At each corner of the pool lolled a pink plaster-of- paris gnome with rosy cheeks and a peaked red cap. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Pitter-pat, pitter-pat, not quite so fast now, there were only two red gloves, and sometimes he could see them before they tapped against his face. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was hanging limply in the ropes binding him to the headstone of Voldemort’s father, looking up into those bright red eyes through a kind of mist. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

We were at the school now; Rosalie’s red convertible was conspicuous in the parking lot. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

His muzzle was wet and red, but his eyes burned. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

I have said that the red rock is on a first come, first serve basis. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

Beneath the hems of the dresses the feet dangle, two pairs of red shoes, one pair of blue. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

The woman behind the counter soon realized that his interest didn’t stop at red paint. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

Still moving forward, I saw his face gleam with red angry tears as he stood above Clifton with the still innocent knife and the tears red in the glow of the window sign. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Both gauges immediately registered past the green and onto the red; the needles swung violently and then subsided. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

One dressed in a striped red shirt, matching knit hat, and round black glasses raised his hand in greeting, and the woman dressed as a mad scientist added, “Morning!” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

And then she gets a little bit red in the face, and turns to leave before it becomes a full-fledged flush. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

As I walk away, the students behind me ask, “What’s in the red folder?” Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

She twirls her pasta, dabs the corners of her wrinkly mouth with a red napkin. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

When the CD ended, Fang exited the spa, hit me with a killer look, dove for cover under the red velvet and snapped off the rickety lamp between the beds. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Then Calvin turns all red in the face. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

I’m even eyeing the old man in the red plaid shirt at the counter with suspicion. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

Ned rode one down, cutting at phantoms in red cloaks who gave way before him. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Allen said he didn't want the little red wagon. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

She is maybe thirty, with red- blond hair and a worried smile. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Her eyes and nose were red with crying. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

The monkey had sad eyes under his bright red cap. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

I grab the red folder from the ground and shove it at her. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Five simple words—a girl with red hair—and what a torrent of emotion they unleashed. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

A long wavy red line led the way from the gym to the main office at the far end of the main hallway. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

There was something out there in the murky water: a glimpse of red that sank away as soon as I saw it. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

The open doorway behind her was blocked by rough red bricks. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

Red like all the red in the entire history of the whole universe had been concentrated on her head. Lawn Boy Returns 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

But only red blood cells were affected by the altered genes—not Noel’s neurons or kidneys or liver cells or muscle cells. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Notwithstanding that the devil, played by Cook, gives himself away at once by wearing red socks, the infallible mark of a cad, Dudley falls into conversation with him. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

He was shorter than most of the men in the village but easily twice as thick, with a tangle of graying red hair that matched his bushy beard. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

Guards in red coats with buff facings were stationed by the door. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

A tiny dog with a red ribbon between its ears rushed in and gobbled the fallen cakes. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

They whispered, “Jesus, Jesus,” and together hoisted up their tub of water in which tight red tomatoes floated and threw it on the smoke-and-flame- bound woman. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Flakes of red clown paint flicked the air. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

The other one was red with four small stars in a semicircle to the right of a big star. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

I see a flash of red and look away. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

They fastened the page from the Book of Fortune onto Minli’s chopsticks and attached an end of the red cord to the kite. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

She has red lips and a flower in her hair. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

I hooked a right on red and gunned the minivan—it had better pickup than Mom’s but only just barely— toward school. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

The red in Coach’s neck rose to his face. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

That’s when I saw a small bundle of yellow, dragging a red umbrella, dart out of the house. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

The room is gaudy with gowns, red roses, silver service clinking. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

But as he grew, it stayed where it was, red and visible and alive. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

From the corner of his eye he caught sight of the huge bruise and the long red laceration on his sister’s arm. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

After a quick meal of macaroni and applesauce in the car—smart Mom, nothing red—we head downtown. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

Some had beautiful patterns of red and yellow lines crisscrossing the fabric. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

And he strode off, the back of his neck as red as Ron’s ears. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

I blink, and the violent red stains the inside of my eyelids. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

The orange drips turned to red, like blood, and made terrible sizzling noises when they touched her skin. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Let’s go and have a look,” said Harry, pointing to a large patch of tents upheld, where the Bulgarian hag — white, green, and red — was Buttering in the breeze. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

There I joined some twenty others, all of whom were gasping, with red, wet faces, as the pain sharpened. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

His eyes are red and puffy—I bet he cried—and his clothes are dirty, but other than that, he looks like the same boy from the resource room. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

Every time the phone rang his body went to red alert. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

With red eyes inflamed by wind and salt spray, they stared ahead into the ocean, anxious for a sight of land, licking their cracked lips. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

“There,” he croaked, red dripping down his face like blood. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

And when he saw her, cheeks red, teeth nibbling on her bottom lip, he knew they’d already said something. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

The gardens were all brown stalks and stubble and fallen leaves by now, and so was this one, except for one viny upshoot of green and red. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

I straightened my bright red baseball hat and cleared my throat. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Her eyes were still red from crying, she looked awful tired, and I didn’t quite know how to get out what she needed to hear. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Cora tucked her hair under the red cap. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

For Lee I had bought a red pencil box with two drawers in it, like mine. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Nightbeast’s fur blended almost exactly with the color of the fog around them except for red markings along its face and mouth that looked a lot like blood. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

Dark, anyway, save for the red smoke-detector button and the occasional swoop of headlights from the road outside. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Edel gulps down a flute of red liquid and takes another. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

In the luminance, the deep red of the rubies embedded in the carved ivory glittered like blood, a beautiful violence. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

The plover’s golden eye and red noseband made it look like one of the dancers in the Bladder Feast. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

I fingered red silk ribbons and the shiny silver wrapper of a chocolate bar. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

His mouth was half twisted, almost smiling—the red of the blood that had dripped out of his nose and mouth the only color left in New York. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

His old red feet would keep jogging along, on and on, mile after mile. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her skin was blue, her blood was red. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

His father inspected the red smear thoughtfully, then showed it to her. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

The sea stretched below him, the red stone was in his hand, and the top of the mountain was not far away. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

We rode in a red car, him in the front, me in the back. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mainly Academy stuff, in other words, along with what to do during a red dot emergency and the ways in which officers were made vulnerable by the antiquated configurations of Sing Sing’s exercise yards. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The priest was young and blushed easily and wore a uniform like the rest of us but with a cross in dark red velvet above the left breast pocket of his gray tunic. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

Her red hair is pulled into a sloppy ponytail. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

In no time everyone was covered with the red dye. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

The round little man looked splendid in his new robes, with their broad bands of dun and butternut and narrow stripes of red. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

And it isn’t a calf’s liver, it’s too red. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

The latest hair trends are adding colored highlights, or mixing hair colors like black and red. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

Or that bearded guy who was carrying one of those red baskets. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

Both Miss Trotter and Ma Charles called any meat roasting in an outdoor fire “barbecue,” when barbecue to us was sauce from the grocery store or sweet and spicy red dust on potato chips. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

A couple of guards, in their red and brown uniforms, ambled across the square, laughing. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

He’s sitting in his armchair wearing his favorite red sweater, and his short white hair sticks up on the top of his head. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

Yes, patent, with a gold seal and red ribbons too if that had been practicable. Absalom, Absalom! 1936-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was dark red liquid, and I got the feeling it wasn’t Hawaiian Punch. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

There were little bits of curled red paper all over the place and the sharp smell of firecrackers. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the blank walls of some buildings were long, narrow strips of red paper upon which words had been painted in thick, black ink. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Their skin was sunstroke red —covered with tattoos of dragons, hearts, and bikini-clad women. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

His Secretary was writing them down in a little red note-book, one after another, as the King thought of them. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

I studied him as well, the white crinkled skin surrounding his dark brown eyes, the splendor of the individual red feathers. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

A red bow perched on her head like a little hat. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

Around her brow was a simple chain of little red flowers. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

Her craving settled on the red liquid coursing through the other woman’s veins. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Freestanding braziers cast a dim red glow over the floor. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

The neon sign above the gate was impossible for me to read, because if there’s anything worse for my dyslexia than regular English, it’s red cursive neon English. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

And she had arranged to rent a red palanquin to carry me from her neighbor’s house to the wedding ceremony. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

I think of Eden's face, of the medicine he and John and my mother will need, and of the strange red X with the line through it. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

It was still warm and red, giving off a little smoke. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

A different, more ominous-looking forest backdrop had been unfurled, and an actor dressed as a young girl in red cape and hood entered, carrying a basket. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

But Cristiana was visible, her red cloak enfolding another in a close embrace. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

His face was actually turning red, he was so excited. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

She lifted her skirt to see her underwear, covered in tiny red hearts. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

She had a deep laugh, and her hair was as brilliantly red as my finest autumn attire. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Their faces were dark, as if they had bathed them in charcoal, and they stared intensely at us with their extremely red eyes. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

The bullets have torn into Baxter’s chest, spraying red mist everywhere and knocking him onto his back with a hard thud. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

Kaede watched numbly as tiny red marks erupted on her hands where the Queen’s tears struck. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Beatriz, dressed to the nines in a red checkered skirt and white sweater, diva-strolls into the cafeteria, taking a seat at the center table, which everybody knows is reserved for her. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

"A red hat?" the aunt said, and in her wonder she loosened her hold on the girl, who quickly slipped away. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

There was a sign on the other side, a big piece of plywood with the letters S-I-D-A scrawled across in red paint, French for AIDS. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

Even though we were getting closer to the end of their growing season, ours were still full and round and deeply red. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

But Aunt Ruby pinned her collar with a red rose made of sealing wax. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

The blood lifted briefly from his skin in droplets of red then vanished. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

A state police car with the red light flashing bounced frenziedly off the highway, swung around the cluster of rattletrap vehicles, and screeched to a stop with its nose practically touching the front door. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the computers reboot, the screens flash red where it happened. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

She had on a red cloak and a black bonnet: or rather, a broad-brimmed gipsy hat, tied down with a striped handkerchief under her chin. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

His tongue was still red, his eyes not yet extinguished. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

The croquettes are fried in crackling oil and arranged with a red onion salad on plates. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Her mood was ablaze like her red hair. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

Joffrey examined the boy, an ungainly lad with a coarse, freckled face and thick red hair. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Fearfully he took a few uncertain steps in the dark, and then all at once there came a flash of red that leaped upward, and smote the high black roof. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

Holding her breath, she clicked the red arrow and watched the computer do its thinking spiral, then slowly load a new page. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

He held my knife, in its sheath of red leather. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

It was a little man in bright blue coat and red breeches, solemnly gazing at Salt Lane through a spyglass. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Each night he walked atop the Wall with Lady Melisandre, and during the days he visited the stockades, picking captives out for the red woman to question. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Behind him, reflected in the rear mirror, he saw the traffic lights flash from green to red, and back again. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

The road curved through red clay and junipers uphill to the northeast. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m as generous as can be,” he said, handing each of them a large red apple, “and I’m as selfish as can be,” he snarled, grabbing them back again. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

His face flushed red as both of his hands flew up to his neck. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

We arrived in Gotenhafen at dusk, our faces red and chapped from the wind on the water. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

She had bought him a red leather collar as a present. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

As Milo frantically conducted, the sky changed slowly from blue to tan and then to a rich magenta red. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

I remember one other dress—a wonderful crimson red lace. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

Lazily, he brushed a lock of red hair from his eyes. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

It was a small metal cylinder, silver and black in color, with a red activation button on its side. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

The bright red pain across Amari’s back and on her wrists and ankles made her whole body tremble. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m not the one who lapped red cash out of Pyce’s hand.” Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

A fur of red dust gathered on the curly hairs of his forearms, and rivulets of perspiration ran down his temples. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

At this hour the Crixa was all green shade, with red gleams of sun that winked through the moving leaves. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ahead was nothing but a long strip of red soil. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

The first thing I noticed was his red suspenders. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

After some thought, she chose a red canvas bookbag and went to the front of the store. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

A red kite was closing in on me—I’d caught it just in time. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

The red “live” light above the door means we have to wait outside at first. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

His cheeks were red, and he was wrapped in a heavy fur cloak that made him look ready for hibernation. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

He saw the face of a newly born child, red and full of wrinkles, ready to cry. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dalio was not as convinced, but after kneeling behind a parked car for a few minutes and not hearing or seeing any sign of the red Toyota, he decided that I might be right. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

I pause and lean on my shovel, calling to mind his sleep-composed face, the eyelashes that brush his fat cheeks, his red mouth that curves like the bow of Cupid. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

I shove the gun under the waistband of my red pants. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Under his direction more than 10,000 colonies of the red ant have been established in about 90 test areas in the German Federal Republic. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

The railroad yard was a desert now, except for a hospital train marked with red crosses—on a siding far, far away. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ammu undressed and put a red toothbrush under a breast to see if it would stay. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the alcove two men sat over a carved stone cyvasse table, squinting at their pieces by the light of a red candle. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

It’s dirty and ugly, no decorations like crocheted table runners, or framed cross-stitched roses on the walls, no red sofas or plush chairs. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

He took out a stack of boxer shorts with red and blue anchors on them. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

His gravestone was not ready yet; until it was carved, his grave would be marked by the red banner that flew now, waist-high, a splash of color against the slate-colored sky. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

He worked tirelessly in the weight room, his red cheeks bulging and his body vibrating. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Yaselith’s eyes now were wet and red, her hair as white and weightless as a puff of smoke. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Percy’s face was hard to read in the dim red light. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Dareon dashed inside the armory and returned with a skin of sour red. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

I rapped the roof of the car twice and Eduardo moved it slowly through the crowd before squealing off north, through the red lights, for Queens. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Diego blushed redder than ketchup, and I flashed my brother a death stare. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

But then I saw Sohrab in his red shirt and shorts, and his white cleats. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

She touches the braids, the red lips, and moves the doll’s arms. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

He saw: a red flag, down in die smoke and dark. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

She paused, “But he didn’t have red hair. Couldn’t be him.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“In July of 2008, a woman in Salt Lake City ran a red light while trying to send a text message. She critically injured one driver and killed a pedestrian,” Terryl launched in. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

"The only palace I desire is the red castle at King's Landing, my lord Pyat." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

It had the multimillion-dollar sports complex, physics lab, arts center, and global studies buildings to prove it, not to mention the two-hundred-year-old red brick mansions and halls housing all the other classrooms and offices. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

I chose a heavy, compact one that was wrapped in shiny silver foil and a red satin ribbon. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a thick, lush blanket of color—luxurious purple and electric blue and sunshine yellow and cheery red. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

The women jumping one after another from the cliff, their beautiful silk dresses billowing in the air—pink, red, green, blue . . . indeed, like flowers falling.” A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

Her long lashes fringed with tears, her red cheeks flushed with anger and upset, the sound she made when she fell that night. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

R.C.’s free was red and he smelled like stale beer. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

Her red hair glinting in the sun off the water. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

In anticipation of victory, he had broken his strict mourning and placed a red rose in the buttonhole of his lapel. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Along the rail fence the sumac held up its dark red cones of berries above bright flame-colored leaves. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

The table was covered with a red cloth, and the cookstove was polished shining black. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Packed in the plane were white, black, brown, red, and yellow people, blue eyes and blond hair, and my kinky red hair- all together, brothers! The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Scheme all you like, Massey. She’ll still be for the fire, her and her king’s blood. There’s power in king’s blood, the red woman used to say. Power to please our lord.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Tears streaked her cheeks, her face red and blotchy. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

He turned and looked behind him and saw the rats, their red eyes and their smiling mouths. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

He gawked at me when he saw my name — not an encouraging response — and of course I flushed tomato red. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

He made a gallant show of it, riding a spirited red courser whose mane was the same copper color as the long hair that streamed past Ser Addam's shoulders. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

I see the warm, honey glow behind your bedroom curtain, your shadow dancing on the wall as you gently fold your red sweater and bend to lacquer the small nails on your toes. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Her face was as pale as his was red, and she was biting her lower lip, but she didn’t flinch. The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z

Based on the red dot, this message was sent to him from inside the Dark World. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Excuse me,” whispered a white man whose face was, at that moment, a deep red. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

She is still in the red sun visor and tennis whites she wore leading her fitness class at the Forum Gym and winning at doubles afterward. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

There’s a knock behind us, and a white man with red hair sticks his head into the room. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

“Oh, well——” he said, blushing even redder than usual. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

Her leg was red and swollen, so even her rocking on the back porch made her grit her teeth. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

My calf is screaming, my hands covered in red welts. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Neither my new long reach nor Chapter Eleven’s beetle-browed concentration was sufficient to counter Milton’s wicked spin or his “killer shot” which left red marks on our chests, through our clothes. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Shadow had a carful of Wednesday’s guests to ferry to the restaurant: the woman in the red sari sat in the front seat beside him. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

A row of pedestals runs down the middle, leading to a tall red door in the middle of the back wall. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

Then he killed his brother, Jaime, hacking at his face until it was a red ruin, laughing every time he struck a blow. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

A red flashing dot suddenly appeared on the screen. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

He was wearing his red shirt unbuttoned, which seemed normal given the warm Indian-summer day. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Grenn loomed over him, thick of neck and red of face, with three of his friends behind him. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

For a moment, Harry thought Voldemort was not going to let go of it, but then it had slid through his fingers and was back in its red velvet cushion. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

For the heads, she stuffs her red checkered scarf with straw. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Also,” said Sierra, “‘Dumpster’ and ‘red stump’ are spelled with the same letters.” Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

Blue stars are hot and young; yellow stars, conventional and middle-aged; red stars, often elderly and dying; and small white or black stars are in the final throes of death. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

She knelt and pushed down her sock to reveal a fat, red welt ringing it. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

At night, blinking red neon outlined the muzzle, neck, and ears. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

The first stop was Nishuane, the elementary school, an imposing and forbidding structure of dark red brick. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then the black queen put on her red scarf and walked off into the October twilight. Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

He sits on the stoop instead, still with the red cup in his hand, and with his shifting jaw. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

I wondered what I would be doing if I had been born into a red family instead of a black one. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sohrab’s neck turned red, and his jaw twitched, like he was grinding his teeth a little bit. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

It doesn’t help that she looks obnoxiously cute—striped shirt tucked into a red skirt over tights, hair clipped back with bobby pins. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

Layla gave it to Ivy for her tenth birthday and said the color looked good with Ivy’s pale red hair. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Most of the buildings are black against a navy sky, but the red lights at the top of the Hub are lit up. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

I also designed a set of wedding rings, where each one takes the pulse of the person wearing it and sends a signal to the other ring to flash red with each heartbeat. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

She was wearing a jaunty shirtwaist, white with small red and blue semaphore flags. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

And the red will hide any blood spatters. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Perfect beads of light reveal the cherry red of her fluttering eyes and the gray of her skin. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

Virtually every home along the tracks now displayed the red, white, and black swastika flag. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

He’s decorated our bathroom in red and orange, with purple mermaids swimming on the walls, and hooked up the toilet seat so that it plays “Jingle Bells” when it’s raised. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m shocked at how many red flags their licensing workers overlooked.” Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

He crumpled on the floor holding his finger tight and his face went red and I realized for the first time that Devon feels pain. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

His cheeks puffed out, the Colonel blew into the hole hard and long, his face turning red. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

The direwolf's eyes burned red as embers as his teeth nipped lightly at the soft skin of the boy's throat, just enough to draw blood. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Her red lips are purple and dry, her cheeks are sunken, there are deep shadows under her eyes, her porcelain white skin is brown and wrinkled from the sun. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

There would be a tiny red blot in my field of vision for the rest of the morning. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

“It is far from here. Through the darkest Wood and across the three rivers; beyond the red hills and within the trees of gold.” Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Being a Delsprite means red will be one of my favorite colors, second to purple. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The younger woman wore a shiny red headscarf, and a stylish jacket that came down to her hips. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

So Annie and Doc Mom settled on a pair of plain red lifeguard baggies that were exactly the ones I would have chosen for myself about an hour and a half earlier. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

The new sled was a classic: polished wood, red runners, steering handles. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

His eyes were red and watery from the cold. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Irene was a pink-eyed girl and her hair was of such a pale red that it, too, could be called pink. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Rosie pops the red globe in her mouth and smiles as she chews it. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

Her face is as red as a raspberry. Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z

The Red Cross team is easy to recognize, with their white T-shirts emblazoned with the large red symbol known the world over. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

I crept along, walking a southern walk in southern weather, closing my eyes from time to time against the dazzling reds, yellows and greens of cheap sport shirts and summer dresses. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

And the family had often gone together into the hills to pick raspberries, and they would come home with big jars stuffed full of the red fruit. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Something pushed through his skin and grew like many pieces of thin red grass. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

One of Capricorn’s men kicked out as the marten shot past his legs, but Gwin got away and disappeared behind one of the red columns. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

This time she had another maid with her, a stocky woman with a red face and red hands who was obviously not afraid of Meggie’s powers of witchcraft. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

One day, while collecting wood, Ku-Ang saw something red glittering on the ground. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

Someone in a red hoodie and blue jeans torn at the knees almost bumps into me. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

The colors around him are blue and red and light brown. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

Aunt Loma’s face got as red as if she’d been on the river all day, but it was Mama who finally spoke. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

The pool of water quickly turned red as the blood fell from his face into the sink. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

She blinked and Bitter’s face came into focus, a piece at a time, the hard cheekbones, the bare eyebrows, the broad mouth pressed with a matte red. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

Three red stars on yellowed fabric, one for each brother, and room for more. Red Queen 2015-02-10T00:00:00Z

At last I see her coming, a red and white shape of cloth, like a kite, walking at the steady pace we’ve all learned to keep. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

The following morning is payday, and the employees of the Benzini Brothers Most Spectacular Show on Earth line up in front of the red ticket wagon. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

Holding a glass of deep red wine, she sits on the chair farthest away from Brandon. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

It glanced off the Object’s red hair as she moved and darted ahead of me. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

It’s only a block away, and maybe it’s not a red star on her map, but it should’ve been. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

‘A stout little fellow with red cheeks,’ said Mr. Butterbur solemnly. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Harris clicked on the screen and Ladybird Hope appeared, wearing a red suit with a flag pin on the lapel. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

He was a white boy with red hair who everybody was friends with mainly because people were scared that he was crazy and it's better to be on crazy's good side. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

I leave the red umbrella where it is, because I know from the window that the day is sunny. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

In spite of the dark red dawn the sun was mounting the horizon clouds and sparkled upon the dew on the rising wheat and barley. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

Picking up the cards scattered across the floor, I place the red queen and the black queen together on top of the stack. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Still, it was nerve-racking having everyone see so much of her, and she was glad when she spotted her mom’s pale red head weaving through the crowd. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

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

“The one wrapped in fabric so it looks like a flat red sheet on top of the board I pulled away?” Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

“But your genes—” “If genes are destiny, then Nailer should have sold you to your enemies and spent the bounty on red rippers and Black Ling whiskey.” Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

He’d also avoided Lily, who had returned to lessons with red, puffy eyes and a scowl you could hang meat from. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

On an Arizona highway, a two-car caravan is flashing across sagebrush country—the mesa country of hawks and rattlesnakes and towering red rocks. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

No corny hearts on it, but it is red. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Dylan and Elsie both go red in the face from laughing at me. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

On the far wall, in the center of the spider swarm, a red symbol blazed to life: the figure of an owl like the one on the silver drachma, staring straight at Annabeth. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

For instance, there were funny things like little plugged-up funnels, some gray called pixie-cups and some bright red called British soldiers. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

As the sun set he came down to the wharves again, and even there in the broad red light and wind of the day’s end, sea and land alike to him seemed dim and silent. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

As he came closer she saw that his face was red and wet, his mouth twisted. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

It was like a dream interval and in an instant it swung back and I saw only her mysteriously smiling eyes above the rich red robe. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

They smoothed the pretty dress and admired the red flannel stockings and the gaiters, and the curly woolen hair. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sun is touching the hills and spreading its red guts all over ’em. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

His voice sounds muffled, as if it’s buried under layers of red. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

The house was painted red instead of blue. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

I scanned the facility, land of a zillion red bricks. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then Johnny saw running down Cambridge road through the bushes on Charlestown Common a scurry of red ants. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

I flattened myself against the dark red wall and averted my eyes as the techs from the medical examiner’s office took my parents away in body bags. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

She pointed down at a giant road-train passing below, the only light coming from it a dim red flicker from underneath, the navigation laser reading the bar codes painted onto the road. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

But now more masses were coming, in clots, broken lines, red battle flags plowing through the smoke, moving this way, drifting to the left, toward the base of the hill. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Another thing I get for Christmas is a red plastic purse, oval in shape, with a gold-colored clasp and a handle at the top end. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

The Old Bear glanced up, searching for a glimpse of sky through the pale limbs and red leaves of the weirwood. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

She had dressed for Nashville in a vintage sleeveless red gingham blouse with black high-waisted denim shorts and vintage cowboy boots. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

When Amari turned the page again, there I was—my hair a mass of curly red wires that seemed to be shooting electricity. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

The officer laughed so hard, his face turned red. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Some are wearing red scarves that are particularly vibrant against the black and white. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

There’s a statue in the center of a rectangle of beautiful red flowers. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

He was about to turn off into the woods when the first truck sped toward him, tossing up a cloud of red dust and catching him in its headlights. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

It was white, with a genuine red leather interior. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

She pointed to a cracked red vinyl barber’s chair, which she spun to face a small television next to the hair dryers. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

But now, plump red tomatoes grew fatter every day, yellow flowers turned into bright green zucchini, and pole beans hung in clusters from vines that snaked up twine to form leafy tepees. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

Brandon’s shirt was covered with leaves and grass, and two red scratches lined his face. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

“I never noticed before — your hair has red in it,” he commented, catching between his fingers a strand that was fluttering in the light breeze. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Before Lac could say anything, the back door of the one of the buildings swung open, and out stepped a man with an overgrown red beard. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Instead I saw her car parked at the Quit Man’s house and saw red when I closed my eyes. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

The tulips are not tulips of blood, the red smiles are not flowers, neither thing makes a comment on the other. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

I could see her broadside on from here, the red underwater section showing against the black of the top-sides, and the single funnel leaning rakishly towards the cliffs beyond. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Frank picked a single red feather out of the air. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

His hard collar stood up against his strong red neck, and he wore a pale blue knitted tie with a horseshoe tie pin. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

The snow’s red and littered with undersized body parts. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Loud hat, square coat, bald head like moon: red, lavender, salmon. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

Her face was trembling and her eyes were red. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

A glimmer of Ms. Bethune’s red and silver sneakers appeared next to her desk. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

Before Dylan can answer, a ball of red flame bursts into existence between us. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

He has color in his face now, and the beginnings of red whiskers, like his hair. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Her lips were wet and redder than the apple. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

She sat and wrapped her arms around herself until the shaking stopped, glancing fearfully at the red horizon every few seconds. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

The umbilical cord flew with the red flag and made us laugh. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the inside, sharp smells—vinegar, alcohol, purple liquid iodine, red Mercurochrome solution, and soap—filled the air. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

Each has a little wire handle and red Chinese temples printed on the sides. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

A red sneaker next to its mate on the shoe rack in my closet. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

He picked up his marking book and I saw him write down a big red O next to my name. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sky was awash with streaks of red and purple as the sun set on Peshawar. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Before Highboy passed a jar to Willie he borrowed Portia’s lipstick and drew a red line to set the boundary of the drink. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

They were wearing large, red, luminous stars on their hats, all except Hagrid, who had his on the back of his moleskin vest. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

I wished I could iron it all between sheets of wax paper like I’d done with the bright red maple leaf I’d mailed to Dad. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

A boy dressed like a mime—his face white with makeup, lips done in rosy red—turned to them from the next chair. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

“If that stuff be sugar, where are the red ants?” Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

He held up one hand and stared at the red scratches on it, which oozed drops of blood. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

The roadside stands were piled with golden pumpkins and russet squashes and baskets of red apples so crisp and sweet that they seemed to explode with juice when I bit into them. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

He saw one black cannon spout red fire at the limits of his vision. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then, it was red, and angry, and bleeding. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

It’s left a red ring on her skin. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

A green car came up the road and turned into the yard of the second red house. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

They clashed like some sort of weird Christmas combat scene—the red versus the green. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

A barking red squirrel, glued to the side of a hackberry tree, kept time to the music with the beat of his tail. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

He wears the same jeans as yesterday, but a dark red T-shirt instead of his black one, probably borrowed from one of the Amity. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

A Victorian terrace of bright red brick faced right onto the pavement. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

I read about the blusher mushroom, a pale fungus that blooms with beads of a red liquid that looks uncomfortably like blood. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

He thought again of the banner on the wall, all those strips of red, blue, and purple. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

We watched him with our swollen red eyes, anxious and numb at the same time. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

When the door opened, it was not the woman in white but another one wearing red, her hair cut so short it resembled a little gray, curlicue swim cap pulled tight over her scalp. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The east is gray; it will be primrose soon and then red with firing and once more the weary backward marching will begin, retreating from annihilation, falling back upon defeat, though not quite yet. Absalom, Absalom! 1936-01-01T00:00:00Z

A space has been cleared and the love seat has been moved in and surrounded by vases of red and pink roses. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

There are two sets of barbells, a burlap sack of sand, a jump rope with red wooden handles, and a pear-shaped leather punching bag nailed to the closet ceiling. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You have been taught how to duel, Harry Potter?” said Voldemort softly, his red eyes glinting through the darkness. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Pri has a red plastic cup, too, and she pours the alcohol down her throat as if it’s cool water on a hot day. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

The one with the red moustache wiped his mouth on a paper napkin. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

"With good will," said the lady in the red kirtle. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

There was a blinding crimson flare from the corner of the workshop as the fog began to catch fire, sending up strangely angular tongues of violent red flame. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Her claws always came out when she was happy, and I knew I’d have tiny red wounds from how she was kneading me, purring, her eyes looking earnestly into mine. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

In the firelight, he squinted up at the captain, his eyes red from smoke. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Its vibrant turquoise-blue kameez is decorated with delicate red embroidery around the neckline and wrists. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

Forebodingly I caught a smell—metallic, the iron smell of blood, as when a woman gives birth, as at the sacrifice of a large animal, as when I menstruated and dreamed red dreams. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the morning the beach would be strewn with carcasses, and the waves red with blood. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the far side of the town there was a red brick building, the stately Seminary, topped with a white cupola. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Watching as their cream-colored Buick flies through the guardrail and over the side of the bridge to avoid old Mr. McPherson’s red truck? Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

How must it feel to have your entire face turn red? A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

He wore Roman sandals with the lacings coming to his knees, a short skirt of feathers and a war bonnet all of which were painted in bright reds, blues and yellows. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

When we opened the boxes up, we found a payload of raunchy, orangey red T-shirts faded out in places and with the odd ripped seam adding character. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

His eyes shifted to her, and, to his relief, he found that she was as red as he, if not more so. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

I’m wearing royal-blue leggings, a red shirt with a flag detail left over from the Fourth of July, and a white denim jacket. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

There was a hazy red glow to the air, enough that Alec looked like a creeping devil in front of him. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

She tucked a finger under the gills, a red so bright they made her vermilion seem pale. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

Each year at the New Year Wang Lung’s father bought sheets of red paper and carefully cut and pasted new robes for the pair. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

Everybody looked to see the big red chunk from the very center of the melon, free of rind and sparse of seed, which had rolled a little distance from Blue’s feet. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her footprints pushed aside the snow to reveal the deep brown of fallen leaves, and red chokecherries climbed among the evergreens — startling color in the gray and white landscape. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Say that again,” Ron said, his face as red as his hair. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

Everything turned fiery red and gold like in that Robert Frost poem in The Outsiders. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

At the foot of the image, was a thick red glass filled with yellow wax and a wick. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

She loved to look at the fire in the fireplace, flickering and changing all the time, burning yellow and red and sometimes green above the logs, and hovering blue over the golden and ruby coals. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

They only made it clear that I’m not allowed to do one, with a big red X on that section of my schedule. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

“Oh! That does me no end of good. Tell on, please,” he said, taking his face out of the sofa cushion, red and shining with merriment. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

The red light swelled and I saw two scrivs turn a corner. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Blood in a river, the river running red with it, the earth drowning in blood. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

There were aunts, uncles, cousins — the home behind the red gate doors was really a village of relatives. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

I look round and recognize the man with the red hair, the one from the station, from that Saturday. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

It seemed to him that the prophecy that drove the red priests had room for just one hero. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Someone had knocked out the light, and through the dimness I saw Clifton heading to where a red neon sign glowed in a dark window as something went past my head. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then from a drawer in his night table he took out a sheet of paper, a yellow envelope, a small red pen box, and a square bottle with purple ink in it. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

Faster and faster she raced, leaving Jorah and Irri and the others far behind, the warm wind in her hair and the setting sun red on her face. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“Shut up,” Nancy hissed, her face even brighter red than her hair. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

In its place he fastened a pink cloak, spattered with red garnets like those upon his doublet. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

A line of planes stood at the gates and on the tarmac, one of them painted with the bright red Virgin Atlantic symbol. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

She pauses and gives my red, white, and blue outfit a not-so-friendly once-over. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

As his wand resealed, red sparks flew out of its end. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

“First,” Olive begins, “Esme paints the house bright red. For goodness’ sake, it looks like a fire truck. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

Pants that come up to his chest, a red jacket, black patent-leather slippers and horn-rimmed glasses—that’s how he looks when he’s at work at the little table, always studying and never progressing. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Melisandre was robed all in scarlet satin and blood velvet, her eyes as red as the great ruby that glistened at her throat as if it too were afire. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Now that the man was sitting upright, the blood ran freely from his head like a freaking river, covering his face in a red mask. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

Celia’s face was red and sweaty, her usually buoyant curls stuck to the back of her neck and her forehead. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Laura just kept sponging my face and wringing out the cloth until the water turned from pink to red and I thought I was going to bawl. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Ser Justin found them places on the bench and fetched supper for the both of them—ale and chunks of horsemeat, charred black outside and red within. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“Yes, but I add hot dogs and red pepper flakes to it.” From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

The red damask walls of the queen's tea salon display her royal emblem—a six-pointed crown with a glittering ruby and chrysanthemum in the center. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

Instead, I saw a weird, frizzy-haired girl with trembling hands and a blotchy red face. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

In one hand he held an ax with a head that glowed like an angry red coal. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

He was working with tissue paper and a bolt of red ribbon, and as Aron came in he hastily covered something on his desk with a large blotter. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Anthills had risen in the newly softened red soil in the yard, like miniature castles. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

I smell hot red pepper flakes, but the other smells are sharp and sweet, unlike anything I’ve ever smelled before. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

I am so hot, I feel as if my skin is covered with a scum of red clay. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

A small girl who looks like a gothed-out chipmunk hands me a red plastic cup full of beer. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

I look at my fingers, coated in red paint the color of blood, and I know how to keep my promise. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

Painted across the front of the chipped, marred shield was an intricate red dragon. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

He was tall and skinny like his father and had red hair. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The red cloth was still draped over his shoulders. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

Then I heard yelling, elated screams, and I saw Luke racing toward the boundary line with the red team’s banner lifted high. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

The morning was passing towards noon, and still the Company wandered and scrambled in a barren country of red stones. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Our dad is holding a red rose and cackling into the webcam. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

One was fawn-colored and one was red, and their hair was so soft and their large eyes so wondering. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nestor appeared enthroned among his sons, while friends around them skewered the red beef or held it scorching. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was crying, because the red marks of the whip on his back still hurt so terribly. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Above each window there is a flashing red number announcing which person may step up next. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

A blush, red like henna, bloomed on her cheeks. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Bright colors everywhere—pink, yellow, green, red, and enough for everyone. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

The land below was bottomland, where red maples, trees of the wetlands, grew. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

"There was hissing, then bang, bang, sparks flying all over the kitchen, red sparks, purple sparks." The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

Each fiend had big, red, unblinking eyes and a wide red mouth without lips, from which protruded massive, shiny, razor-sharp teeth. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the girl’s feet were the red shoes. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

“Three Chasers,” Harry repeated, as Wood took out a bright red ball about the size of a soccer ball. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

Even with my base layers on and the stiff shell of my red winter jacket shielding my torso, I can’t help but shiver. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

He was holding a bright red snow shovel. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

"And that red priest with him, he paid for all they took." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The living room was empty except for a stack of boxes in one corner and a large red cushion in the center of the floor. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The scales are metallic grey, the eyes deep red and the talons particularly long and vicious. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

A scrap of notebook paper, loosely tied with red yarn to my lowest branch, broke free. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

"And who was that suspicious person in red boots I saw opening the hoods of cars in the parking lot the other morning?" The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

The bronze coffin was wheeled inside and placed upon a platform draped in thick dark red velvet, in front of the altar, and the coffin’s lid was reopened. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

This time both needles swung violently into the red. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

With a veil of red to conceal her stealthy, free hand, Kaltain flicked off the lid of the vial and dumped the contents into the wine. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Swinging their grocery bags full of clean watery green onions and odorous liver-wurst and red catsup and white bread, they would dare each other on past the limits set by their stern mothers. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tall poplars had gone a buttery yellow while the shrubby sumac encroach- ing on the road was tinged a violent red. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

We sat on the red earth, talking and laughing, the setting sun a bonfire before us. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

From every stem streamed the fiery heart of the Lord of Light, red and yellow and orange. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The pale pink towel, a memory of when it was washed with a red one. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

His brown eyes were wet and rimmed in red. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

The three girls on their team have red hijabs on, and I wonder if they were informed about their team color ahead of time. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

The sky was a fierce, burning blue, the trees ferocious shades of red and yellow. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Her hair was down and wild, wine red even in this light, and her mouth was slightly open. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

Nemesis flicked a finger over the slip of paper, and the letters changed to red. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

We know more than just that the card is not black-black; we also know a red side is showing. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

We passed several more red pickup trucks with armed, bearded young men crammed into the cabs. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Her nails and much of the skin around them were bright fire- engine red. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

It steamed in the cold, and the droplets seemed red as fire where they touched the snow. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Under the slogan is a picture of a tiny house with a bright red door. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

“And why is your face red? You look sunburned.” Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

I got a new dress for Dinah, a tiny scrap of yellow trimmed in red polka dots. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Beside the red light, green symbols began to click through a routine. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

On the cement floor just inside the door, where he now stood, was a large red circle. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

Betelgeuse was a red star in the shoulder of the constellation Orion. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

He was looking all over the place, turning around, peering into the darkness of the entryway, muttering incoherently, and then he started searching the street again with his little red eyes. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

Graceful trees and bushes were growing along the riverbanks—weeping willows and alders and tall clumps of rhododendrons with their pink and red and mauve blossoms. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z

I wrapped Charley’s tail in red Kleenex and fastened it with rubber bands. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

She looks straight into the camera and smiles, hands on hips, dress suit neatly pressed, lips painted deep red. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

If she drew herself right now, the sketch would be all the reds: dark pinks and mottled crimson. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Nick pulled out the D volume from the red set and looked up dictionary. Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

With a small knife, the old woman cut a sleeve of the boy's shirt and pulled a delicate red thread. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

He was a short, round white man with red cheeks who could have been anywhere from fifty to seventy. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Without the red beams on it, the lamp felt dangerous. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

It was still night, but the first red glow of dawn was rising in a faint crescent over the pine woods. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

The current carried infernos everywhere, and their bright blazes turned the water into swirling oranges and reds. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

The red door bursts open, sending a wave of water through the room. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

Now Hanako could see the side of his head and a red, raised scar in the place where his ear had been. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

But images flash against my closed eyes—the Director’s leering red face, a drop of my blood falling to the floor, David’s smile, the Mess, the crackle of the fence as Soheil clutches it, Jake. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

Kim, Chou, and I have had red eye disease for two weeks now. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He put the bundle on the floor and with his right claw drew out a long red knife and spat on it. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

They associated red with the devil and works of evil; therefore, anyone who wore that color must be guilty of evildoing. Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Flowers with red petals edge the rug, and in the center are dozens of white squares connected with red lines. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

The red woman too had her attendants—the squire Devan Seaworth and two of the guardsmen the king had left her. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

In the sudden stab of light he saw that the puddle was not black but red. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“What the hell was that?” he says, standing so that I’m looking at his oversized red shoes. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

Radar said, holding a red plastic cup full of beer in each hand. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

But that little red thing is my freedom in physical form. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

But I can’t shake the idea that he’s in there, at this moment, behind the blank red bricks. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

The red hair up against her pale skin, like fire burning at the end of a match. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

I did spy one pair of bright red sneakers that set one woman apart from the others. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her eyes were red and bloated, without luster, and her pupils were dilated, which gave her a frightened, helpless look. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

He turned red so fast, his face seemed to be on fire. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

He tried quickly to cover his red, brimming eyes from her scrutiny. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Red Rabbit was a big, strong horse, red as fire, with a white star on his forehead. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the porch were two coffee cans, a red cup, the hammer, a pair of wire cutters, and one nail. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

The front door of the house opened and a lady with wild red hair stood there. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

I bowed my head and fiddled with my red scarf. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

With my red scarf, the emblem of the Young Pioneers, tied around my neck, and my heart bursting with joy, I achieved and grew every day until that fateful year, 1966. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

She didn’t remember Babulya talking about a glittering red Messiah, but she supposed Babulya couldn’t be right about everything all the time. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

Tiny dents in the silver created intricate and delicate patterns where turquoise and red coral were imbedded. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Suddenly Lucky Ruiz arrived in his red car with a roar and a screech. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

The pages are numbered and dated in red too. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

And the top level had gray slab walls topped with a red tile roof. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her ears were so red that it made the little sideburnlike tendrils of dark hair look like they were also blushing. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Gill nets were outlawed years ago in Florida because they kill everything that gets tangled, not just the baitfish but sharks, reds, snook, tarpon, turtles—you name it, it dies. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

But it calmed her to sing it now as she attached the red, blue, and white wires to the statue of Miss Miss. Heavenly stars, but she’d had a busy few days! Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

They froze into contorted shapes, with their chest cavities spread wide and their intestines hanging out and dripping red icicles. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He flicked a broken bone into the fire and rose to his full height—a massive red warrior in sheepskin and drakon leather, with dried flowers and herbs in his hair. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Saying nothing, Ma quietly wipes her eyes with her red scarf. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I got up when the red circle of the sun cleared the horizon. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Certainly I never dreamed I could have undiscovered red highlights but Andrea said I could; I just needed to encourage them to come out. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Penny trails behind us, wearing a huge red and white hat like the one in The Cat in the Hat—the girl has a major hat obsession—and always with her Doodle. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

Catelyn raised her eyes, to where the faint red line of the comet traced a path across the deep blue sky like a long scratch across the face of god. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Under the picture of the man with the burning heart there is a shelf with a red glass holding a flickering candle and next to it a small statue. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

I’m a cloud, congealed around a central object, the shape of a pear, which is hard and more real than I am and glows red within its translucent wrapping. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a bakery store to one side of it which sold beautiful charlotte russes with red candied cherries on their whipped cream tops for those who were rich enough to buy. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

They had a brew of piment between them—a mixture of red wine, honey, spices, and whatever else the butler’s wife had added. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her china teapot only had two chips, and she had folded a piece of red checkered fabric for a napkin and laid it on the side of the tray. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

His features had thickened, the skin on nose and cheekbones was coarsely red, even the bald scalp was too deep a pink. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

The question must have embarrassed him, because I’ve never seen him so red before. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

The lasagna is extra tough tonight, being that Mom boiled the pasta in Dad’s red sauce in an attempt to use as little water as possible. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

“Whew,” he said, collapsing in my chair and mopping his forehead with a red bandanna. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Mice had built their nests in the soft, red upholstery. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

Spurge, red with rage, yelled, “You, Ysoret Clivers, are a—” And then he called Clivers all the names he’d been storing up for all the years. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

He waved his hand and a new batch of dodgeballs appeared on the center line—but these balls weren’t made of red rubber. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

And as Despereaux stood before them with the red thread around his neck and the fourteen members of the Mouse Council perched on the bricks above him, two burly mice came forward. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

The pants Bull made himself, cutting up several red handkerchiefs and sewing them together so that they formed a makeshift covering for Edward’s long legs. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z

Though his hair was as blue as his son’s, he had red roots and redder eyebrows. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Soon enough, a bus arrived, raising a cloud of red dust that made you sneeze. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

She wears yellow pajamas with red boats on them, and her toes curl and rub together. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

The bedroom had red wallpaper and a balcony that overlooked the town. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

In mid-November Smith loaded Seabiscuit and the rest of his stable, blanketed in red and white stable colors, into three cars of a train bound for California. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Beyond them stretched more cornfields, a few whitewashed houses with red tile roofs, and, towering in the distance, mountains. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

We transfer to our sensation of the Coca-Cola taste all of the unconscious associations we have of the brand, the image, the can, and even the unmistakable red of the logo. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

In the center of the table, in an earthenware jug, was a bunch of red tulips. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

Her hair was cropped short, her face red with exertion. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

At home, I give Mom a kiss on the cheek because she needs it, and I inhale the scent of red wine. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

A glimmer of red catches my eye, and I look across the cavern to where Keenan leans against a bunk watching me, his hair like fire in the torchlight. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Its big red eyes glowed in the beam of the flashlight. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

And no complaints, I thought, looking at the map; you started looking for red men and you found them—even though of a different tribe and in a bright new world. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

The red warning light on his chest began to flash faster and faster until it finally went solid red. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Francie would never forget the flaming red hair and the golden voice of Bernhardt. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The trip to Missouri was much more comfortable than it had been previously, tamped by little red feet. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

As big as a pigeons egg, he wrote, and as blue as the sea, but with a flare of red at its core. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Wrapped in red cloth, it was considered something very special. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

The fire had burned down and looked out but he stirred with a piece of wood and found a bed of coals still glowing hot and red. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a knife with a smooth wooden handle, and she used it to peel the skin of a round, red fruit; inside was juicy orange flesh that tasted both sweet and tart. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

They galloped away, kicking up red clay dust; they were still going south. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

They hung about that red staircase like clerks in a government office. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Today, though, I notice a folded note inside one hole and a piece of red cloth inside another. The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z

He had long red hair pulled back, and his long beard had a ponytail holder in it. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

It was red and yellow plastic, decorated with pictures of tiny smiling mice. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Not sharing something so personal to me with the guy I was dating should’ve been a red flag about how positive I felt about our future. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

One arm was livid with bruises, red turning purple, the clear, brutal marks of a big hand that had gripped her hard and not let go for some time. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

White and red marble columns lined the throne room. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

“You. You haven’t had enough vegetables. I see the red choler in you,” White Deer laughed. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

But most days she’d be in her getup, the lip metal, the jet-black hair, or sometimes it was green or red. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

The dressmaker's sure fingers fumbled over the red ribbons she was weaving into a four-strand braid. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

The door opened, and there was Lizzie, just wrapping a red shawl around herself—a shawl that, needed about as many patches as the house had. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

The wall breaks down and suddenly there is a red- haired girl with her arms outstretched to me—her face is a blank mask. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

From the sunny cliffs, in crevices where no one would think any- thing could grow, sprang the little red and yellow fountains of the comul bush. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

At my house, a red conduct mark on my report card meant a beating. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

Blood ran from the cuts on her white face—not red blood but a deep, tarry black stuff. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

Jn her crazy lady clothes of reds and greens, she greeted the animals and the moving branches as she carried her porcelain cup to the river. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The first day she began the process she secretly smeared her breasts with red pepper and then invited my brother to suckle. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

He stopped at a red hatchback I had never seen before. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

Her face was a pile of white cloud afire with red hair. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

“We have a green envelope, a blue envelope, and a red envelope,” said Mr. Lemoncello. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

The boulders show and seem to rise up and the ocean recedes leaving little pools, leaving wet weed and moss and sponge, iridescence and brown and blue and China red. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

My opponent’s eyes were big, red and shining, as if he were high on benzene. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was wearing another fancy shirt, red with long white fringe hanging from the shoulders. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had freckled cheeks and tight red curls upon her head, which gave promise of freckled breasts and red hair between her legs. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Maybe I only imagined I heard the bones crack, but her arm from her elbow down was facing the wrong way, and a slick red bone tip pierced her skin. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

There’s a red splotch on his neck, and it inches its way to his face like someone’s painting him from the bottom up. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

In it was a tree with bright red and orange leaves. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

Maria put the red plastic over the flashlight again and revealed another shimmering scorpion. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

By December he had returned to his parents’ house in Alipore, carried through the courtyard and up the red clay stairs like a corpse, hoisted on the shoulders of his four brothers. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Above them in the sour red skies, things were circling on huge black wings. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

In the corner of his eye, Jason caught a glimpse of movement—a blur of red and gold. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Everyone else in the room went quiet, and Jill had gone deep red. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

His beady red eyes were ablaze with rabid fury as he rammed his head into my chest. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

She stared at me for a moment and her face grew red. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

That red mouth, plus tiny curled horns on its head, identified it as a zmeyok, so named because people a long time ago thought they were baby dragons. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

Roll after roll until the distance from the ship to the dock was aflutter with paper ribbons—red, yellow, blue, green. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Indeed, one of Lady Constance’s eyes was now quite red and puffy from being rubbed; the other seemed glazed in the manner of a person who has overindulged in champagne or some similar beverage. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

The moon was three-quarters full and cast a silvery sheen when the red faded. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Around the bottom of the pillowcase there were Egyptian-looking decorations done in red and black crayon. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were photos too, of ice skates and soccer balls, tubes of lipstick and red high-heeled shoes. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

She just kept right on dancing in her red shoes while the kind old lady suffered and died. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

His hands are covered in flecks of brown and red paint, and he's wearing a gray T-shirt with a Coca-Cola image on it and black pants. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

A boy in a red messenger’s jacket ran toward the Gathering Hall. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

He burst in the door to the kitchen, his cheeks red, his eyes sparkling. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

My parents arrived as the leaves began to turn, when campus was at its most beautiful, the reds and yellows of autumn mingling with the burgundy of colonial brick. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

They were relieved to see the red stars on the wings, but stared at Raya in amazement when she climbed out of it—a woman flying a fighter plane! A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

He collected some blood from his patient and drew off the serum, which is a clear, golden-colored liquid that remains when the red cells are removed from the blood. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The dark birds passed over now and again; but as the westering Sun grew red they disappeared southwards. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

The protesters had small tags pinned to their lapels with words printed in red: “I do not attend segregated movies. DO YOU?” The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Not red, like you might think, but bright amber like a Technicolor fire. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

The blast swirled around him like a red tornado. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

A gravely ill, bedridden Jenna would have no use for short red skirts or floppy flowered hats, or jewel-trimmed blouses, and that invalid picture had to be preserved for prying eyes. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

His hair was bright red, and his face was covered in freckles. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

My room was on the first floor, and the window, a short distance above the pine-needle-padded ground, overlooked a wooded yard ringed by a red brick wall. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

The remaining clouds in the sky were thin and deep red. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

The ceiling looks like a night sky covered by a sheet of stars, with green and red streaks of what look like Northern Lights dancing from one end to the other. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Shaking myself into wakefulness, I let another half-dozen red dots in through the front gate before stepping out, locking it, and leaving B-block to its fate. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

As the wind freshened from the south, the red and yellow beech leaves rasped together with a brittle sound, harsher than the fluid rustle of earlier days. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’d never seen the rich red velour on the loveseat and side-chairs or on what Granny called “my gentleman’s and lady’s chairs.” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

I’d shell them and then he’d delicately peel them further with his front teeth — he didn’t like the papery red coverings. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

Osha gazed up at the weirwood, at the red face carved in the pale trunk. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“Do you know who I am?” he said, his face turning red with irritation. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Gilly shoved and pushed and tugged the heavy chair to a place opposite the red encyclopedia. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

We crossed to the faded red love seat and sat together, waiting to discover the subject of that afternoon's lecture. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

I walked over and rang the bell on his red brick townhouse. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

Seven could almost imagine hundreds of blinking red eyes staring back at them from the darkness. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

Her eyes were red and swollen, and she had a balled-up handkerchief in her hand. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The reds all say ‘Pick a Yellow Card,’” he reported. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

The janitor took pity on me and cleaned off the wall above my locker, even though I can still see the flecks of red crayon embedded in the crannies of the painted cinder blocks. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

Sam looked up towards the orc-tower, and suddenly from its narrow windows lights stared out like small red eyes. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

An animal with long, red head fur and four appendages. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

It’s only later, when I step into the bathroom and sit down on the toilet and find a single red spot of blood in my underpants. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Everyone around me was smiling, introducing themselves to friends of friends, talking about the big game last night, wearing their newly purchased red and white sweatshirts. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

“So where does Aven get her red hair from?” he asked. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

I don’t relent until a police car pulls up, until I see red and blue lights flashing against the wall. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

On the train I watched as the scenery went from lush greens to dramatic reds to dry desert browns. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

We sit on chairs with red velvet seats and eat meat loaf with an egg cooked into the middle, chicken croquettes, black beans and white rice, fried plantains, and a salad with avocados. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

The violence inside was almost cartoonish, like the work of some mad impressionist who painted only in red. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

Yet the old red tales were still told around driftwood fires and smoky hearths all across the islands, even behind the high stone halls of Pyke. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Its red covering had been meant as a sign that she was safe. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

The girl twisted one of her red braids and looked at me. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

“No!” she wanted to say, “I won’t take it. I want a ribbon like Angeline’s, only red maybe, or yellow! Cloth, please, a bit of sweetness. A licorice stub. Anything. Anything else at all!” The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

But I stay focused on the red light. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

He has switched his black jacket for a tweedy brown one, and his hair under his matching cap is just as shockingly red as Poppet’s. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

First he looked up the definitions in the brand-new red dictionary that his mom had bought—because Mrs. Granger told her to. Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Two red spots appears on the father's cheeks. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

A lock of red hair falls into his face, and he looks me over, his gaze lingering on my bruises. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Sandy scratches at his jaw, and I notice that alongside the bruise, he’s got red bumps on his face, his hands and legs. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

Pulling over to the curb, Ben peered into the interior of a red and black Rambler American that pulled alongside of him. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I went down the back steps and out the basement door, then over to Commons—its red brick facade flat as a stage backdrop against the empty sky—and called Henry from the pay phone. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

I moseyed out front and was cutting them down when he furiously pedaled by on his new giant adult-size tricycle that towed a little red wagon full of what looked like shoe boxes. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

I turn him over, and half of his face is severely burned, the rest is deep red. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

There, where the dirt road makes a deep red cut between high yellow walls of grass, you never know what might be coming toward you on dusty feet. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

It inflated with a great whap and filled our windows with red and white nylon. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“In Bursa we have all kind of birds. Green, yellow, red. All kind. Little birds but very beautiful. Like made from glass.” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

All the windows of the candy machine had red sold-out flags in them. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

He grinned back, going red from his neck to his copper hair. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

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

When he arrived it was nearly six o’clock, and the sun was setting full and warm, and the red light streamed in through the window and gave more colour to the pale cheeks. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

They were glowing red, and even from three feet away I could feel the heat they gave off. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

But Dr. Z does not say such things to The Ancestors, just as they don’t say anything about Branwell’s red hair. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Everything looks sepia-toned except the flag, with its faded red stripes and blue field of stars. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

Looking out a minute ago I saw the glow of the volcano as a dull red bloom on the belly of vast clouds overhanging the darkness. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

The ivy which used to soften the effect of that bright red facade had been stripped away, perhaps to preserve the brickwork. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

He was wearing his brown suit—his only suit, the same one he wore to Afghan weddings and funerals—and the red tie I had bought for his fiftieth birthday that year. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Half an hour after, Jo went to ‘Mother’s closet’ for something, and there found little Beth sitting on the medicine chest, looking very grave, with red eyes and a camphor bottle in her hand. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I like your hat,” she tells Penny, who is holding Doodle closely and wearing a blue polka-dotted hat with a red feather. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

On the other side of the Mekong River, I see orange and gold pointed temple roofs and towers erected on muddy red topsoil. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

But there are other kinds of red shifts in nature. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her son's beard had grown in redder than his auburn hair. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The red eyes of the tercel flash as he comes at me. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bobbie has red hair that glows in the sun like a lightbulb. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

His eyes were unnatural bright, his breathing short and fast and difficult, and what he coughed up was tinged with bright red blood. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

On Sunday nights you could see red, blue, and green stained-glass light in the churches and hear the voices singing the numbered hymns. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a tall box made from black wood, draped with dark red curtains and with a door in the middle, which the priest used for slipping into the tiny space behind. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

My thumb went for the red scuff mark on the back of the ball, trying to rub it out like I always did whenever I got bored. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

Because he wasn’t listening to the words, the man’s red face with sweat pouring down seemed strangely out of place in the dull sanctuary. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

He had exchanged his armor for a red woolen tunic with a leather dog's head sewn on the front. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Now the stone was covered with hunting tapestries, vivid with greens and browns and blues, and yet still it seemed to Ned Stark that the only color in the hall was the red of blood. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

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

Like when he wears my grandma’s old red hat and he’s walking around and hollering and stuff. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then you say, ‘Who will save the princess in the red castle?’ P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

Their house was even more elaborate than I expected, a cheerful red and white Georgian Colonial mansion overlooking the bay. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

One who had been taught to calculate her appearance and demeanor down to the plain red color of her cell-phone case. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

I leave the dormitory and the maps with their red circles, though I’m not sure where else to go. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

His chin got the hard look it got just before he slammed a home run, and after a minute you could tell he’d thought of something because his ears got red. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

This Commander ascends the steps to the podium, which is draped with a red cloth embroidered with a large white-winged eye. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

Kin the blacksmith had his back to her, hammering out a sheet of glowing red metal on his anvil. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

The bridge rose up over the river in a graceful parabola, its steel cables strung with red lights. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

He had bristly red hair, a soft, doughy face, and deep circles under his eyes. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Three girls about my age spill out of the front door, bright red cups in hand. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Pretending not to hear, Amarante hurried as fast as his bowed and decrepit legs would carry him toward home, scattering a slew of yellow and red grasshoppers in his wake. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her eyes are red, like she hasn’t been getting a whole lot of sleep. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

And then she saw something darker, colder, with red lights blinking in the deep. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

The video screens switched to a close-up of the librarian with the red hair and glasses. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

It is an unfamiliar shape, so I’m not sure what it’s supposed to represent, but it is covered with patches of pink, red, and dark-crimson lights. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

All are wearing beautiful black shirts and pants, not the faded, gray-black I have on, but shiny and new, with bright red scarves around their waists. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Far over the Great River, and the Brown Lands, leagues upon grey leagues away, the Dawn came, red as flame. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

He struck again and again, until the buzzard lay dead, until its head was red pulp. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

Slowly, the red receded, and blurry blues surrounded me. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

A crown of red gold, Varys says, its points fashioned in the shapes of flames. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“But red is the color of the revolution.” The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

Coach walked over, his shadow making the red track burgundy around me. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

Hugo bought Felicia a paper cone of fritters and a box of chocolates with a bright red bow. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

I glanced up and saw a pair of kites, red with long blue tails. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Abruptly, she strode to the sitting room door and threw it open to find Emma crouched on the other side, her face red and streaked with tears. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

The man was quite red of face, quite whisky of breath. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

I fought to control a deep red anger, but couldn’t tell if I was angry at myself, the guard, or the world in general. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Poured out a whole river of red bricks. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

So when you said “Men out of the South, all in red and gold,” I said “were there any oliphaunts?” The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

When Mr. Armin yanked the doublet open, I could see the red stain on Julian's linen shirt. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

The body, which was square and large, had been rebuilt and painted red and gold. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

It doesn’t matter if she’s pale or tanned, if her hair is black or brown or red or blond. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Thus reassured that the white, the red and the brown would stay where they were—would not explode or burst forth from their restricted zones—he suddenly felt hungry and looked around for his hands. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

The brew bubbles red and yellow, but the two colors do not blend. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

The red boundary that marked the Eastern Region swept within its grand confines all that had once been China, India, Burma, Indo-China, and Indonesia. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

She looked at the sleeve of her new coat and the bright red patch that made it and she gasped. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

The old lady would pick out the purple brinjals and yellow pumpkins, the shiny green and red chillies, feeling them with her wrinkled fingers and complimenting me on their size. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

Right as the person reaches the convenience store entrance, the dark red oval representing his mind suddenly flares, flashing bright. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

He turns all red when I ask what he’s doing. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

When the needle touched the record, a crackling sound was amplified through the bright red horn. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Thomas couldn’t help worrying that he’d thrown up some red flags for Newt, and that the older boy was just hiding his concern. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

The full, bosomy elms made a tunnel of shade over the yellow and red brick fronts along Commonwealth Avenue, and a trolley car was threading itself toward Boston down its slim, silver track. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

Below the red writing there’s a line of smaller print, in black, with the outline of a winged eye on either side of it: God Is a National Resource. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

His face is red and moist, and he fans himself with a program. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

Both had angry red burns all over their faces and arms, and their clothing was singed away in places. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

The moist towel that Wes held to his lip was almost solid red and beginning to drip blood on the living room carpet. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

“Let me go!” he screamed, his face as red as his hair. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

A man in an elegant red cardinal's robe and a high lace collar stood resting against an enormous Bible and now began to lead a hard-driving hymn which the congregation shouted in the unknown tongue. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the picture was a bright red bed with a colorful blanket. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

Before Valentine’s Day we have to cut out hearts of red construction paper at school and decorate them with pieces of paper doily to stick on the tall thin windows. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

She stops dead when she sees me, staring at me with red, puffy eyes. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

Her older daughters took turns picking out outfits for me that looked good with my red hair. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Her red hair, arranged in a flat pompadour, would begin to blow out in wisps from her hat. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

She set aside a pair of red ruby earrings for Keav because she was the only one of us girls with pierced ears. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I took another drink of the red pop and saw that when I was raising the bottle I’d accidentally let some of the sandwich slip out of my mouth down into the pop. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

There was a color photograph of a long-haired woman, wearing a red spangled costume that covered even less of herself than the bathing suits the gringa tourists wore in Señor Aguilar’s swimming pool. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

As the door began to open, the howling of the wolves without grew louder and angrier; their red jaws, with champing teeth, and their blunt-clawed feet as they leaped, came in through the opening door. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

All of a sudden the blood rushed back into it, bright red. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

The car, white with red interior, was a bomb. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the entrance of the alley, the man with the red beard and his companion slipped around the corner and out of sight. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

So much happened today: the hidden camera, and Ollie, and the horrible red glow of the barren stage at the theater. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Current Mr. O’Doyle was much larger, with less hair and red peeling skin from sunburns. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

As they turned into the last long straightaway, George shot a red shell into the void ahead of her. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

For Pomp, who begs tales of horror and enchantment, Olakunde recounted tales of the red monkey who with withered lips enounced sacred knowledge to the oracles of Oyo. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

Her eyes were red and pufly, but the boy was in her arms, bundled tight. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

But Mom knows that—or at least she did before that big red Jeep beat her up. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He pictured himself in a fancy blue jacket with red facings, white leggings, a beautiful new gun snug against his cheek.... The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

I liked Rita, especially the way she smiled, with bright red lips and large white teeth that reminded me of a billboard for Colgate toothpaste. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Ku-Ang gasped and dropped the red stone in the old man's lap. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

Little bits of peaches or pineapple are mired within it, suspended in red jiggling transparency. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

I glance over to the cartoon drawing of us, the red bubble letters jumping out at me. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

His cheeks went out and his face got red, and he didn’t make a sound. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

Gold and blue and red pulses filled his vision. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

I lead him to the red velvet sofa. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now there was something else on the leather cord: a red coral pendant Percy had given her when they had started dating. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

As she speaks she wedges her hands under her legs and presses forward into them until her wrists turn red. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

My marker squeaks as I write each huge red letter: D tipping forward, A leaning back, N shivery, C stretched tall, and the lines of E poking out at funny angles, the word itself dancing. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Quisqueya stopped talking, her eyes wide, her face nearly as red as her hair. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

But with red lipstick I can fashion a whole new—and temporary—persona. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

The red gloves are lying on the bed. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a red brick building with skylights in the high ceiling, so that whatever sun made it in lit up the dusty beams and long fluorescent light fixtures suspended from them. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

She wondered if their blood was red like hers, or if it was some other queer color. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Then as a red sun rose they rowed out on the Osskil Sea, into the northeast winds that blow unhindered from the islandless vastness of the North Reach. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

His red eyebrows flared above his scowling eyes, with the bad one starting to squint a little from the strain of it all. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I said let the best man win, Bacchus barred, and the major started us with red wine in mugs. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

She sees it all—the red scratch on the underside of Kat’s wrist as Kat hands her the Meg Gillian book, the brown and blue shine of the cover. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Her hair is frizzly and short, red with darker roots, and I suspect she is chewing gum: every once in a while there is a slow, furtive, sideways motion of her jaw. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

It was only then that I saw the badge hanging around his neck on a silver cord, and the bright red Ψ stitched there. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

He listened, his eyes red and streaming from the smoke. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

His hair and beard and mustache were dark red too, and his eyes gleamed startlingly blue against his coloring. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Older boys in the fifth class have the thick Confirmation catechism with the red cover and that costs sixpence. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

The sun sets red, and bats swoop after mosquitoes. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

That was the day I was a young girl with my face under a red marriage scarf. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Uncle Vernon’s large red face was hidden behind the morning’s Daily Mail, and Aunt Petunia was cutting a grapefruit into quarters, her lips pursed over her horselike teeth. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

After it was done, Khrazz cut the heart from the black man, raised it above his head red and dripping, and took a bite from it. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Her breath was white as well... but her eyes were blue, her long braid the color of dark honey, her cheeks flushed red from the cold. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

NOT would he heed die queen’s men when they came to urge him to make an offering to their hungry red god. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Then she broke out in hives —red welts covering her face, neck, and body, even the soles of her feet. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Ruby’s eyes glimmered red, and the corners of her lips curled up, feline. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Aru punched in the security code—her birthday—and watched as the red beams disappeared. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

There was big bunch of red glass grapes on the table. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

A man in high-tone clothes and a round red cap shouted, “All aboard,” then pult up the steps right into the train. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

“Papa?” said Mig, when her father was walking away from her with the hen in his arms, a cigarette in his mouth, and the red tablecloth draped across his shoulders like a cape. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

Aside from the tiny red flags stuck on houses, there was no outward sign of the fever anywhere. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

Frodo gazed fixedly at the red embers on the hearth, until they filled all his vision, and he seemed to be looking down into profound wells of fire. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Her face is heart-shaped, her lips painted a glamorous red. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

The burst of bright red beneath the eyeholes in his pointed hood makes Justyce sick to his stomach. Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Coach shouted, his face red as he paced the sideline. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

Women, in green, blue, red, stripes; men too, some in uniform, some only in civilian suits. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fish in a barrel, I think, as blossoms of red stain their white uniforms. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Only turpentine could wipe away the black and red ink that had seeped into the linoleum floor tiles. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s in the corner of her mouth, scabby and hot red. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

He was deathly pale, just like a waxen image, and the red eyes glared with the horrible vindictive look which I knew too well. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

For her it’s blue, watercolor, not this red of mine that sucks in heat and blazes with it at the same time. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

His hair was matted with dried blood, and on his temple a deep cut glistened red and raw. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Picking up her red markers, she crawled around her frost heave and frantically gathered the leafy plants that the caribou eat. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

He could feel his face flush red with the effort of keeping still. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

“I just saw a man in red pajamas jumping out of your window and go running up the road! Didn’t you see him?” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

He sat propped against a tree, watching the red sentries passing to and fro in the firelight, hearing their quiet passwords and thinking about the excitements of the day. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

The red cows on the farther hill ate their way slowly toward the north. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Ages looked at him, examined his tongue, felt his pulse, and found a small red lump near his neck. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m from Chicago. I like books, pizza, and David Bowie. My favorite color is red. Your turn.” I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

She had deep brown eyes and hair three shades from red. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

They unfolded the dark-stained red flannel of the muletas and fixed batons in them to spread the stuff and give the matador something to hold. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

Alby pointed to the large barn in the back corner, its red paint long faded to a dull rust color. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Through a solar telescope equipped with a filter admitting only the red light emitted by hot hydrogen gas, the sunspots appear dark. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Holding it up, she let the dingy light shine through its watermelon reds and deep greens. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Even Sam, who trailed behind the others, wore a quiet smile, though his eyes were red rimmed. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

The gem was a delicate red, though it picked up unexpected jags of color from the room around it, suddenly broadcasting them. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

Here, the sand was fine, gray, and sun-seared, nothing like the clumpy red earth back home; the trees were tame, unlike the bursting greenness that sprang up and cast shadows on the road to Umunnachi. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

It’s an Asian boy wearing a gray suit and a ridiculously bright red tie. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

She began to say “red, white, and blue” instead of “blue, white, and red” and to distinguish “interest” from “interested” from “interesting.” Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

When they finished with the thing, it lay there limp on the ground all shiny blue and red, covered with a slick white film. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

He comes straight up to our group, Tjaden's face turns red. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Christ on a cracker,” the one closest to me muttered, shaking his mop of red hair. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

The man with the red beard was laughing as she flailed in his arms. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

It’s very possible that Nott, in reading about yellow fever epidemics from the past, had come across Rush’s mention of those little red spots on patients called petechiae that “resembled moscheto bites.” An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

She squinted at me in the red gloom. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

About a mile from the veterinarian’s clinic, I saw flashing red and blue lights in the rearview mirror. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

Old Dan washed her head with his warm red tongue while I massaged and rubbed her body. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The tip of that thin needle of wood was red with my blood. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Derby, his face red, slashed at the dog with his whip. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her hand was trailing back behind her and I could see her fingers—long and dark brown, the nails painted bright red. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

The flowers glowed red and golden: snap-dragons and sunflowers, and nasturtians trailing all over the turf walls and peeping in at the round windows. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

I feel my face getting red but the sun’s still not high enough for anyone to see. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

Over and over in his mind appeared the image of the familiar mummy-shaped outline of the western hills, and the sheer red cliffs that hid the Valley of the Tombs of the Kings. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

The heart was filled in with red cups. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The steakhouse, beige with red awnings, is in an outdoor mall with all the regular shops: American Eagle, Kayjewelers, and the like. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

The horizon was tinged with red, and suddenly the sun appeared. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

She’s got freckles and a long red braid down her back. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

Dany had cried when the red door closed behind them forever. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Above was nothing but blood and roaring red and choking smoke and the screams of dying horses. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“My teacher also says that it’s not good to eat too much red meat.” The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

Luke Messenger just sits back in one of the red padded chairs of Big Chuck’s with his hands folded across his chest, calm as the setting sun. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

The girls have red lips and their legs whisper to each other through silk stockings. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

I watch until his figure disappears into the horizon of red and gold. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You want Paul to play Julia, or Murphy? ’Cause he’s got the red hair.” The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

White dress shirts with soggy collars from all the neck sweat and faded red splotches on their chests from the ketchup that missed their mouths. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

She was feeling as if there were two red thumbs behind her eyeballs, trying to push them out, and she did not want to look at him. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had made himself a black armband out of what looked like a rag dipped in boot polish, and his eyes were puffy, red, and swollen. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

"Mi hija, look at your shoes. They’re splattered with bright red dots. You dropped the bottle on your way home, didn’t you?" The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

His bulletin board has been covered with shiny red paper for the past two weeks. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

The water splashed my hand, leaving a red mark. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

The cut on her cheek had stopped bleeding, but the skin was still red, swollen. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

A leopard skin was draped across one shoulder, and hair as red as blood tumbled to his shoulders in oiled ringlets though his pointed beard was black. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

A red umbrella stuck up from the back of his chair, making it look like a motorized cafe table. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

A red glow was creeping up the church tower, and gray smoke formed a dense cloud above the rooftops. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

The circled image of a person standing between two train cars with a red slash running through the circle was equally clear. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

The glass had a wavy bent, and through it, Joost could see a girl seated at a table, clutching her red silks tight around her. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

I would kick that red ball far into the outfield: hard, and on-target. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

His hair was red on one side and white on the other, all matted and filthy from cage and travel. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

I walk the next blocks, turn the corner, expecting to see the familiar dingy oblong of the school, in weathered red brick the color of dried liver. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

At first they caught my attention because one of them was wearing a long red cape with a yellow bandanna covering his head, with eyeholes cut into it so he could see. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

I called in fright, “Lucy! Lucy!” and something raised a head, and from where I was I could see a white face and red, gleaming eyes. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

Yanna turned to look at Pinmei, who would have flushed if her cheeks had not already been red from the cold. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

“Dung Beetle, give me a kiss,” called the boy with red hair. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Suppose,” Markman writes, “a child who already knows ‘apple’ and ‘red’ hears someone refer to an apple as ‘round.’ The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

When she looked at Toby, her eyes red and unfocused, she said, “This is going to require coffee. Can you give me a minute?” We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

His eyes seemed red behind his steel-rimmed spectacles, as though he hadn’t slept in a long time. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

The young bull raised himself and as he turned, his small eyes shone fiercely red. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was dressed in a cotton shirt and blue slacks, a red silk tie and shiny black loafers. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

There were white hairs scattered among the red, and the skin across his forehead and at the corner of each eye was wrinkled as if he had been frowning for a long time. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

I could see my red face, my frazzled hair, my clenched fists. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

“You’re a fool. You’ve nearly killed yourself and you haven’t lost your baby. I suppose you took things too, poisoned yourself, inserted camphor, kerosene, red pepper. My God! Some of the things you women do!” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Her red pen gives me an 85, saying I missed three words. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

A dusty Rhode Island red rooster who had wandered too far from his own farmyard crossed the road and Eddie hit him without running too far off the road. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

By the time he’d left the field, his sword was running red with blood and his arm was so tired he could hardly lift it. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Some of them promised to come; some offered their talismans—a branch from a peach tree, a Christian cross, a red paper with good words written on it. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The camera above my bed had no red light. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Ever the independent spirit, Mary eschewed the traditional all-white bridal gown for a shorter white dress with black sequins, topped off with black gloves, black pumps, and a red rose corsage. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

The dwarf stared at him with a pair of bright red eyes and snorted. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

Lord Jonos shrugged into a brown woolen tunic with the red stallion of Bracken embroidered on the front. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Witnesses reported that they were “active and determined,” and that “you could see the little fellows were red in the face from perspiring.” Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

He sat back and looked at the glowing red embers at the base of the fire. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Sure enough, Victoria stood there, all statuesque and tall, her big red hair looking especially shiny. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

You stare out at tracer rounds unwinding through the dark like brilliant red ribbons. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mister Golden doesn’t just look at my papers, he edits them with a red pencil. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Their necklaces shattered, sending shards of red flying in all directions. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

It makes another mouth, a small red one, like the mouths painted with thick brushes by kindergarten children. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

I push myself to my feet, hoping there aren’t hectic spots of red coloring my cheeks. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“So are you the one who has been painting with Rei's dad? Man, you're like the luckiest person alive,” a stocky boy with red curls says, his face swollen with awe. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Taryn’s cheeks turned pink, and she fiddled with the strap of her red tank top. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

He was a painter; bright streaks of blue and red stained his sneakers. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

Cady ran her fingers over the knotty red flowers stitched into it. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

Her hand clenched the blood orange so hard that red juice oozed between her fingers. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

One was wearing camouflage; the other, foolishly, wore a bright red hat. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

The Aunts took her to a vacant bed where the red dress was already laid out. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

Men were standing, dark, at the entrance to the kiva; the ladder went down into tire red lighted depths. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Final the captain, more red than ever, and in more tongues tell him that he doesn’t want no Frenchmen—with bloom upon them and also with blood—in his ship—with blood on her also. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

Her robe had an intricate pattern in many colors: red, black, and turquoise. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Soft indentations in the snow stretched from the attic window over a small incline between four cracked red clay chimneys. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, I mean if I don’t do the petition. I’m going to send you all three—white, pink, and red. Because you’re my friend, and I like you, and I love you. Emily, too.” Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

‘Yes,’ murmured Cilia, looking at him critically, ‘you’re right, baby dear. His ears are red. That always means he’s mad.’ Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Outside, the earth shakes violently as crackling yellow, orange, and red flames devour a neighbors hut. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He saw a red bed of embers glowing in the furnace. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

It splattered over his white coat and down his chest, marking him with strings of red slime dappled with dark flecks. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

"And don't try to run away. I'll have you tracked down till your tongue hangs out like a red flag!" The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z

The exact locations of the red stars are hard to see if I don’t stop walking, if I don’t stand still beneath a streetlamp. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

But she clung to the stone with her claws, and her face was suffused with dark red anger, and her hair stood out from her head like a crest of serpents. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

His cheekbone was red, like that Dawn clown from the dance had smacked him with her rouge. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

A flush of red is rising from her neck to her cheeks. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

On Thursday, when Hannah brought Eva her fried tomatoes and soft scrambled eggs with the white left out for good luck, she mentioned her dream of the wedding in the red dress. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

“And then apply it to the card,” he finished, holding up the dripping red card for us to see. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

It’s spray-painted in red on the blank expanse of wall above the staircase leading to the second story—that large X with each arm continued at a right angle. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

And the very young children couldn’t make up their minds whether to watch the man circled in blue on the roof or the bits of red flashing around on the ground. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

I searched cupboards for the stack of red plastic cups I knew we’d bought. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

The children spent all day arranging the corn into two mammoth piles, inside a border of red leaves. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

One more turn around the room: typewriter, red satchel—nice sound to that. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Some silly water park with kids in red T-shirts? A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

She mixed herself a drink and I dropped a red cherry in it. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The man sharp-eyed and laughing and ready for the day—but also jittery, the way he was when he didn’t have his crystal slide or a handful of red rippers. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

My red skirt is hitched up to my waist, though no higher. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

And then there were the Jackals, a group of rowdy men and boys who cavorted through the Barrel in the red lacquered masks of Suli fortune-tellers. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

They are thin-legged and are wearing uniforms—striped pants and tall baseball socks, blue and red jerseys. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

On each desk are scissors and orange, yellow, red paper. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

It’s held together with a fat red rubber band. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

A number of other similar “quasi-stellar objects,” or quasars, have been discovered, all with large red shifts. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Those had worn rich red robes of silk and velvet and lambswool. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The fields shine green and wet, and tree leaves drip, and I can almost see, hovering in the air, those mysterious red arrows and black letters hiding a world from me. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mack had a wicker chaise longue painted bright red. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

The train shudders to a standstill at the red signal and 1 look up. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Their trousers, striped in red and white, met boots of crow-feather black. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

He turned red, thinking of his trouble with long a’s, th’s, l’s, consonants at the ends of words. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And there is plenty of red chile for making ristras, and fruit, ay! The apples of the Lunas are known throughout the state!” Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

He dashes across the street while traffic is held back by the red light. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

“I knows him!” and, after a few convulsive efforts, the red legs took the shape of a pair of compasses, and the intelligent pupil triumphantly shouted, “It’s a We, Dranpa, it’s a We!” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her nails were painted red and she had a snake tattooed around her navel, which could move in circles while the rest of her body remained absolutely still. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

He looks back to my articles, strikes them with violent red marks. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Long red streamers flew from the masts of the thirteen Qartheen galleys, writhing in the wind. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Freak's face is all red and swollen up and he's making this huk-huk-huk noise. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

And he looks ridiculous in his red and white uniform. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Then she took out the nice red and white curtains she had brought. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

As Fd sprinted across the rooftops, the flame on the shingle had gone out, leaving a thin line of red ember along the edge. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

They seemed watery now in the red flush that bathed his face. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

She flicked her wrist and a ball of angry red flame sprang to life. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

I knew what she was hiding: mismatched legs, red eyes, fangs, and flaming hair. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

The Nightbeast had recovered from Thorn’s exceptional attack and ran toward them, a patch of burnt fur on its face and its red eyes aflame with rage. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

What if I were to peel off my red shroud and show myself to him, to them, by the uncertain light of the lanterns? The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her torn dress and undergarments, her shoes and her little red socks were thrown on an ash heap. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

She hands me a thick white envelope bound with a red sash. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

His skin was covered with patches of scraggly red fur, though ninety percent of his body hair seemed to be concentrated in his magnificent eyebrows. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

The flesh is a brilliant red covered with blisters. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Here and there under the dirt there were the red scars of wounds, and near the ankle the varicose ulcer was an inflamed mass with flakes of skin peeling off it. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

There’s a little shop on a side street halfway home where we stop and spend our allowances on penny gumballs, red licorice whips, orange Popsicles, sharing everything out equally. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Papa, whose eyes were puffy and red, cursed the rain. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

His face was red as he marched away. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

He found a sack of some kind of small dried red fruits and tasted one. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

The sun from ambush was threatening the world with red daggers, but the shadows were gray and solid-looking around the barn. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

He laughed, but I felt myself go red. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

He didn’t need it anymore, for Mama had made him a new suit of clothes—a calico shirt, skin leggings, a set of blue broadcloth britches trimmed with red wool. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

“His sorceress can summon fire. Might be her red god can melt these snows.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Her brown dress is a smudge of chocolate against the wine red of the carriage's interior. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

The red priest stood on the forecastle facing the storm, his staff raised above his head as he boomed a prayer. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Luke prayed those red and blue lights would start rolling. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

I’m sure the red fem has grown and has completely covered the two little mounds. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

"But I think it's got as much to do with your hair being red and your hands being soft . . . and the fact that you smell like homemade birthday cake." Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

When I was alone, I wandered and poked my fingers into strange chemicals, watched intricate machines trace red and black lines upon ruled paper. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

She stomps around the first floor of the house, legs stiff, face red, and she works her way through the entire alphabet of swear words, including some stuff I've never heard anyone say before. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

It had red dots on white puffy sleeves, a white bodice, a white skirt with a stripe of red dots at the hem, and two dotted heart-shaped pockets. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Behind loomed up the Buck Hill; and out of it, through stray shrouds of mist, shone many round windows, yellow and red. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

"Same ol' thing. Seeing red, being black, and making green, baby." When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

So Mom and I wandered around the mall, stopping every couple minutes so she could sit down and take deep breaths and squeeze my wrist so hard it left angry red marks. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instead, it was Annie—jawing at Tyler Simpson, who was red in the face and telling his friends to shut up. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

The cars that usually zip down this stretch of road come to a halt as the bus switches to its flashing red lights. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

Oh, those troops were impressive-looking with all those belts and buckles and powder horns and bayonets and so forth dangling about their red uniforms. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He has red hair, like us, and like Leo in the photo. Or is that Leo grown up?” The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

And her lashes were still honey red, and his as glossy black as the pelts of rivercats. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Twilight had fallen over the cornfield, for although long red rays still lit the upper down, the sun had set below. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The thing was entirely scribbled over in red now. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

I went to have a look and cooled her hot, red wrists with water. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

As soon as he saw me, he blushed a deep red. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Out on the street, just beyond the parking lot, a little red Volkswagen bus pulls up. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Then one day the sun glowed blood red. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every hour he made a pit stop to relieve himself and to buy more economysized bottles of Pepsi, more chocolate chip cookies, more red licorice and corn chips. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

But her face was red, just like Will’s when he got caught eating too many cookies. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

On the plug that blocked the opening, the Mark of Athena began to glow—the red outline of an owl. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Hood funerals, like Dante Brown’s, where all of his friends showed up in all red, and dropped red bandanas, big heavy gold chains that looked fake, and crew pictures in his casket. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Ray’s at the edge of the red barn, nose to the ground, in pursuit of some scent. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

The acolytes were clad in robes of pale yellow and bright orange, priests and priestesses in red. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

There was a bright, hot, leaping thing, yellow and red. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I run my hand over the soft silks and cashmeres, and choose a pink blouse with red roses, and a grass-colored cardigan to go over it. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The red mud dried on his khakis like the blood of a slain beast. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

All around us, the room was splattered and streaked with red, yellow, and blue. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

Far below, she saw the red glow of the coals, but it was what she saw on her feet that shocked her heart into a panicked gallop. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

In the middle of the wall, where Matt could have sworn nothing had been a minute ago, was a red, glowing patch. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s all different colors—gray, white, yellow, and red—and has four wheels, two smaller turntable ones in the front and two bigger ones in the back. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

The marks of the doctor's hand stood out red on her cheek. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

If he hadn’t run that red, I wouldn’t have gotten a second chance with her. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

Great smears of orange, blue, red, and green covered the black canvas above, as though a divine painter had attacked it with wild fury. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

Inside the floating cloak he was tall, thin, and bony: and his hair was red beneath the black cap. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

Her skirt was turned back, showing a petticoat of red knitted yarn with tatting around the edge. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

He was drunk and had not bothered to dress himself, lounging on the sofa in a red robe. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

The other butterflies wheel away on the breeze, and then the red one flits from Sis to me. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

I slam my arms down on top of it, but not before her cheeks go past red to an “icebox plum” shade of purple. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

Sitting on top is a neatly folded red plaid blanket and a pillow in a smooth white case. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

In the curved hallway mirror I flit past, a red shape at the edge of my own field of vision, a wraith of red smoke. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

Yo screams as the hooked beak rips at the man's shirt and chest; the white figure on the lawn is a red sop. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

I check my Facebook quickly before getting started, a red notification for an invite to a Senior Trip Beach Blast this Friday night in Cabo popping up. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

They were coming to a thicket of juniper and dog roses, tangled at ground level with nettles and trails of bryony on which the berries were now beginning to ripen and turn red. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

They brandished spears and scimitars which shone red as blood in the firelight. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

The plaster that covered him was turning red. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

She fluttered her red fingertips against his palm. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Holly took the stage with Rayburn trotting close behind wearing a red bandanna, and my hands burned from clapping so hard. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

Jeanne examines a Latin volume with beautiful illuminations in blue, red, and gold leaf. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

Hestia regarded me with her red glowing eyes. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

The boy turned his arm over and pointed to several angry red holes in the skin. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He remembered walls of pale red stone festooned with patches of nitre, a grey door of splintered wood, four inches thick and studded with iron. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“Can’t lie: it’s real fun making your cheeks all red,” he says. Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

We were proud of our precious red scarves, which, like the national flag, were dyed red with the blood of our revolutionary martyrs. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Someone secured a necklace of large red oyster shells around my neck, and a broad bracelet of silver was pushed onto my wrist. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

His scalp was a riot of springy red hair just like Tom’s, and he kept patting it as though it might fall out if he didn’t push the roots back in. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I almost always wore a khaki shirt and a red hat for sun protection. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

I watched the sky go light pink and then red and orange and then dark blue and purple. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

Deep red blood erupted from the collision, spattering William’s bare skin. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

It was red and blotchy, like she’d been crying for hours. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

He learned many things from her wise red lips. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

The bathroom is purple, with red footprints painted up the wall, across the ceiling and down the opposite wall. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

He's a nervous man wearing a crooked red bow tie and a Nazi party pin on his lapel. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

It’s squashed flat; the red plastic is split at the sides, where the sewing is. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Mist's dulling the gold leaves and browning the reds. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

Because only small amounts were needed, Tree-ear was working with the red and white clay in bowls instead of in the pits. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

There was one dot of color on the whole thing, a little red heart. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

The bamboo, pine, and plum leaves seemed to shine in the sun as if carved from emeralds, and the accents of the pink and red flowers were like nestled rubies. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

She watched the red taillights for a moment, then she ran back into the house to telephone Santa. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was like a kitchen in an old person’s house, with shabby red linoleum and—in keeping with this odd apartment—a door that led onto the roof. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

The red lipstick and purple eye shadow that matches her muumuu somehow make her look regal, dazzling, eye-catching. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Sometimes I growl, shake myself and spatter a few red drops for history to remember. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

This year a trumpet vine leaned eagerly against a cool lily, pointy leaves fought to see who could take over the steps, purples and blood reds argued loudly with each other. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

Other fish that I could not identify were yellow, brown, silver, blue, red, pink, green, white, in all kinds of combinations, solid, streaked and speckled. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

They ate tuna fish directly out of the can, and they drank water out of little paper cups that had riddles printed in red on their sides. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

"Of course you do," said the woman in the red dress, and her fidgeting fingers brushed the black knives impatiently, as if there were something she could not wait to be doing. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

The salt air lay still and heavy that morning, but the western sky was a fiery red, streaked with lowering clouds that glowed as bright as Lannister crimson. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Ten miles into the trip home a red light on the dash suddenly glared. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Cathy had remarkable luck in finding things—a gold charm, money, a little silken purse, a silver cross with red stones said to be rubies. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

I saw the blood crusted on his red cap. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

It ends, ‘We have lingered in the chambers of the sea / By sea-girls wreathed with seaweed red and brown / Till human voices wake us, and we drown.’ The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

It’s like we’re all the color of dust and you are gold, and rich brown, in red and purple with dark-lined eyes and shiny red lips. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

He has red hair and glasses and he always smiles when he talks to me. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

The rotunda was dotted in red—trophies, pictures, whole pieces of wall dripped with red paint. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

I walked through Arnold’s front door and a lady in a suit and too much red lipstick jumped up from the couch. Lawn Boy Returns 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

A flashing red light made the car’s windows glow rosy, and I liked the way my hands looked, as though they were on fire. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Sam Houston gave me a buttonhook, and Lamar gave me a pincushion shaped like a fat red tomato. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

That dismal face of hers turns cherry red, and spit starts flying outta her mouth as she screams, “Girl, I just gave you a bath!” Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

The bridge of his nose was swollen and red all the way across from eye to eye. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Berosty took up the great table of red stone as if it had been a sheet of tin and brought it down on Herbor’s head. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

Soon she could even feel the heat in the air, as red R’hllor’s worshipers lifted their voices in prayer. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

He was a year or so older than Charles and growing like red birch, and to hear the mistress carry on, about as useless. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

When Mr. Lemoncello said that, he pushed a big red button in his podium. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

To the red tile roofs and the rough adobe walls of both his childhood and mine. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

We sewed red flags and tied the red scraps around arms, legs, horses’ tails. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Something about his smile, his red hair that sticks out every which way, gives him a boyish quality. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

The girls are stopped at a red light as more traffic whizzes by. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

But the rest of the park stays empty, the boys’ blue and red plastic eggs still scattered all over the grass, waiting for the game to start. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Diego wrestled the lighter from my brother and then lit three Roman candles, which sent streamers of blue and red and green sparks into the air. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

Her face was red and her breath came in gasps. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

It was this red hunting hat, with one of those very, very long peaks. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

The windows are down, and the diesel engine growls and rumbles when we stop at the red lights. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

She wore a red and black plaid shirt, denim jeans cuffed at her calves, and Air Jordans. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

“Will you take me to that red bridge? The one with the fog?” he said. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

A few minutes after nine o’clock, the light on the camera facing Nixon’s desk glowed red. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

But when I peered in through the cafeteria window, I could see Ellie’s red hair. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

Tiller, Sairy, Dallas, Florida, and Z were in the cabin kitchen, all tossing ingredients into a big red bowl. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

The mayor sat in a bright red chair with his feet on his desk. Stone Fox 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

A line of clothes flapped in the wind—white sheets, Ralph’s blue dress, a red blouse and nightgowns—wet and fresh and blowing out in different shapes. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

I stamped out the few that were still edged in red and threatening to flame up again. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

And he bought a round red lacquered comfit dish with a cover, and in this he put sesame cakes and larded sweets and he put the box on the table. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

Between my outfit, his outburst, and my red face, I have no doubt most of the people in this room now know exactly which boy I “like.” Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

It’s almost pitch-black in Chris’s room—the red sky shines a bit of light through his windows. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

At the back of the sling I had sewn a tiny quilted triangle, red at its center against two shades of green; it marked the baby’s nape for luck. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

This was the time he tried to stuff red hot peppers into his mother’s nose because he was convinced that if the old woman sneezed three times, she would live. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

“Complete accident. We would have set off all the alarms. Big red lights the second he scanned the passports. Your mom was praying the whole time.” Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

"The red lands are not kind to the weak." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Fifty little red eyes stared back at her. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

She was carrying a red rubber apron and a curved white enamel bowl. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

The meat was spiced and fragrant, charred outside and red and juicy within. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The others have red hankies tied around their necks. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yeah,” said Mini, rubbing furiously at her bright red cheeks. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Aru saw the red light on Burton’s phone: steady and unblinking. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Annabeth produced a red rubber ball the size of a grapefruit. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

Most of the patients, just like the rest of us, eventually figured out that the red decks were a problem. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

He rushed over, a woman trailing behind in a red cape and tight shiny blue pants. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

His whole naked ugly body was as red as a strawberry, except for his two balls which were the brightest blue you have ever seen. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

She reminded me of Nancy Bobofit, though the camper girl was much bigger and tougher looking, and her hair was long and stringy, and brown instead of red. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

Balls of light rise up high above it, silver and red spheres which explode and rain down in showers of red, white, and green stars. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

He lay back, and it seemed he sank down into a place warm and red and full of comfort. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

I drop my dress on the blanket, and every inch of my exposed skin blazes red. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

The next morning, Mama’s eyes were puffy and red. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

I pick up a ball of red yarn and brush it against my cheek. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

I sink into a chair and I bury my face into my red hat and I'm not sure if I'm laughing or crying. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

The face of his red and hungry god? A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

She rubbed a bit of the red into my cheeks for color. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

I had my dinner in a restaurant, and when I had settled in with a drink and a comfortable chair and my bathed bare feet on a carpet with red roses, I inspected Charley. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I knew it was you! They didn’t know anything about him except for that he had red hair. But that was enough for me.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Mist hung just above the trees, burning off in patches where bright sun dulled the intensity of red hibiscus blossoms, yellow morning glories, the purple centers of passion fruit flowers. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

A flash of red light engulfs the scene, and the omniscient voice echoes all around us. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

His tie was red in the sun, walking. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

The edge of his sword was tinged with red. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

He smooths the hair out of his eyes and pulls on the red cap. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Dad wheeled the bin into the shade because, despite the hat, Luke’s hands and arms had turned red with sunburn. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Cain stalked to where Celaena panted, her face white and red. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Jack, identifiable by personality and red hair, was advancing from the forest A hunter crouched on either side. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

As the minutes passed, Constance’s voice grew more cracked and strained, her cheeks redder and redder, her strength closer to failing. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

Her daughter sat stiffly on the sofa, tugging at the red ribbon that held her braided hair up in a ponytail. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

Hear the crunch and let the red peeling break his heart. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like John and his group of Lost Boys, we went to bed hungry again, finding a place to lie down on the rocky red soil of Ethiopia to sleep. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not too much later, a clean Ralph, with all-new clothes, left a deluxe model on the kitchen counter, with a red bow. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Are those the dragons the red woman means to wake? A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“Right here. I found it. It’s that part about her seeing Henrietta’s red toenail polish.” Watch Us Rise 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z

They are red velvety seats, the kind you have to fold down before you sit on them. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

Then she yanked her apron with the pink and red roses on it off the nail on the kitchen wall, put it on over her head, and tied it around her waist. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

That he was gonna cook up a fancy supper for Mama with candles on the table and Willie Nelson on the radio and maybe she’d wear that red dress he loved so much. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

The room is dimly lit, and plush red leather couches line most of the perimeter. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

The links were forged of every metal known to man: black iron and red gold, bright copper and dull lead, steel and tin and pale silver, brass and bronze and platinum. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The poppies reach waist-high on single green stalks and are so red they seem to bleed color. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

A few birds were quarreling among the red flowers of the rhododendron, and there stood Dustfinger looking lost to the world, and juggling. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

The red cloak went careening past her, stumbling. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The walls were covered with Black Power posters, pictures of Malcolm X, and green, red, and black maps of Africa. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

Only Basta wore a snow-white shirt, just as Dustfinger had said, with a red flower in the buttonhole of his jacket, a red flower like a warning. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

The stranger’s face was hidden by his hood from the red light, but Ged felt the unseen eyes meet his. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

I notice that his knotty toes are all red. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

The Russian was well dressed, his red hair swept back; he appeared to be in his forties. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

That it was bad enough to have curly red hair. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

Bright red apples fringed the edges of the pear pads. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

“There’s a Common Welsh Green over there, the smaller one — a Swedish Short- Snout, that blue-gray — and a Chinese Fireball, that’s the red.” Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

I grab red, orange, and yellow pencils and draw fire coming out of her mouth. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

His eyes have turned to burning diamonds, his Noise blazing a red so fierce it’s practically steaming the water away from him. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

“As long as he keeps wearing red trunks...” Lawn Boy 2007-06-12T00:00:00Z

Pine garlands with red velvet ribbons were hung around the doorframe. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

In a matter of seconds, the bees flew off, but they left behind two boys covered in stings, angry red welts rising on their faces and arms. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

He hit the cue ball, sending one of the reds straight into the middle pocket. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

He stood in the darkened basement with the trunk upon his back and listened to the roaring draft of the furnace and saw the coals burning red through the cracks. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

As though the red wash flying from veins not theirs is facial makeup patented for its glow. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

I felt a flurry of delirious joy because he’d said, “You smell like lemons” instead of “Your hair is red.” Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

I look down and see red fingermarks on the back a her legs. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Olanna looked down at the long red tin and nearly burst out laughing from sheer unexpected pleasure. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

“That red one is a cardinal,” he’d tell me, and “that one over there is a blue jay. They don’t like each other much.” Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

Tiny hints of red push against the warm sepia brown of her irises. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

Just then, balancing a Styrofoam cup full of jiggling red Jell-O in his right hand and a cup full of wobbling green Jell-O in his left, Clint Hammond saunters to our table. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

Finally, the poor phone lets out a pitiful buzz, and the red location marker updates on my map. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Mary Lou shouted just as the alarm flared red and everything began to crumble. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

Renly had gifted him with a rainbow cloak and a suit of blood red armor, and named him one of his seven. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Green, blue, red, black, yellow, purple, orange: The colors seem to glow. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

Dad asks as he sips his red wine. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

The rod had two disks attached to it, one white and one red, which were 1 meter apart. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

I can’t see my own face, but I feel it turn red. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

I ask Dad, Is this Cuchulain? and the guard laughs till his face turns red. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

I still can’t see him, but his voice seems to rise up from an adjacent bed of red roses. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

At the arranged place on the water look out for a red lantern on Tuesday night, 1 A.M. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

It dripped down into the sink, red on white, spreading out into the water that poured from the faucet. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

The rising sun lit them from beneath with flames of murky red; but soon it climbed above them into a clear sky. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

But what she noticed first was a bright red wooden tray with a number of rings on it. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

In the evening, as the sky and most of the land turned red, they sat together eating cold turkey drumsticks and wearing green-shaded glasses to watch the lava burn. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

On one of the red squares--boy, I can still see it. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

Up ahead, Riker looked up from his rampage, his face red and scrunched with fury. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

“His back is to us. He’s working his oily charm on a lovely young lady who must not know him ... to the right of the round gentleman in red.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

He looks the same to me, except his white skin is red from the sun. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Tyrion wondered, when he realized the huge red priest was gone. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

My primary motivation behind buying a car, despite the scarcity of my funds, was that I refused to be driven around town in a car with red and blue lights on top. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

‘Look! Fire, red fire! Are there dragons in this land? Look, there is another!’ The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

Genie drew his knees up—his legs were starting to go numb—and Dad noticed the red truck in his hand. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

His eyelids were red and swollen, and there was a huge insect bite on the side of his neck. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

Put the light behind you and steer for the big red buoy. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

And the cowbells peeled in his antlers, singing fool, fool, fool while the red woman looked down on him in pity, the candle flames dancing in her red red eyes. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The goblin was trembling, unable to meet the red eyes high above his. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

The women swept about in red gowns, laughing. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her heart a red cup of fierceness tucked among ordinary things. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was wearing a tall dunce cap covered with red X’s, the sign for a criminal. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I carve and Mr. Freeman mixes orange and red to get the right shade of sunrise. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

Pinmei took another look at her home, but only a sea of flames, crackling orange and red, met her eyes. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

And in the missing corner of the room, there were licks of red amid the swirling puffs of gray and black. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

All old and hard-covered in plain red or blue or black. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

A red fox perched on a stump, two dusky kits peeking around the vixens back. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

In a long flash of lightning, I see another wave coming at us from behind, higher than all the others—and at the wave’s crest, I see too many fiery red eyes to count. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

His chest was heaving; his face was red, and his dæmon was limp and fainting in the monkey’s hands. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

And the child grew like a young god, for daily Demeter anointed him with ambrosia and at night she would place him in the red heart of the fire. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a flutter of red and blue outside and Alex remembered the flag he had seen. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

Usually she wears a gray skirt with two straps over the shoulders, and a red sweater pebbled with little balls of wool. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I got plenty of chores needs doing around here this morning,” his mother announced as they were finishing the grits and red gravy. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

She glowed red when she came out, blood clinging to her skin, which at that moment looked as though it were in flames. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t help but watch it turn from rose to red to purple to blue. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

The effort brought a red flush to his neck. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

He winks, and now I’m certain my face is all red and splotchy. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

The office phone’s red like a nuclear hotline and it’s got buttons you push, not the dial you get on normal phones. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

My face turns bright red with all the shame I've kept bottled until now. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Fidelito pointed at a shower of red and green sparks in the sky. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

His red hair sprang up like a sponge on the top of his head and he stared at Jake with gray, flabby eyes. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

One was cold, one was hot, and the red one was really hot. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

We had supper at five—homemade bread, butter, milk, red beans, spinach and a peach. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now Therese drops the soiled garments in soapy water with fingers that are long and tapered, like a lady’s, but red and rough, like a servant’s. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

One red patent leather purse with straps missing. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He looks up with red, puffy eyes that I’ve never seen on my brother before. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

His eyes are red and clouded with tears. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

My surmise was not finished, could not be; for I caught sight in the mirror of the red mark upon my forehead; and I knew that I was still unclean. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

As she let the door flap close behind her, Dany saw a finger of dusty red light reach out to touch her dragon's eggs across the tent. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The door loomed before her, the red door, so close, so close, the hall was a blur around her, the cold receding behind. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Closing my eyes, I smell her red bush tea, the shea butter she rubs on her skin. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

“I can’t decide between red or blue lettering,” I whisper back. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

My grandmother's china, covered in tiny red flowers. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Looking up, Nate saw splashes of red between the trees up on the hill. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z

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

The bacon fat was crackling, along with red onions and slabs of garden potatoes. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Or that just a few days before, we were having silent pillow fights and sharing secrets under the pink glow of the red chili lights in Ximena’s bedroom. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

The whole room was filled with red and yellow. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

In a few of the sketches, I paint Abuela Celia just the way she wants—dancing flamenco with whirling red skirts and castanets and a tight satin bodice. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Each time it fell, a fine red dust rose up, spreading a rich, acrid smell in the air. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

One morning I was pounding some red chillies into powder. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then he sits down on the red velvet sofa and leans his head back and closes his eyes and listens. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Of that lean and terrible red ship he saw no sign, but his father's Great Kraken was there, her bow ornamented with a grey iron ram in the shape of its namesake. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The beast started for Nhamo with its red tongue lolling out of its mouth. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Diluted leftover dye. C’mere, sweetie, and let me spritz you so that you have Joey Pow red hair too.” Lawn Boy Returns 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was harder to feel scared of a lump of tea leaves away from the dim red light and befuddling perfume of Professor Trelawney’s classroom. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

Some red paint and white numbers that seemed to tower over him. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Bring me another beer. It settles my stomach. And one of those red pills from the doctor. Gotta do what the doctor said.” Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Duchess was in a red maple, Lady was out of sight in the fern bed, and Drum was perched in an oak tree behind her. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

He set to work fashioning for himself a kingly cape made out of a scrap of the red tablecloth. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

But then a red flare shot up into the misty sky. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

His eyes were as red as Mother’s had been, but his face had loosened a little from the tightness of the night before. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Apparently he does, ’cause he comes charging at you like a red bull. Booked 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Two hours later Alba felt a warm viscous liquid between her legs and saw that her slacks were stained with red. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Perhaps none of the people in jail could read, and the big man with the red face would just tear it up and swear. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

My brain registered more details, like the red skull on the black T-shirt. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

The twinkling red glow of the lights held an undercurrent of warning. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

He turns an even deeper shade of red. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Three long-stemmed roses, so piercingly red I wondered if they were plastic, were in the vase. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

In front of the legionnaires, like a line of giant dominoes, stood their red and gold shields, each the size of a refrigerator door. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Father Judge was a “humorless cement box” with numerous stairwells and endless hallways that at class changes became a swirling sea of boys in matching blue jackets and red ties. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

But he could not stop my mother from giving me her chang, a necklace made out of a tablet of red jade. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

She smelled of strawberry, and her lips were a dangerous red even in the moonlight. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

One wolf sank his teeth into the horse’s neck, and another bit into Pol’s thigh, releasing a thick stream of red blood. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

When I could sit up again, my mother brought two mirrors, and I saw my back covered entirely with words in red and black files, like an army, like my army. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The day after I won an important regional tournament, the window encased a fresh sheet cake with whipped- cream frosting and red script saying, “Congratulations, Waverly Jong, Chinatown Chess Champion.” The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Onions were made into long ropes, braided together by their tops, and then were hung in the attic beside wreaths of red peppers strung on threads. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

We came to Macún when I was four, to a rectangle of rippled metal sheets on stilts hovering in the middle of a circle of red dirt. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

She was almost to the top of the chemistry room’s ceiling when she spotted her red backpack in the wreckage beneath her. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

We were assigned a list of colors to study, not the hues, but the words themselves—“red,” “blue,” “green,” “black,” “orange,” “purple,” “white.” Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“It was as if heavy clothes, embroidered with glowing threads of gold and red, had been tossed down by a giant or a god, and were just floating there, on top of the water.” Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

He turned even redder, like he was surprised I’d quoted him word for word. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

One tuft was of two colors, magenta and brick red, apparently growing on the same root. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Around my bed, they tuck the pink and red carnations. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

Perhaps the Fanbearer had paid a great sum for that red granite coffin with the alabaster lid. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

He drank some water, swallowed a couple of aspirin for no particular reason, and opened one of the cans of red beans. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

It was in eighth grade when I got a painful and prominent red zit on my forehead. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

So we moved into a room in a big house that was made of red bricks. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

When it came to gunfire Jumper didn’t have any more sense than a red ant in a hot skillet. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

After I finished voting, I returned to my car and got stuck at a red light next to a rowdy group of Iranian protesters and shah supporters. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

Prince Dain, who was almost the High King, falls on top of the gem-crusted red cloak of state, his spilling blood lost in the jumble of jewels. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Carol pinches her lips and cheeks to make them red. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

If the Reich doctors decided that the patient’s life was “useless,” they prescribed euthanasia by drawing a red cross by the patient’s name. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

The eastern horizon was glowing a deep red when the last snowflake fell. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Where a red, tender-mango-shaped secret was pickled, sealed and put away. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

As we walk down the Midway toward the Mess, one of the Director’s shiny red drones flies above us, slows down, and follows. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

Thomas almost laughed as Newt turned to an older boy standing nearby, whose face had turned bright red. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Chances to escape death were better at night, because the red track of the bullets could be seen in the dark. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

It is red and it spreads . . . seeping into a crack and bleeding across the unfinished wood. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Penn, the Beta captain, has a sparkling red Artifact hovering over his head. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I wanted to tell him he should be using red because this was where the devil lived. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

The white cells of paper dissolve as the red floods them. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

Close above me are her bewildering eyes, the soft brown of her skin and her red lips. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her eyes are red and blurry and she's saying, "I'm sorry, Maxwell, we did our best. Better let me bandage up that hand, you're bleeding." Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

He was terribly thin, his hands raw and red from working. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

One, a young woman, pointed at Lupita as she and Salvador stopped to stare at a winking nightclub sign of bright pink and red lights. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

No gloves, no cover for her hair, and her face rough and red from weeks of salt wind. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

As the payback for giving me the dirty finger I said out loud to By, “How many cows you counted, By? How many red cars so far?” The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

The only motion was the minute hand and the agitated red star-shaped time indicator on Fischer’s clock. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Daughters who looked a lot like the widowed mother might wear red panties too so that if they were ever mistaken for her; they would be safe. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

The Warden was a blond and brachycephalic Alpha- Minus, short, red, moon-faced, and broad-shouldered, with a loud booming voice, very well adapted to the utterance of hypnopxdic wisdom. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her thin lips are painted an angry stroke of red, and in the night her auburn hair looks dark brown—almost black. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

"What the hell's the matter with you?" he kept saying, and his stupid race kept getting redder and redder. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

Then a car with a siren and flashing red light came on the bridge. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

She hands him a red wool scarf, the one she has been knitting on and off. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Mr. Levy looked at the envelope, on which “personal” had been written three times in red ballpoint. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Seven save us,” he said, quite forgetting his new red god in his shock. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Finch traces the red highway lines with his index finger. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

So the diggers avoided the areas where the clay was striped dirty white or rusty red, as clay of these colors did not make the transformation to celadon green when fired. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

He was wearing a fine suit made of red silk. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z

A small red light indicated that it was already running. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

His teammates have already pulled on red scrimmage pinnies. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

The sister, Catherine, was a slender, worldly girl of about thirty with a solid sticky bob of red hair and a complexion powdered milky white. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

It's so radioactive that it will get red hot all by itself. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Except instead of little itchy red dots, I hear Mom and Sam in my head. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

The bald spot atop the maester's head had turned red, Bran could see; if anything, Luwin was more angry than before. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

To his horror, he saw Ryan reach into the pocket of his parka and pull out a crushed crash helmet and a little red motorcycle broken in two. Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z

He was wearing perfectly pressed khakis and a red polo shirt under a deep blue sports coat—relaxed authority was what her stepmother called the look. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Their eyes were red and their faces badly chapped. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jagged flames danced across the surface of the fog, colored a bright sodium- red. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Port was left, she remembered, and the port light was red. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her thin brown arms were stacked with gold bracelets, a small red circle was painted on her forehead, and the edges of her feet were tinted with a decorative red dye. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

Round hazel eyes bulged from their sockets; the whites were streaked with red and yellow. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

She then told this one story about how she heard there was a sorority that made the new girls stand in their underwear while they circled their “fat” in red magic markers. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

Grayish blue with a red hue at its center. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

The king's smile was as terrible as his wound, his teeth red. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

He was a skinny kid with red hair, freckles, and a big forehead. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

The ugly red satchel hangs from my shoulder. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

A candle inside a tall red glass threw glints and glimmers across her body. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Todd13 scowled and his face actually turned red—a sign that he hadn’t bothered to turn off his account’s real-time emotion feature, which made your avatar mirror your facial expressions and body language. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

We gathered them at low tide in baskets and carried them to the mesa where we cut the dark red flesh from the shell and placed it on flat rocks to dry in the sun. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

The tables on this side are graced with red and white checked tablecloths, silverware, and vases of flowers. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

Outside in the yard, parked in a row, were three brand-new bicycles—a big red one and two smaller ones, a blue boy’s bike and a purple girl’s bike. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

It was probably a mistake, a red flag that would make Jesse more determined to try to butt his way into one of the more competitive schools in America. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The red tile roofs of the mansion spread out in a patch of intense green. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

And everyone knows that red gummy bears are the best ones. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

Overhead the little man with the spyglass and the red breeches was swinging in the wind—observing Boston from a variety of angles. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Banners and flags and gonfalons suddenly bellied from every cornice, a huge red banner unscrolled along the full length of the Machinery Building, and the canvas slipped from Big Mary’s gold-leaf shoulders. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

My dad went around the city meeting friends and giving them gifts in red bags. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

She dips the brush in water and wets the paper, then taps at the red square. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

“Can I put his hat on? Please? Please? Can I give him my red scarf? Sydney will love my red scarf!” Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

Its arms and legs were thin and feeble, and its face — no child alive ever had a face like that — flat and snakelike, with gleaming red eyes. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

His back was to her as he filled two cups with sweet Arbor red. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Once when I filched a cookie from the jar, Mom called me the Blushing Bandit, on account of my red face. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

The third doctor, who carried the X-ray plates in their red envelopes, said nothing. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

Now to the left he could see the great mass of Pettigrew’s Division, with Trimble coming up behind him, advancing in superb order, line after line, a stunning sight, red battle flags, row on row. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fang and his bag crashed in the back of Faith's red Sunbird, parked a couple slushy football fields from the Palace. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

At Twig’s touch, the rest of Dari’s face turned as red as the welt, and he cleared his throat. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Mr. and Mrs. van D. had seen a red glow through the open window, and he thought there was a fire nearby, while she was certain our house was ablaze. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Each flower is individually wrapped in cellophane and tied with a red ribbon, and he’s got a sign that says $3 that he props up against the bucket. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

He had loose and floppy limbs and was dressed in a three-piece black suit with a bright red tie. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

But he was standing there watching us anyway, and I flushed red to think he might have seen me feeding the ant lions. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Gaw!” said the penguin, opening his red beak wide, as if he wanted to laugh at the policeman. Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z

Then he handed me three crepe paper flowers, one red, one white, one blue. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

She spins the red thread for the Old Man of the Moon. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

Tobias emerges from the men's bathroom a few minutes later, his red Amity shirt replaced by a black T-shirt, and his short hair glistening with water. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

There was a red light flashing in the camera. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

I remember my father’s eyes were so red—like raw-hamburger red—and his face was still bruised purple and yellow. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

He sat in his straight-backed, red leather chair and looked at me from behind the desk. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

I sort through my bag of scraps for reds, oranges, purples, heart colors. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

I’ve ditched the red cap, gloves, and black sweater, and am wearing a navy pullover and jeans. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

"But Señorita Miss Carla could not be bothered with white sneakers. She wanted red sneakers, she wanted red sneakers." How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

He bathed his face in cool water, and winced and rinsed his mouth out, spitting red into the basin. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

The dead grass on the distant hills was a yellowish red, not orange but a drier color: orange-white, like the haze in the air. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The water turned bright red as the animal rolled over in the water. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

The red dirt at my feet shifts as more of it rises from the ground, dancing up my limbs and seeping into my very bones. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Someone ripped one of the new red vinyl seats; she agreed that instead of using tape, they should replace it. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

The road changed to red clay and the sand was behind them. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

With all the running her face should have been bright red, but it was as white as a bowl of milk. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

The red fruit mingled with his skin and scented it. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Anthropology tells us and archaeology implies that our uncivilised ancestors could be red in tooth and claw; psychoanalysis seeks to persuade us that the savage in all of us lurks not far below the skin. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

There was no ceiling now, only an endless sky awash with red and gold. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

The barn isn’t red, like I thought barns were; where it isn’t painted, it’s just really old brownish-gray wood. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

Slant, hands red and wet with sores, stood shirtless in the pond, great masses of insects swarming about him. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

I stuck the round red petals on my toenails so they looked like Mother’s painted nails during the Eid holiday celebration. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

Green hedges, dazzling with red wild roses appeared behind my eyes, stretching with a gentle curving to an infinity empty of objects, a limpid blue space. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

The red Spanish tile on the depot roof got blurry, but he did not move or wipe away the tears, because it had been a long time since he had cried for anyone. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

To him strawberries were a holy mystery, jewels of sugar, deep red gems, sweet orbs, succulent rubies. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

And then he smiles at me again, and I swear my heart inflates into one huge red balloon. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

He stares outside, his face turning more and more red. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

A well-dressed couple sat before it, waiting on a plush red divan. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

"Nor Tully red, the mud red of the river. That's blood up there, child, smeared across the sky." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The man pulled a bottle of red liquid from the cooler and wiped it dry on his apron before handing it to Milkman. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

He paused to reach under his pant leg and scratch at the red splotches on his calf. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

He stared at the daubs and streaks and runnels of red, and this newest mystery, it wasn’t a pathway of light burning lines through his mind. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

“You warned King Cleon against this war with Yunkai. The man was a fool, and his hands were red with blood.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“It does have a certain kick,” I admitted, my face going red. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

I take a deep breath and lift my shirt and see that the infection has only gotten way worse, the skin red and puffy, the G-tube and the area around it oozing. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

Dogwood, elms, hemlocks, balsam firs, and red spruces still thrived. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

In a minute he rang his kiddy bell as he passed me on his giant tricycle with the red wagon full of meals trailing behind. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

His eyes had finally found mine, and the light in them shone feverish with fury, red from crying. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Valley looked down as she said it, her cheeks red. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

It rose red and solitary from the swampland. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

The smallest of them, sitting on Coraline’s left, was a boy with red velvet knee britches and a frilly white shirt. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

Arya had started to roll it up when the colors caught her eye: the blue of lakes and rivers, the red dots where castles and cities could be found, the green of woods. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

They were wearing green army uniforms, and Richard wondered why soldiers would make such a spectacle of themselves, dashing in like that, until he saw how red and wildly glassy their eyes were. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

There was a sailboat with rusty red sails reefed around the booms of the fore and aft masts. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

It was studded with red and blue stones: rubies and sapphires, thought Tristran. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

The old woman licks her fingers and thumbs through the pages in the red folder. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

The blood congeals into a long, red terrycloth rectangle. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Picking a curly red hair out of her sweet potato sooflay, she dropped it daintily to the floor. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Ma nods her head, her eyes red and brimming with tears. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Running over the bottom edge of the crown so that when Balekin had lifted it, his hands had been smeared red. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

He had gray hair and a red beard. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

I sort of wished she hadn’t bothered, because I was feeling really pathetic and my forehead was still probably smacking red and I definitely didn’t have the energy to be mean anymore. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

A thick red carpet sucks at the soles of Werner’s brogues; electric bulbs burn in a chandelier above the table; roses twine across the wallpaper. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

It is more a delicate swathe of red silk held in place by a tightly laced corset than a proper dress. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

It bonds to your red blood cells like oxygen, but unlike oxygen, it doesn’t let your blood cells go. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

I look at their shapes as they walk, the way shadow moves from one leg to another, the blocks of color, a red square of cardigan, a blue triangle of skirt. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

And out there, heading our way, was Mr. DiAngelo’s new red kayak. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

Strangely, of all the questions Genie had, he didn’t have any about the red fire truck. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

The teeth dug through Sam’s skin, making a circle of red on his thin ankle. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

He got red horn the neck up and shuffled his papers: “You had no business with white girls!” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

The cover has a drawing of a girl and her dog curled up on a giant pot of red jam. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

Someone had taken a bright red marker to the girl in the picture, partially obscuring her face, but I could tell she was pretty, blonde, and wearing an old East Shoal cheerleader’s uniform. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

There was a red bow tied halfway up the buggy whip and red ribbons were braided into the horses’ manes and tails. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

The older one has a thick red beard. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

Fred and George rounded off the evening with a display of Filibuster fireworks; they filled the kitchen with red and blue stars that bounced from ceiling to wall for at least half an hour. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

Buckley came to the front of the room, his face red. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

According to the data returned by Mars 3, it should have landed successfully on the red planet. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the back of the trucks, men wearing faded black long pants and long-sleeve black shirts, with red sashes cinched tightly around their waists and red scarves tied around their foreheads, stand body to body. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Both smiled with their mouths closed, squinting into the wind, Mrs. Sen’s red sari leaping like flames under her coat. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

She watched his great red happiness, and it was not light as Samuel’s happiness was light. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

They swirled around the nest with their red eyes glowing. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

She was knitting and her worn red hands fairly flew over the yam. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

The last red ball was too close to the cushion. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

Standing next to a tree with red frozen sap on its bark would bring flashbacks of the many times we executed prisoners by tying them to trees and shooting them. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

He looked quite startled and I am sure I went red as a tomato. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

In truth, its eyes are yellow, and it is the skin around the eyes which is red, but everyone always speaks of its red eyes. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Trepid glanced at the display case, spotting a gold necklace with tiny red and white stones in it. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

Her teeth were a dark red, as though caked with blood from the initial beating during her arrest. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

The virus is a catastrophe for a pregnant woman: the child is aborted spontaneously and is usually infected with Ebola virus, born with red eyes and a bloody nose. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I passed along the grounds, black-and-white magpies and longtailed red birds scattering as I went. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

Down at Pier 57, the Great Wheel pinwheels and flashes through brilliant color patterns: electric violets, neon greens, siren reds. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

In the firing, the red slip had turned black, and the contrast of black and white against jade green was unmistakably new, different, remarkable. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

She backed away slowly, Needle red in her hand. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The rope broke then, disturbing her peace, making her aware of flesh and something so free she could smell its bloodsmell; made her aware of its life below the sash and its red lip rouge. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every evening I watched for his red jeep from my window, and when it appeared on the highway I ran for the door. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

I was handed some clothes, but don’t ask what: a pair of wool slacks over my pajamas, a red sweater and a black skirt, white understockings and tattered kneesocks. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

On the last press, the lights dim and a red beam scans the elevator. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

The monkey’s skin was rashy and covered with red blotches, visible through his sparse hair. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I flush a deep red, self-conscious of my joyful lightheadedness. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

Embers of “red snow” were falling everywhere; some landed on St. Paul’s Church four blocks behind the firefighters. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

Which is why they were here, on this cold morning, sitting in the back of the red pickup. I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z

If I don’t cry, I turn red and hear the ocean. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

Might there not be an even more elaborate effort by an older and wiser species, courageously battling the advance of desiccation on the red planet? Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s just Dad in his red checkered bathrobe. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

He saw small red lights, torches, winking away below there as they issued from the tunnel. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

I saw her face up close, and it was red and blotchy, which meant she had been crying and was unhappy still. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

Asked by the agent which team I supported, I took my cue from her red turtleneck and told her that I was for State. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

The altar was decorated in the same shade of red as Mama’s wrapper. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

Pale red pennons trailed from the ends of a few lances, but many more carried battle-axes and great- swords and shields hacked half to splinters. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The rose corsage her boyfriend, Brian, had given her at homecoming, hung to dry on her vanity, the petals darkened from ruby to dried-blood red. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

His red screen meant the Mid-Atlantic team was out of the competition. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

I say, poking the lump of red Jell-O. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

The ceremony ended with Candice and her mother unveiling a plaque that had been fastened to the red brick outside City Hall. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

When we finally coaxed him out, after all the splashing and laughter, he would sit on the edge of the tub and twist his knuckles into his eyes, which were red from the soapy water. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

So, taking the brush, Liang painted a chicken with golden feathers and red eyes. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

A head surfaced, but it wasn’t the red of a rusalka. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

Every day the temperature soared toward 100 degrees Fahrenheit or more, and dry winds blanketed the camp with a fine, red dust that covered the ground like snow. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tsukiko sits on the floor in the center of the room, wearing a red kimono. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

The dead man’s sword arm was yards away, the snow beneath it turning red. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

She squeezed two fingers in the palm of her opposite hand, concentrated for a moment, and when she took them out again they glowed, red hot. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

The henhouse wasn’t the small, red painted box I remembered, but was now large enough to enter standing fully upright. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

The only way I knew him was that hat, nearer brown than red now, with a rip through the brim, and the ring in his ear. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her red velvet shoes felt flimsy and thin against the wetness of the chamber. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Pink and red streamers and a little Valentine’s Day banner decorate the sign-in desk, but if you’re coming in here to visit somebody, it’s hard to celebrate any holiday. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

He gazed down at her, his pale red eyes vaguely curious. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

The tent was small, and the firelight from outside made everything the same red as the vinyl walls. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

“Will the red bird yield herself to the crow?” Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

“But you can use it to make a different type of emitter for sympathy lamps. You get a bluish light instead of the ordinary red. A little easier on the eyes. Fetch outrageous prices.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Mom put on some red lipstick and joined him, even though she didn’t drink anything stronger than tea. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

I wore a new pair of bright red sneakers, too. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

His face was red as a beet, but he didn’t put in a word for me. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

“She has yellow legs and a little red comb.” Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

In the dim red light, the draccus was hardly more than a shadow. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The red glass bulbs my father bought my mother one Christmas. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z

I got a few red camellia bushes out front a the house. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

The traffic light turned red, and the pedicab slowed down as Ji-yong pressed the hand brake. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he laughed, his ears turned bright red. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

At this, the pencil woman’s cheeks turned as red as her hair. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

When you mentioned Fiona’s hair, it was the clue that told me you were probably beginning to see the color red.” The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

She looked red in the cheeks and not very happy. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

Chett had a wen on his neck the size of a pigeon's egg, and a face red with boils and pimples. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

He dangles the orange one in front of me and then the red. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

She marches out the door, shoes tap-tapping and hips swaying under her flared red dress. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

Splotches of red cropped up across her cheeks. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

I colored us in with pencils—the brown of Abby’s skin, the pink of my cheeks, the dark red of my hair. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

He got to his feet, and with clenched fists he stared after the red car still in sight farther up the highway. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

Then she stands, drops my red coat into Jack’s lap, and says, “Connor, why don’t we bring the car around, so Maisie doesn’t have to go through the entire parking lot?” The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

On every block, there are stores displaying wristwatches with flowered bands, black radios blasting Vietnamese songs, televisions projecting hand puppets talking to happy young children, and red traditional dresses on headless mannequins. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Since Francis had assured me that they were a red herring, I decided to risk a full explosion. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

Gerald heard a loud whoosh and then he turned in terror to see the whole window covered with harsh red flames that crawled and licked and jumped along the windowsill. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once she got her fingers moving she peeled off the wax, then grabbed the cauterizing instrument and held the sharp tip of it under the flame until it turned a painful shade of bright red. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Guarino snaps on the switch that sets the huge machine humming, red and blue lights blinking on and off. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t look anybody in the eye, knowing my face was beet red and my jeans were all wrong. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

At the store a skinny man with a big red nose welcomed her with a smile. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

I could see my mom getting red when he said that, and I started to get a little worried that she might say something. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was the cop with the red moustache. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Malachite was dancing alone, her robe billowing in satin gusts, the wine in her glass a red ocean. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

God, they’re ugly, with their plump white bodies and red heads and drooping wattles, which resemble inflamed scrotums, if she’s being honest. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

When Naomi opened her eyes, they landed on Henry’s coffee cup and the stained red work rag he had wiped his mouth on at breakfast. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

And then there was that god-awful diesel Cadillac with a red leather interior. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I thought maybe her leg was bothering her, as it seemed to be redder and oozier than ever. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

After a while I started laughing again ’cause I realized I could sort of smell the red flower a few feet away from my head. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

However, when I swiped at the back of my neck, the towel came away red. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

She was in her late thirties, Lyra supposed, perhaps a little older than Mrs. Coulter, with short black hair and red cheeks. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was carved in black wood, with a canopy of angels in relief and a few scraps of red brocade that were frayed with age. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Inside the waiting room there are other women, three of them, in red: this doctor is a specialist. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

Perhaps certain parts to be assembled could be painted red and others green, so as to reduce the time required for "search” and "find.” Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had bright red hair and an Irish accent that made everything he said sound like a jolly song. I Survived the Sinking of the Titanic, 1912 2010-06-01T00:00:00Z

The vein in his forehead swelled, his face was dusky red. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Arthur’s also was prematurely snowed—both men’s lips were red in their silky nests of beard. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

A soft negative movement, left to right, and then her paw pushing something positive, like the small red ball she loved so much, across the table to me. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Otherwise, they looked like babushka nesting dolls with red and yellow scarves around sad faces. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

And that until it turned gray, you’d always have red hair. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

I want to be here, on Tuesday, in May, sitting in the red- topped booth at Sunnysides, watching Cordelia as she delicately slurps the last of her milkshake up through the straws. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Her lips shone with a red gloss she didn’t usually wear. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Mr. Jacobs shouted, his pale face red, his eyes narrowed in rage. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Not to mention the fact that she was wearing a red jacket, a fedora, a cane, and had a French chauffeur. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Only the sky had changed, washed clear of the dust and haze which had swirled off the red clay flats the summer before. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

He wore a blue and red uniform with elegantly polished black boots, and his epaulets gleamed gold. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

By then her eyes were red and raw from crying, and she felt as if she might faint. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

She plucked a red blossom from a barrel cactus and fixed it in her hair. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

She felt the meridians of energy springing back like strings snapping into position; it made her skin feel red, chapped, as though she had been scoured by a dry wind. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Shan asked Ifemelu, with a sweep of her hand, taking in the dramatic furnishing: a red rug, a blue sofa, an orange sofa, a green armchair. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Deeper shades of rust and red were already hanging there. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

At a bear feast, the bear’s skull was ribboned and set out on a good red cloth, spoken to, honored. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

One candle went right through the red house. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

Then Mrs. Walton picks out some shirts: a red silk blouse with black buttons, an off-the-shoulder sweatshirt, and an argyle polo shirt. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

His face was red and he looked sick. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

It would be red, but with a reddish-black patch on it, like rot in an apple or a bruise. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

And if possible use a bright red pen. Eats, Shoots & Leaves 2003-11-06T00:00:00Z

Her short blond hair framed a face that was a little wide at the bottom, and toothy, and somewhat red all around. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

His mother’s maroon hair was fluffed high over her forehead; her cheekbones were red with rouge that had been spread nervously up to the eyeballs. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tía Mimi's hedge of bright red ginger shielded us somewhat from the sight of the eyesore palace and of the dictator strolling of a Sunday afternoon with his three-year-old grandson in a minuscule general's uniform. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Between the trees they saw a bright light that rhythmically flashed red. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

My face was hot and probably red, but I squared my shoulders. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

Another woman leaps into the light, then another, and another, all dancing, shrieking their battle cries, their bodies painted white and black and red. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

Genie’s brain kicked in again: Don’t touch nothing red in this house. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

For a split second, the fog pulsed with red light. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

Alex asked as he devoured in three bites his lunch of red cabbage and baked beans. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

By the time the principal steps up to the podium to begin the awards ceremony, my entire face has flamed red from my lies. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

Beneath the counter is my duffel bag, and rolled up inside of it is the red gown my mom bought me. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

She had on bright red nail polish and I couldn’t get my eyes off the way her fingers tapped on my desktop and were leaving tiny half-moon dents in the wood. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her cheeks are so red she could be drunk. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

They had bloody noses, and their eyes were half-open, glassy, and brilliant red, with dilated pupils. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

A woman in red leather said, “You go, girl!” Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

I identified them by their red and white striped collar mark. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

Just like the ghost shrimp in the tank, she’s both beautiful...and horrifying, her veins glowing red and blue under pale skin. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

It looked like the drawing of the skeleton with muscles on it from my science book, only covered in red paint. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

The dirt cloud moved closer, and he could see that it trailed behind a red pickup truck. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

He shrugged as if to loosen his shoulders, strode up to the driver’s side of the red truck, reached in and grabbed Rock by the neck and pulled him out through the window. Lawn Boy 2007-06-12T00:00:00Z

It was nearing along toward Christmas time and Bubber began to talk about the Little Lord Jesus and the red bicycle he wanted Santa Claus to bring him. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

She rifles through her closet: the turquoise silk blouse with red buttons, the pale pink flowered dress with a ruffled hem. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Since Communists rallied around a red flag, the nickname “Reds” became attached to them, and the Red Scare got its name. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

When he flew, his body, so long and graceful on the ground, took on the appearance of a thick, stumpy cylinder, from the front of which his red beak projected between his round black eyes. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

His hat looked very red and small, a dot on the white road, against the sky. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

She caught a flash of red through the open door and knew it was the silk sleigh, though her first thought was of blood. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

The weir- wood’s carved red eyes stared down at them, its great red mouth open as if to laugh. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Thorn jumped up and down, screaming so hard her face was red as she hugged Seven, and then Valley, until all three Witchlings were jumping and screaming together. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

That was clever of him,- the blood did not show so badly against the red cloth. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Suddenly the boy with red hair lost his footing on the slippery bank and tumbled into the churning river. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lee got up and pulled out the pastry board and laid out the red meat and a flour sifter beside it. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

A red alarm on the wall goes off. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

She had been dreaming of a house with a red door when Missandei woke her. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

"The Bionic Unit is on red alert," he says. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

Chaol watched the prince disappear, his red cape billowing behind him, and sighed. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

My prince had his arm around a girl with red hair. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

“You are free to go. Take care where you wander. Else it might be you we find upon the morrow, smiling a red smile.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The vast vapours that arose in Mordor and went streaming westward passed low overhead, a great welter of cloud and smoke now lit again beneath with a sullen glow of red. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

Then he reaches in his top drawer and hands you, get this, milk chocolate wrapped in shiny red and gold. Booked 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

His nose was running, there was a delicious burning on his tongue, and he knew his face was red. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

To his left, on a high shelf of rock, crouched an enormous wolf with golden eyes and lolling red tongue. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

Or a red line and a blue line. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Decorated with wildflowers in the warm season, the room remained pleasant in the autumn with wreaths of red and gold leaves. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

She’s twirling a string of hair around her index finger so tightly the tip’s ballooning red and bulbous like it might burst. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

The clear red color, the texture and the scent of it pleased her. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mrs. van Daan was so upset her face turned bright red. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

He smiled and sniffed through his huge red nostrils. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

If I’m lucky enough, I won’t bump into my landlord, with his tank and sweats and red face. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

On this night, with the Lincolns present, red, white, and blue bunting is draped over the railing and a portrait of George Washington faces out. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

Trees look dark against the red sky; lights coming on in a house here, another one there. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then, pointing to her luscious red hair, which was in a high, bouncy ponytail, the kind I could never pull off, she said, “Do you think all this magic happens without some serious tools?” From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

The loggers had had their pick of the virgin timber still growing along that section of the Dungeness— towering Douglas firs and massive western red cedars. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

If there were gods in this trackless wilderness of stone and sand and red clay, they were hard dry gods, deaf to prayers for rain. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Ropy, vivid red scars run from her forehead down across her cheeks, lips, and chin, all the way into the high neck of her black dress. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Into the middle of all this commotion clomped my little sister, Merry, wearing Mama’s high heels and a red slip that pooled around her feet. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

My eyes were red and fixed on hers. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

Padva attends, after some coercion by Chandresh, gloriously adorned in golden silks embroidered with red filigree, crimson feathers in her white hair. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Their faces go red, their chests heave mightily, they sputter angry words. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

The tents were made of camouflage material, which only made them stand out more among the dull red rocks. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

The bed in which she lay was canopied in red velvet with golden accents. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

The May sunset was red in clouds, and there was still half an hour to twilight. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the Pacific war, our medics did not wear red crosses. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

A thin red slash marked the eastern horizon where the sun might soon appear. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The red light faded, and the panel turned a welcoming green. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

He leaned back in his chair by the window; the edges of his hair glowed metallic red in the sun. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

My lord, you rule wide country, rolling and rich with clover, galingale and all the grains: red wheat and hoary barley. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

She glances down to where my own belly lies flat under my red robe, and the wings cover her face. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

He fell down and got up and stumbled after her, his red face all smeared with dirt and blood. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Its twin, floating on the sea beyond the ship, shimmered red with every wave. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I reach into the top drawer of my dresser and grab the reddest lipstick I have. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Dr. Zinchenko placed a stack of red cards on her desk. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

Mom listened for another ten seconds, turning red. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

All the pores remarkably clear, red bulbous nose. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had bright red hair and wore a man’s shirt over tight blue jeans. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was clutching what looked like an ordinary Muggle camera, and the moment Harry looked at him, he went bright red. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

But what made a red blood cell acquire a sickle shape? The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

I rein over to the kitchen cabinet and got the jug bottle of Amaretto with the red $23.99 price sticker right on the paper label. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was sitting up in his bed, the two spots on his cheeks redder than ever. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

Another wave of bullets slices across the chest of her yellow coat, staining it with red, knocking the girl onto her back. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

“Troublesome, careless child! and what are you doing now? You look quite red, as if you had been about some mischief: what were you opening the window for?” Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

A small red button was set into the wall only a few inches above the floor. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

The third round had moved his head even further sideways to me, and when the fourth round hit, I saw a red dot open on the side of his head, then close up. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

The lips were red, nay redder than before; and on the cheeks was a delicate bloom. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

While we washed our hands at the sink, I scanned the room and spotted Liz mixing blue food coloring into a bowl of icing and Corey rolling out some red fondant—this thick, Play-Doh-like icing. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

After ten minutes or so at 170°, I would be red as a boiled lobster, but feeling good—relaxed, drowsy, and healthy. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I looked at my little sister, Tzipora, her blond hair neatly combed, her red coat over her arm: a little girl of seven. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ophelia’s father put up the money—about $4,500—and because PIH had no red tape and little overhead, the school was built right away. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

I admired the fancy gold scarf draped over her head, how it was decorated with red stars. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Our school was a one-room white wooden building with red trim. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

His rough-skinned face was purple with rage, and the veins in his eyes bulged like tiny red worms. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

Kote ran his hand through his red hair, then broke the silence. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Glass bowls of red berries were set on small tables in the drawing room, library, and the front parlor. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Arya had been staying as far from the castle as she could get, yet even from a distance she could see the heads rotting atop the high red walls. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“Get him the peanuts in the yellow package—not the red package. He likes the dry-roasted ones better.” The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

I could feel my face flush red, and I stared at the biscuit in my hand. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Looking up between the leaves he caught a glimpse of something red. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

If by “celebrity,” you mean the guy who tosses candy from the back of a red convertible that leads Batavia’s annual Flag Day parade. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

Two bright red spots glowed on her cheeks. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

Mona was blithely pointing at a red turtle. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

I could feel my cheeks and neck burning red. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

I'd choose something simple—a shade of red to match Maman's hair, a high waist with a cream waist-sash, and a sweeping skirt that flows out like a silk river behind me. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

All that Daenerys wanted back was the big house with the red door, the lemon tree out-side her window, the childhood she had never known. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The guy follows my eyes and his face goes bright red. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

The world vanished in a red roar of pain. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“Very good,” she remarks, although the pages are full of little red marks. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

Her eyes might have been red, but it was hard to tell in the moonlight. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

They were rough and red and cut into with cleansing fluids. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even though it’s warm in the train, his cheeks are still red. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

A little red light glowed and the box emitted a low electrical hum. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

After green garlic gnocchi with red mustard leaves, the waiter said, “Dessert next. More stars first?” The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

The Old Man’s thread still connected them and the red line wove itself among the other strands surrounding him. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

There were deep red marks on her skin. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Besides all the naked women, he painted these blue pictures, like he ran out of red and green for a few weeks. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

A day later Dobber spied a red glow against the evening sky. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Mr. Curtain said, thrusting the red helmet from his head and looking toward the window. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

The bus shuddered to a halt at a red light. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

There was a light at the very top of it that blinked red. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

Her hands fly up to her perfect, glossy red hair, brushing it back into her meticulous bun. Red Queen 2015-02-10T00:00:00Z

Benny and Brad make about a gallon of fake blood from corn syrup and red dye, and let me have some. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

Caroline’s face was red with rage, but she pinched her lips together. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sides of his mouth droop; his eyes are rimmed red. Ghost Boys 2018-04-17T00:00:00Z

Two were dark, and had high aquiline noses, like the Count, and great dark, piercing eyes that seemed to be almost red when contrasted with the pale yellow moon. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

It says DON’T BE GAY, and it’s got one of those red circles with the diagonal line through the word gay. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

She couldn’t believe that a shield with a red dragon on it was a coincidence, seeing as the dragon in Anya’s barn had been red. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z