Both spend their days on the porch until Mrs. Palmer comes home from making beds at the Hilton. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

We sat on rockers; the porch was full of them. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

The larger houses had become impromptu apartment buildings, their porches converted into additional rooms. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sam found falcon food in the old refigerator, picked up the eyas box, and went out to the porch. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

She turned and marched outside to smoke a cigarette while sitting in the porch rocker. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

We walked out on the porch and left those books behind us. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

People lounge around on their front porches, laughing and talking. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mary Alice and I were at the table, and Grandma was at the stove turning one last round of pancakes, when we got a visitor on the back porch. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

Sitting on the front porch every day after school, working at it again at night when his schoolwork was finished, he patiently and painstakingly taught himself to play each instrument proficiently. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

A raggedy old swinging chair covered in bird droppings hung from a porch rafter. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

I went to the porch and sipped iced tea and Edith was reading this book and she didn't put it down when she said, ‘That’s not necessarily true, you know.’ The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

There were no sidewalks or grass or paved anything at Stagecoach Pass—just dirt and old wooden buildings with old wooden steps and old wooden porches that looked like they might collapse at any time. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

“Ah hears what they say ’cause they just will collect round mah porch ’cause it’s on de big road. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

The hummingbird had dived at him and spooked him until he’d trotted back to the front porch, looking very embarrassed. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

We were standing on the porch and it was much cooler out there. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then he leaned his chair back against the porch wall and got to work. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Some mornings I see Rosa on her porch, and when I do, I finish my run, then trot back to visit with her. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

That draws everybody on the porch into it. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

Helen ordered her house-maidens to arrange beds for them in the entry porch, soft and warm with thick purple blankets covered by smoothly woven rugs and on top of all woolen cloaks. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

The boys sat on the porch steps looking like they were going to a funeral. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

In about two minutes I was thumping my boots across her porch. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

She collapsed on the porch steps, crying with her hands clasped over her mouth. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Even though it’s freezing outside, I feel like sitting out on the front porch. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

“She was asleep out there on the porch when I arrived.” Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Bull appeared on the back porch wearing a sweat suit with “United States Marine Corps” stenciled on it. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jesse found he was really useful to him, not a nuisance to be tolerated or set out on the porch like P. T. “You’re amazing,” Bill would say. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

Finally Dragon, protesting with only the sleepiest of whines, was picked up and deposited on the back porch. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

Folks were milling around on the big front porch, gathering their umbrellas, sidestepping puddles in the parking lot, heading for cars, getting ready to follow the hearse in a long, respectful line of cars. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

He spat over the edge of the porch. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Granddaddy sat in a wicker rocker at the far end of the porch. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

He put in new wiring and plumbing, a new firebox, reinforced floor joists, and a new porch all on his own. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Marly stood on the porch, breathing the flowery smells and looking at the bright stars. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

“Hell! Bet I can beat you to the front porch!” The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

But when Alice had finished for the morning and was putting on her coat to leave, Malcolm saw and caught up with her on the porch. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

Just as I stepped off the porch, the phone inside rang. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

He was sitting on the front porch, talking to his mother. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

The front door opened and he stepped out onto the porch. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

One near Grandpa turned to ice, fell to the porch, and shattered. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

“We have to do something about the porch situation,” I told Mom. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

It certainly didn’t sound like the honest job of a dairyman, or bring to his mind cold bright cans standing on the back porch, glittering like captains on guard. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Grandpa kept the bubbles coming, and more fairies came to the porch. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

She pretended that she lived on the trader’s porch instead. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

And while I was thinking about all this and standing as rigid as a locked door on the porch he looked down at the clipboard again and flipped over some more pages. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

We assembled on the front porch and watched as Harry pried it open. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

A man sat on a porch in his coveralls dead for years. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

I’ve just set foot on the cement steps of the front porch when a teenager bursts out the front door. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Dad slapped open the screen door and came out on the porch as if to argue with her. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Howard and I sat on the couch on the porch and he told me about his plan to catch Wishbone. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

I turned toward the house, beckoning to Jacob as I ducked under the porch. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

He was so busy beating himself up in his head that he didn’t even notice Grandpop on the porch—sitting on the: porch, all by himself, until he’d reached the porch himself. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

He clambered back up the ledges, retrieved his collar—it took some time to find—and so sprinted home, hardly able to breathe by the time he reached the front porch. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

Still, Chess felt like his feet got ahead of him as he climbed down the porch stairs. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

How I don’t hate this house perched on the mountainside with Pegasus up there shining over the porch. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

“She’ll chase me off the front porch and try to marry you to a lawyer.” Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he returned to the porch, he froze. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

Holding hands and breathing nervous puffs of frost into the night, we make our way onto the porch. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

Lynn and I sat out on the front porch and watched them work. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

As we came up the path, I could see the flash of white fabric on the porch of our house—Mama was outside. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

For an hour, I hear Daddy and Jameso throwing switches and clanking tools, boots knocking on the porch. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Dad, sitting on the edge of the porch, leans forward so he can see. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Down at the end of the porch, two men sat across from each other at a card table. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

He spotted a pile of stones near the well and another pile beside the porch steps. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

“No.” . . and being old together on a porch.” Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

The men on the porch all nodded and said, “That’s right.” The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

And Frank’s putting chains on the porch swing. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Out on the porch, I hear the soft calls of our parents. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

I'm yanked out of a dream-filled sleep—first of my mother walking me to grade school, then of Eden's bleeding irises and the red number under our porch. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

On my way back home, Calvin Suggs and his two buddies plunged off his porch and came after me, splashing in their bare feet across the road. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Honeysuckle spread over the screens of the porch, and its long fingers reached for the trees in the yard. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Before I could think twice, I plunged off the porch and into the night. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

“One day we were out here and I stepped off the porch,” Grandpop went on. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

I walked up to the house and stood on the front porch holding Mamá’s roses, waiting for them to start walking up the driveway. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

Guests were blocked at the door and they formed groups on the front porch and in the yard. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

We sit on the front porch with our legs dangling over the edge. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

It was a nice big house, one of those older ones with the large porches, in a nice neighborhood and the grounds was big. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

It feels wrong that Mrs. Bowman’s not living in the gray-shingled house next door anymore, and her porch looks empty without her rocking chairs. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

The fly fell on its back to the wooden floor of the porch, righted itself, then flew off, buzzing loudly. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

This tunnel led to a small domed outbuilding—a sort of huge igloo—surrounded by a covered porch. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

The rain rattled on the rusted tin roof, and rainwater leaked out of the rain gutter and splashed off the porch railing. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Lydia’s parents retired to their front porch rockers with glasses of wine and books while Travis followed Lydia and Dill to the TV room. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

Then there’s the slam of a truck door outside, footsteps on the ground, footsteps on the porch, and a rap, rap, rap at the back door. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

In moonlight we carried our bags up to the back porch. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

His shoes slap down on the old porch planks. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

“I had thought of that. And on the back porch, too, where I can see the planting.” Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

Hatsue stood silently with her apron full of kindling while the men mounted the porch and knocked on the door, holding their hats in their hands. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Many friends had come to say good-bye the night before and in the very early morning—but now only the family was congregated on the porch. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

After Mr. P left, I sat on the porch for a long time and thought about my life. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

I was reaching under my bed for my binder and wondering how to approach the scene where Minerva doesn't get invited to a schoolmate's party, when I heard loud voices coming from the front porch. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

This had been his first home, the small stucco house where he and Lourdes lived until Lourdes stepped off the front porch and left. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

The best sight in the world greeted us when we returned home: our father’s worn, muddy shoes sitting on the front porch. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

It took the drunks on the porch a moment to focus on us. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

He sniffed around the lodge, found no scents to say the house was occupied by people, and squeezed under the porch. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

In silence they passed the wooden hotel, where a tourist was huddled on the porch out of the wind; then they stepped onto the main street, where the stores stood. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Teece gave a vicious wink at his men on the hardware porch. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

He painted secret messages in code on the walls of the front porch and dining room. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

Following Dad, we walked down the front porch steps and stood on the sidewalk like a little parade. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

The people on the porches glanced sidewise at each others faces. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the page facing Map 4 was a drawing of a house with a lacy wraparound porch. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

He marched the boy across the porch and drew a paper out of a desk. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes, to make money, Morrie and his younger brother, David, would wash porch steps together for a nickel. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was from a porch like this that somebody finally spoke. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

He was waiting on the porch for me with a pen and paper when I got home from school the day before the big interview. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Great big front porch that you got to walk up a couple of steps to get to. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

We walked back across the street and sat on his front porch. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

Kay is on the front porch with her brother, who is crying. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“Everybody know ’em,” the girl said, now setting the hammer on the porch. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Along the road the houses were all low-slung and split-level and modern, with big porches and picture windows facing the water. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

And the silhouette on my porch was muted, as if the body below was wrapped in gauze or I was seeing it from a hundred feet up. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

He stood on the porch with his hat in his hand. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

All day I slaved away, scrubbing down her porch, sorting buttons, picking dead flies from her screen door. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

“Thanks,” June whispered just as Dr. Somerset, dressed in light blue scrubs, started up the porch steps. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

The house it penned was old and brown with a porch that gave it a sort of potbelly. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

Upon the porch were hairy geraniums and an old swing which was hooked into the porch ceiling and which now swung back and forth, back and forth, in a little breeze. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tired of living in a piano studio, she scouted out a much better apartment, with five rooms, a fireplace, and a sheltered porch where William could tinker and experiment with radios. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

From this distance, she was barely more than a silhouette in the shadows of the porch. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Mama and I were still out there on the porch, waiting for Papa, when here came Loma and Camp—her carrying the baby, him carrying Granny’s big mirror with Saint Cecilia painted on it. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

As they all got out of the car, Mac appeared on his front porch, looking tired and suspicious. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

Our tunnel finally opens up to a large expanse, an emerald lawn skirting a small gray house with a deep shady porch. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

They needed constant watching, and Fern and I had nowhere to go but the back and front porches. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

August sat on the porch swing that was suspended from two chains in the ceiling. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

When she turned around, her aunt and uncle were standing on the front porch watching her. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

Crossing the back porch, I heard Rosaleen say to him, “Have you registered yourself to vote?” The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

A few houses away from where Ivy was standing, a girl ran down the porch steps and waved her hand. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

When the lady's heels have tapped across the wooden porch and down the steps, Mom turns around and calls softly, "Bobby?" Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Summer,” Mr. Chris said that night after the fireworks were over and they were all having homemade ice cream on his front porch, “is fruit time mostly, just the way spring is mostly flower time.” Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

They purchase a barbecue for tandoori on the porch in summer. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Then he walked off abruptly, leaving us like orphans on the porch. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

It did not take long before the entire village was assembled in front of the church porch. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

In a minute she opened it up and her dad stepped onto the porch with three big brown boxes. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

I walk slowly out the door, down the porch steps, and onto the front yard. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

We carried the stuffed chair and the couch to the front porch to let them air as best we could. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The people on the porches put up their hands as if to beat the fire out. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

He saw a house, an empty front porch. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

A sign that said soldano’s announced the little lunch counter set under the porch in front of Pork Chop’s house. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

But now a damp fog rolled into the yard and settled over the porch. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Knocking over chairs, he and his friend ran to the front porch. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

I crept closer to the edge of the porch. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

She stamped on it, just to be safe, and retired to the porch. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

When we got to Howard’s, Mrs. Odom was on the porch with Cotton, smiling and waving to the bus driver. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

Soon he was clearing the porch and watching the sheets of cascading snow Mr. Newton pushed down from the roof above him. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

Underneath the flourish and ostentation is the old city, street after street of thick red brick houses, with their front porch pillars like the off-white stems of toadstools and their watchful, calculating windows. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Abby and I stepped onto the porch with the August evening sun lowering and lighting the belly of clouds in pink and orange neon. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

He stood up and stepped down from the porch onto the desert—for his back yard, except for the shed where he kept his digging tools, teas the desert. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

The porch steps complained again, and Adam knew the woman would be standing in her doorway ready to spray inhospitality on the new arrival. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

June waved a hand over the drawings on the porch. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

In the morning she took care of her clothes, sewing on the porch or using Amaranta's old pedal machine. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

“Okay,” I said as she leaped from the porch into the night sky. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

A moment later, a tall woman with her hair wrapped in a scarf came out onto the porch. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

He sank onto the porch floor, drew his knees to his chest. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

They would ask me questions out on the porch, or sitting out in their cars. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

The driver jumped out and sprinted toward her house and jerked open the porch door. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

R.C. was waiting for me on his rickety front porch, and the first thing he noticed was the canvas lunch bag I had slung over my shoulder. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

Harry Minowitz was sitting on his front porch banisters with the newspaper. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Grateful that Hirohito would soon tire his “sisters” out, I settled into my book on the porch. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Stella tossed the boots and gloves into a corner of the porch and rinsed off in a jiffy. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Boxes of garbage and piles of junk were heaped around wrecked porches. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

When the floor of the porch creaked behind us, I jumped. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

My mom was on the back porch, sipping a glass of lemonade and watching us, a small smile on her face. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

As another stack of two-by-fours landed by her porch, Stella couldn’t help but think about how folks had come together when Spoon Man showed up. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

She’d been sweeping the porch after school when Wash walked by the yard, and she wanted to run to him and soak up his smile. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Margaret’s house, like all the others in Old Town, has a front porch, and the street itself has sidewalks on both sides of the road. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She smokes openly now, ashing her cigarette directly onto the porch. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

I take my sketchbook and head for the porch where there’s a good view of the neighbor’s driveway. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Genie and Ernie waited at the edge of the porch, uneasy. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

“It’ll take forever to organize this crowd,” Mama murmured from the porch. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

An unscreened porch opened along the back of the worn house. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

He dropped the pan on the small back porch, then closed the door to keep the smoke out. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

Outside there would be a porch with rocking chairs, where you could sit and smoke your pipe and watch the sun sink into the lovely distant hills. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

We go up and find Calvin’s mom and dad on the porch of the crumbledown. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

Next followed a series of dry runs, on the front porch of The Shoe. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the house I deposited his can of water on the porch beside his milk and eggs, confident that I had escaped suspicion. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

“Gaw,” said the penguin, stopping at the edge of the porch to look down at the steps. Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I hope Sam’s has a booth,” Tori said as she stepped onto the porch from the house. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Grandma stepped out onto the back porch, holding on to the railing in case it was icy, but it wasn’t. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

His hand showed red in the porch’s cast-off light. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m controlling my breathing and bracing myself for anything as we walk up the porch, to the front door. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

I approached cautiously, ready to turn and run—but he was not there, and when I came in sight of the house I saw him on the porch just going in the front door. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

They entered the church by the sanctuary door, startling the sacristan who slept and ate in a small room off the entrance porch. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

I put the rake behind the Store and came through the back of the house to find Grandmother on the front porch in her big, wide white apron. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

The fluorescent overhead bulb on the porch gives off a dim pink light. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

We sat in the rocking chairs on the porch again while I ate my ice cream, holding the spoon with my toes. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

“Didn’t you see the lunch I left on the porch?” Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

When she got home, Royal was leaning against a post of her porch. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

He charged ahead, then stopped at the base of the porch steps. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

I went out onto the porch, sat in the lounge chair, and stared across the yard at the ailanthus. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

Three days after my conversation with Mother on the porch, I spread out the help-wanted ads from the Jackson Journal on my desk. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

When he came back to lock up the house, he found Esther waiting for him on the porch steps. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

I haven’t had much of a chance to talk with Rosa since that morning on her porch. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

After I work some of the mad off, I look up and see Lizabeth standing on her porch. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

People also stationed themselves on Rael’s porch because that was where the mail came in, and it was also where the various government checks that arrived by mail were cashed. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

There’s a big wrap-around porch and stairs leading down the hill to the dock, and all the windows facing the water have been flung open, the curtains drifting out on a warm breeze. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

On the front porch, there was a bag of trash. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

“When he got so mad at a piece of wood that he set fire to it, and then the porch caught on fire?” Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

She stripped down to her underwear on the porch, so as not to get the inside of the house muddy. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

I’d thought of her only as a statue on a porch. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

She was in half profile, the porch light beside the door warming her face. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

I slid down the porch stairs and scooped up the basketball lying at my feet. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

We pass lawns and porch furniture, bird feeders and birdbaths. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“We must go to the porch and take off our clothes.” Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

On the little porch, he makes no attempt to knock and the door is closed but not latched. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nadia and I stood there on the front porch and said nothing to each other. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

She sat in the wicker rocking chair in the shade on the upstairs porch above the bar, and she stared down at him. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

And in the evening, the dead would crowd around the back porch while the girl spoke to them, taking notes and promising to carry out one last task for those who asked. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

“How about showing him that picture of her on the porch when she was a kid?” The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

On the morning that we left, Grampa refused to help us load up the car, he just stood on the front porch and watched. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

I unlocked the back door and set my suitcase on the first step of the porch, so I could make a quick getaway after I was through paying these Amoses back. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

The ranch house has a long, extended porch. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

As I passed Mrs. Cadaver’s house, Mrs. Partridge called to me from her porch. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

He would wave at Mrs. Hurd, who was sometimes rocking on the porch with her shawl around her shoulders, or sometimes sitting by a window watching for him. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

But I knew she was just waiting for some continuance of the declaration he'd made on the front porch the day before. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

The stew was mighty tempting, though, and I carefully backed off the porch. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I fled to the back porch, knelt down by the tall slab table, and begged God to let Grandpa get well. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Kendra found Lena out on the porch balancing atop a stool. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

He and Henry drift to a swing at the edge of the porch, and he curls into Henry’s side, buries his face in the collar of his shirt. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

It isn’t until Emmett waves from the porch later, his phone in his outstretched hand, that Axel drops from the fence and joins the others. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

They all moved backward from the porch, still watching Momma. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then one evening Miss Glory told me to serve the ladies on the porch. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Molly called after her mother when they reached the porch. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

“I found these chocolates on the porch,” I said, and offered her the box. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

“Little Disaster!” cried the trader as she came out to the porch. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Hells Angel grabbed a can of gasoline and walked over to the porch of the house and began to slosh gas onto the boards and railing. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

“We found her on our porch. If you want to see, go look at the marks on the road where she dragged herself.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Jordan's party were calling impatiently to her from the porch but she lingered for a moment to shake hands. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

We’d duck our heads and then scramble across the porch to man the opposite rail. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

Levi is already there, waiting on the front porch. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

At three forty-five he came up to the house again and said good-bye to the children, who were seated on the porch drinking apple juice and eating graham crackers and rolling pebbles back and forth. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Half Baked,” I reply, stepping out onto the porch and pulling the door shut behind me. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

After gazing into her eyes for what seems like a long time, I kiss Erin good night on her porch, and then leave. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“There’s three gunnysacks on the back porch,” he said. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then I staked out the driveway from the porch with my book on my lap until Mrs. Baylor stuck her head out the door. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

Grover and I walked up to the front porch of the Big House. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

Holiday lights twinkle from eaves and railings and porch columns. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

He climbed out of the minivan and staggered up the sidewalk to his house, and when he was standing on the front porch, he turned around, smiling. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

Nothing was moving on the porch or in any of the windows that I could see. Lawn Boy 2007-06-12T00:00:00Z

The porch sagged, the windows were boarded up, and the chimney had crumbled to bits. I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z

Slave-era cabins sat next to cinder-block homes and trailers, some with satellite dishes and porch swings, others rusted and half buried. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

I would say more about the houses themselves, but I lack the vocabulary for all the forms of wall finishings, flooring materials, light fixtures, fireplace equipment, porches, and statuary we encounter. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Us men sat down on the back porch steps and watched the sun set behind the barn. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

I loved sitting out on the porch with your uncle Damani waiting for Frank Ski to play “Fresh Is the Word.” Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

His head hurt where he had hit it against the corner of the porch. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

The soldier teetered at the top of the porch and released Jonathan. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

I sat on the steps of the front porch and she laid down on the sidewalk looking up at me. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

Instead, I got Granny’s gallberry brush-broom off the back porch and swept the dirt clean around the steps. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

“Her momma is a teacher at some private school, and her daddy is an electrician. Senior, I got his card. He can fix that light on the back porch for us.” On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Who could love this place—where no pine trees grow, no porch swing moves with the weight of your grandmother. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

She scrambled down the tree and ran to the front porch. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Backing from under the porch on his hands and knees, he touched the lantern and tipped it over. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

The commander stood on the porch with an officer I didn’t recognize. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

The trader told them to put Grandmother on a bed on the covered porch. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“See you,” Petra muttered over her shoulder as she hurried ahead and zoomed up her porch steps. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

His hair is a deep toffee color under the porch light, but his eyes are still the brightest blue I’ve ever seen. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

“Cabins built on posts would just float like boats, porch and all,” he assured himself in a whisper. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Florida rushed outside and slapped her hand against the maple tree which stood beside the porch. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

Ben was sitting on the porch, playing with his Hot Wheels. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

The plane swooped down off the porch, then suddenly caught an updraft and climbed higher than their heads, looped and glided smoothly to the grass. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

The men stood up in the hot shade of the hardware porch. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

They sat on our porch while Gramps talked about Gram for four hours straight. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

A breeze came out of nowhere and swept across the porch. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

The compass hung far from the stairs, and the porch was too high to reach from the ground. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

Without a word Bailey leaps over the porch railing and takes off in a full run through the trees. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Thula was sitting in the front seat, staring straight ahead, looking at the house, where Harry stood on the porch, watching Joe approach. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

I watched till he was gone from sight, then turned and looked at August and Rosaleen and the Daughters on the porch. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I am sitting on my grandmother's lap when she tells me this, already so tall my legs dangle far down, the tips of my toes touching the porch mat. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

“Your boyfriend left this for you on the porch.” Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Cora remembered the girl’s father had trouble with their porch steps. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Standing on the porch was a young man who looked about seventeen or eighteen, although I am not as good at guessing people’s ages as blind Mrs. Partridge is. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

Bailey and I helped Momma, while Uncle Willie sat on the porch and heard the day’s account. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

The whole time Father was interrogating us on the porch, in my mind’s eye I was seeing her slumped over in the kitchen house, banging in mortal frustration against that locomotive engine of a stove. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Leaving the suitcase where it stood, he crossed to the porch, and, nodding at O. J., who merely glared back, he walked inside. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Come up the porch,” he says, and I do. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Something will surely have to be found to take the place of sitting on the porch re-examining one’s watch. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Librarian’s image shifts on and off like a flickering porch light. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

When she heard Sammy’s feet on the steps of the porch, Dicey’s appetite revived. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was waiting for me at the foot of the porch steps. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

I looked up at the porch, looked through the screen door at the shadow of Dad standing there. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Gun in hand, he went out onto the porch and looked back in. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

That Jackie was gone and in her place was this new Jackie with blue streaks in her hair, out on the porch telling Bertha how much she loved the Blue Ridge Mountains. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

While Mr. Lias walked to the back of the buggy to get out the mail, Pink and I went up on the porch. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Garfield stood on his porch and spoke about his views and plans for governing. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

A woman gets out of the van and runs for the porch, her purse held over her short hair. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Why do I let you drunks sit on my porch? You better off with the goats.” A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The men held big arguments here like they used to do on the store porch. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

Slenderly, languidly, their hands set lightly on their hips the two young women preceded us out onto a rosy-colored porch open toward the sunset where four candles flickered on the table in the diminished wind. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

My heart lurched frantically, and I, too, glanced toward the porch. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Plus, she kinda missed the thrill of sneaking out to her porch step. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Mike laughed again, giving Chubs’s shoulder a squeeze before he hopped up the steps, ducking under a white sheet that had been strung up over the building’s small porch. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

“Haint blue,” Aunt Rose said, pointing to the pale blue painted on the underside of the porch’s overhang. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

I ducked out the kitchen door and jumped lightly off the porch to the ground. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the more I ran and smiled and thought of baseball my old kid self was found again, until we passed by Miss Volker’s front porch and I heard her faintly call my name. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

They didn’t see anyone on the porch, and Wash felt a wave of relief and then instant shame. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

As we walked across the moonlight gravel to the porch he disposed of the situation in a few brisk phrases. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

Then reluctantly she was off the porch, her stiff-legged walk carrying her up the hill and out of sight. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

He held up his arms and Sarah jumped off the porch roof. Sarah, Plain and Tall 1985-04-25T00:00:00Z

Head bowed, I sit in the porch rocker. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

The Christmas lights glowed in spirals of color around the porch, and all the candles were lit, even though the sun was still working its way down. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

They put new glass in the cupola, painted the fence Mrs. Cobb’s grandfather had built, and then painted the porch. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

I finally filled the butter chum and set it on the back porch. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

We watched her go down the porch steps and move into the trees. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The soldier winked at him from the porch where he stood. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

His voice was creaky, like the sound an old rocking chair made on a porch. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

He hears the chatter from the porch, the wishes and prayers. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

The stone porch steps were still there, right where they should be. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Now she jumped off the porch, landing a foot away from them. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

The men sat on the hardware porch, not blinking or swallowing. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

I look out the window and see Kay standing on the porch. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The front porch was sagging and the chimney was tilted to one side, as if it were considering something important. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

As his mother stepped off the porch and started for the road she began to hum softly to herself. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

After supper, I helped her clear the table and then we went out on the porch to eat peaches with vanilla ice cream. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

She whispered to me the story of Bluebeard and His Seven Wives and I ceased to see the porch, the sunshine, her face, everything. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Grandpa Tweedy was sitting on the porch swatting flies. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Precisely what Booth told Cox on the front porch—and during the next few hours they spent together in the house—remains a mystery. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Finally he opened the door to the porch so that now he had about fifty feet of nice wooden floor to race on. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

I rush outside to our porch swing, worried Mom’s next words will be “Why don’t you find Catherine and see what she’s doing?” Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sairy spread books across the porch table and handed Dallas a pencil and a pad of paper. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

Mummy and I are two of a kind, in the big house with the porch at the top of the hill. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

I can hear Mother out on the back porch, helping Jameso make ice cream. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Dad waved his bandaged arm from the porch one last time, then turned and went back into the dryness of the house. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

In the afternoon, James and Dicey started patching up the holes in the porch screens, where the screens had pulled out of the wood or just ripped. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

I opened the wrought iron gate, with all its welded forks and pans, and tender-footed my way to the porch. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

It’s just a thing I found kind of half under our porch where we forgot about it. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

I only have one page left, and I position myself at the window so I can use the neighbor’s porch light. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

She swept the living room and the hall and the bedrooms and the bathroom and the porch. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Phoebe came out on the porch with me as I was leaving. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

I don’t know how we made it back to the cabin, only that when we arrived, Chubs was sitting on the porch, silent tears streaming down his face. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

The front porch to sit on and talk with a friend. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

I look around at the pile of rough-cut wood, the wide whitewashed planks of the porch walls. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

She approaches the porch until Ray leaps at her. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

It always seemed full of magic with its white columns on the front porch and tall flagpole. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

She walks down the steps of the porch, and in the porch light I can see that she's wearing the same green hoodie but now with red flannel pajama pants and socks. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

I wiped my hand across my nose and checked for blood as I walked from the car to her porch. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

When I took the box and bag upstairs Miss Volker had me set them out on the porch. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

He could still remember the way Coach’s wife, Mrs. O, had looked at the three of them standing on her porch. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

“Oh,” I say, hiking my thumb back to our front porch. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

An hour later there was the sound of heavy footsteps on the front porch and a loud knock came. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the other side of these big glass doors, there was a deck with some chairs to sit on, kind of like a comfortable front porch. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I opened the door before he had stepped up onto the porch. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Viola rang her bell on the back porch as I reached the driveway. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

She moved around the house, onto the porch, down the streets, to the fruit stalls and the butchershop, like a restless ghost, finding peace nowhere and in nothing. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

We went up to the house, where Mama stood on the porch. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Mr. Lucas and Papa always sang “Old Man River” and other songs on the porch in the evening. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

On the porch, his only thought had been to get his boots off, wash up, and toss himself into bed like he always did after an all-night shift. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

When Roy returned to the car, his mother asked: “Why are those two people wrestling on the porch?” Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe if she laid him on the porch and put some soft rags under him tonight, he might rise from the dead, like Lazarus did in a meetin’-house story. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

I stand on the porch, listening to the hollow sounds of the evening, gravel under Stuart’s shifting feet, dogs moving in the early darkness. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

I noticed them conferring over the dead, naked turkeys on the back porch, speaking low in Spanish. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

We sat on the steps of the porch, where my mother’s words could reach us only in spurts. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

Just then Mrs. Odom came out on the porch, wiping her hands on a dish towel. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

Below us, crickets chirped in the tangled weeds under the porch. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

He headed for the store, nodding at the four men sitting outside on the porch, and side-stepping the white hens that were strolling about. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Stopped and talked a little with everyone she met, turned aside momentarily to pause at a porch or two—going straight by walking crooked. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

Dad nodded to Genie and Ernie to get moving, and led the way, lugging the family suitcase to the top step of the porch. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

A kerosene lantern flickered orange in the window of Hatsue’s home, her door stood open, ajar ten inches, and an angle of lantern light spilled across her porch. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

I hold the kid on her porch and go by the name of Jimmy to a marvelous old woman. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

I scramble to cover his mouth, but David jumps off the porch swing. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

When she came back from the woods, we hooped and hollered and ran to the porch and just jumped up and down and pulled her inside by her shirttails. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

He killed at least ten more people before he was suddenly tripping over the steps of the porch. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

And standing on our porch, craning his neck to catch sight of Lily. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

It was taken a few summers ago on the front porch of our house during a Fourth of July barbecue. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

Leroy screamed at me all night, threw the sugar bowl upside my head, threw my clothes out on the porch. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

He was left semiconscious on the porch steps, the new snow covering him, until I convinced Jim to help me get him upstairs to his room. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

The boarders all sat on the front porch without talking or rocking in the chairs. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Maybe that was good; Park wouldn't want him coming home while Park was standing there on the front porch. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

Time I got to the porch I was out of breath and I knew why the pastor was there. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

I step onto the porch and watch the boys as they run down the path to Red Gate. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

It's almost dark, but the porch light is on. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Don’t break the rules,” Eurytion warned as we walked up the steps to the front porch. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

She ran past the front porch and around the corner to the bricks beneath her bedroom window. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

It was enough to redirect their attention while he motioned Toby outside onto the porch. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

I went to his front door, rang the doorbell, and waited on the bench on the porch until his mother came out. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

I recalled one very dark night the year before when Mrs. Potts had warned me not to sit on the porch by saying, “If there are no stars out, something bad is about to happen.” Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

I stopped talking, thinking he was headed for the twins and me, but instead he only nodded to us and walked up to Henry, who now was standing on the edge of the porch. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Sitting on the porch swing in the dark, he would re-create the land that was to have been his. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Father shoved and the thief went face down on the porch. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

She clambered up on the concrete post that held the porch railing in place and raised her arm. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

Mother was on the porch already, calling, as Marly ran back again. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

The spider tumbled from the broken web, hung by a single strand a few inches above the floor, then swiftly climbed the strand, scrambled across the top front rail of the porch, and disappeared. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

“Uncle Mose, do you see the other man who was on the porch that night?” Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

He put his arm around me and we sat there together on the porch, two people being completely pitiful and lost. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

The groups of people in the yard and on the porch stood with the same quiet attention as did those in the room. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

I took her pile of clean laundry and walked up the porch steps. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes Maeve would sit on the porch steps, watching happy families stroll past, and her eyes would well up with tears. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

In twenty minutes’ time Carl returned alone, changed into a fresh T-shirt, and hunkered down on the front porch with his head in his hands. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Wherever I wanted to be, that’s where he was—squeaking the porch swing, or hogging the kitchen table, eating those organic soy nuts Mom bought for him. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

Dante was sitting on the front porch, waiting. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

I climbed up on the porch and lifted the bowl off the the shelf. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The yaller mule was gone from the town except for the porch talk, and for the children visiting his bleaching bones now and then in the spirit of adventure. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

One more man stood on the porch, dressed in a worsted plaid vest and gray trousers. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Both Ray and Axel run out the front door, across the porch, down the steps, but this time, Axel doesn’t turn to run across the field. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

And even though that should be enough, the promise of tomorrow, Axel and Ray sit out on the porch a while longer. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

There was the sound of a basketball dribbling on the porch. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

I stepped out on the porch in my hare feet. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

Wes was now in a full sprint, clearing the five steps of his front porch in one leap and then running around to the alley, figuring that’s where the boys were. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

The boy turned and looked at the old men sitting on the porch. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

The doors were open and every house had those porches where the people were. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the porch Mrs. Fitzgibbon covered her eyes with her hands, and Billy cheered in excitement. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

Its main building was red brick with white columns, its porch decorated with wide chairs and chandeliers. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Axel races back down the walkway, through the gate, over branches and debris, and to the front porch where George stands with Ray and Emmett. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

When I pull into El’s driveway, I find her sitting on her porch in her bikini with a towel wrapped around her waist. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

The older ones are sitting on porches, gossiping, braiding each others hair, and looking at old copies of Essence magazine. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

Maybe even on the porch roof itself, with stones, slingshots. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

Trotter tried to open the door to the porch, but it was locked. Doing Time Online 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Hi,” I said to the man on the porch. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Startled, it looked up and saw me on the porch, and then I swear it sneered at me. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

Whether he lay in the sun on the cabin porch or by the side of the road, the one eye was always turned in the direction his master had gone. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Grandpop took the final step off the porch, still clinging tight to Genie. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

I nodded, leaned down, and shook hands, whereupon she came around me, tucked into a perfect heel against my left leg, and gently push-nudged me up the porch steps to the screen door. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Then every night she waited on the front porch for him to come home. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Then his mother came out on the back porch and struck the triangle, and all thoughts fell in a heap. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

Two women, snapping pole beans on their porch, grin, shout, “Dance, girl.” Ghost Boys 2018-04-17T00:00:00Z

His dad keeps an old guitar in the living room, and June brings it out on the porch so the two of them can pass it back and forth. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

She watched Wash carry the empty bottle of milk to the porch. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Because bomber pilots were more likely to target a cheerfully lit house than another smudge in the dark, every house was blacked out—every porch light dark, every window opaque. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

They’re just big bulbs in different colors, strung along the eaves above the front porch. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

Clothes, food, bedding, shoes—everything a family could need—was thoughtfully and quietly left for them on Stella’s porch or at the doorstep of what was once her grandma’s house. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

She went back across the porch and down the steps. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Teece,” said one of the other men on the porch, getting up, “let him go.” The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her Dad walked up and down the front porch. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

When I arrived on her porch there were about a half-dozen big ceramic pots by her door. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

And now as I came up on her back porch, Aunt Loma was the maddest white woman you ever saw. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

I catch a glimpse of our porch from where I lie on the ground. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

The next day Lula reported to me that, after dinner, Harry and Fern sat outside in the darkness on the porch swing for a good half hour with no chaperones except the mosquitoes. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

She glanced at the proud new bike on the porch. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He went by the Claiborne house and found Todd and Nasser on the porch, eating breakfast. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

On the porch, Sam and Henry each fed a little falcon, then rocked back on their heels and looked at them. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

She jumped from the roof to the hacking porch, scattering that pile of snow. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

He bounces his foot up and down on our cruddy porch boards. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

Mr. Patterson was on his porch, drinking a cup of coffee, so I walked over with my backpack. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

Biddy stood on the porch in her big coat. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

I look over her shoulder, and the social worker is standing on the porch next door, talking with Mrs. Trent, taking notes. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

A dog whined, shivering, on the front porch. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

I know it as sure as I know the window next door is open, and David’s scream will travel from my porch, across our yard, and through that open window. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a sigh, like an autumn wind, from the porches. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

As if standing on your porch with a scythe and her apprentice wasn’t awkward enough already. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

“Mr. Hatch would be beside himself if he saw a bottle on the porch,” said Charles. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

We were sitting at the bottom of our porch steps one afternoon, eating orange Popsicles after riding our bikes around the neighborhood. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

He’d wanted inglenooks, somebody had said, and an overscaled fireplace and alcoves, built-in window seats and wainscoting, a battered porch base and low stone walls along his entrance walk. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

The house had three front doors opening onto the porch, one for each apartment. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

The first time I met Ms. Parks, I sat on Ms. Durr's front porch in Old Cloverdale, a residential neighborhood in Montgomery, and I listened to the three women talk for two hours. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

They joined James on the porch, and the three walked up the hill. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

People stood out on their porches to see the train go through. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

When I don't see anything else, I lower my head and crawl under the porch. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

When my sisters left, I asked my dad if we could sit on the front porch. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

I was glad that the rain was too heavy to see Charlie clearly on the porch. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

The best I’d ever done was a kiss on a girl’s front porch after a dance, and that was only with Teresa Anello in junior high school, just once. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

August turns out to be a pleasant, heavyset fellow and Bailey’s first impression is that he resembles his house: a squat sort of building with a porch wrapping around the front, warm and welcoming. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

I’m thinking about waiting on the porch, despite the chill, but I don’t want to seem too eager. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a wide screened-in porch where they could sleep if the weather turned hot. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Francis had given my clothes to Mrs. Hatch to be laundered; putting on a bathrobe he’d lent me, I went downstairs to sit on the porch for a few minutes before the others woke up. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Most of the time when Momma made us go to Mitchell’s, Byron would make me carry the bags from the store right up to the front porch. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had always been nice to us, waving from her porch and letting the twins play with her little white dog. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

Every evening, my brothers and I gathered on the front porch and held a contest to see who could spot the first flicker. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

Just in time to see him skip down the front steps, pluck the morning paper off the hibiscus bush, look at it for a moment, and then toss it back toward the front porch. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

I dreamed I was on the porch of Rachel's beach house in St. Thomas. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

When I carried the groceries back and left them on the porch, there was smoke coming from the chimney, and the milk, eggs, and vegetables were gone. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

“Yes, a porch. And I’d love to have a weather vane on the roof.” On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The dog hung back on the porch, skittish and unsure of himself. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Houck says when she finds me sitting on her back porch. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

Matt struggled to say something but his tongue failed him so he jumped down off the porch and walked away as mad as he could be. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

A tiny ladder ran from the ground to a small porch encircling the tank. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

He slept most of his days away on the back porch, which was Elihue’s entrance. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s not until Jus starts up the driveway that he notices the three guys sitting on the porch. Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

My bare feet made no noise as I crossed the porch. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The kitchen door stood open and he crossed the porch and stood in the doorway. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

So for one reason or another, Rael’s porch was Milagro’s social center; and it almost always supported a large and animated crowd. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

A little girl with her hair tied up in braids swung on a porch swing and watched us with wide round eyes. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

They went through the overgrown yard and up on the unpainted porch. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

The two seated themselves there In the shade of the porch, side by side, with their backs against the pillows and their feet extended. The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z

Soon Todd was back, drinking a beer and relaxing again on the porch, his hand stroking the rescued dogs matted fur. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

I wheel Sarah up the walk, unbuckle her, set her at the foot of the porch steps, unhook and lift out the grocery bags, fold up the stroller. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

The same shoebox that sat on my porch less than twenty-four hours ago; rewrapped in a brown paper bag, sealed with clear packing tape, exactly as I had received it. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

It had no columns, no porch to speak of. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

At home, we find Link on the porch swing, buried in his papers from Rabbi Gold, chanting quietly under his breath. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

A faint breeze tinkled in the wind chimes on someone’s porch. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

All we see of this is the odd stump, the fly struggling on the porch floor of the summer house in October, the fragment on the highway. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

She messed around the kitchen for a while and then went out on the front porch to read the funnies. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Paul prodded the burgers and I saw that Jill was on the porch too. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

We toasted them over the grill and sat on the porch as the sun went down. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

As I run up the porch steps, he asks wearily, “Did you invite our new neighbors?” Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

I pull David up our porch steps and into the house, not stopping until the front door bangs closed behind me. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Marched off the porch, right out into the dead of night, where supposedly the animals were wide awake and walking around like human beings. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Father got up and came to stand in the doorway, facing out toward the porch. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Take the buckets on the front porch,” said Birdie. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

He was almost whistling when he climbed the steps to his front porch. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

Over dinner she added, “There'll be a parade, of course. We can watch it from the porch.” A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

With me sitting in the swing and Mama in the tall porch rocker, she launched into a tirade about desecration of the Sabbath. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Folks sat anywhere they could—on the ground, on the porch, on the various chairs that the boys had dragged down the road. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

I wrap my arm around the porch post. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

There we were stopped a few minutes by a signal from the sergeant’s hand, while two or three of his men dispersed themselves among the graves, and also examined the porch. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

Before I can even get close, that girl sees me from the porch. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

One of the Rangers trotted closer to the porch. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

A clan of Gypsies lived down the block in a big, falling-apart house with plywood nailed over the porch to create more indoor space. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

And, naturally, we have to act like it out on the front porch so everybody can see. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now Luke looked back at his family’s porch, where Mother and Dad and Matthew and Mark were standing and already waving. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

The adults move from the porch, and Ray circles back. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

The not-so-great news: the sagging porch and drooping roof make it pretty clear that just waltzing in and finding the right room isn’t the smartest idea. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

Mist curled into a hundred smoky serpents, slithering up the porch columns, curling around the house. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

She stepped from the store porch and marched off in high dudgeon! Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

It settled on the porch near my feet, and I stamped at it. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

Ray starts bouncing and barking up on his porch. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Then he handed me a tissue and said, “Tell us about Mrs. Partridge. What was she doing leaving a gol-dang envelope on Peeby’s porch?” Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

Just like when a bee stung Sounder under the porch or a brier caught his ear in the bramble, the boy thought. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Come on,” I say, taking Fina’s hand and leading her off the porch. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

She said, “Will, bring those pasteboard boxes in off the back porch to the company room, and I’ll tell you what to do next.” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

She crossed the porch and paused in the doorway, staring into her home. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

They were made of wood, with lopsided porches, sagging roofs, rusted-out gutters, and balding tar paper or asphalt shingles slowly but surely parting from the underwall. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

I stagger across the porch, feeling like I’m falling off my feet with every step. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

He raced for the stairs, stumbling over toys on the porch as he went. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

They edged out to the porch and stood on the top step. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes people came out on the porch when he passed and talked to him. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I saw you driving the tractor. I was on the porch.” Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

Dad was making no visible progress on the Glass Castle, and I knew that the can of yellow paint would sit on the porch unless I undertook the job myself. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

He turned and waved again when he reached his porch, staff held high. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

The stair treads seemed to crumple under his weight and the porch planks squealed as he crossed them. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Come in, come in. I don’t mean to leave you standing on the porch like you was trying to sell me something. You belong here now.” The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

As I walk toward the porch, I hear his body hit the earth again. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

They passed between fluted, white pillars to a porch with wide stairs leading down to a driveway. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

She hushed up when we got to the back porch. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

“Welcome. There’s pizza in the kitchen. Grab a plate and make yourself at home. Matt, we could use a few more chairs. Would you get the ones off the back porch?” Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

They sat on porches, and walked in the road swaying their hips under cotton dresses, bare-legged, their unstraightened hair braided or pulled straight back into a ball. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

The young man with the gold-rimmed eyes, black suit of clothes, and brutal disposition returns up the porch steps. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

Booth dismounted with some difficulty and hobbled up the porch to the door. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“That’s not the point—whether you swing a hammer or not, daughter. The point is one day you’ll step out on that back porch and smell Elijah’s new wife’s pecan pie cooling from her windowsill.” Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

Pippin and Sam strapped up their three packs and piled them in the porch. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

There had obviously once been some sort of stairway or porch at the threshold, because the bottom of the doorway was at least four feet higher than the ground where we stood. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

He was inevitably surprised by one of the Outside Cats that patrolled the back porch as part of her domain. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

“Let’s show Mama his tricks,” Howard said, hurrying to the porch in his up-down way. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

Her mother rushed out to the porch, a bandanna on her head, a scrub brush in her hand, and a grudging smile on her face. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

One day when we were sitting on the porch, I asked Richard, “Is your car at home like the cars that you rent here?” Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

A man who owned his land and the big many-windowed house with a porch that clung to its sides all around the house. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

I watched him and his brother go up the rickety steps of their front porch and disappear inside the house, letting the screen door slam with a bang behind them. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

The bathroom was off the porch, and the latch to its door was broken, so that sometimes the wind would pull the door open, exposing the person sitting on the toilet. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

In fact, when I’m through working and sit down on his porch to finish the water, Judd talks a little more than usual. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were a few broken toys in the yard, and a giant Rottweiler was asleep on the porch. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

We sit on her porch, or I watch while she works her small jungle, snapping off dead leaves, forking rotted manure into her camellias, talking under her breath. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

All the same, she cries on the front porch, and I wish I could go over there and hold her. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

Twice at the Robert E. Lee if you include the disaster date, and three more times sitting on my front porch for drinks before he drove home to Vicksburg. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

But to our surprise she swept open the screen door and stepped out onto the porch. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

She turned and spotted her father standing next to the porch swing with his cell phone pressed to his ear. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Baxter followed me out to the porch, handing over the keys as she closed the door. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

The dog had stopped crying and gone to sleep, curled up in the grass beside the porch. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

I sit on the back porch and swing on the swing. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

Me and Jay, good tired, head straight to the rockers on the main porch. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

“Now you get off the porch. And if you ring the bell again I’ll phone the police. Now, get!” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Someday, things may fall, and things may rise, but for the moment, we sit on the porch and wait. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I jump up onto Henry’s porch and bang on the door several times, wait, and bang some more. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

“No. I don’t want you to stay. I’ll always leave the porch door open, but you have to go.” Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

I saw people out raking leaves, walking dogs, and sitting on porches. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Then Dudley was falling, as if someone had undercut his legs, his massive frame smashing against the porch. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Sometimes the truck was there, sometimes it wasn't, sometimes the Rottweiler was asleep on the porch. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

They were standing on the porch in the path cleared for them. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

But if Mother was up we always began by playing on the porch until she said we were making too much noise, then we went out and played under the wistaria frame. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

By the time we got to the Baxters’ front porch, a thin layer of snow had covered the top railing. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

Ray racing out to the living room, through the door, to the porch, down the steps, and all the way out into the field. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

The tubing showed up on the back porch two days later, leaning against a far corner, along with some bar stock as well. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

We ran up the kitchen steps, onto the porch, and Caddy knelt down in the dark and held me. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

The people came in from the front porch and sat in the living-room—but nobody lighted a fire. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

I don’t have to ring the doorbell because she’s sitting on the porch steps, all bundled up in one of those puffy coats with her breath fogging the air in front of her face. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

I passed Jill on my way to the porch, and I tapped her elbow as I walked by. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

She could smell it now, sweet and luscious and minutes from ready, as she searched for wildflowers between the Emporium’s cracked porch slats. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

The bouncer at the Bear Flag steps out on the porch in his shirtsleeves and stretches and yawns and scratches his stomach. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

The next night when she mounted her steps Tea Cake was there before her, sitting on the porch in the dark. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

If we ran, she’d just be on our porch waiting when we got home. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

I lingered at the edge of the clearing, hoping someone might come to the front porch, but that didn't happen. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Just beyond the mosque was a series of attached single ­storey dwellings with small shaded porches. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

I tiptoed down the stairs out the front door and stood on the porch, clutching my gown around me. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

She came down off the porch and Larry got a big hug, all right. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

In a few hours, I had covered everything that could be reached from the porch. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

I kept my eyes on the leaf-covered floorboards of the porch. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

I was sitting on the porch when Mom returned from work and I just mixed her a drink and didn’t whisper a word about what happened today. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Milla’s waiting anxiously and has the door open before I even walk up the porch steps. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

When Helene bent to loosen the ribbons of Nel’s hat, a woman in a yellow dress came out of the garden and onto the back porch that opened into the bedroom. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

“White men. It’s white men wearing black hats. What are they doing on our front porch at this time of night?” Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

That night, Bertha made grilled cheese sandwiches and potato salad for supper, and then we sat out on the porch under the orange sky streaked with gray-blue clouds. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

Sounds to me like wooden planks someone kicked in, on a porch I used to walk. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

She sat spine-straight like Ma Charles on the porch, in her chair—the same handmade wooden chair as Ma Charles had. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

Renting blacks cast furtive glances at these owned yards and porches, and made firmer commitments to buy themselves “some nice little old place.” The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Maybe he didn’t hear you,” I said, climbing the porch steps. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

She was afraid her box would get wet, so she carried it with her through the alley to the front porch. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

By the time I did everything Mom told me to do she was standing at the porch door holding my shirt out like a bullfighting cape. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Just about time for the committee meeting called to meet on his porch next day, the first wagon load of lumber drove up and Jody went to show them where to put it. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

Rachel stood at the porch railing and sighed. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

Finally we came to a stop in front of a pretty turquoise house with the porch and trim painted white. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

That was when Rock showed up on the back porch. Lawn Boy Returns 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

I go out on the back porch and look. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

The very first time we were alone for ten seconds on the porch, believe it or not, Axelroot tried to get fresh. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Our front porch lights are on, yellow and flickering with night bugs. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

We looked back from the beds of the pickups and watched Miranda sit on the porch swing next to her father. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

I stepped out onto the porch and closed the door behind me. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

I opened her porch door and she was waiting for me with her back turned. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Trevor sat very still in his seat and kept his eyes on his mother as she walked up the porch steps and began telling Grandma that she caught us getting out of a cab. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

Dante and I hung out on the front porch. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

A broad staircase led up to a heavily columned front porch. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

Out on the front porch, something was barking and whining and thumping like a drum against the front door. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

Sweating with fear, she stepped to the kitchen door and onto the back porch. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

We give him every little treat we can think of, a wonder we don’t make him sick, and after supper we sit out on the back porch like we usually do. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

She comes over to Tia’s screened porch and hands them over. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Sitting on the porch, you could feel it: the air wishing it was water. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

I didn’t have time to change clothes from working on the porch, but I went up anyway. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

When we reached JT’s house, Mrs. Dalton was waiting on the front porch with a tray of lemonade. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had thought maybe Mister Singer would be reading the paper on the porch like he did most Sunday mornings. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Their eyes flew over the broken birdbath, the Crumbling statue of Diana the Huntress, and the stack of fancy wooden porch pillars, and came to rest on something in the lean-to shack. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Judd comes out on the little porch he’s built at the side of his trailer, and they stand there and talk awhile. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lyddie stopped to leave her snowshoes and lunch bucket on the porch, then followed the woman into a large, fragrant kitchen. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

It was a second-story porch walled in to make a room-for-rent so the landlady could get an income from it and have a watchman too. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Man in the White Shirt sprinted across the lawn and up onto the porch. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

Then there was the sound of footsteps on our front porch, and a knock at Trevor’s front door. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

He was acting like everything was normal, like this was a regular Sunday with us hanging out together on the porch, playing go fish or spit. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

Every man on that porch was her son; so was nearly every man that walked in the store. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

I heard his boot steps quicken as he tramped down the front porch. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

In fact, he and his wife had never owned a pet, unless you counted the stray cat that occasionally slept under the back porch. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He just turned around, walked slowly down the porch steps and on down the street. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

He was waiting for me on the porch. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

In a pair of what looked to be her husband’s boots and a long black coat, Mrs. Bernoffski shuffled onto the front porch. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

He is sitting on the porch of a farmhouse on Liberty Union Road in Scott, Ohio. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

In the half-darkness he could see the sagging dilapidated porch and the shaky steps. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

He held his breath and swam to the porch. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

The most she can do is get up and go to the bathroom or sit on the porch a few minutes every day. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

We sat on the porch in a semicircle in camp chairs, me between the sharecropper and the millionaire. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

A mermaid fountain and Rosa, waving from her porch as I run by. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

The scratching of a beetle on the porch. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

She put her suitcase beside one of the overgrown bushes that grew by the screened porch, and they all walked down to the water. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Clancy, who apparently had never been taught about respecting someone’s personal space, took a step forward, and I took a step back, off the porch, my feet sinking into the sticky mud. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

I reckon Miss Gussie noticed, because she told her to go set down on the porch. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Looking down off the end of the porch. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

I had delivered the morning paper to him for years, once managing to fling a folded Bluefield Daily Telegraph right through a tier of milk bottles on his front porch. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

It’s just unreal to me that she was here, right here on this porch, and now she’s not. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

After changing into my favorite jean skirt and black tank top, I sit on the front porch with David, brushing my hair and watching the road. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then we went out on the porch and tossed a tennis ball to Wishbone till he got tired and went to sleep at my feet. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

Milkman stepped off the porch, scattering the hens, and walked down the road toward a clump of trees near a building that looked like a church or clubhouse of some sort. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

He said no more, but Helen called the maids and sent them to make beds, with purple rugs piled up, and sheets outspread, and fleecy coverlets, in the porch inside the gate. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Briefly, I thought about turning around, just giving up, but then I got out of the car and walked up to the front porch. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

I feel instantly calmer—even though the porch is attached to the pavilion, and the music’s still loud, and there are still people everywhere. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

Billy, after some argument, was dispatched to the back porch, where Mrs. Fitzgibbon was also watching. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

Every day his wife rolls his wheelchair onto the porch with a TV stand and a small color TV. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

I started on the far side of the porch, around the door that went into the kitchen. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

The Big House was still there with its blue gabled roof and its wraparound porch. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

The suitcase was so packed with books Emily had to drag it up to the front porch one step at a time. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

In the porch light, Dill noticed that her car was filled haphazardly with bags, clothes, and belongings. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

Rubbing my ears in an attempt to stop them from ringing, I lurched over to the back porch and waited expectantly for one of my parents to come down off it and kill me. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

I had been feeding him in the morning; it was time for his breakfast and his food dish was in the yard near the front porch. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

I was proud he wasn’t lazy like his own daddy, who spent the summer days on his porch swatting flies and even had him a pet hen to peck up the dead ones. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

When his eyes fell to the porch rooftop just outside his window, he saw the four-toed imprints of bird feet etched into the snow. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

It was white and rundown with a weathered tin roof and wood stacked on the front porch. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

I went up on the porch and took hold of her hand and pulled on her. Because of Winn-Dixie 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

Very gently Papa picked Old Dan up in his arms and carried him out on the porch. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Everybody else was in the shadow between the porch and where we were. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

He chanted the counts until he and Genie finally got back to the porch, but at least he let Genie get him back there. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Since she had mentioned water for me, I looked on the porch for a pitcher. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I picked the paint, the tiles. I hung the flag from the porch.” We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

Uncle Willie had turned the radio up to its last notch so that youngsters on the porch wouldn’t miss a word. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Twig was next, and I waited in the car again while Mrs. Menzer walked her up to her front porch. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

My limbs grew heavy, and after a time I found myself sitting on the porch, the corners of the boards digging into the backs of my thighs. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

They came in and sat on the narrow wooden porch that ran along the whole length of Jinjoo’s house. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

She walked out on the front porch and then came back and stood in the hall. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Maybe she’s sitting on the porch of her tree house talking to herself just as I am. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

I placed his share, one and one-half fish, on the back porch, hoping he was watching so he would know to pick them up. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

Set far back from the road, it had a wraparound porch, an apple orchard, and a garden with prizewinning irises. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

And even though it was only the front porch, outside was outside. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

A long porch was almost pulled down by an ancient wisteria vine. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

There was someone on the porch of one of the houses, a person down on all fours, banging on something. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Once home, Stella leaped onto the front porch and flung open the front door. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

And she was perpetually irritated by Joe and his teenaged friends and their makeshift bands, out on the wide front porch, making a racket day and night. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

On top of the stilts was a tiny porch with two rocking chairs and window boxes full of flowers perched on the railing. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

She walked off the porch and past Peach. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

In the shadows on the porch, Margarets mother, Mrs. Partridge, sat in a wicker rocker. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

Beside it was a breathtaking picture of his sister Elsie, standing in front of a white porch railing next to a basket of dried flowers. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Out on the porch, Genie was surprised to discover that it was actually hotter inside the house than outside. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

His mother took her hand from his head and backed up a bit into the darkness of the porch. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

He ran through the streets, and kept running until he reached the steps of a relative’s house, where he collapsed on the porch. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The way to the church porch seemed endless. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

It must have looked like we were doing some kind of square dance with me moving around like one foot was nailed to the porch. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Pastor Tom sat down on the porch stool. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

There’s a mermaid fountain in the middle of the yard and, beyond it, a girl sitting on the porch, wrapped in a white blanket. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

Mom went out on the porch, staying there sewing and reading magazines with Daisy Mae on her lap, Dandy at her feet, and Chipper on her shoulder until Dad returned, near midnight. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

She’d been shelling butter beans on the porch, and sweat glistened on the pearls of hair around her forehead. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I threaded my way through the Outside Cats milling on the back porch and headed for the laboratory. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

He was currently sitting on the left side of the wooden porch steps. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

More of a porch, really, with a black cookstove, a washtub, and a cot. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

He sat down on the upstairs porch with his back against the adobe wall and closed his eyes. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

But just the idea scared me so bad I made up that Papa had told me to build a shelf on the back porch for Mama’s flower-potting stuff. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

And after supper she folded an airplane for him from notebook paper, and at her suggestion he even followed her out on the front porch to fly it. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

They stood in silence as the man made to walk up onto the porch; each time he did, he seemed to hit into an invisible wall. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

Adah and I dragged our sewing projects out to the porch so we could still keep an eye out for interesting goings-on in the world. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The food was kept hot on the stove and Aunt Maggie stood on the front porch staring into the deepening dusk. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her Dad had come onto the porch and blown the whistle that meant the beginning of the first prom. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

I was about to cave in to the fear and go hide in my bed, when the flashlight beam landed on a small patch of sticky residue on the edge of the wraparound porch. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Tayo unbolted the door and opened it; he watched the rainwater pour out the rain gutter over the side of the long porch. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

He could see beyond a porch railing to the young woman who rocked an infant and mourned her husband. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

She was on the porch wringing out Henry’s work clothes when she heard a truck turn off of the main road and onto the dirt road that led only to the Humble houses. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Light from the kitchen sent a soft glow over the porch. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

And so, as July wanes on, I am forced from my attic bedroom to a cot on the screened back porch. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

There were bones in every room, every closet, on the back porch. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

And our porch overlooks the courtyard, where kids play and stuff. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

Jean shouted and pointed at a couple of black children on one of the porches. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Next year, couldn't you just stick the bowl on the porch with a note telling the kids to take two? Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

Now there were only old people standing in the shade of tired porches. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

I sat on the porch steps with my earbuds in while Butternut napped in a patch of sun at my feet. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

He crossed the porch, stopped at the railing, and held on a few seconds, then stumbled down the steps and across the yard toward the tent and the wagon-trunk. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

We sit on the porch awhile longer, and I look down at Audrey’s legs and her lap. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

I slumped down in a chair, tilting it against the side of the porch. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Doherty brought David Herold to the porch, bound his hands, and tied him to a tree about two yards from where Booth lay. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Water ran in forgotten bathtubs, poured out into living rooms, onto porches, and down through little garden plots to feed neglected flowers. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

And there I was, one day later, standing on her front porch, desperate for her and her help. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

I stood on the porch and watched as Ella’s car chugged off down the lane. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Those who lived next to the park gathered on their porches with jugs and glasses. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Between the front porch of the late Reverend Young’s and the concrete steps of the West Virginia State Capitol, something happened to Ob to make him long for living again. Missing May 1992-03-01T00:00:00Z

She's stooping now, putting her briefcase flat on the porch floor. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

On Tuesdays, after lunch, while she would embroider on the porch, he would keep her happy company. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Safford stood on the porch and watched in amazement as Lincoln’s body was carried out of Ford’s. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

We stepped out on the porch just as Mrs. Partridge placed a white envelope on the steps. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

Just then, in front of the porch, she looked up and saw the bowl of stew with the biscuit next to it. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Next afternoon, Judd sets me to scrubbing down the sides of his trailer and his porch, shining up the windows, raking the yard. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

As we walked up the path to the porch, I had an odd urge to climb onto the long slope of the roof and lie there, alone and away from everything. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

And then there were footsteps on the porch. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Melissa Dumas and Chicken Dee, who plays bass, were making out on the porch, and she still had the roller skates on. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

“Me and Jason will go out on the porch.” The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yeah,” I say, but I remember the nights I spent with Khalil on his porch, waiting for his momma to come home. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

They watched her through the front window as she stepped onto the porch. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

I headed back up to the porch and waited at the threshold. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

We crawl below the porches at numbers fourteen and eighteen Crispin Drive. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

I ran and ran, and it wasn’t until I reached our front porch that I realized I was crying. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the planks were unloaded, Henry turned his back on his son and the Negro and climbed the porch steps. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

We sat on his porch, while I looked at my house across the street. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

At the California shell house, Ky Ebright sat on the upstairs porch, wearing dark glasses, nodding and smiling at people as they streamed by below, saying nothing. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

I turned, finally, and went back through the apartment and through the door that led from my father’s bedroom onto our wooden back porch. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

I begged him to stay on the porch. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instead she motioned toward the porch swing and said, “Sit down.” Doing Time Online 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But it did, Lanesha. The porch on my house fell off. It’s in the middle of the street. Momma and Pop are gonna cry. They always say, ‘The house is all we have. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

As we started in to dinner, Grandpa Tweedy walked over to the edge of the porch and picked up a conch shell off the banister rail. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

She looked past him and saw their grandmother standing to hold the porch door open for James, who struggled up the steps with a basket of tomatoes in his arms. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Dad finally drove Mother and Jane home, he lined all of us up by ages on the front porch. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I remember you loved eating fish and veggies on the porch of your tia Darma’s farm. It was the cutest thing.” Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

Curled in that mousey chair on the porch at the crumbledown. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

The boy put Sounder’s tin under the porch, closed the door, pushed the night latch, sat down behind the stove, and began to eat his supper. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dozer hit Duke’s porch and slid through the flapping doggy door. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

As we went inside, Aunt Margaret pointed to a pair of roller skates on the back porch. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I went back to the porch where both Mr. and Mrs. Jordan had joined my father. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

A picture of us sitting on the porch at sunset, watching the sky flame up and then drift off into pinks and purples. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I pushed off the porch and crunched across the ground. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

I follow the man onto his front porch and into the house. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

Where the stone steps ended, a rickety set of stairs made from two-by-fours— more like a ladder than a staircase—took you up to the front porch. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

We wouldn’t have to pay anything, Papi said, because “he’s willing to give you lessons in exchange for some carpentry on his porch.” When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

All morning he sat on the side porch and carefully, reverently, turned each page, his face a frown of concentration. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

A sound on the porch made her look toward the front door. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

They left their suppers or their washing up or their dressing for the show and they came out upon their now-not-quite-as-new porches and watched the green star of Earth there. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

The mother runs out on the porch, clutching the collar of her dress against the rain blowing in. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Jerk!” she yelled, and waved her white-knuckled fist at him as she popped up from the porch, but by then he was already beyond Fenton’s gas station. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

He put in a nice new privy, and had a new well dug right by the back porch so you didn’t have to go in the yard to draw water. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

The blue steps leading to the porch were faded into a watery gray. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

“This stuff is terrible,” I said, parking the glass on the porch floor. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

She walked away from the porch and found something to busy herself with in the back of the store so she did not hear Jody when he stopped laughing. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

When Doctor Neal comes out, Daddy stays in the chair by the bed and I follow Doctor Neal out to the porch. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

She eased up the front steps, avoiding the squeaky middle one, and crouched on the porch, listening. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

I can see the porch light go on at my house and the living room curtain move at the Kahns’ house. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

From then on, he slept in a different backyard or back porch every night. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“This isn’t what we came for,” Patria reminded Minerva, who stood and walked to the porch rail and stared out into the garden. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Little potted plants decorated their stone porch stairs. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

The houses are bigger here—the lights on their lawns, walkways, and porches are brighter. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Her house was a big two-story farmhouse with gingerbread moldings across the top of the porch. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

I kissed Harry’s bent head and went out to the porch, where the others were assembling to watch for the first firefly. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

We went to the other side of the lake and returned, half-blinded by the light on the water, to find Bunny and Charles on the front porch, eating ham sandwiches and playing cards. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

After Mr. Birkway left, Phoebe and I sat on the front porch. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

I was bouncing an orange Nerf ball against the front door as I sat on the porch. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ole, from his place on the porch, knew who it was immediately; he guessed what it was he wanted. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Frank accepted and sat on the porch steps while Zeitoun went inside. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

But Loma shook her off and stalked past Miss Love and Grandpa to join Uncle Camp, who had taken Campbell Junior out on the porch. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

My mother would sit on the porch next to my dad and smile happily as we licked our ice cream. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Red came out onto the porch, heard the story, and pointed at the shed in the backyard. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

They were waiting for me under a yellow bug light on the porch. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

We are sitting on hard chairs on the back porch, warmer now than it was earlier in the day from the sun and the heat of the stove. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

And although he was dead, she had left the doghouse, had come back to the porch, and snuggled up close to his side. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

I stepped up on the lip of the pot, holding on to the porch rail to steady myself, and reached for the compass. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

Molly heaves her bags onto the porch, rubs her shoulders for a minute, then walks around to the back, the bay side, peering up at the windows for any sign of life. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Then I’m in a hammock on the back porch, rocking lazily in the orange light of the desert sunset, and Audrey appears and says Dad wants us to get our stuff, we’re leaving. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Odom brought powdered sugar doughnuts out on the porch and we sat around and listened to Jackie tell Waffle House stories. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

They were twenty yards from the porch when something hissed in the grass behind them. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

He found his friends sitting in a porch on the side of the house looking east. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

I did not search for a job that day; I returned home and sat on my porch too, and stared. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Just then, she came in from the back porch. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

It was the kind of feeling that makes you jump at the touch of your mother’s hand on the back of your neck as you step onto the porch. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

After supper Friday night Grampa was reading the newspaper, and I was out on the back porch hoping for a cool breeze. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

The two boys sauntered over to the porch. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

The porch was heavy with snow and you could see where one step had fallen in. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

Lolo gives Papi a nasty look, and hurries back to the other side of the porch again like an ogre. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Buddy was sitting on the porch swing, taking in the view. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

But it’s nice that the porch is totally uncovered, except for a few strings of twinkle lights. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

As the pastor strode away, Henry slid down to the porch steps and rested his elbows on his knees. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Finally, old Nimbus got his way, and the rain came down around me and Mrs. V. It rained so hard, I couldn’t see past the porch. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

I step onto the front porch and slide the umbrella into my backpack with my sketchbook and colored pencils. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

I climbed the steps to the porch and knocked on the big door. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

Edward stood in the halo of the porch light, looking like a male model in an advertisement for raincoats. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

It won’t make a bit of difference, he said to himself as he climbed the porch steps. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

The reporter backed down the porch stairs, staggering under all this new material. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I remember, yes. I’ve thought about it. Because I went out on my porch about ten o’clock, see. Hadn’t seen fog for more than a week. And I couldn’t see more than twenty yards.” Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Turner let go of the doorknob and went down the porch steps. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

Another time, we were sitting outside on her porch and I saw a red bird. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was only one step on the porch and then a crunch as jumping feet struck earth. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Years later, C.P. was still haunted by the memory of his father, drunk and wielding an ice pick on the porch of their house, while he huddled inside with his mother behind the locked door. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

But all over the countryside, neighbors, leaning against slanting porch posts or standing in open cabin doorways and listening, knew that it was Sounder. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Our sleepy neighborhood is stirring, waking up, and this time I stay on the porch with Sherlock and enjoy it. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

They walked onto porches and peered through windows as I drove by. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Art nodded toward the side of the porch, where a makeshift doghouse gave shelter to the biggest Rottweiler I’d ever seen in my life. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

Mama and Merry sat on the porch swing, and Mama creaked it back and forth. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

It’s from the porch light, but I wonder why I’ve never seen it before. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Two- and three-story wood-frame houses bordered the park on all sides, identical in construction, distinguished by paint color and the type of furniture on their long porches. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

He ran up the porch steps and hugged her tight. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

We put the lid on the paint, dumped our brushes into a jar of paint thinner Doc had set out, then marched up to the porch. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

One afternoon in June, Dad and I were sitting out on the porch, our legs dangling over the side, looking down at the houses below. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Uncle Kufa’s brother, waiting in the shadows near the porch, grunted in agreement. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ignatius asked, noticing for the first time the man standing up on the porch. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The others turned to watch me climb the steps to the porch. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

One warm morning in June, the man and his wife sat on their porch swing. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

While Papa went inside the house with an envelope, I waited on the porch, asking them questions they were too shy to answer. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The two men turned to look at her; the larger one came halfway down the porch steps. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

We stationed ourselves on the porch in front of the office, for something like two hours of anguish and hunger, waiting for a change of heart. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t ’member ’zactly how long it was afore I answered a knock at the door and was surprised to see Sheriff Jackson standing on the porch. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

Phoebe arrived at school with another message, which she had found on her porch that morning: We never know the worth of water until the well is dry. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

I was led down a flagstone path and up a set of freshly painted steps to the porch. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

When I got home, the yard was bustling with chickens getting ready to roost down for the evening and there was nobody sitting on the porch. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

George and Frank working on the barn, or Byrd making mint tea for everyone, or Axel learning to walk on George and Emmett’s front porch. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

The sky is still Pepsi-black, and I wonder if Libby’s asleep right now, if she pulled an all-nighter decorating the porch for Halloween tonight. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

And now to this moment, nearly a hundred years after it all began, on the porch of an old house in Maine. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

He shoved the baby into Chiron’s arms and ran for the porch. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

Another minute passes and then his mom joins him on the porch. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

A child’s swing dangled from a cedar tree; four little steps painted blue led up to the porch, and from the window, between fluttering curtains, came the smell of gingerbread baking. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Out you came, bounding off the porch and down the walkway. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

The bouncer stood on the porch of the Bear Flag and scratched his stomach. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

August and I dragged ourselves to the porch to see. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

A fat older man in shirtsleeves and suspenders was rocking on the porch of the house next to Josef’s. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

The new spur enabled Garfield's train to move up to the cottage's porch, sparing him a wagon ride over rough roads. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

What did I have to do to get her off my front porch? Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

The suspects weren’t there, so Dudley and his partner decided to wait on the porch. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

As time went on and the benefits he had conferred upon the town receded in time they sat on his store porch while he was busy inside and discussed him. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

Many residents of the Black Belt were reluctant to retire into their stifling-hot homes, choosing instead the cooling breezes blowing across their front porches and steps. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

She pushed down on her wings and up with her tail and came to rest on the porch railing of Woodchuck Lodge. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

And of course, they might just enjoy spending a little time on a farm, chatting on the porch with the Salatins, and taking a beautiful drive in the country to get here. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

When I got out onto the porch early that morning, I heard Mama at the chicken coop talking with one of her customers. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

When the sun began moving over the hill, I came back to the house; he was awake and wanted to go out again, this time to the front porch. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

“But Mr. Blakeslee warn’t to home,” Uncle Camp put in as Aunt Loma plunked herself down in a porch rocker, unbuttoned the shirtwaist of her mourning dress, and let the baby nurse. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

On Monday morning Nathan was back on the ladder, putting a second coat of white paint on the window sill next to the front porch. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

I can’t believe it, so I read it a fourth time, then walk out on her porch and sit down, dangling my legs in the air. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

When they saw her, they stood straight and retreated from the edge of the porch, becoming as one. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

In fact, there are shards and shards of splintered glass, sticky with lemonade, all over the porch. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

The steps and porch had rotted long ago. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

Later, Onofre Martinez’s powerful three-legged German shepherd charged off its porch like an enraged water buffalo, jumped over the picket fence, and hung on the volunteer’s heels. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He jumped off the porch, running as his feet hit the ground. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the dog was weak, and highly strung, and suffered a heart attack one bright December morning in the country, leaping from the porch in happy pursuit of a squirrel. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

The porch light shimmered, and the living room lights shone through the curtains. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

Cal stood on the neat porch and kept his finger on the bell until the harsh overlight flashed on and the night bolt rasped and Mrs. Bacon looked out. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Last night I barely slept on the cold porch of the school, and before that I was on a soiled mattress in a fetid room with three other children. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Three days later, I crept downstairs and went out onto the front porch very early before the daily avalanche of my brothers could crack open the peace of the morning. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

I rushed outside and grabbed three logs from the woodpile near the porch. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

Me and Jay each took our half and went out on the porch, chewing and licking our fingers. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

We leaned in the harsh sunlight on the shaky railings of the dentist’s back porch for over an hour. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

But everywhere it’s the same as it’s always been: the perfectly manicured lawn of Center Square, the gazebo’s twinkling fairy lights, the yellow beams from the porch lamps at every door. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

On any given day or night, we’d be in the house or sitting on the front porch and hear the distinctive boom. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Genie jumped off the porch and headed around the side of the house to where Ernie was stroking the top of Samantha’s head and whispering in her ear like a weirdo. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

It rolled on its side, and the water ran down between the planks of the porch. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Grandma watched us go from the front porch. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

She glared at them, still on her porch but now holding the hammer up like a weapon. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Sunset at six o’clock means that life does go on after dark: reading by lamplight on the porch, our family’s evening event. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The skunks were going to remain under their porch. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Another group of women and children stood naked on the porch as we exited. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

The porch light was off so I knew my father wasn’t home yet. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

I turned and looked out at the night, at dripping tree limbs, at shadows moving on the half-lit porch. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He never raised it, yet on a still night we have heard it from our front porch. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the front were traces of a wooden porch. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

He sat on the steps of the long porch and looked at the adobe walls for a long time. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Loomis meanwhile went to the porch and got something else. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

I pressed my forehead against the cold wood of the porch wall and closed my eyes. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

When she came back again, I started up to the porch to help but my father smacked me on the shoulder. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

He held the boy’s hand and they crossed the porch. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

Would they spend the rest of the evening outside on the porch, trying to keep up appearances? The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

There’s a ramp up the side of the porch steps, just like there still is on ours. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

The women shouted at each other over the wooden railings on the front porch and their voices could be heard for half a mile. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Emma crossed the porch in one step, burst through the door, and swung it open wide, making room for the other kids and Ms. Morales behind her. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

I got up to the porch to see and hear through the screen door. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

But then it got cold, and the one time we did our laundry, it froze on the porch. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

She placed the meat on the floor of the porch, near his nose. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

He has fun, and when I’m worn out, I sit on the porch step and pet him and tell him he’s a good, good boy. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

They followed him out onto the porch and then crossed with him to Muff and Bud’s house. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

But even then, as he swerved back up onto the porch, Mercedes usually managed to uncork a half-dozen infinitely annoying gravel bits that plinked around his feet before he attained her son’s door. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was disgusting to find knots of them gathered hungrily on the back porch. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

As the undertaker drove into Lacks Town, cousins filed onto porches to watch Henrietta pass, their hands on hips or clutching children as they shook their heads and whispered to the Lord. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

We want warm biscuits and tag and jacks on the porch, our too-long sweater sleeves getting in the way sometimes. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

I step onto the porch and pull the door shut behind me. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

When I got home, I sat on my front porch. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

Fast week I was standing on my front porch and got shot. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

As I pulled into Abby’s driveway, she burst out the door, jumped down the steps of her porch, and ran to meet me. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

There was even a porch outside, affording a beautiful view of the ancient Red Sea city. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Gus came back in from the garden, we went out on the porch. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

Bod walked over to the chapel door, lifted the stone beside the porch and pulled out the spare key, left there by a long-dead sexton. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

Then footsteps on the back porch—creeping, then more confident. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

I stayed on the porch holding the roses with the twins and Pita around me, waiting. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

He leaned against one of the white posts that ran from his porch to his roof, and he waved to us and called out to Big Ma. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

His father looked up to Clayton’s room, stood for a few seconds under the porch light, and waved back. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

Dad seemed chill on the surface as he waved goodbye to a few guys on the porch. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Standing on the dim porch, he wore an inexpensive suit and a shirt with a pointy collar that had lost most of its starch. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“So young,” Chiron sighed, his hands on the rail of the front porch. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

I should have just pushed off right then, but the widow was still on her porch, watching me, and I felt I had to add something. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

On our small slab porch stood Abby Standridge, dressed like a carpenter, hair as big as an azalea bush, and holding two fishing poles. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

Then the porch door banged, and here came June with her dander up. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, see you later,” Charles said, at the front door of Monmouth, his face pale in the glow of the porch lamp. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

We walked out together and were on the porch before I realized Wynn had disappeared. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

I went out on the enclosed side porch to see how Chipper was doing and fed him too. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

I really just wanted to go to my room, but Mom would have said that was rude, so I dropped my bag on the floor and sat on the porch swing. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

On the back porch, the Outside Cats were curled into themselves. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

The porch light went on and, at the same time, the door opened. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

It was shady and luxurious, with tall shutters and a big, cool porch—everyone from Rudyard Kipling to FDR had stayed there—but it wasn’t much bigger than a big private house. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

He wanted to stand on the porch and shoot the snakes from a distance. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

The best part was the surprise he had hidden on the front porch, a brand- new television set with a big screen. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a clear, black morning, encrusted with stars; the thermometer on the porch of Commons had sunk to zero. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

They were sitting with his grandmother on the elevated wooden porch that framed the outside of their house. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

Our shoes hushed through the dry grass to the porch. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

I heard the moths landing against the porch lightbulb. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I chopped several logs, cleaned the henhouse, and swept the front porch. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

We seemed to be on the porch of the Big House. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

When I got back with the buggy, Grandpa was out on the porch picking long nails from a dusty glass jar on the long-legged, blue-painted old slab table. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

One of the windows was slightly open and a cord ran from it and across the porch to vanish in the grass. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

I found Mom alone on the back porch, sitting in a chair. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

So, late that afternoon, I sat on the porch and waited. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

He points down the left side of the porch from where he stands on the stairs. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Right now Minerva had found a rocking chair on the back porch of the building. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

While they all closed their eyes and bowed their heads, Turner went out to the porch. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

It creaked back and forth in the dark shadows of the porch. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

He was sitting on the steps of his front porch. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

As he ran up the porch steps, he could hear them whispering about the big shade trees, the cushiony grass, his mother’s tidy azalea bushes. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Mr. Hughes!” snapped Mama, who came out on the porch in time to hear that. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

She made it to the porch, then turned around. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

I dropped my books on the floor of the porch and chased Frankie out into the field. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

It sure would of tickled him to see all the neighbors on his front porch staring with their mouths open as Loomis drove the mule team towards the street. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

I grabbed the flashlight from under the kitchen sink and turned it on just as I started down the back porch steps. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Mr. Patterson was sitting on the porch, in a pair of pants with no wrinkles and a collared shirt. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

Felicia knew that her mother, who stayed at home reading her books and rocking on the porch swing, had an instinctive distrust of the ecclesiastical. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ashes of the life Granddad shared with Gran, ashes of the maple from which the tire swing flew, ashes of the old Victorian house with the porch and the hammock. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

The truth is, I wouldn’t know where to begin explaining, especially hollering from my porch to hers. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

As soon as Ray makes it to the porch and Emmett pulls him inside, Dr. Martin opens the back door of the truck. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

The Big House was decorated with strings of red and yellow fireballs that warmed the porch but didn’t seem to catch anything on fire. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

The tall man stood at the edge of the porch. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Before either mother or son could speak, rearrange themselves properly, or even exchange looks, Freddie had run around the house, climbed the porch steps, and was calling them between gulps of laughter. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

I sneaked out of the room, went out on the back porch, and stood watching Granny’s White Leghorn rooster chase the dominecker hens and the Rhode Island Reds. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

“Oh great,” Audrey said under her breath as she followed me down the porch steps. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

June said, and shoved past her mother to get to Ivy on the porch. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“I don’t remember a porch swing,” he says. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

When they neared the porch, I couldn’t contain myself. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

She came to the edge of the porch and pointed down the road, speaking. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ben and Mary Anne slept in hammocks on the upper veranda porch. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The owner of the voice navigated his bulk through the doorway and jostled past Mr. Crane onto the porch, a tumbler in hand. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

A mesh of webs covered bushes and porches, and crackly voices and organ music came from flower beds. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

But now a fat old geezer in the droopiest drawers and nothing else pulled himself up on the porch rail. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

As soon as Natalie and Ms. Morales scrambled from the porch into the house, Emma reached out and yanked the door shut, slamming it as hard as she could. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

The porch boards grew warm in the sunshine. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

With a strangled cry, she dashed off the porch, heading for the buckboard. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

The doctor was dressed in a gray suit like a picture in a magazine, and he was eating breakfast at a table on the porch. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like the woman who is always sitting on her porch, knitting something. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

They liked to line up their candy along the low handrail that ran along the far side of the sloping porch. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Ivette stormed off the porch and ran back to her mother’s waiting car. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

Herbie spent a couple of hours out on the porch after that, blushing every time a local resident, who was usually practically vibrating with what Herbie interpreted as hostility, approached the store. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Naomi was on the back porch waiting for them. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

I stayed up in the pecan tree with my book when I could and slept on the porch at night. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

Vola left for the porch and came back with her arms full. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

By evening, she was chasing Buddy out on the porch. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

Roy left him there on the porch, pounding the front door and bellowing for his father to let him in. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Papi,” I asked one night as he sat on the porch reading the paper, “how come the gardenia never blossoms?” When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

The screen door slapped against the frame as Sairy entered from the porch. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

He took it all in, the big elm tree and the dying rosebush, the freshly mowed lawn and the missing shingle by the chimney, the darkened windows and the warm glow of the porch light. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

After the bright white sun on the porch it looked pitch dark in there, and I couldn't make out a thing. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

With the well right up by the porch, I only had to lean over to let the bucket down. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

The porch sagged with singers—grown men in their underwear, still partying from last night. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

Dragging Doodle behind her, Penny has scooted out of Mrs. V’s front door and is halfway down the ramp from her porch, shouting, “Bye-bye!” from under her green baseball cap. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

It was dark, but the girls poked their heads around the corner from the porch steps and could see us. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

We had lunch on Howard’s front porch, sitting on the couch eating Vienna sausages and cold pork and beans off of paper plates on our laps. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

The porch furniture looks like my lounging chair, and the trim on the gable is a weaving of gnarled oaks and maple branches. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Early as it is, Ms. Lewis takes a drag from a cigarette on our front porch. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Papa hollered from the porch, “Come on in. We’ve been waiting supper on you.” Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the back porch, she picked up the tin dipper that floated in the well bucket and started to drink. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Ivy turned this way and that, hoping for some clue to where her suspect lived, but all the houses looked the same with their wide porches and stone steps, large front windows glowing warmly. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Eleanor glanced back at the house, then stepped quickly off the porch. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

I grabbed my book and headphones and went outside to sit on the porch. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

She pounded up on the back porch, shoving Mary Alice aside. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

But the Object stopped me on the porch before we went in. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

She appeared in the porch light, as always, without warning and shut the door behind her gently. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

So she swung one leg over the porch railing and fiddled with the window. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Tiller, I think Dallas might want to help you fix this porch. And maybe we ought to do some whittling tonight. Got any extra knives?” Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

He set the sack on the porch and it made a peculiar thud sound. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

So that afternoon, when Mama told Stella to get Papa’s hammer and a few nails and fix some porch planks that had worked loose, she’d jumped at the chance to be helpful, just in case. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

She pounded up the porch steps, breathing hard. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

There’s a big porch and a modern kitchen, updated with marble countertops that look a little out of place. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

One afternoon, I hear what feels like the last knock at my door, and standing there, on my cracked front porch, is Audrey. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

Rufus and Cody were standing on the porch smiling a mile a minute. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Outside my window is the roof of our front porch. Fourth Grade Rats 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

So I just walk up the front steps, stomp across the porch, and use my key to open the door. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nobody knows how he came to be on that porch. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

I stayed out on the porch all night and didn’t slip back inside until nearly daybreak. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

He throws open the front door, slams his body against the screen and, hearing the tap tap tap behind him, jumps over the porch steps and down to the driveway. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

The porch was separated by French doors from the parlor and by windows from the office. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

I thought he must be going to the porch; I listened, standing quiet, and instead heard him turn in the opposite direction—toward the back of the house, toward me. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

I wipe my hands on the back of my shorts and go up to her porch. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

It was a Saturday afternoon and they sat on her front porch. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

They made kites on the back porch and sold them for a nickel a piece, he and the Patterson boy. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

I jumped off, hurdled the potted plant sitting by the porch steps, and ran to the front door. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

Naomi crept around to the front porch of the house where the window into their bedroom was. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

News of her absence coursed through the boomtowns, traveling from porch to porch, from store to store. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Later that day, me and Howard sat on the Odoms’ front porch steps watching Wishbone and Cotton playing in the sprinkler. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

Watch me while I sat out on the porch helping Zu lace her new tennis shoes before walking with her and Hina to the cabin serving as the classroom. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

From the porch upon the top of the high terrace they could see beyond the stream the green fields of Rohan fading into distant grey. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Sometimes she’d sit on the little porch and watch the street. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

The feeling escalates when the man comes down the road and walks up the porch steps. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

The box now had a porch, where Frightful could drop food without getting jabbed. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

He made me drag the zinc tubs full of watered-down rose blankets into the shed room by the back porch. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

He wanted above all, like the old joke, to shove a marshmallow on a stick in the furnace, while the flapping pigeon-winged books died on the porch and lawn of the house. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

The earth around the porch was hard and white from where wash water had long been thrown. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Housewives swept the granules from porches and sidewalks, where they are said to have “looked like snow.” Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Mr, Parker smiled as she stepped on the porch. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Plus, I haven’t baked anything yet and I want my introducing day to be perfect, not me standing on her porch, dripping wet, handing her soggy cookies. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sounder came around the corner of the cabin from somewhere, hobbled back and forth as far as the road several times, and then went to his cool spot under the porch. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sitting on that ratty couch on the porch doing a crossword puzzle. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

We talked for a few minutes on the sunny porch. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

Dad opened the door to go inside, and the news playing on the radio echoed out to the porch. I Survived Hurricane Katrina, 2005 2011-04-01T00:00:00Z

I tell myself it isn’t possible, and the woman replaces the girl on the porch. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

Suddenly a huge white man with a red face appeared on the porch above us. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

On our way back from the candy store, Brian and I liked to spy on the Green Lantern—a big dark green house with a sagging porch right near the highway. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Travis spotted the first firefly and claimed the ribbon at the other end of the porch. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

A shadow seemed to pass over the high sun, and the porch for a moment grew dark. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Dad came out on the back porch and yelled, “Sonny! Get over here right now!” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Under the back porch there's an alone place I go writing all I've heard. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

Judy was waiting for us on the front porch when we got home from the game. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hatsue walked out of the shadow of the woodshed and into the glow of the porch light. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

I hear our front door slam shut next door, and I wave to Mom and Penny as they wander over to the porch. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

“Welcome to Coalwood,” Mom muttered to his back as he ran up the porch steps to answer it. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Just as I was about to step onto their porch, two roaring little boys burst out of the door and ran past. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

While Sandy and Max moved people to a safe distance, Stephen’s parents watched from their porch and Samar’s from theirs. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Audrey and I are on my front porch, drinking cheap alcohol, as usual. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

We walked through the deep shade up to the porch. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

About an hour later she come out on the porch where I was pushing myself slow in the swing and sat down beside me. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Conner handed the leash to me, and Lumpy yanked me down the porch steps. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

This time he had bags across the porch. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Trepid’s gaze shifted to the porch below. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

She ran out the door, through the picket gate, and onto the porch next door, stomping and jumping to keep warm. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

Stare at Pegasus on the porch all night? Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

On the front porch, waving goodbye, stood their children, Woody and Jane, who had secret plans of their own. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

He thought about calling to Naomi for a towel as he stripped off his boots on the porch, but he didn’t want to wake the kids. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

A stranger was on the porch, and when Mary Alice and I crowded up behind Grandma to see, it was the reporter. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

Silently, I walk up to the porch, and I’m just about to set the book down there when the door swings open. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

“It’s got a screened-in porch where we can eat breakfast and watch the lake,” she said. Lawn Boy Returns 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her feet took her down the porch steps and onto the stones already warmed by the sun. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

I believe so, for when he reached the front porch his little eyes would glitter toward the empty dining room and his face would fall with disappointment. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Barry couldn’t walk half a block without someone shouting hello from a porch and waving him up for a chat and a glass of iced tea. I Survived Hurricane Katrina, 2005 2011-04-01T00:00:00Z

Miss Sadie was sitting on the front porch, rocking, waiting for me. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

Whoever lives there now appears to be away; the snow hasn’t been cleared from the porch steps, and a number of rolled-up newspapers have collected on the doormat. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Uncle Willie sat in the twilight on the front porch mumbling or maybe singing, and smoking a ready-made. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

I get past the Doorman and stand on the front porch. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

Butler pulled up the peaked hood on his field jacket, stepping into the porch. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

Show him every one of our four rooms, hold him in my lap on the porch swing, and laugh when he tries to stand up on the seat himself while the swing’s moving. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

But that night when she left the store, he was stretched out in the hammock on the porch with his hat over his face pretending to sleep. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

He used the hand rail to help himself up the steps of the Trask porch. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

On Valentine’s Day, Little Jimmy showed up on our front porch, with his skinny legs and his old bike. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

We leaned our bikes against the porch, unclipped our helmets and hung them from the handlebars. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

“Let’s go jump in the river,” he said under his breath as we went out of the sun porch. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the porch, a shaky-looking wooden table, its paint shedding like snake skin. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

It is afternoon, and the guys are in the backyard just as...Nipper swoops in to land on the porch roof. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

He recognized the birds—one in each cage—they were the same kind as the one he’d seen pecking around on the front porch, the one wearing blue feathers like a cape and mask. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

When he finally started walking again, his pace was so slow that Ivy simply stood still and watched him until he disappeared around the corner of the house, bright pink azaleas clouding the porch. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Grass and weeds snuck their way up through the saggy porch and all around the sides of the house, giving it the scruffy look of a week-old beard. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

As he rolled it out of the garage, Aunt Queen sat on the back porch, smiling at him. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a huge sugar maple in front of what must be the parlor door, and another at the porch, which, from the presence of churns and cooling pans, must lead into the kitchen. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

Mama’s furious voice drifted up from the porch, and pretty soon Papa came to the bottom of the stairs and hollered for me to get down there. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

The hall, the porch, even the yard were crowded with silent guests. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Mr. Finley sat on his porch sucking chicken bones, as he had done for thirteen years, looked up, saw Sula, choked on a bone and died on the spot. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Standing on the porch, he raised his clasped hands over his head and pranced like a boxer going into the ring. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the porch were two coffee cans, a red cup, the hammer, a pair of wire cutters, and one nail. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Then later she waited on the front porch by herself for Mister Singer to come home. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Finally I found Francis and Bunny on the shady side of the porch. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

A brand-new pink Lady Kenmore, which they kept out on the porch because there was no room in the kitchen. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He stalked to the back porch like someone was forcing him. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

She hit the edge of the porch and rolled onto her side. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

A pilot once wrote that the first time he got into a B-24 cockpit, “it was like sitting on the front porch and flying the house.” Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

“I’ve got a refrigerator out on the porch. It’s gas. So’s the stove and the water heater. I’ve got everything I need.” Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Before the manor hall, he leaned his lance against a great porch pillar and stepped in across the door stone. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

He peered carefully at the slim frail woman who stood so resolutely out on the porch. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

Milkman stood up and went to the window that looked out on Guitar’s little porch. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

We were sitting on her back porch steps. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

She put on some water to boil and then swept the porch; then she hauled out the curtain stretcher, but instead of putting the damp curtains on it, she swept the porch again. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

Miranda stepped out on the porch in a nightgown and wrapper. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

The previous spring, I'd been on the back porch wondering if I could just move over to Uncle Earl’s when I graduated, when Mom called me into the house. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

So Senator Harding became candidate Harding, and later that fall, after a campaign conducted from his front porch in Marion, Ohio, candidate Harding became President Harding. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

By then Mary Alice had come out on the back porch, wearing her tap shoes. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

I knew my whole family was out on the porch listening to the beautiful voices of my little red hounds. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

He took me out back, but this time not to the porch. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

Instead of talking to the guests, we walked up to the porch and stood waiting to hear from the family. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

Big Ma came outside and scolded him to hush, probably because she didn’t want Elijah Lucas to step out on his porch. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

She found her sitting on the steps of the back porch with the lamps all filled and the chimneys cleaned. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

“I suppose,” Crab said, loping over to the porch. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

David swings too late and the ball thumps against the side of the porch. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

The smell of dying leaves in the motionless gray morning as he shambled up onto the porch after a night’s fishing, and the full, fine growth in the cedar trees. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Then she walked onto the porch, put her hands on his butt, and gave him a great big push. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

Beyond it, Lolo and Papi are setting the table in the screened porch. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Down the porch steps and into the yard, Grandpop barely held Genie’s shoulder, except for the occasional touch for balance. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

“Good morning!” a cheerful, gray-mustached man greeted us from one of these porches. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

I slipped along the side of the house and onto the front porch, where I unfolded the note and laid it in front of the door, setting the rock on top to hold it down. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

The house was faded white clapboard, two stories high, and had a screened porch all along the front that ran around the sides. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

He really won’t shut up, so when we get home I stand on the front porch and tell him the whole story. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

The very next day Frightful landed on the aerie porch. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

There are a few steps and a narrow porch leading up to that door. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

They lapsed into silence, Wilson comparing his pipe clouds, Alfred slouching in the porch chair. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

The woman on the porch reached out with contempt for them all, and struck the kitchen match against the railing. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

I tear myself away from the typewriter and go out on the front porch. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

They passed, one after the other, through a small, neatly raked garden, between brown raspberry canes and leafless apple trees, and walked slowly up the few steps to the porch. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had looked under the porch and called before he came into the cabin. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

They stood on the porch watching the stars. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

I told him about the only time I’d broken a bone, when I let Trevor convince me that skateboarding down our porch steps was a good idea a few years earlier. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

There was some one-inch-wide aluminum tubing under the back porch that Dad had brought home from the mine to make a stand for Mom’s bird feeders. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Let’s say she’s been on the porch here quite a few times.” Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

Brave Orchid had an inside stove in the kitchen and a stove outside on the back porch. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

At ten thirty they stepped out onto the porch under the North Portico. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

For a while, as the night breezes picked up, growing cooler, shifting, Shorty sat on Rael’s porch near his quiet horse, looking across the road at the Pilar Cafe. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Gently, he shook it to and fro until it loosened; then he lifted it out and laid it on the porch in the snow. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

The suitcase was so packed with books Emily had to drag it up to the front porch one step at a time. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Mr. Patterson sat on his porch, cleaning his French horn with a white cloth. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

Now Grandma stepped onto the porch and closed the screen door behind her. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

He waits for me at the bottom of the porch steps. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

They run into the living room, they run through the front door, slamming it shut, they rush out onto the wide open porch. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

It had two stories with porches, with bannisters and such things. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

The moon leans down on me as I sit on my front porch with the Doorman. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

And then, as though Barry’s thoughts had sent out an SOS, the front door opened and Dad appeared on the porch. I Survived Hurricane Katrina, 2005 2011-04-01T00:00:00Z

For the first week or so, she and Margaret would sit on the porch playing cards or bingo, talking about the men, the cousins, and the children. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

My father and sisters were waiting for us on the porch. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You got room on this porch for an old lady’s backside?” A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

I rushed into the shiny white kitchen and escaped to the back porch. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

Ten minutes later, I pull in front of the house and see Stuart sitting on the top porch step. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

With her was Mr. Alacran’s father, an old man with white hair who seemed unsure of why he was on the porch. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

She sat on the porch, flipping through a magazine. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

“My good man,” Mr. Stone was saying to the old Conch man sitting on the porch, “you need to open the shutters on your house.” Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

Everything shakes as I walk up the porch steps and stand at the door. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

I put on the Pixies and go out to the porch. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

I pushed a couple of them to the side of the narrow road as I walked over to Mr. Patterson’s porch to wait for Fred. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

“Cat got on the porch this morning, bout give me a cadillac arrest thinking it was Mister Johnny.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Some of the people were on the front porch and the sidewalk. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

A belt buckle knocked against the wood of the porch. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

Her porch was bright with the bought luxury of star-shine; the wicker of the settee squeaked fashionably as she turned toward him and he kissed her curious and lovely mouth. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

In the evenings they sit on the porch in Vivian’s old wicker chairs as the sky turns pink and lavender and red, the colors seeping toward them across the bay, a magnificent living watercolor. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

No one had to dream up shutters and window boxes and trim, or porches and turrets and wide curving staircases. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

We were already in bed when I heard them talking loudly on the porch. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

But now it was Milton whom Tessie sat in the porch swing with. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

She hurriedly bumps down a couple of the porch steps, then two more, waiting for a reaction from Mom. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

While I was sitting on the porch steps, R.C. crashed through the back bushes. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

I was still sitting on the porch when lunchtime rolled around. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

Rocking on the porch, she had seen the white dot swinging back and forth in the sun when the boy wasn’t much more than a moving spot far down the road. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

He sat on the porch after I handed him his pastry and gestured for me to join him. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

That night they were all out on the porch. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

At the sound of the screen door slamming, I looked up and was glad to see that she was coming out on the porch. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jaimito turned the porch lights off, calling out to his mother, that there were too many bugs. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe Sam would be sitting on the porch when Lige walked up. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

I glanced out the window to find Trevor already walking down the porch steps, wearing a Medford Middle School Basketball T-shirt and jeans. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

Wash set the bowl of scraps on the edge of the back porch and handed Naomi the other bowl, now lined with neat filets. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Two sets of colored people sit on porches, watching, rocking. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Gus and Bertha had a whole passel of cats, sleeping under the porch, sunning on the windowsills, swatting bees out in the garden. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

Tess wasn’t outside, so they took the porch steps two at a time and rang the doorbell. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

I don't go in the front door of my house because the front porch has a light that goes on whenever anyone walks up the steps. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I looked out too, hoping I hadn’t thrown the burning cloth onto a porch roof or too near a wall. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

Women greedily clutched the babes on their laps while on the porch the shufflings and smiles, flirtings and pinching of a few minutes before were gone. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

I read her poetry on the porch swing. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Turner walked around to the side porch—the shutters had all been painted there, too—and he found a single window whose curtains had not been pulled. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

He had a short body and skinny legs; his high-tops kept brushing against the porch as he rocked in his chair. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Then, when the dog wouldn’t budge off the porch, he scooped him up and carried him. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

But now I can’t see Mama on the porch or the ants crawling up my legs. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

She narrows her eyes at me from her porch rocker. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

He identified our snakes according to the categories of death they liked to inflict, which he acted out for us in action-packed dramas on the front porch. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I have news,” Lydia said as Dill climbed her porch steps. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

He climbed up on the porch and glared at the passing swarms. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

As the old woman passed the porch, she gave me a close look. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Neither Wilfred nor Hilda came out to the porch, so I sat there, long after the thick billowing exhaust fumes faded into the white landscape. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like, can we get down to Bishell’s Hardware and pick up some boards for the porch? The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

I was glad we were out on the porch, where everyone by the fire pit could see us. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Nelle especially enjoyed going for walks with a touchy chimpanzee named Patsy, who lived on the porch. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

In addition to King Walker, who wasn’t going, there was Omar and another man who had also been on the porch and who introduced himself as Luther Solomon—no relation to the grocery store Solomon. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

August reached for me, but I got to my feet and pushed open the screen door leading to the porch steps. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the front was a model house with a wide porch, living room, bathroom, kitchen, and two bedrooms. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Vivian, gripping the porch rail with one hand, puts her other over her mouth. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

“I have good news and bad news,” August says as he helps them lift their bags onto the porch. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

A few mangled bottle caps lay scattered by the porch railing, and Genie wondered if they were Ernie’s bads. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Around eleven-thirty, Charley Bloom threaded his way through the members of the Senile Brigade still trading gun stories on the porch and entered the store. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

How he heard me over the roar of the wind, I don’t know, but he was out on the porch before I reached the house. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the porch, they sat on the lovelorn carpenters’ chairs and took in the night. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

He remained on the porch, but he leaned forward, his thick arms going up on either side of the door frame. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

After I turn off the flame, I walk out on the porch. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Later on, Angela and I made out on her back porch. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

They returned home to see their mothers on Brandon’s porch, drinking coffee. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

I crawl out my window onto the porch roof and wrap myself in all my blankets. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

Sitting on the back porch yapping with my fifteen-year-old cousin made me feel like the teenager I’d soon be in October. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

Now, after a whispered confession, she walked the four blocks, no longer afraid to mount the porch steps. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had placed a bird feeder on our porch, and we would sit there together as the birds darted in, picking up seeds one at a time. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

He shrugged on his jacket and headed out onto the porch. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

But Sounder was warm because the boy’s father had put two burlap sacks under the porch for the time when the hard frosts came. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

We found Styx sitting on his back porch steps, but he wasn’t alone. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

He comes over and fixes my back porch with his own saw and hammer, as in the women’s magazines of long ago, and has a beer afterward, on the lawn, as in ads. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

As Ben opened the car door for Mary Anne, Matthew appeared on the porch and shouted, “You look nice, Mary Anne,” then ran back inside the house. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Aron came home it was Lee who was waiting for him on the lowest step of the front porch. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Big old redbrick jobbies, with wraparound front porches and stained glass windows, set way back from the road. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Then, he pretend growls and soon, him and Spot, like big babies, are leaping off the porch and rolling in the crabgrass. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

Our headlights illuminate Ryan on the front porch, pushing a toy bulldozer. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

I caught it with the edge of my shoe and a tiny fountain of my blood spurted against the gray paint of the porch. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

Out on the porch, the men talked in urgent, hushed tones. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

He was about to get off the phone with Ahmad when he heard Nasser’s voice from the porch. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Behind her, she could feel the presence of her mom standing on the porch, watching the scene with her bathrobe still clutched tightly around her. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

The boy noticed that sometimes his mother would stop singing when she put the food pan down at the edge of the porch. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

She makes me bring Sherlock in off the porch. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

So they had lunch together on the back porch, while the rain faded away outside. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Percy dreamed he was standing on the front porch of the Big House at Camp Half-Blood. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

A few moments later she calls my name and I rise from my desk, all eyes on me, and make my way to the porch. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

“I have some pansies I need to set out,” she said then, and let the screen door bang as she walked out to the back porch. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I sat on the front porch with Grandma after church. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z

There were no sidewalks, only wide, flat shale steppingstones arranged in the same curving path from the pale concrete driveways to the whitewashed porch steps. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

I heard Dad’s whoop and looked up and saw him on his office porch with two other men. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

I step over Daddy’s dogs on the porch, go into my parents’ house. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

There is no sitting on the front porch, no saying hi to the neighbors, no kids running back and forth between houses. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Naomi pulled her coat tighter around her and settled a kitchen chair onto the porch. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Cory was sitting on the porch steps with a shovel in his hand, waiting for us. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

As the three of us approach the house I see it as if for the first time—the porch light shining, an evergreen wreath on the door, the black iron railing and neatly shoveled walkway. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

I took the one that told about them on the seashore and went to the front porch. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The whole house was surrounded by a broad porch. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

As we clattered onto the porch, a woman opened the door. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t wait for long because just then he stumbles onto the porch as if he’s been pushed. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

They stood on the porches and tried to believe in the existence of Earth, much as they had once tried to believe in the existence of Mars; it was a problem reversed. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

We made it to the porch, where Mr. Fleming paused to shake me off and square his cap. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

Matty saw a fat spotted dog sleeping on the porch, but it appeared that no one was at home. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

It’s a hot Wednesday, and surprisingly there are no questions from the neighbors as I get on the Tatupus’ front porch and stand on a large overturned pot. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

As was his habit, he padded downstairs in socked feet, eased Grandma’s front door open, and plucked the latest issue of the Logan County Gazette off the porch. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

From the porch, only a few fairies could be seen gliding around the garden. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

It was during those days that in a moment of carelessness little Aureliano appeared on the porch and his grandfather recognized the secret of his identity. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

He got killed by a drunk who climbed onto his porch and drove a knife down his neck. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

I turned around and looked back, and the last thing I saw was the porch light shining on Dunlap Dewberry’s bald head. Because of Winn-Dixie 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

Then Tom’s steps sounded on the porch, and he came in with an armload of oakwood so high he could not see over it. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

She opened it a crack to see Pastor Tom standing on the porch, his Bible pressed against the front of his coat. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

His view would therefore have been framed by the porch; indeed, his picture may have simply reproduced the view within the frame, as if he were looking through a window. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

He jumped down quickly, and holding the lantern near the ground, tried to see under the porch. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

I rocked on the porch and Caleb rolled a marble on the wood floor. Sarah, Plain and Tall 1985-04-25T00:00:00Z

I walk off the porch onto the grass, so as not to overhear her conversation, or so I tell myself. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The porch wrapped all the way around the farmhouse. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

At the edge of the porch, gathering the wisps of courage that were fast leaving her, she turned once more to look at him, to ask him... had he... Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

However, yesterday morning when I asked him he said the back porch was where he wanted to sit. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

I didn’t know how long I had been sitting there when I heard a noise out on the porch. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

He pushed the porch screen door wide open and looked up at the sky: Old Betonie’s stars were there. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

When I had gathered the eggs, I took them to the back porch and saw that he had set out the milk pail and also one of the water cans. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

I carried her to the porch, and laid her in the same place I had laid the body of Old Dan. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

He led the way across the back porch, weaving through the garden toward their destination. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

The first thing they saw on-screen was the front porch of their house. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Despite I used to scour the porch for Granny and row her garden and all, I’d never done woman’s work there or anywhere. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Approaching the house, holding the boy firmly by the hand, Jonathan crossed over to the porch, to the door. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

“This guy at the store told me something cool today,” Lucas said to me as we sat idly on the porch. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

He threw back his head and howled at the moon just as the redhead appeared on the Club House porch, her spike heels clicking. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

After breakfast, we were on the porch swing, drinking lemonade and gliding back and forth to create & breeze. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Grover was leaning against the porch railing, looking like he hadn’t slept in a week. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

They sat on the porch swing and ate bowls of homemade ice cream in the evenings while waiting for her to come down for dinner. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

What was I doing there on that porch with these people I didn’t even know? Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

She came out to the porch, hands on hips. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

When he turned at the back porch, he saw his mother coming out of the woods. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

And so I come stand by the porch rail, and the minute I do, of course, I can’t help thinking of Manolo and of Minerva before him. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Hold your noise!” cried a terrible voice, as a man started up from among the graves at the side of the church porch. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

There was a wet, dirty sack on the porch. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Tea Cake fell in beside her and mounted the porch this time. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

Caleb sat on the porch steps, turning his moon snail shell over and over in his hand. Sarah, Plain and Tall 1985-04-25T00:00:00Z

The sun couldn’t penetrate the honeysuckle leaves, so the motionless air on the porch was as dark as twilight. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

He always barked and sometimes, even in daytime, he would start from under the porch, the hair on his back straightening before anyone had sighted a moving speck at the far end of the road. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

He cautiously crept up to the porch and—after pausing to take in a deep, fortifying, leg-steadying breath—shimmied through Duke’s doggy door. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

I took off my bra and panties and stood on the porch, covering myself with my hands. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

She was accustomed to it, but it pained her, and she wished she could clear it all up right now, while they sat together on the porch. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

She opened a cabinet drawer, took out a flashlight, her tablet, a stub of a pencil, and walked onto the porch. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

So me and Wishbone raced down to the Odoms’ and up the porch steps. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

I glance at the door to the hall, the door to the side porch. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

A breeze was coming in the back, door, and some mourning doves that had nested on the back porch were cooing, making that slippery, burbling sound that Calder always associated with summer in his neighborhood. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

Her clothes smell faintly of the Smeaths’ house, a mixture of scouring powder and cooked turnips and slightly rancid laundry, and the earth under porches. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

She crossed to the back porch ahead of me and got in the line for the keg. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

He led her out to the porch, announcing, “You gotta see this for yourself. Seems that we have quite an escort out here.” Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

He shoved himself straight to his feet, strode to the porch, and flung open the door of Methuselah’s cage. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Most of the porch ceilings in Key West were this color. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Baxter stood on the back porch watching us make a mess of each other. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

They had winter gardens and salons, dining rooms that could seat 200, and porches like the promenade decks of ocean liners from which guests could drink in the wholesome air and survey nature’s craggy splendor. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

All in all, the porch had the effect of a cool-looking clubhouse. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

We packed our purchases on the porch and realized, together in the same instant, with joy and amazement, that Mary Ellen was no longer part of our retinue. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Okay, it’s a crummy front porch I stand on, cracked to shithouse, and who am I to say that the world isn’t the same? I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

He was sitting in a rocking chair on the front porch of a house on the California coast. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

We strolled off the porch and into the yard. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

I put her down and run up the steps, notched in a log, to Alice’s front porch and push back her blanket door. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

They had just stepped off the porch when Florida said, “Hey, wait. What about our money?” Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

Standing on that white lady’s back porch, I tell myself, Tuck it in, Minny. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

I heard a door open and close and there were footsteps against wood, and then silence, and I knew someone had come onto the porch, but I would not open my eyes. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

Cotton was making something with sticks and rocks in the small square of shade next to the porch. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

He hops backward down the porch steps just as his dad swings again. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

A sidelong look will be enough to tell him to smoke on the back porch. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes, when he let Nipper out in the morning, he would watch the bird eat breakfast out on the porch roof. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

The moment she had put her foot on the step leading up to the porch, she saw her ripeness mellowing and rotting before a heap of red velvet scraps on a round oak table. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even after two decades I can close my eyes and return to that porch at the Tip Top Lodge. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

And then I thought about Jackie raving about this house and that porch and my very own room. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

As I sit on my back porch the way I did the day after, I know in my heart that I did everything I could. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

They are almost to the front porch when George asks, “Everything all right?” A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

I was sitting on our front porch when Pork Chop rode up on his bike. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I got home from school one afternoon, my father’s shoes were sitting on the front porch. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even his name is uncool—Pasqual is the name of an old Mexican man who sits on a dusty porch muttering about his lost chickens. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Naomi was cooking the last tortilla when she heard Henry’s truck pulling onto the patch of gravel by the back porch. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

I watched one of the cats swatting a moth that was flitting around the porch. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

Ben is standing on the front porch with a bouquet of carnations. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z

Jake wrapped his legs around the rickety porch rail and just sat there staring off into space as though he had no interest in them at all. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

I walked out of the soda shop and sat in a rocking chair on the front porch to eat my vanilla—which I don’t even like—ice cream. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

So when the captain signaled me from the tavern porch the next morning, I was surprised. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Good luck now,” she called, as me and the preacher stepped off the porch and out into the rain. Because of Winn-Dixie 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

Everybody waited on the front porch, very quiet and scared. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

I think it was on to drown out all the commotion the pink Lady Kenmore washer was making on the porch. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I made a beeline for a porch railing and jumped just in time to keep my pant leg away from his snapping jowls. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

I close the door, leaving her on the porch. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

I padded to the kitchen barefoot and got the stepladder off the back porch. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

By eight thirty, Mama and Baba have gone into their room and shut the door firmly, after reminding me to keep the porch light off in the universal signal of party poopers. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

Now she merely ground her teeth as she stepped out to the porch and made her way around the side of the house through the nico- tiana growing all wild and out of control. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Celia remembers the afternoons on the porch when her infant granddaughter seemed to understand her very thoughts. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

A lady came out on the porch with her arms folded in her apron to keep warm. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

Through the sliding door, he called out, “Bobby Gene, Caleb,” and then went to wait on the front porch. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

As they were talking, he heard Nasser's voice from the porch. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

“If you don’t mind, I’ll watch from the porch,” Mom informed us, and stood up to clear the table. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

The 1946 Plymouth was parked in the front yard, its bumper pressed against the porch, its taillights blocking the brick sidewalk. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

She’s stunned, and I feel sorry for the woman standing on the front porch of a poor street in an ordinary town. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

We followed her out the front door to the front porch. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

The trader didn’t open his store until noon, so he was still sitting on his porch enjoying the cool morning breeze. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I’m through, Judd sort of motions me to the porch, like I can sit there if I want while I drink my water. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Beside me on the porch swing, David rocks, hobbling the swing. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

The doorbell was ringing, and I heard voices on the front porch. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

For one day, enormous families of relatives would visit and there would be so many people that the noise and the bodies would spill out to the backyard and front porch. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Let’s just go sit on the porch and rest a while. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

It was Mrs. Jackson, who ate ice, who tripped down off her porch and marched—actually marched— along behind him. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

All the girls Cholly knew were at the banquet, and he pointed to a cluster of them standing, hanging, draping on the back porch. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

We walked out the front door, through a crowd either passed out on the porch or smoking in the yard. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

I peered over the porch wall and through the screen. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

As we rode off, bundled in coats and lap robes, Miss Effie Belle Tate came out on her porch. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

I just know I'm about ten seconds from vomiting all over Jamie's porch if I don't sit down and rub the frantic pain drilling through my head. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

“Same old sagging porch. Same old creaky swing.” Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

There was a big long laugh from the porch. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

The next day when he got home from work, Henry sat on the porch steps, elbows on his knees, boots unlaced but still on. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

The moment Doc stepped through the door onto the porch, Collins drew his gun and aimed it right at him. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

There were three men, all in dark suits, standing on the front porch. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

I escape to the back porch and stand next to Stuart. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

After the Grace, my father lay down on his bed to rest for a while, and I sat on the porch and stared at the sunlight on the flowers and the ailanthus. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

Dr. Zamborska got out of the car, walked up the steps and across the front porch, and rang the bell. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She didn’t go any farther than the porch, though, causing Ophie to stop short next to her. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

I stopped on the porch and took hold of his face in my hands. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Their grandmother spent the whole day in the kitchen, canning batches of tomatoes and carrying them out to cool on the back porch. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

The moon is asleep and I’m sitting on my porch roof like a frozen gargoyle, wondering if the sun is going to blow off the world today and sleep in. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes I spent the whole day working beside her: shelling peas, kneading bread dough, turning the handle of the wringer after she’d washed clothes, feeding the chickens, sweeping the porch. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“That’s the truth. Kick one and he just goes under the porch for an hour. Kick another, he goes off and don’t come back.” Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

I slip off my flats and walk down the front porch steps, while Mother calls out for me to put my shoes back on, threatening ringworm, mosquito encephalitis. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Some morning he would be found curled up on the front porch. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

All he ever did was sit on the porch and swat flies, and like I said, even had him a pet hen to peck them up. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

They rush in and out of the house, leaving packed boxes or bulging plastic garbage bags on the porch for the movers to load onto the truck. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

His eyes fall like the low sunshine against the picnic table, Emmett reaching for more food, Frank and George making plans to secure the porch swing. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

She usually rested her smile until late afternoon when her women friends dropped in and Miss Glory, the cook, served them cold drinks on the closed-in porch. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

I let him take a nap tied up in the shade of the big oak tree on the steep slope by the back porch. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

Sounder panted faster, wagged his tail, whined, moved from the dooryard to the porch and back to the dooryard. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

He looked so weird, with his eyes bugging out through the glasses, that we all took a step back on the front porch. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

He came forward and sat down on the porch steps, as one does to chat with a passing neighbor. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

Miles went straight for a ledge created by the edge of the porch roof. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

“Mose, you got a porch light on that old shack of yours?” Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

He's not awake yet, so I hustle downstairs and fetch the paper off the front porch. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

I got to the porch and stood there with the Mason jar of water. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

As we walked down the front steps, mother paused and turned to look back at Grandma, who was standing at the edge of the porch. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the evenings, they went onto the back porch or into the living room. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ma Charles, who had been sitting on the porch in the pine rocker her father made, called out to the bloodhound and joined the noisy welcome, shaking the tambourine that she always kept nearby. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

He’d looked at the floorboards of the porch for a moment. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

When I climbed the staircase to the house, Dad was standing on the porch, smoking a cigarette. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

His eye fell on old Bob sleeping on the porch. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

The father left the porch and went to the woodpile at the edge of the rim of light. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

He stayed on the front porch until he could neither see nor hear them any longer. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

“Getting off this porch to find out what’s going on over there,” Aunt Nancy says. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

If I lost, that meant I had to go get the washbowl off the back porch. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The street and the lawn and the porch were empty. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

Kids were sitting on the stone porch rail, their cigarette tips glowing in the darkness. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

The three of us sat out on the porch as the stars were beginning to twinkle up in the Carolina sky and ate blackberry cobbler before supper. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

I could happily sit on one of those wrought-iron balconies for days, or keep my grandmother company on her porch, with its ringside view of the sea. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

They began with the honeysuckle growing up around the front porch. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

I want to be sitting there on his porch the moment he gets out of bed. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ernie had asked as soon as they reached Tess’s front porch, where she stood as if waiting for the brothers from New York—the city boys—to come barreling down the hill. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

“I thought I heard someone out here on the porch.” Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

A woman wearing horn-rimmed glasses stood outside the smaller building’s porch entrance. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

Then Big Ma stepped out on the front porch and scolded him for raising a ruckus. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

In the evening he come out on the porch in his Sunday best She be sitting there with me shelling peas or helping the children with they spelling. The Color Purple 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

He reached him in an instant, grabbed the back of his shirt collar, lifted him off the porch floor, and slammed him onto his back. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Matt felt a revulsion to him, but he allowed himself to be led around the porch. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

But apart from my big performance on the front porch, Wednesday is mostly boring. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I hurry over to the porch and slide the board to one side. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

“Would you like to hear Mademoiselle Reisz play?” asked Robert, coming out on the porch where she was. The Awakening 1899-04-22T00:00:00Z

They were sitting in a hammock on the side porch when he popped the question. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

To the point that I’ve somehow moved from the sidewalk near the street, up the cracked walkway, to the base of the porch steps. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

Chess left the can in the door, and they all inched forward: off the porch, down the driveway.... The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

During the afternoon, when the trader was at work, his wife sat on the porch. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I stood on the familiar front porch, surrounded by foreign wicker furniture. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

He raised the hat in a gesture that took in the entire neighborhood, the ghetto with its shantytown porches, unpaved streets, and disconsolate laundry. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Van Sandtford has come out on the porch and is looking at me as if she knew something about me that I don’t know. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

She wore jeans and smoked on the porch and owned a small bookstore. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

She hadn’t even gotten fully to the porch but she was already speaking. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

I’m assuming he’s got bad eyes, as he hits the bushes and the roof as often as the porch at our house. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

Soon as I think about the porch I can feel him looking, wondering what I’m up to, coming in so sneaky. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

I picked up the Commonwealth off the porch and followed Grampa into the house. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

Mother chased him with bandages but he batted her roughly away and went outside to pace the porch. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was sitting in a deck chair on a huge porch, gazing across a meadow at green hills in the distance. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

Dicey pushed her way through the long grasses to the steps leading to the porch. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Aunt Maggie screamed and rushed off the porch and down the dusty road into the night. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

She tipped her head toward the back door, which led out to a screened porch. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Perched on the steps, an old-fashioned radio played conjunto music, and on the shaded porch, sitting in a rocking chair, a skinny old man gazed at the horizon. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

While I waited for the television to warm up, I looked out the window—just in time to see Nigel walk my sister up the porch steps and whisper something in her ear. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

On the porch again, he kisses me and pants as I tousle his ears. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

He touched the screen door in back, found it open, slipped in, moved across the porch, listening. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nothing existed for her but the trader’s house, the porch with Grandmother’s bed, and an endless present. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nel waited on the porch of 7 Carpenter’s Road while Sula ran into the house to go to the toilet. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Above us was the second-story porch, lined with slanting, rotting rails, and sitting on the porch was the Maginot Line herself. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe a piece of wood from the porch had come loose and she was replacing it. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

But sitting on that porch with Mrs, Odom, I sort of wished I had let him help me some. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

It made me squint to look at it, but as I arrived I saw she was waiting impatiently on her porch. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Stumble out I hear him mutter somethin to Mr. sitting on the porch. The Color Purple 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Gladys and I rose early to peel potatoes, then we sat for hours in the front porch playing jacks or jumping rope to made-up rhymes. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Tony ran out the front door and leaped off the porch, sailing right over the geraniums. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

For me, it was reminiscent of the weekends I’d spent as a child trailing my dad as he climbed up all those porch steps, going about his duties as a precinct captain. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

The firm possession of a yard, a porch, a grape arbor. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sure enough, I could hear the baby skunks wailing from their hidden nest under the porch. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

I want to pile in the hammock on the Clairmont porch and be the Liars once again, if it’s possible. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

“I heard Wishbone barking last night,” Howard said one day while we sat on the old couch on his front porch eating Popsicles. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

Then we stood on her porch admiring it. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

I could hear Viola ringing the dinner bell on the back porch. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

And one of them, Mrs. Clara Teece, came to stand in the dust by the hardware porch, blinking up at her stiff and angry husband as the black river flowed full behind her. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

I sit on the porch waiting for something to happen. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

It was not the words that bothered her—nothing too frightening there—it was the idea that someone was sneaking around and leaving them on her porch. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

Now it’s the Saturday before the tryouts, and Mrs. V and I are sitting outside on her front porch. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

I walked across the porch and peered in the window. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

“On the porch,” Tiller said, “but we’re going to have to figure out how to get that other bucket out. Don’t want it rotting in the water.” Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

Grandpa and Dale helped her onto the porch and into the house. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

And there was a photograph of his father, dressed in black, sitting on a country porch with his hands folded heavily in his lap. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

“So,” she says, taking a deep breath that takes away the new freedom my lungs have just found—I can tell this isn’t going anywhere good—“what were you doing out on the porch?” Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

She darted off the porch and down the path to our privy. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

They were on the front porch when Henry halted. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

She accentuates this with a stomp of her rollator on the front porch. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

She turned from him and started up the porch steps. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

In the glow from the neighbor’s motion-sensor porch light, I can make out their faces. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

Then she went to get a gold bar pin for her dress front, to make the neck higher, and I went out to the porch for a drink of well water. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Miss Glory came running in from the yard and the women from the porch crowded around. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

I ran out to the porch and hugged her. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Then Saturday morning rolled around, and we found ourselves shivering on Cletus Underwood’s front porch, knocking to be let in. Missing May 1992-03-01T00:00:00Z

On the outskirts of the capital they built a storybook cottage, two stories, fretted with eaves and little porches and window boxes, an incongruous Alpine look in the tropics. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

“Time for digging,” I say, and walk off the porch. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

Buds and then yellow roses appeared on the bushes by the porch. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

Pecola climbed the porch stairs and hesitated there, afraid to follow him. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

If no one is in the soda shop, Henry might be sitting outside on the front porch in one of the old rocking chairs. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Jody picked up a stone to help the game along, but he was too late, for the cat was under the porch before the stone could be discharged. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

A couple days later I woke up early and hungry and staggered out to the front porch to see if the milk had been delivered. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Step out on the fresh yellow porch boards. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

The three of them were standing on a stone front porch, huddled together even though there was plenty of room to spread out. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

I find a spot half a block down and walk back up the street to an old, two-story house with a big porch. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

Momma was blubbering and smiling and covering her mouth with both hands and ran right up on the porch and nearly broke that Utde old woman in half. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

After dinner Gran and I sat on the plastic patio furniture on her back porch. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

When I make it home, I find Marv asleep in the backseat of his car and Ritchie sitting on my porch. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

The garden ran neat and tidy from the back porch down to the cobhouse beside the yard where she stretched her clothesline. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

By the time I reach the back porch, though, the whole family’s facing down the driveway, ’cause there’s the sound of a truck motor growing louder and louder. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

He looked in through the gateway at the dark porch, slowly opened the gate, and went up the overgrown path. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

They trooped around the side of the house and across the porch. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now he understood, and said, “Don’t worry, honey. Just lock the doors and turn on the porch light.” In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

Minnie walked out the front door and apologized for the appearance of the yard as I carefully stepped onto the porch. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

The porch overlooking the creek had fallen off. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

The lady with the wild red hair opened the door and came out onto the porch. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

“Don’t mind that sagging porch,” Sairy said, leading the way inside. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

Mom returns to reading, and I draw the front of a gray-shingled house, porch steps, and a front door with a doorbell. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Genie thought that sounded kinda cool—Grandma out there picking peas and Grandpop sitting on the porch with his shades on, playing some kind of pea-picking soundtrack. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

As Sounder licked the bottom of the pan it rattled against a loose board in the porch as if somebody were walking across the floor. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

On one such lazy, hot summer night Granny, my mother, and Aunt Addie were sitting on the front porch, arguing some obscure point of religious doctrine. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

I got up from the steps of his front porch where we were sitting. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

A man stood on the front porch, blasting away randomly with the Transvice, sending people to their wispy deaths. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

This was my neighbor, who had sat on his porch in his undershirt for most of my life. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

‘Hush!’ said Gandalf from the shadows at the back of the porch. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

He spoke in a strong voice and smiled as he sat down on the top step of the porch. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I try to go back inside the crumbledown I see again what is left of our porch. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

"I'm delighted to see you," said Gatsby standing on his porch. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

Thousands of homes had been cut into the rock, and each had a single large gemstone embedded above its entrance, like a diamond porch light. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

She leaves her porch and walks down the stairs where she says she finds herself sleeping at night, and opens the gate and stops right in front of me. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

The crescent of weather-beaten bird cages, the rusted chairs left on the back porch, the sound of birds cawing and flapping around—it was all kinda freaking Genie out. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

The building was ringed by a rickety porch—sagging rockers, peeling paint. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

He ate on the porch with the hens. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Here they learn the rest of the lesson begun in those soft houses with porch swings and pots of bleeding heart: how to behave. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

A small gray bird swooped down from the sky and landed on the porch railing. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

Emilie sat on the porch and watched me go to my grandmother’s house. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

The motorboat towed Zeitoun and Frank to the woman’s house, and once they were close, the young men cut the engine and coasted toward the porch. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

My heart was pounding like crazy and I was out of breath as I climbed the wide front steps and stood on his porch, knocking on the door. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

As he did so, he realized his mistake and tried to recover, but by this time Ben had flicked the ball away from him and retrieved it near the porch. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Just sat there on the porch in the dark, waiting for Papa. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

We’re living in a larger place now, the three of us: the upper two stories of a red brick semidetached house with a sagging wooden square-pillared porch, on a side street west along Bloor. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

I am also visited regularly by the skunk kits who live underneath the front porch of a nearby house. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

‘Yeah. I guess I would. Every time the doorbell or the phone rings, every time anybody steps up on the porch, something in the back of my mind thinks about that man.’ The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

One afternoon, after we’d finished swimming, we were hanging out on his front porch. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

Captain Morse was idling on the porch, smoking a pipe. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

The porch, she noticed, continued around the back. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

He popped out and joined us on the porch. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

He sat on the porch swing, thinking about himself as a child—a skinny, clumsy boy running through the hills and climbing trees. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

He tied the other end to the porch rail. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

I was thrown on the ground about three sajenes away from the porch and for a moment I lost consciousness. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

He tried to determine when it had been built, but except for the sagging screen all around the long porch, the house was like the mesas around it: years had little relation to it. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

They quieted down when they came to the back porch. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’s pacing along the porch in his slippers. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

One afternoon I found her sitting alone upon the front porch, reading. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

I sat on the porch with my book in my lap, glad I'd brought it along. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

A gust caught Kabuo Miyamoto’s shirt as he stood on the porch so that the collar of it brushed his neck for a moment and the shoulders ballooned out, filled with air. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

At the far end of the fields stood a cedar-shingled farmhouse with a wraparound porch. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Doha was sitting on the wooden porch of his house with his sister, eating corn, when his friend Gunwoo ran into their courtyard in tears. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

She marched up to our porch and opened the screen door, then unlocked the front door, then swung it wide to allow Deputy Collins to walk in first, the rest of us behind him. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Finally, Lincoln walks downstairs and out onto the front porch, where the presidential carriage awaits. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

Rosaleen walked across the back porch, leaned out the door, and spit a tiny jet stream across the hydrangeas. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Monday afternoon at three o’clock, I’m waiting on Judd’s porch when he pulls up. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

I stood on the porch, eyes and mouth wide open. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

It was still light out, and I could see our porch through the woods. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

When the Americans arrived, Heisenberg was sitting on the porch, waiting. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

And to the left of the porch, a window. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

By the time I got to the front porch, Mrs. Odom was already out the door giving Wishbone a piece of cheese. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

“I sure could use some lumber for my front porch,” he said, nonplused. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Baxter took the Sunday newspaper with him to the back porch. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

I go around to the back, to the porch where they keep wood for the stove, and I open the door and fall onto the floor. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

I pause on the porch until I hear the bar slide into place, then I jog out to join the knot of men gathering in the street. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

I say it because every morning since he turned eleven or so he would wake up before anyone else in the house, go out onto the porch, and read a chapter of a book. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

As Lillian wandered about the empty rooms of the house carefully making mental notes about furniture placement and room arrangement, Colonel Meecham herded his children to the front porch for a morale check. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

For some reason, we were both into front porches. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

Mom’s heels clip-clopped against the porch steps and she opened the front door. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

All they needed was to see Matt’s long spare shape coming down the street and by the time he got to the porch they were ready for him. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

Starks piled fodder under the big tree near the porch and the mule was usually around the store like the other citizens. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

There on the porch sat Mr. Loomis in his chair, leaning slightly forward. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

“Mother’s out on the back porch,” I tell her but Pascagoula doesn’t smile, doesn’t even look up at me. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

And right when the lion’s mouth bit down on the Adah that turned into a bushbuck, the real Adah disappeared from there and turned up okay on our porch. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

She came back to the porch with her bristles sticking out all over her and with dissatisfaction written all over her face. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

Nights after school board meetings, she was condemned to sip iced tea alone on Mr. Crane’s porch while her father browbeat the old superintendent inside and drank up his bourbon. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

In one of the porch’s three rockers, Lewis sat smoking his pipe and nursing a bottle of Pearl. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

I found Trevor sitting on his side of the porch steps, holding his new library book. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

With a pounding heart, I opened the door and stepped out on the porch. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

She ran out to the porch and waved her hands over her head as if she were chasing off an attack of mud wasps. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

By the time she reached the Bottom, the news of her return had brought the black people out on their porches or to their windows. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

He felt it flaring as he went down Parker Head, and flaring again when he passed Mrs. Hurd’s empty house, and flaring when he passed First Congregational and climbed the porch steps to his house. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

This alerts us to a feature of Brunelleschi’s peep-show I have not previously mentioned: he stood, according to Manetti, inside the porch of the cathedral. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

The houses consisted of two square rooms joined together by a common floor and roof with a porch in between. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he came to my house, Dante would place his shoes on the front porch before he came inside. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

We were going to have to stand out there on the porch and hear the moral of the story. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I stayed in the yard, on the other side of the porch rail, out of habit. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

Footsteps outside on the porch silence whatever else Katherine was going to say. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

If he hadn’t kissed me and if I hadn’t sat on the porch Friday night going over it in my head, Mango might not be dead right now. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

On the way back from the fish place, near Toño’s home I see a viejito, an old man, on the porch of a tiny house, sitting in a wooden chair. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

Gerald sat on Aunt Queen’s back porch, idly rolling rocks down the wooden ramp that had been built for her wheelchair. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

She lived in an old three-story, rundown plantation house with morning rooms and sun rooms, and porches wrapped around every floor. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Trotter was at the door, opening it before they reached the porch. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

To Big Ma’s consternation, Mr. Lucas stepped out on his porch and called out, “Ophelia! Ophelia!” like her name was a song. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

In the evening he come out on the porch in his Sunday best. The Color Purple 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Chess stumbled down the porch steps and blindly aimed his feet toward the driveway down to the bus. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Tucker sighed and sat down on the porch swing. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

Finn had opened it and was already leaping off the front porch, skipping all the steps; Emma was holding the door open for Chess. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Then he would go out onto the porch to listen and to search the sky for airplanes. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

He knew where things were: socks in the top dresser drawers, toys in the bedroom closets, skates and bikes on the back porch, and pots and pans stacked neatly in the kitchen cabinet. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

He saw a woman come out of a door, pause, look round; she went to the far end of the porch and dumped something into a garbage pail and went back inside. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

We’d scurry around the porch going through our duties, until at last Dad was satisfied his new crew was ready for the high seas. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

Standing on the porch, before she rang the bell, Miss Ellis took out a comb. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

Jumped out like a deer and made the gesture of tying it to a post on the store porch. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

She’d always come out before and cried on the porch, followed later by her mother. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

Frank dropped his disintegrating bow and ran for the porch. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

I sat on the porch a long dme, waiting for my emotions to ebb. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had no idea where it went, but in an instant the entire porch burst into flames as if I had thrown a grenade. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

As Vivian leaves the bedroom Molly runs back to the front porch. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Or maybe he could just sit on the porch, surprising whoever came out to pick up the paper that next morning. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

She looked at us down through the porch railings and emitted a low, long belch. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

Thing was, that took me right by the back porch. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

There is a turret up top and a wraparound porch. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

But on the porch he said suddenly, “You’re lonely here. You don’t want to stay.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

The front, including a drooping porch, jutted precariously into the air, supported by tall, spindly cinder-block pillars. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

The most notable thing about the old guy on the porch was that he was black, like us. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Grace lives in a two-story shoebox-shaped red brick house with a front porch that has two thick round white pillars holding it up. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Henry opened the porch door, and Pastor Tom stood up from the stool. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

At night lying on the sleeping porch, Andrea and I had often heard women carrying on like this. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I walked up onto the porch and she handed me the flashlight. Because of Winn-Dixie 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

Stuart made it clear the first time he showed up on my porch his fiancee was a bad subject. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

She walked out to the porch and back and then stared out toward the wall. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

She came down the porch steps into the yard, and though he heard the soft step, and knew that it was she, it was a moment before he turned around. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

This was what the porch was waiting for. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

Anxious to see the familiar faces of our friends or some of our own people, we hurried up the block lined with wood-frame houses and screened-in porches. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I see you. Go on now! Get off the porch!” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

She’s sitting out on the porch looking at the hole in the sky where the airplane went away. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Afterwards, prepared to set out but reluctant to leave their sanctuary, they sat in a row on the porch. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Javier arrives before dawn in an unraveling tweed suit, his face sunken to flat angles, and collapses on his mother’s back porch. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

He glanced resentfully at a pile of mutilated stuffed animals heaped in the corner of the porch. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

I sat there on that porch with confusion swirling around me like a swarm of angry bees. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

“Boy,” she called up as it lurched away from the curb, “I’m going to leave the porch door open!” Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

His eyes flickered back to the porch, and then he leaned in to swiftly kiss me just under the edge of my jaw. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

I scramble from under the porch and hurry to the back door. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

Normally we’d bring everyone together for a smudge, but the air was dark and the littlest kids were safe on the back porch in rocking chairs with Minerva. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

It was painted white with gray shutters, and there was a nice front porch. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z

No wonder any household item we carelessly left on our porch quietly found a new home in the night. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

With the cookies that far out on the porch, Mrs. Trent can sit in her front window and get a sideways look at whoever comes out to retrieve them. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I shifted into drive and was ready to shoot down the hill when Tyler appeared on the porch. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The car made a swell racket, and if I went slow, folks who heard me coming had plenty time to run out on the porch and watch me drive by. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

I looks out on the porch and whispers to the other side of the curtain that divides the room, “Ma? You sleeping? It’s the sheriff!” The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

Seth hurried down the porch steps and started across the yard. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

That night when I’m sittin’ out on the porch with Ma and Dad, Shiloh in my lap, I check it out. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z