His face, and especially his left temple, was misshapen, swollen, and lacerated; his...mouth was a coagulated pool of dark blood; he coughed up more than liter of blood in his agonal moments. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

Siobhan stood there for a long time as water pooled in her eyes. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

So I get it from both sides of the gene pool. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

The kindly man was waiting for her at the House of Black and White, seated on the edge of the temple pool. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“You’re the ones throwing rocks in my pool!” he shouted, his face red. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Water drips nearby, running into the gutters and pooling in potholes. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

There he had undoubtedly fallen into a pool or a river and come to a tragic, but hardly an untimely, end. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

The last thing she remembered was sunning herself by a swimming pool in Palm Springs, California. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

"We can build it just here between the bathing pool and the platform. Of course-" He broke off, frowning, thinking the thing out, unconsciously tugging at the stub of a nail with his teeth. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

And before I could turn a crowd of men ran up from the corner pool hall. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

This was two Saturdays ago, over at the Templetons’ when we were slow-dancing around the pool to “Big Girls Don’t Cry” by the Four Seasons. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had been watching a pale crab in a low pool for about an hour—maybe die same crab that had tumbled onto her toe the day before. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

She hops in her pointy shoes around the pool of vomit and flees the room. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

A few cows grazed in the shade, rested in dark pools of shade under the trees. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

But they had a swimming pool for swimming. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Baba had been beside him, not lying in a pool of blood, just standing next to him. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

She lives in a fancy brick house with a swimming pool. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

Beyond the marble amphitheater, in darkness and distances, lay little towns and villas; pools of silver water stood motionless and canals glittered from horizon to horizon. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

Six Englishmen staggered through a hospital with a pool table on which several mattresses were piled. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

At first Alice was startled, but then that passed, and when she found some unsuspected present the garden smile flashed and disappeared the way a trout crosses a knife of sunshine in a pool. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Miss Hilly invite Miss Leefolt to the pool cause she know she bring me. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Above the towns, scattered like pebbles, were single villas where ancient families had found a brook, a green spot, and laid out a tile pool, a library, and a court with a pulsing fountain. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

My classmates and I had been placed in the resource pool and worked all over the prison. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

It made for a nice pool of deeper and still water. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The canyon was full of shadows when he reached the pool. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Once upon a time in ancient Greece, there was an enchanted pool. This pool was sacred to Salmacis, the water nymph. And one day Hermaphroditus, a beautiful boy, went swimming there.” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

The blood — spreading crimson across my white shirt, pooling rapidly on the floor — was driving him mad with thirst. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Water ran down the inside of the walls and trickled into pools on the sleeping ledge. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

“There’s a dark spot on the horizon that might be the selenium pool. It’s in the right place. But I don’t see Speedy.” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

When it was my turn to sing alone, I closed my eyes and took a deep breath as if I were preparing to jump into the deepest end of a swimming pool. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

“Okay. Just give me a few minutes. My other clothes are in the pool locker room.” Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

Her toes push against the rough concrete of the pool floor. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I see him cut through the water in the pool, the light dancing off his eyes. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

A leaf drifted down from above, brushed his brow, and landed in the pool. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

It spread out from the Lion like a pool. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

My dad’s hotel in Dubai had a pool surrounded by date trees, under a sun so bright hot and white that it bleached everything. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

They passed over cool green pools full of algae and lily pads, the white flash of egrets and the whir of flies and mosquitoes. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

She sat in the witness stand staring at Kabuo, and tears pooled in her eyes. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

I glanced in at the serem-trees leaning white above the dark pool, the paths of pink brick lying deserted in the serene gray light of afternoon. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

There was a pool of dark blood at her feet. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

One day it was very hot, and as he was bending over a pool, he felt a burning on the back of his head, and a dazzling light from the water pained his wet eyes. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

What could she say after seeing those visions in the pool? Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

There’s a pool table and foosball table, as well as several couches and, tellingly, boxes of Kleenex. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

I remember sitting on the damp pavement next to the pool and seeing my mother, in the spectators’ bleachers, holding my younger sister on her lap. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a smaller crowd than the mirror had attracted, but there was much more activity than Kendra would have expected around a small pool of milk. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

Less than an inch remained, jutting from a pool of warm melted wax to cast its light over the queen’s bed. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

For an instant, I see myself in the dark pool of her eyes—my heart stopped, my face lifeless. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

She is rolling in a lovely pool of mud with two other young elephants. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

I walk around the pool tables toward the men, and the bartender sees me first. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Or if we were hungry, we pooled our money and headed to the kan-yenya stand, which was really just a giant vat of boiling grease over a fire, next to the boozing center. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

The water came out from the bridge into a second pool. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Here a limited gene pool may have spared Indians great suffering. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

I finish rinsing the rice until the tiny grains are sitting in a pool of cold clear water. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

I found some shelf fungus growing on a dead tree and ate it after washing it in the pool. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Once in a while the guy would be in a swimming pool with pretty girls. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z

She seated herself across the pool from him, clinking faintly as she moved. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The fencers who advanced from this preliminary round were determined by the number of wins and losses in the pools. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Use this time to jump the fence your mother says the Carters put up to keep Ms. Winston's little kids from playing in their pool that we're not sure exists. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

By the time I found a small spring-fed pool nestled among some birch trees, I could see the sky purpling into dusk behind the trees. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

They milked Hazel’s refrigerator for all it was worth, then went door to door collecting from their neighbors, dumping their spoils into the plastic pool. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

“Brezhnev is massacring Afghans and all that peanut eater can say is I won’t come swim in your pool.” The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Most of the stylists are familiar, constants in the everchanging pool of tributes. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Alyce found a spot a bit upriver from the befouled washing pool, pulled off her clothes, and waded in. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

The summer progressed and the Salinas River retired underground or stood in green pools under high banks. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

The hobbits soon found that what had looked like one vast fen was really an endless network of pools, and soft mires, and winding half-strangled water-courses. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

She stood on the cement edge of the pool. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

“I ever tell you I used to hustle pool at my mom’s bar?” Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

At the center of the camp, water from a geothermal well had been piped into a pair of shallow, steaming pools lined with rocks and shaded by palm trees: Oh-My-God Hot Springs. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ishmael watched Hatsue pull sheets from the line, standing in a pool of muted porch light with her arms illuminated and elegant. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

When I came to the further side of the cove I saw Ben crouching by a little pool between two rocks scraping winkles into his hand. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

He knew what he had seen with his own eyes all his life, the mutilated bodies and pools of blood at the Greater Jungle’s border. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

He was bending over their intestines, inhaling fumes from a pool of Marburg blood. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I expected him to come barreling across the room and whock Robbie with a pool cue for getting fresh with his daughter. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

She accidentally dropped some into the pool and had to get into the water to get them. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

Volta shook his head and looked at the blood pooling in his palms. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Too-dark blood was pooling in the grass under Mama’s head like a crown. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

If I could get to that pool of water, I could double my strength. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

Chip slung his duffel bag over his shoulder and rushed out of the pool locker room—the same locker room that Milo Stanford would use sixty years later. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

It hadn't been there when they'd gone into the pool hall—it arrived at four every day—and never stayed if kids weren't waiting there to buy anything—gone by 4:02. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

Here, the stream was very broad, and it had diverted itself, in between the trees, to form a pool at one end of the clearing. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

Dark water pooled between the rails, fed in steady drips from the station ceiling. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

But the island ran true to form and the incredible pool, which clearly was only invaded by the sea at high tide, was so deep at one end as to be dark green. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

At a pretrial hearing, I once argued against the exclusion of African Americans from the jury pool. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

They can handle small breaks from the pool. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

When Joe was in position, Harry started throwing large river rocks into the pool and beating the surface with a stick. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Tears oozed down my face, over my bruised lips, pooling on the handset. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

When we climbed up on top of the fence, arms raised to hurl our rocks, the man was lying next to the pool, tanning on a lounge chair. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Filling the pool had cost $100,000, but it would have cost a lot more to fix it, and there was no money for that. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

They swam in the pool and helped with cookouts and laughed hysterically, clutching their chests. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

After a half hour of chatter, some of the boys wanted to hike to the nearby tidal pools. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

I took a walk with my wife, around the trout pool and over against the hill. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Achieving an all-white jury, or nearly all-white jury, is easy in most jurisdictions, because relatively few racial minorities are included in the jury pool. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

I still had that moment of terror when I let go of the side of the pool or was released by someone holding me up in the water. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

He owned apartment buildings and, later, pool halls, and was famous for being that rarity “a man of honor.” I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

And spidering into the pool are a dozen thick fire hoses—which seem to be sucking up water and depositing it into a series of tanker trucks. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

They repeat after her, as do I: Papa, pickle, paint, peep, pool. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

As he walked from the pool to the place she had been sitting, the moisture on his hands and face evaporated. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

And there was no pool in the Training Center, no chance to learn. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Surely somewhere near by, but out of sight, there must be a stream with green pools where dace were swimming. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

You always used to say, “There’s a pool table in there, Daddy!” Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he opened his eyes, he was on the bottom of the pool, and there was beautiful music everywhere. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a nice house in the valley, a clear blue swimming pool and a back wall of solid glass. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

“It’s a big white house! They have two dogs! There’s a lemon tree! They have a swimming pool! And a tennis court!” Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Therefore, if you urinate in the pool a bright red cloud will surround you and we will be able to tell who has relieved themselves. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

She was in the same white dress as last time, with the same beautiful hair and eyes like spring pools. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

“Did I leave you with nothing to do, Seth? No pool? No tree house? No toys or hobbies?” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

“I’m serious, now. Take this down to Daddy right away, and then I’ll see you at the pool later on,” he said. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

As Celia climbed back out of the pool, she looked at us—at Miles. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

Both are hot, wet, dark pools of bacteria. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

When Aru looked into the pool, she saw a memory of her mother—a much younger version—walking hand in hand with the Sleeper. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

The Little Rock Zoo was right across the street from the swimming pool. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

She could take dance classes and go to the community pool, sure, but she never stuck around long enough to make real friends, much less relive memories with them years later. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

She took a slow turn around the pool, no longer searching, but drawn to the glow and glassy stillness of the water. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

He was always walking in on me in the shower, claiming he didn’t know I was there, or I would catch him watching me while I tanned by the pool. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

Instead, Molly spends a lot of time at Imani’s house, which has a swimming pool in the backyard. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

Before we’d start swimming the white lifeguard made us sit on the edge of the pool with just our feet in the water. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

The priest picked up the coin and tossed it into the pool. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

He kept him company and they pooled their efforts to discover where I was being held. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once when I could catch only two and dropped them into the pool, Mon- a-nee ate them quickly and waited for more. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

The blood gushing from my head, pooling on the cracked tile. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

His blood, made black by night, lay pooled upon the ground. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

Water stood in shallow pools on each stair, in the hollow worn into the stones by years of footsteps. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

She could see how the bags bulged in places, as if liquid had pooled inside them. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Theon stopped by the edge of the pool and bowed his head before its carved red face. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

After a while, he got up to play pool, and no sooner had he left his stool than a man came over and sat on it. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

They ran off with all the water in high school pools to use elsewhere, before they realized they’d be turning some of those schools into evacuation centers. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Three hours later, Akhi and I were exchanging high fives because I had gone undefeated in the pool round, winning all six bouts, directly advancing on to the second day of competition. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

On the opposite side from us, a tunnel opened up, probably where the water flowed into when the pool was full. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

Tearing through wreckage near the collapsed “El,” he suddenly spotted a mass of yellow hair floating in a pool of molasses. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

They moved along the track, skirting the wretched shanties and the pools of sewage, and watching the never-ending stream of ghosts arriving and passing without hindrance into the town itself. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

The tiny office is dark save for the pool of light spilling in from the hall and the dim haze from the streetlamps seeping in through the single window. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Tía Carmen came padding out to the pool to tell us our mother was on her way from New York and that she intended to have a long talk with us. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Hot tears begin to pool in my eyes. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

My head fills with thoughts like a tide pool just before high tide. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

In the early morning light, a lone figure churned through the water of the swimming pool outside a Los Angeles apartment complex. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

“I’d rather swim through a pool of starving crocodiles,” Mother said. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

There’s no pool in our backyard, just the one at the condos across the street that we used to sneak into when Doña Rosa loaned us her gate key. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

If Andrew was in town, he would be at Allen’s store or at the Eight Ball shooting pool. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We’re lucky Mrs. Williams didn’t get hurt, or that someone else didn’t, either. I expect we won’t have water pooled on the floor like that again.” Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z

There was a dam there for the mill, and below the dam a couple of hundred yards was a large pool. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I glanced up from the pool of sunlight spilling from his window to the floor. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Before I can even yell "STOP!" she reaches the edge of the pool and leaps into the water, sari and all. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

It was a bitter, angry voice, and looking down they saw that it came from a small black Seal who was leering at them from a moonlit pool of water. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

Gingerly I stretch out my leg into the pool, propping the heel of my boot on a rock so the leather doesn't get too sodden, and sigh, because this does offer some relief. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

That summer I splashed in the pool and waited for more family visits—but none came. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

The laws prevented Jews from using public parks, swimming pools, concert halls, and transportation. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

At their feet, pools and streams of glacier melt came running forward to meet the ocean. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

So many fun times hanging out with Thomas danced through my mind—cannonballing into his pool, playing video games, and watching Doctor Who. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

Finally I’m back in the arena, my own tongue as dry as sandpaper, while I try to reach a pool of water that recedes every time I’m about to touch it. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Around the edge of the circular greenhouse, plants and trees grow in troughs of water or small pools. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

I decided to go swimming at the Memorial Park pool. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

During those long afternoons in the pool, he paddled and laughed and tossed our small bodies into the air, his diminished legs suddenly less of a liability. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

In the daytime we went to the pool or to the movies or to the park to turn somersaults and roll on the grass. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jack bellowed, and then jumped into the pool. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

Indian Creek was our pool, named for the Levittown section it adjoined. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, we got the best kind of light down here in the pool hall.” X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

I am not allowed to move so freely in this your world, it said with a trace of bitterness that pooled, oily, in the air between them. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

Each new family—black or white—was welcome and was given a key to the pool and a copy of the rules. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

He drank long and deeply at the pool and on his return tried the feathers again, for he was ravenous; but they stuck in his gullet and he retched them out. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was just a pretty gemstone when they dug it up in Your Majesty’s wading pool. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

I could have cried enough to overflow the pool, but I didn’t. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

First, I learned that the community swimming pool was private. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Briony would have gone out with her mood, probably to be by water, by the pool, or the lake, or perhaps she had gone as far as the river. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

And he would hunt small stones and throw them with his feeble arm into the little pool to scare the fish, and in the mean ways of a mischievous child he expressed his anger. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

Something buzzed past my head, and blood pooled from a man’s arm just in front of me, a man I didn’t even know. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Bushes between houses seemed filled with pools of darkness, and people hunched against the cold looked dangerous. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

On hooks by the pool hung a row of white towels. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

It can be little things, like throwing darts at a pool float to test my sister’s swimming skills, or spitting back at the llamas at the zoo. Ungifted 2012-08-21T00:00:00Z

And having a mom who drank made it hard to bring anyone home after school, or to invite them over for pool parties or slumber parties. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

They had a water slide and lily pads in a kids’ pool, but I didn’t go there, because it was out of sight of where my dad was sitting and I had a plan. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

In one pool of light, an old woman crosses herself and prays, while in the other a seven-year-old girl is also praying, praying for forgiveness, because it was clear to me that I was responsible. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

The thirteen-thousand square-foot house had a pool, a tennis court, a gazebo, two jacuzzis, a workout room, ten bathrooms, and a special wing with a video room for his seven grandchildren. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Because you got the sword out of the pool. I think it’s supposed to be you.” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Some preferred to walk to show their support for the boycott rather than accept a ride even from the MIA car pool. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

Its dark hurrying waters ran across the path before them, and joined the Silverlode in a swirl of dim pools among the roots of trees. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

His heart skipped into his mouth: He dropped to his knees at the pool’s edge and angled the wand so as to flood the bottom of the pool with as much light as possible. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

As he kicked and struggled, it tilted and then, while the rabbits watched from the bank, moved slowly across the pool and grounded on the opposite side. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Joaquin laughed a little, then watched as the joint started to sink to the bottom of the pool. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Ready or not, I peer into your soul and dive deep, splash-landing in a pool of pain as salty and familiar as the tears on my cheek. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The machine gun opened fire once more from a black rise above the motor pool, and orange tracer bullets skimmed like low-gliding dashes over the tops of the shadowy tents, almost clipping the peaks. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

All about them now, as if there had been a sudden flood, wide pools of water lay beside the road, filling the hollows, and rills went trickling down among the stones. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Jay was in front, running up to the tidal pool, with Doc close behind holding a big jar close to his chest. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

As soon as I got to the pool that afternoon, I knew what I had to do. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Thousands used the car pool each day, and thousands more walked to work and school and the downtown stores. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

His breath stank of rotting teeth, and snot pooled at the edge of his nostrils. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then, at six a.m., when the pool opens, I go swimming. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Unlike Bodega’s eyes, which were pools of ghosts and sadness, Nazario’s were black holes, nothing could escape them, not even light, as if he could read your mind. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

Talk about camp and favorite teachers and the opening of the neighborhood swimming pool made her feel wistful. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

His tears erupted in bubbling pools and clouds of steam. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

The yarn Mom is knitting pools in her lap like strands of overcooked spaghetti. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

Just like white people held the keys to things like the merry-go-round, the swimming pool, and the movie theater, they held the keys to all the best-equipped, most beautiful schools. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

No public swimming pools, no crowds in summer. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

I laugh as she holds up the pool cue in victory like at the end of The Breakfast Club, smiling back at me before going inside room 302. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

I cut loose the rabbit and walked back to the pool. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

George Layhe, who had gone up to the third floor, was in the most desperate situation of all, lying flat with both a large piano and a huge pool table on top of him. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

She planned to plant a clump of ceanothus along the approach to the swimming pool. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

The light fell on the table between them-^from a high stained window—so that their hands moved among plates and glasses which were rubies, emeralds or pools of flame. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then into the pool plunged the line of men, stamping, churning, moving in a crazy line up the pool, flinging their feet about. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

But he wasn't about to turn down a dunk in a pool just because Scott Spencer would be there. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

But when I started down the side of the pool, she followed me, muttering about how boys always messed things up. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

Even if I had made the dive across the pool stairs and qualified for greatness, he still would have left the next day. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

A new heat pooled somewhere, low in his stomach. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Once he invited them to a pool room for a drink. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

She was sitting with her feet in the pool again. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

He lived less than a block from the swimming pool in a big old house across the street from the park. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

Suddenly, throughout the pool halls and saloons, a rumor began to spread. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

Several strands of my cut hair swirled round and round in a churning pool of dirty water. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

He and I were fooling around in the pool, near a big bronze plaque marked with events for which the school kept records—50 yards, 100 yards, 220 yards. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the pool a net went up, and dozens gathered for a game of volleyball. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Down by the dock, June and Nora are embroiled in what looks like an improvised jousting match, charging at each other on the backs of inflatable animals with pool noodles. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

The swimming pool flashed with sunlight as they passed over. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

A bank of melting snow lay under the trees, bright in the moonlight, water trickling off to form small shallow pools. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

They circled down to the tide pools where they stood first on one leg and then the other, splashing water over themselves and combing their feathers with curved beaks. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

So when you hop out, you'll have a head start before the dog gets to the other side of the pool and climbs back onto land. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

Outside the living room was a balcony that overlooked the pool area. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Poison dripped in pools all around her, sizzling into the cement. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

It takes two days for them to hold the color, which is the clear, bright blue of a swimming pool. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

“I think your pool is beautiful, Spirits of the Water. I am so lucky to be allowed to see it. Please don’t drown me!” she cried. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

He looked in the pool for his reflection, but his breathing troubled the mirror. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

The water hums, whispers, and spins white threads before pooling at the bottom. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

My chat request is sent, and a moment later, Hideo accepts it, appearing at the edge of the pool as a virtual image. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I was swimming in our pool with Samira and our cousin Leyla when they came up with the brilliant idea to smoke me out. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

He waved his hand, and next to us a pool of water appeared: a pond ringed in black marble, big enough for the Ophiotaurus. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

On liberty he drank ale and at other times gin with boys who like him were new to the war, and they played pool in Wellington together. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Without the slightest hesitation, he took two hops to the water, waded in and swam across the deep, still pool. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

She knelt and pulled her brother from the pool, but before she got him out again, the two of them were gone. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Ess eyed the water—the tide pools and the waves beyond. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

But from what he could see, there was nothing around except the deep pool. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

There were islands in the middle of the water, little floating restaurants where grown-ups could order Turkish coffee while their legs were still in the pool. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

The Keepers had holo-games and a television and a swimming pool. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Under further questioning she said she had got her feet wet in a pool of water, and that the pool was in a wood. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

I keep my eyes trained on the pool. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

I spec we about to get a shower. “... government knows best and if Skeeter thinks she’s going to get away with this colored non—” “Mama! Mama! Look at me!” holler Heather from the pool. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Pima and Nailer went scavenging for food, collecting green coconuts that had fallen, before turning to the pools and tides. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

It was beside this pool that we lay every day that June and July. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

We follow Miss Leefolt around the pool to where Miss Hilly is in a red bathing suit. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

He will wade in a tide pool up to the chest without feeling damp, but a drop of rain water on his head makes him panicky. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Liquid has seeped from the decomposing vegetables and pooled on the floor. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Every frog leaped, plopped into the pool, and swam frantically to the bottom. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

But she looked happy, so Jinny kept at it until Ess fell and splashed into the tide pools, laughing and wiggling. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Grover hovered above the pool in his flying sneakers, trying to pull the net loose, but it wouldn’t budge. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

She returned to her chair and sat staring at a pool of melted vanilla ice cream working its way slowly to the edge of the table. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

He paddled by a pair of women pushing an inflatable baby pool, their clothes and food inside. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

The words echoed in his head, and a vision of the goddess was imprinted in his mind: blood pooling in her eye sockets and dripping down to catch in her lush mouth. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Now, when the rhinos bathed, the goats stood around the muddy pool, and when the goats ate in their comer, Peak and Summit stood next to them like guards. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

It was as though I had waded out into a shallow pool only to have the bottom drop out and the water close over my head. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Why didn’t we see you at the pool this summer?” asked Sally, tossing her blond hair. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

I felt the way you do the instant before you leap into the deep end of a pool. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

They had had their chance as he walked alone through the forest, had had plenty of opportunity as he examined the pool. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

I sipped my coffee and watched the undulating surface on the pool. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

He trotted over to the table, grabbed the mirror by the handle, dashed to the pool, and dove in. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

Lauren was tucked under the shade of an umbrella, but Maya was sprawled out on the cement by the pool, sunglasses over her face and her feet in the water. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Piggy lay back against the sloping sand side of the pool. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

By evening, we had set up our camp along the edge of an enormous crater—a hollowed-out earthen swimming pool half a mile across that would have been the lake for Aberdeen Lake. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

Maybe the fear and nausea was no longer a sea to drown in, but only a pool of water reflecting the past alongside the now. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

They began pooling resources, and Max brought me four gold buttons, some earrings, and two coats to sell. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

El unwinds the towel from her waist and rushes off to the pool. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Then Marcy climbed out of the pool and made Deidre scoot over so they could all share the bench and the chips. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

He wanted to remember how he and Kainene had often stood here and looked down at the silver swimming pool. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

I tugged myself free, coming up from the inky pool with a sharp gasp. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

I tried my hardest to make some tears pool in my eyes. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“We can’t all go back. Someone has to stay here and help the Chief with this car he signed out of the motor pool.” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

When you see a tornado rip swimming pools out of the ground, you realize something Oklahomans already know. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

She saw her parents in the circle of light created by the streetlamp, dead in the grass with the blood pooling black beneath them. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

And ever since that swimming pool had been preying on Etta’s mind. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

And just before he left, he jumped into the pool with all his clothes on. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z

And when the weather became warm, he moved into a health and rehabilitation center, not because he was ailing but because the facility had a swimming pool and a gym where he could work out. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

New mbika vines are curling up from the ground behind us, where the water pools in our footsteps. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was beginning to lose confidence in Gus and Wes and was thinking of having them both transferred back to the motor pool and replaced by someone who could find something wrong. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

The pool boy collapsed to the ground, his head hitting the marble. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

I get the kids out the pool, swaddle em up in towels. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Reckless they sprang into the pools and waded across, bellowing as they came. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

He stopped when Newt did, right next to the massive wall towering above them like a skyscraper—another random image that floated in the murky pool of his memory wipe. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

They ended up in the noisy, chlorine-scented wing of the athletic building where, through a wide window on the fourth floor, they watched swimmers crossing from end to end in glaring turquoise pools. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

There’s going to be one sub-villain with a distinguishing facial characteristic, and he’s going to get killed in a printing press or a pool. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

We wrap up our stage practice at Convention Hall, and Miss New Jersey announces, “I hope everyone packed their swimsuits! It’s pool time!” Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Bob is hiding in a corner, behind my pool. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

The waves were so high the next day that I could not fish on the reef even at low tide, and since I had nothing to give him I did not go to the pool. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Seth sprang forward, slashing downward with the pool skimmer. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

When you swim through a pool, you push against the water, forcing it backward and pushing you forward. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

A huge smile breaks out on his face, and he takes the other end of the pool cue in his gloved hand, a travel-size bottle of Cal Stat shoved into his front pocket. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

“I don’t want any one of you kids even near this pool without me or your mother next to you,” my father said. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Sometimes she held a joint to my lips so that I could smoke while I grabbed the rim of the pool. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

We’d arrive at the pool around nine o’clock in the morning and stay till four o’clock in the afternoon. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

He was older than Mitt, maybe nine or ten when Mitt was six, and we often saw him at the town pool. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

For a while, Mariam stood by an oval-shaped pool in the center of a big park where pebble paths crisscrossed. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

"I came so close," said the witch-woman to her sisters in the pool. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

Tonight in the palace, she was still awake when the vision began to pull at her, like fingers gently tugging her toward a deep blue pool. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

The first rack of greasy pots and pans slid onto the table, and the dishwasher let out hisses of steam as the rack splashed into the pool of blue water. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Pap’s blood was still pooled up on the ground where he falled. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

Some pools would be left in the deep swirl places under a high bank. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Thunder and lightning broke overhead, while in our house, a dreadful calm settled like clear water in a tainted pool. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

“Guess it’s hard to complain about missing the pool when there’s a whole floor that’s underwater.” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

Their rubber boots splashed in pools of water on the floor. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Had some unknown magic drawn Hermione to this spot, or was the doe, which he had taken to be a Patronus, some kind of guardian of the pool? Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

And then, in one last, utterly futile gesture, Carter ruled that the MIA car pool was illegal and must stop operating. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

Rain matting the hair over his collar, forming a little pool in the space between his boots. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

None of them are watching the race in the pool. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Big Jerome hollered and tumbled headfirst into the pool, taking at leastthree younger kids with him. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

So what could he do but gape as she ducked into that turbulent pool in front of the iced-over river? The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

She is lying in a pool of blood. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You mean like the pool and the movies,” I said. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The next pool they found was scalding hot and stinking of brimstone, but their skins were almost empty. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

In some ways, I suppose, the Square today isn’t so different to what the pool was back then. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Outside the restaurant window, there’s a giant teepee and a beautiful lit pool. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

They stand on opposite sides of a small, round room painted a rich blue and dotted with stars, on a ledge around a pool of jewel-toned cushions. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

What this has to do with a grape pool is beyond me, but I was very happy not to have gym. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

She needed it, because she worked way up out of town in a place the car pool didn’t go to. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

The truth, though, is that my father got his first infusion of capital from a ggeh, a Korean “money club” in which members contributed to a pool that was given out on a rotating basis. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I offered to run extra laps on the smelly dirty track above the pool; anything they asked I would have done,” Massari says. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

Any adult male citizen, that is, was eligible for the 6,000-strong jury pool. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

Miyax’s eyelids fluttered; the black lashes parted, then framed her wide eyes like ferns around a pool. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

When all the men had gone, her handmaids stripped off the travel-stained silks she wore, and Dany padded out to where the marble pool sat in the shade of a portico. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

His father was just as bad as the boys from the pool. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

“Please stop,” Sohrab said, fresh tears pooling in his green eyes, mixing with mascara. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

And his knowledge accumulated slowly, a reference heard in the street, the gibing talk in the pool hall. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

They pooled their findings and made a critical discovery. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes, when I was old enough, we’d swim at the Wynnum Wading Pool—a massive ocean pool on the coast fed by the water coming in at high tide. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

A professor with a head like a pink bowling ball hurried in the direction of the pool, towel under his arm. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

He was a short fat man with a sweat-stained T-shirt and a red beard, who looked as if he’d spent many fine evenings with his friends around the pool table at the Boulder Tap. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

He squatted in the sand at the edge of the pool and looked into the shallow clear water. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Then, looking around, he saw a pool of water less than a hundred yards away from where he was standing. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

The man was concerned only with rescuing his papers from the spreading pool of ink. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jogging through the dark and sleeping alleyways, skirting pools of streetlight, he imagined he was a toy lead soldier come to life, following Sergeant Beans and Private Mutto on a mission behind enemy lines. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

Now, Colin had seen enough movies to know what happens when dorks go to cool-kid parties: generally, the dorks either get thrown into the pool or they become drunk, vacuous cool kids themselves. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

That evening, when Mrs. Muokelu brought the antibiotic capsules wrapped in newspaper, Olanna asked her to come inside and showed her a photo of Kainene, sitting by the pool with a cigarette between her lips. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

He was a tobacco- chewing roustabout, a superb gambler and pool player and what was then called a ladies’ man. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

It made them think I was a thief or maybe I'd do something to their swimming pool...and that white was better. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

I watch Miss Skeeter come in the gate, walk around the pool. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Shadows pool near his feet, writhing, as if trying to get the figure’s attention. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Lugging the seed bag over his shoulder, Andrew went out the side door to the swimming pool and patio area. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

Between the pool and the gardenias, waiting for the law. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

As the population expanded, Malthus reasoned, its resource pool would be depleted, and competition between individuals would grow severe. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

“Will all Library Olympians kindly join me at the swimming pool? It’s time to dive into another game!” Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

There were dry bones everywhere amongst the marsh grasses, and the pools stank of centuries of decay. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I came to the place where the willows arched over a deep pool in the swift-running brook, I paused to tread water. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Across the way, Tendai saw the old midwife writhing in a pool of vomit. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

There was blood pooling in my mouth—tasted like metal. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Cold tea pools in the saucer and drips onto the floor, leaving sticky trails along the polished wood. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

After he had done what was needful, he placed his eye carefully in the pool. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

“Our sense of humor,” said Mother, her eyes pooled with laughing tears. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

Car owners were asked to lend their vehicles to the MIA car pool so that other people could drive them around town. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

Sunny rolled her dice and landed in a pool of lava. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

Amanda stands in the flickering pool of light below the sign. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

They joined their own neighborhood pool and tennis clubs and were making drinking friends with Americans. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

He closed his eyes and thought of the black men in Shalimar, Roanoke, Petersburg, Newport News, Danville, in the Blood Bank, on Darling Street, in the pool halls, the barbershops. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

In a given year, there is one drowning of a child for every 11,000 residential pools in the United States. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

“Cold? Yes,—and standing in a pool! Go, then, Jane; go!” Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

If it had been that easy, the sword would have lain on the ground for him to pick up, not in the depths of a frozen pool. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Wearing starched blouses, armpits stained with sweat, they cluster in tight groups of two or three along the length of the pool. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Gradually, rain pooled where he had dug up mud beside him. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

The little evening breeze blew over the clearing and the leaves rustled and the wind waves flowed up the green pool. Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

Death row prisoner Jesse Morrison told Walter that his prosecutor in Barbour County had used twenty-one out of twenty-two peremptory strikes to exclude all the black people in the jury pool. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

The press briefing room in the West Wing is ruled too impersonal, so they’ve called the press pool to the Diplomatic Reception Room on the ground floor. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

He chose the extreme of closing down the city’s sixty-eight parks, thirty-eight playgrounds, six swimming pools, and four golf courses rather than allowing black people to enjoy them.6 “Federal meddling,” Connor had remarked. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

The whites-only swimming pool in Leeds remained open during those long, hot days when most neighboring cities had closed their public pools. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Fuchsia says, as I drop my coat on the pool table. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

Everyone has come and gone, piles of shells pulled in and out of waves, and I'm still here, a skeleton of a sea creature, dropped in this tide pool, living, watching, still living. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

At six in the morning they came out naked from the bedroom, drained the pool, and filled it with champagne. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

His eyes pool with water before he even says a word, and when Mayumi takes hold of his hand, he doesn’t let go. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

I hoped the new family also had a pool. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

The car pool horn would honk, and she would rush out to join four other Japanese women who had fixed their hair that morning, applied the vanishing cream, and sported freshly ironed hankies. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her pupils contracted to points of black in two pools of silver. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

They were in a big outdoor pool, and two attendants were throwing huge chunks of meat and bone right at them. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

Inside, under a dark, low-slung ceiling, there are four pool tables, a long bar, and a jukebox that plays Latino music. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

At which point I plunged into the pool entire, all of me exposed. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Some got away, of course, and some had been saved in the pool. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Olympic Village was like an athlete’s fantasyland, with a pool and workout studios and a huge twenty-four-hour cafeteria with every style of food imaginable. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

And then there was another kind of blow inside his head; blood pooled in his brain for the last time, washing even the last fragments of his self away. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Marty got a giant Top Quark pool, it was inflatable and huge, and the pool was in Top Quark’s belly? Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I check out the small window on the other side of the pool. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

It began innocently, but before anyone knew it, Mwanza was dead in a pool of blood. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

Another little water snake swam up the pool, turning its periscope head from side to side. Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

I look around and catch my own reflection in the mirror across the room: a human girl, hair tousled, eyes feverish, a pool of blood forming at her feet. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Scruffy and Nala headed through the trees to where the Second Chance Ranch had an amazing aboveground therapy pool for the dogs. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

We had once stayed at a motel with a swimming pool, and I worked up enough nerve to make my way around the entire length of the pool, clinging to the side. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

We walk down the path to a large, glass-enclosed pool with a rock island at its center. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Sophiatown boasted the only swimming pool for African children in Johannesburg. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He sat down on the edge of the pool. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

He mimicked me from the day we’d met again by the pool. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

Ike deeper they rode into the waste, the smaller the pools became, while the distance between them grew. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

They put on their green rings and came back to the pool. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

Pippin looked out of the western window, down into a pool of mist. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Its eyes were pools of molten magma, and when it opened its mouth, the flame came roaring out in a hot jet. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The wide pool of burning brand winked out behind the two men, leaving the alley in pitch darkness. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

To study human bloodlines, and to eliminate what Davenport saw as “unfit” persons—such as Jews—from the American gene pool. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

There must be worlds you could get to through every pool in the wood. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

He walked stiffly in the direction of the pool nearby, passing on his way the cat, who Was crouched over something held between his paws. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

He placed two chairs on the flagstone patio by the deep end of the pool. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

At the center of the grove an ancient weirwood brooded over a small pool where the waters were black and cold. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

We often went to Mobimbi to swim in a pool and watch the huge color television and the white people who crowded the visitors’ recreational area. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

All that blue makes me feel like I’m inside a swimming pool, like I’m back at the Blue Hole. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

She had just come from the pool and had her wet hair pulled back under a scarf. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

When finally we stepped outside, it was like falling into a pool of cool, still water. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Just then, with a loud shout, Beowulf burst through the fiery scum at the pool's top. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wasn’t yearning to play pool; in fact, I had never held a cue stick. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

The freshets had made a small sandy beach through which the pool flowed, and bright green watercress grew in the damp sand. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

A breeze whisked through orchard branches, rippled aspen leaves, stirred across the lawn, and slightly tickled the swimming pool water. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘It was well for us that the pool had sunk a little, and that the Watcher was sleeping down at the southern end.’ The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

When I close my eyes, even to blink, I see pools of red and white, like a blur that never goes away. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Though the property was on the lake, there were no docks or boats in sight, only a mansion-like clubhouse, two paddle tennis courts, and a swimming pool. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Tayo knelt on the edge of the pool and let the dampness soak into the knees of his jeans. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

His face had grown as still as the pool at the heart of the godswood. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Kehaar flew up, circled the pool and perched on the hand rail. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

I climb up the embankment and go down the hill to the wide, round pool of blue water, ringed by trees. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

It’s not the same, though, without Freak along to turn the houses into castles and the swimming pools into moats. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

I walk to the pool steps, sliding out of my pants, and stand there for a moment in just my boxers, the water and Stella calling to me. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

A cold front started in this morning, so she can’t go out to the swimming pool, and they say the weather’s going to get worse. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

“Is it warm?” she asked, about the shallow pool. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Pain shooting up my entire arm, I lay panting on the edge of the pool and gingerly began to feel my wrist. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

She never found it hard to talk to other children, and soon they were gathered around her, sitting in pools of water on the warm stone, their shirts drying quickly in the sun. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

It also always took longer for me to get ready after being in the pool, because my darker skin looks a million times better with lotion to keep it from getting ashy. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

Their suites all had bathrooms with deep mesarthium pools in them, but water no longer came from the pipes, so they used a copper tub in the rain room instead. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Rathbone shouts as blood drips down his arm and pools on the floor. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

A robot head splashed into a tide pool. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

She sprang out of her seat, grabbed my coat sleeve, and we wove through the streams of people pouring out onto the streets to pool at the main entrance of the mine. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Seth leaped from a stone outcropping into the swimming pool, legs curled up, and hit the water with a big splash. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

Yossarian shouted back at him in the velvet darkness cloaking the path leading past the still vehicles of the motor pool to the open-air movie theater. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Harry got to his feet again and walked to where Ron’s enormous rucksack lay yards away, discarded as Ron had run toward the pool to save Harry from drowning. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Clouds, which had shadowed the monument, skittered away to the north, and the late-afternoon sun broke through to bathe the reflecting pool and shine on the gaily dressed Easter crowd. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

We walked in silence down one of the asphalt golf paths, past the pool, which was lit from inside the water, slowly changing colors from red to orange to yellow to green. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

Miss Celia takes to the week of warm weather, though, and actually goes outside and sits by the pool in these tacky white sunglasses and a fuzzy bathrobe. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

While the yard on the immediate left contained a pink bucket-like aboveground pool and the house to the right boasted a trampoline, Petey’s yard was dense with foliage. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Moreover, the whole scientific enterprise must be arranged so that the separate imaginations in different human minds can be pooled, and this is more a kind of game than a systematic business. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

She points out the window and I see a big blue swimming pool, and behind that, another house. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

For purposes of comparison, the average backyard swimming pool is slightly larger than this Ptolemaic wineskin, containing about forty thousand gallons of water. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

It had a game room, a vending machine that sold glass bottles of pop, and most important to us, a big outdoor swimming pool. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Snuffy crept quietly into some bushes and saw that they were naked in the big shallow pool, Joe passionately munching on Nancy’s plump flesh; chill autumn winds whistled down the river. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I pushed myself up, my brain gave a mighty black throb, but still, I recognized the luxurious lawn and the cold in-ground pool behind the big house right away. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

When they finally removed the piano and pool table that lay on top of him, it was all too clear he was dead. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

The water in the pool came straight from the Seine, unfiltered and unheated. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

The poison from the stingers makes me wobbly, but I find my way back to my own little pool and submerge myself in the water, just in case any wasps are still on my trail. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Most of the kids like to go to gym during O.P. — the track, the weight room, and the pool are all open, and you can play basketball or volleyball, too. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

A noise made him whirl; two green burning pools—pools of accusation and guilt—stared at him from a white blur that sat perched upon the edge of the trunk. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

The high schools were scheduled to open early that year, on August 12, 1959, before the pools even closed. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dark water lay in a few shallow pools, but for the most part it was dry and the clay banks rose high enough to offer concealment. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

Terraces climbed up the side of the mountain, with swimming pools on every level, connected by waterslides and waterfalls and underwater tubes you could swim through. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

The yellow light from the dome pooled in her dark eyes. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

At six-thirty on a brisk Thursday morning, the ground still frozen hard, Gaylord Stuckey walked out on the boardwalk to the largest of the pools, expecting to have the place to himself. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The broad face was a pool of still water, giving no hint of what might live in the depths below. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

She could see all the way to the bottom of the pool. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

I figure maybe I can just read on one of them comfy-looking chairs at the pool, instead of actually swimming. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

“Some dumb rule. The idiots in charge think the indigenas don’t have good hygiene or something. Like they’ll make the pool dirty.” The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

One that was deep enough to hold a pool of gravy. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

It’s still unseasonably hot, and I often get to look out on someone’s azure pool while I vacuum or scrub, frantic with suppressed itching. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Melvin Butler leaned on the US Civil Service Commission and the War Manpower Commission as hard as he could so that the laboratory might get top priority on the limited pool of qualified applicants. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

They dumped it by the fire and turned to the pool. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

He’d laid it on the edge of the pool table and the coal had burned down to the wood; a charred spot was spreading on the varnish. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Then they made a tour of inspection of the whole farm and surveyed with speechless admiration the ploughland, the hayfield, the orchard, the pool, the spinney. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

He found her on the balcony with Madu, standing and looking down at the swimming pool. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

“In wartime, that spy could be your neighbor. The chump sitting next to you at the pool hall or even at church.” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

The pool area and the backyard of that house were always deserted, so Adria and I thought our new game was harmless. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Nor did he need, a whiteman’s job—he owned a pool hall. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

All around, Matt saw blinding white hills and crusted pools stained with crimson. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

A gray salt spittle lagging and curling in the rock pool. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

“Dome will bleed if your purpose is discovered,” his father had warned him, as they watched the children frolic in the pools and fountains of the Water Gardens. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“Do they have a pool in the hotel?” The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z

“Thanks for coming over. You want to put your feet in the pool?” Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

I hide the paintings under my pool of dirty water before Mack can see them. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

Tam Lin tossed bread crumbs into the pool. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

An army tank led me into urban battle once; a swimming pool turned me into myth; I’ve left my body in order to occupy others—and all this happened before I turned sixteen. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

So he went to the pool and jumped in, declaring himself captain of the team and joining Scythe Goddard’s loyal subjects in their game. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

The next morning I surveyed my new abode and discovered a swimming pool in the backyard, and two smaller bedrooms. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a small house next to the pool. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

Others suggested that a longer Academy would not be necessary if short classes weren’t booked into long class periods, leaving us to practice pool shots in the lounge for a couple of hours each day. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He took us to a big swimming pool and lined us up. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Crying out to his brothers and sisters, he fell to the ground and was soon nothing more than a pool of wax in the dust. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

“You’re getting to look like one of these crazy Hungarians or something getting out of a swimming pool.” Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

Different hues blended into one another where the glaze pooled thickly in the crevices or glossed sheer on the raised surfaces of an incised design. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

Here and there they could clamber over wave-wet rock, leaping across clear pools that the tide had left. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

Winston picked his way up the lane through dappled light and shade, stepping out into pools of gold wherever the boughs parted. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

They cut him down and he died; the blood flowed on the walk in a pool, gleamed a while, and, after awhile, became dull then dusty, then dried. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Here was my friend, floating in his underwear in my pool. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

And with that, she lowers the pool cue, spinning around and walking back off to her room. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

The remains of a stream meandered through the rocks, and here and there were small pools of water at which the baboons—and Nhamo—could refresh themselves. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The team’s best defenders hadn’t returned this season, so Luma had to find replacements from the pool of boys who turned up for tryouts. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

When I came to Renfield’s room I found him lying on the floor on his left side in a glittering pool of blood. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

They would be even more powerful if that pox epidemic hadn’t flattened their birthrate and made them so desperate for a new gene pool and breeders. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Another caisson went; the hospital was pooled in smoke, as in the morning mist. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

On practice nights, the seats by the pool were generally empty, aside from a handful of other parents idly chatting or scrolling through their iPhones as they waited for their kids to be done. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

The smells filled his head, alive and intoxicating; the green muddy stink of the hot pools, the perfume of rich rotting earth beneath his paws, die squirrels in the oaks. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

They passed a large playground and pool, both filled with laughing kids. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

When we got to Toronto, some of us pooled our money. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Laughter and watery sounds echoed from inside, like it was an indoor pool—Percy’s kind of place. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

The swimming pool is covered with a tarp. Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

It was night in the glade by the pool and the sky was bespattered with stars beyond counting. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

Josh carefully dipped a fry in a pool of ketchup before responding. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Since there was no applause from Fern and me the first time around, she started up again, as zombielike as she could, to imitate the toughs standing around outside the pool hall. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

He looked, leaned into the ashtray, kinda looked like he was leaning over the ledge of a pool, threatening to fall in. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

They found two empty crates in Miss Rachel’s smokehouse and set up an altar in front of the pool. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

How could it have come to be lying in a forest pool, this close to the place where they were camping? Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

She immersed cameras in waterproof housings in the Olympic swimming and diving pools. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

He shook the pollen from them gently and sprinkled it over the water; he laid the blossoms beside the pool and waited. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Lev looks at me close, his eyelids puffy and red, his pale lashes disappearing around hazel pools. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

As a child, watching my mother work, I learned that once a pool of blood has reached a certain size, there’s no going back. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

She crawled away from Cain, her blood and saliva pooling onto the ground. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

The Miss New Jersey pageant is sponsoring a trip for the contestants in our pageant to visit Convention Hall, complete with a pool party at a hotel and dinner at a fancy restaurant. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Leon unfolded the canvas chairs and they sat with their glasses in a shallow circle facing the pool. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

As soon as they went to sleep, I took her out by the pool so we could talk some more. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

"Not sure. I woke up yesterday evening and you were lying next to me in a very scary pool of blood," he says. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

We pooled our food rations and ate them sparingly to make them last. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

The water in the pool flickered a few more times. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

His head was dark, crowned with sharp white stars that glittered in the black pools of the sky behind. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

At that moment the figure emerged from shadow and the moon caught the flat planes of his glasses, turning his eyes into pools of silver. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

I remember the day exactly—cold and windy, no azaleas in bloom, no heated swimming pool in the backyard. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was hot today, just like it was last year, the day the pool was closed and I first saw her at the park. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Creosote bushes and paloverde trees framed a small, narrow valley, and in the center of this was a pool of water. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The dog pulled against it, trying to get to the pool. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

First I fill my bottle with the pool water, treat it, and when enough time has passed, begin to rehydrate my body. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

As I round a corner, I get a glimpse of the pool. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Four of the five Levittown pools have met the same fate, with their grounds converted to “passive recreation areas.” Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

She was always the glass half full type, but something about the way she looks at me now tells me that her optimism is running as empty as her pool. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

As the crowd grew, it spread back along the Mall, stretching around both sides of the long reflecting pool and extending beyond to the base of the Washington Monument, three-quarters of a mile away. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

“So, Pip! Our friend the Spider,” said Mr. Jaggers, “has played his cards. He has won the pool.” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

The forest of Burnham Beeches stretched like a great pool of darkness towards the bright shore of the western sky. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

We got out of the pool and dried off with towels. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

She lived near the beach—in a mansion, practically—and she had a pool with a slide in her yard. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Most important to him was Venderveer’s large outdoor pool, where he learned to swim. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

She closes the gate, lifts the hem of her dress, and wades into the shallow pool, praying she does not crush any creatures as she steps. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

At the bottom of the pool, coins shimmered—a dozen or so golden drachma. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

The soldiers overturned the tables and chairs, and Amah’s carefully organized box of threads and sewing tools were strewn on the floor, red silk lying on the ground like a pool of blood. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

Floating on a yellow raft in Thomas’s old pool, Tamika looked weird without her white flower behind her ear, her hair hidden under a snug bathing cap. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

The cup lay in a small pool of blue-white milk. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

There was no wind, and the sun shone on the lapping water where it ran into the little pools in the rocks. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

I will paint los ninos scooping up laughter in the sunshine and splashing in the temporary pool of a fire hydrant. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

As he entered the water clouds crossed the sun's face and great shadows slid and mingled over the water of the pool about him. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

Despite my best efforts, I can feel tears starting to pool in my eyes. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

But she reached out and squeezed Lauren’s arm before letting go and heading back to sit next to Joaquin at the pool. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t move fast enough between the pools of light under the street lamps. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

Skirting the hither side of the pool where the hobbits had bathed, they crossed the stream, climbed a long bank, and passed into green-shadowed woodlands that marched ever downwards and westwards. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Not much bigger than an above-ground swimming pool in someone’s backyard. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

It was full spring and in the shallow pool the frogs croaked drowsily. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

Twice in the pool in one day and Tía has the shivers in this heat. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Blood seeped from the entry and exit wounds in his neck and pooled under his head, staining the floorboards. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

On several occasions they would get into the pool to soap him from head to toe as he floated on his back thinking about Amaranta. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Seth resurfaced at the edge of the pool and threw his arms up onto the flagstones, trying to drag himself out of the water. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

Charlie walks over to the edge of the pool and puts his hand in. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

"Jack asked his mom if we could all go swimming in his pool," Kevin said. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

Wire-rimmed glasses sit on a wide nose, and her deep-set hazel eyes are two pools of sadness. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

We sat together on the morning of my last day as a little boy, the morning before my seventeenth birthday, drinking our coffee on the patio beside the pool. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

But she knew a lot of things; I saw it in the pools of her hazel eyes. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

We were a proud pair, dropping by the pool hall, playing a quick game of eight ball, and then, as the sky darkened, swaggering down the sidewalk. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

The gods hauled their net along the bottom of the pool. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

At that time, swimming pools, like everything else, were designated “whites only” or “coloreds.” While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Some of the kids had swimming pools in their backyards. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Orange light pools at the horizon, like heaps of glowing silk. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

And then Osha exploded up but of the pool with a great splash, so sudden that even Summer leapt back, snarling. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Thin red streams were spreading out across the stone from the pool of blood where Dagon Codd’s head had come to rest. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The Guardian Angels kids had been going to Iona regularly to swim in the pool there. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

Rainwater'd pooled inside but I tipped it out and had a go. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

I would swim in those jellybean-shaped pools and sip lemonade under the hot sun. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

But the Hot Pot didn’t have any neat edges like that swimming pool. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Harry, Ron, and Hermione exchanged tense looks and sank into chairs outside the pool of candlelight, watching. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

Maybe she thought certain clues would arise from the primordial pool to make sense of our eventual difficulties. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Terrified, he sprang into a dark pool, but the water suddenly turned to dry land. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

Then, taking off my moccasins, I wade into the cold water and cast into a pool below a submerged log. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then he stands with blood pooling in his palm, and his lip snags on his teeth. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

He walked to the edge of the pool and contemplated a sodden red towel left near the diving board. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

I felt a flash of cold sweat roll over me when I saw black liquid leaking from one corner and running down the worktable’s leg to pool on the floor. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Belet was arguing with her mother—I think it was about the dolphins in the swimming pool. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

When he was about five, he had gone with his father to an open-air swimming pool. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

It was an enormous house with a pool in the courtyard. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

The pool didn’t seem quite so cold as the first morning they had come, but still it took his breath away as he crouched and lowered himself in. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

The pervasive television, billboard, and Internet ads featured a lush green oasis, complete with palm trees and a pool of crystal blue water, surrounded on all sides by a vast barren desert. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

They fired at each other, across the rim of the pool. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

The frogs would hop out and let me in, and the woodthrush would come to the edge of the pool to see what was happening. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

They raced back and forth across the pool. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

She looks out at the giant wave pool at the end of the room. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

On arrival they found the hatchery head, Glen Wesley Gore, standing beside the lunker pool with a hurt and extremely puzzled expression on his face. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Steam rose off the hot pools, fragrant with the smell of moss and mud and decay. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“No, I didn’t fall into a pool,” I said. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

And that was how Miss Kenton and I talked for the next two hours or so, there in the pool of grey light while the rain continued to fall steadily on the square outside. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

The strap of her messenger bag slides off her shoulder and collects where her hands are pooled. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

“We swam in the Roman swimming pool, we bicycled over country roads, we drove occasionally in the Stutz Bearcat belonging to a young bachelor engineer,” she remembered. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

To me the trees were shelter, the undergrowth a source of nourishment, and the pool reflecting moonlight only reminded me of my thirst. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The one by the pool with the rocks and everything. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

A hundred pool sticks of different lengths stand at attention in their cradles on the walls. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Another man wearing a coat and pajamas like my father lay dead in the middle of the street, a pool of darkness spreading beneath him, glinting in the streetlights. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

Their torches sizzled out in the pond of scum they’d just landed in because the floor beneath the overhead grate was slick with a pool of greasy water. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

He stood on a stone bridge where the waters slurried into a pool and turned slowly in a gray foam. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

Smiling, overjoyed to be center stage for once, Father Mike cut a lock of my hair and tossed it into the baptismal pool. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Perhaps there was a way...He checked the distance between himself and the jellyfish, took a deep breath and dived down to the bottom of the pool. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

It is with pleasure that I sometimes recall the dead man's purpled face or the report of the handgun ringing in my ears as I studied the blood pooling beneath the dead white piglet. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

Ruby perched on a smoothly sculpted granite rock overlooking a foam-covered pool. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s a beetle! See that beetle over there by Ivan’s pool?” The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

In the afternoon they dressed and went to town, to play pool they said. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once the faja is no longer holding up my anaco, it falls to the ground, the thick, dark cotton pooling at my bare feet. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Miles went ahead to the pool while I searched the storage rooms behind the gym for extra towels for the swimmers. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

We embraced, as always—and almost immediately he took me outside, where we began to walk by his swimming pool. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Come along, I want to see what’s in one of the other pools.” The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

A few flickering candles cast pools of dim light here and there. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

As with every other tournament I’d been to, we started with the pool rounds and then progressed to direct elimination bouts. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

There was a tire swing, a mini-trampoline, and a wading pool. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Seth changed tactics and started splashing her, making quick scooping motions across the surface of the pool. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

I lift the pool cue, wishing more than anything it was my fingertips against her skin. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

Where the hell did she get a pool cue? Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

They got to their feet then, and when Benny disappeared over the hill, they ran to the hiding place, where the river flowed into a quiet pool. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Seth swerved in the direction of the pool and began pulling off his shirt. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

If the builder had had more money, this area would have probably been a swimming pool. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

A pool of perfectly still water, so full that the water was almost exactly level with the ground, lay before him. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

The steps to prevent drowning, meanwhile, are pretty straightforward: a watchful adult, a fence around the pool, a locked back door so a toddler doesn’t slip outside unnoticed. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

I sat up and tried to clear my head, but my thoughts were stuck in a pool of tar, and I couldn’t pull them out. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

By each name is a capsule description of what Yolanda might remember of that relative: the one with the kidney bean swimming pool, the fat one, the one who was an ambassador. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Surprisingly, despite the communal pooling of possessions, Maria had been allowed to keep her paints, brushes, and vellum, which were costly and difficult to replace. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“Good, let’s walk to the pool first. Do you have swimming shorts?” Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

She could take dance classes and go to the community pool, sure, but she never stuck around long enough to make real friends, much less relive memories with them years later. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Then, with the calabashes full, she would dip her hand into the pool and take up a few mouthfuls of water before she began the long journey home. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

In the predominantly white community in Georgia where we had previously lived, the swimming pool had also been private—available only to the community residents. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Somewhere near at hand, though out of sight, there was a clear, slow-moving stream where dace were swimming in the pools under the willow trees. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

The plump man waits for her in a tiny pool. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

The man's flesh was pale, and his blood had pooled upon the rocky floor below him. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

The roiling mass of fairies converged on Seth again, hauling him to the bottom of the pool amid eerie bursts of light. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

“I didn’t think you’d make it all the way today, so I didn’t bring the watch down to the pool with me.” Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

Genes for “desirable” attributes might be selected or augmented, while undesirable genes might be eliminated from the gene pool. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

“It’s just like jumping into a cold pool. The anticipation is much worse than the reality. Take the leap, and I promise all will be well.” Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

A pool of blood slowly seeps into the dirt around her head. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Here, I knew where everything was: the Center, the park, the library, the city pool, Safeway, and Mean Lady Ming’s. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

The upward bluish gleam gave everything around the pool a colorless, moonlit look, like a photograph. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

“Candice, that hole was as empty as a pool in the desert. There was nothing there. Certainly not this.” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

The mother is left alone in the cove of enormous trees at the edge of a pool. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Behind him they walked in file, threading their way with care, for under the weedy pools were sliding and greasy stones, and footing was treacherous. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Up there it looked like a trout stream, flowing swiftly with shallow stretches and pools under the shadow of the rocks. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

The otter grew and its wound began to heal, but still it stayed in the pool, and now when I came it would be waiting for me and would take the fish from my hand. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

The pool was low since it was the end of the dry season and the thunderstorms of August and September were yet to come. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The white-green poison kept pooling, little streams trickling from the plants as the venomous lake around him got wider and wider. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Steam is rising off the hot pools, and the red leaves of the weirwood are rustling. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The sunlight moved up and down his back like hands, and he felt the muscles of his neck and belly relax; he lay down beside the pool, across from her, and closed his eyes. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

They watched movies, they played tennis on clay courts, they walked long walks through the back acreage, and they swam in the pool. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z

The political empowerment of the working class, Galton believed, would just provoke their genetic empowerment: they would produce bushels of children, dominate the gene pool, and drag the nation toward profound mediocrity. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Across the pool stood a brick wall twelve feet high, with iron spikes along its top. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“Yup, but then we got here, and instead of the ocean they had pools. I don’t like chlorine.” The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

I look down at my supper plate, fried beets swimming in a pool of bright pink juice, half-cooked hash browns turned pink where they border the beets and cold oatmeal. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Candles float in three small pools: the first is full of rose petals, the second is thick with an infusion of aloe, and the last one simmers with salt, sulfur, and steam. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

The next morning I met Dinitia in front of the pool entrance, my thrift - shop one-piece rolled inside my frayed gray towel. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

The pool was fed by waterfalls from other smaller pools. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

In the flat pool beside the stream tadpoles spotted the sand. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

The doves came to drink in the still pools of the river and their cry was mournful in the darkness of my dream. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the heart of winter, he needed to find water at the places where streams rushed quickly and didn’t freeze; many of the quiet pools he knew well would be coated with ice. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

It also made it illegal to fill up private pools. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Nailer bent and ran his hand through another tide pool, wincing a little at the movement but still feeling better than he had in days. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

Just inside, the brook made a little fall into a pool, and the sound, enclosed among the trees, echoed as though in a cave. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

He longed for quiet—to be able to stand by a blue pool in the evening, and lob a pebble into the water, and watch the circles of ripples spread slow on the sober surface. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z

From time to time he would throw live fish into the pool for the penguins to dive for. Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z

I’d become more consistent in winning my pool matches and a few direct elimination bouts, but nothing to brag about. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Once, I started with terror at a ratcheting upon my foot, to find a horseshoe crab trundling past in search of a pool, its saber-tail and lobed armor grotesque in the extreme. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

In front of us was an empty pool that would’ve been awesome for skateboarding. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

Bigwig was still in the water, on the other side of the pool. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the shadows were gone, and the cliff rock began to get warm, the frogs came out from their sleeping places in small cracks and niches in the cliff above the pool. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

The water in the pool goes white, then pink. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

I start to jump into the pool, but Mother is standing again, coughing, hair matted to her face, eyes narrowing at me. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

“I feel like you're embarrassed by me,” she says, her eyes beginning to pool once more. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

A lotus flower doesn’t grow in a swimming pool, but grows in a muddy pond. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

But I couldn’t forget wanting to die by his pool the night of the party, or walking home because he thought I was a joke. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

All Moss could picture was his father lying outside the store, the blood pooling behind his head, his mother crying as she held Moss back and away from his papa’s body. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Although the San Francisco Bay was a swimming pool in comparison to Lake Michigan, with mounds of land on the far side that looked close enough to swim to. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

It has four bedrooms and a swimming pool. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

Second thing I did was hit this community pool me and Rondell stumbled across earlier, on our way back from getting something to eat. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

They came utterly weary to the pool, and Juana slumped to her knees and first washed Coyotito’s face and then filled her bottle and gave him a drink. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a dipper hanging on the wall, made from a gourd, and around a deep dark pool of water were set those same flat stones. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

“I went swimming over at Renee’s one time. They have a pool. Dr. Bauer came out and stood there, watching. Then he goes, ‘Your legs have perfect proportions. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

I sprinted toward the stairs in the shallow end of the pool. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

They played pool basketball all afternoon, even though the teams were uneven. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

After lunch, I take Baby Girl out to the backyard and fill up the green plastic pool. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

When I got to the pool, I had to take a shower. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

My hands were hot, and my feet were cold, and everything sounded funny, like people talking underwater at the pool. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

She watched Big Jerome pick up Little Jerome by the scruff of the neck like he was a puppy and toss him into the pool, upsetting the Marco Polo players. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

The grounds contained a swimming pool and polo fields and a golf course and five lakes with islands. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

It seeped, then shined, then pooled on the ground, then spilled from the edges. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Link was in the back, by his pool. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Coach Mustilli had registered me weeks ago, so all we had to do was find my pool and head over to my assigned strip. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

The pickle bottles stood in a pool of oil. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her mother is squatting at the edge of the pool, one arm outstretched toward the water. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

She was ridiculously proud of them and kept looking at her toes as we walked to the pool. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

It roared into the pool, sweeping away the spiders. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

When Luke lunged again, I jumped backward into the swimming pool and felt a surge of strength. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

The picture was probably taken in the late fifties or early sixties, and shows a big rectangular swimming pool with all these happy people—children, parents—splashing about having a great time. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

He used to make me do laps in the local community center pool when it was too cold outside to go running. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

They followed the woman through a different tangle of tunnels, going down until they came to an underground pool that was fed by a spring. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Moms sat on the edge of the pool while their youngsters splashed and played in the cool water, keeping a close eye to make sure no youngsters drowned. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

It’s a nice big outdoor pool with clear, sparkling water, a clean blue bottom and an attached diving pool. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

That first day, as I wandered through the house that belonged to my new family, I was ecstatic to discover the inground pool, and I begged to swim. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Anything I hate is to get my head stuck in a pool," mumbled Miss Baedeker. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

All seven heads shot add, and the elm melted into a steaming pool of muck. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

The room is dark apart from a domed metal lamp hanging from a long cord, which casts a concentrated pool of light on the table’s center. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

She listened to them complain about how boring their upcoming weekend would be because they were going to the community pool again, and then they started talking about a dance class they took together. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

And she answered timidly, looking up from the edge of the pool and from the clothes she was beating upon a smooth flat stone, “The pearls? I have them.” The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

Mabinty Suma had always hated Uncle Ali, so it didn’t surprise me when her chin quivered and the tears pooled in her eyes. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

A severed pile of dreadlocks fell to the floor along with something else - a large fleshy thing lying in a pool of golden ichor. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

A hundred yards away, at the entrance pool, the Cupids were still filming. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

The grass in front of the pool is covered in yard rakes and hand tools. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

And the moths came down and fluttered about the pool as the daylight mixed into the darkness. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

His voice was breaking, tears pooling in his eyes. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

He could flip one and a half times and land headfirst right where the falls hit the pool, disappearing in white spray. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

When I close my eyes, even to blink, I see pools of red and white, like a blur that never goes away. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“He is rto good to us dead...yet...and even the bats may not be able to compensate for his clumsiness. Come, I will race you to the pitch pool.” Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

He takes a small step toward me, his gloved hand sliding slowly up the length of the pool cue, his eyes cautious as my heart begins to race. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

He would drift around, playing pool, easing his solitude with occasional women, sacking the hiding places where Úrsula had forgotten her money. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

In green silks the color of forest pools, in silks the color of frog and fern, they waited. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

Former all-white public schools had opened their doors to black students, as had department stores, restaurants, lunch counters, swimming pools, libraries, and other private and tax-supported facilities. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Sathaz had finally learned that if he climbed into the pool and kept very still, the moon would come to him and let him be near her. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

“Anyway, this dude come into the poolroom, and he knowed he was a good pool shot, see? So he hustled this other dude into a pool game for twenty dollars and beat him.” Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lily would remember Lydia’s pool party and all the fun and the music and the cool guys, and I would remember this: laughing and feeling as if I could fly out over the ocean. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

I’d ruined our last day at the pool before school started again. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

During the day Loki would transform himself into a salmon, and he would hide in the pool at the bottom of Franang's Falls, a high waterfall that tumbled down the mountainside. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

“Check and see if you left anything in your room or around the pool.” Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

The shifting light in my bedroom starts to reflect from the pool outside my balcony, and the glow startles me back into reality. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

We go through another secured door and enter a courtyard that has the largest pool I’ve ever seen in my life. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

Each man had a daily sugar ration of three lumps, but most of them willingly put one lump a day in the “sugar pool.” Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

The blood was pooling at his feet, soaking into the brick floor. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

He pulled a head out from a tide pool. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

She shifted upon the pool of crockery, sending up a great clanking throughout the chamber. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

I thought all the tears and nausea pooling in me would come up and I’d choke when he picked up the receiver and I had to speak. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

In the pool, Aru saw a secret break and become a fact. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

The sail was heavy and dragged in the water, but JoJo plucked the rig from the sea—mast, surfboard, and all—like it weighed about as much as an inflatable pool toy. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

A few fish sat in pools, others lay beached on the sand, rotting with streamers of seaweed. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

I left the cabin calmly, then sprinted through the golf course, skirting the pool complex, and ran up to the mansion. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

But when a law school classmate, Charles Bliss, moved to Atlanta for a job with the Atlanta Legal Aid Society, we realized that if we pooled our meager salaries, we could afford a low-rent apartment. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

I lived in her pool house for months, and her parents never even knew I was there. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

Years later he’d stood in the charred ruins of a library where blackened books lay in pools of water. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

The verdict was neither: we both want to buy tankinis for the pool this summer. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Bands of gold flooded over the old man’s head and shoulders, streaming down his arms to his slender hands, where they pooled with meaning. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

There was a pool there, which I found very exciting. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

She experienced pleasurable erotosexual sensations by positioning herself by the water jets of a neighbor’s swimming pool. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Then what happened, a couple of days later I saw Jane laying on her stomach next to the swimming pool, at the club, and I said hello to her. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

The garden was small and Walled; serem-trees leaned over a rocky pool. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Couldn’t we just go part of the way down into our own pool,” said Polly. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

Under the gray sky, pools of stagnant water flickered among dead grasses and broken reeds. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t wanna walk in there one day and you dead, lying in a big gunky pool of your own blood.” The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

I wiped the pooling sweat from my forehead. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

I described the glittering casinos and the glamorous high rollers, the palm trees and the swimming pools, the hotels with ice-cold air-conditioning and the restaurants where hostesses with long white gloves fit flaming desserts. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

When it was dme for my act, I plunged into the pool. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

The shark must have been the length of a swimming pool. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

I nosed out, in my childish games, every last shark-toothed chamber and hall, every black tentacle of my mother’s cave, and so came at last, adventure by adventure, to the pool of firesnakes. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

And in the surface of the pearl he saw the frantic eyes of the man in the pool. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

Separating itself from the grip keeping me in the pool of water. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

I was hoping it would be empty, but there was a group playing pool. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

Icy fingers of water trickled down from the snowpack above into small frozen pools that cracked and broke beneath the hooves of their garrons. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The pool boy, when he arrived, was badly lit. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

All night long I had been having nightmares in which throngs of black people sprawled dead in pools of red blood, surrounded by all sorts of slimy, creeping creatures. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

A coyote froze with its muzzle dripping from the pool where it had been drinking. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now, even in the pool there was a steady rotating drift. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Then the board righted itself and drifted out a few feet into the pool with the two rabbits hunched upon it, rigid and motionless. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The stuff was just as dark as the water in the pool. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

He set his pool cue down on the table next to him and walked toward the Low Cuts. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

Two days before he died, Scott was cleaning the pool when Jule came back from her morning run. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

He pulled a string dangling from the ceiling, and a dozen naked bulbs flooded the large room with pools of yellow light. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

They stood there side by side with their wet clothes plastered to their skins, little pools of water collecting at their feet. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

“How come you didn't say that last year when you were swimming in our pool?” It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

Matt thought about the swimming pool now, with its cool blue depths. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“There’s city pools in Brooklyn. But I’ve never been,” Jay says wearily. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

Tears pooled in my eyes, and I said, “Yes, mine has long sleeves and a turtleneck.” Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

People come to the clinic in groups of fifty, and the director wonders whether, instead of testing them individually, he should pool the fifty samples and test them all together. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

We turned and saw the light of the east reflecting off a golden pool at Abel’s feet. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

He heard the water, flowing into the pool, drop by drop from the big crack in the side of the cliff. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

After the man left, we got the scolding of our lives, not just for throwing rocks in the man’s pool, but also for lying about it. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

A long, long time ago She had come from Her bottomless pool to join with the murderer Cain. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then I got jobs to do shrub trimming and pool cleanup and sidewalk edging and garage cleaning, and there were more and more people working away. Lawn Boy 2007-06-12T00:00:00Z

Lunch counters, the state fair, pool tables, hospitals. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

One man was dead, his blood and brains crusting Lorren’s longaxe, but the second was still breathing raggedly, though Grimtongue’s spear had pinned him to the ground in a spreading pool of blood. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I tighten my grip on the pool cue as she comes up gasping for air. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

Kind of like what Cinderella would wear if she were a six-year-old sucking a rocket pop by the neighborhood pool. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

It was probably only twenty seconds later that Lindsey was out on the pool deck too. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

At the edge of the field were the elm trees, faintly stirring, and somewhere beyond that was the stream where the dace lay in the green pools under the willows. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Then Ivan heaved his arm from one side to the other, like he was throwing a bale of hay over his head, and the pool’s water rose up in a muddy tidal wave. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

She took the unicorn's head by the horn and placed it beside the body, on the rock; thereupon she looked with her hard, grey eyes into the red pool she had made. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

Hazel followed him up out of the tide pool and up the slippery trail to solid ground. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

A small rivulet ran from the pool across some rocks and away to the east. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Hemingway's house had survived the storm, except that the giant swimming pool was filled with brackish water and debris, along with a magnificent sea turtle that I immediately named Ernest. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

The Assassin edged forward, toeing the pool of light. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

The place was a back eddy, a pool of jetsam beyond the pull of the main current, and that suited him just fine. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

He wished there were water in Tartarus—some nice pool he could jump into to heal himself, or maybe a river he could control. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

The electric lights cast them in alternating pools of glare and shadow. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

He looked upon himself as a crystal pool of clarity and on his life as a troubled glass of misunderstood virtue. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

A stream of tonic overflows from a glass and onto the floor in a pool of red. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

“For no reason. Just like there was no reason they picked you at the pool.” Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

It was rutted and bore many signs of the recent heavy rain; there were pools and pot-holes full of water. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

It was this that had stained the pools Matt had noticed when he first arrived. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were about four hundred people in our courtyard and backyard and around our pool, and more people were inside the house. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

It is the waitress who pockets her tips instead of pooling them. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

Her bow rested on the ground while she bathed, half hidden in the pool. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

All of the agency’s computing staffs, at Langley, Cleveland, Ames, and Muroc, traced their lineage back to the first pool, and to Tucker’s labor as the first female computer supervisor. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

The terrace with that sight of the private pool and the holiday ships cruising in the distance. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

The Hermit, watching his pool, was able to tell them that Shasta was not killed or even seriously wounded, for he saw him get up and saw how affectionately he was greeted by King Lune. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

The men were gathered, just as the man in the pool hall had said, for and about dice and money. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

They had not gone far on the fifth day when they left the last straggling pools and reed-beds of the marshes behind them. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

There is nothing to see but rain, sheets of it, and muddy water pooling at the bottom of the garden. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Goblets lie on their side, mead pooling to run over the uneven floor like tributaries into great honey-wine lakes. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Duke was at the far end of the pool, sunning himself on the deck. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

There the current, after running over rocks where village women scrubbed their clothes, widened into a calm pool. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

She holds up the pool cue defiantly, fighting for every one of us. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

This time, the night so thick, it was impossible to tell the precise moment when the creature emerged from his dreggy pool and began to drag his coils toward hall Heorot. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I wish we could go to a real swimming pool,” Howard said. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

White lounge chairs encircle the pool, and people wear sunglasses and sip Coca-Cola in their bathing suits. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The dazzle of this fictive childhood—full of swimming pools and orange groves and dissolute, charming show-biz parents—has all but eclipsed the drab original. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

They ride the Screaming Lizard and the Double Dare Drop and then they hang out at the wave pool. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Beside the pool his sinewy body held up a mask that drew their eyes and appalled them. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

Harry kicked out wildly, trying to push himself back to the surface, but merely propelled himself into the rocky side of the pool. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

About a hundred golden taps stood all around the pool’s edges, each with a differently colored jewel set into its handle. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

So he changed into a swimsuit and sat for a moment in a metal chair beside the pool, watching his healthy kids perform. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had played here as a boy, skipping stones across the cold black pool beneath the weirwood, hiding his treasures in the bole of an ancient oak, stalking squirrels with a bow he made himself. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

If Phineas had been sitting here in this pool of guilt, how would he have felt, what would he have done? A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

I walked partway across the water on a series of flat stones, then jumped across a narrow pool onto a smooth, shallow ridge of rock that connected with the opposite bank. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

When Jojen looked at Bran, his eyes were green pools full of sorrow. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The hoses Capricorn’s men had used to save their master’s house lay like huge snakes in the pools of water. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

I think I still expected to see Doreen's body lying there in the pool of vomit like an ugly, concrete testimony to my own dirty nature. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

Shawn was facedown on the gravel, lying in a pool of blood that looked pink in the glare from the headlights. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

There was a grandeur about the day, about the colossal, barely stirring beeches and oaks, and the light that dropped like jewels through the fresh foliage to make pools among last years dead leaves. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

She said nothing, just stared at me, her eyes pooling with tears. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

“Unfortunately, he is a far better pool player than myself. Would you two care to join us for a round?” The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

He was stripping down to his bathing suit just seconds after getting to the pool deck. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

They pool the gold together to buy a bamboo hut from another refugee who is leaving for America in the next week. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I'd been nervous it would be all empty and wet, the constant rain making pools in our footprints before we could completely empty them of our feet. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

When you drop it in the pool to join the rest of the stones, you feel lighter. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

To their surprise they came upon dark pools fed by threads of water trickling down from some source higher up the valley. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

The blood from my chest has seeped through my shirt, skirt, and sweater, and is now pooling like paint drops on the virgin snow. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

I also wanted to ask her a bunch of questions: Did what happened in the pool make her feel weird about her body? Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

It cascaded over the shiny streets, drummed the tops of cars, and pooled in dark curbside gullies. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

One afternoon a man was filming the kids in the pool. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Each fencer was put into a randomly selected pool with other fencers based on ranking. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

What do you do in a pool when you don’t know how to swim? Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

It was a beautiful sight to behold, the struggle of the carp to regain his abode before the river dried to a trickle and trapped him in strange pools of water. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Part of the river had been dammed to form a washing pool. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Gradually his eyes began to see into the thick dark that lay beyond the pool of what had once been Grendel's Mother. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z

Looking at the boys, under whose chairs water was pooling before spilling between the floorboard cracks, she knew they could never understand her ambition. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Using a paddle to poke against the walls, Doon guided the boat around the edge of the pool. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Before them towards Mordor lay like a moat a great mire of reeking mud and foul-smelling pools. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

Through loudspeakers surrounding the pool, a Schubert sonata plays, violins and cellos. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

He watched her drown meats in the hissing fire pool. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

The pool seemed to be shrinking—it had been a drier summer than usual, and hotter. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

“Go on. It’s okay. I don’t want to swim in their pool anyway.” It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

Ahead, the pines towered up, promising long, cool pools of shade. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

“Look, the pool is down to eight. I think it’s time we took off,” I say under my breath, although I doubt any of the tributes can hear me. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

But of course you don’t forget playdates at a mansion that contains a golf course, a pool with an island, and five waterslides. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

The sea-lion pool is right there, and that kept John busy while I was combing my hair and polishing my Ben Franklin sunglasses. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

It’s on the side of the restrooms near the empty community pool. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Simon was not in the bathing pool as they had expected. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

Out of the corner of my eye, I see Darius walking to the other end of the room, and that’s when I spot the pool table in front of a giant floor-to-ceiling bookshelf. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

If it is in the nature of living things to pool resources, to fuse when possible, we would have a new way of accounting for the progressive enrichment and complexity of form in living things. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some old fat goldfish lived in the pool with several frogs and water lizards, shaded by wide lily pads and ivy. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

I clawed toward the swimming pool, trying hard not to black out. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

Through the glass doors of his den 1 looked out to see a few dead leaves floating on the water of his swimming pool. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Because there was another pool they had to visit first: the Pool of the Past. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

One thing late or early can disrupt everything around it, and the disturbance runs outward in bands like the waves from a dropped stone in a quiet pool. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Four thousand gallons of salt water surged out of the swimming pool, dousing me and Kronos and everyone on the deck. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

Jack went into his garage and pulled out an old plastic baby pool that looked like a frog and dragged it into the backyard. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

Her blood was black in the moonlight, a deep pool spreading. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

I cut the kelp that held it and took it to a tide pool behind the reef, which was sheltered from the waves. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Singer did not raise his head, but as he passed the town pool room he caught a sidewise glance of something that disturbed him. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Behind that lay a courtyard with a dry pool and a fragile dogwood leaning over in vain to see its reflection. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“Well, as I said, I’m out doing rounds to let everyone know that the Homeowners Association is making efforts to pool neighborhood resources. You know, to help each other out in this crisis....” Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

There in front of us was a huge in-ground swimming pool. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

He’s forever sitting down at the piano in the pool hall, but it’s a small, boxy thing, always out of tune. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

“If you don’t eat, Mary Anne, I’m going to throw you in the swimming pool or pour A-1 Sauce on your orchid.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Though each of the others vanished and reappeared like fragments floating round a pool, Pipkin never left him; and his need for encouragement became at last Hazel’s only support against his own weariness. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“My father’s favorite palace. It would please me to show them to you one day. They are all of pink marble, with pools and fountains, overlooking the sea.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Doc awakened very slowly and clumsily like a fat man getting out of a swimming pool. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

He turned the light upon the pallet, half-expecting her to still be there; but there was only a pool of warm blood, a faint veil of vapor hovering in the air above it. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Other parents leaned over to Mom to tell her that they’d take part in a car pool, too. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The opposing page is entirely taken up by a colour photo of the swim­ming pool of the Aurobindo Ashram. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Kendra led him away from the pool through the garden to some flowering shrubs on the outskirts of the yard. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

She asked for help from passersby and swept the streets and washed clothes in exchange for money, but one tragic evening, in a pool of moonlight, her mother died in her arms. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was the pitch- perfect voice of the man who for years had maintained my family’s lawn and cleaned our pool. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

“We are not having a blast in the pool!” The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

I remember that you were a fairly good pool player and I can picture you quite clearly in the Company day room at the pool table. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

As they waded in to breast their way across, men stepped in hidden pools and went down splashing, while others stumbled over stones or gashed their feet cm the hidden caltrops. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

He took her to the front entrance which gave into a vast pool of inky silence. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

The pool at the club is very big, so even in the shallow end there is plenty of room to play and splash water in Chou’s face. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

One summer day, a rare one when she wasn’t working, Mom had taken me to the local pool. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Her legs stop circling in the pool, the water still swirling around her calves, but she tells me. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

He watched them dive into the pool, one by one, with a graceful quiet sound. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Sucking out of an iron culvert into a pool. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

Two monkeys sit on a rock formation overlooking a pool of water. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

The pool is filled with concrete, the fountain is dry. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were tide pools over there, full of bright petalfish, the watery flower creatures that shrank when they were touched. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

This pool, too, appeared to be only a puddle. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

Sing how it passed down through nine generations, gathering invisibly within the polluted pool of the Stephanides family. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

The giant’s smoky shroud poured over the floor, covering Annabeth and Percy in a pool of dark fog. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Daniela takes a dip in each pool and visits each poultice room just to take a peek. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

This was lifting up one end of the lake and causing the water to run out at the other, as would happen if you lifted one side of a child’s wading pool. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

He tiptoed down the sandy side of the pool, and sat there up to his neck in water smiling proudly at Ralph. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

Below the bridge he could make out a dark pool of standing water among the rocks. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

In the pool beautiful people bobbed toward him, at the buffet guests cleared the way so he could always be at the front of the line. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

The net was huge and heavy, and long enough to go from one end of the pool to the other. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

Theology does not thrive in the world of action and reaction, change: it grows on calm, like the scum on a stagnant pool. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Hurry,” Inigo said, and he found himself trembling at the thought of being dropped into the black pool. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

That he had seen me in the pool and I hadn’t seen him creeped me out. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

I found a very stable-looking rock on the fringe of one of the largest pools and sat there cautiously, spellbound by the natural aquarium below me. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

It could make no further use of him: he was too small and mean; and as long as it stayed with him he would never leave his deep pool again. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

She strides out into the rain, picks up the discarded white ring still floating at the edge of the pool, and squeezes her body back into it. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Scythe Volta hung out with Rowan that evening in the game room, shooting pool. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

The sun was doing antics among the million specks of dust hanging between us and casting a brilliant, unstable pool of light on the floor. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

So why is a swimming pool less frightening than a gun? Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

He remembered the punishment of Tantalus, who’d been permanently stuck in a pool of water under a fruit tree but couldn’t reach either food or drink. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

The ripples spread across it, erasing all traces of the Lilim; now the pool reflected only the sky over the Barrens and the faint white clouds far above them. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

Races across the swimming pool, free-throw contests, tossing around a football—it felt like there was never a day without sports or an ultimate challenge from Abu. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

As one would expect, the pools of Career tributes from Districts 1, 2, and 4 are the largest. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

While my grandmother was still asleep, Mina fell in the pool and drowned. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

She had been elated simply to sit in the pool and calculate her way through the data sheets assigned by Mrs. Vaughan. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

There was only one middle school, one high school, one biggish grocery store, and one run-down city pool, but about one million beauty parlors and churches. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

The warm water on my chest was a stream of blood, flowing into the pool around me. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

They stood side by side at the table, and slowly, Brangwain Spurge lifted up the casket that contained the gemstone found beneath the Elf King’s wading pool. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

Sierra’s next door neighbors, the Middletons, had set up a kiddie pool, and a bunch of the little ones were screaming and splashing around in it. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

Orange groves, failed movie stars, lamplit cocktail hours by the swimming pool, cigarettes, ennui. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Here the heads become figures; coats, trousers, and boots appear out of the mist as from a milky pool. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

The boys on the neck stood in a pool of their own shadow, diminished to shaggy heads. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

Miguel and Sierra were waiting for him near the life-size statue of Mr. Lemoncello perched atop a lily pad in a reflecting pool. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

George knelt beside the pool and drank from his hand with quick scoops. Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

A film of ice had formed upon the pool beneath the heart tree, and the face carved into its pale trunk had grown a mustache of little icicles. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Back past my pool and into unfamiliar woods. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Several have indoor swimming pools, along with entertainment centers for bowling and roller skating. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

Lola sent the twins down to see if the pool was free—they felt uneasy being there when adults were present. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

‘No birds here. There are snakeses, wormses, things in the pools. Lots of things, lots of nasty things. No birds,’ he ended sadly. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

He suddenly jerked his head down to spit out the blood pooling in his mouth. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Then he disappeared into the house and came out with a bowl filled with ice and dumped it into the pool. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

He crouches over his table, a single pool of light from a swinging metal lamp illuminating the large sheet of paper. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Just some room full of pooled waste oil. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

But more than once they glanced at each other, and each was surprised by the pool of happiness that spread through herself even as she trudged through the falling temperatures and growing dusk. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Nhamo filled one of the pots with live coals and perched it in a pool of water at the bottom of the boat. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

All around him, men were redefining themselves for the new world, and a vast pool of knowledge and tradition was evaporating. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like tan, from swimming pools and beaches and all. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

Then she turns, snapping pictures of the evergreen trees at our backs, the boulders we climbed across, the nearby tide pools. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

“It wants to stay here. I’ve killed enough living things. Even a filthy stagnant pool might be better than being dead.” The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Between here and there were dunes and clumps of boulders, but nothing that looked like a reflecting pool. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Here, I knew where everything was: the Center, the park, the library, the city pool, Safeway, and Mean Lady Ming’s. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

The pool boy was naked, too, and then they were on the steps, in the pool, on the diving board, pumping, writhing. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

It’s got to be hard to be a teacher all the time and not jump into a pool of dear water and come up laughing and snorting with water up your nose. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

“Have you been angry since you entered this pool today?” Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

Night deepened until the inn across the street stood in a pool of light. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Tayo used to stand in the big sandstone cave and hold the siphon hose under the water in the shallow pool where the spring water splashed down from the west wall of the cave. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

The silence that follows is shattered by Poppet Murray’s screaming as the pool of blood on the ground spreads beneath her white boots. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

On the morning of May 9, Henry Kissinger sat by the pool in Key Biscayne, Florida, where Nixon owned a vacation home. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

In the middle of the garden was a pool with a small fountain. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

It was four months ago when Hilly showed me the picture, out back by her swimming pool. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Years ago, Dr. Bahri did have a guy who, after hitting his head on the bottom of a swimming pool, could suddenly play the piano. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Children wished on pennies and tossed them into her plastic pool. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

Five feet away from me, that night at the pool, walking to see the lights, on the other side of the glass that last night, always that longing between us to close the gap. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

When they climbed back up the winding stair, they found the door guards lying in pools of their own blood. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

We swam in the pool and took turns going down the slide in a long train we made by holding on to one another’s slippery shoulders. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

At the heart of the godswood, the great white weirwood brooded over its reflection in the black pool, its leaves rustling in a chill wind. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

He was standing by the edge of a small pool—not more than ten feet from side to side—in a wood. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

Remember the boxing gloves you gave us, and the swimming pool at Dukes Happy Holiday Resort? Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

I pictured him stabbing me in the back on a beach in Mexico, me falling to my knees, blood pooling all in the sand. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

On the edge of the black pool, beneath the shelter of the heart tree, Maester Luwin lay on his belly in the dirt. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The floor beneath the mattress was a pool of water. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ralph did a surface dive and swam under water with his eyes open; the sandy edge of the pool loomed up like a hillside. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

“This laptop was in the pool house. Ashley used it to check her e-mail. I was able to get into her account.” Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

I remembered being at Marcus’s party, sitting by the pool—then I was on the ship—but I had no idea how I’d ended up floating on a sea of sandspurs and goose grass. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

It will be like floating in a pool, drifting off until there’s nothing. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

In Phnom Penh, while Pa took us girls to the swimming pool on Sundays, Kim could usually be found in the movie theater across the street from our apartment. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Suddenly, around the edges of the pool, the other ghosts became restless. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

It pooled around them so that they huddled ankle deep in cold water. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

She served mashed potatoes with butter in pools on the top, and green beans. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

We had this house with a pool, almost an acre. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

One of the otters discovered a robot head in a tide pool, and they all dove in and took turns rolling it along the bottom. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

At the pool, firesnakes shot away from me in all directions, bristling, hissing, mysteriously wrought up. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

I stopped the rocker and sat for several minutes more, tears pooling in my eyes, holding that precious body. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

There was blood on his dress whites and his uniform was still damp from the plunge into the swimming pool at the Club. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

A year or so earlier these same girls had been porcelain figurines, gingerly dipping their toes into the disinfectant basin at the public pool. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

As it happened, he left by the wrong door and never found the pool he had spied from his window, but it made no matter. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

She padded barefoot through the grass to her terrace pool. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

On the one hand, I loved the tide pools. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

They set the arch-sinner in a pool in Hades, but whenever in his tormenting thirst he stooped to drink he could not reach the water. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

He moved his hand through the cold water, send-ing ripples across the pool. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“Your father’s a very practical man. No, we need something stealthier than a pool.” The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Maybe you can pull the stone out of the pool and put the moon back together. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

The wood burned merrily; and though all round it the snow hissed, and pools of slush crept under their feet, they warmed their hands gladly at the blaze. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

“No reason. There’s always a Miss Texas in the Top Ten. My daughters and I run a pool.” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

The seawater collects in a pool on the dipped floor. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

Like when Callie jumped into the pool and made it all the way to the other side by herself. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

She heard the scampering of a four-legged creature coming down the stairs—the twins, wanting the pool and about to be disappointed that it had been taken over. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

The lights cast wide yellow pools on the asphalt. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

I spent part of my time at the apartment complex pool, which was almost empty during the day. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

It’s what I see on the pool deck. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

I watch as she pushes the pool cue away, standing, trembling. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

Nevertheless, an Olympic pool is an Olympic pool, touched by immortal glory. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

He stood up, rivulets of water pooling at his feet, a colossal grass stain up the side of his suit. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

There’s a big, beautiful pool with turquoise water surrounded by trees with huge orange and red flowers like upside-down bells. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The soldier knelt down at the edge of the pool. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

I’m lolling by the pool and she moves by in a bikini and she is gorgeous. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Hylla grabbed the front bumper of the Chevy and flipped the entire car towards Orion, as easily as if she were splashing him with water in a swimming pool. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

In the pool Doc and Hazel worked together. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Dad gambled, he preferred poker and pool—games of skill, not chance. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

The diffusion of a chemical through a matrix of protein can even create distinct, three-dimensional patterns—like a pool of syrup ribboning into oatmeal. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

The boy’s red swimming trunks are dripping wet, leaving a pool of water beneath him. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

But he became aware of the stillness when he glanced up to see Brother Leon’s face, paler now than ever, and the eyes glistening like sun-splashed pools. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Joe took off his shoes, rolled up his pants, and waded quietly into the shallow riffles upstream from the pool. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Once pools were over and the bracket was set, the goal was to keep winning and advancing through ever-shrinking rounds of fencers. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

I go anyway through the ankle- deep water of flooded street corners, the brown pools slicked with spectral emulsions of engine oil and cooking grease, soot and sweat. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Some things happened to me in the town pool. Like maybe what happened to you.” Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

His eyes, dark and still like a forest pool, met hers. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

I scrambled down the rocks and slipped into the pool. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

Imogen stood and walked over to the switch that flipped the pool lights on. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

It was three days before I could catch fish and when I went there again the pool was deserted. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

The frog pool was square—fifty feet wide and seventy feet long and four feet deep. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once I found out who was in my first pool and what strip I’d be fencing on for my first bout, I found a seat and sat down and tried to calm my nerves. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

The river went sucking over the rim and fell straight down into the pool below. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

He made a scotch and soda for a woman who took it off to the other end of the pool area. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Three blocks away are the tennis courts, the pool, two soccer fields, and the two-story community clubhouse. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

Computing pools attached to specific tunnels or branches grew larger, spawned their own supervisors, and gave the female professionals the opportunity to specialize in a particular subfield of aeronautics. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Once released, the imbeciles would start breeding again, contaminating and befouling the gene pool. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

As Narcissus bent over a clear pool for a drink and saw there his own reflection, on the moment he fell in love with it. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not if he wanted to be able to lean over a pool table for a shot exposing his back to his customers’ husbands. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Beyond the pool, the stream flowed on again as far as they could see, and then there was more undergrowth. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

Not in a regular bathtub, but in a special pool designed for having babies. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Langley’s first female computing pool, started in 1935, had caused an uproar among the men of the laboratory. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Men in baseball caps and tank tops played pool, clouds of cigarette smoke hovering over the green tables, swirling in the fluorescent light. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

As it bounded away towards a pool Pippin ran after it and picked it up. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

The first and only time Odenigbo visited her in Lagos, they had stood looking down at the swimming pool and Odenigbo threw a bottle cork down and watched it plunk into the water. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

But increasingly my narcissistic pleasure was tempered by the unlovely condition of the pool into which I gazed. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

She drops the tank top onto the deck of the pool, my jaw going with it. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

The lamps were on, making little soft pools of light on the pile of the carpet, and in the velvet folds of the curtains. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

On the great beast thundered, blundering in blind wrath through pool and thicket. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

This stream did not seem to have any calm water, and I must have walked a thousand miles before I found a pool by a deep undercut bank in the shade of overhanging bushes. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

My own baptism, and every one I have witnessed so far, took place in something like a large bathtub or small swimming pool in the Baptist Church. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

He got up and walked across the balcony and looked down at the drained pool; the floor was made of polished whitish stone, visible through the thin sheet of rainwater. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

I looked at Zooey—into her eyes, into the deep pools of amber. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

Odin filled the Gjallerhorn with water from Mimir’s pool, and he lifted it to his lips. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

On the Sunday I was baptized, Reverend John Cross dipped me deep into the church’s pool of warm baptismal water. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“It is not my ambition to marry a white woman or swim in a white pool. It is political equality that we want.” Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Many who owned cars continued to offer them to the car pool and volunteer as drivers. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

Then the Deeping-stream, swollen by the rain, churned and fretted in its choked path, and spread slowly in cold pools from cliff to cliff. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Jack nodded, as much for the sake of agreeing as anything, and by tacit consent they left the shelter and went toward the bathing pool. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

Above the pool, shimmering in the rainbow mist, was an Iris-message vision of Dionysus, Tantalus, and the whole camp in the dining pavilion. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

Go down in the tunnels you said you found, and lie there and live for months and years, reading your fine books and bathing in your temple pools. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

His face had grown as still as the pool at the heart of the godswood. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The water forms a small pool at the center of the valley, like it’s stopping to take a breath before rushing on to meet the river. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

Chacko lay in bed in the pool of light from his bedside lamp. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

A small, round pool of blood stares back at me. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

The foosball table that could convert into a mini Ping-Pong table or a mini pool table. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

“If it were nice weather, then there might be touch football outside or time for a run over to the faculty Club for billiards or pool.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

"Suddenly I was free," he remembered, "my body just falling...even better than floating in a swimming pool, I remember thinking." Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Don’t think I didn’t notice you changing the subject. For the record, I won the office pool on how long it’d take you to cause an international incident.” Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

The laboratory was still hiring black women into the pool faster than they were being sent out to other positions. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Of a spreading pool of clear liquid with a bare bulb reflected in it. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The teachers hoist me out of the pool while Julicza covers me with towels. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

I stared at the sunlight cutting through the patio screen, my body levitating in the center of the pool. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

With scarcely a word said, four of us, the chauffeur, butler, gardener and I, hurried down to the pool. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

Jam dropped her fear like a winter coat and walked forward to help Whisper set the table as if she was stepping into sunshine, leaving a heaviness pooled on the floor behind her. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

In the back there was an inground pool and a combination basketball and tennis court. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Besides some shops and a cafe, the center of town had a pool with water running into it. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Hey, I’m thinking of pulling together a betting pool for the pageant. You think you could get me some inside intel when the time comes?” Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Neighbors are running toward their buildings, and puddles are starting to pool along the edges of the sidewalk. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Even the light bulb above the pool table shined dim soiled light. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

For us, a family vacation is staying at a local hotel with a swimming pool for a weekend. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

Finally, I go back to cleaning pool chairs, picking up Miss Celia’s movie magazines and tissues the slob leaves out here. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

With luck, we would land in the pool. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

Sweat pools beneath my arms, and I use a lace handkerchief to blot my face. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

There is a slide attached to it that leads to Bren’s pool. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

I had passed the door where that corridor emptied into the main prison, walked by the large pool of dried blood just inside it. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

From Sarai’s vantage point, she beheld two private pools of suffering so close together they were nearly adjacent—like the connecting rooms with the shut door between them. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

The backyard smells like barbecue, and it’s warm enough that Seven’s friends swim in the pool. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

Occasionally, they pulled unwilling people into their pools. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I discovered pools of oil and pus under my skin. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

The direwolf moved toward the meat, a gaunt grey shadow sliding from tree to tree, through pools of moonlight and over mounds of snow. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Once she was settled on the bench, in a small pool of light, she peered up at me with undivided attention. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

They settle on a concrete bench by the reflecting pool. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

For example, there was the Piscine Deligny, the city’s oldest pool, dating back to 1796, an open-air barge moored to the Quai d’Orsay and the venue for the swimming events of the 1900 Olympics. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

The warmth of the pool deck hits me as we open the door, my laugh echoing around the open space. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

They are deeply interested in expanding the market, not eliminating the pool of people who can be held captive for a profit. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

The others watched, with breaking hearts or hardened ones, and when he stood and stepped back and turned to Minya, he felt like Sathaz in the pool, waiting for the moon. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

And so on and so on until you reach the age of eighteen, the final year of eligibility, when your name goes into the pool seven times. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

I plunged into the woods beyond, and there I discovered the gorge and the white cascade splashing down the black rocks into the pool below. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the walls their children run through fields, play in pools, dance in teen-hlled rooms, all of them grown up and gone now— but wait! Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

He used to go out three or more times a week; now, it’s just once or twice a month to play pool. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Beyond us, pelican-bellied ladies in swim caps followed kick- boards back and forth across the pool. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Later, they played Monopoly, climbed trees, swam in the pool and took turns tormenting the automatic Doberman. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

“I strongly urged that we should at once pool all our information, work together on equal terms, and share the results, if any, equally between us,” Churchill said of the meeting. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were no tables, chairs, or umbrellas to shade us by the pool. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The rivulets from these umbrellas flowing down the uneven floor of our poorly built church, pooling in spots. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

She slashed the boy across his thigh, so hard that his leg went out from under him and he fell into the pool and began to splash and shout. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Radioactive liquid pools in a depression in the copperized wood, but as I watch, it’s sucked in by the black pitch between the metallic planks. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

I sat down next to her and looked into the little pool below our feet, where crawfish were darting around. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

When he gets to you, you slide swiftly like you’ve got the ball at your feet, leaving your leg out just enough to trip him face-first into the pool. Booked 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

The thick timber of the table’s leg was almost entirely eaten away, and I heard a light popping and crackling as the liquid pooling on the floor began to boil. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Some of the pools were so thick and dreggy that no one knew what linked in the bottom of them. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then the lids opened, revealing pale pools of blue vagueness that finally solidified into points that froze upon the vet, who looked down unsmilingly. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Spotlights rose up all around the pool, blinding us with illumination, and a loudspeaker voice boomed: “Live to Olympus in one minute . . . Fifty-nine seconds, fifty- eight . . “Hephaestus!” The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

When a windmill broke down or a pool went dry, Tayo had seen them standing and waiting patiently for the truck or wagon loaded with water, or for riders to herd them to water. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Then they all disappeared and left him alone, lying on the linoleum kitchen floor in a pool of ice-cold sweat. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

And at that the candle-stub guttered, violently, the last of the wick afloat in the pool of wax. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

Then they came to the spring, where water gathered in a shining pool by the roadside. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

I moved over to the side of the pool and stood up in the water, squinting into the sunlight. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

The park extended into flume rides, wave pools, and a lazy river. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

It reflects off pools and glossy leaves and the eyes of other creatures. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

My heart slammed against my rib cage and saliva pooled in my mouth. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Then, over the summer, he got contact lenses, and I noticed his eyes were bluer than the swimming pool his parents built for Carver School. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

There are snapshots of us having a picnic in the park, posing in new outfits, and floating in a plastic kiddie pool. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

An otter splashed in the brook that fed the pool. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

It reached his waist, but he discovered the pool had a bench around it. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

He awoke in a pool of sweat, and tried to clear his disorientation by downing a half-ounce of whiskey. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

They stepped out amongst the tide pools and jagged rocks of the island’s tip. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

Then he jumped into the pool quickly so he wouldn't be standing on the deck in his boxer shorts. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

Dusty lightbulbs dangled above and created dull pools of light to guide their way. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

The pool would have been way better, but at least we put our blanket in the shade. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

The room is dim, except for the lights in the pool, shining bright as the water ripples around them. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

Near a pool she lost all sight of her steps and then with relief recognized an empty lemming nest, a round ball of grass that she had kicked open. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

That was how Cal discovered himself, in voluptuous, liquid, sterile culmination, couchant upon two or three deformed pillows, with the shades drawn and the drained swimming pool outside and the cars passing, endlessly, all night. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Since it was only the first day of spring, the pool was still covered with a tarp, but the stainless steel gas grills on the concrete slab surrounding it had been shined and buffed. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

She recognized The Fountain by the courtyard in front of it containing chairs, striped umbrella tables, and—yes—a fountain spurting water from two crossed jugs into a blue pool. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Joe was standing on a gravel bar in the Dungeness River, studying a pool, looking for salmon, and the sound of rushing water muffled the warden’s footfall. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Through the window, the pool hall appears dim but inviting. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

I just shove my hands into my pockets and cross my front yard with dread pooling in my stomach. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Matt wandered around the garden, admiring the ice sculptures and a fountain of wine with orange slices bobbing in a red pool. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Rivers ran down along the curbs, and at the corner near our school, cars had stalled in the middle of the huge pools of rainwater. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Riverbank had a Roman pool, a Dutch windmill, a Japanese garden, and staff from all over the world. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Moonlight pours in and pools in the nest. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

So he’d snuck a look: and there they were, floating on twin inflatable rafts, in twin blue wading pools of water. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Slowly, I step into the pool, our eyes locked on each other’s as we struggle for air. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

Blue like in the deep end of a swimming pool. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

The stone spun lazily downward into the crevice and out of sight, and ripples spread across the pool and died away, throwing reflections of my head lamp onto the wall of the cave. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

A flash of something caught my eye and I looked right, to an area within the thick rushes of the marsh where a tidal pool of water had gathered. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

I lift my arms out of the water and fold them on top of the pool’s tiled edge. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

It’s not like before when we couldn’t swim in pools or go to stores and stuff because we were black or something. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

‘It is a less perilous hunger. Or maybe not: fish from the pool of Henneth Annûn may cost him all he has to give.’ The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Step by step I walked across the bottom of the pool until I reached the shallow water and could climb out. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

I decided it would be best to descend to E deck to check on the hundreds of ladies in the drained pool. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Benji shuddered, but it wasn't the thought of dead bodies or the pool temperature that got to him. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

Our hands are earth, our bodies clay and our eyes pools of rain. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Walk the plank into a pool of Jell-O! Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

Whatever was new and exciting—elevators, gas lighting, swimming pools, golf courses—the White Mountain hotels were in the vanguard. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

The bronze chandeliers’ gas jets produced a softly palpitating glow, casting pools of light across the polished oak floor. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

When I picture the future, I see myself tomorrow, hanging with the guys down at the pool hall. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

I went down the grassed hill, slipping in the frost to the edge of the dark pool. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jem took her by the hand and guided her into the pool. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

But in terms of the center’s computing operations, Dorothy’s pool now existed on the periphery. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

He saw a jellyfish in a tide pool, and the swirl of the tentacles reminded him of the swirl of her hair, and then he spent the rest of his life painting pictures of jellyfish. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

“Did you fall into a pool?” she said. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Then he stood up and threw himself into the pool, gold adornments and all. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

But I always woke up, alone in the dark by the forest pool. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Marjory was standing on one side of the motel’s swimming pool with the other contestants and their coaches. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

There it pooled, relaxed, cleansed itself, and bubbled into laughter at the sheer joy of having us in its midst. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

But these pools were still a bit dingy and tended to be crowded. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

We picked our way down to the beach, where what seemed to be an entire civilization of birds were flapping and screeching and fishing in tide pools. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

My taste buds are doing backflips, especially because I emptied the contents of my stomach back at the pool. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

That day, getting through my world was like trying to swim in a pool of warm mayonnaise while carrying two bowling balls. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

He climbed up on the big diving platform in the middle of the pool and unimaginatively just dropped the fish into the water. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

Silence, except for one pool ball smacking against another. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

Hodor knew Bran's favorite place, so he took him to the edge of the pool beneath the great spread of the heart tree, where Lord Eddard used to kneel to pray. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The mare had taken him past the Corderos’ and into the graveyard, and he had seen the mists rising and pooling, coalescing into vaguely human shapes. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

She watched water pool around the ruined body of the buffalo. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“See?” the boy called to his friends in the pool. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

After finding my pool number and strip assignment, I looked at which women from which country I was slated to fence and tried not to psych myself out. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

As the face was exposed I could see that it was horribly bruised, as though it had been beaten against the floor—indeed it was from the face wounds that the pool of blood originated. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

Sheed was hiding, or maybe stuck, or maybe tossed in the neighbor’s pool. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

If there are large numbers of people having the blood test, the medical director would be wise to take part of each sample, pool it, and test this pooled sample first. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

My parents knew the dating pool was already small enough and that the only way we'd connect with an Iranian guy was if he'd been raised in America like us. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

They strolled about the base, taking in its cracked and overgrown runways, its derelict barracks, its empty gymnasium, and a drained swimming pool filled with debris. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

“I’m in 7th grade, too. But a lot of people think I’m in high school. The lifeguard at the pool this summer thought I was in 10th grade.” The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

I got there right when the pool opened so I could swim some laps in peace before it got crowded. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

There was a rage in his brain, a bloody cloudy area like mud stirred in a pool. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was in some kind of oil reservoir, maybe a leaked pool, or some secondary storage chamber, or.. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

But the skilled butchers were now a small part of a huge, mostly unskilled labor pool. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The flies are so excited and intoxicated that they fall on the pools of blood and die. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

The things were coming out from all around the rim now, millions of them, flooding toward the center of the pool, completely surrounding us. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

Now there were no birds to sing, no squirrels to chitter, no frogs to croak, no fish to play in the forest pool. Terrible Things: An Allegory of the Holocaust 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s a quiet spot, with trees overhanging so thickly, you can only see a tiny pool of inky black water. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

Not when he cut class as a sophomore to cross the border to Juarez to shoot pool and drink. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

But most pools are enclosed by something less expensive than leopard skins. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

What if there’s no water in the pool? Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“So,” Joaquin said, sinking down next to Maya and easing his feet into the pool. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

"Well, suppose we take a plunge in the swimming pool? I haven't made use of it all summer." The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

We all agreed we ought to back him and pooled one hundred lire. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

He stepped to the pool’s edge and placed Hermione’s wand on the ground, still lit. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

I go around by the pool, which is drained and covered with plastic sheeting. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Just as most people spend more time in cars than in airplanes, most of us have a lot more experience swimming in pools than shooting guns. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

All eight hydra heads loomed over him, ready to melt him into a pool of sludge. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

They had a lovely quiet time at the pool. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

A dad was taking his kids to the pool for a morning swim. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

Both Jeromes were in the pool now, each with a tenth-grade girl on his shoulders. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

It’s even too hot for Miss Celia to sit out at the pool. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Once night came, we kids all lay in our rope-and-cardboard beds, reading by flashlight or a candle we’d set on our wooden boxes, each of us creating our own little pool of dim light. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

But none of the times were recognized by the International Swimming Federation because the pool was six metres too long. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Without it, women remaining in the segregated pool were left in a state of technical limbo. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

“Would you like to go to the pool?” Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

Not that stupid Marysville would even think of having a pool. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

“The day a giant swimming pool shows up in your backyard, suddenly you’ve got a lot of explaining to do.” The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

I stayed in the bedroom, thinking about Jennifer’s call an hour or two after the pool party incident. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

When I got out of the pool, I noticed a girl staring at me. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

The moon was hardly a scratch in the sky, but underwater lights illuminated the tiled bottom of the pool. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

The pool had a black bottom, and it was fringed with rocks to make it seem like a pond. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

Then he wanted to shoot a game of pool, and I just barely lost. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

Thus he had passed over Enlad, stooping down to drink at a lonely forest pool, but on the wing again at once, driven by fear of the shadow that came behind him. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

The fog was burning even as it boiled up, engulfing everything in a roiling pool of flame. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The mothers never invited Mrs. Dixit to join them around the Armstrongs’ swimming pool. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

A man squats beside a pool of muddy water, plucking a chicken. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

We found a stream with a pool deep enough to swim in. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

As soon as Nathan sang the first chorus, the ice block melted into a wide pool. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Ents and Huorns were digging great pits and trenches, and making great pools and dams, gathering all the waters of the Isen and every other spring and stream that they could find. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

The view slid over reflecting sand and salt water pools until he found the figures hurrying across. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

I splashed through the pools on the rocks, humming a tune. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

There weren't too many people in the zoo because it was sort of a lousy day, but there were a few around the sea lions' swimming pool and all. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

Picture a lot of pebbles being dropped into a very small pool. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

Then she got out of the hot tub and walked over to the pool in that gunmetal bathing suit. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

We watched television and swam in the pool with other kids staying in the motel. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

His hand fell away from his chest, a pool of red in his palm. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

In the pool, she swam a mile, freestyle. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

One entire glass wall opens up to my own private patio, half of which is taken up by a shimmering blue infinity pool that goes all the way to the edge of the balcony. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

A thousand years later, the canals were choked with reeds and mud, and pools of stagnant water gave birth to swarms of flies. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The gasping pools were choked with ash and crawling muds, sickly white and grey, as if the mountains had vomited the filth of their entrails upon the lands about. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

They gave off a pungent smell, like meat gone to rot, and were filled with white pools. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

In the moonlight, his red eyes glowed like pools of fire. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Carefully he took it off and held it up, and the gems on it glittered like stars, and the sound of the shaken rings was like the tinkle of rain in a pool. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

“There are no tidal pools at high tide.” Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

Early that afternoon, they came across the first evidence that the desert was receding: a few stunted trees near a shallow pool of muddy water. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

I told her about how Little Jimmy and I had had our Coke by the pool, how we’d eaten a burger at Krystal and gone skating at Troy’s on a rainy afternoon. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

We even pool our money so we can buy cool ponytail holders with glittery bows and neon feathers and rainbow ribbons to share. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z

It was softly lit by a splendid candle-filled chandelier, and everything was made of white marble, including what looked like an empty, rectangular swimming pool sunk into the middle of the floor. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

When she looked back, the same scene awaited her: Elowen lay there with her eyes half-open, the dagger fixed in her chest, blood pooling down on the floor. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

They waited at the ring steps as Jackson stumbled down, his eyes half-closed, and then they went up, into the pool of hot and blinding light. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

He passed the pool room and then stopped in the middle of the street. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

The pool of blood under her head ran along the cracks in the bathroom tile near where the other woman, Mrs. Barnes, lay on the floor. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

The month had been unusually wet; certain pools of water had reappeared so often on the driveway that Theresa actually recognized them now. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once she had written to Jeanette MacDonald and had got a typewritten letter back saying that if ever she came out to Hollywood she could come by and swim in her swimming pool. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

It’s so hot there that swimming pools boil, so one emir built himself an indoor ski resort. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

As the rooms, and the terraces, and the pool deck began to fill with partiers, Rowan began to rise from the funk he had been left in after his awful bout with Citra. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

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

Ben’s not shy about using cheat codes for money, so we’ve got a huge indoor pool and a sunroom for parties. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

The pool of blood underneath the woman is starting to make me feel sick. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

Blood seeps across the platform, and I shudder, chillingly reminded of how Nan died, in a pool of blood just like this one. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

A pool of frozen blood, glistening red and black. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

He was small enough that the tub was a pool for him. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lawn mower engines whirred, and children splashed in backyard pools. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

We pooled the money and counted it, and there was in all one hundred and twenty-five rupees, not even the half we had to pay. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

I didn’t even make it out of the first round of pools. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

I didn’t know anyone who had a swimming pool in their backyard. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

The little snake slid in among the reeds at the pool’s side. Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mosquitoes bred in the little pools along the roadside. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

I saw her again only when school started, and neither of us ever mentioned that day at the pool. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

In middle school, you pooled your money most days after school and shared a slice of pizza and a Frappuccino three ways, giggling and taking turns with the straw. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

Get a gallon of whisky, or set in a pool room and play cards or shoot pool.” Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

"The kitchen is downstairs, next to the pool, remember?" City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

They had an incredibly talented pool of players—if they decided to show up. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

Then his head suddenly came out into the air and he found himself scrambling ashore, out on to smooth grassy ground at the edge of a pool. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

They lived in marshes and stagnant pools, sucked blood from man and horse alike, and laid their eggs in the dead and dying. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Bull marched them through the bar, past the dining room, out past the barbecue pits, the tennis courts, and toward the swimming pool. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Before them a little cataract of water poured into a broad pool: and both the Horses were already in the pool with their heads down, drinking, drinking, drinking. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

They set the standard for excellence in municipal swimming pools. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Then I noticed something I hadn’t seen from up top: mirrors all the way around the rim of the pool, facing this spot. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

Columbus was happy to make the Indians he met his slaves, a pool of free manual labor. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

TJ lies on the snow, lifeless with a pool of blood slowly growing around his face. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

"But you got her dress all wet when you stuck her head in the pool." The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

Blood was pooling in my lower body because my cardiovascular system had forgotten what it was like to pump blood “uphill,” there being neither “up” nor “down” in space. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Or had the sword been put into the pool after they had arrived, precisely because they were here? Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

We came outside on the swimming pool level. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

The Galluzzos’ had always been my second home, but as I moved through the kitchen toward the back porch, I felt oddly slow and awkward, like I was wading through a pool of water. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

I was in a pool of my own foul expulsions. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Part of the floor slid back and the entire pool table disappeared into it, carried down by a hydraulic lift. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

She was unconscious at the bottom of the swimming pool at the Y. Kids were swimming thirteen feet above her. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Your neck,” I say, the pool light brightening her skin. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

All the warm salt water of the bathing pool and the shouting and splashing and laughing were only just sufficient to bring them together again. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

If I jumped in the pool, I was certain I would forget how to float and sink to the bottom. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

There is a public campground at Liard River, from which a boardwalk leads half a mile across a marsh to a series of natural thermal pools. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I tug on the pool cue, and we walk through the atrium toward the main lobby. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

We looked beyond the pool at the high stone wall. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Before Beatriz can even crack back, Miss New Jersey lets out a loud cough and swings open the doors of the pool hall. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

He reminds me of a kid in a swimming pool. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Their wings flaked in the water, some stuck to him, some whirled about him, as he went on deeper into the pool. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z

So he hired his first home care worker—a theology student named Tony—who helped him in and out of the pool, and in and out of his bathing suit. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Veteran East Computers left for permanent assignments in the tunnels, and no new girls were hired into the pool to replace them. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

At night the pool is quiet, and I swim laps and then just float, watching the ceiling or closing my eyes, all the sounds foggy and distant, the lifeguard keeping watch. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

There were dozens of others—a pool every few yards as far as his eyes could reach. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

They were indoor pools with roofs, on land and open year-round. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

“He said he wants to go in the pool,” I tell him. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

He twitched once and lay motionless, his legs bent at unnatural angles, a pool of his blood soaking through the sand. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

When she woke, she came bleary-eyed into the kitchen, then into the living room, where Mrs. Delaney sat in a pool of lamplight rocking a sleeping Pearl. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

My legs and torso followed suit, and I pushed my foot against the pool’s edge, which sent me floating in no fixed direction. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

“Oye, pero did you see that there’s going to he a pool on the roof and one on the second floor? How sick is that?” The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

With her sister Iole she went one day to a pool intending to make garlands for the nymphs. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

I cup my hands under the faucet and watch as the water pools out and circles the drain. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

Archer looked up from where he stood waist-deep in the water, washing their clothes in a pool rimmed by flat stones. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

On the silver pool, which was part of a river, some sailboats floated. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t scurry away like I did that day at the pool. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

At each corner of the pool lolled a pink plaster-of- paris gnome with rosy cheeks and a peaked red cap. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instead, we would pool our resources, go round to the kitchen, and order what we wanted. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She bent over the rock pool and studied her body. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was gloriously warm after the pool and the forest, the only illumination the bluebell flames still shimmering in a bowl on the floor. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

The breeze clicked the branches above us together, and the water farther away tumbled and dropped into the pool below. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

The estate was a huge piece of land, acres, encompassing a horse bam, a large vegetable garden, and a pool, tended by a young white caretaker named Harry. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

I took a deep breath of the chlorine-saturated pool air and asked, "Is there anything else you know about me that I don't know?" The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

He’s leaning back on his hands at the edge of a pool, feet underwater, and his hair’s wet, which makes it look jet-black. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

He said it had already helped his pool game. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

He was repeatedly acquitted, so Parker had no hesitation about putting his name into the pool when, late in 1864, the Metropolitan Police Department began providing White House bodyguards. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

Just yesterday he drove one of a dozen tanker trucks delivering the contents of a high school swimming pool to Camp Pendleton Marine Base. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

He’d heard about blood pooled on the floors of classrooms and the bodies of twenty first graders and six educators torn apart by a semiautomatic rifle. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

There were deep pools of knowledge in the dusty volumes quietly shelved in the libraries, and Antain thirsted for all of them. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

There are eyes looking up from that black pool, seeing parts of me that even I can’t see. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

My friends—suddenly including some girls—were always playing tennis or going to the pool club then. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

But by the pool among the mottled sycamores, a pleasant shade had fallen. Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

Especially because now she has grabbed a cue stick from the pool table and is wielding it like she’s the very proud drum major in a very proud parade. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

The change in speed sent him stumbling across the border into one of the oily black pools, where he fell on his stomach and skidded out the other side in a plume of goo. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

But since then, people with pools used the remaining water in them to wash their cars and water their lawns and such. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

I hold out my hand and lead her up the embankment and down the hill to a wide, round pool of blue water, ringed by trees. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

It was a waterfall dropping off a high shelf of rock and falling eighty feet through a gray shroud of mist into the pool below. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

Everyone danced under Chinese lanterns and went for late-night dips in the oval swimming pool. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

A house with a swimming pool was not fit for the Saedis. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

Also, there was a difference in its depth; his current sadness was as deep as a pool that went up to his neck. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Third, not only is there a pool, there’s a Jacuzzi too. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

“D’you know, on our first afternoon I thought he was a monster when I heard him shouting at the twins by the swimming pool.” Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Open pools smoked day and night in a dozen small courtyards. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Dad used to shout the same thing at me from the side of the pool when I did my laps. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

For instance, the man he had seen by the pool at the Fontainebleau. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

It seeped into my legs, it pooled in my heart. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

When she saw the pool, an impulse seized her, and she ran out onto the green elastic cover to test its strength, Charlie the dog loping after her. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

And then both children plunged into he home pool. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

There were cages large enough to contain pools built into the floor, and beings with silvery scales instead of skin swam beneath the surface. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Black plastic reeds fringing two green, glacial pools. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

Julia laughed so hard, tears pooled at the corners of her eyes. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

The smell drifted up the slope with the breeze; heaps and pools of green-black-brown-white dung lay among the broken beams, the scattered thatch. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Soon every bit of Hazel was numb, and she and Jack lay next to each other in the pool, all the ice of the neighborhood melting in puddles around them. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

I strip, climb in, water splashing onto the floor, leaving little pools that shake like beached fish. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

A computer who could process data on the spot and understand how to interpret it was more valuable to the team than a pool computer with more general knowledge. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Others were gathering a second expedition to the tide pools. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

She made him sit down on the rim of the pool, tore a strip from the loose part at the top of his tunic, and clumsily but carefully bound up the bite. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

Blood pools in her mouth, then drips down her chin. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

Kendra remembered an occasion three years ago at a community pool. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

He pined away, leaning perpetually over the pool, fixed in one long gaze. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Simon put out his hand, timidly, to touch Ralph; but Ralph started to run, splashing through the shallow end of the bathing pool, across the hot, white sand and under the palms. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

It was from the darkest of these pools that the creature with green eyes had come. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z

Or what if I’m swimming and they realize I’m indigena and they clear out the pool and empty out all the water because I made it dirty? The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The kindly man took the iron lantern off its hook and led her past the still black pool and the rows of dark and silent gods, to the steps at the rear of the temple. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“Is it true?” six-year-old Hyacinth whispered, tears pooling in her round eyes. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

They would bring her food, and she could bathe in the pool beneath the persimmon tree. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Even where the track widened it was treacherous,- there were cracks big enough to swallow a man's leg, rubble to stumble over, hollow places where the water pooled by day and froze hard by night. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“Ready?” she’d asked as we both hung on to the edge of the pool. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Her rations were—as he’d expected—not much better than his, but he pooled them together to make a sort of meal. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

We roam the almost empty hospital, the hours blurring together as we walk, talking about our family and our friends and everything in between, the pool cue swinging back and forth between us. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

Suddenly, Jilly was up and jumping into the pool, diving down and then resurfacing, her dark-blond hair floating on the water behind her. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

It's June 22, 1941, a hot summer day, and the boys meet after work at the community swimming pool at Ohlsdorf. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

It's like everyone's got a best friend or brother in the pool of runners. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

A soft radiance, enough to illuminate the pool and the stones that sit at the bottom. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

When we are the last ones sitting there, just the two of us at the edge of the pool, the teacher with the whistle comes over to us. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

They sat at a dinky table by a pool of water. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Two or more people pooling their money, skills, and resources to run a business, agreeing to share the profits and losses of that business. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

There were hedges that, in the summer, the gardener shaped like animals, and a swimming pool with emerald- colored tiles. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Let’s go for a swim at the base pool and do this later.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The river below this pool was smoothed over, icy, frozen solid. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Gripping the side of the pool, Seth turned to look at her again, throwing up a hand and squinting to ward off the light. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

It pooled, and hung together like a tiny, dark cloud. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Liyana lay on a low wall outside the school, her head swimming in a pool of sun, body hidden by a tangled vine from anyone who might approach. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

I didn’t go to the mall, the lake, or the pool, or answer the phone. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

And after the pool of ‘desirable’ minority students was depleted, more ‘provisional’ students were admitted. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Well, drown-proofed if I happened to fall into a pool conveniently only wearing my swimming gear and without my heavy artificial legs on. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

On a patio beside the pool were a dozen teak lounge chairs, each with a white towel laid out atop the cushions. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

There wasn’t much left of it then anyway, for every time it fell over an escarpment the thirsty air drank it, and it splashed from the pools to the dry vegetation. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

And she said nothing but she worked at her cooking and at the washing at the pool even in the winter when the water was stiff with ice to be broken. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

The water was full of short-circuiting spiders, some of them smashing against the pool’s concrete wall with such force they burst. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

“This afternoon over three hundred girls from the naval auxiliary arrived. They are at the very bottom of the ship. In the drained swimming pool.” Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

“I had a house with a swimming pool, new cars,” he said. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

All right, you put warning cones around the puddles, don protective gloves, etc., but I can’t stop trying to envision the circumstances in which these pools might arise: an associate uprising? a guest riot? Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not because she wanted to take dance classes, or be a part of their group, or go to the community pool so regularly it became boring. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

No, no blood; not even the under-skin pooling of a bruise or the marrow leak of a cracked bone, which had happened once. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Cash to keep the car pool going was hard to raise. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

There’s a moment where the headlamps illuminate the ice and water below, like a swimming pool, but then the hood crashes through and, with a shower of sparks, everything goes dark. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

A daughter whose babies are able to swim like fish in a fancy pool in Woodside. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was out hunting and hot and thirsty entered a grotto where a little stream widened into a pool. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Passing silently through, Frodo found himself on the top of the southern bank above the pool. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

At two o'clock Gatsby put on his bathing suit and left word with the butler that if any one phoned word was to be brought to him at the pool. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

There was a kind of pool of sadness in her heart she thought, and she wondered why it should be so. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Charlie splashes water in the pool and cracks up every time the splashes reach my mom, who has moved a bit closer to us now. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

Loki had been pleased with himself the first time the gods had entered his pool. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

There were no bodies in the pool, no giggling from the darkness of the pavilion, no shushing from the shadows of the bamboo thickets. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

White columns surrounded the edges of the pool under an opaque glass ceiling. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

He hammered out his last word on the table with his fist, upsetting his glass and spilling a dark pool of scutten across the table. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

For a few moments she struggled to get back to the edge of the pool, but there was a current in the water and it tugged at her limbs. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

The little pools were places of life because of the water, and places of killing because of the water, too. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

She got up irritably and walked away, toward the swimming pool pavilion, an open structure supported by three fluted pillars. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Upon the mention of the estate, a man cleaning the pool looked up at them for a moment before returning to his labors. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

City officials asked a state court to ban the car pool, claiming it was an unlicensed transportation system. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

From the balcony, we could watch the athletes from all over the world coming and going to the surrounding buildings, jogging along the footpaths, or doing laps in the pool. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Instead they look on ordinary roads where plastic wading pools and baseball bats are left out on the lawns. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Seven, Chris, I are in the pool of milk with our knees up to our chests. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

But half the fountains were dry, half the pools cracked and stagnant. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

A child emerged from a pool of darkness, a pale boy in a ragged robe, no more than nine or ten. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

It will be more than three weeks before everyone comes back and the pool is reopened and I feel that plunge, that rush. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

In the distance spiky, chocolate-brown mountains floated on eerie pools of mirage. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were blackened and caved, mouths agape, eyes boiled shut, melted and pooled together in the gutter like some hydra-headed horror. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

“He jumped in the pool. It was funny.” Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

James’s family lived in another part of Birmingham, and James had a swimming pool in his backyard. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

He climbed a pile of coffee grounds, but near the top the grounds gave way under him and he slid down and landed in a pool of leftover rice pudding. Stuart Little 1945-10-17T00:00:00Z

They were wetter than she was, but one of them jumped out of the pool and toweled himself off. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

We drove halfway around the pool to another patio, where Davis Pickett was reclining on a lounger. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

I looked down at my belly button and the shimmering crystal of water pooled there. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

The house, a one-story brick structure, stood in a grove of cottonwoods on a little eminence over a pool made by a dammed-up spring. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Already I had gone as far as the pools and the log bridge on the north. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Way beyond the pond and the playground and the school, and for a while we're going through this really ritzy neighborhood of big white houses and blue swimming pools. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

The water is warm too, for it has slipped twinkling over the yellow sands in the sunlight before reaching the narrow pool. Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘Why don’t we pool our money tomorrow and send it together? We’d be able to give twice as much.” The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

She exhales slowly, with effort, her eyes unblinking, focused on a point at the bottom of the pool. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

The pool was far enough from the house that I wasn’t worried about being found, but still near enough that I could hear their laughter. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

County officials say they eliminated the springs out of concern that bathers might become gravely ill from virulent microbes thought to flourish in the thermal pools. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“If the state spent more time finding new sources of water, instead of fining us for filling our swimming pools,” one woman says, “we wouldn’t be in this position.” Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Arliss went tearing out of the pool on one side and the dog on the other. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

But when they saw their leader stripping off his blue cloak and obviously preparing to dive into the pool, they had no heart to question his commands. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z

Addison had crashed in flames, the trout no longer ringed the pool, and a cloud covered the sun and put a chill in the air. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Of course, the pool’s filled in now, but the outline’s still there, and they’ve left standing at one end—an example of this unfinished atmosphere—the metal frame for the high diving board. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

They pooled and swirled, sparkling with thousands of tiny motes of light. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

The water in the pool glowed eerily, sloshing back and forth from the motion of the ship. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

Bracing myself, I race out of the pool. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Up, away from my body in the marsh pool. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

“I’m Madeline,” she said, and Mia had the uncanny sensation, as their hands met, of touching her reflection in a pool. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I laughed at my disorientation, smiling at myself in the pool of water. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

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

He scratched his arm, discomfort pooling around him. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

He smelled leather wet with horse sweat, and damp clay from the edge of the pool where the mare stood knee-deep; he smelled winter coming in the wind. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

She holds the pool cue out, the tip of it touching my chest, her full eyebrows rising in challenge. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

He wondered how long he could stay in the pool. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

Of late, whenever he knelt to drink from a still pool, he saw a stranger’s face gazing up from the water’s depths. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Abu was laughing from his lawn chair on the side of the pool. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

The trespassers had loitered in the lobby, strolled in the garden, lounged by the swimming pool. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

The pool hurried away from him, moving as he moved, stopping when he stopped. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

She shivers underneath my “touch,” her eyes locked on mine, a faint red blooming in her cheeks as the pool cue climbs. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

A silver pool of water glimmered at the end of the long lawn. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Old men and young ones draped themselves in front of the Elmira Theater, Irene’s Palace of Cosmetology, the pool hall, the grill and the other sagging business enterprises that lined the street. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

And the birds which spent the day in the brushland came at night to the little pools that were like steps in the mountain cleft. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

Their small backyard included an aboveground pool as well as a chicken coop. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

“I swear I’m going to drown in my own pool of blood.” Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Mary took them inside and showed the kids the pool in back, and within minutes the four of them were swimming and happy. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Finally, the fall of the wall did not just open the way for more people to tap into one another’s knowledge pools. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

Once again drawing from the pool of most common names among white children, here are the top picks of highly educated parents versus those with the least education. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

As the forest became wetter and swampier, she had to avoid stepping into still, black pools that looked like shadows. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

In Sylvan we’d had a rumor at the first of the summer about a busload of people from New York City showing up to integrate the city pool. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dusty lightbulbs dangled above and created dull pools of light to guide their way. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

The beach near the bathing pool was dotted with groups of boys waiting for the assembly. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

He stood watching the river where it swung loping into a pool and curled and eddied. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

But the loss of a routine that had given her life structure the past few months found tears pooling in the edges of her vision as she watched the city go by outside the window. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

All twenty-six black people in the jury pool could be found on the "black" list, and the prosecutors excluded them all. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Police boots stepped back from the rim of a pool of urine spreading from him, the bright, bare electric bulb reflected in it. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

She has always been scary-good at pool and even better at strategy. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

There came a day when Wang Lung returned to his house over the fields and he drew near to her as she washed his clothes at the pool. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

The soft clunk of pool balls diverted my attention. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Had this amount been available to me in monthly installments in Minneapolis, I could have moved into one of those “executive” condos with sauna, health club, and pool. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

I almost drowned because my legs gave out on me while I was in the pool. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

“I think your kids have been throwing rocks in my pool,” he said. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

“Why don’t we take a tour of the hotel and we can talk? Does that sound good? Charlie, do you want to see the big pool?” Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

A wind blew among the pillars; the fire table bubbled its fierce pool of silver lava. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Someone else collect feathers and twigs. We’ll get rocks!” said Oz excitedly, already running in the direction of the tide pools. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

To clean his pool, and paint his bathroom, and my parents thought it was great, but the dude gave me the willies. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

At one end of the pool, completely overshadowing it with its branches, there grew the hugest and most beautiful tree that Shasta had ever seen. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

The vaults were full of old clothing, garments claimed from those who came to the House of Black and White to drink peace from the temple pool. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Chomsky had arrived at the scene, and he and Volta reached down from the pool’s edge to haul Xenocrates out of the water. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

It looked like a wading pool for Sea Monkeys. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the deep end of the gym pool at school he had no trouble getting to the bottom and that was, he was pretty sure, about eleven feet. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

That night, as I’m taking a late swim in my balcony’s pool in an attempt to clear my head, I get a message from Hideo. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

What is the expected number of tests the director will have to perform if he pools the blood samples? Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

She let the nervous energy inside her pool into a ball, but then she paused. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

The reflections of the two old women gazed disapprovingly out of the pool. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

“I’ll stand in the middle of the pool, and if you can reach me, you can have the watch, okay?” Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

After he looked at her, he continued on his way downstairs to the swimming pool Señor Aguilar maintained for his guests. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

I sat on the stone by the edge of the pool. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Matthew takes the lead, plunging into the crowd like it is a pool of water. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

I sat on the edge of the pool, empty save for a layer of slushy snow at the bottom, feet dangling in. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

He dropped it into the stone cooling pool in the forge to quench it. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

Mia was less impressed with the pool than she was with the piano in the living room. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jennifer had already warned me not to fall for the prank of being told that the pool was on the third floor. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

As the foreman crumpled to the floor, blood pooling under his head, Goeth turned his attention to us. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

We were in the shallow end of the pool. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

Laika’s tub of horror was a plastic toddler’s wading pool, blue, and decorated with a frieze of press-formed dolphins, starfish, and bubbles dancing around its outer wall. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

The move echoed the establishment of the first computing pool at Langley twenty-five years before. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Celaena lay on the bed, staring at a pool of moonlight on the floor. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Blood pooled through the cloth, between her fingers. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

The ground now became damp, and in places boggy and here and there they came upon pools, and wide stretches of reeds and rushes filled with the warbling of little hidden birds. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

On every kind of pretext she would run away from work and go to the drinking pool, where she would stand foolishly gazing at her own reflection in the water. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

They renovated it three years ago and practically quadrupled its size, putting in basketball courts, a saltwater pool, shiny new cardio equipment, and rows and rows of free weights. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

By contrast, a bulldog and a spaniel may look very different, but they are members of the same species, sharing the same DNA pool. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

But I knew that lurking in the tide pools were the treach-erous sea urchins. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Rowan pulled Theon away from the northmen praying before the tree, to a secluded spot back by the barracks wall, beside a pool of warm mud that stank of rotten eggs. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I know that fat girls are supposed to be allergic to pools or whatever, but I love swimming. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

The pool he had just got out of was not the only pool. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

Feeling slightly reassured, but still very uneasy, Matthias circled the pool, trying hard to ignore the loathsome hissing sound. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

“In the deep end of a hotel pool,” I say. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

The twins had come with reluctance from the pool where they had been for three hours without a break. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

I spot the hilt of a dagger that's fallen to the dais, the rapidly widening pool of blood spilling out of her. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Yezzan was burning with fever, squirming fitfully in a pool of his own excrement. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Nok's tears pooled on her eyelids and ran down, soaking her father’s fingers. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

The painting was a pool of moonlight in the center of the room. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

That afternoon the four of us went to the pool. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

The gods started from one end of the pool, beginning immediately underneath the falls and wading until they reached the other side. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

Our conversation once again fell silent, the pool water slapping against the concrete sides as Tamika climbed out. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

Brian and I had gone swimming once, but Ernie Goad and his friends were there, and they started telling everybody that we Wallses lived in garbage and would stink up the pool water something awful. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Hazel picked a nobby purplish starfish from the bottom of the pool and popped it into his nearly full gunny sack. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Celaena awoke with a gasp, a hand on her throat, cold sweat sliding down her back and pooling in the hollow between her mouth and chin. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

It was too dark to see, but he thought he could feel a tiny pool of water at the bottom of his hole. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

There was an office pool running on how long he had before his heart exploded. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

In New York the boys were always playing practical jokes on each other and pooling their food and clothes. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Since he would not go backward into the hail of blows Dill stepped forward at a brisk pace and joined her in the pool. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

He saw his enemy tumble backward into the pool, and Kino strode to the water. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

One of the attendants was washing the sea-lion manure off the middle platform of the pool, and at least he was able to do that with a certain degree of proficiency. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

Although there are admittedly not a lot of pools in Chicago. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

Next we opened gifts, and I received a tiny brown bag of licorice from the three youngest boys, who had pooled their resources to buy it. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

Along the back wall, near the Ping-Pong and pool tables, several army cots had been set up, and in the corner was a pile of sleeping bags. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Hazel hoped that they might somehow drop out of the current and reach that side, but the punt moved quietly on, down the very center of the broad pool. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Treading through seaweed mounded in pools, we slithered and groped, that we might retain our footing; and on occasions, we fell, Dr. Trefusis’s hands bleeding from the roughness of rock and incision of barnacles. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

By the time Maniac and the rest of the vacant lot regulars got there, Chestnut and Green was a cross between a block party and a swimming pool. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

One of his friends came up with the phrase “health epidemic,” and they were going on to the parents and lifeguards that we needed to be ejected to prevent an outbreak at the pool. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

They spent the next three days sitting by the enormous curving pool, surrounded by umbrellas and turquoise lounge chairs. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

When he arrived home the agent made a last short business call, then changed into sports clothes and went out to have a cocktail with his wife beside the pool. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s like playing pool. See. The boat is stuck; if we can knock it free, it’ll float right past us.” Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

The cleansing room had a small, steaming pool with steps that led down into the water. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

The group of children I lived with pooled our camp food rations and boiled them in a large metal cooking oil container we had cut in two to make a pot. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

They could see it was a magic pool: instead of reflecting the tree and the sky it revealed cloudy and colored shapes moving, always moving, in its depths. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

The pool of water quickly turned red as the blood fell from his face into the sink. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

She was originally built for vacation cruising and has amenities I think you would enjoy, such as a pool, a formal dining room, a ballroom, and a library. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

“But the jar just stands there. Couldn’t we suspend it above a fire, or dissolve it in a pool of acid or something?” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

A wind ruffled the little pools of water that dotted the desert. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a drab room for Devon, dull green and brown and gray, but at the far end there was a big marble archway, glisteningly white, which led to the pool. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

The instructor’s hand pushed gently upward, Palmer’s feet left the floor of the pool... Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

When the sun went down I was still lying there, seeing only walls of wood and the open sky, blue-gray as a pool. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

Inside, huge dry waterslides and tubes and pipes curled everywhere, leading to empty pools. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

Next came Little Tilly swallowed up in his coat with salt water dripping from under it and forming a brackish pool on the floor. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

He never saw the punch, but he heard it thud against his ear and then the distant plop, like a stone splashing into the pool at the bottom of a sewer hole. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes the townspeople came to stand on the bridge and watch the struggle as the carp splashed their way back to the pools from which the flood had uprooted them. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The boulders show and seem to rise up and the ocean recedes leaving little pools, leaving wet weed and moss and sponge, iridescence and brown and blue and China red. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘There’s not any place. Except that country club pool.’ The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

He and Annabeth and Bob stumbled along in the darkness, the air thick and cold, the ground alternating patches of pointy rocks and pools of muck. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Underfoot, pools of murky water slick with oil. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

There was running water at the bottom: it was in fact the bed of one of the many small rivers that trickled down from the hills to feed the stagnant pools and mires beyond. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

A lone figure sat on the bench next to the pool, soaking wet and clad in nothing but a pair of boxer shorts. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

The air was wet and heavy, and shallow pools of water dot- j ted the ground. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

They have pool in the back, which I’m not in the mood for. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Whereas the black women enjoyed the support that came from being part of a group, starting in a pool was not an option for a male engineer. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

During those weeks, the church filled up its bus with children and drove us to the Leeds pool, where Mr. Smith met us and allowed us to swim. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

There was nothing like coming home after a long day on the job, switching off your shield, and sinking into a bubbling slime pool. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

Before bathing he would perfume the pool with the salts that he carried in three alabaster flacons. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

I love how we smell after the pool. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

The actual writing of the book began with the scene in the pool room. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

The servant led them out back to a huge pool that seemed more suited to a resort than a home. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

I hold out the pool cue, and she takes the other end, pushing open the door and leading me across the dark cafeteria. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

After dinner, Annie and I went out to the pool house to go for a swim. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Those meetings introduced him to an even more promising pool of like-minded Christians, the New Canaan Group, a Friday morning prayer breakfast typically attended by more than a hundred investment bankers and other professionals. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

A pool of light appears on the concrete in front of me. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

A giant wave spread from one end of her belly to the other, and I heard water gurgling as the baby swam around in her private pool. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

The lunker pool was the smallest of the fish “bins,” a circular structure about fifteen feet across, in which from thirty to forty-five enormous trout usually swam. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Blood, the color of thick red wine, pooled under Ona’s head. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

“I imagine there’s a good-size pool,” said the one in the flame-colored robe embedded with rubies. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Of course there's a pool, Joaquin thought as he followed her outside. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

I got up, moved past stone icicles to the pool and the sunken door. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

I bathed her more and more often, sometimes three or four times a day in the pool. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

The ugly girl sat next to him and put a coin on the lip of the pool between them. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

They didn’t have much time, but they didn’t even try to pool resources to build a shelter, or maybe another ship. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Because this was my first local tournament, and I didn’t have a ranking of any sort, I was randomly placed in a tough pool with the number one seed. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

After the gym, Jule swam a mile in the Playa Grande pool and spent the rest of the morning as she often did, sitting in the business lounge, watching Spanish instruction videos. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

“Anyway, we’re the ones with the swimming pool. Everybody wants to come to our house. Everybody. No one wants to go to your house. Don’t you know that?” It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

The album was like any other, complete with a few childhood photos of playing in the yard and by the pool and things like that. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

She drank from the edge of the pool, careful to keep the delicate eggs sacs on her abdomen out of the water. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Look at that thang,” Georgia Boy said, pointing at the truck that was one of the “new” vehicles being unloaded for our motor pool. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

She tracked them through miles of rain forest, over fallen logs and into creeks, past gnarled thickets of thorns and stagnant pools buzzing with mosquitoes. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

The fountain featured a life-size statue of Mr. Lemoncello standing on a lily pad in the middle of a shallow reflecting pool ten feet wide. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

Five massive swimming pools—longer than fifty-meter Olympic pools, and wider—were dug so the children would have a place to cool off in the summer. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

The pool thing seemed like a good idea at the time—after all, in a time of drought, a pool is an extravagance. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Then came summer, a long, magical, thirteenth summer, which he spent keeping out of the way of the bigger kids, swimming in the local pool, reading library books at poolside. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

He barely registered the change when they turned off the TV and started playing pool. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

The covers pooled around his waist; he wasn’t wearing a shirt. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Apart from the concentric ripples moving out across the pool, there was no sign of her. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

“Happy birthday, Will,” she says, tapping my side gently with the pool cue. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

The “buses” would be a giant car pool consisting of ordinary people’s automobiles. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

I was careful to keep them alive, because otter will not eat anything that is dead, and left them in the pool. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

When that pool’s numbers grew too small to warrant maintaining a section, the laboratory simply distributed the stragglers into other sections and passed their outstanding assignments along to West Computing. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

She would have her own gardens, a marble bathing pool, a scrying tower and warlock's maze. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

It was as calm as a swimming pool. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Opening my eyes a sliver, I see a little boy squatting at the edge of the pool. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

“Usually, in this kind of fund, a lot of investors pool their money and perhaps buy a baseball team, or help to build a stadium. But it didn’t turn out that way.” Lawn Boy 2007-06-12T00:00:00Z

He goes to a pool hall without asking permission. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Immie stripped down to her bathing suit and slid into the largest pool without a word. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

For one week in June and the last week in August, Mr. Smith, the pool’s black caretaker, closed the Leeds pool for cleaning, maintenance, and repairs. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Someone had set up their own little camp, using bright blue pool rafts as mattresses. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

The compound is thick with people this morning, all dressed in green or dark blue uniforms that pool around the ankles or stop several inches above the shoe, depending on the height of the person. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

We watched as my dad followed one of the deacons into a room that led around the stage, up to an elevated pool that looked out over the crowd. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

Outside the house, he stopped only to grab a bait net and a pail before heading for the tidal pools at the base of the rocks where minnows and sand eels often found themselves stranded. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

Our idea of a vacation was two days of car camping, or a night spent at the Napa Valley Embassy Suites so we could swim in their indoor pool. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

Rather than fight the desegregation battle, Birmingham closed all its downtown city pools—both black and white. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

She listened to them complain about how boring their upcoming weekend would be because they were going to the community pool again, and then they started talking about a dance class they took together. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Gregor cut the surface of the pool with his hand, and the water ran through his fingers. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

The girls had to admit it was amazing, and clapped from the other side of the pool. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

He had a sickening mental picture of a barn full of ponies, a roadster for Anne, motorcycles, a swimming pool, and, ultimately, the poor house or a debtors’ prison, if they still had such things. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

He smelled chlorine from the swimming pool next door, heard the springboard boom. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her childhood had ended, she decided now as she came away from the swimming pool, the moment she tore down her poster. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

When I push myself out of the corner, I see a pool of blood where I was sitting. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

Teetering back as if on the edge of the swimming pool: comic yodel, windmilling arms. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

As soon as it became dark, he had the difficult job of flying next to the Agena, keeping it in the center of the pool of light. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Silent tears burn, then pool in my ears. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

In the pool at the fountain’s foot there were water lilies, and in their shadow exotic fish, brought from afar. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

She manipulated the image to show the stables, the swimming pool, the gardens. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Seth boosted himself out of the pool and padded over to Kendra, arms folded. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

I crouch by his head, my knees pressing to the pool of blood, and put my hands on his shoulders. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

On the debit side, the labor pool was of a deeply alien culture, worshipping unfamiliar gods, speaking a language few Greeks understood. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

As he moved through the grass around the pool, a small green frog wiggled out of the weeds ahead of him, and splashed into the pool. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

A waterfall cascades into the pool from somewhere on the roof. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“It’s doing very well. It covered the arbor in only two years. I think it’s the water.There’s nothing finer than one of these desert pools.” The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Under Dwelholm. The king was excavating to build a new wading pool.” The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

The animals from miles around came to drink from the little pools, and the wild sheep and the deer, the pumas and raccoons, and the mice— all came to drink. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z