I blinked my tears away, stuck the spoon in the pot, and leaned over the warm yellow dal. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

They were all far too busy with their pots and pans. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

As I was stirring the pot of food while the sun came up, Amil tapped me on the shoulder. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

White Deer slammed the lid down on the pot. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Inside the huts, girls sat on the ground fanning red charcoals with a bamboo fan or an old plate, or simply by blowing to start the fire under the big pots. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

One afternoon, while the grandmother and I are outside the hut, squatting near the well scrubbing pots and pans, I hear the unmistakable whizzing of bullets around me. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mum served out chicken casserole, one of my favourite things to eat, from a big orange pot. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

Abandoning our tents, we pack our few pots, pans, clothes, and all our food. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I reached for the pot and refilled my bowl. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

The first had occurred the previous week, when Cora knocked over the chamber pot. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

She went to the stove and looked into the pot. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

I move the candles around on the table in hopes that the addition of the canned heat under the pot will maybe give me enough light to get a decent shot. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

The mud-caked dress and shawl she carried away as soon as Lyddie shed them and plopped them directly in a pot of boiling water on the black iron cook stove. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

Richard did, not only because of the prospect of writing in a university but also because he would be in the southeast, in the land of Igbo-Ukwu art, the land of the magnificent roped pot. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

"There he is, with a pot of ale in his hand as usual." The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

I could tell by the leaf-size flames under the pot that it had to be scalding hot, and right away I was wondering if she was melting herself down. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

“You are guests here. Do not stand on ceremony. Take as much as you can eat from the pot,” said Hymir expansively. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

Trays of colorful fruit tarts and sweet puddings dusted with a fairy-frost of sugar had also appeared, along with steaming pots of fragrant tea. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

The air was hot and dripping, as if the city were wrapped in a wool blanket just pulled from a boiling pot. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dozens of kids waited in line for their turn at the pots, their plastic bowls pressed against their chests in anticipation. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Then he filled a pot with well water, and began tossing in the ingredients for getting-better soup, making up the recipe as he went along. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

Inside the cabin, the boy’s mother was cutting wedge-shaped pieces of corn mush from an iron pot that stood on the back of the stove. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

The floor is layered with dry splotches of paint, the walls plastered with sketches of tormented teenagers and fat puppies, the shelves crowded with clay pots. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

One time he poked his head inside the cave and she freaked out, yelling and throwing pots at his head. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

There were heaps of fresh-baked white bread on the tables, gobs of butter, pots of marmalade. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had calabashes of water and boiled marula juice, a pot of toasted grasshoppers, a basket of tsenza roots, and a small grass mat covered with ripe bramble berries. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Speaking even when our enemies tried to confuse us by getting on our frequency to scream loudly in our ears and bang pots and pans. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

In front of one column was a potted palm. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Where long ago, on the day that Sophie Mol came, Ambassador E. Pelvis stirred a pot of scarlet jam and thought Two Thoughts. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Here there were a couple of stools, a cauldron, a bench with all sorts of small knives and surgical instruments, and some shelves with pots on them. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

I dropped the hot dog into a pot of water. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

I sit at my desk, thinking about watching the pageant, anger boiling up inside me worse than a pot of collard greens on a Sunday afternoon. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Suddenly where Nico di Angelo had been standing was a potted plant about five feet tall, with drooping green leaves, tufts of silk, and half a dozen ripe yellow ears of corn. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

That was how Mama found me: barefoot and in my nightclothes eating out of the pot of rice from dinner, Dinah propped up against the sugar bowl facing me, in the dark kitchen. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

When we got there, the food was sitting in pots, but no one was around. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

And that would fan the fire for sure, get the pot boiling just when it had started to cool off. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

Round by round, Mitsima built up the sides of the pot; it was narrow, it bulged, it narrowed again towards the neck. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Inej remembered him leaving little bouquets of wild geraniums for her mother to find everywhere, in the cupboards, the camp cook pots, the sleeves of her costumes. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

But the man had turned away, his long cloak swirling so violently that the flame in the pitch pot guttered and smoked. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

I give you tuppence a week to run messages for me and empty the chamber pot and you stand there with your thick gob hanging out and tell me you didn’t do it. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

But beyond What? and Who? his mind was like a big empty pot, and he didn’t know why he had come to his parents’ graves, or what he wanted to ask them. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

The woman turned to the stove and began throwing things in a pot, while Lucas sat down next to Hazel and forbade her from putting her head on the table. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

It looked like one of those mittens you used to handle hot pots, only it was silver. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

When she looked inside, instead of a steaming heap of fine white corn, she saw only three lone kernels, the ones she had placed in the pot day after day. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

The agent poured himself a cup of free trade coffee from the wheezing pot, took a sip, and frowned. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

I sit down near him with a burned cook pot. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Anyway, she snuck into the teachers’ lounge during lunch and drank half a pot of cold coffee, just because she’s not allowed to drink it and she was curious. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

After lunch, I was visited by Mrs. Flagg and a frowning clerk with a spotted face who carried an account book, an ink pot, and quill. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Before he could do anything to stop them the badger and her companion tipped the bulky pots over. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

He sat with the pot of orange drink still in his hand, staring at the plane, not quite understanding it yet; not quite knowing yet that it was over. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He gets them from his mother, delicate, but strong. Perfect for scrubbing pots, eh woman?” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

He warmed it in a pot of hot water. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Mam has the fire going and something boiling in a pot. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

The flame of hope that burned in him was smaller now, but no less bright or fierce, and he tended it almost daily with visions of the pot he would make. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

One teensy hope she held on to was that a workman or a house guest had left the pot there. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

“Guess she wasn’t paying attention and the smudge pot tipped over. Next thing they knew, the kitchen was on fire.” Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Let’s see what else has gone to pot since the Big Dad has been gone,” Bull announced. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Winter blessings were heavy and thick like Mother’s pot of homemade stew, like the knitted hat and scarf she makes me wear when it snows, when the cold pierces my skin, freezes my bones. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Mr. Franklin is standing at the stove, breaking spaghetti over a pot and dumping the noodles into boiling water. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Ronny shakes his wrist and turns his attention to the pot. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

Midget trees stood in mossy pots round the unused fireplace. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

Before the chain was finished, Mother made a big pot of coffee. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

Dad is pouring coffee from the pot into two travel mugs—one for him and one for Mom. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

“Either do something with those crab pots tomorrow or pull ’em in,” Dad said. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

She cleaned her hands at the washbasin, then ladled some stew from the pot cooling on the potbelly stove. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

There are delicious smells in the room, cabbage, potatoes, and the pig’s head, but when Dad lifts the head from the pot to a plate Malachy says, Oh, the poor pig. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Thanks to Father—who brought my entire postcard and movie-star collection here beforehand—and to a brush and a pot of glue, I was able to plaster the walls with pictures. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Viviana rolled her eyes as she checked a pot of something on the stove. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

Using pot holders, Jay carries a huge pot of potatoes from the kitchen. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

She kept a potted plant in one corner and a folding table where students could fill out music work sheets in the other. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

She pulled at threads invisible to Anya, and the smell coming out of the pot changed. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

It had bay windows, a pitched roof, and an enclosed front porch on which I saw potted geraniums. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

You look like a mummer girl with a pot on her head. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Then she added the ham hocks to a big pot of boiling water spiced with garlic, celery, and onion. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Her fingertips on his skin held the warmth of a clay pot left out in the sun. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Then a bouquet of roses, some peonies and a potted plant. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Lena poured the milk from the pot into a pair of mugs. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

His mother laid a pot on the stovetop and turned to face him. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

She passed the pot of herbs to her guest. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

They liked it as sweet as possible, so Nhamo measured six spoonfuls of sugar into the pot. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The best way to grow sunflowers is in the ground, not in pots or planters. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

We taught the children how to make pot holders out of yarn and how to glue rice, glitter, and tinsel to paper plates to make collages for their folks. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Miyax found the names so nice that, as she took her cooking pot from the fire to offer her guests hot ptarmigan, she hummed and sang. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

My babysitter walked me and a pot of coffee across to meet the new people. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

She could go on and in her sorrow put a pot of beans in the oven, bake six pies, and plan to exactness how much food would be necessary properly to feed the funeral guests. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

On the other side of the dome, they've built a garden with flower beds and potted trees. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

“Sweetheart, take them the fresh pot of coffee,” said Mother. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

Our rugs and tables and bookshelves and Papa’s desk and most of the stuff in the kitchen except for a few pots and pans and dry food are staying behind. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“Go on with you, fleabag. Find us a pot of porridge or an apple pie.” Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

My mother made a pot of coffee and began dropping hints that Abbey and I should leave them alone. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

“We’ll pour it into a pot, and every family gets a measured scoop.” Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

At noon, they had a hot dinner of pot roast and noodles or something good like that. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Grandma brews a large pot of barley tea every day and leaves it on the stovetop. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

Singer put on a pot of coffee and got out his chessboard. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

I thought of our warm kitchen at home in Tilsit, the soft ring of the lids trembling on their pots, and my sister’s laughter echoing throughout the house. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Then in the afternoon when Margot is stuck with cleaning all the pots and pans, Madame exclaims, “Oh, poor Margot, you have so much work to do!” The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

I now held the pot for him when he urinated—he who, in my childhood, had been called upon to capture and weigh my water and faeces. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

Later that day, when I got home from school, Dad told me two terrapins had drowned in my pots. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

She went over to the lobster stock and poured it through a sieve to sift the chunky bits out and pour only liquid into the pot. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

I was no longer chasing rainbows; I was looking at my pot of gold and everyone at the foundation had witnessed my fight. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

"I didn't notice before. Let's see how it looks in your new pot." We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

“Be a sloth,” Genie tossed in the pot. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

After two bouts of Danuta boiling her lower regions in a pot and one vigorous run up and down the stairs, I ask Emilika what time she’s supposed to be at the photography shop. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

We finished off the pot, and while I pulled down our medications, Dad put the kettle on for another round. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

When he was done he tossed the empty flagon aside and half-rolled and half-staggered to the floor, groping for a chamber pot. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

He sentenced us to kitchen patrol—scrubbing pots and platters all afternoon in the underground kitchen with the cleaning harpies. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

She pulled out the green leaves stuffed in the mouth of one pot and the wine frothed over, white and fresh and sweet-smelling. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

“The rest of you, bring me three large flat stones from the river. And scrub them clean! And bring back two pots of water, too. Who’s been cleaning these?” The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

A few inches down was a small pot. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

They burned it in one of the pots, and the stench was like a corpse exhumed for its bones too soon. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

All we need to do is sauté olives, capers, anchovies, garlic, chopped parsley, and tomatoes together in a pot, and prepare spaghetti to go with it.” The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

She opened the pot of rice and closed it. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

They carry long spoons, which they insert into the pot. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

In a split second, the boys grabbed the pot and plopped it deep into one of the big kettles of soup. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

A hurricane won’t move her, but the sound of a crying baby or a falling pot will send her to her feet like a soldier at reveille. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

I add the water to the pot of rice and push the heel of my hand against the rough grains. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

I gave it a strong look but knew I’d broken her pot and needed to make restitution. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

But when a group of twenty rebel soldiers follow them, they’re blown to bits by a row of potted rosebushes in front of a flower shop. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

He covered a pot with a metal lid and rested his cooking spoon to the side. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Mom sold one of her two dresses and an assortment of old pots, and spent all last week taking over shifts from her coworkers. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

My mother would boil a big pot of dandelion greens, and we would eat that. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once a day they empty the pots—once a day! X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

“So you’re going to arrest a bunch of kids for having pot? It’s legal now, you know!” Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Sarah came back with Nigel and gave him a pot of peas to shell. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

She could almost roll them up and hide them in a pot. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I just don’t feel at home without my chamber pot,” she exclaimed, and it was the first item to find a permanent place under the divan. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Grandma shook a little bit of this and a little bit of that into the pots on the stove, shooing Ernie away, telling him to go sit down. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

He would drink a pot of turnip-green liquor and eat a pone of cornbread. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

“I didn’t know that he was digging. I saw him only when he came to leave food every morning and take away my...chamber pot.” Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

Powder puffs, brushes, and pots of rouge sit like macarons on a sweets tray. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

The dragon watched as Minli stirred the big pot of rice. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

The first person in line scooped out water into pails, pots, and buckets, then passed it down. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

In fact, on that Sunday morning Mrs. Clare had just poured herself a cup of coffee from a freshly brewed pot when Mother Truitt returned. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

I choose a gift for myself, too: a pot for my peperomia, in the same color as Ana and Javier's vase. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

She muttered something and went back to the stove, coughed, spat into a bubbling pot. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Stella said, taking the stirring spoon from her and peeping into the pot. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

“Little chicken body and that long lopsided tail and all those different colors. It looks like it rolled around in a zillion paint pots.” Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

Under Louis XIV tables, around potted palms, up stairways, around corners, down stairways, into the main lobby, picking up other people as we went. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

"The pots and pans are here," she says. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

We heated water in a large pot and poured it into a large aluminum tub. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

Behind the curtain he had a chamber pot, bowls, water, and towels. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Pattie gets back with the potting soil, we are going to plant nine different types of sunflowers. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

“Quincy, we’re not going to boil the girl in a pot.” Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Never had a single baby I raise come up to me and say, Aibileen, why I sure do thank you for showing me how to go in the pot. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Rahel remained behind in the Inspector’s office and listened to the rude sounds of Baby Kochamma’s relief dribbling down the sides of the Inspector’s pot in his attached toilet. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then she picked up the stirring spoon and turned toward the pot of simmering soup. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

The Wart walked up to the great sword for the third time. lie pot out his right hand softly and drew it out as gently as from a scabbard. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

He made lots of noise, fussing with the plants, shifting pots around, turning the volume up, ever so slightly, on the outdoor sounds from the cassette player to cover for the one missing chirp. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

I figured my portion had been the one which stuck to the bottom of the pot. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The cooks used to serve us rice gruel, but now there are only enough grains in the pot to make soup. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Before long, potatoes were boiling in the pot. The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z

On the table in front of him were books and papers, a steaming espresso pot and a tiny cup, and—I was surprised to see—an unfiltered cigarette burning in an ashtray. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

As soon as she saw him come up the alley, she would pick up a basket of mending, or scrub the pots, or reorganize the canned goods on the shelves of the kitchen area. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

The whole way home, Baby Girl is asking questions bout them pots. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Instead he said, “Would you be so good” as to light the fire, empty the chamber pot, fix my dinner? Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dad kept pounding with the shoe and I had to run back through the house to the backyard tap for more water in the kettle and the pot. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

The clanking of a pot hitting the floor jolts my body finally awake. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

Gogol pokes his head into the pot and sees the vongole, their shells uniformly parted in a quietly foaming broth. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

By the time I had reached my freshman year in high school, I was smoking pot three to five times a day. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

I hurried over with my pot and held it above the flame. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Peeta has placed the broth pot under the worst one and repositioned the plastic to deflect most of it from me. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

I say, “You got to make sure she go in the pot from now on. It’s real confusing for her if you don’t.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Earlier, August had boiled her tweezers and fingernail scissors in a pot on the stove and used them to pluck out Rosaleen’s stitches. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Abram scoops the hominy into the mess pots, but I don’t want to eat. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

Mama stirs the food in the pot hard, and her spoon hits the sides. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

She dumped them outside the kitchen hut and fetched a pot of water. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

One day she bought a small plant, an African violet in a plastic pot on sale for ninety- nine cents at a drugstore. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

Inside, Mom sweats over the stove, stirring a pot of stew while my father glares at it from his wheelchair. Red Queen 2015-02-10T00:00:00Z

On the lower shelves, Min placed two prunus vases, a tall jug ribbed like a melon, and a water pot in its matching bowl. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

I wipe away soup on the inside of the pot. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

Rashid Uncle lit a fire in the enormous stove and boiled a pot of lentils. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

My grandmother would give me the pot and say, “Finish it.” Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Running from broken house to dumped cooking pot to icebox, she felt needles of fear move up her spine, spread into her arms, and pierce her whole body. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

After a few minutes, Ma rushes into the kitchen and begins to toss aluminum bowls, plates, spoons, forks, and knives into a big pot. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Eventually, the drugs wore off and I decided that I would never, under any circumstances, smoke pot again. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

We stared at the pot of rice and lentils like it was the most interesting thing we’d ever seen. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

On the long table sit two pots, one full of rice and the other salted grilled fish. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her head turns in surprise when she sees me, but her arms are full with a large palm she is wrestling into a pot and just as quickly her attention turns back to it. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

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

On one of them he stacked some cups around a coffee pot. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

She turns back to lower the heat and cover the pot. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

“But to use the knowledge of the threading, you must learn the making of the shades. When to sadden with the iron pot. How to bloom the colors. How to bleed.” Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The grandmother with nine hundred heads killed each ox, skinned it, and tossed it into her enormous cooking pot. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

Momma brought the soup into the room, took the kettle off the heater and placed the steaming pot on the fire. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

She came running across the railroad ditch to the road and, like a wilted pot plant that just got watered, smiled up at me with the purest pleasure on her face. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Four Anasazi pots were carefully arranged on a rock nearby. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

By five-thirty the entire house sparkled, with scented candles that Twinkle had picked up in Hartford illuminating the items on the mantel, and slender stalks of burning incense planted into the soil of potted plants. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

The Hephaestus cabin had set up traps around the entrance to the Labyrinth—razor wire, pits filled with pots of Greek fire, rows of sharpened sticks to deflect a charge. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

I was relieved to not have to go to the moon house, or walk Vonetta there and stand guard, or carry Fern’s pot there for dumping. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

Her hands, with long tapered fingers and wide nails, grasped pots and cooking spoons from shelves above the stove and placed them soundlessly on the glowing hot-plate burner. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

“Frowning like a rice pot will get you nowhere. Men require that you caress them with your expression.” Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

We’re all as quiet as a steaming pot of rice as we wait to see Papi's reaction to hearing the word “husbands.” Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

All the women knew how to do this, but some people were so good at it that they could sell their pots. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

I did indeed, but it took me a moment to recall what it was—the helmet I had used as a chamber pot. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

Dust cloths, monthly cloths, rags tied around pipe joints to hinder freezing; pot holders and pieces to test hot irons and wrap their handles. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

A stream of water flowed upward from a bucket near the door, crossed the room, and cascaded into a large pot on the stove. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

“One day,” Nhamo said when she had recovered, “a hen belonging to the junior wife wandered into the senior wife’s hut and broke three pots. ‘ A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The pots and knives, the tent and hatchet, the collapsible brass spyglass, all of Nin’s belongings came clattering out in a burst of noise. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Pascagoula set them out to soak last night, instructed me on how to put them in the pot and turn on the flame, put the ham hock in with them. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Mr. Foley and Ben were at baseball practice and there was a huge pot of chicken soup on the stove. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

I tried to grab the pot from her, but she was too quick. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

Clustered at the mouth of the cave were clay pots that probably contained the muteyo. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

It was their whispers that pushed you, their murmurs over pots sizzling in your head. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

Throws some things together in a pot he heats on our hot plate and we eat quiet while our spoons bang the tin plates. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

Then with the dying hum of the furiously whirling drums, I heard the grains sifting lazily in the sudden stillness, sliding sand-like down the chute into the pot underneath. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Against the sound of the train clacking along, the waiters were jabbering the customers’ orders, the cooks operated like machines, and five hundred miles of dirty pots and dishes and silverware rattled back to me. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Inside the kitchen, I poured water from the pot into my boots, filling them up, then carefully wedged my feet back inside. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Marco bent toward me with a tight smile, and in one swoop my drink took wing and landed in a potted palm. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

Ringing the atrium, the second-storey balconies were empty except for potted azaleas hanging from the white metal railings. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

When I did not scrub all the crud off a pot, Gay would say “Reject” and hand it back. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

It had been started by Quakers long ago and had a sunny campus with pots of geraniums lining the front steps. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

He quickly rose and went to the sink to fill a pot with water. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

When Mrs. Hameed is pleased with the mixture, she puts the whole pot into the oven so it can finish cooking. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

Matt and Karen hung pots and pans on nails in the pantry. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

My case arrived, I ordered a pot of tea and hung my dress. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

The pot had many dents and nicks, and the more dents and nicks it acquired the more Mama liked it. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

If a heavy pot of boiling porridge had to be lifted from the fire, Nhamo was told to do it. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were three potted plants hanging from the high ceilings in the front room, and it made the house seem impossibly larger than the outside led you to believe. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

The pot thing and the beer thing, it was just one of those things that happens at a party. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

Instead, it looked like something solid was connecting the measuring cup to the pot. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

He carried a pot of tea to her door, knocked softly, opened the door, and went in. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

They positioned potted plants with red ribbon pompoms in the window. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

He poured the potatoes and the beans into a pot and carried the pot into the diningroom and set it in the fire. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

The few cooking pots and bowls were stacked on a little shelf formed by the rocks, with chopsticks, a single spoon, and Crane-man’s knife in a neat row. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

‘He’s nothing but carrion now. What Lugbúrz will do with such stuff I can’t guess. He might as well go in the pot.’ The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Deeper into the house, in a small kitchen, city-made pots and pans hung from the ceiling, their warped, blackened metal still shining through in a few spots. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

I don’t like to smoke pot, but then I do smoke it and I get depressed. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

So thither I journeyed every morning, and when I said how many we were, perhaps half a mud pot would be doled out, sometimes a little more, depending upon who was in charge. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

Madame now has a new trick up her sleeve: trying to get out of washing the pots and pans. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Part a me want a laugh about them pots, other part want a cry. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

With hands as clumsy as boxing gloves, he fumbled a pot out of the stove and filled it with water. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

“If you’re through, I’ll show you the furnace and the car, and where your room is,” she said and turned the fire low under the pots on the stove. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

The priests with curly beards swung pots of frankincense on chains and never smiled at babies the way they did on usual Sundays. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mama dumped a colander full of cleaned shrimp in a pot. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Then he bends down and lifts the lid of the rice pot next to Pa’s feet. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fresh porgies, dipped in egg, a little cornmeal and flour, and fried in a big pot of hot grease till they were golden brown and crispy on the edges. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

Nhamo filled one of the pots with live coals and perched it in a pool of water at the bottom of the boat. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the kitchen, the pot of hot dogs, which had long since boiled out of water, was seething and shaking on top of the wild gas flames. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once, when she was smaller, she had dropped a pot. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I ran to the stove and pulled the lid off the pot. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

Thank God Archie didn’t go in for pot or that stuff— Obie would have had to become a pusher, for crying out loud, to supply him. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a fireplace with a little pot warming beside it, a high chair, and the reading desk. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Maybe we can boil the water in the tub, one pot at a time,” I suggest, “and collect the steam.” Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

When the water is boiling, remove the pot from the heat and add to it four regular-sized tea bags. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

He carefully removed the bandage on his shoulder, threw the foul-smelling thing in the chamber pot, and replaced the lid before washing his shoulder clean in the hand basin. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

She did not answer, but with a frightened glance at her father turned her back on the room and continued shifting the pots on the shelf behind her. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

I asked her to bring me up a pot of tea, and when she had gone, inspected the room further. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

We awakened from this to find neighboring friends arriving; they brought a large pot of chili con carne, made from a family recipe, the best I have ever tasted. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Hey,” he said, just to me now, as Mom rattled pots and pans in the kitchen. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

She flopped down on the couch and I went into the kitchen to soak my hand in a pot of cold water. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Inside the old city, mountains of stone blocks, sacks, shutters, branches, iron grillework, and chimney pots fill the rue de Dinan. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

I gladly—very gladly—help load bedding, tents, pots, and pans onto the longboat to be taken ashore. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

Linked together by our hands we feel our way to the water pot. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

As Mona rocked nearby, Taisin stared at the iron pot in the fire, wondering if she had been right to let the greenwitch take her blood. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

But then, my father says, “the pot on the stove boiled over.” Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Adam smiled at him when he carried in the steaming pot. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Again, that small, elusive moment rose through everything that had happened since then, like a bubble in a pot on its way to the boil. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

Behind them, a woman in a brown burqa carried a large clay pot on her shoulder, down a rutted path toward a string of mud houses. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

It was still morning, so she kindled a fire from the pot of coals and roasted yams while she thought. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

They went with the pot roast done in the pressure cooker along with the limp carrots and the flaccid potatoes and the onions with their slippery layers. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

When the jaegers arose into the air she picked up the pot and climbed once again to the top of her frost heave. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Our food would be cooked on the gas cooker inside the kitchen, but the metal tripods would balance the big pots that would cook rice and stews and soups for visitors. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

A large pot with beans was hanging by the edge of the fire. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh yes, she arrived the day before yesterday,” said Mrs. Weasley, rapping a large iron pot with her wand. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Next day, Miss Hilly’s house with all them pots makes the front page a the Jackson Journal. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Whenever one of these pots rises high enough, some assassin in the Dark World is bound to be motivated to assassinate that person and win the pot. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

There was a fireplace built into one wall, and above it hung two pots. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

“When we get back, I’ll throw that boy in his mother’s cooking pot and make her watch him die!” Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Giggles drifted in off the porch and into Miss Glory’s pots. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then, with wooden scoops and knives, they took out the pumpkin flesh and put it in a cooking pot. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

In a little while, the water was boiling, and they had chopped up the potatoes and turnips into one pot, and the chuck beef into another. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

He sat up in bed and read seven chapters of The Winning of Barbara Worth, and when it was daylight he went down to the silent kitchen and made a pot of coffee. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

We had left the back door of Aunty Ifeoma’s kitchen wide open although flies buzzed in, circling over a pot of old soup. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

Looking at the two pots, he had to laugh. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the rice was done, the pot was overflowing with snowy white rice. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

Axel, like his own fence, like Byrd’s potting shed, like the flower boxes, like the remaining trees, is rooted to the ground. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

“You need to either stop smoking pot or buy some cologne or something. And breath mints. The fact that Claire doesn’t know yet is insane. She must be in some sort of denial.” Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

Instead, I bang the pots and pans, splash the water and am generally noisy, so that everyone wishes I were miles away. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

“No. You are too clumsy. If you have time on your hands, there are pots to scrub.” Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

When nobody answered she went to the sink and washed her espresso pot. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Castro was standing right in front of me, holding the pot of dumplings. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

She twisted herself into a kneeling position, getting several bad scratches from the acacias in the process, and pulled the clay pot back. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Someone flushed so much pot down one of the toilets in the sculpture studio they had to get somebody in from the Water Department to dig up the septic tank. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

She finished with the herbs, scooped them in both hands and dropped them into the stock pot. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

Still later Michaelis had to ask the last stranger to wait there fifteen minutes longer while he went back to his own place and made a pot of coffee. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

It’s just like they give the ghosts a treasure map and instead of there being a big pot of gold where X marks the spot, there’s some poor kid that’s sound asleep. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

The statues had been replaced by pots of flowers. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Moss pulled on the rubber gloves above the sink and began to scour one of the pots that sat next to the sink. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

“Then there’s nothing left to say,” he murmurs, picking up the pot. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Dad was half potted and kept trying to pick fights with the security guards. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Chomsky torched a potted shrub with a flamethrower. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

He is already hovering over Richard and James, showing them how to scoop up a handful of sand with a rag and use it to scrub out the mess pots. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

He breathed in the steam, thinking back to the first pot of the morning. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

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

Not the heat that glued her skin to the plastic chair, not an outing to the beach, not even a movie followed by a beef pot pie at the Automat. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

It's a rectangle with a henna-inspired border and a cooking pot in the middle with steam rising from it. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

The boy...the wheelchair...the potting soil...there’s a lot to explain! The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

At home Jenny hurried to make a pot of steaming coffee; when it was done, Matt carried a cup of it to Ellen. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

Whew, instead of shooting people they were shooting holes into all of the pots and pans. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

Hie Dothraki cooled the water in jars and pots and drank it tepid. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Then we placed it in another pot and put it back on the burner. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Other times, the buoys broke away altogether, leaving us to dive for the pots on the ocean floor. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

Mother said hell would freeze over before she surrendered her kitchen to an owl, then marched in and began slamming pots to make breakfast. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

A huge pot hung over the fire, which held a delicious-smelling sauce bubbling within it. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every pot grew some sort of herb, flower, or other plant Babulya carefully cultivated and tended to. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

Mam sends me to Grandma to see if we can borrow a pot for the pig’s head. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

I’m seeing if maybe pot is the problem; maybe that’s what has come in and robbed me. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

The card has a picture of two cutesy teddy bears sharing a pot of honey. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

I strip off the fruit and mash it up in the broth pot with cold water. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

A black earthenware pot of tea steamed there, and Sister Ailan gestured to Taisin to take a seat while she poured the tea. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Mama Ya-Ya gets up, and picks up the pot of scalded milk from the stove’s back burner. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

She took us over to one of the big pots and filled up our tin plates. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

The boys, trudging up the slope with pots and dishes, didn’t look especially happy. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

She poured in water from a black bottle; she knelt before the hearth and shoved the pot into the coals. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

She running in the yard and get to the pink pot in the middle and pull up the lid. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

The only time I’ve seen anything green, it was the palm tree in the pot at the audition. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

There was the saliva that formed in my mouth whenever I smelt clay dust potted with fresh rain. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

As I hauled in the pot, something over five hundred dollars—my first real stake in Boston—John got up from the table. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once the pot is on the stove, she pulls out the stuff to make Hector’s formula. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

She took the tray back down to the kitchen, where she poured herself a cup of tea from Ana’s untouched pot, and very deliberately cracked the egg on the countertop, watching the shell splinter. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

They might come looking for her next time, and not just her pots, her pans, her house. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

We packed what we owned in a bedroll and set a pot and frying pan beside it, all set for the next morning. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

An assortment of pots and pans hang from hooks on the wooden studs next to ladles and strainers and big boxes of breakfast cereal, which must come from Costco. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

To run there would be like jumping into the fire to escape the cooking pot. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

Copper pots hang from a wooden rack on the far side of the kitchen; big spoons and ladles are shoved into ceramic holders near the stove top. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

The cook had prepared enough to feed a battalion: pheasant stuffed with figs, stewed oysters, potted larks, greens cooked with bacon, pickled watermelon rind, and buttered parsnips. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Today in music appreciation, Jonah asked me if I’d ever smoked pot, and I said “No, I bet I’m the only person in here who hasn’t.” Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

“I have a pot of tea in the hall. Would you like to come in?” How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

The waiter at Ruby’s put two bowls of chop suey and a fat pot of tea between them. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tah dig is the layer of crispy rice from the bottom of the pot. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

We tied Mom’s art supplies to the roof and filled the trunk with pots and pans and blankets. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

“If ever you learn to make a pot, it will not be from me.” A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

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

He was forever dropping slangy terms into his sentences like dumplings in a pot. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

She brings over a pot of white rice with vegetable bits sprinkled over it and a plate of chicken patties. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

Stella could smell onions simmering in the big dented pot on the stove, supper already in progress. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Stdnes and spears and pots of burning pitch could be rained down on them from above, and all they could do was cling desperately to the ice. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Much to our amusement, Mrs. van Daan was carrying a hatbox with a large chamber pot inside. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

If the pot is made well, does it matter whose son made it? A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

Then after a while she wiped her face for a final time and went over to the pot of greens on the stove. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

They didn’t have to cook perfect pots of things every meal but ate up all the leftovers. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

I take it one step further and now only registered Deckers can connect with me so I don’t have to deal with anyone looking to buy a couch or pot. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

In Sunday school Rex Minton said we better not go to the Congo on account of the cannibal natives would boil us in a pot and eat us up. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Did she hate the thought of scouring pots that much, or was it his confession? A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

As the news spread, children of scientists grabbed pots and pans and ran outside banging them together and shouting. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

I stretch the black roses from the pots behind the throne platform. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

Otherwise there was nothing but betrayal, and that meant going back to serve Bledsoe, and Emerson, jumping from the pot of absurdity to the fire of the ridiculous. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

The hoosh pot was cleaned and scoured, filled with ice to melt, and once the water was boiling, the surgical instruments were sterilized. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

Then a big pot was brought out as we raced to retrieve our indispensable spoons and bowls. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

One day, while she’s saying, .. got a white baby on one arm, green beans in the pot—” she stops. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Brian went to the lake and got water in one of the aluminum pots and came back to the fire. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now, as he looked at the pot, shame clashed with pride inside him. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

She saw dreary wigs, pots of rouge, empty flasks, and an unruly collection of impossible objects scattered everywhere. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Staring at the rice pot, I let out a breath of hopelessness when I see her take the ladle and stir the soup at my turn. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The pots hung over the ashes, but they were empty. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

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

He took out a metal cup filled with water from a large jug to pour in the pot. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Now Juana brought her clay pot of water and she washed the cut on his face while he stared dazed ahead of him. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

He would drink a pot of coffee by the kitchen stove and a deep uneasiness would come in him. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

“One day, a poor boy from another village heard about the girl. ‘Please make me a pot of rice and cowpeas,’ he asked his grandmother. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The waiters stood guard over them with cooking pots. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

The pot roast, collard greens, sweet potatoes, and baked apple pie. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

I've kept my little plant in its plastic pot for too long, and this will look so much prettier. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

“Rafael says it looks like she dumped a pot of tomato sauce on her head.” The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

They loiter over the task, loading the dishwasher, wiping down the table and the butcher-block island, washing and drying the pots and pans. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

A stack of dirty pots rises from a sink, and a kettle of water boils on the stove. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

First, except for the decorations on the pots, the pots themselves and their associated cultural paraphernalia are similar to the cultural remains found at Indonesian and Philippine sites ancestral to modern Austronesian-speaking societies. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

But sometimes she dated nerdy guys, or musicians, like my dad, who apparently used to smoke a lot of pot. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

A pot of glue boils on the stove. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

He chased me into the kitchen, whereupon I picked up a metal pot off the stove and bounced it off his noggin. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, be careful with him,” Kvothe said, setting a pot of grease and a handful of garlic cloves on the table. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

There was nothing else: not a clay pot, not a fork, not a body. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

She attacked the piano with a fervor completely different from her usual, sluggish self, and Matt liked to hide behind the potted plants to listen. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He has pot and he’s so much more laid back than you; you spent the last year studying for this test; he didn’t lift a finger for it. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

The girl, Hagar, was braiding her hair, while Pilate, whose face he could not see because her back was to the window, was stirring something in a pot. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

She reached into her pot for a piece of cooked meat for him and this time he ate from her fingers. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Rose vines push from their pots, curling and lengthening to create a thick and thorny arbor over our heads. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

How much simpler life had been in Chungking, when all she had had to do was lift Precious Coins’ legs over a chamber pot. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

After purifying half a pot of water, I place it in direct sunlight and add several egg-size hot stones to the water. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Tonight she will invite friends to take whatever might be useful, lamps, plants, platters, pots and pans. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

They kiss her with dry lips, slip off her pumps, and boil pots of water for her bath. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

They had also peeled potatoes, scrubbed pots and floors, washed windows, and hauled boxes and broken furniture. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

All those years, and all I ever got was a pot of molten gold. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I woke up the next morning on my own living room floor to the sound of my mom banging pots and pans in the kitchen. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

I walk back toward the stack of mess pots waiting to be scrubbed. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

For this reason the plants grew tall and the people would all think of the delicious corn that would soon be cooking in their pots. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

They melt in glass skin-tone pots creating every pigment imaginable: ink black, sandy beige, eggshell white, desert brown, lemony cream, soft sable, brown sugar syrup, and more. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

She took a pot off the stove and poured something into a cup. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

He took his time unscrewing the paste pot. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Mostly, pottery is owned by sedentary societies: what nomad wants to carry a collection of heavy pots, as well as weapons and the baby, every time he or she shifts camp? Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

But when he placed the worms on Emma’s piano—in flower pots—then the worms responded to the vibrations they felt. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

She fetched the maheu pot and sat under the lemon tree to think. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

He is hunched over a spinning pot, his hands muddy red. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

His men had briefed him about the pots and pans. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

To fill it took a pot and a half of rocket candy. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Either Mom never noticed it or chose not to mention the dent in her pot. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

I watched nervously as the guard took sharp white teeth out of the pot and pushed them into the soil. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

The aunties set about boiling the mealie meal in the rice pot. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

The metal plates bumped around in the pot, and grease and bits of food floated off. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

It’s entirely possible my dad wasn’t as offended that I was smoking pot as he was that I wasn’t smoking it with him. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

Holding my breath nervously, I pray she will take pity on me and scoop my ladle of soup from the bottom of the pot, where all the solid food rests. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He dipped a quill into the ink pot and scribbled a note. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She wasn’t too crazy about cleaning pots and pans. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

Whenever he drained a pot of boiled beans, he thought of the slimy sink as a politician. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

They plan and they fix and they do, and then some kitchen- dwelling fiend slips a scorchy, soggy, tasteless mess into their pots and pans. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

The Greek tyrant Hippias lunged at Piper, his dagger raised, but Piper blasted him point-blank in the chest with a lovely pot roast. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Passing by, you could gauge the progress of the next meal—and Viola’s temper—by the level of pot noise. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

Probably not one but many sponsors have contributed to buy this one tiny pot. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

It included a tiny paintbrush and pots of paint to make the plane look like it was from the war. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

The door opened again and Peggy came into view carrying a pot of coffee in one hand and a folding card table in the other. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

He went into the kitchen of his mother-in-law’s house, plugged in a pot of coffee, and studied a road map of Georgia. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The soup is still nice and warm in its iron pot. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Lotty reported that they had eaten “a much, and greatly laughed, and the master bid her throw away all the sweet stuff, and hide the pots.” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘But what did I say? Mortals cannot go drinking ent-draughts and expect no more to come of them than of a pot of beer.’ The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

I turned the stove off and put the pot of burnt raspberries into the sink. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

Even Stephanie is peering into the chicken pot with a look of curiosity. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

“This,” she said, proudly holding a small flower pot. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

“Do not just stand there like a statue. Fetch me a pot of tea.” Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

For a few days I was desolate, but then I decided that if you can’t catch crabs where you are, you move your pots. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

She went back to the pots, all lined up on the front porch, and she took three in her arms and carried them to the McCall house next door. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

The big pots simmered and boiled, but they must not smoke. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

He loaded me down with three pots of sweet marjoram, which he said everyone needs in his or her garden. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

We drank from a large pot before washing our legs off. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

The molten lead in the melting pot was nearly exhausted. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

“Tell your mama her beans will go perfect with the killed lettuce. I hope Mrs. Odom is bringin’ her famous corn pone,” Stella’s mother said as she stirred another pot. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Dad said Now you yourself haven’t smoked pot, right, Craig? and I told him no, no I hadn’t, not before the SATs like he told me. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

Inside, the home is sunny, cozy, and absolutely immaculate, lined with framed photos and green potted plants, clay pots, and odd, metallic sculptures. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The Martian desert lay broiling like a prehistoric mud pot, waves of heat rising and shimmering. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

We sat on the number five bus, headed downtown, laughing at some girl whose mother was known to reach for anything—cable wires, extension cords, pots, pans. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

I shook it out over the sink and started a new pot. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

He wanted to show them the photos of Kainene and the roped pot, but then he thought better of it. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

He is as fat as a hamster in winter, but he trundles his pots when it comes to that right up to the very front-line. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Monte Testaccio, the hill of broken pots southeast of Rome, was a garbage dump for the entire imperial city. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

They were staring past her, into the grand Victorian space of the ward, the lofty pillars, the potted palms, the neatly ranged beds and their pure, turned-down sheets. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

I'm leeched, stuffed with food and two pots of Belle-rose tea, and my fingers are set and wrapped in a splint. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

Going to St. Anne’s Church on Easter and choosing a blooming crocus in a green plastic pot covered with foil that was silver on one side, bright yellow on the other. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Matt sat in his room with the guitar as he listened to Celia bang pots in the kitchen. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mama points to the butter chicken in a gigantic pot on the stove. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

Soon a kettle began to whistle softly on an electric heater, and Az poured the boiling water into an antique pot, releasing a floral scent into the room. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

She kneels down and retrieves a pot from one of the lower cupboards. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

She got the coffee pot and poured his cup full. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Friday night a week later we crammed into an old truck with ten other people and an assortment of secondhand goods—cupboards, wardrobes, gramophones, pots, pans, tables, mirrors, cement bags, bricks, chairs and glass windows. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was starting to get hungry just watching her stir the pot. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Dad wrapped the line around the bar of the machine that pulls in the crab pots and started moving it slowly. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

This, at least, was the same process, whether on a molded figure or a thrown pot. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

She chopped up old termite mounds and used the clay to make pots, firing them in heaps of coals. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I run the potatoes and the cream through the blender before I add it to the white sauce in the pot,” I say. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

I felt as freshly watered as a potted plant. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

We did two loads of laundry, washed out our cups and food bowls and pots and pans, bought and sent postcards, phoned home, and stocked up liberally on fresh and packaged foods in the shop. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

He would make a broad, fine bowl with a pattern of reed flowers inlaid in silver wire, and he would make a little eye-paint pot with a hinged lid, and a bracelet. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

We helped him clean the pots and dishes and then we were each able to shower. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“Don’t let them stick to the bottom of the pot. I’m going into the living room and put my feet up and watch television like the Rockefellers.” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Isobel picks up a potted violet that has toppled in the wake of the falling books and places it back upon its shelf. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

“No, you know the reason I took a pot shot at it, Loretta says? She says I was temporarily insane. No kidding. From the shelling and all.” Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

My mom stood in the kitchen, a soapy pot in her hand, and looked at me, baffled. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

Pa walks over to Keav and takes a ball of sticky rice out of the pot she is carrying. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instead, I have my pots of paint and my ragged pages. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

Steam wafted from the pot’s contents—a thick, hearty stew of barley, beans, and potatoes, studded with chunks of brisket and sausage. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Nearby was an extra pot of rice and chicken. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Mami has cooked a big pot of arroz con pollo, the rice yellow and soupy with pieces of chicken mixed in. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

Light spills into the hallway, and a moment later, I hear pots and pans clanging. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

Kapu sat down and watched with wrinkled forehead as she scooped the meat into the pot. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

They squirmed, kicked, flailed their sharp little fists, and gnashed their teeth; Harry spent ten whole minutes trying to squash a particularly fat one into a pot. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

He eats half a potato with its skin on and puts the other half back in the pot. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

“If I had me a nice goose quill and a pot o’ maester’s ink, I could write down that me member was long and thick as me arm, wouldn’t make it so.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Two women walked from the head of the line to the foot, one holding a pot of menthol-scented gel, the other face masks and sickness bags. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

Three fine needles of whalebone, an awl for making holes, a good stone knife for scraping hides, two cooking pots, and a small box made from a shell with many earrings in it. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was like a pot of vegetable soup boiling on a stove, everything moving. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

I boil sour milk in a pot, mash in some of the stale bread, and try to feed them from a cup, bread and goody. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

He makes saffron rice pudding, stirring patiently, pulling the pot from the fire with a troubadour’s timing. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

As Shirley stood at the stove, stirring a pot of stew or whatever, she'd squint with real concentration when I read to her. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

“If you would one day be teaching me to make a pot.” A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

If the fire was too hot, you could hardly keep the pudding from scorching by tossing a handful of raisins in the pot. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

He could stand no more, but as she withdrew the water pot, he raised a hand toward her wrist. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

"Easily in but not easily out, as the lobster said in the lobster pot!" The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

I fetched a fresh pot of coffee from the kitchen. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The basin and pot and tub were pale blue. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I might as well be cooked in a cannibal pot. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every so often one of them came out and grabbed hot water from a big caldron in the fogón or poured a cup of coffee from the pot on the embers. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

I am in the kitchen, slamming around the pots. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

She made a pot of fresh coffee, some toast, and scrambled a couple of eggs. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The light blue kitchen tiles were worn and chipped at the comers, but they looked scrubbed clean, as did the pots, whose lids did not fit, one side slipping crookedly into the pot. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

And stewed meat in heavy enamel pots, with bay leaves and carrots and potatoes that soaked up gravy. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

“You don’t know where we can find any pot, do you?” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Trembling, the woman fetched two more pots from the cluster at the cave entrance. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

We are supposed to sew pot holders, for our mothers. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

The mayor’s mother puts a pot of water on to boil and sprinkles in salt and herbs to clean his wounds. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Above the refrigerator were shelves holding more pots and jars, more spoons and knives, a wind-up clock that Granny always forgot to wind, and a long row of cans. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

If her mother tried to boil such a small amount, the pot would be dry long before they could count to two hundred. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was getting some meg feed on the food bar and the pot stickers were really cheap. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

On top of it sat a small pot of rice, another of soup, and a kettle of barley tea. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

Mama walks to the small kitchen area and grabs the few pots, pans, and bowls that we have. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

One of them slaps a woman, because she does not grab her pot and her wares and run. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

It is surprisingly similar to cleaning and polishing mess pots. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

Professor Sprout took a large plant pot from under the table and plunged the Mandrake into it, burying him in dark, damp compost until only the tufted leaves were visible. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

He’d get dinged up and stay shiny, like an old copper pot. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, maybe. Fang usually only smokes pot. He’s done acid a couple times. And Ecstasy. And shrooms. And Special K.” Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

I make sure to cover all the pots so that my Thanksgiving meal is a surprise. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

I leaned over the pot to get a better whiff, but Babou pushed me back. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

“Well, he’s going to stir the pot for us. He’ll call some of his INS buddies,” she said. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Mandy scoured a pot so hard that it clattered and banged against the copper sink. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

He collected scrap metal, made clay pots, and worked in a convenience store. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

I rush back to our station and stick a teaspoon in the pot. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

Favorite pots showed their dark bottoms from hooks and gaily colored flowers from the pasture leaned out of thin glassware. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

In the morning, when he woke, big, egg-shaped pots of corn- and-bean mash would be on the fire, simmering with meat, vegetables, or dried fish to make a slow-cooked dinner stew. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

María called over the din of clanking pots and sizzling butter. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

After so many attempts at making the petal that was eventually used for the water pot, his hands seemed to work of their own accord, flattening here, pinching there . A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

I dropped the crushed pods into the pot, filled it with water, and waited for it to finish damming. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Witch planes can be anything: a wooden basin, a clay pot, a simple hat. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

Outside, a pot half filled with white sand sat on the fire; he would give it a little more time to heat up before he placed the dough inside. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

My mother got up, fetched a plate from the rack, and filled it with stew from the iron pot on the fire. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Over the glowing embers Grandma put an old pot on a tripod. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

Outside, Deydey worked continually, emptying pots from inside and chopping holes in ice, fishing to keep them strong, making sure the water in their kettle was always fresh and clear, their wood piled high. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

Balee plucked out half a dozen pieces of ceramic: shards of pots and plates, a chipped length of cylindrical bar that may have been part of a pot’s support leg. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Pa shakes his head while cleaning the pots and pans before we eat so the dishes won’t seem as mountainous when our stomachs are filled, a trick Abuelo taught him. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

The ceiling was thick with cobwebs, the floor coated in grime; moldy and rotting food lay upon the table amidst a mass of crusted pots. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

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

They threw a little bit of everything from the dwindling food stores into the hoosh pot for dinner and had a round of singing to Hussey’s banjo. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

Tree-ear had concluded that molding was not at all the same as throwing a pot on the wheel. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

Instead it was a blizzard of rushed work, missing ingredients, unscheduled spills and dropped pots, unscheduled trips to the store, unscheduled pangs of doubt, and second-guessing. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

I don’t want to scrub pots like a woman, so I hurry to get one of the hatchets, too. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

Her words echo in me until I’ve washed the final pot, made my way up all those stairs, and climbed into bed. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

It was littered with belongings: brass beds, chairs, kitchen tables, pots and pans, cribs, and piles of clothes. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had imagined himself at the wheel, a beautiful pot growing from the clay before him. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

Over the fire sat a three-legged iron pot in which something cooked. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

Just the sound of fork clanking against plate, water splashing against pot. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The teapot and the rice pot seemed bottomless, but perhaps not; the old couple ate very little except for peaches. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Those are the smudge pots. Wait’ll you see them when they’re burning. Fire comes shooting out of the tops of them.” Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

She stuck the giant pot of potatoes on the floor for me, and I worked on handling the masher with my feet. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

In an empty flower pot he housed a sociable family of white-footed mice. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

It’s fine with him, not to have their apartment crammed with a dozen crystal vases and platters and matching pots and pans. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

The smudge pots were hellish machines, belching foul-smelling smoke and shooting a dangerous wild flame out the top, like upside-down rockets. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Stoke the fire and set a pot of water to boil. Then come up here and fetch these dirty sheets.” Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She blew last night’s coals into a flame and hauled a large pot to the fireplace. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I opened my eyes, I lay for a minute, watching Osh as he stood at the stove, cooking porridge in a scabby pot. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

We bought some tamales that a woman was selling by the subway from a huge pot in a grocery cart. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

“A big pot, and we’re going to fill it with water as hot as you can take, okay? And you’re going to sit in this pot for thirty minutes...” The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

It seemed like he had just closed his eyes when morning came and he and Ernie were jolted awake by Grandma banging on a pot from the bottom of the steps. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Then she began to clean the pots off the table. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

I followed it all, heated it on the stove, and before I knew it, I had made a pot of pale gray mush. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

Then he literally marched them all up to bed, installed Maddie in his fox’s den of a library on the way, and came back to her twenty minutes later carrying a steaming silver coffee pot. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

Baba asks, peering into the pots on the stove. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

He filled it with coffee from the pot on the top of the stove. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Raising his voice above the banging pots, Dad asks me if I’m excited about the synesthesia meeting. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

“Urn. Wow,” I said, staring into the pot. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

She didn’t keep a good watch on the pot, and the okoge at the bottom got scorched a little darker than usual. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Naomi’s hands were red and scalded from scrubbing pots. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

It was his fourth pot of the day. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

She set down a pot next to her. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

The girl had accidentally knocked over a pot of boiling potatoes and was badly scalded, and Generose, too poor to afford a ride to a hospital, was left to wrap her daughter’s burns with leaves. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

She made me eat two bowls of soft porridge treated with a bitter, grey powdery substance cooked in a blackened earthenware pot. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

I set her on her wooden baby seat so her little hiney don’t fall in and soon as I turn my back, she off that pot running. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

In the end, Deb reaches into a pot in the kitchen and pulls out a fistful of plastic bracelets, which she hands out to everyone. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

People shout and bang their pots and raise their fists in the air. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

It also contained the old man’s simple living quarters: a cot, a lamp, a work table, a folding chair, a bucket for carrying water, a plate, pots, pans, and so on. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

I set the biggest pot I have on the stove and start pouring in the contents of the water bucket. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

The building across from ours was three stories high, crisscrossed by iron stairs with narrow landings on which people grew tomatoes and geraniums in clay pots. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Worsley took advantage of the argument to get an extra dig into the pot with his spoon. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

She returned a few minutes later with a large pot of codfish and ackee, the official dish of Jamaica, and a large helping of grits. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

The other food—sliced turkey, ham, roast beef, and salami, a big tub of tuna salad, and meatballs in a plug-in pot—was off-limits. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

When they reached the cave, they found a fire, a rabbit roasting, and Serafina Pekkala stirring something in a small iron pot. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The kitchen was larger than the Locktons’, with a tiled hearth and copper pots hanging on the wall. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Pots and pans were everywhere — don’t ask me how I had somehow not noticed this on my way downstairs the first time — and Jeffrey was stirring some pretend concoction in the deepest pot of all. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

I know the houses and shops, I know the faces of the women who sell oranges and bananas just before you turn into the pot- hole-filled road that leads to the prison yard. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

Sitting on my sleeping bag is a small plastic pot attached to a silver parachute. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

She turns the knobs down and brings the boiling pots to a simmer. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

One hit an ogre and instantly turned him into a potted rosebush. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

But despite a trip to the Gap and Express and the Body Shop, Pearl bought nothing but a pretzel and a pot of kiwi-flavored lip balm. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Your bean,” said Clary, pointing at the little pot of dirt on the windowsill. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

As I walk, the pot becomes heavier and heavier in my hands as the sun climbs higher and higher in the sky. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The counters to the right of the sink were stacked high as the Gate of All Nations with pots and pans, plates and glasses, and teacups. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

The Gypsy boy lost his balance and fell off the ramp into the grass, and the rest of us ducked as pots and pans went flying through the air away from a cookfire. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

He opened the lid 011 the little well in the cart and with a fork slowly began transferring hot dogs from the pot to the little well in the cart. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Spoons clanked against pots, and the street filled with the steamy smells of garlic, hot oil, and spices. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

The lieutenant opened the pot and looked inside. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I pull it out of the pot, I am happy to see what I have achieved. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He unearthed bones and arrowheads and beautiful clay pots; he tossed out lovely silver goblets and mammoth gold coins, and stones that sparkled, full of stars. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

They then folded the banana leaves into rectangles, tied them with cotton twine, and dropped the pasteles into a huge pot of boiling water. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

The first pot they’d just opened, and the crabs had fled sideways in a turbulence of muddy water. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

She gave me a short, hard look and then stirred the pot of beans she had on the stove. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Go back and scrub pots with the other boys,” he growls. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

My mother finally went to work as a cook and left me and my brother alone in the flat each day with a loaf of bread and a pot of tea. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

They are each a mound of clay, and the potter that is the portly, shiny-faced commandant is throwing four hundred identical pots. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

At mealtimes he stood by the cooking pots and rubbed his stomach. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

The melting pot that is America has yielded brand new genres such as big band, jazz, blues, rock and roll, etc. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

In the kitchen is an immense fireplace with two ranges, pots, pans, and kettles—everything, even to a stack of small chopped wood in an outhouse—a regular cook’s paradise. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

I take my new pot out of its bag and set it on my desk. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

The juice that dripped through was collected in a pot and boiled until only a white residue was left. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

He considers me also a little fragile, because artistic: I need to be cared for, like a potted plant. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Olanna looked dazed; she wrapped the pot of soup in a dish towel and took it out to the car. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

The women arrived with pots that they set before the men. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Older women would bring out pots and pans, and bang on them with wooden spoons. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

I want to ask him what he’s talking about for even if I’m bursting I feel strange peeing into a pot with roses and maidens cavorting, whatever they are. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

“I believe there is still a matter to be settled about my broken pot. It survives a boat ride all the way from Hungary and now it is in pieces.” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

Against the side of the pot so you couldn’t hear. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Out of the corners of his eyes he watched her go to the stove and putter with pots and pans. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

She was running water into a canning pot. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

At lunchtime, Daisy Hempstock brought by a small pot of shepherd's pie for them both, and Bridget Comfrey brought them each a mug of spiced ale. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

I fill a pot of water and add in five eggs. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

Some kids were playing around the little pots of flames. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Missiles of brown sauce bits launch out of the bubbling pot and land on her white shirt. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

Now Babulya was in the kitchen in front of a boiling pot, her ghostly eyes staring at nothing as she stirred the concoction with short, angry strokes. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

The pot had burned itself out and burned up the kitchen wall behind the stove, and smoke was billowing everywhere. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

The stuff tastes like something you’d use to tenderize pot roast. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

I pulled my hand back and took the pot off the fire. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Our playmates’ families exchanged their unwanted food for sugar, coal oil, spices, potted meat, Vienna sausage, peanut butter, soda crackers, toilet soap and even laundry soap. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

The woman, who lived in our neighbourhood, was envying boxes brimming with dented pots, knives, spoons, forks, broken mirrors and articles of furniture; things which, after being thoroughly cleaned, we would use as housewares. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

“No smoking pot” became “no smoking pot in the house," before it finally petered out to “please don't smoke any more pot in the living room." Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

I tried to grab the pot with my hand and I burned it real bad. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then she opened cupboards and filled a pot with water for the pasta. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Ben stood up and walked back over to the fire to stir his pot. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Tess said her mother always told her that “a watched pot don’t boil,” so the best thing to do would be to leave it alone and go on about their business. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

So my mother put a pot in the corner of his bedroom for him to do his business. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

The next morning, I woke with nausea so bad, I had to scramble across the floor for the chamber pot. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

She set three cups of lentils to soak in a pot, found a knife and cut some carrots and a pair of potatoes, left them too to soak. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

When all were harvested, she swung the sock over her shoulder and, striding joyously, rounded her pond and plunked the peas in her pot. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Earl T. Askew stepped up and said into his ear, “O.B., let’s just let sleeping dogs lay. I pot tny hands full with Mrs. Askew as it is.” A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

Lefty began to enjoy himself, and after winning a big pot cried, “Ouzo all around!” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

To Aunt Jimmy she said, “You done caught cold in your womb. Drink pot liquor and nothing else.” The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

But before I could even decide what to name my new pet, my mother had dropped it into a pot of cold water and placed it on the tall stove. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Below, the Caird was dragged down to the surf and loaded with the bags of ballast, boxes of stores, a hand pump, a cook pot, six reindeer-skin sleeping bags, and the rest of the provisions. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

“Oh,” she says, and it almost sounds like a laugh as she bends over to put away a pot. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

He had found Kingshaw in the conservatory, poking into the geranium pots with a cane. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

“Do the Carib Indians chop people up for their cook pots and eat them?” Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

By this time, the hot tea in the pot has finished steeping. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Here they were only one month into a new school year in a new town, and Cara was already stirring the pot, stewing up trouble. The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z

Rattling pots and pans in the kitchen would now awaken me in the mornings and I would know that Uncle Tom and his family were getting breakfast. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

While the rice bubbled in the pot, we continued to wait for him. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

He throws a large chunk of pork and several pounds of peas with water into the cook pot. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

Persians have adopted that method too, except most Persians use a large kettle and a smaller pot you can stack on top, like a double boiler. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

She did not remember the rest of it, something about placing clay pot on top of clay pot to form a ladder to the sky. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

The pot was soot-black and the feeble flames that licked its sides showed pale pink and bordered with black, like flames in mourning. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like taking the lid off a pot and finding a fanged viper instead of stew. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

She takes a pot from a tiny hearth that holds a warm, crackling fire. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

“In Godspell, Jesus stirs the pot. He’s a rebel, and I was a rebel.” Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

She aimed her cornucopia and shot a pot roast over the cats’ heads. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

She even let her watch her on the pot, set the white example. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

I tried to imagine what it would be like if I were Ee Gee, the famous editor, in an office full of potted rubber plants and African violets my secretary had to water each morning. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

The pot calling the kettle black refers of course to Madame herself, since she can’t tolerate beans or any kind of cabbage in the evening because they give her “gas.” The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Comfort food: pot roast, green beans, and garlic mashed potatoes. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

“For once the pig-boy shows sense. Send the little fool back to her pots.” The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

She dropped her pot, scrambled up the frost heave and stretched out on her stomach. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Between us stood the soup pot on its heavy chimney-pot stand—rocking slowly, back and forth. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Chase filled a smaller pot and carefully measured the water out over my sunflower. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

He had a pot of water beside him and was wiping the blood from her body. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

She jumped into the melting pot with both feet. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

If you both match, or both don’t, it’s a draw, but if one matches and the other doesn’t, the winner gets to keep all the money in the pot. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

A pot of tomato plants basked in the sun on the windowsill. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

There was a time when Dad used to throw the live lobster in the pot, potentially suffering a horrible, slow death. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

I’ve heard her keep up a running stream of commentary like this for hours while she’s cooking dinner or potting orchids. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Have what? 'a says. Have what? Why have a pot of ale wi' us, of course." The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

“I watched those adults take off at the sound of Byrd’s crooning. That banging pot, too.” A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

If you got up too fast, you were likely to get beaned by beans or potted by a pot roast. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

We stacked the pots near the rest of the food, and then stood by the fire—Mrs. Sidman did not seem to mind me adding a few sticks to make it blaze up. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

A match is struck; water fills a pot; an icebox clicks open and shut. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Still, his dad’s been in the Residence for three days without incident, and one day Alex catches him in the kitchens with two of the cooks, laughing and dumping peppers into a pot. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

As he did, a pot of wildfire burst overhead, spraying green flame. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

In another spot, people were dancing and drinking some kind of black liquid out of a pot that boiled over a makeshift fire pit. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

I hear pots and pans in the kitchen plummeting out of the cupboards now. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

The only sounds in the kitchen came from pots and pans as I slammed them down. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

A small pot of spicy red sauce and yet another round of rolls from District 3. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

And he’d get stuck there and start cooking like a lump of pot roast. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

On the day of our arrival, Father and I improvised a chamber pot, sacrificing a canning jar for this purpose. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

He reached across the table and poured a black substance he claimed was coffee from a stained old enamel pot and smiled, a flash of incredibly white dentures in the old, brown leather face. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

I went out to the kitchen and called the junior high to let them know I wouldn’t be coming anytime that day, and I got a pot of coffee brewing. Missing May 1992-03-01T00:00:00Z

Wisely these men choose to represent themselves with useful things—knife, bottle, matches, cooking pot. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I cannot see into the pot and my mouth salivates at the smell of the rice and fish. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She got rid of Agnes at the front gate with some lie about Trotter forcing her to scrub all the dirty pots in the house. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

A second table, covered with books and papers and off-kilter clay pots—baked and painted, but not glazed—squeezed itself between the bed foot and the closet door. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

She stayed there, unmoving, while the steam rattled the lid on the soup pot up and down, up and down. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Everybody has to carry something, so I pick the smallest item in the pile, the rice pot. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

We carried them home in pots and bags to cook in an egg soup. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I put the pot of tea on a tray, along with a few cups, so I could serve Mamou in the living room. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

A flight of flickering orange birds took wing from the castle, twenty or thirty of them,- pots of burning pitch, arcing out over the river trailing threads of flame. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

At the end, he substituted a magic cooking pot for the bus that carried them to Resthaven. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

He tried to blow on her skin—it was the only thing he could think of—but Rita struck him, knocked over the pot and spilled the rest of the water. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

She rolled them again and made up words to fit their rhythm: Peas that go tink, peas that go tot, Peas that will never grow outside my pot. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

A black kid arrested twice for possession of marijuana may be no more of a “repeat offender” than a white frat boy who regularly smokes pot in his dorm room. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Forrest insists on having her meals in her cabin with her husband instead of eating from the communal cook pot with the rest of us. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

Everyone on the bus was smoking pot and listening to the same Crosby, Stills, and Nash album continuously, on a tape player running on batteries. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Breakfast that morning was a feast—a bit of the rice boiled to a gruel in a castoff earthenware pot, served up in a bowl carved from a gourd. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

I get a bigger glob from the pot and slap my hand down on the page. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

Later Mama would mix this lye water with hog fat and boil it in an iron pot when she wanted to make soap. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

On one side of her lay a small table with a small pot of tea, a bowl of rice porridge, and tea-stained eggs. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

More pictures: women carrying pots of water or grinding millet in giant mortars. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Hanako watched her grandmother stir the soup, then remove the pot from the stove, her thin arms sticking out from beneath her rolled-up sleeves. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

It had two sleeping cots, a wooden table, two straight-backed chairs, a window, and shelves nailed to the walls where Nana placed clay pots and her beloved Chinese tea set. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

He tossed his drakon meat into a hanging pot that seemed to be made from an old monster skull, then picked up a ladle and began to stir. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Light shined down all day on the potted trees and the birds sang to each other. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

The railings felt like the metal handles of a boiling pot. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

“And a pot and spoon if you have them.” A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

They carry everything from lapdogs to jewelry boxes to potted plants. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

From the kitchen came the sound of pots thrown to the floor. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sounds and memories of my own childhood refugee camp came rushing back—children playing, pots banging. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

“I knew this jug could be by no other than the same man who made that pot.” A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

“Just in time for supper,” declares the cook, and he begins to ladle pease porridge into the mess pots. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

He lifted the lid off a pot simmering on the stove, and the three watchers licked their lips in anticipation. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was observing the scene over the rim of the soap pot, and I was all eyes. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

There’s a pot with porridge in it, Red River cereal or oatmeal or Cream of Wheat, and a glass coffee percolator. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Desperation could be found much closer to hand—as close as the kitchen, where William stood alone in the small hours, brewing his pots of coffee. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

He read the letter from the Shadow Tower again, sharpened a quill, and unstoppered a pot of thick black ink. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“I think if you wash the pot after you mix this stuff, it won’t explode.” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

The days turned into weeks and the weeks into months, and still the pot was bare. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

One rack with sixteen copper pots and pans hanging over a woodblock table. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

A scrub of pallid shrubs survived, and there were some pots of delicate forest flowers that could grow without much sun, but they were no match for the lush picture in Lazlo’s mind. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

The room was perfectly circular, so that it felt like being inside a giant pepper pot. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

On a day as windy as this, I kept a post at the buoy rope, making sure it held fast, while Osh emptied the pot. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

The smell of the burning pot jerked him awake. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

On a local level, terra preta is valuable enough for locals to dig it up and sell as potting soil, an activity that, alas, has already destroyed countless artifacts. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Marcus berates me with endless questions about the Chili Bowl, like, “Who makes the chili?” or “Is it true you guys don’t wash the pots?” Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

We are supposed to sew pot holders, for our mothers. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

“A pot of yellow rice with fish. Do you want some?” The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

But that lonely figure in the ragged flapping shawl — it was easy enough to imagine any sort of mysterious brew in that pot! The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

She’s making a beef dish, stirring the pot while talking nonstop in a friendly Pakistani accent. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

Mom had helped me grow pots of seaweed on the balcony, as all my classmates did. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m now only missing a potted plant for the libation. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

The flames under the pot weren’t flickering; they were still, like paintings of flames. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Master stared at him and then at the pot on the stove. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Babou rinsed out the pot once and banged it on the counter in front of me. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Others use an espresso pot, which uses steam to drive water up through the grounds: the pot is a pressurized steam system, which is why it requires a safety valve. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

I sniffed the pot of Baghdad sauce from a wary distance, and despite it being almost empty, that alone was enough to make my eyes water. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

What happened after the third pig cooked the wolf in the pot? The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z

But I tell you what, she didn’t say one way or the other about them boiling us in a pot and eating us up. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Chima had skin as dark as the bottom of a burnt pot of rice, and was tall for a boy of seven. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

Mikayla was pulling a cardboard tray full of potted plants out of the backseat, and she looked at me with an expression that was not quite surprise. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Solovet nodded approvingly and gave him a small clay pot of ointment to dab on his face. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

The first thing Will did was to make Lyra sit down, and then he took out the little pot of bloodmoss ointment and looked at the wound on her head. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

There was a big kitchen inside the holdfast, though all the pots and kettles had been taken. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

She tied the violet ribbon around the pot. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

Mam puts the head in the pot, just covered with water, and while the pig is boiling away Dad takes Malachy and me to Mass at the Redemptorist church. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Along the length of the wall was a row of potted poinsettias. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Clarisse was tied up, hanging upside down over a pot of boiling water. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

Each white man who attended the fight dropped his share of the pot into a hat that sat on the concrete floor. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

She put the crushed maize into a clay pot with water to soak overnight. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Three plants in pots graced the window facing east toward the front of the courthouse. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

In the yard, small groups of indfgena women are stirring steaming pots of beans and chicken broth over fires, and peel- ing an enormous mountain of potatoes. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

People were provided with pots for cooking, but some women had brought their own. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

“A sheet. A pot. A spoon,” Dr. Martin lists. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

He said the columns and the potted palm proved that. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Reviewing Melquíades’ notes, serene now, without the exaltation of novelty, in prolonged and patient sessions they tried to separate Úrsula’s gold from the debris that was stuck to the bottom of the pot. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Just after New Year 1608, Richard goes out before me to start the cook pot of hominy for our communal breakfast. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

Quang-ha is in love with Dell's large TV and he finds a program where Japanese soccer players use their heads to smash clay pots. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

He performed alchemy experiments in the kitchen, filling the house with fetid smoke and ruining pots and pans with solid substances that stuck to their bottoms and were impossible to remove. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then I banked the fire, locked the doors, and took her back upstairs with a chamber pot of warm water and a lantern I’d found in the barn. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Sister Fenella had just ignored that and dropped them in the pot as they were, but Malcolm cut around the worst bits. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

Mike waved to the kids inside, who were turning whatever delicious creation was inside of their pots with long wooden spoons. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

In the display area, potted plants and old books were arranged on a burlap coffee bag. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

He opened the top of a pot of paint and dipped in his finger. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

Two hours later she was stirring a pot of her lamb stew. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

As the rest of the family disappeared down the path that led to their new place, she took her mat and her pots to the cave and set them on a ledge at the back. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

Pima went away and came back a little while later with a pot of rice and beans and then surprised Nailer again with a stick of grilled pigeon. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

The neighbors slipped away to go to their houses, and Juana squatted by the fire and set her clay pot of boiled beans over the little flame. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

Kaz trailed his fingers along the panels behind the potted tree and pressed his thumb into a notch in the wall. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

“Yes, make me a pot of tea. Did you press that dress, Eloise?” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

She reached over to the pot and began to pour more tea into their mugs. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

Jars, baskets, pots; a doll, a spindle, earrings, a photograph, a stack of sticks, a set of silver brushes and a silver cigar case. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

The next morning, I pack a small satchel with bei powder, two smoothing instruments, and a few color pots. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

While the pot simmered and the steam hung above it like a gray spirit, she took out a needle and thread and mended a hole in her old mitten. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

In one tiny section of the main arena, at least twenty people form an assembly line behind a workstation of potted plants. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Baachan brought in the big pot of soup, and then set it in the middle of the table with a ladle sticking out of it. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

The maester's medicines made an impressive display,- dozens of pots sealed with wax, hundreds of stoppered vials, as many milkglass bottles, countless jars of dried herbs, each container neatly labeled in Pycelle's precise hand. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

I entered the kitchen to rinse out the pots, starting with the leftover Lebanon and Cairo sauces. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

He caught faint sounds of pots and pans ratding in the kitchen below. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

I felt like a sprite or a hungry leprechaun, turning over leaves in search of a treat, looking under weeds for a pot of gold, or perhaps a turnip. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The old man looked at Ignatius and then at the massive pot, the gas range, and the crumpled carts. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Clancy let me fall to the ground like a board, and actually stepped over me to examine his scratched cheek in a pot’s reflective surface. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

His bedchamber was a small cell off the queen’s apartments, originally slave quarters; his furnishings consisted of a bed, a chamber pot, a wardrobe for his clothing, even a chair should he want to sit. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Three hours later, when I crawled into my sleeping bag, the doctors were still gingerly thawing Beck’s frozen limbs in a pot of lukewarm water, working by the glow of their headlamps. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

She washes the big pots and pans while I take them from her to dry them with a towel and put them down on the counter. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

With her being somewhat of a foreigner herself, that’s the pot calling the skillet black if you ask me. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the onions are sizzling in the pot, Mama throws in fresh ginger, tomatoes, and spices to create the masala that forms the base of all her meals. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

As he passed through the kitchen, he glanced out the window at the empty street corner once more, then put another pot of coffee on and settled back in to wait. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

I carried the basket of linen back to the house on Wall Street, put a pot of water over the fire, and gathered the soap and the scrubbing board. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

There's a rolled-up carpet in the corner of the landing along with a small potted geranium. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

The flickering flames of a pitch pot threw wavering, grotesque shadows upon the walls. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Sheet, spoon, and pot,” George says, banging the top of the pot for emphasis. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

She began pulling down pots noisily, mumbling, maybe praying, to herself, Polly figured. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

The air was full of the scent of food cooking and pots bubbled on the stove. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

She was standing beside a steaming pot on a grimy black stove, and was fiddling around with the shelf of squalid-looking pots and pans above it. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Meanwhile, Grandma was busy pouring oil into a pot that was heating up on the stove. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

Tía Mari just brings some extra waterbreads and marmalade and cheese and a pot of coffee and one of milk, and fresh fruits. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

There were statues and pots and paintings all over the place, with spotlights shining down on them like in a museum. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

He’d even formed the habit of helping the caravan’s cook scrub the big soup pot out with sand. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Last of all, she reached into a pot and removed—a roll of paper. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

After wrapping the pot in the parachute, I nestle it safely away in my pack. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

It has a potted plant on the stoop. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I went back inside, the stove was going and Ma had a pot of mush cooling. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

On one side of the hut a crude metal grate stood in the fireplace with a well-worn pot on it. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

She gave Mam money for food, loaned us a kettle, a pot, a frying pan, knives and spoons, jam jars to be used for mugs, a blanket and a pillow. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

She swept the dust outside and returned with a small pot of rice and lentils, still warm from the midday meal. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

In the buggy were pots and cups and an umbrella frame, and other things he had found. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We can just put it all together in the pot,” Matty insisted. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

Two aunties lugged a large cook pot into the yard. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

“That we could if we did it secretly and hid our thinking under a pot.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

I probably should have been getting up to pull my crab pots, but my parents didn’t care if I took a morning off. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

Instead I find a pot of hot broth. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Violet and Klaus read the note as they ate their breakfast, which was a gray and lumpy oatmeal Count Olaf left for them each morning in a large pot on the stove. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

It was a strange, rather small room with large potted plants—some of them floor to ceiling. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

“She brought a huge pot of lentils with her,” Stephanie said as she held a toddler. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

On the other hand, the china chamber pot would be awfully cold. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

So when there was still no plant growing in the pot a month before the Moon Festival, the father confronted his son on his nightly stroll through the garden. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

"It should be functional yet attractive, with lots of copper pots hanging from the ceiling." The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

And she was truly a Georgia Negro woman when she got into the kitchen with her pots and pans. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe I can blend in with the metal tables and crumbling clay pots. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

One storeroom offered potted hare, haunch of deer in honey, pickled cabbage, pickled beets, pickled onions, pickled eggs, and pickled herring. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

His grandma had only four Sunday dinners in her repertoire—chicken- fried chicken, chicken-fried steak, pot roast, and corned beef—but they were all good. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

Pretty soon our makeshift pot was bubbling away, and the smell coming from it was actually delicious. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“They won’t,” I responded, placing the bean pot on the kerosene stove. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

“I’ll put on a pot of coffee anyway,” he said, heading around the corner to what I guessed was the kitchen. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

On the flagstone paving beneath both lanterns there were old plantation pots in which Spanish daggers grew and extended their sharply pointed stilettos. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

What did someone look like squatting awkwardly on a small chamber pot. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

I can’t believe no one else can smell the pot wafting from his core. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

"Almost thirteen thousand jars? Do you take me for a fool? I'm not about to pay the king's gold for empty jars and pots of sewage sealed with wax, I warn you." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Next to her, a man with a gray mustache stirred three different pots. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

When they arrived at the party, Leopard told her cousins that they should put the parcels into the pot unopened. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

Now she was in the kitchen-living room, making a clatter with the pots and pans. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I gripped the handle of the chamber pot tightly. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

She started to pour it in a pot. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

I finally ask as I scrape the second pot clean. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Mitsima squeezed and patted, stroked and scraped; and there at last it stood, in shape the familiar water pot of Malpais, but creamy white instead of black, and still soft to the touch. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were no fruit trees, no planters of jasmine, only long rows of hyacinths and a collection of huge pots filled with different herbs. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

He pushed the blazing ivy pot to the other end of the table, closer to the piles of books and mail, making it even more difficult for them to see each other. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

Falconer strode heedlessly along, as if daring anyone to empty a chamber pot on his head. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Every form of medication in the book. Mom, too. And then me, with the pot...when you come right down to it, there isn’t anybody in the household who isn’t seriously drugged except the fish.” It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

Both of them were so covered with ashes they looked like the pot and the kettle, each one blacker than the other. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

There we find a large clay pot filled with hominy and venison stew, fish on the grill and bread baking in the hot ashes on the ground. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

Finn cracked the spaghetti in half and jammed it into the pot with a wooden spoon. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

“Well, I mean, Brady and Patrick were out in the parking lot of the Coachlight Inn smoking pot with him night before last.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

“When the oil is hot, we fry the onions in the pot,” Mamatells us. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

I dabbed candelilla wax on my lips from the small tin pot I had brought with us. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

Laila felt like she was no better than these pots and pans, something that could go neglected, then laid claim to, at will, whenever the mood struck. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

Becky took a tray of cookies and a pot of tea upstairs late in the afternoon. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

The chamber pot dripped and had a bad smell, like the one which always pervaded the yard whenever our neighbours hung urine- soaked blankets and cardboard on fences to dry under the blazing African sun. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Momma sets the pot down and settles in her chair. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

Here they encountered a melting pot of Afroasiatic and Nilo-Saharan farmers and herders growing millet and sorghum and raising livestock in drier areas, along with Khoisan hunter-gatherers. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Again by touch, he located the oil pot, in which several torches soaked, head down. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

Rolling to his desk, he took up a pot of hot water S.Q. had brought him for his tea. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

There were the potted palms, the shiny machines and swooping desk lamps. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

I love this place: the jumble of old, glittery broaches in the glass case, the worn pots and dishes and frayed baskets on the bookshelves. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was checking the boiling water in a huge pot on the stove. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

The girls produced plates of sadza, white as gardenias, and pots of steaming relish. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

She leapt to her feet and hurried to the fire, where a number of people were sitting and drinking and talking and occasionally stirring a big pot of stew. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

And dark masses of thin freshwater eels, swimming furiously in a pot. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

By then the pitch pots were raining down around them. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Freak is on the floor, digging through the packing boxes for pots and pans and stuff, he's almost inside this box, all you can see is his funny little rear end sticking out. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

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

To my right, the smudge pots and that bloated bonfire were spewing out over every living thing. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

She went on breaking pea pods into the pot. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

My uncle and his old stereo and his army of battered CDs lined up on the kitchen counter, two stacks of cooking pots as bookends. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

The pot easily fits in the palm of my hand. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

There was a fireplace built into the cave wall, and a pot bubbling over the flames. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

I had forgotten that life, like a crab pot, catches a lot of trash you haven’t bargained for. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

There would be sharp wood pieces and jagged fragments of broken pots. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mama takes out a pot of biryani from the fridge and hands me white Styrofoam boxes to fill. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

The embers were white, and sure enough, the pot was solid with soap. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

In the morning, we sailed out to pull our lobster pots. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

One thing’s for sure: If none of this had happened, I’d be out there crabbing every day, baiting my pots in the morning and pulling them in after school. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

Bod dropped the brooch into his pocket, where it sat beside the heavy glass paperweight, the paintbrush, and the little pot of paint. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

I point to a pot full of pretty white and violet flowers. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

“What? Up in the attic like a Victorian pot scrubber?” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

All but one of the world’s six most populous nations are melting pots that achieved political unification recently, and that still support hundreds of languages and ethnic groups. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Mom said she knew my friends smoked pot and they were probably a bad influence anyway. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

"They can call it whatever they want to call it. I have a perfectly good pot in the kitchen and some beans that are fresh enough for anyone." We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Their mother was peering into one of the pots on the fire, stirring and tasting. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

They found albatross chicks, which made the most succulent stews in their hoosh pot. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

The Marshes stood awkwardly in the kitchen and stared at the pot of rice and the pot of beans. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

She dropped a pot into the sink with a clatter and turned on the water. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The two leopards paced over—still licking their lips from Piper’s pot roast—and butted their heads affectionately against the god’s legs. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

One pot was in the shape of a large owl’s head, and growing out the top were just the spindly burned stems of something that had been alive the day before. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

“In those days, when people clapped their hands and asked God for food, pots of porridge and honeycombs came out of the earth.” A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I soaked an old rag in a pot of hot water and scrubbed them. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

"We'll need beds aired and a pot of mutton stew on the fire," he called. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

We both pull the bag the rest of the way and then heave it up on the table with the potted palm. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

Then she cooked, using her daily ration of seven hundred grams of corn meal to make porridge in the one pot she owned. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

We immerse the potatoes in pots of boiling water, then set out cilantro, green onions, and spices, plus yogurt and mint bunches for the chutney. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

Each resident seemed to be making some contribution, however small, to the general cacophony of dropping pots, booming television sets, arguing voices, screaming children, and slamming doors. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I ain’t seen Miss Hilly over here since before the pots. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

I could barely choke down a piece of pot roast. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Rufus kept her well supplied with candles, but at the moment, the only light in the room came from the window and from a low fire over which two pots simmered. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

My mom continues to stare at the pot. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Exhausted and tense, he would pad down to the dark kitchen and make himself a huge sandwich and a pot of coffee. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

This is the kind of thing people eat now, people who eat in places like this: Toronto is no longer the land of chicken pot pie, beef stew, overboiled vegetables. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Jenny Flick had managed to take from me the only person I ever let in and replace me with beer, sex, and pot. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

A little shrine was built into the corner; Taisin saw the scroll listing ancestors’ names, a spray of dried flowers, a small pot of incense. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Mr. Morrison looked up from the pot he was stirring and smiled. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

The kitchen is a welter of fallen shelves and pots. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Mom and Laleh wandered back in as I set a pot of Dragon Pearl Jasmine on the table. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

I’m sitting across from her with a pot of dry beans, sifting for little rocks. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

With a nail we punch a lot of holes in a pot lid and there we have a grater. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

I give the pot to the cook and linger, breathing in the sweet air, marveling at the brightness of it all. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

“It jumps out. But do you know what happens when you put the frog in a pot of cool water and then slowly bring it to a boil? You know what happens then?” All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Milo, Tock, and the Humbug watched eagerly as the rest of the workers put down their tools and gathered around the big pot to help themselves. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

He put it all to boil in a pot of castor oil until he got a thick and pestilential syrup which was more like common caramel than valuable gold. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

He found her cleaning pots with sand and ashes. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

On weekends and after dinner, we delivered many potted violets. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

Some are bare, but others are like small gardens with pots of green-leafed plants and some flowers. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

And with a cold look at Margaret—who smiled in return—I went into the kitchen and put the pot of violets on the table. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

It looked like a hundred people were sitting around it, watching things bum or waiting for the food cooking in three big pots set up in the fire. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

Heroin was droopy and pot was foggy but cocaine provided a beautiful high. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

There was a hallway, a living room downstairs, and a kitchen in which he showed her pots and pans and a pressure cooker and a kerosene ishtop. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

Shorty had been smoking marijuana ever since his adolescence, and he had his own private pot plot by the river north of the Dancing Trout. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

So far they had described an artichoke, a butterfly press, a sneaker, a ring of keys, a potted hibiscus, a carved Christmas angel, and a sandwich. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

Lee brought a pot of coffee and went back to his mending. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

I also know that Papá Feliciano used to take this train to sell pots and pans in other towns. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Servers came in bearing huge pots of steaming food. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Mama then heated water in a pot and poured it into another tub and washed the diapers on a washboard and hung them up to dry outside on a clothesline Papa made. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

She pours me café au lait—mixing the milk from the pot with coffee in my cup. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

She gathered up the matches before they could blow away, and stored Mother’s picture in the pot. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I imagine you could make it up to both Lady Lackless and myself if you found some sweet nettle for the pot tonight.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

As Maybeth soaped and rinsed, and the boys dried, and Dicey put away the glasses, dishes, knives, forks, pots and pans, they sang. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

The cooking pots and the kettle were rimmed with opening prayers. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

But I didn’t care, the food that was bubbling up in those three big pots even sounded delicious. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

How we giggled, with repugnance and delight, when we found the wax her older sisters used on their legs, congealed in a little pot, stuck full of bristles. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Plus, I'm still a little loopy from the beer and pot at Brick's. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

They hadn’t been twenty feet from where I sat, were even drinking the same muddy coffee from the same pot I’d made in the teachers’ lounge. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

He placed a pot of ground millet, a packet of snuff, cooking utensils, and a calabash of beer at the top. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then there’s a big pot of nothing, and I wait for Tyler to think of something else to say. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

His body was placed on a bed of beaver pelts, covered by a scarlet cloth, and surrounded by a copper pot, a rifle, and a sword. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

He still wore a pair of mechanical pencils clipped to his shirt pocket, just as he had in his professor days, but now he wore a white apron too, and a brown pot holder. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

They look around curiously at our rotting tents and the big iron pot hanging over the cook fire. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

The server picked a blue enamel tin plate from a stack behind her and scooped out a bright yellow blob from the pot in front of her. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

They brought her food and water, emptied her chamber pot, and took away her shift for washing every few days, leaving her to huddle naked under her blanket until it was returned to her. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The pot loosened my tongue, gave me the courage to be honest. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

Sometimes, in his rush, he pulled out the picture of the roped pot instead. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

We stopped at her boyfriend's tiny apartment, where I bravely pretended to inhale a little pot, and then we continued on our way. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

He spotted a harp in one corner, a loom in another, and a big cooking pot where the stew was bubbling, filling the cavern with luscious smells. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Some of the band lay back from the fires, smoking and watching idly, talking softly among themselves; while others still ate, ladling the fragrant contents of a black iron pot onto tin plates. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

He sold shears and needles, copper pots and small bottles that wives hid quickly after buying them. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I caught my breath with a tiny cry and tumbled to the ground, breaking the pot in two. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

High above, the Elderclock’s alarm bells still clanged like a drawer full of angry pots and pans. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

A steaming pot of porridge hung over the fire. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

Since she had had the use of reason she remembered having done her duty in a gold pot with the family crest on it. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Modal melodies, revivalist spirituals, the call-and-response or ‘holler’ songs of African slaves: all of these went into the mixing pot of the early Blues. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

“I didn’t know that was a thing. Cooking something on the stove and then sticking the entire pot in the oven.” A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

Sunny banged on a pot with a wooden spoon, singing a rather repetitive song she had written herself. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

She made no protest when the friend touched the small of her back as she was about to make a pot of coffee, then pulled her against his crisp navy suit. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

Putting down her pot, she went to her lookout to try to solve the riddle. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nana had dyed them with saffron powder, boiling them in pots usually reserved for rice and pasta. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Don’t you wash pots out for people before you cook water in them?” Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tendai asked one evening, as he watched the She Elephant dump dirty plates into the pot of boiling water. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

There was bread, cheese, an orange, and a pot of coffee on the table. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

I chop them very fine and add them to the pot, switch out the rocks again, put on the lid, and let the whole thing stew. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

They were in the tipped-over pots on their hands and knees, scraping off bits of burned potato that still clung stubbornly to the vast pot bottom. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Nope. I just do it. I can feel the heat from the flame. I know where the food is. I know where the pots and pans are. No big deal.” As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

I didn't tell him that I wasn't crazy about the way pot made me feel. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

After the next explosion two men dash across the fifty yards to the dug-out with the pots of vegetables. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

She handed Lina the bean seed, took a little pot from a shelf, scooped some dirt into it, and handed the pot to Lina, too. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

And I knew they were almost caught, two ducks leaning into the pot. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I thought you told me pot always makes you paranoid.” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

I took the damp bags from him and poured half lentils and half rice into the pot. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

You felt like you were inside a stew pot with the lid on. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

He wanted to tell her about the roped pot. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

His dad got up noisily and poured himself a cup ofblack coffee from the pot on the back of the stove. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

Spiral cut ham, eggs cooked every which way, jam in pots, bowls of oranges. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

They went home to a good Thanksgiving dinner of pot roast and home-made noodles and spent the afternoon listening to Papa reminisce how he had gone around Thanksgiving Day as a boy. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

A short distance from the bottom, the path curved around a large potted cactus. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

By Friday afternoon, though, I was more jittery than when I’d inadvertently drunk a whole pot of Dad’s tar-strong coffee while studying for finals last winter. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And then at the fire the other night,” he continued, “when I was trying to rescue some ceramic pots, I tripped and hurt it again.” Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Then the sheet was taken off and shaken clean and the flower fixed again in its little pot. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

Evan said he quit smoking pot, and I asked him what he was going to do with his pipe. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

Luna curved around the mud pot and followed the rocks into where the village used to be. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

He stood, moved to the stove, where he took the pot and two cups, which he put on the table, one for me and one in front of Gretchen. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

After the gossip and banging of pots in the kitchen, the main house was eerily silent. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Sass appeared almost happy, pulling out the few remaining pots to make pooris, which we had not had since Chandra’s marriage. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

The pot of lampblack was right there, untouched in all this time. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

The music gets louder and so do the pots and sticks people are banging on. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

Chronicler quickly decided that whatever the man was cooking in the iron pot, he wanted none of it. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The hot-dog smell has dissipated, but only because Gold Coast Copy and Print stinks of pot. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

You’d have loved all of this—as well as the strings of lights she wound around the crèche and the branch she stuck in a pot and called a Christmas tree. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

She turned to stir a pot of soup. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

To this day, I remember that crab screaming as he thrust one bright red claw out over the side of the bubbling pot. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the sixties it clouded the minds of the hippies like the pot smoke rising in their bongs. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

And here and there along the paths, flowering cactuses had been planted in great stone pots. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Put them on the table by the clay pot.” Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

The shrieks of her laughter rippling through the kitchen with its wooden table and cast-iron pots, and her father standing at the stove grinning, a spatula raised above a sizzling pan. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Dad is walking back and forth with Oliver in his arms and Eugene is playing on the floor with a pot and a spoon. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Our apartment building in LA had a few pots with some flowers and a big old lemon tree, but that was it. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

Little children pulled wagons heaped high with toys and pots and books. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

Dawn Celeste has a laugh that sounds like a pot bubbling over. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

The dinner is delicious, turkey, mashed potatoes, peas, jelly and custard, and a pot of tea. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Maybe I should have been honest with Dr. Zimmer's secretary, or pretended to be concerned about the ailing Rosen family and asked where I could deliver a pot of soup. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

She tells Suesetta, “Now, I want you to measure eight cups of water and a half cup of manuka honey, and let’s get that pot on the stove.” Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

He now realized that he had been working all along toward the goal of being allowed to make a pot. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

“Yes, I am,” she said, scooting the pot with the eggs away from the stove’s heat. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

She ran her still-raw fingers across the clay pots and wooden tools, amazed at how each had its own texture and weight Everything seemed so heavy and... serious. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Only her grandmother was in the kitchen, sitting with a cup of tea at the table, while two canning pots rattled on the stove. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

He says,You have a great way with a chamber pot. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

She points to the tomato-splashed spoons, pots, and measuring cups piled in the sink. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

She put two huge pots on the stove, then tumbled a big bag of plump figs into one and ripe tomatoes into the other. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Five children kneel on the floor near the cooking pot, looking at me with big, scared eyes. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

People continue banging their pots, shouting to make their voices heard. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

They do not so much as look at us as we spread our blanket and set out our notebooks and pens and pots of ink. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“Dad, why’d you have to make spaghetti tonight? I hate washing the pots!” Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

“Now you have been good children, and I’ll play anything you like,” says Meg, as she leads her assistant cooks upstairs, when the pudding is safely bouncing in the pot. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was making a pot from wet clay. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The door jerks open and the music and smell of pot smoke hit me. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

She wanted a pot of hot chocolate made with two handfuls of sugar, which was a shocking amount. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Alex’s childhood was perfumed with simmering peppers and onions and stew meat in a cast iron pot for caldillo, fresh masa waiting on the butcher block. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Ma exclaims, taking the pot away from him. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“They didn’t hit Marigold,” he says between bites of pot roast at the kitchen table. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

Maybe more things in the world besides spitting pots had been hid from them, when they wasn’t told no better than to spit in tomato cans. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

She made no answer, but walked to the pot on the fire and looked in. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

Time-released water capsules for your potted plants when you were away? How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

The cook was fighting pots in the kitchen. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Chamberlain saw a vast pot of stewed chicken, a pot of hot tea, a disappearing loaf of battered bread, some pickles. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Not yet. I will, I promise. I hope this tastes good,” she said, planting the steaming pot on top of the Jesus trivet. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

She tilts it so we can see chilies, tomatoes, and onions glistening in the pot below. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

I run my fingers across glass pots, opening and closing compacts as if I'm preparing, until Bree returns moments later. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

A lot of it, and very liquid, like someone had poured out a pot of tea. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

Ma was leaning over the stove, the pots clanking as she hummed a song to herself. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

Amah led a large iron pot, rolled in on a rough wood platform by two of Da-A-Fu’s uncles, in front of the dragon. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

The light-filled mall, where Tegucigalpa’s well-heeled citizens shop, has beige marble floors, potted indoor palms, air-conditioning, and glass elevators. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

His long, bushy beard collected more stems as it brushed the countertop, and his shirt and pants were spattered with whatever Babulya was furiously stirring in the pot. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

“You do realize that you are cooking your hands down in that big pot?” Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

I set the pot over the stove’s burner and check the cabinets for tea selections and decide on peppermint. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

On the day of the Moon Festival, the king of the City of Bright Moonlight arrived at the Imperial Palace with his bare pot. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

The waiters came out of the kitchen with meat cleavers, toasting forks, iron pots and frying pans to arm everyone. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

I made the fresh juice, brew a pot of tea, and cut pears and apples and mix ’em with red grapes. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Nights she sat up to work on her tinkering, fixing clocks, pots, hand tools. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

Madame Manec takes a pot from the hanging rack and fills it with water. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

She had forgotten all about that little pot. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

She chose a clean brush and dipped it into the pot of orange. Rickshaw Girl 2007-02-01T00:00:00Z

Can you imagine a stretch of grassy land bubbling like water in a pot? The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

We finally heard Miss Love pour her dirty water out of the washbowl into the waste pot on the floor. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

At twilight, the refugees gather with their blankets, rice pots, plates of fish, thermoses of tea, and eat noisily as the movie begins. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

We are still waiting for the potting soil, so Dell and I carry the three machines up to #28 and right away I start to take them apart. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

He tears off a piece of bread and uses an oyster shell to scoop stew right out of the pot. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

She heard laughter through the window of the nearest brownstone, and what sounded like a metal spoon scraping a pot, getting the last little bit from the bottom. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

Everyone is already there, helping to dry and put dishes away, wash pots and pans. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

“I found it in a pot in the corner.” The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Behind her Otis Amber stirred a boiling mess in a big iron pot. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was heating a pot of stew when Kapu came around the hill with a bone in his mouth. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Feel like we been waiting for some invisible pot a water to boil for the past seven months. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Almost every surface had a tiny potted plant on it, some fragrant, some poisonous, and some Seven used for potion ingredients. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

Francie poured it back into the pot trying to hold back the hurt tears. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I receive this pot when I get marry. It gift from my mother. It only gift I get when marry.” A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

“Your dragon is doing fine. He and A-Gong were talking to each other when I brought the pot, and he even said thank you for saving him from the Green Tiger’s poison.” Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

Squealer, temporarily stunned, was sprawling beside it, and near at hand there lay a lantern, a paint-brush, and an overturned pot of white paint. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

When I closed the door behind me, Nabila walked over to the window and lifted a small ceramic pot resting on the sill. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

One of my dumber tricks was to pee in her favorite rosebush, which was planted in a pot on the patio outside my bedroom door. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

There was much more than she'd asked for: hot bread, butter and honey and blackberry preserves, a rasher of bacon and a soft- boiled egg, a wedge of cheese, a pot of mint tea. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“Marriages that haven’t been paid for can be broken like old pots.” A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Wash the pot, clean up everything before we melt another batch.” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

In the hearth, a fire blazed under a pot of soup. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

Rolling to her stomach, she propped herself on her elbows, and reached into her pot to eat. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“What is it?” asked his grandmother, stirring the contents of a big iron pot on the stove. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

After delivering the water home and snapping green beans into a big pot to steam with a cinnamon stick, Sitti took Liyana to meet a neighbor who was stringing orange beads on nylon thread. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

He didn’t know where Tool was, but Lucky Girl was supposed to be cleaning pots for a fishhouse down on the water’s edge. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

He rushed off to the bathroom while I finished the soft, tender rice, then nodded at the pot on the stove as I stood up. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Ma had pots to mend, so she kept to the brick oven out behind the barn, heating up metal scraps to melting so she could build little dams out of that steaming hot liquid. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

“I didn’t peg Art as a pot smoker.” Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

We heated it in a pot on the stove and poured it into the large aluminum container that we used for a bathtub. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

A grizzled old colored man stirs a big pot of something over a fire, and a couple of small, dark-skinned boys run to and fro as the old man barks out orders. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Even if I didn’t rebait them, I knew I needed to move the pots around. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

And a pot of coffee and another of chocolate. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Allow me, ma’am. Why yes, as a matter of fact I did. Nothing like a fresh pot of mint tea after some good healthy exercise, what, what?” Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

She usually cooked a pot of beans on the other burner. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Weasley was stirring the contents of a large pot on the stove, while Mr. Weasley was sitting at the table, checking a sheaf of large parchment tickets. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Miyax went back to her pot and stuffed on the cold raw moss until her stomach felt full if not satisfied. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

He's got my invisible hands busy chopping celery and carrots while he cuts up chunks of chicken for a big pot of soup, and he's gushing about his talk with Dr. Van Dom. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, I think he’s a fine man—has a good tongue and a fair mind. He’s given to dreaming—” “Hear now the pot blackguarding the kettle,” Liza interrupted. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Finally, finally, the clock struck midnight, and as the chimes died out, we heard a cacophony of pots and pans being beaten in the streets all over town. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

The news stories always put me right back into my pity pot, though, showing me again and again that I needed a bomb shelter. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

She shook her head and scrubbed the soup pot hard enough to bore a hole through it. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

The guard squatted down and stirred the pot with a long-handled wooden spoon. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

I panted up the steep, dark stairs, in too much of a hurry to turn on the light, and tripped over some pots stored on the steps. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

He strolled off down the mountain in his baby-blue groom’s outfit, leaving us alone with a pot of boiling water and a six-ton boulder. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

We went to bed early, with metal pot lids and knives and things from the kitchen to protect ourselves with, because we couldn’t think of anything else. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

One time, they had their little pot cooking when they heard the guards coming. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

The group of children I lived with pooled our camp food rations and boiled them in a large metal cooking oil container we had cut in two to make a pot. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Wet dirt, filled chamber pots, birch tar used to treat expensive Russian leather, scorched hair, sea brine. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

He unstoppered a new pot and set it down. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Having never heard such delighted noises from her relatives before, the girl got out of bed and was astonished to see her old aunt and uncle dancing with firewood around a large pot. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

The heat from the hot spot is what powers all of Yellowstone’s vents, geysers, hot springs, and popping mud pots. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

“I've got crab pots set down by the dock,” their grandmother said. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

He sat her by the front door and brought her a pot of water and poured it over her hands. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

They chopped it up with an axe, dropped the pieces into a pot with snow, and set the pot over a fire. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

After she removed them from the pot and peeled off the hot wax, she held them up in the air. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

They give me a pot of jam and a bag of potato-cakes that my mother has made for me. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

We have to stand and be quiet and that’s hard when there’s a tinkling sound from the bedroom and we know she’s on the chamber pot peeing away. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

They passed back and forth with pots and kettles, all bare-chested and unashamed. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

He set two places for dinner but did not serve the food because he wanted to keep it warm in the pot. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

The vendor spooned blobs of batter into the pot of oil, where they hissed and bubbled with a satisfying roar. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

She knocks and startles him to attention, and he arrives in the store, still exhaling pot smoke. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

There was a low wooden kitchen shelf on which covered terra-cotta pots, ladles made of coconut shells and three chipped enamel plates with dark-blue rims were arranged. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Helena comes through the door holding out our soup pot like it’s full of holy water. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

"I better go. I'll spend my first year on the Wall emptying chamber pots if I keep Uncle Ben waiting any longer." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

I just held that pot as steady as I could over the center of the flame. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

On my return trip upstairs I carried two pots of coffee. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

“If she keeps making this soup,” Caroline whispered, “I will dip my head into the pot and scald myself blind. That will show her that there’s no magic in it.” Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

She was pouring bright reddish-orange palm oil into a pot. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

I dip my fountain pen into a pot of ink, and a Wessex helicopter crashes into a glacier on South Georgia. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

The men ladling the soup were prisoners too, and sometimes one of them would take pity on me, stir the bottom of the pot, and put a real piece of potato into my bowl. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

The cooking pots bubbled on crackling red fires. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Though most of the pot’s contents splashed across the floor between us, some must have gotten on his face. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Things get quiet in the kitchen, and then I hear the chairs scrape against the floor, and the clanking of pots and pans. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

I don’t like how pot has taken my dad away from me, but I like how it’s given him the balls to stick up for me like that. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

It was cold out and Sam had all those big pots on and the windows were steamed up. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

Briskly, Cecilia moved about her tasks, mixing milk and water to egg powder, and setting out a pot of jam and three plates and cups on the table. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

She set out a pot of honey too. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

She did the proper cooking, and I did near everything else, like washing pots and plates and beating eggs till my arms fell off for Madam’s almond jumbles and plum cakes with icing. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

He smelled the milk before putting it into the pot. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now, instead of steamed eggs, I had a pot full of egg soup! Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sacks of food were dangerously close to getting soaked, and Mother’s pot was actually floating at the far end! A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

One afternoon I was doing precisely that, goofing around with my cousin and filling an empty plant pot with a huge pile of gunpowder, when I got distracted by some Black Cat firecrackers. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

On one corner of the desk sat an artificial violet in a pot. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

Getting the broth into Peeta takes an hour of coaxing, begging, threatening, and yes, kissing, but finally, sip by sip, he empties the pot. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

David takes us through the compound to a carpeted area with potted plants on either side. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

“Perhaps,” her mother had answered, dipping her brush back into the pot of silver paint. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

I dragged myself in and helped her use the chamber pot. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

Evenings, I threw the ball for Tilly, helped Dad repair some of his broken crab pots, and even offered to help my mother with the dishes one night when it wasn’t my turn. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

I hung my coat on the rack and stowed my bicycle in a back room, amid ink pots and reams of blank paper. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

“Didn’t I ask you to wash those pots hours ago?” An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

The race was heated, with candidates on all sides taking pot shots. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Here were the ropes and blocks I had expected, two or three sails, fenders, a small punt, pots of paints, all the litter and junk that goes with the using of boats. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Instead of a chamber pot, Mr. van D. was lugging a collapsible tea table under his arm. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

She looked up to see if Teenie had reacted to that, but Teenie simply continued to stir the food in the pot over the fire. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

That evening the women brought bowls of pot liquor from black-eyed peas, from mustards, from cabbage, from kale, from collards, from turnips, from beets, from green beans. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

There she built her nest, ironed shirts, potted bleeding hearts, played with her cat, and birthed Louis Junior. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

The familiar hot wave rose in him, and he wanted to grab a handful of his father’s nails or pot shards and throw them against the wall. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

At first, my friends grumbled because we had to change a lot of the feminine endings, and so the rhymes all went to pot. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Me: “If you want me to be a teenager, don’t send me to Support Group. Buy me a fake ID so I can go to clubs, drink vodka, and take pot.” The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

She did not let her leftover jollof rice warm properly but ate it all from the pot, drank two cold bottles of beer, and still did not feel sated. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

We all look down to the bag of pot in Garrett’s lap. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

One of the foreigners, the one with die silver helmet like an ornate chamber pot, waved an intoxicated greeting. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Pupils that are naturally large—it’s not the pot—which blend into the dark brown to make two big saucer eyes, holes in me. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

Two yellow bowls, a pink pot with a green leafy plant, a strand of paper snowflakes. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

The entire city, said Van Kirk, looked like “a pot of boiling black oil.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

She still talking about that pot even though it’s been in there six months. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

I started on the raspberry preserves, rinsing off the berries and dropping them into a small pot on the stove with some water. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

It was an old large galvanized pot she had picked up at an army surplus store in Santa Maria. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Knowing there were soap bars by the dozen, bacon by the rasher, and reveling in her shiny pots and pans and polished floors. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

The mystical reverence that he felt for her was somehow mixed up with the aspect of the pale, cloudless sky, stretching away behind the chimney pots into interminable distances. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

She went to stir a pot on the hearth, and the dog lay down near the doorway, obeying the command of her hand. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

The walls were lined with shelves of bottles, jars, pots, pestles and mortars, and chemists’ balances. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

She lifts the pot to the table, spoons out the potatoes one each and uses a fork to lift out the corned beef. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Matt grabbed the big iron cooking pot Celia used to make menudo and swung it before he could worry much about her reaction. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every few minutes Shukumar lit a few more birthday candles and drove them into the soil of the pot. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

She retrieved the pot and stuffed it inside. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes mothers didn’t know what pot was when they saw it, but Mrs. Corcoran looked like she would know, all right. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

He wanted to try explaining how deeply stirred he had been by the pot but decided not to. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Of course, the best way to prevent a mishap was to be sure to visit our chamber pots every night before we got in bed. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She and Nico dropped onto a large birdcage, which promptly broke, dumping them into a cluster of potted ferns along with three very alarmed parrots. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

I was with my mother, and we were walking back from a breakfast pot- luck at First Congregational before it became old First Congregational. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z

The cooks carried big steaming pots out of the kitchen to the tables under the pavilion. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

This means, for example, that a woman who knew that her husband occasionally smoked pot could have her car forfeited to the government because she allowed him to use her car. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

The pots are shaking to a boil; the oven is warming. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

She drank and smoked pot occasionally, but she was also an A student and widely known as the most responsible girl in the squad. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

He climbs the stairs and before he gets to his own door he can smell the ham Violet will not give up frying in its own fat to season the hominy swelling in the pot. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the back burners of the stove, there are two silver pots, their lids trembling on top of them like chattering teeth. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

So I put a big sack of potting soil in the seat and try again. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

The question is how to get ourselves out of this pot. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

My senses told me that Tillie had coughed and spat into that pot, but my heart told me that no human being could possibly be so filthy. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Grandpa even asked Mr. McAllister to take pot luck and stay to supper. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

“That monster who keeps his son’s heart in a pot? Anyone who consults him is an idiot!” A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

We ordered the same thing pretty much every Friday—pot roast, Brussels sprouts, and mashed potatoes—and when it came, we ate every bite. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t so much a matter of hunting—there wasn’t too much game around, although some farmers occasionally got a deer or a muskrat for the pot. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Each morning she rises at 6:30 and stretches in her underwear and makes a good pot of coffee. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

She stuffed the leaves into a pot of water until the water overflowed. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

They entered the wasi, and the star woman walked to her pot. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

The big metal pots sat on the counter covered with muslin cloth to keep the bugs off while it cooled. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

That other world was suburban and endless, organized around pot roasts, blueberry pies, fireworks, ice cream sundaes, immaculate bathrooms, and small toy trucks that were loosed in wooded backyards with streams and glens. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

A pot of tea and an assortment of cakes sat on the bottom layer of the basket, to finish off the dinner. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

“Me . . . me . . . me ...” I beg Ma as she slowly lowers the pot to my level. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She lifted a large pot of soup onto the stove and looked at her reflection. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

Keeping an eye on the clock, we bought a little pot of vegetables and rice. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

"A smooth pot is more apt to slip from a man's grasp." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Dell drives me to the Southside plant nursery on Saturday and we buy rooting hormone and three large bags of potting soil. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

I remember Captain Smith’s answer when I asked if the Caribs chop people up for their cook pot. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

“Anyway, are you saying my pot pie’s not good enough for Dr. King?” The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

I got three garages of mine going to pot while you’re talking. Twelve Angry Men 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Later on, I get her on her pot and she go for me again. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

He made a pot of dough in the undertaking business after he got out of Pencey. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

“A stew? Or maybe it’s a special offering for us. Stir it, man, before it sticks to the pot.” Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

The two of them looked at the pot of bubbling sauce, which had seemed so cozy while they were making it and now looked like a vat of blood. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

The West might not be directly accountable for all of Iran's drama, but they definitely stirred the pot back in the early 1950s. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

I walk over to a dying potted plant, in this city full of potted plants, wedged in a corner of Heidi’s first floor lobby. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

“When we dared, we took some of it and made a little soup for ourselves in a small pot we had found,” Jack said. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

The kitchen filled up with the odors of fried bacon, eggs frying in bacon grease, toast in the oven, coffee, and grits bubbling in the pot. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then he wet his hand in a pot of cold water, plunged it into the boiling syrup, and swiftly put it back into the water again. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

She admired the wisteria that wrapped around the potting shed, the trumpet vine on the arbor, and the big grove of bamboo in the back. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

I go to see if anyone has bothered to start the hominy in the big communal cook pot. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

‘A man came to pick our dates and guavas. Another clipped hibiscus. Yes, there I tasted life. Here I eat my dinner from a rice pot.” Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

I went into the kitchen and saw Rashid Uncle tinkering around, lighting the stove and warming a pot of water for tea. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

A little cold water in the coffee pot to settle it. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

Imagine that late one spring day, you step out of the dark and into a world of bright windows and polished floors, winking copper pots, shining suits of armor, and tapestries sewn in gold. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

Even the small pot of jam looked to have been licked clean. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

If I ran out of pot I drank wine, and when I couldn’t get that my buddy Marvin and I drank NyQuil, which got you high and sleepy and slightly sick. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ma put the cubes into the big iron pot on the stove, poured in some water, and then watched while the pumpkin slowly boiled down, all day long. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sill was alive with flowers blooming in pots, and around the frame someone had pasted single pages of books and magazines. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

They spent most of their time working out better ways to grow pot. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

She's bent over the potted plants in the kitchen windowsill, watering them and putting her face so close it's like she's thinking of licking their leaves or something. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

The one who was crushing a beer can in her hand stopped and tossed the can into a potted plant next to the sink. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now every morning, Mac would rise early to put on a pot of coffee, and Bobby would come down in his clean white shirt, his tie loosened and sleeves unbuttoned. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

They had survived the chamber pot and the night riders. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

She placed the pot in one end of the boat and packed grass around it for protection. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

She gave me the chore of scraping out the soap pot, which looked like a long day’s work. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

She did not want Goat, who was there, to see that her children were being put into the pot. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

Then we started our chores two hours before class, returning after dinner to help Cook scrub the days pots and pans before heading off to bed. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

He smiled and jiggled a spotted blue coffee pot. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

“Of course, it would be better if I could bake the boat like a pot.” A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

He went away and came back with the long-handled coffee and milk pots. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

Speaking of pot roast, I had spent the three months before this involuntary visit subsisting only by a combination of my wits and the microwave. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Thirty miles to the end of the rainbow and the pot of gold. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

He filled the kettle and the pot with water, stood the mattress against the wall, pounded it with a shoe, told me to keep pouring water on the ground to drown the fleas dropping there. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

I muck up my mother’s kitchen floor and pots, cooking the gesso, and ruin panel after panel before I can work out how to paint it on for a smooth working surface. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

I’m not sure if she guesses there’s a whole pot of bubbling anger inside of me and she’s holding me down before I start something, or if she is telling me everything’s okay. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

Though I am tired, those two words bring me running in the direction of the pot. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ma fixed pots and scythes and rakes and picks for eggs or some such, took what we needed, then traded the rest to Ralph Pitcher for store credit at the mercantile. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

I send up two buckets of clean water, make a tasteless pot of porridge that will at least keep someone alive, and then Helena and I clean. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

The store was called A-Z, and its dusty show windows were crammed with a weird clutter of old and exotic-looking objects—huge bronze oriental vases next to some beat-up old pots and pans. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yes?” he said, staring into his pot, as though looking for something in it. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Suddenly I put the last peas into the pot and got up. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

She simply asked the house help, Agnes, to leave some food in the pot for him and to clear away dirty plates from his room. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Once a day, someone filled the water pot with well water, so that it was always there, steaming and ready on the edge of the stove. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

I was not even above stirring their pot just a little. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

I rinsed a pot and set it in the dish drainer. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

Seeds were stored in seed pots from one season to the next. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

The three of them stood looking at one another for a long minute, children and parents carrying clay pots weaving between them. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

“I dragged the pots outside so we could have water.” Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

These are not pots for cooking, I should point out, just decorative pots deployed to catch stray beams of sunlight or reflect the owners’ no doubt expensively buffed and peeled faces. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

One night I am knocking rhythms from the pot, and Julio plucking guitar. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wanted to dump a pot of lard all over his head and his stupid festival and his Pipo Place. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Is that the pot where he keeps his son’s spirit? thought Nhamo with a stab of pure terror. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

They boiled what was left of the rice in a steel pot on a charcoal stove. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

We made two more pots of graveyard dirt mixed with brick dust and some rock salt; then we poured it in a wide circle all around the cabin. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Now I hear him moving around in the kitchen, pots being pulled from cabinets, the sound of a bottle of seltzer being opened. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

“Too many crab pots, too many trotlines. You have to take the long look.” Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

It has given me tin cans for pots, and now an oaken board for a shovel. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was always some potion simmering over a pot of burning pitch, and one of my duties was to tend to these. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

There was the time she was laid off from her job, and the refrigerator was empty, and she bowed her head over an empty pot and prayed for God to fill it. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

In a small earthen pot on the table, the bouquet of yellow loosestrife, purple coneflowers, and lacy ferns cast a shadow against the wall in the dimming light. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Filch grabbed a quill from a pot on his desk and began shuffling around looking for parchment. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

Darla put the pot back on the burner, grabbed a dishrag, and wiped the counter. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

When we came in they began to stir, and Charles got up and made a pot of coffee while I read my notes. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

She says she has to look in on Mr. Sliney he’s so old and feeble he forgets to call for the chamber pot. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Their grandmother put the tops on the jars and set them into the canning pot. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

I run to the ladder with the pot. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

Adults carried babies and goats; children carried pots of food and dogs and younger brothers and sisters, the whole village of Kilanga. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The children had stopped playing and now looked silently at the car, their arms behind their backs and their new over-sized overalls pulled tight over their little pot bellies as though they too were pregnant. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

When we are cooking, we can walk up and take a chile or two from the living plant and toss them into the cook pot to hotten things up. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

Later, when the boat was as dry as she could manage, she took Mother out of the pot and propped her against the sack of mealie meal. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Gay created piles of filthy pots as she cooked the holiday meal. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

So, he takes out his bag of pot and asks me if I like the smell, and I said how I really didn’t think it smelled too good. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

I dip the ends of her hair into the silvery pot of color and spread the color upward toward the middle. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

He dipped his quill in the ink pot and continued to write. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

My mother waited until the very last minute to cross over to Ghetto A, rushing back to our building one last time for a cooking pot, which she wrapped in a sheet. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

So last week I was cooking, heating up a pot with grease in it, and all of a sudden I had a seizure and fell on the floor. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Plants grew everywhere in large plastic pots, as if there wasn’t enough greenery outside. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

"Father," the king said, without looking up, "I will bring my bare pot." When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

He could see barkers out front shouting to potential customers, offering free drinks, hot pots of coffee, and the fairest deal in all of Ketterdam. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

He makes a pot of coffee, toasts some bread to eat with butter and jam. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

The cooks continue to make rice soup in a big pot and serve it to the villagers. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had the precious dress-cloth, Uncle Kufa’s knife, six matches, two clay cooking pots, her weapons, and the bag of gold nuggets around her neck. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

"You can scarcely scour pots in silk and velvet." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

There’s a clattering of pots and pans, a clinking of dinner plates. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

“Do you know what happens, Etienne,” says Madame Manec from the other side of the kitchen, “when you drop a frog in a pot of boiling water?” All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Madame Hoo, a quicker student than the dressmaker, had learned more words: partner, money, house, tree, road, pots, pans, okay, football, good, rain, spareribs. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

Grateful to be doing something in her presence, I tied on the apron, put the slimy kidneys in the sink, washed them, and prepared a pot for boiling. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

He was so enchanted, he almost didn’t hear the servant coming down the hall, but fortunately, he woke up soon enough to scuttle behind the potted plants. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

One with a pot and the other a sheet. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

I groused as we sailed to the next pot in the string. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

Maybe the sunbeams falling across Sitti’s bed intensified, and the small golden coffee pot glittered on its tray. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Lodged in the corner was a small stove surrounded by a couple of pots and dirty tins. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

She lifted the cover from the pot of rice, and steam rose like a thick smoke, veiling her face. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

Even though I still was the one who carried the pots down to the stream to clean them out. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

Pots and pans, spice jars, an espresso pot, a large table, a few chairs... The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

As he twirls her around, I lean over and tip the contents of my scotch into a potted palm. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

“Once you actually shut Moody in the pots and pans cupboard.” Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

There was the woman, Ahjuhma, stirring a beaten egg into the pot with long chopsticks; she was wearing the yellow- piped white apron that my mother had once sewn and prettily embroidered with daisies. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

The king gazed at it and looked at his own pot, full of only black dirt, and shook his head. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

She used a pot instead, and my job was to dump it all down the hole inside the little moon house. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

I looked over at Mo, squatting by the fire, stirring a pot. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

I thought back to the many days I spent staring at empty pots and plates; how each such day shoved me closer and closer to the brink of starvation. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

There’s always pot at Aaron’s house; he has a room with an entirely separate ventilation system and lockable door that his parents could rent out as another apartment. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

As I lie here, bundled in my winter coat and scarf, I can smell Dad’s wafting pot smoke, and I find three planes all flying in a row in the dusky sky. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

Linguine noodles are boiling in a large pot. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

There are potted plants and flowers all over the living room and kitchen. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Mama puts the chicken pieces into the pot and asks Stephanie to stir. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

My experience of the piano came entirely from Robbie’s squat little music room with its scraggly potted plant and view of our modest backyard. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Drunk, voices slurred, they recalled the violent tremors that had splintered the earth like a clay pot, the dead who’d strewn Lkossa’s streets in the aftermath. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

One of the cops dragged the big clothes-washing pot over to the side and stuck his pistol down in it and shot four more times. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

She let two pots clatter to the floor. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the start of high school, I was a total innocent when it came to substances like pot and acid and ecstasy. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

I know some of us don’t have teeth, but I do, and I want pot roast. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Hameed calls us to a giant soup pot on the teacher’s stove. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

I ordered another pot of tea and sat watching the two of them till they, and the harassed Miss Megley, got up to leave. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

In about an hour the forest began to thin, and Robin could see the blue smoke coming from the cotters’ chimney pots. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

I knew they kept their key under a potted plant in the backyard. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

She’s dressed in a fancy tweed suit as she stands over a pot of bubbling hot water. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

Lashed to its sides were two barrels, a few lobster pots, and an old, battered trunk complaining at being dragged out onto the water. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

A box of new paints, a butter-yellow silk saree, a gray woolen shawl, and a pot of juicy roshogollah paraded before her eyes. Rickshaw Girl 2007-02-01T00:00:00Z

Then he poured the cola into a potted plant and stood up. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

A blond lady sits in a leather chair on a platform with potted green plants and a coffee table complete with a coffee mug. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

I grabbed an iron pot, stuffed it with all the dishrags and towels I could reach with one hand, laid the baby in it, and set it in the oven door. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Obediently Matty moved the wooden ladle around in the pot and watched beans and chopped tomatoes churn in the thick mixture as it simmered. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

Wynn made pot after pot of coffee and tried hard to act as excited as everyone else. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

Someone bring three old pots to scoop water out of cans. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

I run my fingers over hair-paste pots, letting the tiny clicking melody of their lids soothe my fears. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

Ida Spavento took the espresso pot from the stove, the coffee still gurgling as she put it on the table. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

Emmett’s kitchen has more pots and spoons than can fit in the cabinets. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

We loved flying kites but it wasn’t the pot that made the flying adventurous, it was the Gillette blades. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

Kaz nodded and slipped down a hallway behind a potted rose tree, resisting the urge to bury his nose in his collar. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

I dumped bucket after bucket of water into Eliza’s biggest pots and swung them over the fire. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I tipped the mud pot and filling his bowl handed it to him. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

He found nothing there but a kohl pot half full of the black eye paint, a copper mirror, a razor and a little jar of the ointment Gebu had been perfuming himself with lately. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

She emptied the grounds from the pot and put the coffee on the stove to boil again. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

In the afternoon, Nhamo harvested gourds to turn into calabashes and storage pots. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

I’m at peace here in this kitchen—seasoning, chopping, and stirring pots. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

She would wear a red cloth over her head until she sat beside the ceremonial pot shelf in her new home. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nick sat at the far side of the room, gripping a pewter pot as if it were fee only stable thing in the room. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

In one room, pots and pans were scattered next to a straw-stuffed mattress. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

And just like that, Mutti packs up everything—the dishes, the pots and pans, the uneven chairs, the brown wooden table, the worn armchair, the scratched-up black oak table lamp, the two wooden bedsteads. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

Another triggered a trip wire, and pots of Greek fire exploded into green flames, engulfing several of the snake women. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Reilly opened a can of Libby’s stew and tossed it in the pot. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

We servants gather around our mess pot, but no one eats much. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

I brought the rum, and water and some bread, and we scraped out the bottom of the stew pot to feed General Arnold and his aides. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

In a comer an old man was boiling hot dogs in a large institutional pot whose size dwarfed the gas range upon which it rested. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

And upended the pot over the head of the man who had been her brother. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

You could hear them scrambling around inside the metal pot, scrabbling up to escape the steam. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

I asked fearfully, and stared at the pot where I was sure her hands were melting. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Pointing into the ice, she said, “See that potted plant on the desk in there?” Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

Sometimes we girls pretended that we were cooking, and we’d make plates and cooking pots out of clay, the way Sudanese women do. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Squatting beside a blackened tin pot outside the woman’s hut, I ate burned rice, crispy and gooey. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

I have to say I liked the smell, but the pot was harsh in my lungs. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

Books on shelves that rose to the high ceiling, books in stacks on the floor, books holding up a potted violet in desperate need of water. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

Without any words, Khouy picks me up and loads me onto the back of the truck filled with bags of clothes and pots and pans and food. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instead they would pile the freshly formed and painted pots interlaced with sun-dried mesquite and make a bonfire of the whole pile. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Abuela bakes four chickens and boils a big pot of white rice. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

There were pots and pans in the kitchen and he wiped one out and stood it on the counter and then he tried to open one of the jars but he could not. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

I could hardly believe that she would take such a risk for a mere pot, but going back for it gave her one more moment to survey her kitchen and what had been our home. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

Other broken objects rested there as well, including the jagged fragments of the ceramic pot Kendra had noticed earlier. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

Eyeing the many black pots filled with steamy food on the ground, I tell my stomach to be calm. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

To ward off an aggressive black bear, Herrero suggests making a lot of noise, banging pots and pans together, throwing sticks and rocks, and “running at the bear.” A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

The Indian woman stroked him gently in reward, then ladled some of the meat from the pot onto the grass. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Habib took a handful of sugared almonds and made a pot of green tea. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

She made food that needed washing before it touched a knife, pot, or pan. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

The spices wafted up when she opened the pot—ginger and curry and bay leaves—and she told him, unnecessarily, that it looked good. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Bree stokes the small fire and places more pots of tea on the iron rack. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

Past the slips to the terrible gowns, the headdresses and fans and pots of her mother’s face paint and all the macabre accoutrements of the goddess of despair. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Chou enters a hut and comes out with a few metal pots, aluminum bowls, and the remaining few small bags of rice and salt. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She handed me a chamber pot, a blanket, and a mug of water. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know the real one. She just didn’t belong in that house. Digging around in the cupboards, picking up pots and ice picks...” Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

I weighed these things, groped under the bed for the pot, and did a fair job of balancing above the icy rim. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

Nothing happened except the granules immediately dissolved and a sweet smell, not unlike vanilla fudge, began to wisp up from the pot. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Delsa and Norma were supposed to help, but most of the time they refused, especially when I tried to get them to do the unpleasant tasks like changing Raymond’s diaper or scrubbing the rice pot. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

There was tea in a tall gray pot, along with mugs, and butter biscuits on a tray. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

We eat cans of Habitant pea soup, heated up on the two-burner stove in a dented pot, and slices of bread spread with molasses, and hunks of cheese. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

I listen and the spoon slips down into the pot of beans. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

I had to throw away the whole pot, which is a sin, according to Amá. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

I remember my father saying, Your eyes all led, staring at me after I’d smoked pot the first time, and I went to my room and laughed until I wept. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

A Salvation Army girl in her red-and-blue bonnet tinkled a bell on the corner, and when she looked at Singer he felt obliged to drop a coin into the pot beside her. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

He’s fed up, he’s finished with the climbing, he’s going to use his mother’s lovely chamber pot. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

She sat on a wooden chair near an electric hot plate, her arms folded, boiling water in a battered aluminum pot. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

During the day my mother stored our pots and pans beneath the bed, but at night she stacked them in the corner so Lois and George could sleep there. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

But now my brave, proud Pashtun father has taken on the pots and the pans! Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Then she said, “Did you go to the potting shed, like I told you?” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

I think of Amber's desk next to mine in our lesson room at home: her quill, ink pot, and handwriting ledgers. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

So my mother carried all the pots, three by three, and put them by houses up and down the street. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

“I got most of the ones you asked for. I was just looking for a planting pot.” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

She smiled, as if pleased that he had finally understood something important, and gestured to two small clay pots at the corner. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

The heavy pot of rice shook as the monkeys fought violently to get free. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

Black calla lilies and roses burst from pots and line trellises that ring the room. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

“The walk is not too hard for you? One day we’ll have the fire pit and the pots here for you. I’m thinking of preparing a place just below.” Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mom picked up her blackened pot and contemplated it. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

I went back to scraping the pot, and pretty soon Mary Alice went bad: to practicing her tap. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

Mam puts the boiled onion pot up on the mantelpiece for fear a mouse or rat might be at it. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

He made an enormous pot of it, enough to feed us for a week. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was the pot and fire that enchanted Matt. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

They are going to pick up two bags of potting soil for me at the nursery on the way back. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

Stanley turned to see Mr. Sir holding the boy's head against the oatmeal pot. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

Travis laughed and poked at the pot while we unloaded and took up seats around the fire. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

“Put them on the table!” she ordered without removing her hands from the pot. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

A struggle to hang on to them while Osh pulled the lobster pots. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

“There’s a ton of dirty pots and pans at all hours of the day.” A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

I had to roll the pot in the grass and climb halfway in with a wire brush to loosen the clinging soap. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

After some polite small talk, Evan told me that he was quitting pot and needed to find someone to bequeath his beloved pipe to. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

She put his hand down and turned to the little iron pot over the fire. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Obinze selected some spice bottles from the cupboard, sprinkled them on the chicken, and put the pot on the stove. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

The pot was covered with shiny pink paper that made a cuff around the lip. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Besides all that, they sent a big old pot of freshly cooked beef stew. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

We lived three or four to a room, shared a single, icy toilet, and took turns cooking pots of egg curry, which we ate with our hands on a table covered with newspapers. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

I felt a burning in my stomach, like a pot of oil was slowly starting to bubble inside. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

“But I broke her pot and now I have to go back to work it off.” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

Then O-lan came forward in her stolid fashion and she picked up the meat and washed it off with a little water and thrust it back into the boiling pot. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

“It’s a lovely setting and there sure are a lot of pots on the stove for you not to be expecting anyone.” 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

The good and bad bubbled around like vegetables in a huge stew pot. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

The tower room had once been an indoor garden, with small trees in wooden pots. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

One stood over the pot with a ladle in her hand. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

Most slaves were prisoners of war, seized in intertribal conflicts and sold by enemy Indian groups to the English in exchange for guns, pots, and axes. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

I hauled water from the well, boiled it, threw it out the back door, and started again with a clean chamber pot. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

“I love to fix a big pot of meatballs or jambalaya with shrimps.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Clayton washed up while Cool Papa threw a pot and a frying pan on the stove. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

Plates, cups, spoons, pot lids, the heavy aluminum rice pot, the frying pan, all half submerged in gray water with a greasy scum floating on the top. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

A clear puddle of liquid formed, and O’Dell, also wearing a ball-cap shield, coat, and gloves, poured in more until there was an inch of liquid steaming in the bottom of the pot. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Dinners were always noisy, and they were always abundant with great pots of boiled rice, platters of home-grown vegetables, fish Papa caught. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

I pour the leftover dirt into Claudia's pot, and then place the roots in the middle, pressing the soil around it. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

There was a bed made of a couple of deer hides stretched across a frame, a few pots and pans and not much else. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The soup roiled within the black pot, bits of cabbage chasing around the hog’s head that bobbed up and down, the eye roving in the gray foam. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

“Lord, honey, if it moves Arrabelle can cook it. And if it don’t move, she can always throw it in the pot with some greens and hamhock.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

A ceramic pot lay in pieces around a pile of soil and the remnants of a plant. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

He might have studied the saxophone had he not been born to immigrant parents who considered even pot holders an extravagance. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

As she picked apart a pile of crabs for soup, Jinny looked up at him, stirring wild onions into a pot over the fire. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

The chimney pots on the roofs...and on some, the shadowing looming of pigeon cotes...sometimes, faintly heard, the sleepy cooing of pigeons...the twin spires of the Church, remotely brooding over the dark tenements …. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tommen spilled from the saddle, his new armor rattling like a bag of old pots as he hit the ground. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“You’ve been stewing it long enough. Let some out of the pot.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

She made a pot of tea, even though her hands were shaking. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

We put pots on our heads and pretend to let them fall off. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

My job was to pry it out of the pot. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

He rolled from the bed, found a chamber pot, and commenced to filling it, with a groan of pleasure. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

It tasted good to them, after weeks of Cousin Eunice’s frozen dinners and pot pies. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

I take my pot of noodles over to the couch and eat on autopilot while we watch more footage. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Mr. Malloy warms a small pot of milk and honey, then pours it into a glass for me. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

I noticed there was no similar plea encouraging me to conserve the hot water that came with my fifteen-dollar pot of room-service tea, but that apparently was a different kind of water. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

Their coachman ate his bowl of stew, and drank two pots of ale, and went to sleep in the stables. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

She walks into the kitchen and puts on a pot for tea. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Chavez poured some dry rice into a pot and added water. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

She rinsed the cooking pots but used ash and sand to get the wooden plates clean. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Min and the other potters continued throwing pots, incising them with designs, glazing, firing, rejecting some vessels and keeping others. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

We stepped into our rubber overalls, pulled on our rubber gloves, and started winching in crab pots, dumping out crabs, and refilling the bait holders with clams. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

And the girls did their work and then they took their pots of soup and went to sit with the Ransels, with the McCarthys, with the Ferrias. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were building a cook fire, and a legless man, who propelled himself on a little cart, was ferrying vegetables to a large stew pot. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Grandma said if he worried her that much, she ought to use the clumber pot in place of the privy. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

Everybody who knew him knew about Hagar, but she was considered his private honey pot, not a real or legitimate girl friend—not someone he might marry. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was just like all the others, sad, flayed, and dirty, but there were two pots hanging by the door in which grew a few small tufts of geraniums, the flower of the poor. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Hurds had sold their sloop but kept the tender, and one day, late in May, Turner borrowed it to row his mother over to Malaga Island, carrying with them a pot of violets. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

As I take the pot down to the stream, I'm struck by how brutally hot it is. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Byrd rests a pot on her hip, wipes a canvas glove over her forehead. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Quietly she put down her cooking pot and crept to the top of a dome-shaped frost heave, one of the many earth buckles that rise and fall in the crackling cold of the Arctic winter. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Isn't that the pot now, calling the kettle black? How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“The guys were smoking pot and drinking beer,” said Scruggs, “laughing and tossing hand grenades into a river.” Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

She must have used every single pot in the house. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z

"Answer carefully, young king," the emperor said in a menacing tone, "for your life may depend on your answer. Who is to blame for this empty pot?" When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

It’s pretty, with flowering trees, potted daisies, and multistory homes. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

Mia, shaking the pot so the popcorn wouldn’t scorch, heard Lexie groan and a thunk that might have been her forehead hitting the table. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“I guess you can go ahead and bring in those ferns,” she said to the delivery boy, eyeing the foil-wrapped pots with loathing. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

As she pours the tea, the top to the pot rattles. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

I emptied that chamber pot and did your messages for three weeks. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

FOR days and days, Jackson, Mississippi’s like a pot a boiling water. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

“That is what I am expecting,” Minli said as she filled her pot with water and uncooked rice. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

“Let’s chop him up and put him in the stew pot.” The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z

She fed us cornmeal mush cooked in a pot swung over the fireplace. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

The midwife had lost another tooth, and was hobbling about on her broken ankle, throwing copper pots and cooking spoons about the cottage in her anger at age and teeth and life. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

I felt desperate to use the chamber pot, but first I had to face the hideousness that awaited outside. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

I’d scoop up handfuls just to hear the soft rattle of their downpour back in the pot. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I once saw her chase him from her stairwell with a pot of boiling water. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

I thought he just needed to use the pot, which he did, but then he moved around the bed. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

She got a couple of hot dogs out of the refrigerator and put them in a pot on the stove to boil. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

But there’s no place to put the food, no potted plants, and I won’t chance the toilet. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

I could almost forget about Dad bumping around the kitchen, navigating pots and pans he rarely used, and me stumbling through the science homework she’d always helped me with. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“Tag couldn’t catch a cold,” Roy Lee said, gripping the steering wheel and turning it back and forth to dodge the pot holes. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

You know how Aunt Ivy always says a watched pot never boils? Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

“Did she throw a pot of hot coffee on you?” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

The tray lists, and I barely have a chance to grab the cream pot before the teaspoon clatters to the ground. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

He was also crying pretty bad, and he decided if anyone asked him, he would say his eyes were red from smoking pot. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

We fooled around and smoked pot in his car. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

He placed them in a pot of water to keep the bees from finding them again. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once my nose started clearing up on Day Five, my nausea got even worse, because that odd aroma of old pot roast mixed with mothballs was nobody’s idea of a stomach soother. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

He doesn’t think much of it: there’s coffee in the pot by the sink, a half-done crossword puzzle beside an empty mug, and a plate of green grapes on the dining booth table. Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z

She’d bought him inexpensive pots and plates, the kind she used back in Cambridge, as opposed to the gleaming ones from Williams-Sonoma her children buy for her these days as gifts. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

I asked Calista as she turned the heat on under the pot on the stove. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

I watch Mom stirring the pot, still in her work clothes. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

So now there are pots and containers all over the flat space. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

They rummaged desks, pried lockers open, sifted through books on a perennial search for loot— money, pot, books, watches, clothing—anything. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

She pours the rest of the water into our new pot while Kim rekindles the fire by adding dry leaves and branches. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

We turn onto the Midway, banging our pots and pans and spoons, drawing attention from some of the other internees who were standing around their blocks. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

Chou puts the chickens in the pot, submerging them in water to boil them whole. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The food—fried okra, steamed corn on the cob, and pot roast that was so tender it fell right off the plastic fork—convinced me that Dolores was an even better cook than Maureen. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

A twenty-foot-high triangle palm stretches up from its pot in the middle of the main floor of Dr. Gazzaley’s studio loft. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

I paused and looked carefully to see where her spittle had gone, but I saw nothing; her face, obscured by steam, was bent over a big pot. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

That’s because he starts the seeds in pots on the kitchen windowsill while snow’s still deep on the ground. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Moms hooks up these huge pots of pasta with meat sauce, or she’ll scramble eggs with potatoes and chorizo, like my grams showed her, roll everything in flour tortillas. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

Then the pots and pans died out, and the song ended. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

They left near everything- tents, blankets, extra clothing, cook pots, and food. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jazz clanged pots and dishes around in the kitchen. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

Tell her to keep a pot of sauce simmering for when I get home. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

It was bald, with tattered ears, a narrow chest, a pot belly, and shriveled, spindly limbs. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

Du Barry gave each one of us a flower potted inside a wire birdcage, and instructed us to change its color and shape. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

The skiff wanted to break free, the buoy ropes were slick with weed, and my knees and ribs were sore after just two pots. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

“Don’t feel like you have to watch over the crazy girl pushing a load of potting soil. I’ll be fine.” The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

If the truth were to be known, anyone with a pot and a fire would try to make gold, drawing spirit from their veins, or stealing it from others. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

To worship and request help from Durga, the most important goddess, you lie down and face a three- cornered fire pot. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

“Sometimes spirit die,” Amari replied quietly while she stirred the pot on the fire. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Perhaps a pot of tea,” said Fudge, who still hadn’t let go of Harry. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

The pots are ready, and the ingredients are out on the table and counters ready to be prepared. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

He would never be able to make a pot unless he could continue his relationship with the potter. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

The waitress walked out of the swinging door from the kitchen, a pot of coffee in her hand. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

The gardening shed looked to be the likely place for a pot, but it was locked. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

Ugwu walked away from the door and stared at the pot on the stove. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Gregor washed off his leg and put on some ointment from a red clay pot he remembered Solovet using for wounds. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

In the kitchen, I lift up the lid from the soup pot and check to see what’s for breakfast. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

Pa gently cleans my face with his hand, then takes the rice pot from me and says I only have to carry myself for the rest of the trip. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

This dramatic change in the roster of nations making up the new America is yet another stage in the saga of this country as a melting pot of cultures and experience. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

It sounded like when boiling water rattles the pot cover. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wake up at dawn and put a pot a Community coffee on the stovetop. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Although he tried not to eat anything much and spoil his appetite for the late-summer greens he was sure were simmering in the pot for him. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Born prematurely on Christmas Day in 1642, Isaac Newton squirmed into the world, so small that he was able to fit into a quart pot. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

When we came back with the stones and pots of water, she unloaded garlic and carrots and potatoes and turnips and chuck beef and tomatoes. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

The little pot was empty now and she let it drop, hearing it fall as the water gourd had. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Then Marge shows up in the kitchen and points out the row of copper pots and pans hanging from a rack near the ceiling. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Along the river’s edge women were scrubbing clothes and even washing their pots and pans. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

Oriana stands there, a wooden tray in her hands with a steaming pot and three clay cups atop it. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

My eyes go extra wide because I can’t believe she is just going to walk away and leave this big pot of bad feelings behind. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

She felt slightly guilty because she had just stolen a pot of the millet-and-honey cakes Aunt Chipo kept to fatten her daughter up. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Long shelves lined the walls, crowded with clay pots in varying sizes. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

“But we have a date to go running with a wheelchair and potting soil tomorrow at six.” The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

Naima peered over her shoulder as the woman dipped the brush in a pot of yellow paint. Rickshaw Girl 2007-02-01T00:00:00Z

For when the emperor saw the king's pot, his face turned as black as iron. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

The gunk smelled like potting soil, cedar chips, grape juice and just a hint of fertilizer. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

But her mother was in the kitchen humming happily and clattering pot lids as the visitors sat around the table toasting each other with glasses of mint tea and gobbling roasted chickpeas. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

“My mother has been learning how to make clay pots since she retired from her neuroscience work. The metallic sculptures are my father’s, welded together with leftover computer parts from his repair shop.” Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

We all stood a long moment in a silence broken only by the sound of the potion boiling over its pot of flame. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

Another time, she told a servant to show me how to clean a chamber pot: “Make her put her own nose to the barrel to make sure it’s clean.” The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Judge Quinzy turned to locate the source of this voice emanating from the potted plants. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

As I dumped and washed out the chamber pot, I gave thanks. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

As he bent nearer the light of the pitch pot, I caught my first glimpse of his features. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

What did he know but mere village witchery, spells to call goats, cure warts, move loads or mend pots? A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

Instead, he picked up the coffee pot and poured the last of the old coffee into the grass, turning away for a long moment. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

She hasn’t even brewed her daily pot of barley tea. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

She had two half-completed pots sitting on wooden plates to dry. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I grabbed the chocolate pot and left, not wanting to see what became of the poor creatures’ heads. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

She sits at the table with a pot of tea, cups and saucers, plenty of bread, butter, cold meats of all kinds. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

The next February, they had an extra-elaborate Chinese New Year’s dinner, with cunning little dumplings, and balls, and buns, in addition to the usual hot pot with gold-chain bean threads. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Well, now, that very chamber pot is full since this morning. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

In the kitchen, his mom was struggling to get the large pot of mashed potatoes off the stove. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

I strip off my scarf and hoodie down to my favorite tank top, go into the kitchen, and start a pot of water to boil. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Our son must go to school. He must break out of the pot that holds us in.” The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

They showed things like coffee pots, microwave ovens, and kitchen sinks. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Gripping Pa’s finger even tighter, my heart races as the soldier checks the pot. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

There are tears on good days and bad, kicked over clay pots, more times than Axel can count, and loud, loud laughter. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

I politely look away, admiring the potted plants lined up along the edge of her desk. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

For breakfast my parents often made their ochazuke—green tea mixed with rice—from the crusty old rice at the bottom of the pot. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Captain Smith doesn’t need me anymore, so I hurry toward the steaming pot of oatmeal. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

I got good at ignoring Charlie and Jenny or whoever else he brought into the woods for pot parties and sex, or whatever he was into now. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

I could hear the wives of the umunna, chattering in the backyard, scooping soup and stew from the huge pots on the fire into bowls that would be taken to serve the people. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

At first she thought it was the bear, clanging the oatmeal pot against the furniture, but then the tiny attic came alive with girls. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

Its “Sinification” involved the drastic homogenization of a huge region in an ancient melting pot, the repopulation of tropical Southeast Asia, and the exertion of a massive influence on Japan, Korea, and possibly even India. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

“No, I haven’t....Maybe someday...,” she mused as she set a pot of water to boil on the fire. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

My eyes fill with heat, and tears trickle over like a boiling pot. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Laney sought out Paganini from under the fronds of a potted palm tree. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

While these discussions go on you are to imagine me bowling along on some little road or pulled up behind a bridge, or cooking a big pot of lima beans and salt pork. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was Shandi’s fire, and a small pot hung simmering, boiling potatoes, strangely familiar among the chaos. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Richard is carrying the oatmeal pot for our mess, and James has a slop bucket he has just emptied. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

Just bawling, and not even trying to hide behind the flowers that were lined up in pots on the counter. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Her apron brushed the pots of red geraniums crowding the wide sill. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

I help cook the grains in the big pot over our communal cook fire, and I watch as the mealworms float to the top. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

I stirred the pot which I had put down in the sun and took a spoonful of the uncooked lentils and rice in my mouth. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Everything was in one pot on the diningroom mg, and I saw them just fall right in, using their hands. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I also packed ramen noodles, mac-and-cheese, and a travel hot pot.” Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Soweto was a melting pot: families from different tribes and homelands. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

I said to Juanita as we shuffled closer to the counter lined with steaming pots. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

I was planning to put the TV on, and I was mad as @#$% because I knew the spaghetti was congealing in the pot. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

“Tall want to see the TV? That pot busted the screen something nice. We never got another one to replace it.” Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

I drew away as if from a scalding pot. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Orange juice and a pot of steaming hot chocolate wait at my place at the table. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

He ran furiously to the kitchen, filled a pot with water, and rushed back to his room. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

She goes down the hall and brings back a pot of mashed potatoes for all of us. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Normile sweetened the pot for second through fifth places and offered extraordinary breaks in the weights, giving them between twenty-two and thirty-two fewer pounds than Seabiscuit. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

There the doctor sat idle over a pot of tea. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

A pot, a frying pan, a plate, a cup, a knife, fork, and spoon. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

Fiona kept a pot of wormy garden dirt pressed between her knees. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

The stage holds a podium with two big potted trees on either side of it and a large bouquet of pink and white roses in front. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

To have dishes, he thought, just to have dishes and pots and pans and a stove to cook the food—it still made him marvel. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

The thought of our sodden, muck-filled downstairs dragged at me like a lead weight on a crab pot. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

There are pans and pots and buckets everywhere. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

There are potted plants in every corner of the room, TV screens positioned on the walls, cushiony chairs and couches. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

“Yes,” Ugwu said, although he had sworn never to eat Harrison’s food after he dropped by Mr. Richard’s house and saw Harrison spooning shredded orange peels into a pot of sauce. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

"Apples. Cheese. Half a cottage loaf. And a pot of fishpaste. My penknife. I've got a change of underwear, and a couple of pairs of woolen socks. I suppose I should have brought more clothes...." Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

There were scones too, on the table, and toast, and various pots of jam, marmalade, and honey, while dessert dishes, piled high with fruit, stood at either end. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

I toss the ladle back in a pot of stew, splattering us both with the gravy. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Then write “Thanks for helping me grow” in chalk on the body of the pot. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

Clutching the cooking pot to her breast, Miyax excitedly waited to see her bring back meat for the pups. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

I could cook this curry in my sleep, but some of the girls can’t take their eyes off the bubbling pot in the mirror above the cooking area. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

She packed a cooking pot, mealie meal, and matches into the fish trap. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

One had a pot that was big enough to boil a whole person in it. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

There were still a few bushels of grain to sell for feed but that wouldn’t make a dent in my empty money pot. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

She wadded them all up, leaned to one side, and dropped a ball into the large pot on the stove. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

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

I love watching the spread of rice flour on cloth, stretched over a steaming pot. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

She shook her head and went back to her pot. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

Grace Wexler had supervised the decorations: copper pots hung from the ceiling; the pews were padded with flowered cushions and fitted with hymnbook pockets and drop-leaf trays. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I came home from school, he was hovering over some fat, old cookbook, trying to stuff herbs into a chicken, and the water in a pot of pasta started bubbling over the edge. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

In the middle sat a big pot of white rice. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

When I first started working off my debt to Miss Sadie for breaking her Hungarian pot, she said I’d know when I was done. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

Cabinets opened fine with a little extra tug, and they could lift Grandma’s biggest, heaviest pot from beneath the counter when they worked together. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

I moved to help her, but before I could offer, the pot slipped from her hands and crashed to the concrete floor. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Most of Gogol’s toys come from yard sales, as does most of the furniture, and the curtains, and the toaster, and a set of pots and pans. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

A wisp of steam escaped the pot's spout, and she found that she could smell it, spicy and floral amid the earthier scents of the river. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z