He climbed onto the back of the raft, kneeling at Derek’s feet as he had before, and used the pole to push it away from the bank and out into the current. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

Something seems to be banking up in the silence, a tide, a breaker rearing. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

“One of the guys from my army company is now the vice president of a bank. Another owns his own law firm. And another is a judge.” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

“We could volunteer at homeless shelters and food banks. Or teach kids math. Or play board games at Mrs. Gilbert’s senior citizen complex and walk rescue dogs at the animal shelter...” Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

I got to my feet and ran on and on, down through our fields of shocked com, until I fell face down on the river’s bank. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The strip of mud between the water and the bank narrowed, even though it was still low tide. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

They played follow the leader and ran up and down the bank and jumped in the cold brown water. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

“Then if you want to go, you can see where you’re going. Now help me get propped up against this bank. I’ll be all right. It doesn’t hurt any more. It’s numb now.” Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The truck pulled away and sped down Elm Street, turned right at the T, and disappeared behind the bank and the cafe. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

“Just this morning. He drove me to the bank.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

The next day she used her dinner break to race to the bank. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

There wasn’t room for more than two of them, because of the roots and bushes and the creek bank. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Last I heard, your father was running a bank in China.” The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

A bank of clouds had moved across the sun. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

As soon as we arrived at the mucky bank of the Kwenge, we spotted a problem. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

At last I found a pad on a Saint Louis bank. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I was free, I didn’t rush it, I banked it soft off the backboard just like in practice, and it rolled around the rim and fell off!” 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now the cat began to run too, bounding like a mad thing down the hill, and they met on the banks of the little stream. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

When it came, it was the edge of a steep river- bank crumbling under the downpour until suddenly it all broke loose and collapsed into itself. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Almost a year ago, I broke into an Arcadia bank through the alley that runs behind it. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

He explains about something called the "favor bank." Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

Instead, when Sophonax said, “Now,” he turned away from the river and walked swiftly across the road and into an alley between two stone-fronted buildings that might have been banks or government offices. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

In 1787, someone in New Jersey–exactly who now seems to be forgotten–found an enormous thighbone sticking out of a stream bank at a place called Woodbury Creek. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

He scoops the queen mother up in his arms—to my surprise she does not protest—and he starts back along the causeway, toward the bank. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

They threw rocks to scare away the poisonous cottonmouth snakes, then dropped into the water from tree branches or dove from muddy banks. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Vegetation clustered thickly on both banks, and the light that came from the tree lanterns was fading quickly the further away they got, so that almost everything ahead was dark. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

I did not want to see the bank. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

He pushed her onto the bank and, with great difficulty in his sodden clothes, struggled out himself. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Barges and boats dot the water, and just beyond the eastern banks sits the city of Serra, its dun-colored walls imposing even from a distance of miles. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

The Chinook had uncovered a patch of rocky ground near the crest of the bank. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

I wanted to get one that said With Sympathy, for Jimmy’s lost bank, but Annemarie said we should pick something that was blank inside. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

A few tall cypress trees hung over the banks. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

“I know times are tough. I’ve got the bank pushing on me to collect on accounts.” Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

The forests along the bank of the Lena thinned. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

“I know your mom wouldn’t rob a bank. Tyrell knows that, too. He’s just having fun.” The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

The shelters were scattered along the banks of the river. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Do I! Matthias wouldn’t be satisfied until that fish was landed on the bank. I was all for giving up, but not him.” Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

In the spring the lower bank is underwater, but right now it’s August, when dehydration and sun sickness stalk the village. Red Queen 2015-02-10T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Addison is this really serious-acting black woman with tight gray hair in a bun and these suits that make her look like she works in a bank or something. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

Neel didn’t bother to rub out their footprints as they climbed the lower half of the trail that sloped up the bank. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

Late in the night, toward moonset, Hazel was looking up from a cut where they were crouching to a little bank above. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The bank was practically stuffed with two-dollar bills, folded into little triangle shapes, with the “2’s” showing on the sides. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

When I lifted my head to toss a load of snow onto the bank, I saw her watching me. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

“We owe you, Jake. Both of the Shaffer brothers are now behind bars for that bank robbery in California thanks to your brilliant work.” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

The fury in his eyes is familiar, the glitter of them like banked fire, like coals burning hotter than flames ever could. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

On Ocean’s bank, too, was the abode of the blessed dead. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Look at this. Me, a banker, hiding money underneath my home because I can’t trust my own bank.” The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

When Mom finally kicked him out, Dad went to a new bank to open his own current account. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

They were miles wide, apparently not breakers or the banked ridges of shallow water. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

“I don’t want to be a bank teller, Mama.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Before daylight we reached the bank of the Tagliamento and followed down along the flooded river to the bridge where all the traffic was crossing. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

Bobby Gene’d had the bright idea to swap out a couple of Robo’s twenties with some of our piggy bank singles. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

He’d looked at the banking app less than an hour ago. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

He wears dark, conservative suits, so that he looks like a bank manager or a stockbroker. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

He got out before the draining of bank accounts and the jacking up of credit cards. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

As he strode up the bank, she scrambled after him through the wet underbrush. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

Master Artemis was waiting calmly in his chair by the monitor bank. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

“Pheasant sickness” became a well-known phenomenon: birds “seek water, become paralyzed, and are found on the ditch banks and rice checks quivering,” according to one observer. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Folks said that she wasn’t like that till she met Clyde—killing, shooting, robbing banks, and such things. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He heard the afterburner of the jet kick off, the plane bank to the right and fade like a sliver of light into a blue sky. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The safety-deposit box contained information for ten offshore bank accounts. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Migrants who bathe in the river leave their cards on the bank and carry rocks into the water to throw at anyone who tries to take them. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

We grounded our craft upon the western bank of the island. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

We jump up and down the banks and storm around smashing things, and then she turns on me, all of a sudden, and says, “What are we, anyway? What exacdy is going on here?” All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

She read a placard in the display case: “‘This plaid fedora from 1968 was worn by bank robber Leopold Loblolly, one of the notorious Dandy Bandits.’” Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

They also claimed that the Jews dominated professions such as banking, law, medicine, and journalism. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

His model was England, with its national bank, regulated commerce, and powerful finance ministers. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

When they had struggled to the bottom of the bank, they found a stream running down from the hills behind in a deeply dug bed with steep slippery sides overhung with brambles. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

“Good luck. I have about a hundred in the bank. It might be enough for you to buy some eye patches.” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

“The river just jumped its banks, Duke,” she reported. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Soon they reached the road and Hazel halted among the quickset on top of the nearer bank. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was told “a great banking career” lay ahead of me. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Slipping and sliding, she reached the south bank as the grizzly staggered for­ ward, then crumpled to its knees and sat down. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

For half an hour they worked that bank. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

By the time they exited the vault, the press had converged upon the bank. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Searching on his hands and knees along the bank, he retrieved his .38. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

By then she was washing clothes by a stream bank, and she stiffened as I softly called. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

With a quick glance to make sure the bridge, path, and shore were still deserted, he switched the light on again and angled it against the bank. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

The house went to the bank, and I lived with various friends for a few months at a time, sleeping on their couches or more often on the floor. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

Downstairs in the kitchen the fire was banked, but when she knelt down on the hearth, the stones were still warm. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

I am banking on the fact that Roger has a later bedtime than his sisters, and in this I am correct. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

When she found out that Speed and Wyche had started a foundation and bank account in her mother’s name, Deborah was furious. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

The goods were taken out of the boats and brought to the top of the bank, where there was a level space. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

He pulled back on the stick, and when we banked to the left I could see we were headed for the Viking Drive-in. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

The announcement meant that nine of the state’s ten largest banking organizations now needed an aggregate sum of money from public and private sources well into the tens of billions to stay afloat. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were barely twenty feet from the bank at that point, and there was more than three quarters of the way to go. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

She took a walk on the banks of Kilkenny Pond, trying to ignore the nippiness of the night, the troublesome memories of Mama’s ordeal. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

“I did my homework too, and I just opened the banking app. We only spent about ten thousand on day one.” Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Somebody stole my bank,” he said finally, his voice sounding far away. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

Yes, it was a genuine draft from a solvent Montreal bank. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

Behind, the trapped Men in the lane, still about four score, tried to climb the barrier and the banks, and the hobbits were obliged to shoot many of them or hew them with axes. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

To a Haitian, every pig was a bank account—it could be bartered for food, shelter, medicine, even school tuition for a child. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

‘This is a great improvement on the marshes of Kelfazin. I see all your does are busy digging holes along the bank. Have they dug a hole for you?’ Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

He picked up his shoes from the marsh bank. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

It was hot enough so that it felt good to wade in a cold stream, and the sun dried you when you came out and sat on the bank. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

I would have to spring far out or risk falling into the shallow water next to the bank. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

Of the hobbits Pippin proved the best for he was sure-footed, and he walked over quickly, holding only with one hand; but he kept his eyes on the bank ahead and did not look down. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

She can take it to a bank in Ensenada and get pesos for it.” Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

The river curved left and the raft went straight, cut across the curve, and jammed into the bank. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

It probably happened as he traversed a series of melting beaver ponds just beyond the Teklanika’s western bank, but there is nothing to indicate that he suffered any harm in the mishap. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

We make all of our stops—the bank, the landlord, the post office. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

In Clementine Stark’s bedroom it had kicked off from a muddy bank, moving between two elements. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

I stood on the bank of the green dark water, and my thoughts skidded like the water spiders. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Toot, a stout, gray-haired woman who’d worked her way up to becoming the vice president of a local bank, made us tuna salad sandwiches for lunch. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Like that, Roamer jumps on Finch, and the two of them go rolling down the bank into the water. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

He hopped across the ditch to the further bank and looked round him again. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Passing silently through, Frodo found himself on the top of the southern bank above the pool. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

The moon was lost in a cloud bank. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Along one canal more than 500 dead fish were seen floating or lying on the bank on a stretch of less than a quarter of a mile. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

They found Strawberry and Buckthorn on the bank; and when everyone was comfortably chewing, with ears laid flat, Bluebell began. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

As Malcolm stood in shock, a wave broke over the top of the rubble: the river had burst its banks. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

Over two hundred feet from one bank to another, and arching more than sixty feet at its peak, Stonebridge had more stories and legends surrounding it than any other University landmark. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Such fluctuations, Olmsted recognized, would greatly increase the difficulty of planting the banks and shores. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

‘Coming, Mr. Frodo! Coming!’ called Sam, and flung himself from the bank, clutching at the departing boat. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

I can get more cash for Lidia and Penny at another ATM or the bank, when it opens. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Everyone on the raft and the crowded banks would do what he said, I knew. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

It lay in a strip from the foothills of the mountains to the banks of the Illinois River in northeastern Oklahoma. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

We marched up the middle of the aisle, banked on both sides by rows of seats reserved for our graduating class. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

As soon as everyone was safely in, the Oompa-Loompas pushed the boat away from the bank and began to row swiftly down river. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z

He watched it bank sharply and head straight for them. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

She lets go and we tumble together on a little bank by the side of the road. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

“After my folks split, I stole my old man’s car. Red-hot Camaro. I was drinking whiskey and beer and crashed the vintage piece into a bank.” Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

The rotating bank sign says it is 22 degrees. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

The rains had fallen without stop, and the Song Tra Bong had overflowed its banks, and the muck had now risen thigh-deep in the field along the river. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Robert thinks that our sons should go into law or banking. Trade is hardly suitable for someone of our background.” Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hamilton himself was a kind of Horatio Alger hero who aspired to fame more than fortune, but he understood the world of banking, investing, and speculating from within. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

As they set off up the left bank, the wind began to blow in fitful, warm gusts, with a multifoliate rustling through the sedges. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was recovering from everything but embarrassment, and Grandma was rowing out from the bank. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

At the top of the bank, close to the wild cherry where the blackbird sang, was a little group of holes almost hidden by brambles. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

On June 5 worried depositors staged runs on eight Chicago banks. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Even one of the bank officers had to have been in on it, passing information to Hertzoon about their customers and tipping him off to newcomers from the country opening accounts. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

The frog on the bank croaked in response and leapt into the moon-dappled river. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

To somebody like Abelman that letter was like a savings bond, a blank draft on a bank. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

There’s no record of Hopkins and Gey accepting money for HeLa cells, but many for-profit cell banks and biotech companies have. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

She signs her small paychecks over to Ashoke, and he deposits them for her at the bank into their account. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

So, with a quiet sigh for me, Biddy rose from the bank, and said, with a fresh and pleasant change of voice, “Shall we walk a little farther, or go home?” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

Might Mr. Nixon be banking on us doing his job punishing the ringleaders ourselves? Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

Shadow was puzzled to realize that he was far more concerned with breaking the rules by climbing onto the Carousel than he had been aiding and abetting this afternoon’s bank robbery. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

On the opposite bank was Petronella, the merchant’s daughter, across the stream. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z

I pointed to the stream’s far bank, where Edmund sneaked away among the tall grass. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

When the boat anchored along the banks where they first met, the daughter asked the fisherman to go ahead to explain. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

As the Wrights wrote Father, banking had always been a problem for earlier aeronauts who had tried to do that simply by shifting their weight around inside the aeroplane. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

He gazed at the banks and at the sky overhead. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Now every time the pig is filled, you can go to the bank yourself and make a deposit. And every penny in the account will go to help pay for your college education.” In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

But I’ve got over two thousand dollars in the bank, I said, as if my own account was the only one that mattered. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a colored man sitting on the bank. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

I push myself through time, to work, to the bank to get money, to the supermarket to buy food. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Florida knelt to examine a beetle scurrying along the bank. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

Roy and Beatrice watched in delight as it banked lower and lower, finishing with a radical dive toward the burrow at the center of the circle. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He stopped at this river and stood hesitatingly on the bank. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

The clock on the bank across the street says it's 4:28, 58 degrees. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

One end of the thing was pressed into the bank, but along its length it diverged, sticking out slightly into the stream. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

I needed to walk there in the fresh air, just to get the smell of banking out of my nostrils. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

The men climbed back up the river bank. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

In the bank’s dire need for cash to keep it afloat, everyone became a potential pawn, even its best, most loyal customers. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Other banks came to Nebraska Savings’ rescue, and the so-called “children’s run” was quelled. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

In his dream, Dallas crawled out from under the tree and went to the edge of the stream, where a spectacular silver bird hopped along the bank. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

She was squatting near the bank of the river with her dress pulled down over her knees against the cold. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

He thought it over as he hopped down the bank and sniffed out a patch of salad burnet in the grass. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

By squatting down and holding the lantern high over my head, I could dimly see the opposite bank. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fretting, concentrated thought, reading, looking, wanting—all were to be avoided in favor of a slow drift of association, while the minutes accumulated like banked snow and the silence deepened around her. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Mopping his brow, Lefty walked out of the bank into his penniless old age. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

As they went over the bank they met Speedwell and Hawkbit returning. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

But instead of swimming back to where the twins crouched on the bank, he swam to the far side of the river. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Some rules of grammar may shift every eon or so, but you can bet the bank that this one will never change: Subject and verb must agree. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I scurry down the bank to where my skiff is waiting. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

He wanted to walk the last few steps along the snowy bank of the canal. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

And then he shook Billy hard, rattled his skeleton, slammed him against a bank. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

Silence fell between us as my coins dropped into the bank. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

My dad thankfully had the common sense to send me to the bank after I turned eighteen so I could get a debit card. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

As he limped down from the bank his near foreleg trailed and he staggered sideways. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

In Holmes’s office they found a bank book belonging to a woman named Lucy Burbank. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

There was a break in the mountains on the right bank, a flattening-out with a low shore line that I thought must be Cannobio. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

“No. But those Meyers and the man from the bank with his wife and daughters ” “He cashes my sight drafts,” I said. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

The fire must be banked for the night. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

We sat on the bank, shivering, my abdomen seizing. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Tommy tells people he robbed a bank for fifty G back in Walnut Creek. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

A little later, when the plane banked over the Bay of Port-au-Prince, he glanced out the window once, then turned his face away. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

Snowflakes swirled in the misty beams of light flooding the front of the domed building that used to be a bank until Mr. Lemoncello turned it into a library. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

The first lights were coming on in the houses on the bank, looking like glowworms or fallen stars. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

He and Cherrie hurriedly climbed out of their own canoe and ran down along the bank of the river, making their way toward the waterfall. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

They had to scramble up the sides of the bank here, and hold on to roots and trunks to keep balance, standing sideways and edging along. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

Harry had never met either of them, but knew that Charlie was in Romania studying dragons and Bill in Egypt working for the wizards’ bank, Gringotts. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

Along its pebbled banks, shallow pools that never completely drained were teeming with life. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

We waited on the stony banks of the Angara River for more than a week. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

A remnant of a fire was banked in the far corner under the stove top. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was no electricity in this part of the house, but light filtered in from outside through a bank of windows, cutting bright lines through the gloom. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

Beyond it, the ditch and trees curved back again in a re-entrant, so that the field formed a bay with a bank running all the way round. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

You ended up dying in a mud bank. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

The river was no more than fifty or sixty yards across, and it wasn’t long before Dicey saw the opposite bank rise over her head, capped by a tangle of undergrowth and trees. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

The tired rabbits fed and basked in the sunny meadow as though they had come no further than from the bank at the edge of the nearby copse. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

They spent that night where they were, by the bank of the river, peaceful at last after the violence of the afternoon. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

They rode down the bank and looked up and down. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

I stumbled to my feet and waded toward the cawing raven, which had landed on the bank a few yards away. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

The Germans called the counting board a Rechenbank, which is why we call moneylenders banks. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

How would some sheriff sound, declaring himself so against bank robbery—and Jesse James his best friend? The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

She slid down the muddy bank, clutching at loose roots that ripped away in her hands, and landed in the turgid water, tumbling over and over in the dark and the cold. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Then they continued their journey, on through New Castle, down the New Castle Road, until they reached the bank of the Christiana River. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

He woke up crying in a shallow hole beside the clay bank where his mother had thrown the old quilt. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Father was born in Frankfurt am Main to very wealthy parents: Michael Frank owned a bank and became a millionaire, and Alice Stern’s parents Were prominent and well-to-do. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

“Mi bija, it’s not just Ivette’s mother. Her father came by the bank today to remind me of my duty to the revolution to report anything suspicious.” The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

After the cashier gave her the money, Mom went into a corner of the bank and stuffed it into a sock she’d safety-pinned to her bra. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

The White Star Line had built a charming little temple at the northwest bank of the lagoon opposite the Wooded Island, with steps to the water. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

First of all, she needed cash, and the banks were all closed. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

A thin ribbon of lush vegetation traces its banks where it crosses the barren landscape. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

Somehow they’d landed several hundred yards from the banks of Acheron, which flowed through a channel cut into black volcanic hills. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

The road took a sharp, banked turn to the right and, past a stand of trees, a town emerged. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

Two nights later, they lodged in a tiny village perched on the banks of the Nir, and Ento was the only subject of conversation in the village’s lone tavern. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

I slid off the bank and ran to him. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

They paddled out of the racing lanes and took up a position along the bank at about the fifteen-hundred-meter mark. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

In the end the Mountain and a handful of his best had gained the west bank, but Edmure had thrown his reserve at them, and they had shattered and reeled away bloody and beaten. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The fourth person to exit the classroom while I’m waiting against a bank of lockers is Lauren. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

Bees hovered over banks of flowers in the warm afternoon sun. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

But now he was standing up really straight, dressed in a tight fitting blue uniform with gold buttons, like the ones servants wear in a banking company. The Metamorphosis 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z

On those chill afternoons when the sky was like lead and the clouds were racing, we stayed in the library, banking huge fires to keep warm. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

There have been a few articles about the bank robbery in the local papers. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

I look at the painted plank of wood on the dirt bank, Little Syria spelled out in red paint. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

“But we don’t even know where the bank is,” Klaus said. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

It sounded as though they were discussing a Rockefeller or a Mellon—and not some gray-headed, dignity- posturing bank janitor, or bond-house messenger. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“So if you two don’t mind tidying up these breakfast things, Tiller and I will go to our private banks and get some money and then we’ll all go into town, okay?” Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

They looked at her weirdly a bunch of times, like she was a bank robber and they were trying to see where she’d hidden her loot, but they didn’t say anything mean. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

He fought his way free and swam for the opposite bank. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

We filled out a bunch of forms and then had brand-new bank accounts, complete with debit cards that would arrive in seven to ten days. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

They ran down the field, splashed across the river, and spread out over the smoking bank. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Financial backers of both institutions—the Chemical Foundation in Columbia’s case and William Crocker, a banking and railroad magnate, in Berkeley’s case—seemed eager to pony up funds to cover Sloan’s further research. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

The cavern ceiling was so high above us it might’ve been a bank of storm clouds, except for the stalactites, which glowed faint gray and looked wickedly pointed. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

I once visited Santarem, in the central Amazon, during the river’s annual flood, when it wells over its banks and creeps inland for miles. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

The Seattle people passed into memory and winter savings accounts; stoves were stoked, fires banked, books taken down, quilts mended. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

“In the bank I have six hundred and eleven dollars. You think a lawyer help me for six hundred and eleven dollars?” Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

When her right foot came at last to the part of the branch which rested on the bank, she fell forward, pulling him down. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

After the woman inside passed us the cash, Mom drove around to the front of the bank. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Something about going to the library or bank or post office. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

“You think too much,” Lucas said to me on the banks of the White River the next day. “/think too much?” Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

Tufts of hair like overgrown cotton sprouted from his head, brow, ears, and nostrils as he sat in his easy chair, mumbling about his years working the bank at a tobacco warehouse. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

“It’s the best we can do at the moment,” said the man from the bank. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

One of the old hospital buildings was now a food bank; others housed the Police Criminal Investigation Division, an alternative high school, and a Rotary club. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Then it selected a nice gravelly bit of bank which would take no footprints and came out on the northern side. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

Because charging down the bank towards Rick were four of the big adult males. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

By a rock on the bank were smears of blood, marking where Anna’s body had lain. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

The photo-cell banks that alone stood between the full power of Mercury’s monstrous sun and themselves were shot to hell. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

The open bank slipped by and now the trees towered on both sides. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Their Dad got a hundred dollars out of the deal and let the bank take over the mortgage. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

She could hear cries of astonishment, laughter, applause from the men who stood on the bank watching. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were moving away from where Harry stood, to the opposite bank.... Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

I banked the fire and blew out the candle and slept in my clothes. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then, as they drew near the far bank, Dicey felt the twists and eddies begin again. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Over breakfast at his hotel on Thursday morning, Burnham read with uneasiness about the failure of S. A. Kean & Co., a private bank in Chicago. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

The blockhouse was thirty yards away from the pad, on the creek bank, its dimensions determined by the lumber at hand. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

After easing him over the bank and down into the gully, we built a large fire. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the edge of the woods, where the grassy roadside banked above the macadam, they stopped to wait for an opening in the traffic. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lincoln Park was a long finger of wooded land stretching up the banks of Lake Michigan. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

Another time, he broke into a bank vault but left the four security guards at its back entrance untouched— although a bit stupefied. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

Just a small bank of mailboxes, a fake plant, and a single wooden chair. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

When they inspected his bankbooks they found that he had over ninety-three thousand dollars in the bank and ten thousand dollars in good securities. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

I bank left into the little hallway and toward the two pitch-black bedrooms. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

Sunlight flooded into the room through a full bank of windows along the far wall. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Across town her family was just now gathering on the bank of the duck pond, watching the firefighters douse the Richardson house, flame by flame. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

It was used by all twenty-five teachers to keep grade records and also to create a test bank of the various exams they gave to students. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Trepid glanced across the street at the redbrick bank standing on the corner. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

We’d take on extra work after school and put everything we earned into the piggy bank. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

And one month later, an officer of the bank was arrested for embezzlement. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Men with sub-machine guns were guarding a bank and a large jewelry store. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Squatting in a cane field, stooping in a cotton field, kneeling by a river bank, they had carried a world on their heads. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

Scrubby trees stood out from gravel banks, and beneath them, here and there, were the red-flushed, spawned-out bodies of salmon, insects happy around them. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

At low tide the shed sat on a sloping mud bank, listing twenty-five degrees from bow to stern. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

The warren was thriving at last and Hazel could sit basking on the bank and count their blessings. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then all of them reached the opposite bank, dry land, a small island, or neck of land. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

“In the meantime, call down to the blood bank. I need two units of O neg and keep two units ahead.” If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

They ran up and down the bank steering her away from the water and letting her ride on their backs. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Kabuo knew that other fishermen were out there, drifting as he was and peering into the fog, blindly gliding across the bank in the hope of establishing their locations. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

“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

They crept through the trees and found themselves on the bank of a river. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

In the faint moonlight he could see no banks, knew no direction to travel. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

Before Enrique entered the water, he tore up a scrap of paper with his mother’s phone number on it and scattered it on the bank. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

I fell headlong into the brush at the bottom of the sandy bank and lay still. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Probably sleeping on creek banks all over South Carolina. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

They appear to be bank ledgers, rows upon rows of numbers and calculations with notations and totals and dates. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

One Drum was this big outdoor event, held every spring in Rolland to raise money for local food banks. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

On that occasion she had left a party over at the bank to get some ice when she drove by the house and saw them. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Questions from South Korean bank tellers, whom they meet on field trips to open bank accounts, often terrify defectors. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

Hermione looked across the lake to the far bank, where the dragon was still drinking. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Silently, they crossed the little street together, heading toward a bank of narrow storefronts—mostly clothing and record stores—on the other side. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

After rinsing out my clothes and hanging them on bushes to dry, I sit on the bank in the sun for a bit, untangling my hair with my fingers. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

But he got up and ran limping and crying towards the bank where I lay. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The long main street, with its two banks and the loud row of taverns, was enough to bring her back to the days of the dormitory. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Sometimes one would throw itself out of the water onto the bank. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

This dirt bank would serve as well as a tree. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

He planted his paddle there and banked the damp earth around it so that it stood and marked the place where Evil had been vanquished. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

She edged off the bank and was in ice-cold water. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

The sun winked behind a bank of low-hanging clouds, turning their undersides rosy pink. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

We continued across the foyer to a dreamlike bank of windows, turned left up a pale flight of marble steps, left again, through two doorways, and into the Assembly Room. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the green bank near to the very point of the Tongue the Lady Galadriel stood alone and silent. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

You had to have climbed down the river- bank to see it. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

She pointed to a place on the southern bank of the Choptank. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

In Cleopatra’s day, six cataracts, or waterfalls, carried surging floodwater into Egypt where it overflowed the banks of the Nile and spread out across the plain. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

The gallery was still half full, mostly his banking buddies, 1 imagine, lots of Brooks Brothers suits. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

I climbed up the bank after them, and Ajax met me at the top, sniffing at me for his turtle. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

On a bank below the lawns, crocuses were planted, golden, pink, and mauve, but by this time they would be past their best, dropping and fading, like the pallid snowdrops. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

I grab a tree branch and haul myself up onto the bank and sit down in the blue snow and take off my overshoes and pour out the water. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I’ll try to make a splint,” said the man from the bank. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

Then he left the highway and started walking south through the desert, following the river- bank. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some, doubtless, were no better than tramps, ready to dig a hole in any bank and stay only as long as it suited them. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Thornbushes grew thick upon the low banks, and under them they made their camp, two hours or so before the middle of the night. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

He kept his pants on—they were not so heavy—and entered the river, pushed away from the bank until he was far enough out to start floating a bit. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

I’d start with the bank robbery Something like, “The gunman is useless.” I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

After the textbook thing he started trying to put a little in the bank for hard times. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z

And then one morning the bank teller informed Lefty that there weren’t sufficient funds in his account to make a withdrawal. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

In many American towns, it was impossible to find a bank whose doors weren’t permanently shuttered; behind those doors the savings of countless American families had disappeared forever. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Even before the ghetto, even before the Jackboots came, Big Henryk wore gray bank coin bags on his feet. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

“I’d settle for any decent, dry bank, myself,” he thought, “as long as there was some grass and no men with guns. And the sooner we can find one the better.” Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And I, horses to follow on the bank lest by chance he land,” said Mr. Morris. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

I take a few steps back, see a bank of windows on the side of the building, all lit up—the studio space must be back there. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

The gardener bent to the handles of the machine and walked slowly along the bank scattering the short-tipped grass and the pin-point daisy heads. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

They hurried up the path to the top of the bank, but when they looked back the far shore was shrouded in mist, and nothing could be seen. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

He came lunging up out of the pool, knocking water all over his clothes lying on the bank. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had gone to visit the Ethiopians, who lived on the farther bank of Ocean, to the south, and it was certain he would stay there some time, feasting merrily with them. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

First, we went behind the house and between two banks of azaleas we found Rattling Brook, gurgling and bouncing topsy-turvy over stones. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

He reminded the men to exchange the hundred-dollar bills at a bank, to ensure that any purchases they made could not be traced back to a White House account. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Nasser had had no luck explaining that legions of immigrants kept their money in cash, that trust in banks was tenuous. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

With nothing but her stubbornness and what remained of her fading strength, she made it to the opposite bank and hauled herself out of the water on shaking limbs. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

“Darling, your secretary should not let any of these bank marketing girls come into your office!” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

But her quarry, who had paused and looked back at the flash of light, was already scrambling up the bank the fox had just fallen down. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

The first thing she did in the new home, while Johnny was helping the ice man carry in the furniture, was to nail down the bank in a closet. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

He is willing to alter his art in deference to Theo’s bank balance. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

They’re fine, clean guys in straight, pressed suits—well-off cats who earned their bank on the slant. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the opposite bank, the trees began to thin out, and the next time they camped, the earth was the color of ocher and smelled of metal. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

He opened a trading store and later became president of a bank. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

They wound their way down the hill and moved slowly along the bank, picking their way over stones and around bushes until Florida said, “Wait. Stop.” Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

"He burned down a bam. He shot a cop. He robbed a bank." Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

"Ah, that bank," I answered, and explained that it was "around." How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Richardson seethed, and deep inside her, the hot speck of fury that had been carefully banked within her burst into flame. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Hooper came, with very slow, measured steps, up from the bank of the stream. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

Soon Arwin’s jumping into the shallow bank as hard as he can, making huge splashes. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

There they sat under an old gnarled oak that sent its roots twisting like snakes down a steep crumbling bank. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

But a kind of swish, like a frog kicking off from a muddy bank. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Instead I thought about what I’d seen last night—the weird image of Nico at the banks of the River Styx. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

Here is her last diary entry: Dear Diary, To my parents I leave the contents of my bank account, $5.47. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Across the street stood a majestic domed Greek temple, situated on the banks of a winding shallow lagoon. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

When the river level drops, it exposes the lower branches of willows lining the banks. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

When they laid her down on the bank, water gushed from her mouth and nostrils. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

We awoke and dipped our handkerchiefs in the river to refresh ourselves, then poked our way along the bank. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

It might well prove to be all they could do to find their way across the heather to some quiet field or copse bank like those they had been used to. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Across the empty streets, across the square, they were just pulling the blinds up at the bank. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

A few low trees grew there close to the water, and behind them rose a steep rocky bank. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

My eyes peruse the bank, but there's nothing. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Moldering skeletons of those they had lured to their death lay banked high up around them where they sat singing on the shore. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

I could see them running and laughing along the bank, chasing after grasshoppers for bait. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

Massive banks of LEDs throw out full-spectrum lighting just like Mom’s greenhouse. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

His sweating horse pranced nervously at the edge of the bank while Tenorio’s evil eye searched the brush for me. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were on the top of a sloping bank, and the Road, now dim as evening drew on, wound away below them. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Quite soon they led Odysseus under the river bank, as they were bidden; and there laid out a tunic, and a cloak, and gave him olive oil in the golden flask. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Well, she could sell the car, take out a bank loan, pay him back—in cash. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

I dragged the nurse onto the bank, restraining her, fighting her. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

The green grass on either side was tall enough to flop over the banks and hide the river—that’s why it was secret. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

I squatted on this bank and dropped in my line. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

And on the opposite bank Jesse was more careful to land on his feet. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

Hooper was standing up on the bank, now, though still looking down at his toe. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

Already the men were over the bank and the torchlight was flickering up and down the hedgerow and through the brambles above their very heads. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And you think the bank is just going to hand out Ernesto Barbarossa's money to some five-year-old boy?” The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

In the morning the hounds came back, disinterested, and the men were too tired to beat the banks properly. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“They needed the cash,” he tells Mami when she’s paying the bills and worries that there’s not enough in the bank to cover them. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

“It seems a little shallower down that way,” said Eilonwy, pointing to a spot where the river curved around a sedge-covered bank. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

“Let’s get this firewood all chopped and we’ll go to the bank.” The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

While my mouth is full, the noises of the market silence themselves, letting me and my bank cuon float. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

On paydays, Mom took us kids down to the big bank across from the courthouse to cash the check. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Close by, under the left bank, a bed of crowfoot trailed downstream, the wheel-like leaves all submerged. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a giant hole in my knowledge bank about these fundamental parts of history that had been skipped over in all of my education up until now. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Running here and there along the bank, she kept sniffing and whining. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

They reached the bank with a little bump and Harry leapt out, then turned quickly to help Dumbledore. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Tomorrow old Mrs. Faulkner will show up at Ma’s place wanting to talk about my heroics in the bank a few days ago. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

At the evening feed he joined Hazel and Holly near the bank where Bluebell had told his story of El-ahrairah. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Catching hold of some long stalks of cane that were hanging down from the steep bank, I pulled myself up. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Until Helen discovered what appeared to be a mistake in their bank balance, that is. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Before I went back inside, I cleaned off my hands in a snow bank. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

He pushed past them, sat on his rear, and slid down the short, steep bank to the brook. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

Through an opening in the trees he caught a glimpse of the top of the green bank from which they had climbed down. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

“Well, you’ll think of something. There. Let us return to town. We should be in perfect time for our bank robbery, and then I shall have a little spending money.” American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

But once I stood on its banks and looked out across its endless-looking water, my heart was filled with a great love for my country. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

I got a ride in a bank vehicle from Nairobi all the way home to Marsabit, and the president gave me some pocket money. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

They passed a store for watches, a bank, a gift shop full of antiques, a nursery school. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

“The First National Bank, like the vessel, was a magnificent, extravagant, enviable Camelot,” he wrote in an opinion in a case involving the bank. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Dauntless traitors sprint away from the elevator bank. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Seeing his chance, he kicked and wiggled his body, aiming for the bank. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

The gull kept flying backward and forward along the direct line to the bank, only alighting now and then to guide Bigwig toward some straggling doe whom he had spotted going the wrong way. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

They left the pike and took a narrow road through the country and came at last upon a bridge and a dry creek and they crawled down the bank and huddled underneath. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

As Lawrence rose in professional esteem, his social circle came to encompass the banking and oil magnates who had become his financial patrons. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

I have to go to the local courthouse and tell my version of what happened in the bank. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

He ordered them to cut down the trees to make a clearing beside the river, at the coolest spot on the bank, and there they founded the village. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

I grab it, running along the bank, chasing Jay. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

When I began work at the bank I knew that much of their suffering would be ameliorated. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had protested, but only mildly, the same limp no with which she greeted the frequent deposits to her bank account and the new Impala with the soft upholstery. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

They sat together on the banks of the Incandesto River, and Flora was perfectly happy. Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z

They climbed the bank and looked out cautiously from the long grass at the verge. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Time for a few confessions. Were you responsible for the break-in at the Arcadia bank?" Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

Once on the south bank, Julian said, "You can find your way to Mr. Pope's from here?" The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t smothered, only banked, but it would burn like the wings of the seraphim before this was over. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Tenorio turned his killer horse and came to the edge of the bank and looked down. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Malcolm took up the paddle with shaking hands and moved the canoe swiftly towards the left-hand bank, where a smooth lawn came down to a little landing. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

I will climb the bank where the willow never dies. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

In the breast pocket of a dark coat hanging on a wall peg, they discover a ledger book from a bank in Montreal. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

In Denver three national banks failed in one day and pulled down an array of other businesses. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

But it didn’t seem to be anything Jase had said, because she was looking away from him, across the hallway to a bank of lockers. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

So my uncle started a bank account to help fund our gatherings and pay for air travel for those of us who no longer lived near the Bay Area. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

The U.S. economy began to spiral out of control when Lehman Brothers, one of the country’s largest investment banks, abruptly went belly-up. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

The makeshift tents on the bank did nothing to shelter us. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

Even bank presidents found themselves acutely aware of the tricky diplomacy of east-west relations in Odessa. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the near side of the left bank, a wolf posed against the bitter blue sky. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

With all the rain, the stream has overrun its banks by several feet on either side. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Maybe this was loot from a bank that him and A1 Capone had knocked over! Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

Children were taking hammers and smashing their piggy banks and running out to the shops with handfuls of money. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z

The holes in the bank, however, had runs of the usual bow shape, leading down to the chalk and then curving up again to burrows with floors of trampled earth. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Harry’s eyes flew open as he wrenched himself back to the present: He was lying on the bank of the lake in the setting sun, and Ron and Hermione were looking down at him. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Then he sprang ashore and climbed a few paces up the bank. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

We went into a bank and she stared up at the vaulted ceiling and described the octagonal patterns. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Shushrooms were essential to any spell involving sneaking and quiet, and they grew exclusively along the marshy banks of the Boggy Crone River. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

Grace ended up driving them to the bank because Joaquin didn’t trust himself behind the wheel. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

It plunged into a shallow cloud bank and popped out the other side. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

He trembled with the thought of the white men in the bank—the men who helped him buy and mortgage houses—discovering that this raggedy bootlegger was his sister. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

A thin bank of clouds below the ridge mirrored the heavier layer overhead, but forests, grasslands, and the shimmering arcs of rivers were visible through the misty veil. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

"Actually, these Jonah and Mary banks are supposed to encourage the children to save for their offerings at church. Surely the sisters can't object to that?" How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

When she had banked it with snow, she lit a small fire. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Its banks were crowded with people and its glittering surface teemed with boats. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

He set off at a great rate directly across the woodland, and after little more than a hundred paces, he jumped down a jutting bank. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

I was looking for a can—my bank. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The island’s central river had crested its banks and spilled into the nearby fields and forests. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Milton wore them whenever he met with bank loan officers or auditors from the IRS. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Beside the stream, a grassy bank extended a little way back to bushes and undergrowth. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

On the north bank of the river the city of Lisbon rose on the hills. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

She stopped and wondered whether she had the courage to keep on to the bridge, cross it, and leave it to go down the steep bank to the island temple. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

It’s cool there, on the bank by that lake. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

We could climb back up the bank again.' I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

“I suppose we’d better start having a look along the banks soon, although I must say I’m in no particular hurry. But I’ve got an idea it may be going to rain before much longer.” Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He never had gold there when he was younger, because nobody left him anything. He would have seen the bank from the outside, though, the first time he ever went to Diagon Alley.” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

And like as not, when they sent the bank statement out, she would want to know why I never deposited my salary until the sixth. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes, after school, I walk down there to sit on the bank and do nothing. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

My knees crumple beneath me, and he grabs my collar almost carelessly, dragging me toward the elevator bank. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

The wings could be warped in the opposite way, of course, so that the aeroplane would bank to the left. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

The last time I’d been to Snake Creek, some woman in an army jacket had made a campsite high on the bank, under the concrete braces. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

But an aeroplane can also turn in another way once it is in the air, and that way is also called banking. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then every few months Lynn would go to the bank to exchange the rolls for bills. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

He pulled himself once more up the bank to the tall tree without branches and sat again with his back against the rough bark. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

"I'll buy the bank from you," she said in a hesitant voice. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

It was nothing but a log raft drawn by thick ropes pulled by twenty men who walked along the bank. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

As he topped the bank, the beam of a torch shone up the lane and picked out his red eyes and white tail disappearing into the hedge. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

She left the clothes on the bank and slipped into the river. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

The three rabbits were returning down the bank of the stream and had not yet seen Hazel and the others. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

All day Pa was busy, banking the little house and the barn with dead leaves and straw, held down by stones, to keep out the cold. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the same moment two strange rabbits, running together, leaped the bank into the wood and disappeared down one of the blocked tunnels. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Against the left wall glowed a bank of servers and laptops, their screen savers flashing pictures of plowed fields and tractors. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Captains of riverboats had heard about the virus by this time, and they refused to stop their boats anywhere along the length of the river in Bumba, even though people beseeched them from the banks. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dad likes to say, When Jordan Bell is open you can take his three to the bank, cash it in, ’cause it’s all money. The Crossover 2014-03-18T00:00:00Z

Immie’s bank and investment accounts had a total of eight million dollars in them. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Halliday now stands in front of an immense bank vault door. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Where he’d fallen there were fresh ones, not weathered, and he saw that they had come from the bank where he had bounced. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

Several days later, Hale bumped into Roan at the bank in downtown Fairfax. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Forty grand in the bank, but always pulling back when it comes to money Always, I think, and the question strikes me a few nights later as I watch an old movie. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

This action resulted in the founding of two banks in Atlanta. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

It so happened that the time for speaking came when he was sitting on the bank at sunrise, with Fiver and three or four others. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

A few minutes later, as they neared the top of the bank, one of the rangers happened to glance back down into the wash while pausing to catch his breath. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Near the bank the ice piles up in chunks. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

It nosed along the foot of the bank, put up a partridge and bounced after it and then began to scratch about in a clump of dock plants. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The channel wound between precipitous banks, and slanting from one wall to the other across the valley ran a streak of green—the river and its fields. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

She set the pail of milk down carefully and gazed up at the bank behind the golpata trees. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

The farms upon the banks prepared themselves for evening. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

Vincent called him that evening, and Obinze was mildly surprised, because Vincent had called him only once, months ago, when he changed his bank and wanted to give him the new account number. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

"It was a church, then a bank, then it was a restaurant and a fancy gambling house, and now we got it," Halley explained. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘All is well,’ said Aragorn, as he clambered down the bank. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Thanks to the thick bushes and the swamps and muddy banks that bordered the creeks, only small bodies could wiggle into the dry nooks and crannies of the island. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

“And we simply parked in front of the bank because there were no other spaces,” he explains again. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

The Comptroller of the Currency controls the national banking system. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The floor of the forest was dry and covered with a drift of leaves; but guessing that the fugitives would stay near the water, he returned often to the banks of the stream. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

“And the baby bites,” Edgar said, tossing a chicken bone to the floor as if he were an animal in a zoo and not the son of a well-respected member of the banking community. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

I was supposed to report to the Crew House, down on the banks of the lower river. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

He looked at the banking app almost hourly. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

They sat on the bank over the silver-black water, and Serafina told her that she had spoken to the children’s dæmons. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Then they’d all walked to the bank that held the funds from the sale of the farm and Jordie signed them over. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

They ran to the computer bank at the back of the library. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

They did not measure their joy in goods sold, their egos in bank balances, nor their loves in what they cost. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

The National Transportation Safety Board, the US agency responsible for investigating plane crashes, is headquartered in a squat, seventies-era office building on the banks of the Potomac River in Washington, DC. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

The next day when I got home from school, I stayed in my school clothes and accompanied our parents, Lynn, and Sam to the bank. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

But why would anyone from the bank want to kill him? Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

“The guy who wrote this stupid magazine article about cracking open bank vaults in the 1930s!” Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

They drew up their boats on the green banks, and beside them they made their camp. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Nudge my skiff on the bank and stand ankle-deep in the cool water listening to the quiet. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, they don’t need to keep their money in any stupid bank,” Florida said. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

I scrambled back up the bank to the bridge’s abutment. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

On our side of the pond there’s a strip of sandy beach, but the far side has a steep, scooped-out bank, tangled with bushes and the roots of trees. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

The banks were steep, and at the end of the climb we both had to stop and rest. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

When Johnny and their daddy came on the mule, Jimmy was still on the bank pulling and Aden and me were still in the water pushing. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had almost reached the bank when she looked up and saw him. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the bank of the stream, he took all his clothes off, and folded them in a pile. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

They were married in an aspen grove on a clear July day, and afterward they and all their friends and relatives had a wedding supper on the banks of the river. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

Davos reeled off commands, one bank of oars pushed off while the other backed water, and the galley came about. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The next time he swerved left, she banked right, galloping by him before he had the chance to react. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

Houses or barns or under the bank of a roadside ditch with the blankets pulled over their heads and the noon sky black as the cellars of hell. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

Lifting the aluminum urn out of the trunk, Amit leads me down the bank to the rickety wooden platform. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

My feet dragged against something solid as we neared the bank, and I attempted to stand, holding the little boy in my aching arms. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

The voices became louder but no more intelligible as the group of men reached the bank. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

George shivered and looked at the gun, and then he threw it from him, back up on the bank, near the pile of old ashes. Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

The water was waist level, then chest level; he couldn’t see over the banks of the stream, the river. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

We crossed carefully back over the log and climbed the bank up to the highway. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

I cut anchor line and tow line and kicked them free, and they blew ashore on the mud bank. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Desperate refugees on the bank erupted in terror. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

“It’s after hours. The bank’s closed. Besides there’s no hurry. Registration’s a week off yet.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hundreds or thousands more stood atop the bluffs on the south bank, waving palm leaves in synchrony to create a kind of football wave that Carvajal clearly found peculiar and unnerving. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

The woman named Narcissa gained the top of the bank, where a line of old railings separated the river from a narrow, cobbled street. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

In case we see a certain subway musician, I pull a dollar from the bottom of my piggy bank. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

“Leave me lie!” protested the child as he was brought down the bank. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

I was washing wool on the bank of the River Kan. Suddenly a noise like the fluttering of the wings of a frightened bird was heard ... and a kind of swell came up the river. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘I don’t fancy he would try bringing his horse down that bank,’ said Sam. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

He scrambled up the bank and into the woods, holding his hands out in front of him. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

“You’d be stuck-up too, Z, if your pops was making bank.” Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Alice and I sat on the bank leisurely watching as the contraption went up and down, up and down, turning acorns into flour. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Thousands of other empires were in tatters also, including that of the seemingly untouchable bank that had financed him. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

He lost the shoe, clawed back to the bank and knew there was only one way to chase the raft. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

On the banks of a river, under the violent light of noon, confessed believers and children of Gabriel’s age waited to be led into the water. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

At the very edge of the river’s bank, she caught him again. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The lower bank was near the floor and was dark. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hunched and miserable, he sat on the bank of the stream near his mother’s body. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

And Alex had always assumed he was nothing more than a bank manager! Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

When at length all the Company was gathered on the east bank of the Silverlode, the Elves untied the ropes and coiled two of them. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Taking Bigwig with him, he climbed the bank to the grass track. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

She struggled to wrap it around Taisin’s waist, and several desperate minutes later, after they had been dragged another twenty feet downstream, she succeeded, and Con began to pull them onto the bank. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

—Plutarch Prepared to put up a fight to prevent Cleopatra’s return to power, thirteen-year-old Ptolemy assembled the royal army near Pelusium—a fortress city on the eastern bank of the Nile. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

Her knees ached from banking hard, whipping through turns so quickly that her body seemed to weigh a ton. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Filling it with computer banks and meeting rooms, barracks and arsenals. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Mr. Allen left Bud’s office and walked across the street to the savings bank. Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The river was drawing him outward, away from the bank. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

That meant there was a shore, then, a bank for an animal to run on—close. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

He traced it back into the canyon with his eyes; the gray banks cut a winding track, its curves and twists the print of a snake’s belly across the sand. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Made six doublings in a row and cracked the bank.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

He jumped back up the bank among the staring rabbits. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

She flittered around him like a pesky gnat, glad to have someone eager to listen to everything she had to say as she recounted our adventures on the banks of the Rio Grande. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

The scenery was altered in only one regard: the long summer of drought had dramatically lowered the level of the lake, exposing brown earthen banks and leaving the floating dock high, dry, and useless. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

All the ferries had been withdrawn to the north bank, and the trading galleys had fled or been seized by the Imp to be made over for battie. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

He pulled her over to the bank and, ignoring her protests, helped her out. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Papa and the judge hurried up the bank. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The entrance to a long, low open space that twisted through the foliage and led deep into the bank. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Did anything,” he said, “come up about that bank business?” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

He waited patiently for the tide to come up, tugged the Bayliner off the bank, and towed it back to Caloosa Cove. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

My parents started their married life from scratch with nothing in the bank. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

A bank of security monitors on my left were linked to virtual cameras placed throughout the interior and exterior of my stronghold. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

And when we turn the corner into the elevator bank, there’s Jordan Rylance, coming back to the studio with his mom in her awful faux-leopard coat. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

She swam hard to keep warm, and then came out and huddled on the bank, shivering. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

He handed his fishing rod to Beto and climbed the bank. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Throwing caution to the winds, he dashed along the river bank. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

They were probably freaking out, trying to think of a way to explain how they’d spent all that money my grandfather had left in the bank box. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

Less than six months later, he and two others were charged with the robbery of a bank in Hobbs, New Mexico. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Uneven banks of snow still lined the sidewalks, though it was warm enough for people to walk about without hats or gloves. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

It was very different in Virginia where my father had been in charge of building a new refinery on the banks of the Elizabeth River. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her gym was on the East Side, in what used to be a good part of town, near the bridge that connected the east and west banks. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

Sedges and ferns and graceful bulrush would be planted on the banks of the Wooded Island to conjure density and intricacy and “to slightly screen, without hiding, flowers otherwise likely to be too obtrusive.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

He followed her mentally as she left the reserve, swam across the wide waterway, reached the island’s shore, climbed up the bank, crossed the path, disappeared through the trees, and padded beside a twisting creek. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Move it, move it, move it!” instructed Ripred, herding them all from the open bank and into a tunnel. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Earlier, Noodle stood in front of a whole bank of cameras and told a story that I know he doesn't believe. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Come noon, we arrived at the Rappahannock and walked along the road by its banks until we came to a house where the grounds were not full of activity. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

Clover sits a few rolling hills off Route 360 in southern Virginia, just past Difficult Creek on the banks of the River of Death. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

The grass lay crisply cut and smelled like a creek bank. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

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

It had a good gravel bottom, so I drove through the water till I got around the wreck, then went up the slanted red-clay bank and got back to the road. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Two weeks later the bank approved the loan, and the very same day we took Lynn out to look at houses. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

If we overseas Chinese would just send money to the Communist bank, our relatives said, they might get a percentage of it for themselves. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

After school, he drove me to the bank. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

His legs flew up and he landed flat on the pebble-strewn bank. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

It was too far to jump to the shore and both banks were steep. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now this might seem like no big deal, but the cubic zirconia pageant crowns are guarded more safely than the bank across the street. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

The rose-garden lay below, and the eastern part of the terrace, while beyond the rose-garden rose a smooth grass bank, stretching to the near woods. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Stopping for a coffee, asking directions, depositing money in my bank account: these things were out of the question, as they involved having to speak. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

If we didn't sell our house, the bank would put it in foreclosure. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

He used it mainly to steer, and he kept as close in to the bank as he could without danger. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

Matt, who was banking the fire for the night, laid down the poker to enjoy the sight. Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z

On the small smoking table beside the stand of pipes, I caught sight of the mechanical bank, swaddled in an apron. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

David knelt at the bank and dipped his head under the icy water. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

“Unfortunately,” Eleanor said dryly, “there was not at all that much money. My sister put her share into the bank for her little girl’s education. I did buy some clothes, to come to Hill House.” The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

“I meant to go to the bank on Friday,” he said. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Oliver tilted the bank, stuck his fingers inside, and felt around. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

We remain flattened on the worn-out, dusty blue carpet of the bank, and Marv and I are looking at each other with eyes that argue. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

“I’m afraid, however,” Count Olaf said, “that it is legally binding. Tomorrow, Mr. Poe, I shall come down to the bank and withdraw the complete Baudelaire fortune.” The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

But the river was still flowing against them, so it must be going underneath, and if there was any mechanism, it must be controlled from the bank. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

Before them was an alcove housing a bank of vending machines and video games. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Would I have to go to Wolf Point and take everything out of my bank account there? Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

He figured we didn’t have enough to seed the crops next year or pay interest on the loan from the bank to cover the money he wasn’t able to pay back. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

They ran down Bank Street, named for the series of fancy banks in gray concrete buildings that lined the street. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

He left the baby on the doorstep of a home on the other bank and returned to his waiting wife, and the prison doors clanged shut, locking them in once more. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

While they wait at the elevator banks, I scramble up the stairs. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

To the north the fog banks still hung like a mountain range over the sea, but the breeze was pushing them back and back, and Lee was impatient for the air again. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yes you do. I’m dropping you off on my way to the bank, so we need to leave as soon as possible. Please get out of bed and get dressed,” he said briskly. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

A shell burst short near the river bank. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

After that Joe stood on the ditch bank smoking a cigarette. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It used to be a local bank. It was bought out a few years ago. All the accounts were transferred over to Spirit of Independence Bank.” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

She was sitting on the edge of a sandy bank beside a big moonflower plant. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

He had been refused a visa years ago, when he was newly graduated and drunk with American ambitions, but with his new bank statements, he easily got a visa. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Temp collapsed on the bank just as the bridge gave way. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Mop takes one last shot, which banks in while Bren looks at me funny. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Its chief village was Bucklebury, clustering in the banks and slopes behind Brandy Hall. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

When they arrived at Actium to set up headquarters at their camp on the south side of the strait, they found Octavian’s army camped on the opposite bank. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

He took a position on a high clump of grass at the edge of the bank and motioned for me to sit by the bank, but away from him. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

All round, on both banks, trees and undergrowth grew close. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

They headed down the hill to the water, passing stores and shops and more banks. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

The moment that Dumbledore reached the bank he let his wand hand fall; the ring of fire vanished, but the Inferi did not emerge again from the water. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Ones who looked like they just got off work at a bank or some business. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

“How much do we have in the bank?” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The wolves might have come out on either bank. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The bank was littered with the crow-picked remains of perch and crayfish and turtles and frogs. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

An examination was quietly begun by the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency off the bank premises to preclude local panic. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

About a mile or so down Mong veered us across this little bank, past an old unused road with mad weeds shooting up where paint used to be, and into the thick sand. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

They never entered the water themselves, and only fished from the bank, taking care to keep their feet and wheels dry. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Oliver took his stegosaurus bank down from the shelf. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

I sat on the bank, took off socks and boots, and dipped my feet in water so cold it burned until the freezing went deep and deadened feeling. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

I waved back, then Dad headed to starboard, while I veered opposite, toward the left bank of the creek. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

Working the bank up and down, and not finding the trail, she swam across the river and worked the other side. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

I circle around the bank of desktop computers and inch past the end tables stocked with titles recommended for Pride Month. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

All she could picture was their stuff, abandoned at the library table while they’d been at the computer bank discovering Mr. Griswold’s next clue. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

I didn’t know where I was headed until I saw Papa’s bank in front of me. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

Most of us were deep into our thirties and working in all sorts of careers, from banking and government to nonprofits. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

A fog was rolling up from the sea, and I could not see the woods beyond the bank. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

She tipped her wings, banked, and started back. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

They were standing on the bank of a river, and it wasn’t the tumultuous Uzumark but a gentler stream. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

He looked like an ordinary bank employee, but Alba recognized him immediately and was unable to stifle the shout of joy that rose up from within her. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The bank closed in 1933, and its former counting rooms have been converted into apartments. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

The bank did not extend far in either direction. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Along the bank we were almost fully exposed to the sun, though the thick woods continued to stretch for miles around us. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

Frogs blink from its banks and the deep ferns grow beside it. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the other side the bank was steep, and up it a winding path climbed from the further landing. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

They talked as they wandered idly on and Phaedrus asked, “Is not the place somewhere near here where Boreas is said to have carried off Orithyia from the banks of the Ilissus?” Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tonight you will stay with me in my home, and tomorrow I shall go to the bank and figure out what to do with you. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

I stood on the bank of the Alliance, in all that white, and waited for Joseph to come. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z

Then when the late spring came, the river drew in from its edges and the sand banks appeared. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

In fact, accepted literally, perhaps the phrase was accurate, even if to each, the other were merely the light and dark pattern of a bank of photocells. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

We left Edinburgh in a week, passing through Coupar, St. Andrew’s, and along the banks of the Tay, to Perth, where our friend expected us. Frankenstein 1818-01-01T00:00:00Z

A loud cheer went up from the bank. Stuart Little 1945-10-17T00:00:00Z

Their breathing formed a single cloud of steam that drifted up, floating away over the banks of the arroyo. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Written in invisible ink, they revealed the address where a bank robber—who had escaped before White became warden—was hiding out. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

And after a while he had dug so many holes along the ditch bank that water began to leak into his field. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mum was at the dining room table surrounded by bank papers when I got back from school. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

She thought to herself, Have to remember to stop at the bank and get some money to pay Mrs. Trapane. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The lobby is large and well-lit, with black marble floors that stretch back to an elevator bank. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t even remember winding the fishing line around my pole, but all of a sudden I was clambering up the bank. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

She paused only for a moment, then jumped from the bank into his arms with a scream. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

She had opened a bank account and it was growing. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

He came out on the bank, where Campion and Vervain were waiting with a number of the other rabbits. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Y’all come on,” Wash called as he scaled the bank in a few steps. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Grasses grew up its banks, and a musical silence stirred in its depths. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the top of the bank the horse halted and turned about neighing fiercely. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

He started to move along the bank, and did well for fifty or so yards. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

I take all my money out of the bank, $120, money I earned slaving away at my mother’s bakery, and buy a one-way bus ticket to Miami. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Malcolm pushed off and began to paddle, staying close to the bank under the trees and making no noise whatsoever. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

Over the stream there was a ford between low banks much trampled by the passage of horses. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Then she put on her gardening hat and went uptown to the bank. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

As we walked past banks of photographers and TV cameras to get into the gym, as people around us talked about the historic nature of everything, I was happy to have the lunch boxes packed. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

They went slowly along the foot of the bank, pushing in and out of the clumps of red campion and ragged robin. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Blackberry scrambled up into the fern and then returned to the top of the bank, fidgeting nervously and half inclined to bolt at nothing. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

He takes the pesos the two migrants have given him and walks down the main street, past a bar, a store, a bank, and a pharmacy. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

The four of them sat in the office with the bank manager, who explained that Benji could not make a withdrawal. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

It was Swordfish, her two banks of oars lifting and falling. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“That looks like several thousand dollars you owe some bank.” A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

Some syllabaries persist today, the most important being the kana syllabary that the Japanese use for telegrams, bank statements, and texts for blind readers. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Four little boats were tied to either bank, and there were several other doors—some wooden, some iron—that led to this exit. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

He banked towards the dark waters of the Sound. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Soon they were joined by Silver and Dandelion, but the other rabbits, more hesitant even than Hazel, remained crouching in the long grass on the right bank. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dill wondered if it existed before any humans had lived and died at its banks. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

Along the banks of the Wooded Island ice two feet thick locked Olmsted’s bulrush and sedge in cruel contortions. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

“Going in to talk to Mr. Carter at the bank.” Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

It was like the deep, quiet woods made them timid, and they walked softly along the bank beside the creek. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

No one my age in my country has a bank account or even dreams of having one, much less property to declare. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Behind them the mists in the flat fields were now above the hedges; but the water before them was dark, with only a few curling wisps like steam among the reeds by the bank. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

I dragged the story out of him on the walk down the bank. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

He slept outdoors, on the banks of the river. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

But she kept looking and before long could make out short iron bars bolted into the bank, one below the next, almost directly below her. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

I picked up my Einstein-in-a-lab-coat piggy bank and stared at it. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

She was at the bank in November, just to deposit checks from clients and withdraw cash for the week. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Maybe not a huge bank account, vintage Jordans, a rented Bugatti, and dinosaur fossils. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Well done. Bring her to the elevator bank. We’ll decide which ones to kill and which ones to bring back later.” Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Naomi jumped up onto the bank and rushed past him, throwing her words behind her. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

The next time he left the digging he kept away from Fiver and sat looking at the bank, as though entirely concerned with the work. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Unless I’m wrong, it’s only a matter of slipping up the bank there and down the other side. Shall I go?” Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jule waved back and booked it through the lines of slot machines to a bank of elevators. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Here on the western bank was the Thebes he knew, a vast jumble of workshops and laboratories known as the City of the Dead. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

He was standing on the bank, his ears back and his tail down. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

The parents went with the second girl the next day and were happy when they saw the first girl waiting by the bank. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

He knew he would have trouble at the bank the first of the month. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then Natalie said, “I’m pretty sure Chess is right. Your mom didn’t rob a bank.” The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

The scouts were waiting between the banks of a frozen creek. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then the bank sloped up towards the hedge, there seemed to be no way of getting through. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

Artemis wheeled over to the monitor bank and punched up the Mam Cam on the twenty-eight-inch main monitor. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

At Aragorn’s bidding they paddled now for long spells, and the banks went swiftly by. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

She was hysterical, running up and down the bank and whining. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The bank dominated the first floor, with its vaulted ceiling and Tennessee marble. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

“Doesn't Dad usually do all the bank statements and stuff?” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

Finally, with a great sloshing noise, the ship emerged entirely, bobbing on the turbulent water, and began to glide toward the bank. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

He pounced on the fish and shut his big mouth down over it and went romping to the bank, where he dropped it down on the grass and let it flop. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hey, look, this bank’s got hoof . marks all over the mud. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

Main Street had a movie theater, bank, jewelry store, doctor’s office, hardware store, and several churches. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Stickup men were out to rob their bank accounts. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Strolling leisurely around the bank of the Abbey pond, the two companions gathered up the nets preparatory to spreading them upon the water. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Then his father was running along the icy bank and slipping slowly into the water. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z

He turned and sat on the bank with his legs in the water and pulled the bag ashore and began the long drag—he couldn’t lift it—back down the shoreline to his shelter. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

I guess they gave some of that bank money to the poor, but they killed some people and scared a lot more. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bobby Gene’s bank was quite a bit fuller than mine. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

A wind swayed through a luminous clump of birches on the opposite bank, and I shivered. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

He didn’t expect to see small pugmarks along the banks of the rivulets and creeks, because two high tides and two low tides swept in and out every day. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

She found Arya on the banks of the Trident, trying to hold Nymeria still while she brushed dried mud from her fur. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

I came to a slow stop at the base of the hill, sinking face-first in the muddy bank. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Then I’m up the bank to the far side of the boat shed. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

This they recognized at once, for it looked the same as it had from the bank. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Only a couple of cars sat in the parking lot when they arrived at the bank. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

The tree was a large birch, standing right on the bank of the river. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

You went from the weir, or you jumped off the bank into nine feet of water. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

I lost sight of her when she came close to the undermined bank. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Gogol accompanies his parents to banks, sits waiting as they sign the endless papers. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

We climb out on the bank on our side of the canal and watch to see whether they go into the house, for they might easily have been lying. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

The guard directs us to the elevator banks. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

“But taking the bank would be, you know, stealing.” When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

The plane banked and flew back, this time very low. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

I sit him on the bank, push his head between his knees, and pat his back awkwardly as I survey the area. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

“So he came,” the chairman of the bank muttered. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

Half a dozen thorns and two or three elders grew together above and below a bank. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

They ran along the bank, skirting it so closely that pebbles flew off their footsteps and bounced down into the water. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

Lee, a church pianist, mother of two, and bank bookkeeper, had gotten pregnant after an extramarital affair. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

‘Not all of us look on boats as wild horses. My people live by the banks of the Brandywine.’ The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Dicey pushed James from behind, and he turned around to pull her up, while her feet slipped against the muddy bank, searching for firm holds. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

She points at the deep indent we've made in the bank. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

A cloud bank drifted slowly by above them, and for the first time that night, the nearly full moon made a timid appearance. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

They did let Elinor into the bank, despite her torn stockings. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Cockroaches who were fishing along the banks had a quick exchange with Temp and Tick and pulled several large fish out of the river with their mouths. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

When a plumbing and bathroom fixtures store opened up across the street from our bank, my mother said the bank would soon have all its money drained away. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the farther bank of Ocean were mysterious people, whom few on earth ever found their way to. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And,” said Marjory, “from what I’ve heard, he never once came back here until he cooked up his crazy scheme to build a new library in the old bank building as a big publicity stunt.” Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

Far below, he saw the incinerator coals, banked but still pulsing with an angry red glow. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

At that spot, the bank was a good ten feet above the water level. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then I went back to the bank and waited. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the day’s end they came to a stream that wandered down from the hills to lose itself in the stagnant marshland, and they went up along its banks while the light lasted. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

“Same way you can pick locks on marble columns, I guess. I’m glad you’re not into robbing banks.” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

We ran for a few more minutes, until we found the bank of the creek. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

The two of them go to the central bank of stairwells and begin the ten-story trip down to the fifth floor. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

Shortly thereafter, he donated the balance of his bank account to OXFAM, loaded up his car, and vanished from their lives. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

My mind fluttered like the moths that veiled the street lamp which cast shadows upon the bank of grass below me. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

They headed off along the bank, clambering over roots and rocks, weaving through thickets. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

They gave the watch-fire a wide berth, and wormed their way forward bit by bit, until they came to the edge of the river, gurgling away in the black shadows under its deep banks. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

With the paddle, he moved it slightly toward the bank he had just left. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Pipkin, however, readily joined Hazel at the foot of the bank and soon two or three more began scratching at the light soil. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bull was dressed in his dark green winter uniform when he parked his squadron car in front of the bank and walked the six storefronts to Hobie’s. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Wear innocent expressions,” Mom told us kids the first time we dropped Dad off in front of the bank. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

They milled around, casting quick glances up and down the sidewalk, like they were waiting for someone, all of them so nicely dressed, wearing ties with clips on them like store clerks and bank tellers. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m floating back to the elevator bank, my limbs and bookbag and good-luck rabbit foot drifting around me as if suspended in the syrupy ooze of celebration. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

Then she set up an account for herself at a bank in Miami and transferred the money there. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was October, the weather had turned clear and warm, and the cottonwood trees along the banks were yellow and rattled in a south wind. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Santiago,” the boy said to him as they climbed the bank from where the skiff was hauled up. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

For a few seconds nobody said anything, and the children wondered what Mr. Poe was doing there at Briny Beach, when he should have been at the bank in the city, where he worked. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

The money he had saved in the bank was spent for bail and fines. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

The strange-looking man flew with an aggressive impatience, dropping like a rock to cut between flight lanes, banking as steeply as a hoverboard with every turn. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

The banks of the creek were high enough to allow the scouts to stand without being seen. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were a bunch of trees, one bank full of scraggly bushes where bits of trash had caught, and another bank with a more gradual sandy slope. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Before the banks were reliable, people used to stuff their belongings in jars and then bury them in the yard. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

When our feet were on firm ground again on the north bank, we stood looking up and down, wondering what to do next. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

Valentine himself was in Chicago meeting with the banks, his two sons in tow now that they were old enough to help with the farm’s accounts. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Hands awkwardly raised, he circled warily around the old man, backed up to the ditch bank, and walked sideways along the bank to the road. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The riders passed over to the islet, and glittering eyes watched them wanly from the shadows of the banks. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

The gunman looks out the glass doors of the bank, trying to figure out which car belongs to Marv. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

He barked at me till he got distracted by a big terrapin crawling on the creek bank. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Groundsel set to work along the bank, while Vervain went into the wood, where the mouths of the holes lay between the tree roots. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I—I don’t have any bank account numbers or anything but, if you look, there are pay stubs and invoices and requests of service,” Nora says. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Commentators mused on the likely implications of the fact that neither Megan’s phone nor her bank cards had been used for more than a week. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

But Gladys protested that the best one of all was the Mary bank, and she used up all the pennies in her mayonnaise jar to work the miracle. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

“Oh, yeah? So what do you do for work with all those stacks in the bank?” American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

He set up a trust account for Nick, and the bank manager said he could make arrangements with Mr. Lawrence so any other money would be deposited automatically. Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“There was nothing the bank people could do?” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

But now, here came Gabriel, floundering and furious up the bank, and what she looked at, with an anger more violent than any she had felt before, was his nakedness. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

When you apply for a bank loan, do you worry that, because of your race, you might be seen as financially unreliable? Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Only the boys remained in the bank conference room, and Felix sat frozen in his chair. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

My dogs jumped off the bank after him. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Everybody watching drop they mouth open, until we looked like a bunch of gasper-goos flung up on the bank. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

I then say: "I'll take the initiative. I can get approval from the bank." Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

They saw him start and jump back to the shelter of the bank. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

They ran along the bank calling out to her. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was just getting to the part where the bandit leader robbed the town bank and was squaring off for a shoot-out with the hero when the music on the radio stopped midsong. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

Soon his floor was like the healthy banks of a pond in spring when the tadpoles, having just turned, sprang in the wet grass. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

She pointed to a small mound of dirt under the bank. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

She even arranged with the school authorities to have my salary paid directly into her own bank. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

If there were hills and steep banks, the river might drop, fall a bit. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

The banks turned out not to be such a disappointment after all. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

He threw wood on the fire and blew until it flamed, then banked the flames to last and went down to the lake. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

The banks rose up thick with weeds, and the water seemed to suck in the sun rather than reflect it. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

His mother was a Stimson, a grand old family in banking and law. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

My uncle pointed to a corner in the living room where I could sleep, and then gave me detailed instructions on how to get to the bank, to meet Alois, my cousin’s husband. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

A goat was tied to a stake on the rivers bank. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

That was where I fell into the water, there is the bank where I scrambled up. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

The bank was dying, but still the people of Midland, and even Odessa, refused to believe it. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dumbledore and Ludo Bagman stood beaming at Harry and Ron from the bank as they swam nearer, but Percy, who looked very white and somehow much younger than usual, came splashing out to meet them. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

During the day I overreacted to each event, my banked emotions spilling around it. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know if it’s true. Eduardo at the bank swears that his brother saw a document with a government seal on it discussing patria potto tad. But who knows?” The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

Grandma nudged the boat into die bank just where the creek began to bend. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

In any case, he and the rest of the Indian party appeared without warning at the crest of a hill on the south bank of the creek that ran through the foreigners’ camp. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

How could Stannis cross to the north bank* Belatedly he realized that the deck was turning, and somehow he had gotten spun about, so castle and battle had changed sides. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Heather and trees and bracken scrambled down and overhung the banks, or sprawled out over the surface. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

With a few strokes Frodo brought the boat back to the bank, and Sam was able to scramble out, wet as a water-rat. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

It is larger, but still rustic and natural, overgrown with landscape, banks of wild white roses tangling across the porch roof. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

The ships that escaped his deadly grasp banked around and sprayed him with laser bolts and machine-gun fire, but both deflected harmlessly off his armored alien skin. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

So to get rid of him she had him rob a string of banks and hide the money with her. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

The Zeppelin banked to the left, and roared away in a wide arc before making again for the group of bears working swiftly beside the apparatus. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

The first thing he saw was Pipkin, plastered with mud, crawling to the bank a few feet away. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the bank on the further side of the bay the rabbit holes were plain to see, showing dark and distinct in the bare ground. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’s most likely robbing the bank as a payback on the world for winning the ugliness prize at his local fete three years running. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

Zoe shot across two lanes of traffic and into a mall parking lot on the south bank of the river. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

“I’ve been volunteered to work at the food bank on Saturday afternoons. Want to volunteer with me?” Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

You should have just stayed on the floor in that bank. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

Later—after it had left Woundwort—the dog beat up and down the bank and the open grass for some time, barking and dashing at every bush and clump of weeds. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You should go to the bank. Or borrow against a credit card.” Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

It was a matter of shock and disbelief to the bank that a seventeen-year-old boy should, first, own them, and, second, carry them about. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

The ice was breaking up on it now, with just a few glazed islands of ice remaining in the center and a fringe of hard surface glinting along the banks. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

Something red peeked up over the river’s bank. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

Instead of a dust-cloud well out in the desert he now saw a black, moving mass, rather like ants, on the far bank of the Winding Arrow. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

Through the murk ahead, he could just see four huge chimneys on the southern bank, rising from each corner of a great clifflike building. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

By the time we reached the bank of the Thames, Nick had hired a wherryboat and was well out into the river. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

A little boy in too big knickers was coming up from the lower bank of the river. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

It was a green meadow, kept short, with a broad grassy bank raised round it on which pavilions could be erected. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

She left a note telling me she was going to spend the day reorganizing the food bank. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

We found the new orphanage in the northern part of Karteh-Seh, along the banks of the dried-up Kabul River. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

For a second, Lina saw the banks of the river streak by. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

The river lay in this direction; near its bank stood a grove of fruit trees—peach, pear, cherry, and apple. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

A wave of frantic, frustrated frogs, big ones, little ones, brown ones, green ones, men frogs and women frogs, a wave of them broke over the bank, crawled, leaped, scrambled. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Gray smoke seeps beneath the door at one end of the hall, expanding like a roiling bank of storm cloud. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

“If these people you’re talking about—Tyrell? Lucy?—saw your mom carrying a big bag out of a bank, it was probably because she had a lot of ones and fives,” Natalie said. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Jean Louise threw herself into the breach: “Still at the bank, Sarah?” Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Tochi had lost her job at a bank after the last bank crisis, but she had married a wealthy lawyer and had a baby. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

The original idea, when we hoped we’d have 24 extra people to move and hide, was to ferry them to the opposite bank where we’d divide them into smaller groups of 2 or 3. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

On the further shores the woodlands still marched on southwards as far as the eye could see, but all the banks were bleak and bare. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

She didn’t get the bank teller job she wanted, but she met some guy who needed a file clerk at his insurance agency, and then she could finally quit that Waffle House job. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

They had banked the fire well and the coals would last until morning. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

Marly carried her tin cup carefully, reverently, and set it in a bank of snow. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

It was a long time coming; and when at last it pushed its way between the gatepost and the bank into the field, it paid him no attention. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

They wanted to know everything and Milkman found himself rattling off assets like an accountant, describing deals, total rents income, bank loans, and this new thing his father was looking into—the stock market. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

She sends me a card on my birthday with fifty dollars in it, which my father nags me about until I finally go to the bank and deposit it. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

“We owed the bank money,” Dad says, his face twisting in discomfort. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

His feet skidded across the stones banking the tracks. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

She learned to stand still, on the bank of the river, and thus she saw the muskrats swimming, noses above water, watched them dive. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

I told her that my dad did some kind of banking thing, and my mom was in design. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Taking the money from the bank was like having a rooted tooth yanked from her jaw. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

Every one of the does ran from the bank to the boat. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now he was no longer facing the shore and his friends; he was looking out toward the center of the river and across to the trees on the opposite bank. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

So far I had seen no one and I sat down by some bushes along the bank of the ditch and took off my shoes and emptied them of water. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

A warm breeze swayed the grasses and the shrubs near the banks. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

“You came to me because I have a bank account.” Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

She pointed to the gray-black rocklike creatures that moved lazily in the sandy mud on the bank of the river. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once they were back on the bank, Rupa smiled at her brother. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t have no checking account or bank account. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I walked across the dorm circle, and then straight through the soccer field, bushwhacking through the woods, until I ended up on the banks of Culver Creek just down from the bridge. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

At night, after Ash had washed the supper dishes and banked the kitchen fire, her stepmother called for her to come to her chamber. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Outwardly, he was living a surprisingly conventional existence, even going so far as to open a savings account at a local bank. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The ; gelding plunged down the bank as the ragged men closed. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

A moment later he was down the bank and limping up the track, pausing from time to time to sit up and look about him for an Efrafan patrol. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

His paws sensed a threat from the ground: more boxes were buried near the bank, the field crossed with more wires. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

“You don’t say. But I won’t be getting a bank job if I can’t keep up in my studies to get a diploma.” Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

At its feet was a wide space of grass and reeds; and in the distance could be glimpsed another bank almost as steep. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

We drove to the bridge that divided the east bank of the Jordan River from its west bank, where hills and valleys curved like the laps of a thousand mothers. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Jackson, weighing less than 100 pounds, slid down the bank and met with an open mouth the ice she had craved all her life. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

I said, “Doesn’t money belong in a bank?” Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

For a moment longer they saw her prancing up the airy stair, and then a bank of cloud hid her from their eyes. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

At one point, I find boot prints in the mud along the bank. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

His uncle trusts him, even to make bank deposits. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

The others followed his example, putting their packs against the bank and their legs out into the road. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Alvarez fired his rockets as he sped past the target, then began banking to come around again. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

The bank battle was an unpleasant interlude, but it didn’t interrupt what was becoming the key portion of most of Bobby’s days: reading. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Looking back at the face of the bank, they could see that it was in fact dotted thickly with martins’ holes. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Beyond the bridge, the dirt path abandoned the banks of the Dudh Kosi and zigzagged up the steep canyon wall, ascending through aromatic stands of pine. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

So one day I was working at the bank when an American man came in with his family and a group of students. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

The grass track which crossed the bridge ran above them, at the top of a steep bank. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

We rise high above the ship, out of danger, and out of the dense fog bank. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

Through a friend she found another gardening job in Rose- bank, one of Johannesburg’s posh whites-only suburbs. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then the bank calls and she flips out. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

Leaning over, he felt with one hand along the bank below. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Trying to find the source of the scream, Stella raced around the bank of the pond, then stumbled to her knees. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Reckon out how much oil you saved and put its value in pennies in the bank. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

I watched her wide full mouth sweep through her sentences like a figure touring a dark house, flipping on spots and banks of perfectly drawn light. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

I spin around to find that the badger has come up the bank and multiplied. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

Eventually the cold causes its own ache, and I lie back on the bank, resting my head on a flat stone while my feet dry. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

A few cheers went up from the crush along the banks, as thin and ragged as the clouds scuttling overhead. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“Safe as a bank. I tell him not to bother about mine until we get done collecting every month. That’s why it’s late sometimes.” The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

To his right was a small downtown area—an almost cozy-looking cluster of towers between the banks of the river and a line of misty forested hills. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

The first was the failure of a major New York bank, Jay Cooke and Company, in September 1873, that set off a national depression. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

They sat on one of the park benches and watched the geese settle in on the bank of the man-made lake. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

We were punting in the shallow waters along the shore, and Wello told me we would pull over to the bank once it was fully dark. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

The Drs. Atchley think of this place as their quiet, protective cocoon, and also part architectural novelty that they still seem bemused the bank ever let them borrow to build. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

His master’s voice acted on Buck like an electric shock, He sprang to his feet and ran up the bank ahead of the men to the point of his previous departure. The Call of the Wild 1903-01-01T00:00:00Z

I could tell the river was receding from its rainy-season flood by its peculiar rank smell and all the driftwood stranded along its banks. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

That same day, we set up a bank account at the post office. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

After a little while he turned suddenly, and choosing a place where the banks were lower, he waded the river, and then led them away due south into a flat land, treeless and wide. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

I started up the bank of the canal. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

Some Western states even find glory in half-forgotten murders and bank robberies. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the opposite bank, the glimmers of silver were suddenly extinguished. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

Naima heard the rattling sound of the tin bank they kept in the wardrobe. Rickshaw Girl 2007-02-01T00:00:00Z

We looked over the bank to where the pipe protruded. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

“I thought the bank closed on Saturday afternoons,” Ms. McMillan said. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

She spun around, knocking him to the concrete, and shot again, banking the ball off the backboard neatly into the net. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

I wrote this one night: “The raft is almost done. Bando has promised to stay until we can sail out into the deep fishing holes. “Bando and I found some clay along the stream bank. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

She’s taking us to the bank to help us open checking accounts. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

The one on the north bank was built against the bluff with the Red Keep frowning above,- its counterpart on the south shore had its footing in the water. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

In the late afternoon sun, tall trees growing along the bank cast long shadows over the starting stalls and the boats, but the heat had not abated appreciably. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

The concrete abutments projected from each bank, so that the narrowed river ran slightly faster under the bridge. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was forced to climb inland, and by the time he rejoined the river bank on the far side of the gorge there was no sign of the cat. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

With the nation’s economic depression growing ever more profound—banks failing, suicides multiplying—it seemed an impossibility. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

They called from the bank, and then they were gone. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

As the boat drew closer, it slowed down and banked slightly, revealing large orange lettering on the side. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

Not until we’ve left the studio behind do I reach into my pocket, grab my phone, and log in to my bank account. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Liyana thought, My mother's probably watching us from the window of the bank across the street, her mouth wide open with shock that I'm not where I said I would be. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

How many times had we heard of drowning victims turning up on its banks? Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

First we go to the bank so Daddy can cash his check. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

The following day the travelers came down from the hills to find themselves on the banks of a river running north and south. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

She stopped chasing them and came down to rest on a spruce tree on the banks of the Schoharie Reservoir. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

“According to my parents? Yes. We might as well have robbed a bank.” Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

Against the refrigerator is a picture of himself and his mother and Sonia, behind a magnet from a local bank. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

We were in front of a new white building with dark tinted windows that looked like a bank or a fancy office. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

He introduced Miss Anderson, and she stepped forward to the bank of microphones. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

And while the beauty school lady was straightening my hair, I got to look at the big bank of mirrors and watch it transform from kinky to straight. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

From where I stood, I could only see one man’s profile, but he looked a lot like Papa’s boss at the bank, Senor Betafil. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

He must not give the foe time to form up on the north bank. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Putting down his carrot, Hazel ran across, scrambled up the bank and joined him on the bare ground under the low, close boughs. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Muddy banks covered in tangled water plants lead to large rocks that increase in size until I begin to feel somewhat trapped. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

It showed clean river with narrow banks where he guessed the lake was and if it was inaccurate about this one thing then it might be wrong about all things. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

That’s why it felt like a nightmare when Joseph, maybe three steps away from the bank, fell through the ice of the Alliance River. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z

I’m always amused by commercials for banks which tout their personalized service, which service amounts to a poorly trained and badly paid cashier saying “Good morning” and then promptly fouling up your transaction. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

He risked a sweep of the bank with the flashlight. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

As soon as Fiver had found a place to clamber out, he led the way along the edge to the bank which Hazel had been looking at before Hawkbit spoke to him. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

It had a glass canopy over a seat with at least a dozen levers and handles banked in front of it. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

I liked to imagine that it was a long, wrinkly skirt that danced just above the ground when she walked down the banks of the White River. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

I didn’t have a job, I didn’t have my own bank account. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

We arrived at the bank and joined the queue with men in suits and women in skirts and blouses. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Anyway, Amari said, me and my dad started walking to the bank. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

As the bike reached the creek bank, he released the handlebars and pushed off the seat with all his might, going airborne as his bike tipped and splashed into the water. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

I went back and stood on the bank above them, looking down, wondering what to do. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

She remembered her descent into the darkness, her arrival on the banks of the River Styx, and her consciousness began to slip. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

She dressed plainly and modestly, spurned every extravagance, and never turned down the chance to put money in the bank. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

The fleet passes vast plantations laid upon the banks in unspeakable gentility. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

Then he slid down the muddy bank to stand in the shallow water. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

The ground beneath them was a bank covered with coarse grass, torn everywhere by the upheavals of fallen trees, scattered with decaying coconuts and palm saplings. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

When he got to the bank, he walked upstream toward his favorite fishing spot. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

One of them jogs back to the bank. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

He cuts through the water with broad strokes, like an Olympic swimmer, and I sit on the bank watching him. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

The economy now can be thought of as an entity which responds to actions by central banks; we call that monetary policy. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

Pushing about a hundred yards north, Snuffy discovered the trail into the gorge he had known would be there, a narrow descent to the river bank where two small hot springs were located. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Neither her phone nor her bank cards have been used since Saturday, either. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were no shops in Bithynios, no post office or bank, only a church and one taverna. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Remembered the time on the bank clock in the mall, flashing 3:31, then the temperature, 82, and die date. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

Matty climbed back down the bank, scooped wet mud with his hands, and gently coated her feet and legs, stopping the bleeding and trying to ease her pain with the thick cool paste. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

Frightened, she sprang to the bank—and as she did so she heard a voice: “Why such haste, fairest maiden?” Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was about a hundred feet across to the far bank, and although shallow enough in the ordinary way, was far too deep for the animals to cross without swimming. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

He climbed the bank through the cane to check the road. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

Three children—so different, so far from home, and, up until recently, so very alone—sat on the bank of a small stream. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

The sounds of the north bank grew behind them—clattering and shouting and children squealing at one another. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

The officer grabbed the man from the bank, stuck a rifle in his back and began to march him away. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

There was a tree on the river bank, a cocoanut tree. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bigwig jumped down from the bank into the field and ran in a long curve across the wet grass. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Familiar hyena-like laughter reaches us from the bank of printers and photocopiers along the half wall separating the checkout area and the book stacks. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

The bank of the arroyo was undercut so deeply that a strong gust of wind would topple the big tree. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

They started walking, trying to avoid the cave entrances, sticking close to the bank of the river. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Michael saw it at the same time and banked sharply away. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

People went to work Saturday through Thursday and gathered for picnics on Fri­days in parks, on the banks of Ghargha Lake, in the gardens of Paghman. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

The great trees that lined the banks looked like giant snowmen huddling together for warmth. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Somebody, a third party, agreed the fishing had gone sour, the bank seemed all dried up real sudden, he’d been thinking on fishing at Elliot Head, couldn’t tell but maybe things was better there. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

He rolled down the gravel bank and came to rest in the grass. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Instead, I had been in Detroit for ten years now, at the same workplace, using the same bank, visiting the same barber. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I suppose we go back to the Station, wait for the banks to fold, shake hands, take cyanide, and go out like gentlemen.” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

The bank used the alleged profits from the sale to show a profit in 1982 of $11.9 million instead of a loss. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was about to go to bed when the horizon quivered and she saw her pack running the bank. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Far below, on the opposite bank, a shiny crown hovered in the air. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

When her feet could feel the bottom, Stella heaved the girl onto the bank. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

We stood on the bank and watched the moving pockets of light, letting the water sounds swell up around us. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

She swam and reached the other side of the bank where she could touch bottom. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

John had praised her, and was undoing the old pocketbook which they called the ‘bank’, when Meg, knowing that it was quite empty, stopped his hand, saying nervously... Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

All of his files on the theft of A Lady Writing turned up in a bank vault in Switzerland. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

“Vampires? No. The only bloodsuckers is the banks.” A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

It was a sudden torrential rain, overfilling the river, and Toby couldn’t stop the water from coming over the banks. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

And Saturday afternoons, my mom signed me up for the food bank. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

If Johnny was home when the signal came, he jumped out of bed like a fireman, dressed hurriedly and ran to the bank as though his life depended on it. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

I awoke from a heavy, dreamless sleep to find myself lying on Francis’s couch in an uncomfortable position, and the morning sun streaming through the bank of windows at the rear. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

My bank balance was down to $133.26, with each copy costing a dime, but like Mrs. Smith had said, got to go big. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

Sitting at my desk, I removed the stopper from the base of my Einstein-in-a-lab-coat piggy bank. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

He transfers the money in his bank account over to hers, and they have pale green checks with both their names printed in the corner. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

I took my bank back home heavy with coins. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

She saw the trees on the far bank at a strange angle; she saw the gray sky lurching above; she saw Maila battling against the current. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

In the 1850s, a plush 250-room hotel called Kittatinny House rose on the banks of the river and was such a success that others soon followed. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

“Hazel,” said Fiver, “could you come up on the bank with me for a few moments? It’s important.” Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

He strode across the street and walked along the block to the bank building, while Shadow walked into the supermarket hall and watched. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

Together they peered around the bush at the other bank. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

I sat on the bank and stared at the lifeless water. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The photo-cell banks were deteriorating more rapidly than had seemed likely. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

The police are outside, but they have no idea what’s happening in the bank. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

Finally, the cab pulled up in front of my new apartment building, a slate-gray monolith on the banks of the Scioto, just at the edge of the Twin Rivers ghetto. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

At length, the larger of the two came out, slipped along the bank under cover of the brambles and so down into the ditch and up into the field. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

A great blue heron squawked at us for making too much noise and, indignant, took off from a nearby bank as we boarded my father’s boat. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

But a strange and catholic selection of citizens tiptoed to the chapel door and peered in and went away—lawyers and laborers and clerks and bank tellers, most of them past middle age. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

They dug a cut through the bank, he knew at once. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

They’d found a place where the flood waters had undercut one of the dirt banks to form a shallow cave. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

California had drawn the most favorable lane— lane number one, nearest the western bank of the river, where the current was least likely to affect a boat. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Meanwhile, banks and companies were failing across America, strikes threatened everywhere, and cholera had begun a slow white trek across Europe, raising fears that the first plague ships would soon arrive in New York Harbor. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

It was a good haul for a first set, enough to keep him fishing the bank—there was no reason for him to go elsewhere. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

All of these interoperable banking and e-commerce functions flattened the Internet marketplace so radically that even eBay was taken by surprise. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

Before she went to baby-sit again, Shirley secretly substituted buttons for the coins in the piggy bank. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

I wasn’t too gassed about working at a bank, just because it seemed like it would be boring as hell, sitting behind that thick glass counting other people’s money all day. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Fleeces clean, the sheep swam to the bank and scrambled out of the water, nimble as goats and hungry as pigs. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

By careful watching, she was able to distinguish the dark brown fur of a muskrat, near the burrow, though they were the same color as the mud along the bank. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once Acorn put up a plover, which flew round them, calling shrilly, until at length they crossed a bank and left it behind. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was so hot you could smell the heat baking the stones and dirt along the bank. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

He said, “Quick! Get some clothes and go for her. She is at the bank of the Ota River.” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

And the very idea of banking on some kind of matching support from the government seemed laughable after their internment experience. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

Johnny’s father rescued his family from the water by throwing them in a buggy and lugging them up the bank himself, but he couldn’t save the factory machinery. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

The next day after school, Jesse went down and got the lumber he needed, carrying it a couple of boards at a time to the creek bank. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

“I’ve got a few dollars left, and I could—” “This is just for our terrorist database, kid,” he says, tipping his head in the direction of an elevator bank. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

Then more people were hollering, and there was a bank of flashing lights. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

Across the street were the bank, the post office, Dawkins Drug and Dime Store, Coopers Barbershop, and the Curly Q Beauty Emporium. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

He started up the wooden rungs and I began climbing behind, up to the limb high over the bank. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mother pulled the silk scarf from her neck and handed it to the man from the bank. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

Malcolm gave Lyra to Alice and backed the canoe a few feet, and the giant stuck his trident in the muddy bank and took a deep breath before sinking under the water. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

Eventually, the banks found their way to the toy shelf along with all our other neglected toys. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

It had taken the Freys three generations to complete their bridge; when they were done they'd thrown up stout timber keeps on either bank, so no one might cross without their leave. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

She signed the lease even though she didn’t have the money in the bank. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

The grill was balanced between two big sandrocks, where the hot coals were banked under the spattering meat. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

There was an old crab apple tree there, just at the bank of the creek bed, from which someone long forgotten had hung a rope. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

A secret passageway on the first, second, or third floor between the old bank and the office building behind it? Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

The rain was falling harder and heavier; it pattered on the leaf-strewn bank all around them and into the river chattering through the dark. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Our sponsors will also show us how to buy food from grocery stores, visit doctors and dentists, buy clothes, go to the bank, learn to drive, and find a job. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Shay was skimming just above the torrent, so low that she lifted a wake every time she banked. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

While the rest of the family tossed and dozed, I secretly made my way to the San Marcos River bank and enjoyed a daily interlude of no school, no pestiferous brothers, and no Mother. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

“We have to send that statement to the bank before noon.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

A bank of clouds had been building, and a massive thunderhead reared thousands of feet up into the still-bright upper sky. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

In Brunswick, Georgia, the presidents of two national banks held a meeting. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

As Ron and Hermione emerged, spluttering and gasping, from the depths of the lake, the dragon flew on, its wings beating hard, and landed at last on a distant bank. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

It had a high kerb by which troop-leaders could guide themselves in black night or fog, and it was banked up some feet above the level of the open land. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

He plopped down on the muddy bank, trying to get his shoes back on. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

On the grass banks above the lawns the gardener started his mowing machine. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Bare woods stalked along either bank, and they could not see any glimpse of the lands behind. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Bobby also wanted proof that the prize fund was actually in a bank, and when that information, or proof of equity, wasn’t forthcoming, the entire venture dribbled away. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Pa hadn’t gone to the bank for money. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

She was sitting on the bank of a river. Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z

I went up stairs and got the bank book out of her desk and went back to town. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Between the blazing white banks of the town stores, among the tree silences, a black tide flowed. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

Around and around the fire he circled, his arms spread like wings, banking left and right. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

As they came up to the warren bank he suddenly caught sight of Fiver. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Across the back of the building were the cooking and sewing labs with their banks of stoves and Singers. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Now, he was the president of a small bank in South Orange, but fencing was still his passion. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

“You look like a bank robber, man,” I said to him. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

After mooring the canoes safely to the bank, the men began to unload the canoes for another long portage. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

In Congo I was one-half benduka the crooked walker, and one-half bënduka, the sleek bird that dipped in and out of the banks with a crazy ungrace that took your breath. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Please. I have many things to tell your husband about the banking system here." You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

A day’s march brought them to the banks of the Ystrad. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

I knew that down under the bank, in the water, the entrance to the den could be found. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the stick turned against the current to swim toward the bank, I saw it was a water moccasin and threw a cinder at it. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

I could see one of the men with his machine walk backwards and forwards on the top of the bank. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Late Sunday afternoon, as the grand total of $129 was being stuffed into several coffee cans to go to the bank, there was news about the theft. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

“We have to leave sight of the freeway now,” Salvador told her, “and walk on the bordering streets. Not even a goat could walk along these steep banks.” Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

There are at least four columns filled with bank managers, accountants, loan officers, cotton collate operators. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

With the help of her one-log raft, Florida had made her way to the bank and crawled up its muddy side. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

He pulled up in the parking lot of a bank. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

Well out from either bank stood four low arches—scarcely more than culverts, each filled by the stream to within a foot of the apex. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Chess didn’t care about banks or money, either. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

The closest two were circling a hemlock bough near the bank, probably judging the safety of returning to the meal he had interrupted. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

This is two and a half days after they watched the Casino Joe’s fireworks show on the bank of the Mississippi River in Dubuque, Iowa. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Brian made certain the fire was banked with new wood, then went out of the shelter and searched for a good fuel supply. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And it’s free and clear, this boat? The bank don’t own a piece?” Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

Alec banked the Berg to swoop in and get a closer look. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

They took me down behind the line of officers below the road toward a group of people in a field by the river bank. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

“We can search the banks by the big creek.” Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

I push through cloud banks, follow faint tracks, catch the scent of cinnamon, of dill. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

The punt slipped downstream smoothly, without any alteration of the speed which it had gained within a few yards of leaving the bank. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had passed by the pits many times before and had always liked looking at the scene there; the geometric pattern of the clay bank pleased him. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

Now the larger figure reappeared, circling right round the edge of the clearing and heading for the bank down which she had just come. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

It swam to the side, and then with marvellous agility a froglike figure climbed out of the water and up the bank. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

As there was now no other possible course for them to take, they climbed down the bank, and turning left went off as fast as they could. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

With an unpleasant jolt of the heart, he remembered the dragons said to be guarding vaults in the wizards’ bank. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

He couldn’t wait until he reached the bank to tell Little Ann he was coming. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’d kiss the top of my head and say, “I don’t have a lot of digits in my bank account, but I’m a wealthy man indeed.” Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

Sometimes they marked out squares on the sandy bank and played a game of checkers with round stones. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

Behind them, in the west, the crimson and orange were almost faded; a dark bank of cloud had crept into the zenith. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s probably some rich bank president or hotel guy,” Jinjoo said. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

Following him they descended quickly from the high shelf and made their way back through the forest, down the bank of the Entwash. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

They huddled just under the bank, their slick heads in a row against the bright water. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

And in five year’s time, we’d own our land free and clear, never need the bank again. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

They kept their laughter low, and after a while they lay back on the grassy bank and slept, close together. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had the bank in his hands already. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

Suppose he found it impossible to get up the bank on the other side? The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

The left bank was a great rubbish heap of rotting weed among the trees. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

We had a picnic down on the bank of the Kwilu, which has the delightful odor of mud and dead fish. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Day followed day; the river rose steadily toward its banks, growing broader, fuller, swifter. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

“Now,” said Grandpa Nyles, kneeling carefully at the edge of the bank. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

Since she already knew about our family situation, she’d understand the pressure I was under to get money in the bank super quick. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

He shoved again, and then again, and that second time, he didn’t slide alongside the bank. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z

The punt would not have left the bank or, if it had, would have run aground or been fouled by weeds or some other obstruction. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

He said, “Why don’t you come with me to the bank?” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

But George sat stiffly on the bank and looked at his right hand that had thrown the gun away. Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

Pigeons banked and turned en masse in the sky. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

Woundwort, following them close, reached the edge of the bank and came face to face with Bigwig. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“What y’all want?” a wrinkled, skinny slave sitting on the bank of the river asked. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

We waited on the bank for several hours but the planes did not return. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

The noise of it burns through my ears, and just like the day of the bank robbery, the gun now feels warm and soft in my hand. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

The fierce July sunlight streamed in over a gray cloud bank and lit up the New York Harbor like a fire was rising from its depths. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

And one by one, the failed bank robber takes me to each place. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

“He may not have even had a bank. And if he had, I dont reckon he’d have to come all the way to Mississippi to get a man for it.” The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

We all think that she's kidding, but apparently she has already spoken to someone at the bank and she's put in a formal offer. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

“They don’t trust the bank. Do you want to count it?” Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

The streams were crawling with tourists by then, except for very high up where the bank underbrush was so thick you could hardly get to the water. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He fell forward then clawed and crawled out of the holy water of the river onto the bank in front of me. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

But sure enough, it looked like Jimmy was being dragged toward the bank. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were on the opposite side of the hedge of plants along the bank and the whole river looked different. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ajay was already stretched out on the muddy bank at the far side of the pond, pretending to be asleep. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

I was that woman on the stream bank, of course. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

Each fall it overflowed its banks and spread over the fields in a silver flood. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

Within minutes of my banking the fire, the inside temperature took a huge step down the ladder. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

In terms of the size of assets, the bank’s failure was second largest in U.S. history. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the further side was a steep brown bank, threaded by a winding path; and behind that the tall mountains climbed, shoulder above shoulder, and peak beyond peak, into the fading sky. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

The banking district consisted of several wide streets with large marble buildings on each side of them, all banks. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

As his blood oozed into the piranha-infested water, he quickly waded to the river's bank and limped back to the campsite at the foot of the rapids. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

I stood, coughing from the cloud of gunpowder smoke that was rolling across the banks. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

After a few minutes Mom set her bag down and looked over at a bank clock. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Nor can we take it by siege, without an army on the far bank to invest the other castle," Helman Tallhart said gloomily. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

It came from the east, from beyond the border of Mozambique, where her nameless village lay on the banks of an uncharted stream. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The bank on each side of the oak tree was bare and consisted of a light, gravelly soil. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The contour lines being close together on the map meant that the banks steepened between the hills. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

When they reached the river bank, he helped him to secure the boat. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

My father had kept a savings account in a Kraków bank, but those funds had disappeared when all Jewish bank accounts became the property of the Nazis. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

Frequently, the people on the west bank would have to leave their cars along the shoulder of the highway and try to wade across the raging creek just to get to their homes. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

Finally, after I gave up hope and decided I must re-main in New Orleans without funds until the banks opened on Monday, I walked toward town. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

These men, either personally or through their companies, had over $200 million in loans from the bank. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

But on the farther bank of the river lived the rich and powerful Etruscans, whose fugitive king, Mezentius, was helping Turnus. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

A small red number—a zero—printed in the same style as the ones I'd seen underneath the porch of our house and under the banks of our sector's lake. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

The maid nodded eagerly as she left the room, the bank bundled in her apron and tucked under her arm. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Like there’s nothing the least bit odd about two random teenagers hanging out near the door of his clothing bank. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

One kind of monetary policy, which involves the central bank buying private assets, is chunked as quantitative easing. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

Again I struggled, until I saw that it was Prince Hamlet who pulled me onto the grassy bank. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Since he stole from banks, he was called a Robin Hood, though he wasn’t known for giving to the poor He’d gone to a picture show at the Biograph Theatre not far from our neighborhood. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

Worse, there was a whole line of the ugly new houses all along Pool Side, where the Hobbiton Road ran close to the bank. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

A warm evening wind carried a breath of honeysuckle and linden from the banks. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

It's a long swim for a baby, but she made it and landed on a bank somewhere along here. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Hear that, Finn? Your mom didn’t rob a bank!” The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

A little way off, along the river bank, willows were growing. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

In the hallway, near a bank of windows, a pretty maid washed the glass squares before falling forward into nothing. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

If you look at it from the south bank of the river, that’s how it goes. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

A family of giraffes was silhouetted against a bank of picture windows. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

“The bank will let you know how much it is this time.” The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

All the banks and department stores were surrounded by barbed wire. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

The bank was not very steep after all, and in a moment he was at the top, ready to go on. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

Changing direction, he followed the water sounds until he came to the banks of the stream. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

“It looks like it came from a bank vault or something.” Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

I have shown you that I have money in the bank. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

I could have fallen on the bank and broken my back! A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

After each score Rik put the cash in a bank safe deposit box, and finally, after my constant begging, I was paid. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

We’d taken her down home to be buried with Granny Washington—the bank couldn’t take the family plot away. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

The trees grew closer, the brush thicker and the banks higher. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

The president of the bank, Jezdimir Vasiljevic, had given his executives the authority to offer a purse of $5 million with one stipulation: The match had to commence in three weeks in Yugoslavia. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Our home was on a bit of a rise, so we were safe from the flooding, but our school, on the banks of the river, was hit hard. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

I waded into the mountain of mail with both hands, tossing envelopes in all directions, until I came up with the bank statement. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

The rowboat had come ashore in a tangle of bushes that overhung a small bank at the side of the river. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had a thousand dollars in my bank account. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“Over here. Over on the bank. Can you see my light? I need help. Please hurry.” Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Supposing that he meant to tickle me, I shrugged off his cloak, slipped into the water, and pushed off from the bank. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

He slides onto the bank, zips open the pack, rips out the rope. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

“When that car hit us, we were right beside the bank,” Tyrell said, talking fast the way he always did when he got excited. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

They crossed a small bamboo bridge spanning one of the many creeks that curved in through the muddy banks of the island. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

He bellied up to the bank and rolled over onto the snow. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z

Then, amid much shouting and splashing, he stumbled out of the water and dragged the thrashing salmon up onto the gravel bank. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

She couldn’t stop seeing those bodies, the angry red flesh peeking through their burnt black casings like banked coals. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

He scrambled quickly down the bank and found the rat nosing in the ditch. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was still dressed in her bank clothes and her purse and keys were in the middle of the table. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

When the money arrived in her bank, Jule withdrew it all and opened a new checking account somewhere else. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

When I jerked my head toward the elevators, she followed, looking back and forth between the elevator bank and the office floor, her lip caught between her teeth. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Alan calls out to a startled herd of goats grazing along its banks. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

I stared at the knotted roots of the trees on the creek bank, trying hard not to look like I’d just been called adorable. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

Dad pointed to the toilet paper up in the branches along the river’s banks. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

He carries ’em up the bank and drops ’em—hard—in the dirt. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

Across the river, beyond the place where the trout and the bass were plentiful but before the river went underground heading for the mill, the bank turned around an incline. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

She stared at the man walking up the bank toward the big house on the corner. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

The trail I followed led along the bank of Birdsong Creek through some bee myrtle bushes. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

Slowly the bear got to its feet and permitted itself to be herded up the lake bank and back to where it had come from. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Reaching the ramp that connects the bank with the first boat, the leading horse bounds up it. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

She turned us and rowed along the bank, under the low- hanging limbs. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

If she had to go on a horrifying solo quest, at least she’d gotten to have lunch with Percy on the banks of the Tiber first. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Past the new, freshly baked, iced, Gulf-money houses built by nurses, masons, wire-benders and bank clerks, who worked hard and unhappily in faraway places. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

For the scent had borne him back to the day when he had lit his little fire under the sunny bank; and for the moment all else between was out of waking memory. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

I'm sitting in the Commander’s office, across from him at his desk, in the client position, as if I’m a bank customer negotiating a hefty loan. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

Wide flats lay on either bank, shadowy meads filled with pale white flowers. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

The ferry docks and Masjid drives along the river until we find a secluded area near the bank. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I wish I could go that far, to where the wide banks are, where we used to lie in the sun, where the bridges arch over. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

There at last were the darkened woods, the lonely roads, the river banks, the gentle knowing eyes. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was afraid we would move out of the eddy and, holding with one hand, I drew up my feet so they were against the side of the timber and shoved hard toward the bank. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

After a few miles they came out on the top of a high bank above the Road. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

He sat in the clear space between the bank and the first line of trees and bent a pine bough into a circle, tying it with a piece of wet string from the castle. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

The opposite bank was not far; the ground appeared smoother, the forest not as dense. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

I had a good bank, safe from the rats and from the rain and snow. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Heavy, bulky, and fragile, with banks of switches carefully wired together, Purple was not a natural traveler. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

I decided the next day I’d go to G. C. Murphy and buy a pink plastic piggy bank I’d seen there. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

When he was finished, he sat down on the bank, with his side to the pool, so that he could watch the trail’s entrance. Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

One bank of cages contained two isolated monkeys. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Not yet. Is Chelsea on the left bank or the right?” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

It's like the less numbers in your bank account, the more numbers in your address. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

Sometimes he would come out of the water by catching the dangling limbs of a leaning birch and climbing up, never touching the bank. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

This was why she was here, standing on the banks of the Nir so far from the protection of the Academy walls and her family’s influence. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

He stared out at stony orchard terraces and banks of olive trees. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

In return for a favor to some white mobster, my new boss and his wife had just been given a six- months numbers banking privilege for the Bronx railroad area called Motthaven Yards. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

The bank was a muddy slope covered in ragged weeds. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

On the right of the road a densely wooded slope fell steeply to the bank of a wide lake. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

“The bank forecloses on people’s farms and throws them off their land, and they don’t even appreciate it.” A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

Even with a good harvest on the remaining corn and the hay, we’d never bring in enough to pay off the bank. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

“It looks like Mom really did rob that bank!” The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

They lived on the farther bank of Ocean. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

The path emerged from the woods onto the broad grassy banks of the river. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

She stood tense and alert, staring down at the bank. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Near the banks of a green river was a horse corral the size of a football field. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

Some of them were in the wide arroyo that the creek cut through Gallup, but the others were in the salt-cedar and willow thickets that grew along the stream banks. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

The high banks had been sloping down gradually, and now they came to an end, the water and the ground were level again. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

The south bank of the Thames was like a poor reflection of the north bank, a sort of lesser London. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

She heard movement behind her, up on the bank. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

Suddenly the engine accelerated, the wing flaps pressed down, and the craft climbed, banked, and sailed down the river like a migrating bird. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

He flashed him a screenshot of the banking app from last week and played it off like today's balance. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

She heard a splash in the water and when she reached the bank Harry was already swimming. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

There on the banks of the Illinois River, in the cool shade of the tall white sycamores, I asked God to help me get two hound pups. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a cluster of women around a bank of Batman slots having what seemed to be a ridiculously good time. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

He was thinking back to the person he’d seen on the other bank of the lake. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

He suspected that she took a lover in the nights when he was at the bank. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

All was quiet, but as they paused at the top of the bank, a tussling pack of six or seven sparrows flew down to the line and began to peck about between the sleepers. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

I tried phoning the bank again, but I only got the same recording. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her father had, finally, found a job, as the deputy director of human resources in one of the new banks. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Many miles away the chilly mist that had pressed against the Prime Minister’s windows drifted over a dirty river that wound between overgrown, rubbish-strewn banks. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Then she dipped the spoon into the egg and the yolk came up golden like the sun popping out of a cloud bank. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

Farlen and Wex waded across with the hounds and came back shaking their heads while the animals ranged up and down the far bank, sniffing. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

A gust of wind caught her and carried her safely over the bank. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

The month of brides, the voice that breathed She ran right out of the mirror, out of the banked scent. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

The original plan was to go to school from eight forty-five to noon, then work at the bank from one to five thirty, as a part of the work-study program. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

We walked together in the llano and along the river banks to gather herbs and roots for her medicines. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

A crack of orange-vermilion broke the black cloud bank far beyond the land. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

An’ I got fifty more saved up right in the bank, right now. Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then he began racing wildly up and down the bank, looking everywhere. Stuart Little 1945-10-17T00:00:00Z

“At that time, no bank would give us any money, but today they give you credit cards in the mail,” he said. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

He left only to soothe his burned lip in the cool river mud and make a meal of the small fish he found lying on the bank. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Once-elegant apartment buildings stood next to scrapyards, and where there had been furriers and movie palaces there were now blood banks and methadone clinics and Mother Waddles Perpetual Mission. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“Not yet. It belongs to the bank. But soon it’ll be mine, and then I’ll be able to make lots of boys like you smart.” Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

It was how Jackson got locals to trust him instead of the banks, even though his rates were straight usury as well. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

“Engineering, science, finance, computer development, teaching, banking. These all require mathematics.” The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

We crossed to the left bank of the Seine by the wooden foot-bridge from the Quai de Bethune, and stopped on the bridge and looked down the river at Notre Dame. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

I remembered the school’s bank statement—the check to the jewelry store. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

He crossed the bank lobby, adjusting his tie. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

My bodice and skirt lay draped over a branch of the tree on the bank, at a distance I would not cross under Hamlet’s gaze. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

The banks were just all green and the river went ahead to the next bend. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

He sat in one of the pews next to a bank of vigil lights and decorated his hands, his packages stacked beside him. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Locked double doors stand between us and the elevator bank, which is why we need Eric's ID. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Was this the nineteenth anniversary of a famous bank robbery? Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

Johnny had a friend named Burt who was night watchman at the corner bank. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Because banks will not lend to them because they are black. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

After Independence they found they were not entitled to any government benefits like job reservations or bank loans at low interest rates, because officially, on paper, they were Christians, and therefore caste- less. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

My mouth opened, closed, and opened again like a fish pulled from the pond and thrown on the bank. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

Right where the banks of the Congo turned marshy and indistinct, a cluster of pirogues appeared. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

When at last I reached Williamstown, a sign on a bank announced a temperature of 97. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

My binder worked, and the bank has given Dell Duke the go-ahead to do the garden conversion. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

Geoffrey raced down the bank ahead of all the rest, swinging his crutches ahead of him and taking in his stride twice as much ground as the other boys. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

They staked out the doll shop, and they examined Dickinson’s bank account and safe-deposit box. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

She shrieked and Hercules shot the beast as he reached the other bank. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Mainly commercials, but not for any banks or car dealerships, because those are usually choral arrangements." Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

Closer to the bank the river bottom turned stony. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

He is told that notice of the new name must be given to all other agencies, that it’s his responsibility to notify the Registry of Motor Vehicles, banks, schools. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Within two days dead and dying fish, including many young salmon, were found along the banks of the stream. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

The others go ahead while I catch my breath near the elevator bank. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Then he wrung it out and handed it to Tree-ear, who scrambled up the bank and hung it on a strut to dry in the sun. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

Indeed, many were well educated and came from a variety of ordinary backgrounds: the Gestapo, the police force, government positions, or professions such as law and banking. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Lets go, soldiers, the holiday is over,” the corporal called out from the banks of the river. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

The country of the Zande is savanna mixed with riverine forest, beautiful country, where acacia trees cluster along the banks of seasonal rivers. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Just kids I found along the crick bank,” Grandma said, to our surprise. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

Will the water get warmer as the fire runs down to the bank? Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

The still eddy waters next to the banks had frozen, but out in the middle, where the current was swift, the water was running, leaving a trough in the ice pack. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the banks of the Hidden River, Tiller and Florida were finishing their lunch. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

It is forbidden to cross to the opposite bank. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Over a three-month stay, defectors learn their rights under South Korean law and go on field trips to shopping centers, banks, and subway stations. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

The ruffians came tramping along the East Road, and without halting turned up the Bywater Road, which ran for some way sloping up between high banks with low hedges on top. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

A man called after them, “You kids musta robbed a bank to buy such a big tree.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The others are on Long Island or in Westchester or Florida, depending on their ages and their bank accounts. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

We filled our lunch baskets with wild plums from a tree at the creek bank, then rejoined the others and visited some more. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

The morning was clear, but to the north banks of clouds hung low. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Because I knew that if Lori never got out of Welch, neither would I. I went back to G. C. Murphy the next day and stared at the shelf of piggy banks. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

“This model of the bank building came in bandy,” added Miguel. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

It was the first time she felt detached from him; while he was murmuring in her ear, she was mourning her money in the bank in Lagos. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Brian tried to move to the bank and run, but the brush was so thick and wild that it was like a jungle—grass, willows, and thick vines grabbed at him, holding him. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

From the banks of Lake Carnegie, the boys, their oars, and the Husky Clipper looked like a single thing, gracefully and powerfully coiling and uncoiling itself, propelling itself forward over the surface of the water. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

But not really, because the bank holds the mortgage. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

In a strange way, the Dark Lands reminded her of San Francisco, where her dad lived—on those summer afternoons when the fog bank rolled in like cold, wet packing material and swallowed Pacific Heights. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

“I couldn’t handle the stress in the bank.” I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

Likewise, at the bank there had been mention of promotion and when nothing came of it he was somewhat relieved. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

“But how can we get to the bank, Kehaar?” said Hazel. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Thompson made it to the far bank without incident, followed by Samel and Swanson in their trucks. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The other dog, strong swimmer though he was, made his way to the bank only with the greatest difficulty. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

I lay flat on the bank and heard the river and the rain. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

I also opened a bank account, rented a post office box, and bought a plastic bowl and a spoon at Woolworth’s, a store whose name I recognized from London. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

Almost all bank tellers were fired, and so was everyone else who did paperwork and customer interface in any other business. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

She wore all the necklaces and chokers and bracelets that were destined to live most of their lives in an extra-large safety deposit box in a bank vault in New England. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Wash sidestroked a few yards downstream until he reached a spot where the bank wasn’t as steep. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

None of the kilns had been fired up yet, and most of the forge fires were still banked and sullen. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

We stow the things carefully in our boots; we have to take them to protect our feet against treading on wire and broken glass on the other bank. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He told us when he dropped us here that we could contact him at the bank if we had any questions.” The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

There was skating on the moat, which roared with the gliding bones which they used for skates, while hot chestnuts and spiced mead were served on the bank to all and sundry. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

They stalked out of the bank and stood on the street, not knowing what to do next. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

His mother spends hours on the phone and has all the names changed on the bank account, the mortgage, the bills. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

I take a closer look at the bank’s alleyway. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

Under the trees it was pitted where the chunks of snow had fallen, and the banks beside the path were shrinking and settling. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

She stepped across the creek, picking her steps carefully over the mossy rocks, and grabbed a waterlogged stick from the creek bank. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

She had ten dollars in her pocket and twelve hundred in the bank. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

Tomorrow she’ll be gone, and I’ll still be here, I thought to myself as we stood on our barge fastened to the bank of the Congo, watching history. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“This doesn’t prove you didn’t rob that bank!” the officer yells. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

I waited for the girl to speak again, but for a long moment there was only the sound of rain banking off the roof, like a thousand fingers tapping way off somewhere. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

They surround us, but don't handcuff us, and walk us to the elevator bank. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

I reached for August’s hand, but she had turned right and was moving along the bank, calling May’s name. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

To stay alive, you have to be able to hold out against equilibrium, maintain imbalance, bank against entropy, and you can only transact this business with membranes in our kind of world. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Now that we know we can count our savings anytime, we can keep the banks as backup.” The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

He saw at once that they had nothing to do with banking. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

A wide, fallen log reached over the foaming water, leading from the bank where I was standing to the sandy island. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

A moment later, he climbed the bank and shook himself off. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Doc had to get a loan at the bank to pay for the glass that was broken at the party. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Later, after they’d eaten a lunch of boiled eggs and potatoes with bread, Tariq napped beneath a tree on the banks of a gurgling stream. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

“Yes, all right,” said Hazel good-naturedly, as he began to limp along the bank upstream. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

He took Siddhartha’s hand, led him to the seat on the river bank, sat down beside him and smiled at the river. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

In wild terror, I ran along the bed of that dry wash, cut right up a sloping bank. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

But because I missed the first few weeks of school, I also missed the first few weeks of work, and the bank filled my spot with another student. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

They might have been on the Amazon, which was so wide, Malcolm had read, that from the middle you could see neither of the banks. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

On the far bank, Shin stood up and turned around to take a last look at North Korea. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

With the gaslights unlit, the room was banked in shadows. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

But Fadi didn’t have a loaded sibling or access to such a bank. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

At one point, near the bank of the Entwash, he came upon footprints: hobbit-prints, but too light for much to be made of them. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

The man who worked at the bank gave Mother his jacket. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

“The bank, that must be the bank, now we turn west—see the trees? This is it, this has to be it.” In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

We were tucked between two banks of a long-ago river. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

Her dedicated, austere life could not be thus explained—she was the daughter of a solidly comfortable, erudite banking family. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

Several small islands tucked up inside great banks of coral that made navigation dangerous was what I finally decided on. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Good, now keep it tight and guide the mule downstream to the low point in the bank.” Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I realized that when you took our key from the fire hose, when you left me the notes, when you stole Richard’s shoes and Jimmy’s Fred Flintstone bank, you had already read my letter. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

In Lincoln, Nebraska, the Nebraska Savings Bank had become the favorite bank of schoolchildren. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

I leave the stock car, following the noise to the edge of a steep bank. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

One of First National’s highest-ranking officers wasn’t above taking undisclosed interests in some of the ventures in which the bank lent money. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

They scrambled down the bank and set to nibbling beside the water. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

I should be more worried than I am, especially now that I’ve gotten detention, but instead I sit there on the bank. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

As I saw the bank again, very close now, I tried holding with one arm and kicking and swimming the timber toward the bank with the other, but I did not bring it any closer. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

“Why not just go along the bank?” asked Hawkbit. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hearing shouting from the bank above me, I looked up. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

But at the last moment, I banked to the right, then arced back around. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Lyra had planned to leave the way she’d come, banking on another few minutes before the Steward’s bell rang. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

And now this lightness of heart, this spring in my step, this childish feeling that I wanted to run across the lawn, and roll down the bank. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

I came up with the idea of creating a skit to show how banks charged interest on loans, since we were studying how to figure percentages in Mr. Milo’s math class. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

When they opened the tin-can bank, there was nearly four dollars in it. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The next day, the same people who had spent the night in frightened vigil in their houses poured out onto the streets like a crazed avalanche to storm the banks, demanding their money. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were visible from a great distance, and although they grew on one bank only, we called them the poplar avenue. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

What if she, like...robbed a bank right before she came and got him? Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z

He took up a paddle, and steered towards the western bank, following Aragorn’s boat ahead, which had already moved out of the middle stream. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

On Tuesday a large bank failed in Kansas City. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

I pulled the tale from the memory bank, but it wasn't hard. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

The little money left over after the shopping was finished was put in the tin-can bank. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

When she wheeled around in her seat, her bank makeup looked all bright and tight on her pale face, which had gone insta-old in a few short days. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

The banks were moving along, even though he wasn’t paddling. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

She kept the bonuses from her job in a separate bank account in her name. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

The bridge stretched from bank to bank between two low abutments. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were by the banks of a swift narrow river. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

The evening sun was still hot when it hit him as they came out of the patches of shade made by the trees on the bank, and the cool water on his neck refreshed him. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

First of all, he robs a bank with unutterably stupid people like Marv and me inside it. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

He grabbed the end of the rope and swung out toward the other bank with a kind of wild exhilaration and landed gently on his feet, taller and stronger and wiser in that mysterious land. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

But he did not have detailed information about where to cross it or what bribes would be acceptable to the North Korean guards who patrol along its southern bank. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

When Lena used the phrase “the word is,” you could take it to the bank. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

He didn’t have a chess tournament to discharge his competitive energy, so he vented his anger at the Swiss bank, which he insisted was run by Jews. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Just like that, he lets him go, straightens, picks Roamer up, and drops him onto the bank, where he lies coughing up water. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

I began sliding backward along my belly to the frozen bank. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Were they on the bank of the stream? Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The security people we pass en route to the elevator bank all either wave or nod at Mama. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

"Landor, you mean? That was the bank robbery—London and Commercial." And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

“I’m sorry,” she repeated, “but the blood bank is closed. We’re not taking any more donations.” Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

When they saw Catelyn's banners, they emerged from behind their sharpened stakes and sent a man over from the far bank to lead her party across. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“Also correct is that I head to college in one more year. You know the tortoise and the hare? I’m the tortoise, and the racetracks my bank account. I’ve been saving for years.” Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

The only practical approach to Nomansan Island was by the long, narrow bridge that ran from its bank to the mainland’s wooded shore a half mile away. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

I’ve broken into banks, warehouses, mansions, museums, vaults, a rare book library, and once the bedchamber of a visiting Kaelish diplomat whose wife had a passion for emeralds. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

She removes the pails from her plank and hits at something on the grassy bank. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

A wispy cloud bank stretched low across the horizon, like wool pulled thin by a spinner’s hands. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Aside from hanging out together at Sad Camp, Davis and I would also sometimes see each other during the school year, because he lived just down the river from me, but on the opposite bank. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

From Norwich it is about a mile to the Connecticut River and a pleasant, unassuming 1930s bridge leading to the state of New Hampshire and the town of Hanover on the opposite bank. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

But he forced himself to watch her run back, race for the bank, leap, swing, and jump off, landing gracefully on her feet on the far side. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

He shook his head, took off his remaining shoe, and left it on the bank. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

I followed the curve of the bank where Hamlet had watched me swimming when I was still a child. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

“The story about robbers tunneling into a bank from the building next door.” Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

All around the Keys you can see their propeller trenches—long ugly gouges, like giant fingernail scrapes, across the tidal banks. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

When he was waist high, the crutches skidded out on the mud-slimed stones, so he speared them over to the far bank and dived in. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

The Count in his box, then, was on a river in an open boat—propelled probably either by oars or poles, for the banks are near and it is working against stream. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

Then, he saw one foot sticking up above the bank of the stream. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

Because now she was pretty certain that “bandits” had, at one time or another, “crawled in” to this building back when it was a bank. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

They had streamed across from the south bank—mostly university students, as well as their masters. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

The cub was on her feet, her back to the bank, staring unblinkingly into the flashlight. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

One morning they were sitting on a green bank at the edge of the lake. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Often they had fished together, usually from a huge rock on the bank farther along. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Cullivan, in appearance a cautious bank clerk with depleted hair and a face rather difficult to recall, agreed that outwardly he hadn’t changed much. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the bank of the Silverlode, at some distance up from the meeting of the streams, there was a hythe of white stones and white wood. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Directly ahead of him, across the river with its vivid, square sails, rose the high east bank and the other half of the ancient city of Thebes. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

At the stream bank she sets out their drear picnic, which is only dense, crumbling bread daubed with crushed peanuts and slices of bitter plantain. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

She lolloped up the bank, spraying mud and water on all sides. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

During the day they would swim down deep, or hide in cuts along the banks, but when the sun was newly risen they came, to the surface. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Ferns grew along its bank, and its rocks were upholstered with moss. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

His feet are the bank and I’m the crook. The Crossover 2014-03-18T00:00:00Z

Several of the boys came eagerly to the bank where the boat was wedged in the slick mud. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

“I hope it is not true what they are saying, that the government will take over all Biafran bank accounts.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

It was lonely, uninhabited country, so that there were no bridges, and the river if anything became wider as they trotted along the banks. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bobby Gene sighed and started refilling his own bank. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

I sat down on the bank, buried my face in my hands, and cried. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

As they peeked over the bank, heat from a bonfire struck them like a train. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

My uncle’s daughter had married a man who worked at a bank in the capital. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

This stream did not seem to have any calm water, and I must have walked a thousand miles before I found a pool by a deep undercut bank in the shade of overhanging bushes. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

From a bank of lockers further up, someone clicks a locker shut. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

He had nothing in the bank, and possessed no collateral, unless you counted the tiny trailer he and his family crowded into. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

I watch the streets along the banks for angry gamblers who might still be searching for the Girl. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

For a moment he thought that he was looking at another river—black, smooth and straight between its banks. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

She gets banished to bras, which is terra incognita for us—huge banks of shelves bearing barely distinguishable bi-coned objects—for a three-hour stretch. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

The shutters on the high bank of windows are open, revealing the crate-littered balcony of the building next door. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

“We only have like forty minutes to figure out how Loblolly and the Dandy Bandits crawled into the bank back in 1968!” Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

Under the live oaks, shaded and dusky, the maidenhair flourished and gave a good smell, and under the mossy banks of the water courses whole clumps of five-fingered ferns and goldy-backs hung down. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

At night Pa banked it with ashes to keep the coals alive till morning. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Silver seemed about to speak when suddenly there was a pattering in the undergrowth above and three more rabbits came over the bank from the wood. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Used to be more like a tunnel through this bank, he thought. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

Since its establishment in 1917, the laboratory’s operations had been concentrated on the campus of the Langley Field military base on the bank of Hampton’s Back River. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

I took the wad of bills into my fist, hugged the piggy bank to my chest and charged up the ladder to my bunk. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Five hundred thousand depositors had funneled $2 billion into his sixteen banks and had been promised 15 percent interest on their money. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

When your mom died, they put all the insurance money in the bank for you. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

He banked into the homestretch, swung out to go around Today, and made the biggest mistake of his career. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“They said she had hundreds of thousands of yuan in the bank.” Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Neither of them had had entity or individuality for him for ten years; together they merely symbolised the job in the bank of which he had been deprived before he ever got it. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Thus his offer; but well did I know that he had no intention of returning to the bank and could not unassisted, did he wish to. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

He watched Frightful during the day from the big sycamore tree on the river- bank and at night from the top of the bridge. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

I pulled a fish off my line and let it dance its last dance against the bank, then put it in a pail half filled with water. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z

“You got it. No bank. They don’t give loans to black folks.” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“Keep money in two different banks,” I says. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

But de Soto died on the banks of the Mississippi River without ever seeing his wife again. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

When once Shasta had reached the far end of the bridge he found the crowd melting away; everyone seemed to be going either to the left or right along the river bank. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

It had overflowed so that the fringe of poplar trees on its banks stood deep in water, and the cornfields were transformed into endless lakes. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

A halt was called at lunchtime on the banks of a slow, broad river. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

There was a path their cows had carved into the bank and it made the sides fall off to nothing. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The First National Bank of Midland announced plans for two forty-story-plus bank towers. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

From time to time one or another would begin to scrape in the gravelly bank, or venture a little way in among the trees and nut bushes to scuffle in the leaf mold. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

August and June scooped their arms under May’s body and struggled to carry her to the bank. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The village was on the bank of a great river where lush fruits and vegetables grew, but no one was allowed to eat anything because it all belonged to the crocodile. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

Uriah leads me down the hallway to the elevator bank. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Having forgotten his song and his rope, he just stood there high up on the bank ringing, ringing his bell. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

The water was cold and in flood and many things passed that had been floated off the banks when the river rose. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

“This is all our piggy bank savings,” Bobby Gene explained. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Reeds grew thick in the shallows along the banks, and Arya saw a water snake skimming across the surface, ripples spreading out behind it as it went. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The Romans sneaked up behind Ptolemy’s encampment and pushed his army back to the banks of the Nile. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

With a great splash Constance waded into the shallows and dragged the corpse up on to the mossy bank. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

The two walked along the bank and watched frogs jump into the river until the bell rang at the end of recess. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

A gull which had been following the ship screeched and flew over, banking on a wind eddy. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

The bank wouldn't give them their money either. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

‘The water’s about ten feet deep except over on the other bank, and there it’s shallow.’ The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

“It’s fine,” she called over her shoulder as she ran up the bank. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

The banks of the hot spring were made of thick, red clay. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

It deposited me at the edge of the ocean proper, where the sand bank dropped off into a huge chasm. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

The road here was below the level of the river bank and all along the side of the sunken road there were holes dug in the bank with infantry in them. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

At her request we powdered the down over her lips and throat, penciled definition into her brows, and walked her to the banks of the fish pond where our children played cricket in the afternoon. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

She got so much blood that one doctor wrote a note in her record stopping all transfusions “until her deficit with the blood bank was made up.” The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

“I have a few scholarship applications for you to fill out. They’re in this folder. Take a look at them. I am going to the bank. I’ll be right back.” Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

After supper, he propped himself up against a fern, bit off some spruce gum for a chew, and lay there on the bank dreaming and chewing gum. Stuart Little 1945-10-17T00:00:00Z

Sometime in the late 1920s, after extraordinarily heavy rains, swollen streams running off the nearby mountains backed up into a ravine, then exploded over the banks. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

I look at the bank clock and decide to give her until 11:22. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

When she found him, he took her hand and led her to a small meadow among the cottonwoods on the south bank of the Dungeness. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

She opened the stairwell door and we were inside a huge room with an oak table as long as two cars, and a long bank of floor-to-ceiling windows. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

The woman left her washing and got up from the bank, gesturing for me to follow. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

And then Nora draws a piggy bank with dollar signs around it. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

No way could that little country bank carry us another year. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

The Friday of my first week at The Maids is unnaturally hot for Maine in early September—95 degrees, according to the digital time-and-temperature displays offered by banks that we pass. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

The bank had called to ask her to sign some paperwork authorizing the direct-withdrawal program I’d set up with the tax lady. Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

A bit earlier, he had nearly suggested going back himself, or else climbing up the high bank above the stream. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

The river narrowed and the banks rose higher, growing into dark limestone cliffs with sides too steep for the jungle to cling to. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

The road went over the little creek, and the Tillermans turned off the road, following the creek’s dry banks until they judged they were far enough from road and farmhouse. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

It usually took over an hour to walk from Chisamba Singles to the center of Mutare, where several banks were located. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Not even taking time to shake the water from his body, again he raised his head and bawled, and tore out down the bank. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

I sat alone on the marsh bank for a while, my back against the thick trunk of the old live oak we called the boar hog tree. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

We have no fear in running at good speed up the river at night; there is plenty of water, and the banks are wide enough apart to make steaming, even in the dark, easy enough. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

When they got to the bank of the creek, they stopped. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

The class gazed dreamily at the bank, half-expecting it to shoot up to the ceiling in a puff of smoke. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

He laughed, lifting my bank out of its box. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

The voice of a different frog, hoarser and not so deep, croaked from the nearest bank. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

When they spoke again it was to discuss whether they ought to sleep on the bank or retreat back up the wooded slope. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

But soon Haldir turned aside into the trees and halted on the bank of the river under their shadows. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

He began leaping and skipping about on the bank and cuffing Fiver with his front paws. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

I could picture it: the big moment when the hero grabs the bank and smashes it against the table. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

There was mist on the River, and white fog swathed the shore; the far bank could not be seen. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

After two days, I have a full three-ring notebook to submit to the bank board. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

After a little, it drifted to the bank and El-ahrairah dragged it out and waited a while before pushing it in again. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the bank there was an equally gigantic man lying at his ease, with a dog beside him. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Smitty leads me through an atrium to a bank of elevators. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

I don’t really understand her job, but from what I can tell, whenever something goes wrong at the bank, she fixes it. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

Panting, Kingshaw pulled him round clumsily, and managed to get him half on to the bank. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

She made for the coffin, stared at the bank white gauze, and said, “Don’t he look natural?” A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

Wild creepers burst through laterite banks and spill across the flooded roads. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Currently, Dusty is serving time in a federal prison for bank robbery and will not be released for many years. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

I found my way back to the bank of the Thames, but Falconer was nowhere in sight. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

Petra sat by the river’s edge listening to the night sounds and watching a frog hopping along the marshy, muddy bank. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

“But couldn’t you go to the bank and tell them you’d lost the key?” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

She jumped down the bank onto a little peninsula of mud, wrapped a too-small life vest around her neck, and climbed into the front of the canoe. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

Father had just completed another circuit of the estate and was banking to the left over the fences, so his nose at the time was pointed toward the hillside. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Several days later, in a village where the river meets the sea, there washed up on the banks two blocks of wood carved in the shape of the hooves of some unknown beast. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Probably to stop bank robbers from busting in. But shouldn’t you people have added windows when you turned it into a library?” Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

Off to the north the skies were clear, but in the east from whence storms sometimes came at this season, stood banks of gray clouds, one on top of the other. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Friendship turned and banked eastward, climbing over green hills quilted with tea plantations and small farms. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

And a few years before that, he’d fought a Titan on the banks of the Lethe, near Hades’s palace. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Crocodiles lurked on the banks—could one have captured the cub in its powerful jaws? Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

She ran along by the boiling water to investigate, scrambling down the bank, to stand looking pityingly at the wet, bedraggled body, wondering what it was, for she had never seen anything like it before. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

She dressed in Mary’s loose shirt again and, seeing some flat stones by the bank, went to fetch her own clothes to wash them. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

It leapt from its hiding place and up the bank. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

It was a faded plastic bank in the shape of a cartoon character. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

Marv still hasn’t had it fixed since the bungled bank robbery. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

Three banks of robotic oars dipped into the water and began moving them forward. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

“But...I don’t understand. Even if he took payment in, uh, whatever, how does that make everything belong to the bank?” Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

The hobbits scrambled down a steep green bank and plunged into the thick trees below. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Kira saw ice very seldom, only occasionally in the very coldest months when sleet struck the village, breaking tree branches, and the river froze near its banks. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was a slow, tottering little thing, but Roz was rarely in a hurry, and together they loved meandering along the forest paths and around the banks of the pond. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Crouching under the bank, she had put on the boy’s suit, bundled up her own clothes and dropped them into the water, stood a moment watching them float out on the tide. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

He reached the top of the bank in a single, powerful leap. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was like a hoverboard course made solid, complete with tight, banked turns, sharp climbs followed by long drops, even loops that took Tally upside down, her crash bracelets activating to keep her on board. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

We entered the Corsica and then went directly to the opposite bank and the opening off the river where I had discovered Ben and where I’d spotted the sunken kayak last April. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

As he stood there on the bank above her, he thought, I’d like her to listen to me like that. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

That night they camped on a small eyot close to the western bank. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

The other, he said, are American investment banks and financial services companies, which often need to prepare glossy pamphlets with graphs to illustrate the benefits of an IPO or a proposed merger. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

The sky was a photograph of arrested flames licking a cloud bank. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

So expensive, in fact, that Max had to check his bank balance on his phone while they stood in line, just to make sure that he had enough in his account. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

The dense tropical trees along the river’s edge towered overhead, providing shade along the banks, while big-beaked toucans called out with their harsh sounds and flocks of parakeets flashed their green, blue, and red feathers. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

But just to be sure, the pilot banks left, doubling back to get a better look. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

He moved along the bank a few paces where generations of peasants had worn a “highway,” and soon came to the path. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

"Nothing, eh? Illegally withdrawing items from the bank, hoarding cash and jewelry. Probably working with the underground." The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

When princes defaulted on their debts to lesser banks, ruined bankers sold their wives and children into slavery and opened their own veins. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

But never in a thousand years did anyone in Midland, in Odessa, in all of West Texas, ever think that the bank would crumble. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Pale stone arches marched off into the fog, reaching from the Palace of Sorrow to the river’s western bank. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I knew my family would be happy to know I had a bank job. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

As he and his two bodyguards drove along the banks of the Danube, Bobby noticed that the river wasn’t the color he’d thought it would be. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Sister read Doña Laura's note explaining that this was an offertory bank, and everyone got to work a penny in the cloud and watch the little figure rise. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

“You have to deposit it like at the bank,” she said. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

When I came to the creek, I shoved the bike down the bank and watched it splash into the water. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

On the bank the Ford car sat, still breathing softly from its overheating. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Besides, he was bound to stop the trap and come running down the bank, and she would have to suffer the interruption with good grace. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

It was already day, a windless and sullen morning, and the marsh-reeks lay in heavy banks. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

We keep ourselves pressed as closely against the side of the bank as we can so idle soldiers and drunk workers above can't see us past all the grass and rocks. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

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

She comes to this bank, Capital One, so often that everyone there knows her. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

On the far side of the pyre, the children saw a clutch of nobles standing amid the merchants and Jews who had come from their homes on the north bank. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

They had a pleasant five minutes conjecturing about how much was in the bank. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Carl had driven me to the bank so I could withdraw the money from my account. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

A lover finds his mistress asleep on a mossy bank; he wishes to catch a glimpse of her fair face without waking her. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

It is la llorona, my brothers cried in fear, the old witch who cries along the river banks and seeks the blood of boys and men to drink! Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a wonderful analogy, not only for the bank but for all of Midland. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

There they were turned into poplar trees, on the bank of the Eridanus, Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

He banked Seabiscuit out into it, holding him out of the deep part of the track. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Cari paced the bit of path at the top of the bank while Beto squatted down by the water skipping stones. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

I brought my squadron in to the river bank with one turn of the sweeps. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Just prior to the bank holdup, I’d been taking stock of my life. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

There was a six-chair barbershop, where civic leaders were mummified in hot towels; and bathtubs for rent; and elevator banks lit by translucent egg-shaped marble lamps. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

The other boys were already engaged making shelves of their small hands and peering under them toward the seven-foot stone banks of the canal, watching for Martians. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he heard the rustle of leaves, Bran used the reins to make Dancer turn, expecting to see his friends, but the ragged men who stepped out onto the bank of the stream were strangers. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The others were standing on the bank watching. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

The body was in shallow water near the bank, it was reported, and was found at Pecan Point near Phillipp. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

She made sure she knew all the bank numbers, customer service numbers, passwords, credit card numbers, and codes. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

She placed the folded deed on top of the clumsy star bank. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You bank those coals when we call you in, you hear?” The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

How did he break into this bank in ten seconds, with four armed guards at the back entrance? Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

"It's the agent, not these gentlemen. He's the one; He says it's the bank, but you know he's the one. We've done business with him for over twenty years." Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

We sat beneath them, on the bank of the stream and let our feet hang in the bright, swift waters. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sayle gestured with the gun and he walked over to a bank of elevators. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

I hadn’t realized that the whole top of the bank was only a very short distance across and the other side was just as steep. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ahead of her she saw Con approaching the opposite bank, and Taisin was almost through the wide, fast center. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

The next day, Father presented her with a piggy bank. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

Fortunately, as a precaution, I withdrew my savings from the bank as soon as I arrived in New York. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

And now, as she walked into the bank, she saw Obinze at the customer service section. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Chunky clods dislodged from the creek’s bank and toppled into the water, swept into the loop. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Kingshaw wanted to climb up the bank again, and go on climbing, up and up one of the elm trees until he could see the open sky. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

He said, “Did I ever tell you about the time I went to a sperm bank to try and sell my sperm?” 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

Lucas and Mena were soon playing around in the water as Gabriel and I were lying on the bank, using our shirts bundled up under our heads for pillows. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

As he came to the bank Ogion, waiting, reached out his hand and clasping the boy’s arm whispered to him his true name: Ged. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

With the tribe’s approval, Florer and a wealthy banking partner obtained a lease to begin drilling on the reservation. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

She went to the bank and withdrew all her money—243 dollars and 87 pence. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

They washed the mud off themselves, from when they had fallen down the bank, and then raced about, lifting their knees very high, splashing and yelling. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

“I’m here, as it happens,” said Holly, who had come along the top of the bank while Hazel was speaking. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

A squad of Arabs stood on the bank a few yards from where I hid. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Coins and pieces of paper and checkbooks and numbers in bank accounts. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

The stream bank is mud, muck, loose sand, and pebbles. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

“But why have they let us?” asked Harry, who could not shake off the vision of tentacles rising out of the dark water the moment they were out of sight of the bank. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

‘This hole here belongs to Rabscuttle and myself. We liked the look of this bank as soon as we saw it.’ Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s not that pretty smell, like by the holler creek, where those itty blue flowers grow along the bank.” Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

As it turned out, the reckless, freewheeling ways of the First National Bank of Midland made it a trendsetter in the American banking industry during the eighties. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then he robbed a string of banks and by misfortune he happened to shoot a bank guard and now was doing life. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

Immediately in front of him, Bigwig and Dandelion were staring out from the sheer edge of a high bank, and below the bank ran a stream. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

She examined the evidence—the bank statements and the bounced checks. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

There was no time to stop and study them, because they had already reached the bank, and were climbing out. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

It pained Mariam—it pained her considerably—to picture Rasheed panic-stricken and helpless, pacing the banks of the lake and pleading with it to spit his son back onto dry land. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

“Yes. But then I thought we could have picked it up anywhere. Just found it on the bank—summing like that.” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

In the low bank behind him were three rabbit holes. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Little Willy saw Miss Williams, his teacher, and Mr. Foster from the bank, and Hank from the post office. Stone Fox 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

He nodded, and without speaking, they went back to the creek bank where they shared together a solemn meal of crackers and dried fruit. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

When he was almost to the other side he dove onto the bank and scrambled up, grabbing at the brush for balance. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z