate flag flew on a pole in the backyard, but he didn’t get on. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z He’d heard stories of the North Vietnamese bringing supplies down on bicycles, moving from one place to another, carrying a few mortars and rounds of ammo on a bamboo pole. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z Rusty hoops on the swaying poles represented the permanent recreational equipment, although bats and balls could be borrowed from the P. E. teacher if the borrower was qualified and if the diamond wasn’t occupied. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z He was snarling as he came, and Mama just barely had time to come to her feet and grab up a dead chinaberry pole before he sprang. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z So he stayed in the middle of the room as he went forward, while Sergeant Amen followed him, holding a syringe full of drugs on a pole. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Move back, crank the reel, move pole in front of me. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z I let go the pole to shake my right hand at him. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Creatures of every sort zigzag, bolt, scream, swing, gallop, grunt, and whinny; they are everywhere, swinging on ropes and slithering up poles, hiding under wagons, pressed against sidewalls, and skidding across the center. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z Winnie clutched her pole, sitting sidewise in the stern, and watched the baited hook sink slowly down. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z The boar’s feet were tied together, a pole was slipped between his legs, and two men hoisted It upon their shoulders. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z The wreckage of buildings strewn over the landscape and skeins of wire from the roadside poles garbled like knitting. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z Ronan gets another bite and he counts to three and then yanks his pole to the side, setting the hook in the fish’s mouth. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z Darwin had, it seemed, achieved yet another marvelous synthesis between opposing poles of biology. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z The little flag was fastened to the end of that pipe and the pole was jabbed into the soft soil at the north rim of the crater. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z I have no idea what the whole conversation pertains to until the same boy closes his eyes and sings out, “You get a line and I’ll get a pole!” Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z Not a few feet this way or that way but right here, at these poles we were leaning against. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z When I got back to my fishing spot, I picked up my pole and reeled in my line. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z He didn’t look up from his fishing pole. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z One day a white van appeared, and a handful of men in dark overalls began climbing over the utility poles by the highway. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Two servants went ahead to light their way, carrying ornate oil lanterns with panes of pale blue glass, while a dozen strong men hoisted the poles to their shoulders. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z I asked a man putting up a Kennedy poster on a telephone pole. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z One man even put up a pole and flew the Philippine flag above his plot. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z I stare out the window and count the telephone poles. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z On our small slab porch stood Abby Standridge, dressed like a carpenter, hair as big as an azalea bush, and holding two fishing poles. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z We were in front of a building from which a straw-stuffed man, painted all in green, dangled from a pole. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z Mr. McDuff had built it back with posts as thick as telephone poles and crossbeams that could have been used as headers in the mine. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z At dawn the next day she returned to her mountain and the nest box on the steel pole. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z “Mac,” he inquired, “do you actually believe there’s a pole up there sticking out on top of the world?” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z The other is pushing the pole too hard into a patch of mud at the bottom of the river. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z She yelled out the wildest one of all: “I can climb the light pole!” The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z “You couldn’t get twenty-five dollars for that pole,” the first said. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z "Let's fish at the lake. We can leave our poles and gather in the woods. Get something nice for tonight," he says. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z There’s something about a cane pole and a fishing hole, but I can’t find it. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z Python flicked his tongue out, slithered off the rock, and stretched out beside the pole. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z I eye the empty IV pole warily, knowing my first of many rounds of antibiotics over the next month is exactly an hour and nine minutes away. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z “She is a survivor and she is alive. She wears burns that tell about the dangers of utility poles for our wild birds.” Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z She pounded the mealies with a long pole until the tough outer husks came loose. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z “Hank, we are poles apart. I don’t know much but I know one thing. I know I can’t live with you. I cannot live with a hypocrite.” Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z The walls of the low house were four feet thick, and the round pole rafters were tied on with rawhide ropes which had been put on wet. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z The instant they passed the line of poles, sirens went off. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z At the base of the pole from which the light bulb hung were three seeming haystacks. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z I couldn’t remember exactly where Grampa kept his fishing stuff, so I rummaged around the garage until I found a fishing pole and some tackle. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z He stands with his back to Sasha, gripping a pole for balance. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z Hundreds of them surrounded the bus, some carried bats or metal poles, and others held vicious German shepherds, growling and ready to attack these unarmed people. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z After a breakfast of grits with flakes of fried shark steak, Jay washed dishes while I snapped a whole colander full of pole beans. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z They called me spider legs, skeleton girl, pipe cleaner, two-by-four, bony butt, stick woman, bean pole, and giraffe, and they said I could stay dry in the rain by standing under a telephone wire. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z With that he dissolved in the sea breeze, leaving a fishing pole lying in the sand. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z I told my parents that it didn’t matter to me if they found a live Stegosaurus knocking down telephone poles with its spiky tail, much less the droppings of a long-dead one. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z There woe long nets here and there, erected on poles, into which unwary geese might fly. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z I was wearing a pair of trousers I had recently found hanging on a pole in an abandoned village. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z When he stood barefoot and straight as a pole, his left foot was about half an inch off the floor. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z The pole beans looked better and the squash leaves spread like wide green hands shortly after I watered them. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z She looked out the window and counted a hundred telephone poles. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z Holding on to the top of the stand with one hand, she made a grotesque pass at the pole with her pelvis and sighed, “Oh.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z We take to a country road, where posters advertising the Roxbury Country Fair are nailed to every telephone pole. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z In fact, Bethe declared, thirty-four-inch pole faces were “ample” to reach the relativistic energy limit. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z In a fluttery blur, she sailed to a telephone pole far above my leafy canopy. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z Small boats poled past, carrying food and laborers and shore-leave sailors. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z The men shaved their heads and carried long wooden poles with a crook at the top. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z For the first half hour I obediently herringboned up a small slope, pushed off with my poles and coasted straight down. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z Next door was another, in better shape, called Speed Stop Car Parts, overlooking a neatly groomed park with an American flag on a pole. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z Instead, a single iguanodon limped along the cobblestones, its hunchbacked rider reaching a long pole up to light the street lanterns one by one. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z Father only smiled, and went to work setting up the poles correctly, giving directions to me and Robin. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z The willow poles trembled, bouncing with the force of the gusts of wind. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z “There’ll be trout down in those weeds and stems. Here—give me the poles and I’ll bait the hooks for us.” Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z A globe-shaped lantern hung from a hook on the central pole, and the floor of the tent was covered with a simple canvas cloth on which a red-and-brown rug had been laid. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Stuck through the pile at various points were long wooden poles wrapped with a bluish-white metal called cadmium. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Rosemary runs the shower head down the pole so I can reach it. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z I saw the years of my life spaced along a road in the form of telephone poles, threaded together by wires. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z He nearly crashed into a light pole that appeared a foot in front of him. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z They ate huge meals and he put up a sailcloth lean to with ropes and poles against the wind. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z Several of the poles were badly bent, and my headlamp revealed that two of the main seams were in imminent danger of being ripped asunder. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z “It’s just a pole,” Henry says, stepping forward. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z And then everyone sings together “You get a line and I’ll get a pole, and we’ll go down to that fishing hole, honey, oh baby mine!” Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z He laughed, tripped over a tent pole, and stumbled into a minivan. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z “My mom let me use that song for my Christian pole dancing routine.” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z The reef, I thought How could I fish without any poles? The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z We laid down the fishing poles and climbed up onto the log. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z She wedged a pole across the branches over her head and leaned reeds against it to make a slanted windbreak. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z If the land floods during typhoons, villagers help their neighbors by hoisting the house onto their shoulders with wooden poles and walking it to its next spot. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z On the ground at the base of the pole were bleached fragments of mullet skeletons that had been picked clean and discarded by the birds. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Nelson raised his long pole and shoved hard, hitting the wall above the nest so dust rained down on the dark, quiet hens. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z But that it was our countryman Roger Bacon who first discovered the verticity of it, or its property of pointing towards the pole, and this about 400 years since. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z He walked past Ben and along the pole, picking it up off the ground as he slid its length through his palm and fingers. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z Workers had raised a structure that Kira could see was to be a shed; under its roof, long poles from which to hang the wet yarns and threads to dry were already in place. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Six hundred miles from Hook Mountain, she came down on a utility pole on Cape Hatteras. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z The water deepened under her hull, until their poles could not touch bottom, but still the current pushed them downstream, until... A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z There had been no mailboxes earlier, but now they could see a long line of black and silver ones set atop poles on each side. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z On top of the pole is the finished socket. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z She pushed at Edward with her fishing pole. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z Suddenly it flew at the pole, striking twice, then flung itself from the nest box and shot past us out the door into the bright morning, gone. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z On the end of the pole was a knife. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z One of the metal poles for the clothesline leaned while the other had been uprooted and thrown. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z George stared out the backseat window, counting telephone poles. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z Understandable, as it was scarcely two hours since I’d been tied to the pennant pole and publicly lashed. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z An American flag the size of a mainsail unfurled from the tallest flagpole in the Court of Honor, and immediately two more like-sized flags tumbled from flanking poles, one representing Spain, the other Columbus. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z She could not find, between herself and the African statuette, or totem pole, on which he gazed with such melancholy wonder, any point of contact. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z Wearing their Racal space suits, they laid out a trail that wound into Kitum Cave, marking the trail with avalanche poles so that people would not get lost. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Instead of a pole, the holster held a bronze trident, flickering with green light around the tips. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z He grabbed a fallen branch, climbed a boulder under the utility pole, and tried to knock her off the wires. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z It was believed that the boys climbed the pole in the dead of night and sneaked the line off the pulley to guarantee the next day’s dime. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z “Yes sir. Reckon we ought to take ’em through town on a pole?” Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z Multiplying by infinity is like sticking a needle in the south pole; the rubber sheet all flings upward toward the north pole: anything times infinity is infinity. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z A hunting party returned from the wood, carrying a deer's carcass slung from a pole. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z And the dull, sullen sound of the boatmen’s bamboo poles as they thudded against the dark, oiled boatwood. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z With Henry’s directions, I pull the pole back behind my head and then crank the reel, moving the pole forward, never letting the line get slack. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z “Montag, you shin that pole like a bird up a tree.” Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z “You get a line and I’ll get a pole,” the boy calls out again, his voice strong and even. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z The best squadron in each wing won a yellow pennant on a pole that was utterly worthless. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z He took his shoes and socks off and placed them neatly at the foot of the pole. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Then he jumped into the stern and took up the pole. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Dad asked, “Honey, where were you hiding—up a telephone pole?” Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z I found him at daylight when Mama told me to step out to the dog run and cut down a side of middling meat hanging to the pole rafters. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z “There’s going to be a pretty good horse race,” wrote the New York World Telegram, “until Seabiscuit flattens out like a rug at the sixteenth pole.” Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z The pole at his back was starting to feel a little too hard. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z Near the entrance, leaning up against a pole, is Patrick Thomas. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z Curtains, scenery, and lights were fixed to huge metal poles that hung from the rafters. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z A makeshift gallows had been constructed and a wooden pole had been driven into the ground. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z The poles I made of equal length, using fire to cut them as well as a stone knife which caused me much difficulty because I had never made such a tool before. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z He sat down on the border of grass and leaned against a telephone pole. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z The pole was about thirty feet long and there was a net on the end of it. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z At the last second, the front Keeper somehow loosened the larger pole from the piece attached to Ben and yanked it back into the Glade, leaving the boy to his Banishment. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z I want to be like a tree, a concrete pole—unbreakable. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z It was a simple thing: just two standing poles with a bar between them. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z The telephone poles stood firm, but the pines, both narrow and thick, had fallen, like soldiers in ugly army green had been shot up in the road. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z I climbed a shaky gate and crossed a paddock with jumps for horses made from police cones and stripey poles. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z Joseph worked them in the field stuff—high jump and broad jump and even pole vault—and he was so good that no one minded that a kid was coaching them. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z The light poles and paved roads ascended the hills. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z He threw the iceball at a telephone pole, but it missed and hit a parked car. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z They wore lion-skin capes and held poles decorated with each cohort’s emblems. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z A “Missing” sign with her picture was taped to a pole in Brooklyn, New York, asking for help finding her. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z I lean against a telephone pole, bewildered, as if something has been cut out of my brain. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z And next to it is a floor lamp, a long black pole with three oval spotlights attached like the broad leaves of a rubber plant. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z She gives me a wet towel to scrub myself as she lifts me with the pole. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z One by one, boys were stepping out of the crowd and walking over to the long pole; they grabbed it with both hands, gripped it as if readying for a tug-of-war match. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z The raft was a ten-foot square of logs lashed together with a pole for a mast and a simple white linen sail. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z Gold was the most famous ingredient in a red, white, and blue solution nicknamed the “barber pole” that employees of the Keeley Institute injected into patients’ arms three times a day. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z In this time, in this place, the world had gone mad with lush and green, throwing vines over old electrical poles and belching up rotten pipelines from the ground. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z They constructed rickety shelves from packing crates, and hung their gear from tent poles or stored it in empty cans. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z Meanwhile, Mama and Omakayas’s older sister tied together a frame of bent willow poles. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z He played his pipes frantically, and his music sent another power line pole whacking against Talos’s thigh. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z She still planned to polish the banister poles with the strips she had tom from her quilts. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z I awoke when the car hit the first utility pole. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z The third hit one of Charybdis s retaining bands and shot back at us, snapping the Ares flag off its pole. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z A tattered American flag still flies atop a pole in the center of the camp. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z The lamp hanging from the center pole lighted the whole place up. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z The man tugged on a smaller loop at his end of the four-foot pole. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z Pollard found that with every pole he passed, the horse would run harder. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z The men were tied to poles, and their bodies kept shuddering even after the bullets were no longer being pumped into them. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z I couldn’t feel the pole in my hands. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Three men drive wooden poles into the ground to hang sheets of plastic on. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z At least, that’s how it’s supposed to happen, but only if everyone stays synchronized, which seems impossible with so many poles and feet moving, and clumsy cousins like Arwin, who still gets his ankles caught. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z In the center of Santarem, telephone poles are made of cement, as is usual in tropical countries that can afford them. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z I poled us along what I thought might be the line of the gut. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z My gaze tracks up the arm until I see that I am being held by the ship’s figurehead—a wooden maiden carved into the bow, beneath the bowsprit pole. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z You don't treat it like a fireman's pole; rather, you grasp it with one hand and stand back at a respectable distance. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z It seemed to me we ought to have brought some poles along, and a can of worms, considering our catch. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z Quite a few single poles and blackened tree trunks stuck up from the ground, and here and there a skeleton of a building rose forlornly. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z They ran up and down the stairs and ate their lunches squatting against the banister poles. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z “They got the utility company to fix several poles. Molly told me they’ve written the governor about the pere-grines. He controls the Department of Transportation.” Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z “It hangs on long poles, which we can carry on our shoulders. You should be very comfortable.” A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z He taps his hand on the pole, mouth pressed tight. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z The only sounds were the idling engines and the flapping of the flag on the pole. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z Bobby Gene handed Styx the third fishing pole and we traipsed into the woods. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z Oscar stepped to a telephone pole at the curb, braced his left elbow against it, gripped his right wrist with his left hand, and drew a bead on the entrance to the little alley. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Lines on the plane are simply circles on the sphere that go through the north pole—the point at infinity. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Finally, Newt stepped up to Alby and handed over the end of the pole he was holding. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z He now envisioned a cyclotron with a 4,500-ton magnet and pole faces of 184 inches, a scale that took away the breath of even Rad Lab veterans. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z But now he tugged at the pole, spiked down into the ground extra hard by Mr. Lucas. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z Sure enough, there were two lines on the pole where the backboard used to be bolted. The Million Dollar Shot 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z Covering the poles were hides and rags and in some places patches of straw thatch. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The fog’s so thick, I have to walk with my arms out straight so I don’t collide into any mailboxes or telephone poles or trees. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z She thought about borrowing some metal scaffolding from above to use as a fire pole, but it was all bolted in place. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z He turned his head slowly, without breaking his forward movement of alternately planted poles and thrust skis, rhythmically but feebly continuous like a homemade piston engine’s. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z He screamed, he cried, he hit the pole, and he kicked the lion, as if that could slow down this mad ride. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z York could see that fashioning a modus operandi for the new lab that met both men’s specifications would be practically impossible, for “they were poles apart.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z In one claw he grasped a long pole with a ferret’s head spiked to it, while in the other was his thick, enormous tail, which he cracked like a whip. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z Dad set out one anchor so we wouldn’t drift and run aground, then he fetched the pole we’d brought along and slowly lowered it into the water to feel around down below. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z It leapt with savage energy from the pad, zinged up the guide pole, and split the valley with its thunder. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z We scrambled after him, juggling the three poles and our catch bucket between us. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z Stuart ran for the yardstick and slid down, like a fireman coming down a pole in a firehouse. Stuart Little 1945-10-17T00:00:00Z Outside lights were fixed to their poles, or to the roofs of houses; inside lights were set into the ceiling or had cords that had to be plugged in. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z A third strategy is to grab one rope in one hand and use an implement, such as a long pole, to pull the other rope toward you. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z I shipped the pole and sat down on the thwart opposite him. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Cody trips, one of the pole guys misses his beat, and we're all out of sync. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z They were small ashes, which at some time had been cut down and had sprouted up again into a forest of poles, none of them thicker than one’s wrist. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z Across the Rio Grande stands a fifty-foot pole equipped with U.S. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z Teams of men are also raising enormous poles. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z I’m just about to step forward and lift her down when she opens her eyes, removes her left hand from the pole, and in one graceful movement swings around so she’s facing the audience. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z The hapless rowboat circles the pole in the growing whirlpool and the pitch holding together its copper planks abandons it, spilling into the water like an oil slick. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z A city which has become the pivot of the Eastern, Western, Northern, and Southern poles of the nation. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z She could chop wood, haul the water from the hole Nokomis kept open in the ice with an ax and a long, sharp pole. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z After a little wiggling and pushing, I worked the hook loose and laid the pole down. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Hours later they had snapped and crackled into ice poles. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z They camped against a boulder and he made a shelter of poles with the tarp. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z Posters announcing Klan rallies, bearing the slogan “Be a Man, Join the Klan,” became a common sight in store windows and on telephone poles in small towns and major cities across the state. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z There were small round mirrors on long steel poles stuck all over the corners of the bus. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z The man carried a long pole with a loop at the end. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z She shrieked and slashed with her swords, slicing the pole to shreds. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z And I feel myself moving away, as though his north pole is approaching my north pole. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z He clasped the pole and started upward, pushing with his feet, his knees sticking out to the sides. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z The grass roofs of the houses extended out from the walls to be supported by a circle of poles. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z He became a huge colossus; his head touched the skies, his feet were lost in the abyss, and his arms stretched from one pole to the other. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z I poled faster and tried to keep my eyes and mind totally on getting the boat back to the house. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z People were unfastening my bindings and collecting my ski poles from where they poked skyward, askew, in their separate snowbanks. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z The man pulled a penknife out of his pocket and slashed the cloth banner off the poles. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z Sonia holds the pole, and Gogol and Ben insert the branches. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Grandmother and Grandfather Pickford stand straight up, as if sturdy, steel poles ran down their backs. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z With the pole I fished my light back. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z I left our tent for Slopper and returned Miig’s pouch, hanging it off the center pole in his tent across the fire from ours. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z I stopped next to a utility pole for a bit, exhaled heavily, and threw some angry punches in the air. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z She go onto that mat and hold on the sideways pole for a minute. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z They pushed at the wheels with long oak poles and slashed at the oxen till their backs were crosshatched with bleeding welts and their noses ran pink foam. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z Too late, thought Edward as Bryce climbed the pole and worked at the wires that were tied around his wrists. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z But pruning is usually done with special shears that look like giant scissors or with a small saw on a long pole. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z We arrived around noon and found a handful of people taking cover under a large rectangular plastic sheet mounted on six poles spiked to the ground. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z What he likes best is to have one girl frog-kicking on top of him while he watches another girl dancing around the glittery firemen’s pole on the stage. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z She also told them about a telephone pole she’d noticed outside their house that had been converted into a makeshift memorial. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z I gave Tyson a ten-foot pole and told him that his job was to push the other chariots away if they got too dose, and to deflect anything they might try to throw at us. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z He disappeared inside and came out carrying his finest sundari pole. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z I wanted to get my light as close to Little Ann as I could, but my pole was a good eight feet short. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z "We're supposed to gather at the Giant's Bridge on Sunday after the sun goes down. They said to bring a long pole or a stick." A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z “And maybe one of these days, I’ll allow you to polish me, instead of just that pole.” Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z And a long pole running alongside one of the walls. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z She drew her pole slowly back over her shoulder and whipped it forward as she released a button on the reel. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z “Maybe a pole blew down somewhere and the phone rang by itself” But hadn’t he heard a click, which meant someone had hung up far away? The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z One comer of it was around a bamboo pole that was about six feet high. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z There were four poles on each side, set in the earth, and twice that many for the roof. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z So they regrouped all of their forces around ten adjacent instances of the Zork playing field near the planet’s south pole. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Alighting on the corrected transformer pole, she waited for Susan to appear with food. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z When we stood next to each other in the school yard that morning, our stars and stripes echoed the flag waving from the pole above us. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z On the way home he asked Bando for help, and before the sun set, they had put Oksi, unhooded, into the nest box and erected pole, box, and her in the clearing by the millpond. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z We grabbed up our poles and hiked through the woods to see if Styx wanted to come along. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z Pacific Northwest Indian artists carved beautiful masks, boxes, bas-reliefs, and totem poles within the dictates of an elaborate aesthetic system based on an ovoid shape that has no name in European languages. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z He pulled the backpack he was holding onto his shoulders, and hoisted a thick wooden pole with barbwire wrapped around its tip. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z Instead he swung his pole, slamming it into the stone man’s chest and knocking him off the boat into the river, where he sank at once without a sound. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z “Each new self standing on the last one’s shoulders until we’re these wobbly people poles?” I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z Only the royal banner that streamed atop the center pole marked it as a king's. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z The gray robe falls from his arm as he clutches a pole for balance. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z But now, plump red tomatoes grew fatter every day, yellow flowers turned into bright green zucchini, and pole beans hung in clusters from vines that snaked up twine to form leafy tepees. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z “Do you suppose,” I asked, as I poled the skiff, the focus of my romantic musings shifting from my own wedding day to Mr. Rice’s, “do you suppose her parents oppose the marriage?” Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The frustrated Stirling asked the workers to expose the back of the slab by digging beneath it and levering up the stone with poles. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Or was it the long mean pole that hung on the wall behind the desk that commanded respect? In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z Moss twisted the chain around, and the scraping on the pole reverberated up his spine. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z Kids in the school parking lot, American flag fluttering atop a metal pole, cornfields in the distance, blue skies. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z Laila pictured herself in a refugee camp, a stark field with thousands of sheets of plastic strung to makeshift poles flapping in the cold, stinging wind. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z She vaguely recalled the incident of the light pole. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Between communities water traffic continually darts, hopscotch- ing back and forth with the speed of gossip even though many boats are still powered by pushing a long pole against the bottom. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Mr. Alums might as well have tied me up to a pole and said, “Ready, aim, fire!” The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Racetracks are ringed with poles that tell riders what fraction of a mile remains before the finish wire. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z He stood up and crossed over to a corner of the cave where a pole was leaning against the wall. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Five long chains of brightly colored prayer flags* were then strung radially from the pole above our tents to protect the camp from harm. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z While he attached the sprinkler to it, I walked up and down the tidy rows of pole beans and squash and tomato plants growing bigger every day. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z The humbler gallows had rungs on them, like the footholds on telegraph poles, so that the executioners could scramble up and down. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z By a fallen telegraph pole Turner cut off a length of cable and made a noose. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z The huge links were only partly cut out, so it looked rather like one of the totem poles in the museum, scallops going down four sides. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z On Fridays, after he has taught his last class, he visits the library, to read international newspapers on long wooden poles. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z The cement was cooling, and the tetherball poles made shadows across the gravel. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z To her right, the guiamala—now abandoned—trotted in nervous circles until it knocked down the tent’s central pole and the whole structure gave an ominous shudder. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z Next to the grass is a Telmex phone box on a pole. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z Two men in the front of the lorry have long forked poles. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z Bernard grabs my hand and yanks me up, and I sprawl right into him like I’m one of those rings clanging into the pole. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z People cut down the trees and put up electric poles that zap them. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z She pointed to one: four dark-haired women with fishing poles. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z Two women, snapping pole beans on their porch, grin, shout, “Dance, girl.” Ghost Boys 2018-04-17T00:00:00Z Ben’s head snapped back as he was jerked forward, the Keepers pushing the pole toward the Maze outside the Glade. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z After dark, he gathered his radio equipment, snuck out of town on a bicycle, and searched for a remote electrical pole. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Somewhere between those poles lay the way I wanted to be. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z But this time it is a thin column, like a pole, not very high. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z “Vegas is full of girls who thought putting out a lot was a high idea once, but now they’re just washed-up jokes sliding themselves around oiled poles.” Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z The neighborhood boys kept themselves in pocket money by climbing the poles to replace a washline when it slipped off a pulley. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z The ten front seats went quickly, and soon riders were standing in the aisle, keeping their balance by clutching poles as the bus stopped and started. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z “I wanna go. Do you have the cage things on a pole that they use?” Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z It was not hard to find foot- and hoofprints in the grass and soil, as well as the imprints of many drag poles. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z Setting the lantern down, I eased the pole from under the handle. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z The train took a curve, and when I moved my hand farther up the pole, the man turned to the woman, saying, "Carol—hey, Carol, watch out. That guy's going after your wallet." Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z On a pole beside the pool was a vending machine that, for a dime, dispensed small packets of fish food for tourists to feed the lunkers. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Styx brought up a fishing pole and studied the winding mechanism. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z We could pole the skiff down to his house, maneuvering around the debris as we would ice floes. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z For each one that came and went I cut a mark in a pole beside the door of my house. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z Once, I even saw one of them climb a blue gum pole while upside down, like a spider. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z In addition to Edward, pie tins hung from the pole. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z Two leather sacks hung from a big pole across his back. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z “We only have three poles,” Bobby Gene said, as if that kind of logic was going to deter her. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z I find myself tied with a rawhide cord to a small pole at the end of the train car. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z The only light came from great flood lamps mounted on the buildings and at the tops of poles in the middle of the larger squares. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Matthias took a group of Redwall mice to instruct in the use of the quarter staff—he had discovered in himself a natural skill with the long ash pole. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z The poles are adorned with budding branches and held by Lev's fellow newspapermen. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z I stood, holding onto the center pole, looking down the length of the car. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z I bet he never in his life had sat in the shade of a train trestle holding a fishing pole and watching dragonflies walk on water. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z Lazlo saw his hands, one moment so hard and real on the wood of the pole, melt right through it. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z “Here, take this. I’m sorry I broke your pole that night.” Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z Nimbly they ran to push the fir pole high and step it firm amidships in the box, make fast the forestays, and hoist aloft the white sail on its halyards. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Sides, I do just fine with this old cane pole. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z A building that was once a barbershop was burned to the ground—the only thing left was the barber pole. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z Under the tent of blanket, which was poled by my elbow and forearm, the baby slept touching my side. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z The speed of the Earth’s spin varies from a little over 1,000 miles an hour at the equator to zero at the poles. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z As Seabiscuit streaked past the three-quarter pole, several dockers saw what was happening and jammed their thumbs down on their stopwatches. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z If I could just get a little closer, Tyson could use his pole. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z “By the way, do you ever see any birds at the tops of your poles?” Stuart Little 1945-10-17T00:00:00Z He was a good fisherman even though he always used a cane pole. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z The dome of the Hab is mostly supported by air pressure, but there are flexible reinforcing poles across the inside to hold up the canvas. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z They broke down one of the tent poles and ripped apart the canvas, using it to bind the pole to Con’s leg. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z The waters begin to spin around the scarecrow’s pole, and the rope that holds the dinghy in place goes taut. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z The train left the station, and needing something to hold on to, I wedged my hand between the American couple and grabbed the pole at waist level. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z Avoiding the stabs of the banner pole and the swift whiplike slashes of the tail, Basil realized that this was no clumsy rat he faced. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z Then Alyce, with baskets tied to each end of a pole, walked with the cat to the abbey gardens to gather fallen fruit. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Lamps and electric poles look half their size. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z A golden skull atop a pole, and Homeless Harry Strickland in his place. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z He stared at the blank space at the bottom of the pole. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z “Mr. Wood,” she asked, “can we write to the utilities president and ask him to fix the poles?” Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z Inside, clothes hung on two poles, and underneath were boxes. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z Holding his fishing pole with one hand, he whipped out his knife and cut the line. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z Again and again he would stop, hunch over his ski poles to collect himself for several minutes, then summon the energy to struggle onward. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z Katz led the way, barefoot and in boxer shorts, using a long stick like a punting pole to try to pick his way across on a jumble of submerged or half submerged logs. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z “Mind the pole on the way down,” says the scarecrow. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z “The man was really killed by a clumsy stun,” reported Scientific American, “for which a dextrous blow from a pole ax would have been an expeditious substitute.” Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The pole slid easily between her fingers as she steadied her hand on the felt surface of the table. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z We used one tarp as our roof, tying its four corners to the tops of the tent pole branches with ropes the boys had scrounged up. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z She lets him gaze at the cast on my legs and at the pole between my ankles. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z Now nothing was left hanging to the pole but the frazzled ends of the snapped blades. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z Old Tallow’s legs stuck out like poles, tattered makazins flapped on her wagging feet as she drew impatiently upon her pipe. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z Many of the sails and several of the mast poles had been damaged in the storm. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z Clearly, much has changed in my thinking about the criminal justice system since I passed that bright orange poster stapled to a telephone pole ten years ago. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Three boys with fishing poles came onto the bridge and we leaned on the rail and looked down at the trout. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z Towering wooden poles stick up through its center line, already flying Old Glory. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z And beyond that was the fence itself, which consisted of seven or eight strands of high-voltage barbed wire, spaced about a foot apart, strung between tall poles. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z He climbed the wooden pole, tapped into the electrical wires, powered up his radio, and sent information on Ger- man military movements to British intelligence officers in London. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z “But your pole. The St. Croix is your lucky one. I’m so sorry. I want to get it back for you,” he begs Henry. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z If a man was an enemy, sometimes they’d cut off his head and stick it up on a pole as a warning to others. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Finally I tied strings to some of the abalone shells and hung them from poles. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z A lamplighter some blocks down reached up with his long pole to extinguish the street lamp. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The Earth was forty-three kilometers stouter when measured equatorially than when measured from top to bottom around the poles. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z She brushed the snow off her sled and took out her poles. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Dwight was tossing a basketball into the hoop on the streetlight pole at the edge of the yard. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z I lashed the rods together to form a cross, then strapped the rig to the hip belt of my backpack so the poles ex-tended horizontally over the snow. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z The sisters considered him, united in disapproval, both holding on to one of the swing poles as though it was the safe place in tag. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z “You didn’t get far. You were too drunk to back out of the driveway. You ended up in the neighbor’s yard. You crashed into a telephone pole. Luckily, no one was hurt.” Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z The various declination of the needle under different meridians was first discovered by Sebastian Cabbott, and its inclination to the nearer pole by our countryman Robert Norman. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Cole asked, unfolding a heavy wool blanket, woven with colorful blue-and-red images of a totem pole. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z The origin—zero—corresponds to the south pole. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z There were sick kids everywhere— walking with IV poles, playing games, lying in beds, watching TV, sleeping. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z That is like putting your hands on the south pole and stretching a rubber cover on the sphere away from the south pole and toward the north pole. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z “He made a name for himself a year or two before that, with his paper on the variations in the magnetic pole,” said the Yoruba. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z The clay and snow were churned into a muddy trench along the gate where the cattle had milled around, pushing their bony heads against the juniper poles, working for another escape. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z I’d never in my life laid eyes on a real fishing pole, but I’d learned from Nan that, when it came to strangers, less truth meant less trouble. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z Atop its center pole flew die royal standard, golden, with a stag’s head within a burning heart. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z With a swift wing beat she alighted above a transformer on an electric utility pole. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z She teased it with her pole, which it pushed aside with a soft brush of its wing. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Over the doorway was one of those doctor’s symbols, a winged pole with two snakes wrapped around it. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z Arul speared a large rag with a misshapen metal pole that lay on the ground. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z I leap from the dinghy as it is torn away from the pole, and I cling to the scarecrow’s legs. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z R.C. turned back to his own pole and for a few minutes was quiet But only for a few minutes. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z “That truck replaced the one that he rammed into a telephone pole. You could have been in that truck with him, Axel. I just couldn’t. I couldn’t let him be with you.” A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z We ate the bratwurst with sauerkraut for lunch, but the sausages, which were going to be canned, had to dry first, so we hung them over a pole suspended from the ceiling. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z She was yelling at the totem pole now. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z “Mama,” Miss Hilly yell at Miss Walter, “take another sandwich. You are skinny as a telephone pole.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z Sam nodded as he gripped the pole to see if it was firmly planted. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z A nest box on a pole in a forest was totally wrong. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z The local trees, which had once stood tall, had been cut down to be the lodge poles upon which our plastic-bag huts were built. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z He brought the pole up, and just in time. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z They leaned on the rail, motionless, identical, their poles slanting slenderly in the sunlight, also identical. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z I can hear the metal brackets that hold the fence to the support poles begin to snap. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z Uncle D and JimmyTrotter managed to rig up a clothesline, tying cords from the bent-but-planted pole to the remaining sturdy branch of the pecan tree. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z Each page was glued on two pieces of pole so it could be rolled and unrolled like a papyrus scroll. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z Anansi bowed, then studied the snake and the wooden pole, comparing the two. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z And as the dinghy rocks in the growing current, I see the rope holding it to the pole begin to fray against a cluster of sharp mussel shells. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z The chamber was fitted between the pole faces and immediately fired up. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Alby didn’t respond to Ben; he pulled on the collar to make sure it was both firmly snapped and solidly attached to the long pole. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z It was pulled up arid tied to a tree, and the oars were shipped in the wet bottom, beside a long pole with a steel hook at the end. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z The design of my left leg had changed, and the metal poles and clump of metal for a foot had been traded in for fiberglass. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z It was the section of pole with the leather collar attached to it. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z Where she saw a lonesome chair left like an orphan in a park strip facing the river that other Violet saw how the ice skim gave the railing’s black poles a weapony glint. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Guitar stopped to scratch his back on a telephone pole. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z He had black hair, and when they made eye contact, the boy shook his head and turned away, walking toward a greasy iron pole with a wooden bench next to it. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z Suddenly the cane pole jerked in her hands and bent into an arch, its tip dragged down nearly to the water’s surface. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z “That’s what combat is all about,” he said, looking in the mirror he had nailed on a pole at the end of his bunk. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Finally, we made a stretcher out of some wooden poles and a blanket, and we carried the round-belly boy. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z Surely, the eighty pole fighters, though unseen, would follow me and lead me and protect me, as is the wont of ancestors. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z They were round, like bubbles made of canvas, stretched tight over ingeniously bent poles. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z We scampered through the woods lugging our three poles and the ever-important catch bucket. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z There's no sign saying so, but such poles are not considered private. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z The pole stood against a brick wall which was the windowless side of the neighborhood school. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Around her, doctors, nurses, and medics sprang into gear, hanging IV bottles on poles and throwing extra tourniquets around their shoulders. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z I look at the straight electricity poles with cables between them. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z The dance works like this: pole holders lay long, thick bamboo poles flat onto the stage. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z “If we had a secret lair,” said Red Fur, “I would want a firehouse pole.” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Riemann imagined a translucent ball sitting atop the complex plane, with the south pole of the ball touching zero. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z In one photograph, we all had our fishing poles—me and Dad, Uncle Larry, Kevin, and my older cousin Joey, who was away at college now. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z The towering magnet weighed 220 tons, its sixty-inch pole faces nearly twice the diameter of its predecessor’s at the old Rad Lab. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z The wave of molasses had deposited him in the harbor, where a fireman spotted him, stretched out a long pole, and pulled him to safety. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z It consisted of no more than a few hundred people who lived in huts, which were beehive-shaped structures of mud walls, with a wooden pole in the center holding up a peaked, grass roof. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z People got a little fed up with this, so they made long poles, and one day they all raised their poles and pushed. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z He clicked past the track poles at a staccato pace. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z “I’m getting out what I need and hanging it on the poles. Getting stuff ready. Opening up packages of bandages and getting them ready to go, because I know which ones I’m going to need.” Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z Tying the pillowcase bundle to his pole, he hefted it across his good shoulder and struck off boldly through Mossflower towards the north-east. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z Looking out at the water, I notice the pole is gone now. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z He came away from the center pole and shook his finger at the chaplain for emphasis. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z Searching around, Matthias came upon a good stout pole, probably used as a window or curtain opener. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z There was the same dear glass jar on a pole dripping fluid into him through the crook of his elbow. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z The dark of the moon that follows first after Sunreturn is called the Fallows, and is the contrary pole of the days of the Moon and the Long Dance in summer. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z I usually could find things: a fish line, or a forgotten fish pole. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z She alighted on a utility pole that held a transformer. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z Still holding onto my pole, I tried to take a step backward. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z A man stepped menacingly from the corner brandishing a long pole, and Kit winced as two sharp raps descended on each luckless head. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z At either end of the field were three golden poles with hoops on the end. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z You push along a flat-bottomed boat with a long pole, hoisting it, hand over hand, out of the water, then pushing it down hard and driving the boat forward. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z It was very hard to find one that would make a good pole. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z He carried a three-foot wooden pole with him and used it to poke at the ceiling. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Besides the lone bulb dangling from a pole at the end of the off-ramp, there weren’t any lights at all. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z A pair of tall poles had been driven into the muddy ground in front of it, banners drooping from each staff. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Such news sent many scrambling for their bamboo poles. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z And why would they be gathering sticks or poles unless it was to use them as weapons? A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z Rag in one hand, polish in the other, I straddle the pole, pressing my thighs together to keep myself from falling into the bottomless blue. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z Barbarossa shifted his massive body forward a bit further and grabbed the pole with his ringed fingers. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z I slip and I slide off the pole. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z “That one on our hill,” Jon said, pointing to the pole that had killed his falcon. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z I cut me a pole and was soon perched on a stump, fishing and eating fried chicken. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z So I had followed along behind them while they pointed out each little plant, telling me how the pole beans were gonna climb up the twine and the zucchini would have giant yellow flowers. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z When the train passed he pushed himself away from the pole where he had been leaning, berated me for making all that noise and said, “Let’s go home.” I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z A shiver ran up Thomas’s spine at the metallic scrape of the pole on the stone ground as Newt walked. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z He didn’t offer me any argument as I climbed onto the stone bench beneath the pole and stretched to reach the iron ring. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z My heart pounds and I clutch the pole to keep my hands from shaking, from giving me away. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z He had a pole with a flat paddle that he used first on one side, then the other, to move himself along. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z She gnawed on her bottom lip, unease rising as she watched its crimson folds flutter in the breeze, noting the violating way its central pole impaled the maiden night sky like a gilded spear. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z He was looking left and right, though the collar around his neck prevented him from seeing the pole and Keepers behind him. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z Then, a couple of hours later, while I was making a few lame attempts to stir the river with my pole, he spoke up out of nowhere. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z While she sewed mats together and reset the willow poles, Omakayas often experienced the haunting sense of things missing. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z It had taken on a ghoulish quality; Taylor had affixed several black shirts to poles outside her cave and lit them to make torches. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z His food was pushed between the bars at the front of his prison on the end of long poles, while the cub clawed and gnawed it. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z The ride to school wasn’t long, so if George missed a pole, she might not have another chance to get up to one hundred. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z Frankie held his beach towel in one hand and his fishing pole in the other. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z We then dug up large, round tuber roots called kaumbu and carved them into wheels, using blue gum poles as axles. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z Thick, yellow light came from lamps hung high on a forest of poles. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z George reached a hundred telephone poles with blocks to spare. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z Bill is leaning against the pole, whittling and whistling, looking like he ain’t got a care in the world. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z Pixie eased her sparkly toes right up against the fishing poles, where we’d left them lying on the shore. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z He stood near the pennant pole, looking piglike in his smugness. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Loud, flapping pieces of cloth, larger than a hut, were attached to the poles by ropes, some of which were thicker than her whole body. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z With an additional $500 cadged from the National Research Council, Lawrence ordered a custom magnet with nine-inch pole faces from the Federal Telegraph Company. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z |
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