For his services, the wizard was paid three British pounds. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

A notch below six feet four and slightly above two hundred pounds, he was a full head taller than his male contemporaries. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

It was like they had become ashes in my hand and I didn’t even realize that there was nothing left of them until I was pounding just my fist on the ground. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

My heart is still pounding pretty badly, but I stop shaking when I reach for the first brick. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

My heart pounds so hard I feel it in my skull. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

“Specific impulse is defined as the thrust in pounds of a given propellant divided by its consumption rate.” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Deborah was a substantial woman—about five feet tall and two hundred pounds. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

He growled; drums pounded; chorus girls screamed and fled. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

The guys came over and started pounding on the machine, but nothing happened for them. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But for a young woman with a handicap of her own, pushing one hundred pounds along ten miles is not something that can be done on a whim.” The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

Then they were forced to lie quiet, listening to the pounding of their hearts, in order to calm down a little. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Japanese were outnumbered and suffered huge losses, but then a typhoon blew in, pounding and sinking many Mongolian ships. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

California racing rules mandated that no horse carry fewer than 100 pounds, and Seabiscuit was clearly more than 30 pounds better than most horses on the West Coast. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now that my heart has stopped pounding, I have to admit—I am still curious. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

Someone pounds on the outer door like a sledgehammer on a metal drum. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

The magistrate pounded his gavel and cried for order. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

By 1640, when Pernambuco was briefly ruled by the Dutch, its plantations sent some twenty-four thousand pounds of sugar to Amsterdam alone. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

My head pounded, and all down my spine it felt as though my bones had been churned to broken shards of glass. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

The old grizzly bear rarely showed the slightest hint of emotion—unless he was yelling or screaming or pounding on something ... or someone— but he often showed how much he genuinely cared. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

The squirrel pounds her tiny fists on the cupboard door and screeches at Ma. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

Finally, by six o’clock, the house redolent of enticing smells, Viola rang her bell at the back door and pounded the gong. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

It was pounding like the giant heart of the war itself or a great thunderstorm without an end. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Pedro Tercero proceeded to untie his bonds, which had been wrapped around his wrists to keep him from pounding on the door. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

His heart was pounding, but he was more startled than afraid. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

My heart was pounding like crazy and I was out of breath as I climbed the wide front steps and stood on his porch, knocking on the door. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

Someone asks how many pounds the turkey was this year. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Since there were about fifty pounds of beans in that sack, it made enough noise to raise the dead. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Annabeth’s heart pounded so strongly she felt it in her toes. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

His head was pounding, and the slightest light gave him a headache. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

I glance at the door, willing it to start shaking from the pounding of Mamita’s desperate fists. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ole remembered him pounding home cedar posts for raspberry canes, standing in the bed of a pickup truck, shirtless, swinging a maul. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

I moved up the stairs, my heart pounding. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

My heart was pounding, but I consoled myself with the knowledge that pretty soon I wouldn’t have to deal with Andy. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had lost twenty-six pounds over the previous few months and had a chronic cough accompanied by chest pain. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

His head was pounding and he felt sick to his stomach. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

Then he pounds his chest with his fist. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

“She telling everybody she lost forty pounds,” I say. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

A weight dropped, crashed downward, then pounded aside at the last moment under the synchronized thump of a sudden force beam. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

People gave him pound and ten shilling notes for Christmas and birthdays, they gave him more because he hadn't got a father, and then there was pocket money. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

The Newlyweds chattered smugly of their Bobs and Michaels, of how they had been married to Bob and Michael for four months and Bob and Michael had gained twenty pounds apiece. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

But he was cold and tired, his head was pounding, he had not slept in days. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

They held my arms while Horse jumped on my stomach and methodically began to pound with his fist on my chest. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

He looked at me like he was wondering how come I let Mr. Leroy pound him that way. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

At the end of the interview, the regent bade me good-bye and handed me a pound note for pocket money, the largest amount of money I had ever possessed. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

As we drove by Nipomo, the last town before Santa Maria, my heart started pounding. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Then she gives me a cardamom pound cake with slivered almonds on top. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

My head feels like it weighs a thousand pounds. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

The feeble shouts of the men on the Docker were lost in the pounding of the waves. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

I listened to the pounding rain on the thatch and the quiet drips that leaked through, and only then did I think of Father. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I woke up with my heart pounding so hard I thought it would burst right out of my chest. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

They ran to the Winston house first, pounding on their front door. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

It was dark when I heard a pounding on the door. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She carried an Okeh record under her arm and a half pound of stewmeat wrapped in pink butcher paper in her hand although the sun is too hot to linger in the streets with meat. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe if she just kept pounding, the door would eventually give. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

To make me soft and weak, to crush my spirit, to pound every last bit of vivisima spark out of me. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ben noticed that Red was a good two inches taller than he was, but he also was certain that he outweighed Red by twenty pounds. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The members discussed the largest man-made explosion in history to that point—in 1917, in Halifax Harbor, Canada, a ship packed with millions of pounds of bombs and ammunition caught fire and blew up. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

We had no scales, and he had to estimate, using a pound box of gichy-michy as standard. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

They were playing the riau-riau music, the pipes shrill and the drums pounding, and behind them came the men and boys dancing. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

And as her heart pounded, her mind wondered what excuse he would use that night to pounce on her. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

The spirit pounded his ceremonial stool with the palm of his hand and shook his head. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

I ducked through the nearest door, my heart pounding. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

My heart pounds, like it already knows an answer I can’t face without prompting. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

I pound back the coffee to empty the mug. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

Very petite to begin with, in nine months she gained only eight pounds and never even wore maternity clothes. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lem crushed Nat’s hand and pounded his back and bellowed with cheerful profanity, “I knew there was one man in Salem who wouldn’t think I was a ghost.” Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was crazy, but somehow Papa could tell whenever she or Akira had lost or gained even a single pound. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Glenn was wound up pretty tightly, Siobhan thought—he was pounding the ball when he only needed to gently return it. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

“The River Run is the first weekend in November. I did five miles with forty pounds this morning.” The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

I imagine what Heather might look like in ten years, after two children and seventy pounds. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

A soldier crossed ahead, pounding on the door, demanding entry. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

As I run back home, my heart leaps out of my chest, my head pounds, and I almost collapse on the front steps. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

My mouth goes dry, and my heart is pounding so hard, it feels like someone’s beating it like a drum. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

Without raising his eyes, he could see her standing in the holy place, pleading the blood over those who sought there, her head thrown back, eyes shut, foot pounding the floor. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

One man was going to pick two hundred pounds of cotton, and another three hundred. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

With his head down he drove one hundred and sixty pounds of sonflesh into his father’s stomach. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I prayed it was my mother and called through the door to her as I pounded away. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

I pound my glove, feel for the whiteboard, and then pretend I’m taking away a home run with a leaping grab. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

Judging by their worried looks, and by the continued pounding of his scar, his sudden excursion into Voldemort’s mind had not passed unnoticed. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Her heart lurched when voices pounded from the other end. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

They pounded Ben as he ran their gauntlet. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yes, but the difference of size isn’t large enough to bank on, not with a margin of error potentially this wide. Now, if you were fifty pounds heavier, maybe...” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

He and Harry had bought a hundred pounds of unshelled peanuts in two burlap sacks. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Papa lifted her up, and she could hear his feet pounding on the ground. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

He glanced back to make sure Alec was keeping up, saw the old bear pumping his arms and pounding his feet, then focused ahead again, sprinting along the slow curve of the hallway. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

The drums were pounding louder, as if to drown out a faint but spine-chilling screaming. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

They hurdled flowers and stuffed animals, pounding down the brick-laid sidewalk until they reached a wall of people lining up to board a bus. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

As a result, I’d gradually started to put on some extra pounds. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Heart pounding, I sit up straighter in my chair. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

They think I can help out with the family business, prepping pounds of veggies, mixing all the spices, packing hundreds of foil trays before a big party. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

The only cotton left for us to harvest was la bola, the leftovers from the first picking, which paid one and a half cents a pound. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

And they got a reward of seven pounds for each new level achieved. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

You could buy peanuts by the pound in Suffolk for nothing. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

I hold my head as it pounds and spins. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Bobby Moch sat astride the stern, hunched forward, pounding the wood, screaming words no one could hear. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

No, that was the dream, he thought, his head pounding. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Running hard now, my feet pound the tar, the flap of seagull wings as loud as my breath in my ears. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

“There must have been a reason,” Yossarian persisted, pounding his fist into his hand. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Right on cue a pounding sensation begins behind my eyes. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Iaided in the pounding of boiled clothes; I translated dull tags; I daily ran my fingers through Mr. Sharpe’s hair, greasing it and feeding his graying queue into a bag. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Piper, Jason, and Percy pounded on the walls, looking for an exit, but they found nothing. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Loud noises echoed down to them—pounding, clanging, and screeching. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Beside the bar there was an ice chest that cooled a few pounds of pickled meat and sausage. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“No, but he’s four hundred pounds and he has claws,” she says quietly. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

When the camp had been liberated in 1945, Gitl weighed only seventy-three pounds because she had insisted on sharing her rations with the children. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

It felt like a thousand pounds of refried beans had just been dumped onto my head. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

I lay back against my pillow, my heart pounding at what I had just witnessed with my ears and my imagination. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

The boy’s clothes his host had dressed him in made him feel like ten pounds of sausage in a five-pound skin. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Now there was a thrashing and pounding and a crying out from within the darkening place. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then he made a fist and pounded his chest, his face fierce. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

Even when they were safely away from the inn, and Catelyn Stark slowed them to a trot, it was a miserable pounding journey over rough ground, made worse by his blindness. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Over the weeks that followed he languished in the hospital, arms curled grotesquely at his sides, muscles atrophying, his weight dropping below 80 pounds. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

To cite a simple example, the probability that a person chosen at random from the phone book is over 250 pounds is quite small. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Shall we pound on the window? Shall we tell him what is happening?” Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

I thought it very bad manners for anyone to pound on a bathroom door the way some person was pounding. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

I started running, my feet pounding as loud as my heart. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

Forty-four pounds of luggage per person, and not one iota more. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

For a few wild minutes, she flailed at the door, pounding it with her fists, scratching at it until her fingernails were bloody. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

“He’s just playing,” I said, trying to make her relax even though my heart was pounding. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

“You could get a pound of ground beef for the price of two of those yogurts. And they’re so small. I ate one and it was gone in three bites.” The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

My fingers know exactly when to pound and exactly when to fly. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

I jumped the garden rows, pounding for the house. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Buy a pound of potatoes on your way home.” The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Or maybe cheese was thirty-seven cents a pound and somebody came and asked for a dime’s worth. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

Plans racing in her head, she squatted to watch the wolves eat, measuring, as time passed, the enormous amounts they were consuming—pounds at each bite. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The water in the skins was two months stale, and besides, he’d gotten used to the labor—which involved an ironwood mallet and pounding stakes deep into the sand. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Heavy water pounded against her body and knocked her to the ground, and her Damage Sensors flared for the first time. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

The ogres stopped clawing and biting and pounding and lunging and kicking and looked at me trustfully. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

He holds my hands in his own, and my heart pounds at the touch. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

He wanted the horses to carry equal weights, proposing 126 pounds but leaving himself open to any weight Riddle wanted, so long as both horses carried the same. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

She bared her fangs and I woke with a start, my heart pounding. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

On the days Mom felt inspired, she took her sheet music and one of our spool chairs outside and pounded away at her music back there. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

The bribes, which would undoubtedly have been gleaned from the enormous resources of the church in Alexandria, were said to include some 1,500 pounds of gold—worth about sixteen million dollars in 2007. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

She lingered by a package of chicken wings, which, at twenty-nine cents a pound, held some interest for her. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

The rain pounded the metal roof of the shed so that the plink of milk in the pail set up a counter-rhythm. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

He tried to play it cool, but his heart was pounding. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

“Yeah,” I say, my heart pounding like crazy. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

His entire being moved with the intricate rhythms he pounded with his hands. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

Hugo slipped the pound note into his top pocket. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

Instead the great gates were locked and Wang Lung pounded against them with both fists and no one came. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

Her heart was pounding so hard she could scarcely breathe. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

My head was pounding, and my shoulders ached. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Then a series of rollers pound against my back as I slip over them. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

My heart pounds and my hands shake, but I won’t let a sniper beat me. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

He was slim, five foot nine, and just under 170 pounds. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

She pounded the dough with a wooden spoon. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

The stones we turned over were not large —weighing from three to fifty pounds. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

The usual corridor pandemonium surrounded him, slammed locker doors, wild yells and whistles, pounding feet as the guys hurried to the afterschool activities, football, boxing, debating. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

People yelled and sang and pounded their fists on the sides of the van as the vehicle crawled out of the courthouse exit. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Between the bubbly drink and her enthusiastic pounding, Luke started coughing. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

But now...electric energy still pounded up my spine and down to my fingertips. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Walt reacted the other way, eating compulsively, and gained eight pounds. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Moments after Justice Rumpff pounded his gavel, the Crown made an extraordinary application to change the indictment. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘You get off at Mombasa. Your salary will be five hundred pounds per annum and your tour is for three years.’ Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

My heart pounded through my ears, down in my toes. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dad said as he pounded the tops of the spools to show us how sturdy they were. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

I speed-walked into the building, my chest pounding, no idea where I was even going. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

He pounded his leg and threw his head back like old men do, cracking up. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

“And in this corner, weighing two hundred and ninety-five pounds, from Indian Lake, Pennsylvania...it’s the Earthquake, doing his signature move.” Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

He went back to his chair, and Abra sifted flour over the steak and pounded the meat with a big knife. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Rain pounded against the window of the bedroom I shared with four others at the foster home. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

My mind is still pounding with the jazzy thunder of that piece. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

When we get home, I call Elizabeth’s house, my heart pounding, but Elizabeth picks up the ;phone. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t let that dog go to the pound. Because of Winn-Dixie 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

The sound of the rain got louder, pounding on the leaves, splashing into the ruts; it splattered on his head, and the sound echoed inside his skull. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

There was holes cut in each end of the U. It musta weighed sixty pounds. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

Her mouth dry, her blood pounding in her veins, she stepped back. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

“Nhamo! You lazy girl! It’s your turn to pound the mealies,” called the voice. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

And not only here but in other inlets nearby are very large lobster pounds crawling with those dark- shelled Maine lobsters from the dark water which are the best lobsters in the world. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

The needle zoomed up and wavered between fourteen and fifteen pounds. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

The light had been bright before, but now it only amplified the pounding behind my eyes. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

She knowed right off something was wrong ’cause with that toady-frog added to it, her sweater weighed ’bout five pounds more than the last time she touched it. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

The students would simultaneously shout to be heard, and I’d pound on something in order to silence them. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

It took Judge Swango a lot of pounding and shouting to get things orderly again. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

Johnny got them off and kicked them and the many pounds of tea they held into the harbor. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

My heart starts pounding and I have a strong impulse to run. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

She was crying and pounding the floor with her fist. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

He waited until his heart had stopped pounding, until he could breathe, and he began to climb again. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Her heart pounded as she remembered Clara’s words in the hallway, about how she wished she was real so that she could be Ophie’s friend. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

The buzzing starts to subside, replaced by a pounding ache that sweeps from ear to ear around the back of my skull. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

James pounded back up the stairs and shook her arm. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

We had sold him a hundred pounds of hash. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

The keys are then slapped and pounded, and I'm forced to explain that if you want the words to appear, you first have to plug it in and insert a sheet of paper. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

And he said, “Two pounds ninety-five, but you’re giving me the money first. I’m not having you scarpering,” and then I realized that he meant £2.95 when he said Two ninety-jive. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

That look on his face told me that Needles was the person getting pounded on in the middle of that brawl. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

Eight stomping pounds of pure poodle—any big bird could carry him off. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Also, he would like for Flora’s mother to quit pounding him on the head, which she was doing again now. Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z

There was trouble with my delivery because Mom was tiny and I was nine pounds. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

We pounded together on the sides and door, making so hideous a pandemonium inside the steel box that we could not stand it ourselves. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

I pound on the glass, screaming my head off. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Uncle Bob’s turkey tastes like cardboard and his lemon pound cake looks like Jell-O, but Hospital Santa has everyone singing and all this joy is spoiling my mood. The Crossover 2014-03-18T00:00:00Z

His excitement had increased until he pounded his knee with this hand. Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

Marie-Laure reads Jules Verne in the key pound, on the toilet, in the corridors; she reads on the benches of the Grand Gallery and out along the hundred gravel paths of the gardens. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Still, my heart was pounding and my palms were wet as I squeezed through that big crowd of white people to get back to the car. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

When we turned into the parking lot of my new giant school, I thought my heart might just pound right out of my chest. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Running down his legs in streams, bright and red and steady, staining the waters with the pounding of his heart. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

She felt like she’d lost about twenty pounds just by speaking. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

His heart pounds against my palm, and my own heart lifts. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

Mam says she can now pay off the few pounds she owes at Kathleen O’Connell’s shop and she can pay back what she owes her own mother. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

We were different here on this path, our hard cracked feet pounding the hard cracked earth. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I head to the kitchen smelling of polish, my head aching with the indecipherable echo of Blackcliff s drums, which have been pounding all day. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

“Attention! Let me have your attention!” insisted the king, leaping to his feet and pounding the table. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

His height was five feet, eight inches; he weighed only 155 pounds. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

I fell to the ground, and he kicked me, but I roared back and tackled him, slamming his back against the lockers, pounding him with my fists. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

Somehow he formed a coherent thought in the madness that pounded through his skull. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

My head felt light and heavy all at once, but worst of all was the pounding. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

The equipment was a hell of a lot of weight to carry around, maybe 4,500 pounds worth. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Wrestling twenty-five pounds of sugar back from Moore’s Store was nothing to picking all the gooseberry bushes clean. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

We were so close I could see how hard the surf was pounding the shore. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

His own heart pounds each time he listens to the BBC. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

Some seasons he got fifty or sixty pounds of it. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

This time, they buy a whole chicken, two pounds of rice, onions, green peppers, and all the sweet plantains in the store. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

And the Enola Gay was loaded with extra fuel and the bomb—fifteen thousand pounds more cargo than the B-29 was designed to carry. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every time I close my eyes, I hear the pounding beat and then the ambulance sirens from far away. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Panicked, I picked up the letter opener handle and pounded at the lock, again and again, until finally, the trunk popped open. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

As an alternative to eating cake while watching television, she turned to pistachios, and then ate a pound in a single sitting. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

Secretaries or botanists, and once the director’s assistant, bring her back to the key pound. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

The distant boom of artillery switched from its sporadic night rhythm to the purposeful daylight pounding. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

A lone cat yowled in the alley below her bedroom, and she jumped, her heart pounding. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

She would pound the floor with her parasol and shout and wave her fist until her hat was twisted on her head and her churchgoing outfit was rumpled. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Got it," I said, giving him a pound. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

I sat up, heart pounding, slapping at the blank wall for the light switch until the terrible realization dawned on me that I was not in my own room. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

He later appealed to a mayor, hoping he might be able to get four more pounds of the rare grains. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

After he had paid the Angolans two thousand pounds in cash, she told him that they had given her only five hundred pounds. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

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 slam the door, my head pounding with anger. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

Their insistent voices converged into the one pounding sound of dance dance dance. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

The snow of the uncleared ground padded their footsteps, but nothing could muffle the pounding inside Pinmei. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

He rolled them over with a peavey and pounded them with the flat face of a splitting maul, testing for the ringing tone that indicated soundness. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

And when he saw the approaching mob, he tried to warn us, frantically pounding on the door, trying to get in. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Then I hear the pounding of bare feet in retreat. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

He gives us books of tickets and we swarm all over Limerick for Leamy’s School boot fund, first prize five pounds, five prizes of a pound each. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

My heart pounds out of my chest, both nerves and anger and grief. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

My head is pounding so hard I want to lie down. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

Which is always an interesting experience since he’s six foot seven and 240 pounds of mahogany steel but has this high-pitched hyena giggle. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

Maybe ten or fifteen pounds went in through the slot. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

“Mr. K. took off his shoe and pounded the table.” Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Perrington’s face shifted for a moment, toward something pained and ugly—but it was so fast she barely noticed it above the pounding rising in her head. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

My heart was pounding as I logged in. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Yossarian felt his heart stop, then pound so violently he found it difficult to breathe. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

The words pounded through Despereaux's body with each beat of his heart. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

He wanted to rest so badly, the soles of his feet on fire with pain, his heart raging, his head pounding. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

It begins quietly, with the pounding of a heart. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

With its quilted liner, the poncho weighed almost 2 pounds, but it was worth every ounce. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Their sudden movement knocked something loose in me and I found my voice again and shouted for them to wait, but they were already pounding the floorboards toward the door. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

And since I only weigh 117 pounds and have only had alcohol one time before, I might have been a little woozy by the time I got back to the table. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

“I tell you what. If you want these books, I’ll sell them to you for just what I paid for them at the auction: one hundred and fifty-eight pounds and ten shillings.” Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh, a trifle! Nothing of course to speak of—twenty thousand pounds, I think they say—but what is that?” Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

When he walked into the Annandale house, he had a scruffy beard, his hair was long and tangled, and he’d shed thirty pounds from his already lean frame. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the time this picture was taken I weighed 125 pounds. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

Among the grunts, some carried the M-79 grenade launcher, 5.9 pounds unloaded, a reasonably light weapon except for the ammunition, which was heavy. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, your sweatshirt must weigh two pounds. And...cargo shorts? All those pockets. Pound and a half. Boots! Hiking boots. Might as well wear two toddlers on your feet.” A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

He said cotton brought thirteen cents a pound in 1837, and when it was high, the slave traders paid as much as a thousand dollars for prime field hands. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had been in and out of solitary confinement for months and I had lost more than twenty-five pounds. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh!” was all she could think to say, her heart pounding. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

His head pounded with pain from the sudden descent, and his heart raced. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

My knees quit shaking and my heart stopped pounding. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Emo and Pinkie kept him there; Pinkie found the tire iron and was pounding the hood of the car again. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Her backpack seemed to weigh a thousand pounds. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

My heart pounded like drops of rain pummeling down upon the dry earth. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

My heart pounds so hard my chest hurts, and I stare at him, wide-eyed. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

To protect himself, he bought a heavy coat made of horse leather that weighed more than thirty pounds; he hoped it would be thick enough to deflect a knife attack. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

If he replies in pounds, he is from Central America. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

His mother would be preparing the evening meal now, pounding akpu in the mortar, the pestle grasped tight with both hands. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

“But she has spent twenty thousand pounds looking for you.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Another Huntsman doubled up and fell, pounded by invisible fists. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

For some reason I went through there fast and turned north on 71 to Wadena and it got dark and I pounded on to Detroit Lakes. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a moment of déjà vu, because it was the exact same sort of pounding that came in the middle of the night when Scythe Faraday had died. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Stick’s waterfall poster trembled, making it look like the water was actively pounding the rocks. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

One wave after another comes pounding down on me, pulling me under, deeper. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

With the wind in my hair and the surf pounding in my ears, I thought: This is about as far away from foster care as I can get. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

One morning she was pulled out of her uneasy, thick sleep by a steady pounding that sharpened into a knocking at her bedroom door. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nate’s heart pounded as he stuck his head through the tent flap. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z

Once, when Obinze was working with another driver, an old Jamaican woman had pushed ten pounds into his pocket when the driver was not looking. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

My mom couldn’t afford to buy much food at the market, usually just a half pound of beans, a few ingredients to make gravy, and some cornstarch to make kaunga, a traditional doughlike dish. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Several seemed about to come over and pound my back, shake my hand. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

He hurled himself at the door and began pounding. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

He hammered his index finger into the counter, like he was pounding a miniature gavel. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

I can already hear soldiers’ boots in the corridors adjacent to ours, pounding on the floor. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

Lost tears were pounded to mud and then to dust. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Both boats were sixty-two feet long and, within a pound or two, weighed the same. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

By that time, the average person in England ate ninety pounds of sugar a year—and in the early twentieth century, that number kept rising. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

Not even a drunken stupor or the next morning’s pounding hangover can scrub the image from his brain. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Flying around the first floor, screaming my name, before pounding up the stairs two at a time. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

When she did, her beautiful voice made the blood pound in my temples. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

My heart pounded so hard my face throbbed. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

He knocked on the screen door again, this time pounding it so hard that it bounced against the door frame. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

No one had noticed: the noise of the wind and the engines and the pounding hail covered the man’s cry, and in the darkness his body couldn’t be seen. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Finally, I realized that my heart wasn’t pounding and my breathing had slowed down. Lawn Boy Returns 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

He comes at me with his extra two inches and his extra twenty pounds of muscle. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

The quiet morning air explodes with noise as hundreds of hooves pound into the narrow dirt road. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

“Why, we paid them two cents a pound over the market. We didn’t rob them.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

In fact, it is only one third that of earth, so that a typical male astronaut would weigh around sixty pounds and a female astronaut forty pounds. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mami rushes to me and holds me so tight, I can hear her heart pounding in my head. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

He was saying something as well, but her head was pounding and she couldn’t make it out. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

For thirty-eight days, I lay in a coma—sixty-six pounds of skin and bones. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

"And in this corner, in white trunks"—the crowd began to cheer loudly and steadily— "weighing one hundred seventy-four and one- half pounds, from New York City . . . Willie Streeter." The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

My heart pounded like there was a bird trapped inside trying desperately to get out. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

As Smith had foreseen, since his stellar performance in the 1937 Santa Anita Handicap Seabiscuit had been assigned the highest weight in virtually every race, at times carrying over twenty pounds more than his rivals. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

A scale attached to the rig gave the weight of the animal: 190 pounds. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Deep behind my left eyebrow, my head is still pounding. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

She strode to the window and looked out, pounding with her fist on the windowsill. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

I started pounding with my fists, like little pistons. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

Just the idea made her heart pound with horror. I Survived the Great Molasses Flood, 1919 2019-09-03T00:00:00Z

Near the thatched-roof cooking huts, women sang while they pounded rice in mortars. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Then, where the faint path from the House in the Woods meets the main path to the lake, I heard a boy, gasping for breath, pounding this way. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

It is hot, a dry desert air with pounding sun and powder-soft sand. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

I opened my eyes, and the pounding ache drummed deeper. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Men began to stamp their feet, to pound their fists against the tabletop. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

My heart pounded; I was more nervous than I had thought I’d be. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

“Gloria has lost five pounds in the last month and my little girl’s health is more important to me than your comfort.” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

I thought peanut butter was an especially odd concept: You were supposed to cook with peanuts, not pound them into a cream to put in a jar. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

She pounded at the door when she heard the lock click shut, crying, “Let me in!” Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

A weight dropped, crashed downward, then pounded aside at the last moment under the synchronized thump of a sudden force beam. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

Bagging and weighing, pound after pound, dollar after dollar, for what Genie considered to be the nastiest food On the planet. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Two years ago, Godiva introduced its most expensive line ever, “G,” handmade chocolates selling for $100 a pound. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

The total weight came to around fifty pounds of Biohazard Level 4 liquefying primate. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her heart was pounding in her chest, and she awoke abruptly, her breath rasping in her lungs. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

More pounding fists, this time accompanied by whoops. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

She pounds her fists on Ma’s back, trying to wake her up, but Ma is gone. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It doesn’t take nerve, Obie. When you march down to the rail, you’re receiving The Body, man. Me, I’m just chewing a wafer they buy by the pound in Worcester.” The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Each pound to be launched required three pounds of propellant. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z

Emma is buckled in the back seat watching a movie on the DVD player in her lap, eating crisps and pounding a Mountain Dew slushie. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

Mr. Wickham’s chief object was unquestionably my sister’s fortune, which is thirty thousand pounds; but I cannot help supposing that the hope of revenging himself on me was a strong inducement. Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z

An ounce of gold buys only a few pounds of rice, if we’re lucky. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I started pounding the dashboard and stomping on the floor. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

I watched the way his sandals pounded the pavement, slapped his black, calloused heels. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

I could feel Mother’s hand pressed against my pounding heart. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Lugging packs weighing more than fifty pounds, the young men slogged across muddy rice fields and cut through dense forests. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

There was very little similarity between the two, so even though the bottle of water might have weighed two pounds, when I tried to lift the chalk it felt like sixty pounds. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Hundreds of pounds of denatured iron that alchemists would have fought over The mayor nodded eagerly and singsonged, “Dig a pit that’s ten by two. Ash and elm and rowan too.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The restaurant had pounds and pounds of butter and sugar. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

My heart was pounding and I did not know what to do. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

He had the body of a retired linebacker, six feet four inches tall and 215 pounds, his back unnaturally stiff and upright from having his spine fused so he’d stop throwing it out. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

I pulled back and said, “I told you the truth. I was sleeping. Like a stump. And I didn’t wake up until I heard sirens. After that, you were pounding on the door.” Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

I remember falling forward, and a warm hand on my arm, dragging me inside and pushing me onto a couch, and pounding, pounding dance music and a glass being thrust into my hand. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Shouts and cries from the inner ward came up through the windows and a sound of running feet pounding along the passage. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

A full compendium of those laws would run more than three thousand pages and weigh approximately ten pounds, but the general thrust of it should be easy enough for any American to understand. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

People pounded on the door demanding to know what had happened. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

I could hear the others pounding behind me. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

His rust-red dragon legs pounded against the ice as he entered the camp. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

It’s been a month since she stopped eating, and already she’s lost thirty-four pounds. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

She pounded up on the back porch, shoving Mary Alice aside. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

I could hear his boots pounding the ground. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

I opened my eyes to the sound of wailing and pounding outside my chamber door, Then Elnora burst in and seized me in her arms. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

The conga drums were pounding in his head. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

I pound the treads like I can somehow get ahead of it. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

He was six three and weighed 190 pounds and had once been clocked in the forty in 4.37 seconds, an astounding time for someone of his size. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Joon,” I say angrily, still feeling my heart pound, “what do you want?” A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

But they continued to concentrate on the test, the scratching of their pencils failing to drown out the pounding of her heart. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

He crouched in the dimness, heart pounding, listening hard. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

She woke to a pounding on her door. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Enough made it into my bloodstream, though, to result in a pounding headache, parched mouth, and boiling stomach. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

We lay wood onto the trailer bed like a puzzle, and I pound a nail into a plank. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

I pounded my unease into the keys, hoping the discordance would drive him away, but he held on. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Harry repeated, a furious pounding in his ears. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

His mother always said “Two pounds is a good night’s work if you can start early and there ain’t a sick child to rock.” Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘Give me my twenty pounds.’Johnny was breathing hard. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The telegram money order, three pounds, is from her son. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Her shoes pounded noisily against the boards, defying the silence. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

As if dropped from the stars, a third man had materialized under the dock lights—and he was pounding Luno into a sweaty lump of Jell-O. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

She pounded the same muscle with all her strength until the tears came down her face. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Leah in her earnest way helped him scout around for a project, but alas he found nothing worth pounding at, anywhere. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The man had added about twenty pounds and seemed bursting with good health. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

The sledge was heavy loaded; Estraven guessed the total weight to pull at something over 300 pounds. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

I’m breathing really hard and my heart is pounding and I don’t feel better, not even when Rufus massages my shoulder. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

The Liberator was one of the heaviest planes in the world; the D model then in production weighed 71,200 pounds loaded. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

Though he towered over other jockeys, ultimately leveling off at about five feet seven inches, he hadn’t filled out his frame yet, weighing just 101 pounds, light enough to ride. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

The minute she mentions them, my heart pounds and the images come rolling back behind my eyes. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

“You bring me back some nice flounder I can fix up for this fambly. And a couple pound of shrimps,” she said, then turning to Ben she said, “You ever been fishin’ much, Ben?” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Buck’s one hundred and forty pounds had dwindled to one hundred and fifteen. The Call of the Wild 1903-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he hit the rotunda, his heart was pounding against his ribs. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

“Then, the firemen. Oh my word, so wonderful, Dèja. Racing, carrying sixty-five pounds of equipment, moving like warriors. A few helmet lights crisscrossed in the stairwell. A captain kept soothing, ‘Stay calm. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

Spirits ran high, especially among the women of the opposition, who paraded in the streets pounding their empty pans in protest against the shortages in the stores. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Turkish hospital records list a total of eleven children who weighed over twenty pounds at birth. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

It was no more than a sore in the earth, broad and chaotic, gouged out by human fingernails, ounce to pound to ton. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

There was always an ache in her skull, a pounding. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

The monster paused for a moment, and then with a roar it pounded two fists against the house. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

The vineyard owners let people come pick their own grapes for a nickel a pound. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

A weight dropped, crashed downward, then pounded aside at the last moment under the synchronized thump of a sudden force beam. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

They divided the stuff into eight loads of about 5 6 seventy pounds each, figuring it would be foolish to try to carry more over the rough terrain ahead. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Pez is practically on top of the table now, pounding the back of the booth with one hand and helping June up onto a chair with the other. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

On their feet they carried jungle boots—2.1 pounds — and Dave Jensen carried three pairs of socks and a can of Dr. Scholl’s foot powder as a precaution against trench foot. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“How ’bout some pound cake on the house then? The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

I took in the spectacle: thousands and thousands of pounds of metal, a squad of commandos, bulletproof everything. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

His heart was pounding, but he wasn’t scared. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

My heart began to pound so hard I thought it would catapult me backward off the horse. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

But then she thought about what he said, and she tried something new: She bought a small amount of chicken—a quarter pound—and mixed it with beans and cabbage. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

The pounding of the drums filled the empty silence of Ucho’s discomfort. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

In addition, Dobbins carried between 10 and 15 pounds of ammunition draped in belts across his chest and shoulders. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

And Tobias is five foot ten and probably like two hundred pounds, so he could pummel anyone’s opinions into the sidewalk. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

He raised his voice to a pounding level to compensate, but this only made people cringe. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

The dorms are quiet, save for the pounding of rain against our atrium’s glass ceiling. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Still they churned and pounded inside her head, fighting to break free. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

“Call me old-fashioned, but I think a wife who discovers her husband is in hock to the tune of five thousand pounds is entitled to some pretty bloody straight answers.” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

“I’ll be interested when you can show me a few pounds of the stuff!” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

I wanted to run and hide, but something made me stand absolutely still, while my heart pounded so hard that I was certain it would jump out of my chest. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Each hunter may have gobbled down as much as ten pounds of bison flesh a day. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Her blood began to thrum, and her heart was suddenly pounding. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

But he could hear the man’s pounding steps, and his grunting breaths. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z

A made-up story about Rosaleen losing eighty-five pounds, looking so sleek nobody could pick her out of a police lineup. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Averaging a pound and a half per trap, keeper size, and more crab than I know what to do with. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

I hear thumping, and I close my eyes as I remember one of the obstacles in my fear landscape, the fists pounding against my windows and the sightless men trying to kidnap me. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Trepid rushed to Joey and breathed into his mouth and pounded on his chest while Mrs. Trepid phoned the doctor. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

Five feet ten inches tall, weighing one hundred and thirty-one pounds. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Harry’s heart was pounding against the ropes around his ribs; he would not have been surprised to know that Greyback could see it. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

George stared at the crate, his heart pounding. I Survived the Sinking of the Titanic, 1912 2010-06-01T00:00:00Z

His heart was pounding far more furiously than when the book had screamed — for he had seen not only himself in the mirror, but a whole crowd of people standing right behind him. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

“Besides, we still have about two hundred and thirty pounds of winter potatoes in the spice storeroom.” The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

I sat in the snow and gasped heavy breaths and felt my heart pounding and peered down into what death looked like. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

To provide ourselves with a source of nutrition that will keep, aside from the hundred cans of food we’ve stored here, we bought three hundred pounds of beans. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

It sounds to me as though he bellows, every gasping breath is like a cry, a thunder—but it is not only my heart pounding. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had drunk too much wine and her head was pounding. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Tears froze on his cheeks, and the cold pounded against his forehead as he trudged along, weighted by the heavy, oversized shoes and the many layers of clothing. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dinah wiggled frantic against me, pounding her gunnysack body into my side. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Apa starts to cry again, pounding his fists into his forehead. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

I was frail, not weighing a hundred pounds. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

He told us that his mother would give us a ride if we paid a fee of fifteen pounds sterling. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I stand still, my heart pounding to the beat of a death march. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Candace reached around me in line and pounded on Sage’s back. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

Neither of them could tip the scale at seventy pounds soaking wet. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

I estimate my Walmart bag weighs 1 pound by the time we get to the end of her street. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Harry tried to understand this but it made his head pound, so he stopped. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

Before she could exhale, Laney pounded her two fists on the door. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

While she's inside, I try to imagine how good it will feel to pound in the last nail. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

When I landed, a club pounded my shoulders and I was kicked again and the Jackboot was dragging me by the hair and there was laughing and clacking of Jackdog teeth. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

My own load, I know, weighed exactly one hundred and fourteen pounds, and someone else always had to help me hoist the rucksack on to my back in the mornings. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

Chicken, on the other hand, wasn’t too expensive, not by the pound. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Davis was pounding fenders at his upstate body shop. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Nine hundred and ninety-nine pounds and fifty pence," the father said. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

Samuel Mudd, his heart pounding in relief, can only wonder when they will return. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

It would be best, he says, if she stayed in the key pound with her Braille workbooks, or upstairs in the mollusk laboratory. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Some days I hauled lumber or stones; other times I pounded rocks into gravel or dug up cemetery markers that the Nazis then used to pave the roads. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

As he spoke he fearlessly patted the head he had so mercilessly pounded, and though Buck’s hair involuntarily bristled at touch of the hand, he endured it without protest. The Call of the Wild 1903-01-01T00:00:00Z

This unique species, known by scientists as Homo floresiensis, reached a maximum height of only 3.5 feet and weighed no more than fifty-five pounds. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

I tossed and turned as if in a nightmare, but the persistent pounding and kicking at the door, and the muffled voices coming from the bedroom convinced me otherwise. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Pinkie pounded on the hood of the car, and the metallic booming echoed against the sandstone across the narrow valley. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

It did not occur to him that all the world might not desire such delicacies as two pounds of pork and six ounces of beef and a small pond fish. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

She squealed and looked down at him with a mix of confusion and delight, like I’d given her a pound cake. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

As he stood on the elevated train platform near Packingtown, a mob jumped him, pounding his body with punches. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“Any one of these dresses would cost hundreds of pounds,” said Polly. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

"Car number four cost eighty-six pounds—a real wreck that was—and sold for six hundred and ninety-nine pounds fifty." Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

Occasionally she would rise from the mattress, pounding the wall with her bare fists. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

He, like most doctors then, believed that the human body held approximately twenty-five pounds of blood. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

Ignatius pounded a paw into the oilcloth on the kitchen table. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mrs. O’Leary ate her lunch, which consisted of a hundred pounds of ground beef and several dog biscuits the size of trash-can lids. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

There are a thousand metaphors and all of them are inadequate: forty bombs per aircraft, four hundred and eighty altogether, seventy- two thousand pounds of explosives. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Prone to pounding his megaphone on the gunwales of his coaching launch in exasperation, he once hurled it at an oarsman who had caught a crab. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

He was six inches shorter than Luke and at least seventy-five pounds heavier. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

I was thin, weighed less than 175 pounds, and fast enough to play guard, but the guys in the tournament were good. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

My body feels like it weighs a thousand pounds. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

One of the men caught up and pounded his fists on the hood of our car, while another threw a brick at the windshield. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

My heart pounded to the rhythm of Trouble’s hooves. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

The carriage rattled and pounded over the grassy track beneath a golden-green canopy of leaves. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

I read all the footnotes in Mom’s book until my mind was filled only with plant words and all my worries stopped pounding in my head. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

There was a mistake right enough for that shows barely half a pound of flour. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

On his orders, and with the help of 375 pounds of explosives, the buildings of Murphy Homes were brought down in twenty seconds and soon replaced with mixed- income housing. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

I sat up, feeling like my body weighed two hundred pounds. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He held Alfred's arms, stepped on his toes, pounded his kidneys. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

My heart was pounding even before he said what he said. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

Behind my eyebrow, the pounding is back again. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

I took a deep breath, willed my pounding heart to slow down, and began to play. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

I cracked some walnuts, got down the acorn flour I had pounded, with a bit of ash to remove the bite, reached out the door for a little snow, and stirred up some acorn pancakes. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

An average acre of cotton that year received 63 pounds of toxaphene. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

My heart pounds at the mention of the ceremony. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

You have never been able to escape the pounding of a thousand other hearts that have outlived yours by thousands of years. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

My Heart that has been pounding this whole time suddenly seems to stop. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’d rather be a striker, moving fast up and down the field, heart pounding. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Then Mr. Keller shape-shifted into Mr. Rodrigo, who pounded an auction gavel, and the dream ended with Mom and me skydiving into Washington State. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

My heart pounds as the Dauntless’s footsteps come closer, and closer, squeaking on the marble floors. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Her heart pounded harder as she pushed against it over and over again. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

They looked like they weighed about fifteen pounds each. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, I guess,” Moss said, his heart still pounding. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Sisi made it well; she pounded the yam energetically, adding drops of water into the mortar, her cheeks contracting with the thump-thump-thump of the pestle. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

To help aspiring riders establish themselves in the sport, a horse ridden by a bug boy had his impost reduced by five pounds. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

He pulled his sister behind the fronds, his heart pounding. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

The soles of my feet ached from pounding miles of hard pavement. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

The bump of a chest turned into a shove, which, right away, became a fist pounding a jaw. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

Their bodies were bruised and aching from their pounding up and down in the bows, and they were exhausted from lack of sleep. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

“Stop it,” Harry muttered as the rattling pounded in his sore head. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

He could hear Alec’s feet pounding as he brought up the rear. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

She clambered up on the bench and pounded on the wall where the hole had been, hoping the hole’s absence was just an illusion, but the wall felt solid. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

If he dresses out two-thirds of that at thirty cents a pound? The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Three people called the police on her while she was waiting for my uncle to come and get her. Suspicious character. Five-three, she was. About a hundred pounds. Real dangerous.” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

He pounded his fist on the windowsill, he kicked the bed. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

Over the next several weeks they’ll gradually step up to a daily ration of thirty-two pounds of feed, including twenty-four pounds of corn. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

She was in her seventies, a large woman, over two hundred pounds. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Nat’s heart pounded so hard he could not talk, but he nodded. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

The anger piled behind my eyes in a pounding headache, thumping in a rhythm that felt strangely familiar. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

I could feel the blood pounding in my temples. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

I stared at the hideous paper, my heart pounding. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

Even before Tally’s heart had stopped pounding, her stomach growled. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

All his energy would go into ignoring the pounding of his own pulse. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

My mother was putting out a cigarette and starting to make pound cake for lunch. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

I pounded his back until he raised his arm in protest. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Depending on numerous factors, such as topography and psychology, the riflemen carried anywhere from 12 to 20 magazines, usually in cloth bandoliers, adding on another 8.4 pounds at minimum, 14 pounds at maximum. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a carpeted hall and I moved down with pounding heart as a dog set up a terrific din within the top apartment. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Over the next few years, Harry and Joe kept pounding nails when they had the time. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

I watched the delicate round bone at her wrist twist back and forth and felt blood pounding in my ears. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

Hazel looked as if several thousand pounds of worry had just been lifted from her shoulders. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

The horsemen pounded on, churning the snow on the road into mud. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I pounded on the door and a guard walked over and stood by the glass doors that separated us. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

I run como Un chango, In my orange Swimming trunks, Jumping up and Down, pounding The mushy grass With my feet. Neighborhood Odes 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sirens blared, voices screamed and shouted, wood cracked and windows shattered, children bawled, dogs barked and footsteps pounded. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then, dividing the kennel into four more sections, he marked five more places, essentially claiming ownership and leadership over the entire kennel: all eight romping stomping pounds of him. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

His mom knocked—more like pounded—on the door. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

But when she had to let her breath out at last, she began to cough desperately and Gitl pounded her on the back. “. . . lie down” was all she heard. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

And so long as people wanted only a can of tomatoes or a pound of rice it was all right. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

He set a limit of 130 pounds, choosing that weight because it was the most the racing secretary would be permitted to assign in the 1938 Santa Anita Handicap. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Nice idea,” she says, pounding up the stairs. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

Showers at Dad’s house are the best—he has one of those pounding, pulsing shower systems that spray water from the sides as well as the top, so the water smashes you everywhere. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

Near the open doorway, the two older daughters stood pounding manioc in the tall wooden mortar. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

She got it off with a can opener, folded it, pounded it, folded it and pounded it again. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

One javelin competitor had gained eight pounds in five days. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

I pound the steering wheel, driving her to work. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Now Jody marched seemingly alone, with high-lifted knees and pounding feet; but behind him there was a phantom army with great flags and swords, silent but deadly. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

They laid a platform four feet square and loaded it with iron to a pressure of 2,750 pounds per square foot, twenty-two tons in all. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

My heart pounded, and even though I hadn’t moved, I felt like I’d lost my bearings. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

She doesn’t look away from her page, but she doesn’t move either, as if the pounding has frozen her solid. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

The pounding on the door makes me jump. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

Her bowling shoes pounded the floor purposefully, carrying the swinging breasts and rotating hips back and forth between the table and the stove. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nokomis went over to Tallow’s place and pounded some of the corn to meal with the hollowed log and great round stick that Tallow kept in her yard. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

On one of our first days pounding rocks, a warder commanded Kathy to take a wheelbarrow filled with gravel to the truck parked by the entrance. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

My heart pounding in my ears, I stare at a small ant spinning in a circle in a puddle next to my face. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

But he did start recording every pound he spent in a pocket account book and would continue that practice for the rest of his life. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Before long, Olaf’s friends were pounding on the table in strict rhythm again, and the orphans went out to the dining room to clear the table, and then again to serve the chocolate pudding. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

Mammals weighing 130 pounds have an average brain size of 12 cubic inches. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

I step into a yawning cavern of darkness, flashing lights, and a pounding bass that shakes me deep in my chest. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

My heart was pounding so hard, I was sure my shirt was shaking. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Her heart pounded, and she almost threw up—her stomach contracted and turned over, and she felt a gag reflex in her throat. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

My heart pounds harder than the bass in the song. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

My heart pounds so loud, it’s like the beating drums from Jumanji. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

Every third or fourth man carried a Claymore antipersonnel mine—3.5 pounds with its firing device. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Take Mr. Pip’s written order, and pay him twenty pounds.” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

So every night I’d go to bed totally convinced that I was going to gain twenty pounds and be a fat, violent pervert forever and that my little brother was doomed. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then the pounding at the back door stops. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

George’s heart pounded, and for a moment, she thought she might burst on the spot. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

At that moment there was a pounding on the door. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

It takes honeybee workers ten million foraging trips to gather enough nectar to make one pound of honey. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dad opened up his wallet and took out three pound notes. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

By the time we got back to the house, we found that Sam Houston and Lamar had brought home a startling catfish that weighed forty-five pounds on the gin scale. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

She lowered the pail back down, grabbed the note, ran down her stairs and out the front door to their building’s landing, and pounded on the Lees’ door. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

I looked at the spot he was examining and said, “Well, no, I pounded it on a rock there, but I did have to chew it a bit around the neck. It stuck me.” My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

At first it was a couple of pounds a year, undetectable even to him. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sweat dripped into his eyes as he pounded down the corridor. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

Capsule weight, astronaut weight, payload weight—each pound required more fuel, and the fuel added weight as well. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Renson turned around and gave me a pound, then opened his hand and gave Lovey a gentle handshake and a wink. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

“When will they learn,” said Uncle Vernon, pounding the table with his large purple fist, “that hanging’s the only way to deal with these people?” Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

Did you know that the original Star-Spangled Banner weighs 50 pounds? Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

They started pounding me on the back, rubbing my hair, shaking both of my hands at once. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Finding it, learning its name, cutting or pounding or dashing its brains to make it into something my family would tolerate. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sounds all melded together—the explosions, the shouts, the footsteps, the pounding of Nate’s heart. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z

At a small supermarket, she purchased two pounds of chicken wings and four potatoes. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

I can hear his voice so clearly, a voice that I thought I had pounded out of my head. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

The warrior pounded his fist against his chest in salute and bowed at his middle. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

One day Sam sent two girls home from practice, telling them they had gained weight and not to come back until they lost ten pounds. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

He pounded his fists on his thighs and squeaked in frustration. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

I take shallow breaths, coughing all the way, my body weighing ninety million pounds, and I push my way out the other side of the bramble. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

I’m sure he can hear my heart pounding in my chest. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

Mama Oji hissed loudly and then continued to pound palm fruit in her mortar. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

But within less than one millionth of a sec ond, so many atoms would fission that the lump of uranium would blow itself apart with the force of millions of pounds of regular explosive. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Carter was easily fifty pounds heavier and he was used by the Coach to keep the freshmen squad on their toes. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Below that, in smaller letters, the stats: Sixteen years of age, five feet three inches, 110 pounds. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

They shrieked at her, their voices pounding into her head. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

I squeeze the bottom of my shirt in my hands and try to ignore the pounding in my chest. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

He heard the man’s heavy breathing mixed with his own, the solid thumps of their feet pounding the steps. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

“Ninety pounds is a lot of money to me,” I said. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Hey, I’m seventeen years old, six feet four, a hundred and sixty-two pounds, and I can definitely rise. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

Then I ran on all fours, chest pounding, to the smoky mere. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was excited, and my voice pounded at her until she began to quiver. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

With each nail I pounded the rest of the afternoon, I hammered out my next installment for Mr. Miltenberger. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

Tony closed his eyes and asked again, pounding out every word. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

“At your peril you advertise! I wish I had only offered you a sovereign instead of ten pounds. Give me back nine pounds, Jane; I’ve a use for it.” Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

From somewhere behind them, he heard a shout, then pounding footsteps. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

In reality, the pounding is of fists on the front door, and I bolt awake. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The manacles were black iron, thick and heavy, each weighing a good two pounds, if the dwarf was any judge. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Beezle was hardly over a hundred pounds, and his enormous, unwieldy bundle of sheets and towels had to weigh fifty or sixty pounds. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a writhing mass of pure muscle, so big its tail stuck out from beneath me, pound­ing hard against the raft. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Then, as the sun rose higher, there was maize to pound into powder and the yard to sweep. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

I gained ten pounds and I’m two inches taller now than when you saw me in September. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Tipping the scales at up to 1,450 pounds, he can sustain speeds of forty miles per hour. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

He held her tight, feeling her heart pound against his chest, hearing her breathing rapidly, furiously. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Miles must’ve been keeping people out of the bathroom, because no one came, and every so often he would pound on the door and call my name and say that he hadn’t told anyone. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

The kids without umbrellas panic because they’re trapped in the cold, pounding rain, unable to move behind the kids with umbrellas. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I'd pounded it in, I filled up my water can. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

My heart pounding, I open the front door to find Mango curled up in a tight little ball on the doormat. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

Even before entering the rows of wooden stalls, her heart would pound like the chiwoda drums of her childhood dances. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

As she pounds down the hall in my direction, she definitely doesn’t seem happy to see me. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

“He asked for one pound and I paid it. For sharpening all the knives, and a jolly good job he made of them. One pound. A penny more than one of your frozen Greenland pizzas.” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

My voice rose an octave, my heart pounding against my ribs. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

With exhaustion for company, I listened to the pounding rain. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

He pointed excitedly at the ten- pound notes in Mr. Granger’s hand. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

Sometimes they abandoned their cars and staggered up to the houses of strangers and pounded on their front doors, begging for and receiving shelter. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

"We have two thousand pounds of hash buried somewhere," Rik said. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

As the morning dragged on and the sun beat down, my head began to pound. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

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

She hardly heard it past the blood pounding in her ears. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

Kennel 4 holds a dog named Rufus, a brown pit bull estimated to be 4 or 5 years old and weighing 60 pounds. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

I push back through the crowd, my heart pounding in my chest. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Dimple grinned, her ears pounding with the rhythm of a thousand Bollywood love songs. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

On any other day, my hands would get clammy, and my heart would pound. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

The Annex was delighted to hear that we’ll all be receiving an extra quarter pound of butter for Christmas. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Swords and spears and fire; and nails being pounded into the tender flesh of a man’s hands. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

I mean really fat, like almost three hundred pounds fat. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

That is what had pounded on the roof! Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

I could feel my pants freezing to my legs, and my coat felt as if it weighed a million pounds. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

My heart started pounding like crazy because I knew if I found what I thought I would, I’d really blow my lid. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

Presently footsteps pounded on the floor above me. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

I feel everything slowing down inside me, my racing thoughts and the pounding of my heart. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

“But I’m proven wrong, aren’t I? Thousands of pounds are being wasted and so I owe my friend, Captain Farrar, a penny. A gentleman always pays his debts promptly, be they large or small.” Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

The concentration used was one pound of active ingredient to the acre. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Not a dog from the pound, Satchmo thought. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

German bombs pounded British cities night after night. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Kote pounded a pair of nails into the wall, twisted some wire, and hung the mounting board firmly on the wall. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

On such a morning, not long after the day had finished rubbing its eyes arid yawning, Turner rubbed his eyes and yawned to a pounding on the parsonage door. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

That didn’t bother Joaquin—he knew Mark would never hurt him, and even if he tried, Joaquin had three inches and about thirty pounds on him, so it would be a fast fight. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

“They say you only need a hundred pounds per acre. I’m putting on closer to one hundred eighty,” Naylor explained to me, a bit sheepishly. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

The constant pounding of the waves is so exhausting we have to change shifts every hour. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

My heart pounded so loud I felt sure it would wake the entire street. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then I had a waiter in and bespoke soup and a steak and a pound of raw hamburger for Charley, and I overtipped mercilessly. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

To secure the loan, the Athenians demanded a deposit of fifteen talents, or approximately nine hundred pounds of solid gold. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t see what was outside but I felt it pounding on the root cellar door. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

I grasp my pounding head with both hands. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

When she finishes pouring, she says, There’s a pound of flour. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Z shoved the table in front of him as blood pounded hard in Frankie’s ears. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

My head pounded as I hung up my apron. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

“It’s alright, you gone be fine,” I say and I sound real soothing, real confident, but inside my heart is pounding. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Most of me was still with the girl up the hall—my fingers were still between her legs, my heart still pounded against hers—as Astelle whispered in my ear. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Twig yelled wildly as we pounded down the three flights of stairs. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

The grownups rose from their work pounding rocks and drifted over, too. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

By this time Gale will have clocked in at the mines, taken the stomach-churning elevator ride into the depths of the earth, and be pounding away at a coal seam. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Before he could say anything else, however, there came a sound from behind him, like someone pounding on a door. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

Then I finish painting between the radiators, eat one last block of fudge, and lose twenty-five pounds. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

Seabiscuit’s ribs filled out—he had put on two hundred pounds in the three months since he had joined Smith—and his manners had improved. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

The twenty-five pounds I’d shed in Nepal came back with a vengeance. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

I was five foot seven and a half, one hundred and fifty-four pounds. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

She pounded out the dough with her floured palms, then sprinkled a mixture of dried herbs and spices on top. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Citra and Rowan were awakened sometime after midnight by someone pounding on the front door. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

He gave the poor steering wheel a pound. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

All I could hear was the blood pounding in my ears. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

Being in a car with Theo and her brothers was like shutting myself in a bank vault with eighty pounds of TNT and a lit fuse. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

I wasn’t about to throw a rock at this guy; he was at least eight hundred pounds and taller than me and would probably take the extra time while killing me to insert the rock... This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

The par- rotfish lady pounded at the flimsy door with her bony fists. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

I pound against the glass with my fist. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

When it clouded, they pounded her temples with the rocks in their fists until she was dead. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was in my mind to pound on the door, to make her come out so I could say something to her. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

I scratched awkwardly at my notebook, ignoring my pounding heart. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

The wood vanishes, it is pounded, crushed, torn to pieces. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Constance pounded upon the table with a heavy paw, emphasizing each word. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Her thick torso and hips were shaking, her eyes watering, her small hands pounding at her heart. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

The machine was heavy, maybe eighty pounds, and was suspended from the ceiling by a thick rubber cord. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

I run back to the portal, pounding my hands. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Haukelid pulled the bomb out from under his long coat—nineteen pounds of plastic explosive molded into a long sausage shape. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

The pounding on the back door is more frantic than ever. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

The father looked to be about five six, maybe 150 pounds, and this white dude could have been Ivan Drago from Rocky IV without the accent. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

We both shook Mr. Reilly’s hand, then the door closed and we dropped away from him, leaning our backs against garbage cans, falling toward Earth as if we weighed a million pounds. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

At the zoo the adult lions and tigers ate on average ten pounds of meat a day. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

For seamen the yearly salary was fifty pounds; for scientists it was 150. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

Jimmy smiled and held out his fist for a pound. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

We ran in a pack, whooping and screaming and pounding on each other until we got back to the bus. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The hum of talk came to him dimly, his rage blood pounded in his ears, and he burst through and strode away. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

Far down the road she heard the pound, pound, pound of horses’ hoofs. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

His hammer turned out to be a waste of two or three good pounds, because there appear to be no nails in the mud-and-thatch town of Kilanga. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a pause while Harry continued to pound the resilient pod with a trowel. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

My heart was pounding, and my stomach was fluttering like it was full of startled butterflies. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

And Ma got a pound of tea, and a little paper package of store sugar to have in the house when company came. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

He said it with such intensity that I could almost see him pounding his fist into his palm. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

We could barely hear each other over the crisp staccato pounding of the conga drums and the shrill brass sections blaring from their stereo. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

As we settled, a gavel pounded, and the sound echoed in the rafters. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

Terrell smiles, pounds his fist against his chest two times, and then flashes me the peace sign. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Do you ever have those random nights where your brain won't shut off, even though your body feels like five hundred pounds of exhausted? Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

Lewis Powell continues to pound on Frederick’s head without mercy, blood spattering the walls and his An illustration showing Frederick Seward fightingfor his life against Lewis Powell. own hands and face. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

It was different from the larger feelings that still racked his body: the searing agony in his arms and hands, the almost unendurable ulceration of his parched mouth, the feverish pounding of his head. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

I turned to face the bouncers, 400-odd pounds of meat and muscle. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

For a squat-legged beast that couldn't have weighed less than four hundred pounds, the thing could run. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

Each of the thirty-six cars weighed thirteen tons, for a total of just under one million pounds. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

The words flew out, a thousand pounds of pressure behind them. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Behind me, as much as I don’t want to hear, their voices travel over the water’s pounding. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was sure I had lost nearly ten pounds already. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

The seats were so hard that I was pleased Judge Davies moved things along swiftly, pounding his gavel, denying motions presented by the governor’s attorneys, all the while speaking sternly. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And my heart is pounding in my breast. Isn’t there something you could drop to make yourself lighter?” Stuart Little 1945-10-17T00:00:00Z

Miss Brace ordered up three, not more than a pound and a half, she said, and that night their excellence was demonstrated beyond a doubt. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Flying in an open cockpit with the wind continually pounding against them, they immediately encountered dense fog that stayed with them for almost their entire flight. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

“Didn’t I give you three pounds of candy?” Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

It took all his willpower to hold absolutely still, his heart pounding in his ears. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

“Mrs. Camels,” by which I presently understood he meant Camilla, “she have five pound fur to buy rushlights to put her in spirits when she wake up in the night.” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

Finally, when he judged he had close to four pounds in the jacket he stopped and went back to his camp by the ridge. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dad’s brow furrows and the pounding of his fingers on the keyboard becomes downright violent. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

I’m clapping, too, my heart pounding with excitement. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

A woman poured ashes into a mortar and pounded them as she called the names of Vatete's relatives who lived too far away to attend the funeral. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I heard pounding on the door downstairs, I was not sure whether it was real or a dream. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Percy pounded his fist on the glass and mouthed: Break it! The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Christian had already been there for months, weighing only about twenty-two pounds, his lungs filled with TB bacilli and an oxygen mask continually strapped over his mouth. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

Here, gigantic waves pounded us over and over again, never giving us a moment to recover. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

My heart was pounding and I could hardly breathe. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I am thinking angels should not be having headaches, but I am having one, very pounding one. The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z

The newscaster didn’t say a name, nor did the broadcast show the suspect’s face, but Jasmine’s heart began pounding all the same. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Also a big cup of coffee and a sack with two slices of lemon pound cake in it. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

“You know, they said if we could get all the pieces of her together, she’d weigh over eight hundred pounds now,” he told me. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

There was an ache in my back and shoulders where Rufus’s mother had pounded with her fists. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

My head is pounding from this dumb headband. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

He pounded his hammer, and Felix didn’t know if that meant it was over or if it was just a way to get their attention. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

My heart pounded faster with each step she took toward me. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

My heart pounded, but I did not flinch. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

“Forty pounds!” called the voice from the back again. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

He could’ve pounded her head on the floor like the bathroom floor or he could’ve had her to hit her head against the bathtub, for all I seen.” Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Just this,’ he thought: ‘encumber a rider, and hope at best to stay in my seat and not be pounded to death by galloping hoofs!’ The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

But he was six three, and 270 pounds, which counts for something. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

When he turned to look behind him, he heard a noise in the distance: horses’ hooves pounding the earth. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The tiger rises, six hundred glorious pounds of black, orange, and white. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

We rode on for several more minutes, pounding against the prairie, until we pounded right into Perilee’s yard. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

The pulse turned into a pound and Moss closed his eyes, then pressed into them with the thumb and middle finger of his right hand. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Two weeks after her beating, she endured dizzy spells and a pounding in her skull. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

I pound garlic and scallions to add to the turkey. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

All told,Jones, the saddle, and the jacket tipped the scales at 127 pounds. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

He did not weigh more than eighty pounds. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was green, and he overestimated his resilience, but he was sufficiently skilled to last for sixteen weeks on little more than his wits and ten pounds of rice. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then he pounds his fist on the table so hard it makes all of us jump, and the parrot flaps his wings powerfully enough to lose a few feathers. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

He plunged his two hands deep into the pile of shiny wrappers and took out a good pound of loot. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

My arms and legs felt stiff, like they’d weigh a million pounds if I tried to move them. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

The room began to shrink, and the noise pounded against Alfred's head. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

And I was being pounded on the back. . . when I caught this fine blonde’s eyes. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

The moment I showed my teeth, all the bonobos tensed, backing up and pounding the earth. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

One Eastern European woman, Iloba had told him, had asked the Nigerian man, an hour before their court wedding, to give her a thousand pounds extra or she would walk away. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

He put his hand on my waist, and my heart began to pound, a rougher rhythm than the music. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

His weight, thanks to a glandular disorder and 50-pound tumors, swung from a comparatively petite 400 pounds to 540 pounds, packed mostly in a monstrous quaking belly that won him the nickname “Ten Ton” Irwin. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

We heard rice being pounded and whispers in the breeze. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Fannie’s head pounded from the racket of the high-speed sewing machines. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z

Weighing in at 184 pounds, Sputnik I looked like a metal beach ball with four legs. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z

She watched the women, Biafran women, haggling, giving out change in Nigerian pounds as if it was currency they had used all their lives. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

The mutts go silent and the only thing I can hear is the blood pounding in my good ear. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

For example; supposing Herbert’s debts to be one hundred and sixty-four pounds four-and-twopence, I would say, “Leave a margin, and put them down at two hundred.” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

Then she ran from the room and pounded downstairs. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

My thoughts were wound so tight that my temples pounded with a killer ponytail headache. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

After twenty-two winters pounding the streets of Boston, he’d moved to Florida with the hope of five or six warm and uneventful years before retirement. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

They hung stale in the fetid air, choking her, making her head pound each time they echoed in her mind. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

The cheapest means of transport to and from Alexandra was the “Native” bus — for Africans only — which at one pound tenpence a month made a considerable dent in my income. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I tried desperately to ignore Olive’s order, but all my complaints started: churning stomach, pounding temples, shortness of breath. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

The Texas sun pounds down on the crown of my head. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

“Young lady, when it's sixty-five below and your front doors froze shut, you’ll be glad for this twenty pounds of beans.” Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

Later that night she woke to someone pounding on the door, crying out, “Come! Come! They’re stealing our food!” A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Heart pounding, I flew to check on my charges. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

The mechanical pounding stopped suddenly, making the silence feel stark. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

My heart pounding in my ears, like I can hear every single blood cell as it swirls around my body. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

In fact, Matt’s heart was pounding and he was afraid to move. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Someone pounded on our door, and we all jumped. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

“We’ve got a new arrival. This is Ruby, folks. Six hundred pounds of fun to save our sorry butts. This gal is gonna sell us some tickets.” The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

Him—Tubs Casper, forty pounds overweight which his father never let him forget. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

With his wife’s support, Miele set out to lose thirty pounds. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

Tad closed his eyes and took a deep breath as his heart pounded hard and fast and loud and...No panicking. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

“Suppose I were to bet you ten pounds a ball?” Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

Dupre looked at me and kicked something—a pound of butter, sending it smearing across the hot street. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

My heart pounds as I look all up and down the block for any of Papi’s friends, or Mama’s friends too. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Dad’s office smells of pound notes, papery but metallic too. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

A spare container of butane gas for safety’s sake weighs seventy- five pounds. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

And while hammers pounded and sawdust filled the air, Milton acquainted himself with the papers and deeds Lefty had haphazardly kept in a cigar box beneath the register. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

She clasps her hands on her chest—she can feel her pounding heart—and nods. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Time freeze-framing as the guy behind the wheel locked eyes with the hitchhiker—trapped in the headlights and unable to dodge the thousand pounds of steel sliding straight at him. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Yossarian’s heart pounded with fright and horror at the pitiful, ominous, gory spectacle of the broken corpse. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

It's true that Mags can’t weigh more than about seventy pounds, but I’m not very big myself. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

He screamed, called for help, pounded on the walls with his fists. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

He had been assigned just 109 pounds, and his jockey, Wayne Wright, had reduced himself half to death to make weight. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

She looks at me for a long time in a way that makes my heart start to pound like it always does when I’m scared. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Then he climbed onto his own bed and stared up at the dark canvas roof, listening to the pounding of the rain. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

And in those last two hundred yards, in an extraordinary burst of speed, rowing at forty strokes per minute, pounding the water into a froth, Washington passed California. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

In terms of their effects on birds, the prescribed use of heptachlor would be equivalent to 20 pounds of DDT to the acre, that of dieldrin to 120 pounds! Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

The chocolate dissolves on my tongue, and I think about the pounds of the stuff we devoured in the lesson rooms. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

Bep has offered to get us some fruit, at so-called bargain prices: grapes 2.50 guilders a pound, gooseberries 70 cents a pound, one peach 50 cents, melons 75 cents a pound. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Dead fish of 27 species were observed, totaling about 1000 pounds to a mile of riverbank. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

He was saying that it only weighed fifteen pounds and had everybody lift it to check it out. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

It became the drums as it pounded its own pulsing rhythms into the night. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

She could hardly hear above the sound of her own heart pounding. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

One evening on her way to dinner, she collapsed on the third-floor landing, pounding her fists, kicking her feet, sweating buckets, lost to this world. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

He was badly weakened by his ordeal, and besides, the man outweighed him by fifty pounds. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

All the while Herman E. Calloway and the Thug kept everything moving by making the drums and the giant fiddle pound out a soft steady beat, like someone’s heart turned way up loud. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

At six feet five inches tall and over 250 pounds, he could seem a little intimidating, but his wife and mother insisted that he was sweet and gentle. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Sookie manhandled his burger and ripped off about an eighth of a pound like a bear. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

At the time of the Cognitive Revolution, the planet was home to about 200 genera of large terrestrial mammals weighing over 100 pounds. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

He wanted to gather as much color as he could before it was time to sit down and pound out his story after the final race. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Felix’s heart pounded against his chest, and it wasn’t from the little bit of warm-up. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

He was a nice-sized kid back then, six feet and 230 pounds, and there was one thing he wanted to do more than anything else. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

His head pounds; it is still swollen from being battered. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

In the elevator, Victor's heart pounded wildly though he had no idea why. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

It was a boy matching the description given out by the dispatcher: approximately five feet tall, ninety pounds, sandy brown hair. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Taking turns, they carried the big PRC-77 scrambler radio, which weighed 30 pounds with its battery. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

There’s a small child pounding the glass with his palm. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

The assistant’s gaze rushed over her clipboard—my heart was pounding—before she called out in a cheesy-grits accent, “Peanut Wigglebutt?” Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

Virgil wasn’t sure how much the Bull weighed or how tall he was, but he certainly weighed more than seventy-six pounds. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

Soon everyone was pounding out the rhythm in unison, feet against the floor, mugs on tabletops. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

There Oppenheimer delivered an impressively detailed explication of atomic bomb physics, along with his own rough estimate that 100 kilograms of U-235—that is, 220 pounds—would be enough for a practical device. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

The surface of the lake was once more shining black glass: The ripples had vanished unnaturally fast; Harry’s heart, however, was still pounding. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

It doesn't go away, especially when someone starts pounding at the door. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

The podium shook under the pounding of his fist. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

Lightning lit up the sky, and rain pounded our roof and windows. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

“Get those hundred and fifty pounds off me!” A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

The next thing I knew I was on the floor and Nick was on top of me screaming and pounding me with his fists. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

She grabbed a stick and pounded the creature even as it rose to attack again, banging it until its body was mush with the tail twitching feebly. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Altogether we saved perhaps five pounds of weight each—hardly anything really—but Katz seemed disproportionately happy. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

I’m soft now, like Mama’s sweet, warm pound cake. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

I pound on the door, but there is no sound. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

I kept pounding on the garage door until he pulled it open. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

The beast was going at a good clip, and it was no small animal; it was an adult male that looked to be about 140 pounds. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Yes,” he said to his mother, “I think there are two pounds.” Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

The pig was a sow weighing perhaps a hundred pounds. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

I was thinking “in for a penny, in for a pound” at that point, which, in retrospect, was totally stupid. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

The two of them rushed at the Fleshlumpeater and began pounding him with their fists and feet. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

A man was at the bottom, pounding his way up, his eyes all fire set in a dirty, scratched face. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

“I’ve gained pounds lying continuously in bed, seeking surcease and sublimation in food. Now we must run. I must leave this house. It has terrible associations.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I kneel with people in the pews next to confessionals but when my turn comes I can’t breathe, my heart pounds, my forehead turns cold and clammy and I run from the church. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

"Thanks for the warning," Stanley whispered as his heart pounded. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

Kaede’s heart was pounding, her skin flushed as if she had truly been running. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Then they pounded the hot metal with mallets, making the corrosion flake off the outside. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

“We’re like puppies at the pound. If we don’t get picked up by friends or some extended-family member, then they ship us off to make room for the new arrivals.” The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

"More than that," I say, undoing his first button, my heart pounding. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

I hear the pounding of someone sprinting down the hallway. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

Alyce was sitting by the fire one cool November morning, tying up birch twigs for a broom, when a pounding came at the door. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

The only sound I hear is the fast pounding of my heart. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

Neither we nor the sledge broke through at all, and the sledge pulled so light that it was hard to believe we are still hauling about a hundred pounds apiece. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

Petra was remembering her dad’s anger that morning, and the way he had pounded the table. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

Beneath this colossal fortress, fires glared and furnaces smoked in the darkness of early dawn, and from many miles away Ruta Skadi heard the clang of hammers and the pounding of great mills. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

My heart was pounding so hard that I thought everyone could hear it. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

“I try to pick two pounds a night. That’s thirty cents’ worth. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

We pound down the cliff top path, kicking up our own dust, Manchee’s ears flattened back, running fast. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

My voice was weak, pushing through my pounding head and trembling heart. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

The food arrives, and it is not pasta and veal pounded thin, but creamed chicken over biscuits, and hamburger steak and gravy with peas and rolls and mashed potatoes. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

My heart did not pound or stop or stutter. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Slowly, her pounding heart slowed, but Polly knew they were probably still in grave danger. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

They flipped them in the air and clapped several times before they caught them, and continued pounding and singing. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

When he reached the door, he pounded on it so hard his fists throbbed. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I mean, there you are, you gotta weigh two hundred pounds, and you got a rifle, and you’re against a squirrel that weighs maybe two or three pounds, and he ain’t got nothing.” Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Twenty thousand pounds shared equally would be five thousand each, justice—enough and to spare: justice would be done,—mutual happiness secured. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

“Four pounds! Jesus, where are you going to lose it? You’re already nothing but muscle!” We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

The baby weighed only four pounds three ounces and had to be kept in an incubator for a week. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

My heart is pounding and I want to cry but I can’t because my father isn’t there and I’m the man of the family. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

About fifteen pounds overweight, a bob of reddish, golden hair. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

He sat on a bench, drinking coffee and smoking, reading poetry and listening to rain pound the canvas roof. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’d a saved money this year raising it at two cents a pound.” The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

I changed course, retreated to my house, looked up an address, pounded my way out again, this time headed in a different direction. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

It was crowded with abandoned quills, a rusty tinder box, and a few coins and pound notes, which I was sore tempted to take. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

She used to sprawl with her books beneath the key pound bench and move her hands like spiders across the pages. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

A light drizzle turns the air to mist, and by the time I get back up to my room, a steady rain is pounding the ground. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

He announced that he wanted each of them to put on three or four pounds before they reached Poughkeepsie. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

"Oh, everywhere. He just brought me here now. Offered me ten thousand dollars to go to Biarritz with him. How much is that in pounds?" The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

They certainly were not bidding by the pound. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Finally, to simulate pulling together the arms of a struggling inmate in order to handcuff him behind his back, I squeezed together a pair of calipers representing fifty pounds of resistance. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I still couldn’t speak without my heart pounding in my ears. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

All around its perimeter, eight-man sledge teams pound in stakes at breakneck speed. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

He was about thirty pounds lighter then, a constant grin on his face, a man tasting the full feast of youth. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

My head pounds with excitement and dread, anticipation and worry. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

The mechanical pounding stopped suddenly, making the silence feel stark. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

As he enters his senior year at Truman, he weighs 230 pounds on just a five-foot-ten frame, and he doesn’t look fat—just solid. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

In the granary, unused for so long, I stored away half a bag of rice, two measures of dhal and nearly a pound of chillies. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

I tried to calm my pounding heart and wondered if I should have pulled out my baton. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

A century later he was gulping down eighteen pounds. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

It would be interesting to know and easy to establish with modern testing methods how much energy in foot pounds is expended in driving a truck for six hours. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Someone pounded my back and I swung around, seeing a woman push past me and climb up to catch Dupre's arm, their two figures seeming to blend as her voice arose, thin, vibrant and desperate. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

An afternoon pounding rocks in the courtyard might seem like forever, but suddenly it is the end of the year, and you do not know where all the months went. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Herbie followed these directions, cleaned about a quarter pound of dead ants from the hummingbird feeder, and poured in a fresh sugarwater solution. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

"That's it. Who —" he halted to crouch with one foot on the curb like a country preacher about to pound his Bible—"got . . . the . . . dog," his head snapping with each word like an angry rooster's. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

My face feels like it’s been pounded with rocks. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

“You can pound flour into the top round. Will you eat with us?” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

The guys let out a chorus of ohs and pounded one another. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

He was big, a hundred and eighty pounds and six feet one. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

One bushel holds 56 pounds of kernels, so 180 bushels is slightly more than 10,000 pounds of food per acre. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Nothing seemed to be going wrong, so he withdrew a hundred pounds, and the machine gave it up without a hitch. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He pulled her head tighter on every pass, wrapping the strap around his forearm, shrinking the circle until it was so small, the pounding hooves stood still. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Tendai was terrified they would have a tug-of-war, but Kuda twisted his body around and pounded the She Elephant’s face with his fists. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

He started pounding the door with his fist and kicking it with his steel-rimmed boots. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

I developed an eye for measuring how full a silver-looking ladle of flour, mash, meal, sugar or com had to be to push the scale indicator over to eight ounces or one pound. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Heart pounding, I lifted my hands to shield myself, as if that would stop a speeding bullet. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

As Nailer’s heart pounded in his chest, he tried to remember everything Reni had ever told him. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

But if they gave him 130 or fewer pounds, they risked the ire of rival horsemen and the excoriation of journalists. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

He pulls the door open before I can pound on it. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

Something inside me starts growing till my chest is pounding. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

All three of their hearts pounded—none of them would have imagined hours earlier what kind of night this would turn out to be. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

It definitely weighed between twenty- five and thirty pounds. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

He overtook Hazel, which was easy, since she was struggling with fifty pounds of Celestial bronze. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

A sudden, staccato flurry of pounding shook the roof, as if a team of horses were galloping across the shingles. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

He was not tall but he weighed close to 250 pounds, brick hard. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

I knocked on the front door, but there was no answer, so I let myself in and pounded upstairs. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

Pay him his pound of flesh and deal with him later. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

My dad comes booming toward us from the backyard, where he’s grilling thirty-five pounds of meat even though it’s January, not July. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

My heart pounded as if it would be heard. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Cold slid down her spine, and her heart pounded. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

My heart was skipping beats, pounding inside my chest. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

He was two hundred pounds underweight and chronically tired. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

George Finkle was short, but he must have weighed three hundred pounds or more. The Million Dollar Shot 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

I pounded him on the back, cackling with glee. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

He could hear the blood pounding in his ears. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

"But have you really managed to live here on one pound a week for two years?" Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

My arm lifted light as a feather and pounded the door knocker. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Their feet pounded and thundered on the ground and left a great sheet of dust behind them. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Thanks a million. Clear out of here now, please. I’ve lost about ten pounds already.” Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

Seabiscuit annihilated the field, breaking the track record while carrying 130 pounds, two more than War Admiral had lugged in the Pimlico Special. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

She pounded her chest with an open hand. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

“Please hold it down, Ma! I hear you just fine,” Wes pleaded, feeling his head begin to pound again. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

My heart started pounding so hard that I was afraid Manuel might be able to hear it. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

No. I was starting to get upset, pounding the board with my right thumb once more. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

Near eleven o’clock she remembered a piece of pound cake she had put away. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

“Ah, if only my arm was feeling a bit better!” he sighed as the gale outside pounded the windows. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

Sixty pounds was considered a good weight for the arms used on the pel-quintain—so that, when he did come at length to the usual weapons, he would wield them featly. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Was the world able to feel her heart pounding, her thoughts on fire? Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

My stomach lurched, blood came pounding to my head, I felt myself going dizzy. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

Zeitoun realized that two men, one on either end of the ladder, would not be enough to lift a woman of over two hundred pounds. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

In late March of 1862, coffee had reached the unheard of price of seventy cents a pound, and the papers predicted that it would rise even higher. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

But portly and overfed though she was from living in the comfort of a zoo, even so she tipped the scales at barely 110 pounds. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

The vault deadened most of the cries and pounding but not all. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Wash’s heart pounded as his mother crossed the room to the cabinet where they kept the Booker money. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

I'm five ten, weigh 160 pounds, my social security number is nine randomly selected numbers, and I turned twenty-two last month. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

As a first lieutenant and platoon leader, Jimmy Cross carried a compass, maps, code books, binoculars, and a .45-caliber pistol that weighed 2.9 pounds fully loaded. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

He pounded the roof as I got closer. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

My chest starts to pound—not because I’m a needy person, but because I’m worried I’ve upset him. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Joseph dried off his glasses and pounded on the stage door. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Mark’s head pounded with pain, along with the rest of his body, after the scrum in the bunker hallway. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

Moxley Sorrel was on his feet, pounding his palm with a clenched fist. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He pounded the gavel, stood, and walked out of the room. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

His heart was pounding inside his chest like a small drum, not in its usual steady march but in a wild, arrhythmic abandon. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

His heart pounded at just the thought of it. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

He chose to study it at a time when cotton was one cent a pound and the Finches had everything but money. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Steak, for instance—the very best steak shouldn’t have been more than ten frogs a pound but Lee set it at twelve and a half. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

As I pocket it, someone pounds on the door. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Plus she owed him a good pounding with a snowball. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

My heart pounds probably as much as his. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

And he called her name, and held her hand, and his heart pounded when he kissed her. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Minli’s thoughts bubbled faster and faster like boiling rice; every step she took seemed to throb and Minli wasn’t sure if the pounding was her heart or Wu Kang’s axe in the distance. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

Riddle had been harboring a grudge against Pimlico since 1926, when the track’s racing secretary had assigned his colt Crusader 126 pounds in a major race—Crusader lost to a horse carrying 93 pounds. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

She whirled around, pushed him to the ground, jumped on him, and started pounding. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

Amid the pounding in her ears and her head, the whisper of wings filled the air. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

I looked up to the clouds, turning my face to the pounding rain. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Me: unless there’s a new dog over 8 years, black fur, weighing more than 60 pounds, and is mostly pit bull or shepherd. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Just four years after the end of the war, his company was shipping 60,000 pounds of “Genuine Bull Durham Smoking Tobacco” annually. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Behind them came the other dog teams pulling sleds that were each loaded with 900 pounds of stores and gear. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

“Justice, sir—” “That’s not what justice is,” the colonel jeered, and began pounding the table again with his big fat hand. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Potato soils have been found to contain up to 15 pounds of DDT per acre, corn soils up to 19. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

I frowned, puzzled, but John Henry’s fist clenched even tighter as he pounded his leg softly. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

There was no way I could stop my heart from pounding. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

It was a solid, taxing workout, whittling ten pounds off of Seabiscuit’s frame. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Are you sure you don’t want me to pound erasers instead?” The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

Fifty thousand pounds in modern money, using a retail price index, but £725,000 in modern money using an average wage multiplier. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

It’s the other Blackcliff students, pounding on their stone seats and roaring with a mix of pride and envy. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Tree-ear’s own heart was still pounding so hard that he could feel his pulse in his throat. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

Unconsciously I jumped to my feet, my heart pounding. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Delly’s a bit thinner than I remember, but she was one of the few kids in District 12 with a couple of pounds to spare. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Countless times on that long Santa Anita backstretch Seabiscuit’s legs reached out over the track, stretching to gather up the ground, pounding down into the dirt, then folding up under his belly. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

On that day he had stood beside the rail, listening to the stroke of the oars and the pounding of the master's drum while he watched Pyke dwindle in the distance. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

And I didn’t know how many pounds I had, so I couldn’t calculate how long it would last me. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

Taran turned back to the cottage and began pounding on the door. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

I pounded down the street, waiting to hear someone yell, Hey kid! or Thief! Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

Dr. Holyoke said, “In hard money, not quite forty pounds. Will you give us a week to raise the money?” Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Papin was well aware of this: he proposed to the Royal Society a ship of eighty tons, perhaps 100 feet long, costing ‘but four hundred pounds’ to build. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Something a little over five feet tall and 130 pounds. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

My heart was pounding so hard that my chest felt like it had stopped pumping blood and was pushing those red beads I put in Maddy's hair through my veins instead. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

Marie-Laure sits on the floor of the key pound and opens her book. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

“My apologies,” Marco says, his heartbeat pounding so loudly in his ears that he can barely hear her. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

One thing that remained constant throughout the battle was the sound of the battering ram pounding away remorselessly at the Abbey gatehouse. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Head still bowed, she listened to the sounds of pounding feet and panicked animals running around her until she dared to look up. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Brian and I also collected scrap metal that we sold to the junk dealer for a penny a pound—three cents a pound for copper. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

She bangs on the door, and I feel the pounding in my back. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

I’m still a little groggy, but her words make my heart pound unpleasantly. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

“I’m almost done, I hope. It was four pounds.” We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

He finishes out his tune with a low, guttural hum just as the deep, pounding bass of a revved car engine overrides his voice. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

And like a million others, chests pounding, tracks controlling their feet, they stared out the windows for first sight of the City that danced with them, proving already how much it loved them. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jairo I decide that when my head begins to pound from now on, I will shut my eyes and count to 7, instead of by 7s. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

The evening ended with the cracking of branches in the forest and the pounding of rice in mortars. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

I sat in my seat, staring straight ahead, my heart pounding. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Even if I did manage to shove 450 pounds of living, fierce animal off the lifeboat, tigers are accomplished swimmers. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Could it be a girl’s heartbeat—pounding too hard? Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

The English public, now consuming some eighteen pounds of sugar a year, knew little about the lives of the enslaved Africans whose labor sweetened their meals. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

During storms, you can see huge waves pound the FDR Drive, sometimes reaching all the way to the highway itself and washing up against the cars. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

Then footsteps pound down the hall as the black wave roars past the building. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Sansa covered herself with her hands, staggering every time the fruit pounded her, her hair sticky by the second blow. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Dad slipped two new pound coins into my hand. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

I could feel my heart pounding against my ribs. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

But once again, humans figured out a way to safely eat cassava, by pounding and then cooking it. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

He took one hand out of his pocket, opened it, looked at the handful of pound coins, shook his head, closed his hand around the coins once more. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

Now that I thought about it, I’d be pretty mad if somebody dumped four million pounds of manure in my home. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

Still, their hooves pounded along the muddy path through the Barrens, where nothing grows. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

“He’s called The Tree Man because he had such a severe case of human papiloma virus of the skin that thirteen pounds of horn-like warts had to be removed from his body.” I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Again and again and again, on whatever surface of skin he could find, Hayes drove his fist into Liam, like he could pound his fury into him. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

His legs were on fire, and his forehead felt as if somebody had been pounding on it with a hammer, but he could move. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then Tormund was pounding him on the back, all gap-toothed grin from ear to ear. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

She realized several people had moved closer to her and Mama, and her heart pounded. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

Enrique races so fast he feels the blood pounding at his temples. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Malvonne could feel the wall of life pressed up against the woman’s palms; feel her hands bashed tender from pounding it; her hips constrained by the clutch of small children. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Keeley’s footsteps pounded up the passageway on the other side of the shelving units to his left. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

He had the body of a little fatty, though he was big, close to two hundred pounds. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

The big artery in his neck was pounding out and in. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

At first all I hear is the pounding of their feet, and my head snaps back painfully. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

It’s like saying,“Here’s thirty-seven pounds of assorted chocolates.Try not to think about food, though.” Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

My heart pounded like a hammer against my ribs. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Doesn’t seem big until you consider that most babies are more like seven or eight pounds and nineteen or twenty inches when they’re born. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

When she woke all of a sudden, her heart pounding and her hair damp with sweat, it all came back to her: the men, Mo's voice, the empty road. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

We had between ninety and a hundred pounds of coarse foodstuffs, half of it the load I stole in Turuf; sixty pounds of this are gone, after fifteen days’ journey. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

He was six foot two, maybe two hundred and fifty pounds. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It came out of nowhere, a ferocious squall with swirling black clouds, pounding rain, and lightning that tore open the sky. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z

The uniform pounding of feet in my ears and the homogeneity of the people around me makes me believe that I could choose this. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

The next thing I know, I hear pounding on the door. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

“So it's all right for you to spend six hundred pounds on a golf-club membership you hardly ever use, but it isn't all right for me to improve our property?” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

He didn’t know how the boy could run that far and that fast carrying fifty pounds of clock and bronze, but the prisoner nearly got away. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

"I've saved up two pounds of ersatz coffee," Mina tells her on the telephone. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

She has about twenty pounds of gold on her—at one point, when they are sitting face to face, their hands wrapped up together in a checkered cloth, he counts eleven necklaces. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

My backpack held little more than three empty oxygen canisters and a pint of frozen lemonade; it probably weighed no more than sixteen or eighteen pounds. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

When Dimple was younger, she’d go running downstairs, heart pounding every single time, terrified something awful had happened. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

It took effort—my head was thick and pounding, my body stiff and sore—but I pushed the comforter onto the floor, swung my legs off the couch and sat up. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Drew had at least eight inches and forty pounds on her. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

Like some members of the reptile family, dwarf males can unhinge their jaws, allowing them to ingest several pounds of earth a second. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

He presses the gun against my pounding head. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

With my heart pounding, I wonder if it was me who screamed. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She grabbed the panga and watched the shadows with her heart pounding. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

His only response is to pop open another beer and attack the thirty-five pounds of meat with his tongs like it’s in danger of rising up and devouring us all. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Another second, and the monster would’ve turned me into a hundred pounds of delicatessen meat. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

Jones, who was only thirteen and weighed little more than eighty pounds, quickly found himself on the losing end of the tussle. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

She never hits or lands; she falls and falls, and I wake with my heart pounding and gravity cut from under me, as in an elevator plummeting out of control. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

The room, pounding with music, was so bright with sunlight it might near put my eyes out. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Every morning, the sounds of his father pounding metal were the footsteps of a destiny that never drew closer. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

She watched the huntress’s throat as she swallowed, and she wondered if Kaisa could hear the pounding of her heart. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The college boys shrieked and pounded each other in their amusement. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Her heart was pounding as if she were a child playing tag—though she wasn’t sure if she was being chased or doing the chasing. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I awoke from a deep sleep to the sound of harsh laughter and pounding feet in the alley below me. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Then he washed the two soldiers down with bleach, spraying it all over them, and pounded on the door that led to the staging room. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The other three girls had just made their handoffs when Krystal pounded into the red zone. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

An accidental shooting would save him four thousand pounds. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

Men inside the locked cars pounded on the doors. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z

She lifts her bag up, sticking out her tongue like it really does weigh fifty pounds, and rummages inside for her sketchbook. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

“Farmers have to use a lot more land to produce one pound of meat than to produce a pound of—what's it called?—soybeans.” Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

So many good smells are floating through the house—cinnamon scones, lemon pound cake, chocolate cake. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

His heart was pounding, the way it does sometimes when you sleep too hard in the middle of the day, like you can't remember how to wake up. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

The high blood pressure that accompanied her obesity—she weighed over 300 pounds by this time—caused her to grow light-headed with exertion. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

It was fifty pounds, so he struggled with it. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

And the rain has picked up, pounding the ground outside the entrance to the cave. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

I pound my glove and stare at the ball in Brayden’s hand. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

I ball my free hand into a fist and pound my left thigh with it. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

He steadied himself a little, laying his face against the cold stone, feeling his heart pounding. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

A group of children run down a narrow path with no railing, so fast my heart pounds, and I want to scream at them to slow down before they get hurt. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

I lean forward, my heart pounding, and peek out into the hallway to see if he has some friends hiding against the walls, ready to jump me for the little I have. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

They pounded on the sides of the vehicle as if they wanted to get on, wanted to escape whatever horrible lives they were living. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

The pain and the pounding inside his head were gone, but when he sat up he had to move slowly to avoid jarring the soreness inside his skull. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

We go to Milk and Honey, and to All Flesh, where I buy chicken and the new Ofglen gets three pounds of hamburger. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

Celia pounds her hammer on the card table to quiet the spectators, who are hissing and hollering as if it were a boxing match. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

I shout, taking a step closer to him, my heart pounding in my ears. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

This much is for sure, nobody was pounding on drums or stewing up a goat for us. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I just want the pounding to go away. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

“He goes all one way,” she said over the pounding. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“How weary one gets of this constant pounding,” Theodora said ridiculously. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

The rain continued to hammer down, pounding on the long line of kids trudging north, around the football stadium, toward the high school gymnasium. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

They stole two cashboxes containing 40 guilders, blank checkbooks and, worst of all, coupons for 330 pounds of sugar, our entire allotment. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

A new group of specialists came pounding up to his bedside with their instruments to find out if it was true. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

He pounded in vain; no further reply came from the enchantresses, and even the window suddenly darkened with an impenetrable black fog. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

She would have to spend her days pounding mealies and hauling water. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

His heart was pounding, and all he could think about was that if he started running right then, he could still catch up to Robert. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

However, if it’s known somehow that the person chosen is over six feet four inches tall, then the conditional probability that he or she also weighs more than 250 pounds is considerably higher. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then the stallion was clear of the grove and pounding across open ground. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

A hundred mad ideas pounded through his brain, each one wilder than the last. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

But when he heard the shuffle of feet, he jerked around—heart pounding—and stood very, very still. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

For, pounding down the mountainside, in a cloud of clinging dust and a chorus of chilling shrieks, came all the loathsome creatures who choose to live in Ignorance and who had waited so very impatiently. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

His basket weighed five pounds in no time. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

The legs of the chair thudded on the tiles and pounded in my ears. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

Dinah was scratching against the inside of my pocket, but all the sounds around me were drowned out by the voice pounding into my head. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

He pounded his index finger against the glass with every “look.” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

I sucked in my stomach, walked slow to make sure nothing jiggled, and tugged down on my shirt, like I could really hide my extra pounds under there. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Smacking up, down, like a giant pounding with his fists. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

He pulled out a pound sack of grain. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

I worried as we pounded down the slack. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

I was pounded between crushing electrical pressures; pumped between live electrodes like an accordion between a player's hands. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

I could feel the whole tunnel shake as Kampe pounded against it, roaring furiously. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

He pounded on the door, begging for Jonas to open it, until Jonas did, his hair standing on end like the comb of a rooster. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

Players gather at center circle, dap each other, pound each other. The Crossover 2014-03-18T00:00:00Z

And a positronic brain, which with ten pounds of matter and a few quintillions of positrons runs the whole show. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

I started casting a white bucktail and in no time jumped a baby tarpon that wasn’t even ten pounds. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

He’s a credit to his mother and he gets his name in the paper all the time and you can be sure he brings home the odd few pounds. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

My heart pounds in my chest, and there is a part of me, the cowardly, yellow part, that urges me to turn around and scamper on back to bed. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

In very short time we have collected a dozen eggs and two pounds of fairly fresh butter. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

My heart pounded, for I expected everything: jungle flowers, wild roaring beasts. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The smoky voices of office girls swirl past the open window of the key pound. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

The rest of us followed suit, cheering, stomping feet and pounding doors. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

“That is a bank-note,” repeated Mr. Jaggers, “for five hundred pounds. And a very handsome sum of money too, I think. You consider it so?” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

As one girl raised her pounding club the other girl’s went down into the narrow hole—up and down, a perfect, even rhythm like the pumping of pistons. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Perhaps you are the hope for the future,” Ignatius said, dramatically pounding one paw into the other. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Papa lifted her up and said, “You’ve lost a pound since yesterday!” A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

But if it was somebody within twenty pounds her weight she would give him a good sock and go right on. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

IV Ignatius ignored his mother’s pounding on his door and crying in the hall about the fifty cents in wages that he had brought home for the day’s work. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tristran's heart pounded in his chest as if it were not big enough to contain all the joy that it held. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

His head was pounding, and he was thirsty. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

He had been allowed to keep the angle iron, and it was now stacked—four hundred thousand pounds of it—in tangled mountains all over the yard. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Because Irwin didn’t come within 200 pounds of fitting through a standard car door, he drove a customized sedan outfitted with a wide-load rear hatch through which he wiggled in and out. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ten minutes later Seabiscuit finished in a dead heat for first with a horse named Heelfly, who carried fifteen fewer pounds. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

A colt named Stagehand, the early favorite for the 1938 Kentucky Derby, had been assigned just 100 pounds, the lowest possible impost. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

She hugged me, and I pounded her bade where I knew it hurt, while the boys danced around pretending they had machine guns. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Other men periodically shouted insults at each other, shook with anger and frustration, and pounded the ground with their axes. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

My heart pounded in time with the music as I cleared the unblemished left half of the maze. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Tatica will have to pound hard with strength she does not have so her knock will be heard. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Outside, the clamor grows as people begin to pound the door. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

At the time of the autopsy, McCandless’s remains weighed sixty-seven pounds. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was pounding her way through a song by Bach, and I felt sorry for Bach because Miss Lulu’s heart was clearly not involved with the music at all. Louisiana's Way Home 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

My heart is pounding because I don’t trust this guy to not do something stupid. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

She picked up Rita, who pounded vigorously on the big woman’s back, and disappeared down a burrow. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Hey, the Indian lady forgot her stuff,” she hears as the doors shut, and as the train pulls away she hears a fist pounding on glass, but she keeps walking, pushing Gogol along the platform. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

On the forty-first move, after five hours of play, with his heart slightly pounding, Bobby lifted his rook with his trembling right hand, quietly lowered the piece to the board, and said, “Mate!” Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

I'm in her arms, feeling like a million pounds have been lifted off my shoulders. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I wish I could find my father so I could say to Mam, Here he is and he has three pounds left in his pocket. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Backstage, the other girls hug me and whisper, “That was incredible, Virginia!” and I whisper, “Thanks,” but I can’t say anything else because my knees are weak and my heart is pounding. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

His name swelled and grew and filled the world like the pounding of blood in Shadow’s ears. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

Always at the end they sit side by side again and pound the cushions, and slowly the room rematerializes around them. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

I expect they were picturing Rachel wrapped in a pagne trying to pound manioc. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nearly a week later, Maya still wanted to pound that kid Adam’s face in. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

I took stock of what I had in the cave: a few pounds of cornmeal in a paper bag, some salt, three cans of meat, three of beans, one of peas, two of corn. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

My mother—all four feet eleven and a half inches and 217 pounds of her—patrols the streets of Brooklyn at night in a skintight uniform, clanging with enough antiriot gear to quash another Attica. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Kissinger started pounding the table with his fists, yelling directly at Chief of Staff Bob Haldeman. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

She didn’t respond, her heart pounding in triple time as she made her way to the attic. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

According to the Daily Mail, their house is worth four hundred thousand pounds. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Day after day, their words pound, too close. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

I would have thought, even over the pounding rain, I could have heard the engine’s roar. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

“As you wish,” he answered, through a mouthful of blood, but the big knight was already gone, his boots pounding on the deckboards. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The three guests, drowned in the pounding beat of the phonograph, silently studied the rose-colored walls and the floral patterns on the linoleum. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Under the influence of Stein’s Three Lives, I spent hours and days pounding out disconnected sentences for the sheer love of words. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

We laughed and at the same time said, “One hundred and eighty pounds.” The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

Rags brought two cents a pound and iron, four. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Isa was doing her own chopping on the kitchen counter, her knife pounding against the scarred cutting board. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

I tell my heart to cease its sudden pounding. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

In the quiet I could hear my heart pounding and I knew that my hand still had its hold on the rock and that I was alive. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

A ton of bananas brisdes with a good three, four pounds of big black spiders. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

In another part of the city, a pounding on her door and calls to get dressed as quickly as possible woke Claire Innes. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

After we came home from the hospital that night—with no Devon—Dad was yelling and kicking the furniture and the walls and he started pounding the chest with his fists and shouting, Why? Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

In for a penny, in for a pound, thought Lyddie, and made her way into town. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

He was short and unassuming, about five foot six and 150 pounds, and he lived at 1157 Wheeler, on the second floor of one of the street’s narrow apartment houses. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

However tall it grows, a tree is just a few pounds of living cells thinly spread between roots and leaves. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

His heart is pounding against my wrist; his heart, like mine, desperately doesn’t want to stop beating, especially not in chaos like this. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

His head pounded and his stomach moved menacingly and he realized he had to face Brother Leon and the roll call again this morning. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The wood bit into her skin as she pounded the rails. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

There were only a few hundred pounds remaining. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

It sprang at me, one thousand pounds of monster, and I had no choice but to turn and jump. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

My head started pounding, a thousand times worse than before. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

She scattered a big load of acorns on the hearth stones and looked at them with satisfaction before she began to break the little shells with her smoothest pounding rock. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

My head is pounding fast as my heart. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

And it was unwieldy, like two hundred pounds, and so the detailers couldn’t really move it. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Travis had at least eight inches and almost a hundred pounds on Tyson. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

To make weight in anything but high-class stakes races, jockeys had to keep their weight to no more than 114 pounds. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Their bellies ached with hunger, and the earlier thrill of losing a few pounds before pageant time had been replaced with a terrible, desperate longing for food. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

There was a pound or two of edible meat on a pesthry. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

And as the blood pounded its way into my head and I gasped for air, he’d acted like we’d just been fooling around, like the whole thing was all a big joke. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

My eye pained and swelled with each throb of my pounding heart and I wondered if now I would be allowed to speak. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Standing at a low table near a sink, she was pounding bread dough. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Each morning the thirty men working in the kitchen prepared three hundred dozen eggs, twenty-five hundred pancakes, five hundred pounds of bacon and sausage, and 180 gallons of coffee. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

It was a pound box of Loft’s peanut brittle. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

I pretend the pounding is a heartbeat, a drumbeat. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

He was still four pounds over, which seemed impossible, seeing as for weeks he’d been living on cereal and whatever his brothers left on their plates. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Ash woke up suddenly in her own bed, her heart pounding. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

He marched right by Finn and pounded on the back door till Sean came out again. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

He tried to protect himself, but Zigzag's fists slammed off his arms and pounded his face into the ground. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

But tonight, her heart was pounding, and she could hear the roar of blood in her ears as the gilded facade came into view. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Before he could even get his brain to get his body moving, footsteps pounded down the hallway. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

The pounding of my heart fills my ears. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

He said it in this booming voice, then pounded on his chest. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

On April 3, he swung Pollard onto Seabiscuit and secured enough lead pads under the saddle to bring the horse’s impost to a whopping 130 pounds. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

When several patients follow his instructions for three weeks, they find they’ve gained about seven pounds each. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

And tho this heap of wreckage is pretty pounded, if you look at it right, it might be an old Prentisstown house that fell right outta the sky. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

Occasionally the ground beneath my feet shook from some faraway pounding and I felt that this world, despite its massiveness, was somehow dangerously fragile. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

The men cursed, and shook their fingers at the television and pounded the radio, until Aunt Zo unplugged them. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

The rain pounded louder on the tin roof, and she looked up from the note then, at the screen door and the cottonwood tree outside, its leaves beaten flat by the downpour. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

“And yet. And yet. I wonder: the middle of the night. Might you perhaps have . . . ?” I look at him steadily, my heart pounding in my chest. “ . . . misconstrued?” Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Spider Kelly taught all his young gentlemen to box like featherweights, no matter whether they weighed one hundred and five or two hundred and five pounds. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

Earlier that morning I had been awakened by loud pounding on the door. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

He was taller by six inches and outweighed me by fifty pounds. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

She gazed off toward the huge image of her mother—no, this world’s Susanna Morales, the judge—up on the screen, pounding a gavel and looking severe. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Hugo and I read the notices on the board for secondhand Legos, kittens needing homes, good-as-new washing machines for £10 OBO, and ads promising you hundreds of extra pounds in your spare time. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

Someone murmured about “the unexpected and sudden deaths of sixteen fine men during the night ” Earth pounded down on the coffin lids. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once Pacific peoples spread beyond the range of wool-yielding domestic animals and fiber plant crops and hence of woven clothing, they became dependent on pounded bark “cloth” for their clothing. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

When he finished, he glanced over at the shelf with his bucket of tools, and his heart pounded. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

When I’d pounded in the last nail and gathered up my tools, I fairly floated across the blooming prairie. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

He pounded her on the back in congratulation. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

The redheaded figure turned, “Feel funny inside. There’s a pounding in me with everything tense. It’s hard to breathe. I can’t stand still.” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

“Little niggard!” said he, “refusing me a pecuniary request! Give me five pounds, Jane.” Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

The mention of my parents only made the pounding in my head that much worse. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

My heart pounds because I know that at some point in the next half hour, I will see Tobias. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

It pounded on the tin roof of the porch. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then he pounded them tightly against the powder. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the pounding of the drums suddenly died, the dancers stopped in confusion, their applause abruptly ending, but then Ash heard a great cheer go up from the far side of the Square. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yes, Carolyn! Dr. King! And riots are happening every-where—all over the entire country!” they shouted as they ran down the hall and pounded on more dorm doors. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

She sheathed her swords and turned, pounding down the hallway on her enormous dragon legs. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

I walk to the back of the room to the lab tables, and my feet feel like they weigh six hundred pounds. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

All his work since then had culminated in a factory that could irradiate two hundred tons of uranium at a time to produce a half pound of plutonium every two hundred days. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

It’s no use—my heart pounds and my thoughts scatter. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

“With the release of the bomb, the plane was instantly nine thousand pounds lighter,” Tibbets said. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Later, after he met the girl, he would pay two thousand pounds. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

I slid nearly to the edge of the roof before I came to a stop, heart pounding. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Those original white “Christian traders” sent into China millions of pounds of opium. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

A moment later we heard the footsteps of an invisible boy pounding up the ramp outside our cage. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

The pounding on the window stops, but a screeching sound replaces it, and the fists turn into hands with bent fingers, scratching at the glass, fighting to get in. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

My heart pounds rapidly, and I walk away as fast I can before anyone notices. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I can’t understand anything they’re saying because the hot red color has cooled off and is now a dull pink that makes me just want to rest my pounding head and sleep. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

They reached it in time to hear the pounding of the hoofs on the timbers of the bridge and to see the waving banners. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

We had expected at least a dollar a pound. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

My damaged feet pound the road, every step slicing pain through me. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

Guard pounds on my bars, shaking me out of my nap. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Soon he produced his pocket-book: “Here,” said he, offering me a note; it was fifty pounds, and he owed me but fifteen. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

Then, dressed in a rubber apron and wooden clogs, she lit her kiln, prepared her worktables, and pounded the clay for her classes, her arms up to her elbows in the coarse, cold mud. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a male Grant, weighing over five hundred pounds. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Everybody pounding their bongos at the same pace, the sounds we were all making together, how it was so hypnotizing and spiritual. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

But pound as they might on the slats, their own door remained shut. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

As I got closer, my eyes stared harder, my legs slowed down, and my heart started pounding. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

"Once I got caught with forty pounds of hash in my suitcase and I told the customs agent it was hair henna from Egypt and he let me pass. They aren't that smart." Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

He pounds his fist on top of his desk and stands up. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

“Good! Good!” cried Jo, pounding with the handle of the old warming pan on which she leaned. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Car number one was bought by me for two hundred and seventy-eight pounds and sold for one thousand four hundred and twenty-five. Got that?" Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

Afternoons and weekends, which usually rang with a medley of shouts and laughter and pounding feet, dragged by in a strange, uneasy silence broken only by the dull hum of traffic. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her heart was pounding but she didn’t let that show. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

The freeways are deathtraps, I know, Kelton’s pounded it into our heads. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Running, my chest on fire, hearing the sound of voices shouting after me, boots pounding on the pavement. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

The Dragon King laughed, and it sounded like someone pounding on a brass door. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Each one weighed no more than twenty-seven pounds to ensure that it would float if a canoe capsized. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

It was hard not to dance with that beat pounding out into the smoky club. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

I pound the elevator button, over and over again, but it’s taking too long. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

He dropped ten pounds, and not because he wasn’t eating. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

His skin was back to full color, his eyes no longer crisscrossed with red veins; he seemed to have gained fifteen pounds in twenty-four hours. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Her face went from the window and a moment later a loud pounding came at the front door. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

A second later, heavy boots pounded past and faded in the distance. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

It was easy for me to imagine myself hunched over a keyboard, pounding out reams of deathless, hard-boiled prose. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

I remember that at Pinyudu I could always hear the sound of pounding, as people pounded the dry corn kernels into meal to boil. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

I trained in a desultory way, and only years later, when I had put on a few more pounds, did I begin to box in earnest. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The characters loitered in deserted rooms, no one talking, everything silent for whole minutes except the hiss of the projector and rain pounding on the roof. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

I am not one to let somebody pound on my best friend’s scrawny back. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

She grew very big—abnormally big, even at a time when women gloried in big babies and counted extra pounds with pride. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

His fingers were throbbing worse than they had in days, and his head was pounding too. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

In fact, it was rather too much aglow, but Penelope was in for a penny, in for a pound, as they say. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

Frogs by the pound, by the fifty pounds. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

My heart was pounding, my lungs burned, and in my side there was a continuous stabbing pain. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Groves met with Uranium Committee members in Chicago, they told him it would take somewhere between ten and one thousand pounds of uranium to make an atomic bomb. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Rain pounded against the roof and windows, steady and low, drumbeats announcing the presence of the sky. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

My heart is pounding so loud in my ears, I can barely hear my footsteps underneath me as I run up the steps. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

What gets a steer from 80 to 1,100 pounds in fourteen months is tremendous amounts of corn, food supplements, and drugs. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Moch pounded on the ironwood as hard and as fast as he could, the snap-snap- snap of it firing almost like a machine gun in the stern of the boat. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Forty-five pounds of fruit and leaves and seeds and stems and bark and vines and rotten wood. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

By spring, Sairy had grown increasingly agitated by the loud noises of the city, with the screeching trucks and blaring horns and pounding jackhammers. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

“They’re strict about that. Gain ten pounds and they put you in Solitary.” The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’d be surprised if she weighs more than ninety-two pounds before breakfast, assuming breakfast is even on her agenda. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

He wrote to one official in 1226 asking if he could possibly obtain three pounds of the precious substance—at a cost of about 450 modern dollars. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

The binoculars probably weighed a pound but felt twenty times that. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Under the constant pounding of countless feet the whole area that had been marked out by the moles suddenly sank into a trench. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

The door pounds open, and Sana tumbles in. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

One of them, Henderson, who was about my height but with seventy-five more pounds of muscle, told me I’d better get him in before I left or else. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Leah passes me a note in French class, and my heart starts pounding, thinking it could be a message from him. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

My head pounded, I had trouble breathing, but I was starting to understand what was happening. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The Southern Baptist Mission League gave us this hint, without coming right out and telling us to flout the law of the forty-four pounds, and from there we made our plan. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

What feeble objection of mine could carry the weight of ten pounds of currency? The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

He was black, stood about five ten, and carried a muscular 210 pounds or so. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

He wasn’t big, five seven and 132 pounds, but he had become the Paul Bunyan of Odessa, no story about him too tall, no feat too outlandish. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a pounding on the front door, and from upstairs she heard a bell ringing. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Under the trees, on pounded dirt and among mud puddles from fresh rains, people set up stands for selling umbrellas and plastic wrist watches. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I pound the bars again, even though I know that force won't help. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

Deep bronze booms and silver chiming pounded through his skull, a maddening cacophony of noise that grew ever louder until it seemed as if his head would explode. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

After Seabiscuit’s extraordinarily easy win in Tijuana, the Bay Meadows racing secretary had proposed assigning him 136 pounds, but Howard had intercepted him and charmed 3 pounds off of his horse’s impost. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Silence terrifies you more than the pounding of a million pieces of steel chopping away at your flesh. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

Each must have fifty to a hundred pounds on me. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

My heart pounds so hard that I think it will burst through my clothes. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The merchant had been asking ten pennies for half a pound of salt, fifteen for a loaf of sugar. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

He loaded it into the house and pounded it into a stand. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

One of the older Yellows, a girl named Kylie, came pounding on Clancy’s door. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

She pounds it with a hammer until it’s soft and full of holes. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Howard’s insistence that his horse would not run under more than 130 pounds had put track handicappers in a bind. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Son, if I was you, I’d stay here and keep that catfish out of sight or he’s liable to requisition all ten pounds of it.” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

I open my eyes and pound the fence again. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

The held George and I planted that day would produce 1.8 million pounds of corn. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

His feet pounded the uneven ground, and he thrashed his arms harder and harder. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

As it was, the men hauling the Caird and the Docker were sinking up to their knees in slush, and their boots were filling with seven pounds of freezing water with each step. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

But it did matter, of course, which is why I kept pounding at our cinder-block walls and why the questions had floated beneath the surface for a week. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

She looked forward to the task— they would take turns pounding the vegetable into a wooden bowl with a stick almost as tall as Amari. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Gen makes bologna with about five pounds of mayo. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

She pounds the hamburger with the palm of her left hand to flatten it. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

My pulse pounded like drums against every inch of my skin. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

My heart pounding, I stepped up to Claudius. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

When we landed, my head pounded up into him. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

Unable to stomach running with 132 pounds, he scratched the horse. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

He didn’t want to burden Seabiscuit with 132 pounds, but he knew that going the way of the lighter weight would draw criticism. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

But they would be carrying more than six hundred pounds of weapons and supplies, and they could expect no help along the way. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

All of a sudden my heart is pounding. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

He had also gained about ten or twenty pounds. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Her face was bleeding from the pounding blows of rocks and sticks and the fists of strangers. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

Sophie could feel the Giant’s feet pounding once again over the earth. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Piayei landed two dozen yards upstream and Piety was slanting toward the bank when die defenders came pounding down the riverside, the hooves of their war- horses sending up gouts of water from the shallows. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The Fire Swamp R.O.U.S.s were a pure rat strain, weighed usually eighty pounds, and had the speed of wolfhounds. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

I hear pounding—doors flung open by wind; shutters slapping against windows; glass cracking, breaking like a thousand bottles. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

Aunt Pooh pounds out a rhythm on the hood of the car. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Baba pushes Mustafa over on the sofa and starts pounding him on the shoulder, while Mama laughs and throws balled socks at them. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

He flourished a pound note in front of Ben. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

He pounded his fist into the hood of a Lexus, and it crumpled like aluminum foil. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

My heart was pounding so hard I could hear the beat in my head. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

I must weigh at least fifty or sixty pounds less than the smallest Career. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

He walked for two hours, feeling the nausea gradually subside and a slow, pounding headache take its place. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Her heart pounded in her chest; it echoed around the world. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

I try to say I’m fine, but the wind has been knocked out of me by at least sixty-five pounds of fertilizer. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

I pound on the door—twice, then three times, then six times, as my mother told me to. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

I was lying on the carpet, feeling the pounding in my brain, when Tyler found me and folded himself onto the sofa near my head. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

I asked him in and he told me that his dog was lost, because it wasn’t at the pound. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

Putting the boards on my feet cut fifteen pounds from the awful load on my back and made the going faster besides. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

A silverback must eat forty-five pounds of food a day if he wants to stay a silverback. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

Don’t move, I say over and over in my mind, even as my heart pounds. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

The chief elder’s two wives chattered cheerfully together as they pounded cassava fufu for his evening meal. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Twenty pounds!” called a voice from the back of the crowd. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had written down his letters to Miss Perumal, and Jackson, having found the letters on the desk, was pounding them with his fist. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

Oliver choked on the water he was drinking, and Uncle Arthur pounded on his back. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

I was driving myself, pounding out the miles because I was no longer hearing or seeing. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

One minute I’m trying to figure out where my money could be, and the next minute, the cop was pounding on the door and everything else faded from my mind. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

They hurdled flowers and stuffed animals, pounding down the brick-laid sidewalk until they reached a wall of people lining up to board a bus. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

I ’membered when I first met the cap’n and how I thought I outweighed him by eighty pounds and could real easy smash his head in with my fist. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

On Sundays, she would invite his relatives for pounded yam and onugbu soup and then watch over to make sure everyone was suitably overfed. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

I jog in place, lifting my knees in a fierce rhythm that raises my breath and sets my heart pounding, but doesn’t quite drum out my rising thoughts. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Since all the convenient hotels were either booked or required multiple pounds of flesh in payment, we ended up off the beaten tourist path. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

Users of one product, for example, apply 60 pounds of technical chlordane to the acre if they follow directions. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

I accidentally make eye contact with a hot guy wearing a tight V-neck shirt, and I look away quickly, but my heart pounds. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

“I’ll ask another way. Would it surprise you if I told you Jerome Rogers, the child you killed, was no taller than five feet, ninety pounds?” Ghost Boys 2018-04-17T00:00:00Z

Two pounds, three and six would mean the day after at three-thirty. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was a farrier, a certified maker of horseshoes, and his trailer carried all the tools of his trade, including nearly one thousand pounds of horseshoes, a gas forge, and a 150-pound anvil. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

We hung around near the back door, shuffling in our cleats, for twenty more minutes of pounding rain. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

When a scouting party spotted a herd, Ne-kah-e-se-y and the other hunters raced on their horses across the plains, the hooves pounding the earth like drums, the manes whipping the riders’ sweating, gleaming faces. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

I put another five pounds on either side of the bar for him, and then kept my voice low as I continued. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Chrome and turquoise, it had fenders as wide as a Chevrolet’s, tires as thick as a wheelbarrow’s, and appeared to weigh at least a hundred pounds. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

The ones that pounded their way into my head. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Tipping the scale at well over two hundred pounds, he was stout. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

His head was pounding, but he knew it had nothing to do with candy. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

My mouth instantly got dry, and my heart started pounding hard enough to bust. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

Each step felt like he was climbing Everest, and by the time he fell back onto the sofa, his heart was pounding. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

His right leg was nearly worthless from the gunshot, and he had to pull himself up the last few feet with his arms trembling and his heart pounding in his ears. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Her heart pounded, but she managed a coy smile as Dorian bowed to her, opened the door, and they went inside. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

In the arithmetic test, children were given math questions like “When sugar costs 10 cents a pound, how much will five pounds cost” and asked to write their answers in the margin. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

One morning I was pounding some red chillies into powder. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

At lunch, he walked outside the squadron headquarters and pounded a huge iron stake in the ground with a sledge hammer he kept in the trunk of his Jaguar XKE. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Suffering from a miserable mix of dysentery, headaches, and dizziness, Alvarez quickly slipped from 165 pounds to 135. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

In another cupboard are a box of tea bags, Peek Freans shortbread biscuits, a five- pound bag of sugar that has not been poured into a bowl, a tin of evaporated milk. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

He flew into the country with five hundred rolls of film, .22- and .30-.30-caliber rifles, a shotgun, and fourteen hundred pounds of provisions. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The jousting went all day and into the dusk, the hooves of the great warhorses pounding down the lists until the field was a ragged wasteland of tom earth. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Sierra felt like her heart had snuck up to her brain so it could blast that pounding pulse directly into her eardrums. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

Maybe he’d been screaming and pounding his fists on the floor. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Chaol’s heart pounded wildly, but he could do nothing to help her. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Minli’s feet pounded against the rocky ground, fighting the uneven earth as she climbed upward. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

My heart was pounding when I knocked on his office door. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

My heart is pounding in my chest as 1 reach for the phone. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Though everyone could see that the former president was noticeably thinner—he had lost fifty-five pounds on the expedition—they had no idea how momentous it was that Roosevelt was even alive. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

My heart was pounding as she made her way over to me. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

The corporal reached into Weary’s gaping bosom as though he meant to tear out his pounding heart, but he brought out Weary’s bulletproof Bible instead. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

I am unable to get the scream out of my throat; my heart pounds; my eyes plead with him to let me go. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The pounding agony in my head was such that I couldn’t concentrate on anything. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

She weighed herself once per week, and although her weight did not fluctuate more than the three pounds her doctor assured her was normal, she took pains to maintain herself. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

And he stopped laughing, and he said, “Yep. It’s 30 pounds.” The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Bent over like this, my head pounds even harder. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

That morning Marie-Laure crawls beneath the counter of the key pound and lies on her stomach and sets all ten fingertips in a line on a page. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

“Oh my God, Henry,” Alex yells, seizing Henry by one lapel as the music pounds on, “you have to dance. You have to dance. You need to understand this formative American coming-of-age experience.” Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

My heart pounded against my chest in a Don’t go! Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Armistead jumped down, saw a boy in front of him, kneeling, crying, a row of men crouched under the far bank, an officer yelling, pounding with the flat of his sword. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

When it was over, my head was pounding. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

This time it was just Father and me in the airplane, plus Mr. Axelroot, and twenty pounds of dry goods and canned whole prunes the Underdowns couldn’t take with them when they fled the Congo. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

This is equivalent to several million pounds in modern terms, and it is hard to see what he could have spent it on, so the number may be an exaggeration! The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

She regrets her mortifying lack of confidence, the extra ten pounds she carried on her frame during puberty. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

People in the courtroom laughed and somebody shouted something, but Judge Swango quieted them all down by pounding his gavel. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

They waited with their mothers, hearts pounding, as men came up the street carrying the limp body. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z

I ran down the hill, my feet pounding against the hard, damp earth. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Forest Service officials declared they had acted on advice that 1 pound of DDT to the acre was “safe.” Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

"You were only going to give me a hundred pounds, weren't you, Robert? But I made him give me two hundred. He's really very generous. Aren't you, Robert?" The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

By the time we arrived at the large plaza and stopped in front of the towering gateway, my hands were shaking and my heartbeat was pounding in my ears. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

They explained that the seedpods needed the constant pounding they got on the hard roads if they were to crack at all, and also that the seeds were difficult to germinate. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

The water pounded Kermit’s helmet down over his face and held him under the water’s surface. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

It was nearly two pounds in weight, a tribute to Brother Alf’s angling skills combined with the youthful muscles of Matthias and their joint enthusiasm. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

As the hullbeast reached for my friends, as fetterlings stormed after me and brand flies circled the silver gem lights like vultures, the drums pounded harder and harder, and I stopped running. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

The ghosts pounded their swords against their shields. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

His head was pounding, and he wasn’t sure if it was from stress or the altitude—Santa Fe is over 7,000 feet above sea level. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ajax swiped a sausage roll and managed to gulp down his prize while running at top speed, a mob of gleeful children pounding in pursuit. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

Now I curl up on my bed, my heart pounding from the onslaught. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Viola came in wearing a clean white apron and bearing a lemon pound cake on a silver tray. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

My head pounds and it feels as though lead weights are tied to each of my joints. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

"Five feet seven and three-quarter inches. One hundred twenty- four and a half pounds." The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a scrabbling and a pattering, and Coraline could feel her heart pounding against her ribs. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

She ran faster than she ever had before, her heart pounding wildly. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“I can find all the fresh butter we need in Sicily for twenty- five cents a pound,” Milo answered. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

His chest heaved and he knew from the pain that throbbed in him that he would not be able to hold on much longer with water pounding at his body like this. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Then the ache was like a pounding inside her skull. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

I have forty, maybe fifty pounds on her. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

“A hundred pounds and four feet eleven inches. You’re a bit small for your age,” she declared. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

My pulse pounds, and I explode, “Come out! Face us, COWARD!” Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

Inside the key pound, inside six glass-fronted cabinets, thousands of iron keys hang from pegs. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

As Celia pounds the card table, the head of her hammer finally gives way and flies backward, tearing a hole the size of a fist in the movie screen. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

The fingertips of his right hand were pressed deeply into the soft fibers of the rug and his whole body vibrated from the wild pounding of his heart. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Wherever you go in Germany, you see their mustard-colored uniforms and hear their heavy boots pounding on the cobbles, clop, clop, clop, clop.” Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

The little girl looked at the animals, she looked up at Shadow, and then she ran off, her feet pounding the sidewalk as if all the powers of hell were after her. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

I began to tremble and could feel my heart pounding against my chest as though it wanted to escape too. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

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

I pound my fist into my thigh and bite my lower lip. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

It took enormous discipline to listen to all of this without pounding on the table and telling him to stop. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

Michael was tough as nails, pushing his way past offensive linemen who sometimes weighed ninety more pounds than he did. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Charles’s father, Dr. Robert Darwin, was a huge man—over three hundred pounds, with a huge personality and reputation to match. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The pounding is so fast my heart races to keep up with it. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

After a few seconds without any noise on the other side, she pounded again and then rang the doorbell. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

There is a familiar desperation in me, a rising panic that beats loudly in my chest, pounding out each thing I owe. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Her heart pounded so loudly that she could hear it in her ears. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

“Not...now. Come...on, not now. Breathe,” I beg her, the cold pounding at my body as I hold her face in my hands, pushing all my air into her lungs. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

But the weight of the crash bracelets and knapsack pulled her down fast, and panic welled up in her pounding chest She thrashed in the water, climbing up toward the flickering lights of the surface. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

With a pounding heart, I opened the door and stepped out on the porch. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

They pounded on the ceiling from below and on the floor from above. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Real cheese come in hunks or slices, not no blanged loaf that weigh forty pounds. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

All brought by other brave Baptists before us, though it is hard to see quite how, unless one envisions a time when other means of travel were allowed, and more than forty-four pounds. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He took about forty pounds,” the old man said aloud. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

No. It was the absolute last thing Ekon wanted, but at the same time his heart was beginning to pound in a new, unpleasant way. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

He must have weighed two hundred and twenty or thirty pounds, and I could only move him two or three inches at a time. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

I reached the top of the serac without it collapsing and flopped breathless onto its flat summit, my heart pounding like a jackhammer. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

Being cool and unruffled was the hallmark of a good detective, so Ophie was the same, even as her heart pounded. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

The crowd behind the barrier roared and cheered and pounded one another with joy. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Over the preceding week, Hall’s Sherpas had stocked the Col with 363 pounds of bottled oxygen—55 cylinders. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

Silence hung between us, punctuated by the pounding in my head. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

I pounded and pounded them against the wall. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

On the other side of the house, a fist pounds on the front door. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

She pounded on the barrier between the front and back seats until finally one of the guardsmen turned to her, his gaze anything but peaceful. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

She answered his pounding after a long time. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

My head is beginning to pound, and my insides are rolling like I’m a can of soda that’s been all shook up. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

Across the track, Smith lifted his binoculars and watched as War Admiral pulled around the far turn, meeting with unexpected pressure from Masked General, who carried twenty-eight fewer pounds. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

When we added up all our forty-four pounds together, including Ruth May’s—luckily she counted as a whole person even though she’s small—we were sixty-one pounds over. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Through his coat, through the thick smoke of wintry air, I can see TJ’s heart pounding out of his chest. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Nick grabbed the dictionary and leafed to page 541, his heart pounding. Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The first signs of malaria include a teeth-chattering chill along with a pounding headache, followed by a dangerously high fever, and then profuse sweating. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

He kicked, pounded, twisted, pushed, using his lack of size to confound and exasperate Elisha, whose damp fists, joined at the small of John’s back, soon slipped. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

I cough, the last of my oxygen leaving my body, my head pounding, and the water fills my lungs. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

After a few seconds I hear Bertha’s loud shoes pound away. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

He pounded his left fist in his right palm. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

The trouble was that his pack weighed about ninety-five pounds. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

All I can find is the body, and the body is pounding with pain. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

He hammered his index finger into the counter, like he was pounding a miniature gavel. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

He was right in front of me now, a head taller and at least thirty pounds heavier. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

Below him was a loud, heavy pounding, like a faraway rumble of thunder. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

“They are so befuddled that each is pounding the other, thinking it is us they have caught.” The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

She peered at the wagon floor and kicked it back to him, trying to ignore the pounding of her heart. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Someone started pounding on the top of the cask and the lid cracked open suddenly. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

And where is the weekly telegram, the big five pounds? Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

I jerk my head from side to side, looking for the pod, before I turn and see the squad of Peacekeepers pounding down the Transfer toward us. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

“All right, little cowgirl. I’ll never, ever, ever pound on your sorry butt again. Okay? Swear on my father’s grave. That good enough for ya?” Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

We know from the coroner that Prince’s body was six foot three and 211 pounds. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

The buzz of chatter filling the Hall ceased almost at once, so that only the howling wind and pounding rain could be heard. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Even under a thousand pounds it did not give way. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Sixty pounds for the African girl,” the voice cried out at last. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

She could feel her little sister’s heart pounding through her rib cage. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

A three years’ course with Air Service Training would have cost you over a thousand pounds. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

Feet pounding on the staircase after the Choosing Ceremony. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

He had peeled and pounded yams and cassava, blown out the husks in rice, picked out the weevils from beans, peeled onions, and ground peppers. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

I felt on solid ground again, hearing the rhythm of my feet pounding against each railroad tie. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

Thomas went numb as several screams erupted, followed by the pounding of fleeing footsteps. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

It was relatively small, weighing perhaps six hundred or seven hundred pounds, but it nevertheless amounted to a huge quantity of meat. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

My pulse pounds in my ears, and I have no fear in this moment, only rage for everything Mazen has put me through. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

I curl the right one into a fist and pound it against my thigh. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

She pounded up to her bedroom and slammed the door. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

The workout demonstrated that the horse was ready for the February 19 San Carlos Handicap, and for once the track secretary relented, assigning him 130 pounds. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

I look at him as my breath finally catches up with my pounding heart. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

As Jones discussed the escape plan with Booth and Herold, he became distracted when he heard a familiar and terrifying sound in the distance—clanking metal and horses’ hooves pounding the earth. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

By the time I completed sixth grade, I weighed over 200 pounds. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

He grabs her by the shoulders, lifts her, and pounds her into the side wall of the kitchen. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

The pounding sound traveled with me out of my dream, but I was groggy and confused, so it took me a moment to realize someone was knocking on my window. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

“I say you pack on twenty, thirty more pounds and just go heavyweight,” Toby said. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

He reached into the stall to turn off the dribbling shower and then pounded an open palm against the tile wall. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

He pounded on Kevin’s chest in some vague imitation of CPR. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

The cow barn is a simple open-sided structure where the cattle eat twenty-five pounds of hay and produce fifty pounds of manure each day. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

We had two bunks, a toilet, a galley, no radio, plenty of books, a deck of cards, a chess set, and two thousand pounds of hash. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

Dogs left outside in Brooklyn ended up in the pound! As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

The pounding in the distance was like my heartbeat after running. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

Yet when he held his hand to his face, the skin was pounding hot. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

I could hear the rain pounding on the metal roof. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I’m about a hundred pounds heavier than he is. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

Not all races are handicaps—in the Triple Crown, for example, all male horses carry 126 pounds—but most top races for older horses, including the Santa Anita Handicap, are handicaps. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Perry was twenty-odd years older and a hundred pounds heavier, and yet his material situation had improved not at all. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

I want to pound on her chest and say, Please love me. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

But the recipe called for four pounds of Kosher salt. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

My heart was pounding hard in my chest—Dismay, Dismay, Dismay! Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

He doubled back to Hillegass, heartbeat pounding out the words of his puzzlement: What do they want from me? The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Delilah jumps out of bed, her heart pounding. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Two forked limbs, cut and trimmed, had been pounded into the ground near the cascade. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

She heard shouts, then pounding footsteps, closing behind her. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Heart pounding, I walk farther into the bedroom. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

He had been in bed, but the sound of Powell’s boots pounding on the steps woke him. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

Harry stopped at the gate into the garden, staring out at its overgrown plants, rubbing his pounding forehead and thinking of Dumbledore. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

“The Florentines are seven ninety-five a pound, two dollars more than the other cookies, so weigh them separately.” Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

I pounded the pillow in rage at Father for making such a fool of me. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

I walked over, gave him a pound, and felt that heat of the spectrum, the warmth of The Mecca. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

I was in the middle of the letter when I heard the pounding at the door that would cut off my inspiration forever. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

My heart is pounding mad fast, even faster than when I first moved up on Peck, even faster than when I first decked him and laid him out. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

It comes from a stupendous tuber, which the women cultivate and dig from the ground, soak in the river, dry in the sun, pound to white powder in hollowed-out logs, and boil. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then, after a moment, he dropped his head and pounded his left fist against the transom. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

At the bottom of this tube, kids could scoop out blocks and pay for them by the pound like you would grapes or nuts. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

Roy’s breath came in rapid bursts and his heart pounded like a bass drum. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the side of her neck, her pulse was pounding. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Edward had scooped me up in his arms, as easily as if I weighed ten pounds instead of a hundred and ten. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

She pounded up the porch steps, breathing hard. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

One thousand three hundred pounds plus another two hundred when he dropped the yellow immediately afterward. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

When he finally spoke, he tried hard to sound reassuring, but the pounding of his heart made his voice shake. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

Miss Love brought in the hot pound cake on Granny’s best china plate, holding it high over her head, and set it down in front of Grandpa with a grand flourish. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

His head was pounding, he was dizzy, and there was no sign of Petra. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

It came as no surprise that he held the Permian record for the bench press with 345 pounds. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

It took only seconds for a thunderous percussion of goatskin drums to join the singing, and instinctively Koffi's own heart attuned to their pounding cadence. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

She stopped playing with her bracelets as she frowned at the rain pounding the windows. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

If I found sweet-tasting water I filled her tank, and thirty gallons of water weigh three hundred pounds. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

I placed my dough on the counter and punched and pounded and punched until I couldn’t hear my thoughts. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

He sat down at a typewriter in his coach and pounded out the concluding lines for his morning column. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

“Why not take a few pounds of ‘happys’?” advised the salesman. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

Hoover pounded the table and chortled, while Maytag and the baroness exchanged skeptical looks. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

The Venetians greatly expanded the sugar trade, so much so that a hundred years after Henry Ill’s reign, the English were able to buy thousands of pounds of the sweet stuff each year. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

Her heart pounded harder with every second that passed as she stood there—waiting. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

The god of war ruffled her hair and pounded her on the back, calling her the best warrior he’d ever seen. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

I turned and managed to catch her pounding fists. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

My heart is pounding so loudly in my ears I’m sure anyone could hear it, and I tell it to slow down, but it won’t obey. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

And before Artemis’s eyes had time to widen, Holly put an extra few pounds of spring in her elbow and whacked her abductor right on the nose. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

It was therefore more than clear that spraying at the rate of a pound of DDT to the acre posed a serious threat to the fishes in forest streams. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Every time they stop at a home, one soldier pounds on the door while a second stands next to him with his gun drawn. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

Footsteps pounded outside the room and Sander appeared in the doorway. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

Life had become quiet and peaceful, and I felt like hundreds of pounds of pressure had been lifted from my shoulders. Lawn Boy Returns 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Narciso was already pounding at the door and shouting to be let in. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

At 1,040 pounds, he outweighed War Admiral by 80 pounds, with six feet of girth and a markedly wider chest. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

My heart pounds so hard that, despite the roaring of the crowd, I am aware of blood whooshing through my ears. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

These require constant attentiveness if you are not to twist an ankle or sprawl on your face—not a pleasant experience with fifty pounds of momentum on your back. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

It felt like an earthquake, like the world was falling apart as the gods pounded on each other. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

Inside the battered carriage, huddled on the floor, Taisin felt her heart pound from shock. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Pound for pound, Olympic oarsmen may take in and process as much oxygen as a thoroughbred racehorse. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

I play the keys for Elton John’s “Your Song” with a pounding heart, though my face isn’t as hot as it was back at Clint’s Graveyard. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

“Every minute now you are closer to home. You sail lighter for the loss of forty pounds.” The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

The night before my sentencing I wrapped my remaining hash, about two pounds, in plastic bags. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

And that’s when I woke up, my heart pounding, my throat scratchy and dry. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

We brought him a batch of Mama’s peanut candy and half of a pound cake. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

The Goodmans estimate that this has eliminated some 270,000 pounds of pesticide and 8 million pounds of petrochemical fertilizer that would otherwise have been applied to those fields. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

The sun is shining on me through the window, and my brain pounds against my skull. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

Luke knew why: a sound from his worst nightmares—pounding on the door, and then the command, “Open up! Population Police!” Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Holy underwear in heaven!” she spat out, and pounded her fist into her palm. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

I looked as if I’d lost twenty pounds I couldn't afford to lose. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

Now, at the age of thirty-eight, I had reached the light heavyweight division and carried more pounds and more responsibility. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was weak and several pounds lighter, but so relieved to be rid of the fever and the pain that nothing else mattered. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

My heart lurched to life, pounding against my rib cage. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

“We have to go,” she informed him—and me—and walked off without another word, her footsteps echoing, pounding down the stairs. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Like a judge’s gavel pounding again and again, condemning her. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

He glanced back with a look of savage triumph, and Matt had to clench his teeth very hard to keep from running after them and pounding Tom to within an inch of his life. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Coulter’s right hand had convulsed so tightly that it clung to the mesh, leaving her half-lying, half-hanging, while her head rang and her heart pounded. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Her shoulder bag drops to the floor like it weighs fifty pounds. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Steel, concrete, glass pound, rush like death elevators, squashing each floor, one after another and another. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

“Don’t be stupid,” Hermione snapped, starting to pound up her beetles again. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Never mind that my heart was up in my throat pounding like runaway drums and my stomach was squeezing and screaming pain. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Because Mexican racing officials were not bound by the mandate that every horse carry at least 100 pounds, they could give Seabiscuit 130 while assigning other horses fewer than 100 if they needed to. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

I could hear the blood pounding behind my ears as I sat down. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

At birth my new brother weighed only two pounds. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Two men are fighting brutally in one spot, pounding each other, scratching and clawing. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

As he worked, he remembered the men he had trained: Keeler—Johnny—Owens—Lem...When he thought of Lem he stopped working and pounded his fist on the desk in helpless rage. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

“There is a way, and a simple spell’s all you need. Just —” But Harry held up a hand to silence him, his heart suddenly pounding as though it would burst. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

My heart pounds so hard, I think the nurses must see it through my nightgown. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

"Hubbard's twenty-two, twenty-three, at least seven pounds—" "I want the fight." The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

His heart was pounding, and he felt small, very small. Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Seven pounds and nine ounces didn’t sound like a lot to me, but what did I know? Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

It just happened, like the time she gained 118 pounds in the days her father was dying. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her face has been smiling for the past six years that I’ve been pounding on the yellowed keys of the Tony Fritz Music Center’s piano every week. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

With my heart pounding, my body shaking, the rough board scraping my bare knees, I begin to cross. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The stream of runners is much lighter than what we'd seen this morning, but these runners are still at it, feet pounding the asphalt and foreheads glistening with sweat. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Dana was a well-known idiot, on top of which he outweighed Roy by at least fifty pounds. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Billingsley, despite a noble effort, looked like a Lilliputian trying to block defensive ends and line-backers who were seven inches taller and forty pounds heavier. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We had one fish in there, old Yellow Belly, a cutthroat, that must have weighed fifteen pounds.” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

When we met the following day with President Habib Bourguiba, his response was utterly positive and immediate: he offered training for our soldiers and five thousand pounds for weapons. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You bet I remember. Only it was fourteen pounds,” Dad said. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

The horses come pounding down the road, five or six abreast. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

“We can’t afford petrol right now. It’s a pound a gallon.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Roy left him there on the porch, pounding the front door and bellowing for his father to let him in. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jeyne’s words seemed to echo in his head, to the beat of the drums two of Abel’s other girls were pounding. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Blood pounds in my ears, and my mouth goes dry. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

“Why, I don’t know. I guess a little heart flutter. Just all of a sudden I felt afraid and my heart got to pounding.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

She pounded her cane on the floor in triumph. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

He was tremendous, well over two hundred pounds, with scars on his hands and steel toe-clips on his motorcycle boots. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

“I may. You have seventy-five pounds on me but I may.” Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Pri sits up on the air mattress now and pounds her fist into her palm with each word she speaks. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

“The slightest shake and I’m sure it’ll fall off! It must weigh twenty or thirty pounds at least!” James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

Inside, my heart is pounding, my blood thrumming in my ears as the fear response urges me to run run run. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

For a moment, the room is silent, and then fists pound against my window, not just two or four or six, but dozens of fists with dozens of fingers, slamming into the glass. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

The stranger did not share his amusement. "—my former apprentice, Widge, in consideration of which I have accepted the amount of ten pounds sterling." The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

Even from out here, I can hear pounding music from inside—the deep beats of a DJ Ren track. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Not because I’d been hit, I discovered later, but because I’d successfully managed not to go down in flames over Angers, and had safely delivered them their 500 pounds of Explosive 808. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

“No, but I can tell you how much money squid fetches per pound at the dock.” The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

The screams pounded in my head as we left the church. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

When he eats a peanut butter and jelly sandwich, he ends up with a pound of peanut butter caught in his braces. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He pounded his fist against the nearest rode, which cracked and split in half "Now, come!" he shouted. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

Luckily I had dried a pound of the morels that I’d gathered the previous month. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

He looked at the Shear, then at the pile next to it, about fifty thousand pounds of iron. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

She’d baked Marigold a lime pound cake the day the Ashers had moved in last week, and the girls had been fast friends ever since. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

Then cotton started going down, down, down, until now in 1845 it was bringing only five cents a pound, and the slave traders gave less than five hundred dollars for young strong slaves. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

My heart was pounding and my lungs hurt, but a calmness had come over the moonlit night when I heard the hooting of Ultima’s owl. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

I felt the side of my head; it was bruised and swollen, and something pounded like tribal drums inside my ears. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Flagg pushed him down to sit on my bed, and I pounded his back in alarm. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

A cranberry bog under study contained 34.5 pounds to the acre. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

And the three pounds of gray matter he carried around in his skull served him well in the classroom. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Once I got close enough to see, I couldn't tell who was getting pounded on, but whoever it was would thank God for life if they made it to the morning. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

But see, Mr. Reuben could know about Kenya’s fight and would offer her pound cake regardless. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

Malachy still wants to stand and make his speech but I tell him we have to hurry and look in other pubs before Dad drinks the whole five pounds. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

If he said one pound eight shillings, it would mean the next night at eight. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

I waited, heart pounding, trapped in the middle of the floor. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

Bouncing along, my heart is pounding so hard, I can hear it crinkling my eardrums. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z