I never saw so many bars and juke boxes—all the people coming from everywhere, dancing and laughing. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

It is as Nikhil that he takes Metro-North into Manhattan one weekend with Jonathan and gets himself a fake ID that allows him to be served liquor in New Haven bars. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

The Hideout is a dive bar made of wooden planks that's nestled between a factory and some Department of Transportation building. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

We’d take with us cartons of empty bonded whisky bottles that were saved illegally by bars we supplied. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

He took the bucket in both hands and flung the rest of die slops through the bars. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

But I had Mr. Sheep Sheep and a pocket full of Orich bars. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

I wrap my hands around the bars and look down into her eyes. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

I said, putting my fingers beneath the bar, helping him lift it slightly. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

“We gotta pay that man, Ignatius. You wanna see me in jail? Wouldn't you be ashamed with your poor momma behind bars?” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The two of them made quite a pair, hogging the wet bar and loudly sharing their uninformed opinions with anyone within earshot. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

It made him think about that girl in the bar, her pinched face and the hate in her eyes as she lay on her back on the dirty floor. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Beg pardon. But if you want to put heads together about audition choices, let’s have a little chat about that,” he said, and disappeared off in the direction of the sundae bar. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

My rag caught on a crack in the bar top. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

Nali drove up to the last bar, but Jet wasn’t there. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Within an hour, the satyrs were all running around agitated, asking where the nearest espresso bar was. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

I chewed right through the wrapper of the Snickers and dug into the candy bar with my teeth. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

I put on my best anxious expression as I made my way over to the bar where the innkeeper stood. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

She pointed at the gold bar and tried to concentrate. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Sneaky’s mom and mine always tell us to stay away, even though P.J.’s has the cheapest candy and ice cream bars. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

And she’d managed to embed some stolen sewing needles into a bar of soap for a makeshift, miniature pike. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

The Dragon Gate, the Lion Gate, and the Old Gate were closed and barred. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

In a profound, symbolic gesture, I am giving you this bar of Vosges I got when we all went to Edgartown. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

I also leave him all my toys and the candy bar in my bottom right desk drawer. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

He could see no obstacle, but something too strong for his will to overcome barred the way. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

In front of the school are houses with graffiti and barred windows. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

He hadn’t even unwrapped the Golden Ticket from around the candy bar. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z

When the bars were safely in the back seat with Ron, Fred reversed as close as possible to Harry’s window. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

Look at her food bar, she does not eat real food anymore. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

They walked into the bar at La Fonda at about 9:00 p.m., sat at a table, and ordered drinks. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

And a town not too far from where you live has a law that bars me from coming within five miles of its borders. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

Dad, knowing that all the bars and liquor stores would be closed on Christmas, had stocked up in advance. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

He could hear voices inside the windows with the iron bars. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Whitby led us to the bar at the other end of the room. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

I pick up the bar of soap and turn it in my hands until my skin is coated with white lather. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Within a quarter of an hour we came to Miss Havisham’s house, which was of old brick, and dismal, and had a great many iron bars to it. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

Mom handed each of her children a granola bar, then motioned them toward the garage. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

There he stood now, to bar her way to Tallow’s door. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

That the whole thing—the grandmother, his heritage, the bar mitzvah—was just the latest and most elaborate of the series of unfunny pranks that he and his idiot friends are famous for. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

“No bars on the inside!” he whispered to them importantly. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

The man he'd been I following had gone from one bar to another until two o'clock in the morning. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

Or husbands who spent all their earnings in toddy bars. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

A group of rowdies stumbled in and crowded Bertram to the end of the bar. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Supermarkets in Denmark have experimented with adding a second bar code to packages of meat. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

“Did you say Grumman?” said the man sitting just along the bar, an elderly man in seal hunter’s rig, whose lemming dæmon looked out solemnly from his pocket. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I nodded silently to each of them as I walked over to Stanchion’s vacant seat at the end of the bar where it curved toward the stage. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The bartender is at the far end of the bar, serving someone else, and doesn’t see what the navigator has done. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

I went from learning about Grandma to bar mitzvah lessons in the blink of an eye. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

One bar, then nothing, then one bar again, just for a second. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

Union members photographed her behind bars and put the picture on postcards. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z

But Henry said, "Mr. Donatelli left two for Henry Johnson," and a little white envelope slid out between the bars. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

By now, Nhamo was standing with her nose poked between the window bars. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

But even through the iron bars Meggie could see nothing promising except for tall rhododendron bushes and a broad gravel drive that soon disappeared between them. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

He was looking out through the barred window at the darkness. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I release the bars and move to the back of the cell. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Jimmy L’s voice came through the device, loud enough to make the squirrel that was attempting a granola bar theft scurry away. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Before Toby could say anything else, Luke ran out of the bar and down the road as fast he could. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

His mom wouldn't be going to the grocery store again until the end of the month, so they were out of chips and granola bars. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

“If the Dursleys wake up, I’m dead,” said Harry as he tied the rope tightly around a bar and Fred revved up the car. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

After slowly looking over everyone sitting at the bar, the mercenary moved to the empty space between Chronicler and Old Cob. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

They did not fight again until the relationship ended, but in the time of Blaines stoniness, when Ifemelu burrowed into herself and ate whole chocolate bars, her feelings for him changed. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Dark bars of iron stood heavy and still between him and the dimly lit scullery beyond. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

Clarian, the owner, began filling another mug with golden ale while he spoke to the pretty young woman seated across the bar from him. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

We arrived at Nyame’s palace to see animated statues barring the giant doors. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

I went into the lunch bar, sat down in an end booth, and kept my left hand over my black tie while I ordered soup, rolls and black coffee. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

Shep staggered backward against the bar, then collapsed to the floor with the broken end of the sword still jutting between his ribs. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

When those behind bars are taken into account, America’s institutions continue to create nearly as much racial inequality as existed during Jim Crow. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Knot and vine were fast and efficient, moving from bar to nailshed to bar, seeking silently and collecting their fellows. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

I was suddenly starving, and wished I had saved my candy bar instead of offering it to my brother. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Down to where music drifts out the doors of bars, and people are looser and altogether more free. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

The door was oak and iron, and his keepers kept it barred. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Then I saw my hands resting on the bar. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Widget ceases his narration as they investigate each silver bar, finding no hidden openings or cleverly disguised hinges. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

The old man’s fingers were trembling most terribly as they fumbled with the candy bar. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z

I ate half a bar of chocolate to give me strength and nearly ran to second period to have time to confront her before the bell rang. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

Come to think of it, nobody ever told me exactly how my grandparents reacted to this whole bar mitzvah thing. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

Roy couldn’t bear the thought of facing his parents through jail bars if he and Mullet Fingers got caught. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The hot weather and the fact that Lalo had always bootlegged beer to the Lagunas and Acomas brought him there one day when she was sitting in the shade of the porch outside the bar. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

The judge led the secretary away from the crowded bar. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the corner by the bar, Johnny yawns. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

The barred owl was perched on a limb halfway down Frightful’s Mountain. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

So I built them that shelter, so they wouldn’t be tempted to come in and hang about idly in the main bar. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

For $5.50 each, we got “meat and three,” a trip to the salad bar, and dessert. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

She says it was a sad day Prohibition ended because Dad gets the drink going around to saloons offering to sweep out the bars and lift barrels for a whiskey or a beer. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Except in extraordinary circumstances, Mexican immigration agents are barred from carrying firearms. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Sansa barred the door and fumbled through the dark to the window. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Behind the bar a stained glass window of liquor bottles glowed: the blues of English gin, the deep reds of claret and Madeira, the tawny browns of scotch and bourbon. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

In the photos, Jim’s head lies back, his eyes closed, a crisscrossing of red blood across his head more suggestive of a bar fight than a fatal wreck. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Ms. Penny types “casket” and “Till” in the computer’s search bar. Ghost Boys 2018-04-17T00:00:00Z

“Oh my God,” I said, grabbing the bar with my free hand as soon as the wheel began moving. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

They ducked and climbed under the bars of the gate. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

Biker Lady is doing her bar circles with her whistle, and she stops once to grind with the two of us. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

It was full of odds and ends he thought would come in handy for an adventure—rubber bands, a compass, granola bars, coins, a squirt gun, a magnifying glass, plastic handcuffs, string, a whistle. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

They are kept behind bars, typically more than a hundred miles from home. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

The man behind the bar says to Dad, I think now, mister, you’ve had enough. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

I scrubbed every blacked-up piece of plastic, wearing down that Ivory bar from a nearly full cake to nearly half flat I scrubbed and scrubbed until my knuckles ached. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

The scenery changed from bars, tire shops, and vague manufacturing buildings into smartly manicured lawns and houses. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

A towel dried on the bars of the small green window. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instead, they stayed inside and poked their arms through the bars for their food, just out of reach. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

She stands in front of me, wearing some kind of crazy helmet with bars across the face and holding a baseball bat. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

The streets were deserted and the doors were barred. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

“As I remember it, you spent a lot of time in this bar when you were his age, and nobody said a word.” We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

I go to the bar, ask for another glass of wine. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Stopping to think about other people is not on the bar menu. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

All the people must be hiding inside, their doors barred. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The Gold-Bug had no bar code at all, but that made sense if Mr. Griswold had made it especially for his game. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

He grabbed the bar handle of the next door so I couldn’t open it. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

There is some shoving, and finally they force people out of the way, using their nightsticks as blocking bars. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Cabby, however, obviously the bravest as well as the kindest person present, was keeping close to the horse, dodging this way and that to avoid the bar, but still trying to catch Strawberry’s head. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

No cell of bars could keep him safe within. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Before he was aware of what he was doing, he ran to the door and clutched the cold steel bars in his hands. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t easy with fingers the size of lead bars, but they managed. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

And bouncing around, leap, hop, up around and down, he swings and tries to grab the other monkey’s tail, but the one on the bar keeps swishing it away, without fuss, out of his grasp. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

Dad and I took seats at the bar. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

I imagined him in his crate, crying against the bars, someone lifting him out only to chop off a finger. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

He came up to the barred door of her cell and looked in. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then they went to the Nevada Hotel, which was near the Owl Club and had a sign outside saying bar grill clean modern. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

There are commemorative royal wedding souvenirs everywhere; Prince Philip and his bride’s face plastered on everything from chocolate bars to underwear. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

“Better, ten kilos of rice and two bars of soap,” she said, which we do need badly, but I despaired for an imaginary windfall that would bring nothing but more white starch into this house. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

After a few bars of Piano Concerto no. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

The bar had been slowly filling with people and, as Bo and Toby walked back to the booth, a terrible Metallica cover band started playing “Ride the Lightning.” We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

The song changes again, and I instantly recognize the opening bars. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

Dalton Tatum slammed his palm down on the bar. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

The minute I got inside Bannon’s, I saw all kinds of equipment made for just my size—low beams and low bars and floor vaults that I was eager to try. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

He had only an instant to look at it before it was gone, twisting between the bars of the portcullis and racing across the surface of the water, but that instant was long enough. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

As they were walking up the steps, Jamie spied a Hershey’s almond bar still in its wrapper lying in the corner of the landing. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

A small moan escaped from Poppy's mouth when he saw her through the iron bars, but he wasn't crying. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Before them rose Bree-hill barring the way, a dark mass against misty stars; and under its western flank nestled a large village. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

He placed the glass on the bar, winked at Burton, and was gone. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

He turned the key the other way and saw that, sure enough, the little bar slipped out easily. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Guitar paid their bar bill and helped Milkman negotiate to the door. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then, when the time for songs came and everyone had sung their favorites and still wanted more, Kote led them from behind the bar, clapping to keep a beat. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

His father was a dear but somewhat purposeless fellow with the nickname of Bingo who seemed happiest shaking cocktails behind the bar. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

I slide the bar beneath the bracket, and with all my strength, I bear down with a single swift push. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

So, on the basis of the evidence, had everyone else in the bar lost his conscience. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

The high hedge curved with them, running off into the distance beyond the pair of impressive wrought-iron gates barring the men’s way. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

David was nowhere to be seen, but Bernice was behind the bar, drying beer mugs and shooting dirty looks at anybody who got out of line. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Then the man let go and Malcolm took the glasses down to the other end of the bar. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

The cell was one of two in the courthouse basement and had neither bars nor windows. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Actually,” Kote said as he settled the bar of iron comfortably against his shoulder, “There is one other thing. Do you have a spare apron and set of forge gloves?” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Then they’d usually hit the bar for a cold ginger beer and stale peanuts that were disgusting to eat, but perfect for trying to see who could catch the most in their mouths. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Val shook her head and started washing glasses behind the bar. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

There were some in Salinas who began to talk softly in the poolrooms and the bars. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

The “Jesus” he had in mind tended bar in a cafe across the street from the hotel, and was, Perry thought, muy simpatico, definitely someone he could trust to return the boxes on demand. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lithe gymnasts twirled on parallel bars and uneven bars and took long running leaps at pommel horses, trying to time their precise movements to coincide with the slow roll of the ship. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

The leather covers on the round bar stools are worn to tearing from use. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

The community invests in John so that he can one day return and teach African American children who are barred from attending the public school. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

I just watch all the restaurants and coffee shops and bars lining the tiny sidewalks. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

Lyra did as he said, and he cut through four bars altogether, enough for them to pass through without difficulty. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I can’t roll off the foot like I can with my regular leg, but I move forward step by step until suddenly I’m at the end of the bars. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

But police, railroad security agents, or la migra could bar the doors, trapping him inside. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

“We won’t fit between the bars. Hold on to the railing like I do. Can you hear anything?” The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

She tapped the bar code on James’s book. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

She held my legs straight up with one hand and held onto my arm with the other, and then she spun me around the bar. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Then they started snapping their jaws and barking and bashing into the flimsy bars of Duke’s even flimsier cage. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

“You’ve got a big fat red spot on your face from bashing it on the bar.” Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Mama Oji knocked; Olanna took a deep calming breath before she opened the door and gave her a bar of soap. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Seemingly from out of nowhere a mouse leaped, barring Matthias’s path! Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Commoners were barred, except for a few specialized technicians and craftworkers. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

The men voted to submit demands for increased wages and benefits to the packers on Saturday, July 26, and, barring a satisfactory response, to go out on strike on July 28. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The bar where we casually ordered cocktails with all the confidence in the world that we weren’t going to get carded. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

She remembers the German pacing outside Hubert Bazin’s gate, the edge of his newspaper rattling the bars, and closes the door a fraction. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

While I keep glancing around, Sneaky studies the candy bars, taking his time when we need to get outta here! Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

“I am glad to have the chance of bidding you good-bye, Mr. Wemmick,” said the man, stretching out his hand between two bars. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

Each night for a week there were receptions, dinners, and midnight trips to waterfront bars. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

Winterfell’s great main gates were closedand barred, and so choked with ice and snow that the portcullis would need to be chipped free before it could be raised. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I peeled the wrapper off my chocolate bar and broke off a section. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

Ruby taps her trunk against the rusty iron bars of her door. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

When I awake the next morning, I see a little trunk poking out between the bars of Stella’s domain. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

“I ever tell you I used to hustle pool at my mom’s bar?” Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

During the past few days he’d known a hunger that nothing—three successive steaks, a dozen Hershey bars, a pound of gumdrops—seemed to interrupt. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not even Danny, who was hoping for a miracle, right up to the day of his bar mitzvah. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

They point to violent crime rates in the African American community as a justification for the staggering number of black men who find themselves behind bars. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Under the plea agreement, he would “only” have to spend five years behind bars. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Nico knelt next to her and reached for the bar of gold. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

The detective was leaning over the bar with his back exposed. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Her will summoned the ghosts, and his barred their way. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

And for a few bars the pure sweet tone of the horn and the old man's husky baritone sang a duet in the hot heavy silence. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a touching reunion in Johnny Garcia’s bar in Monterey, with tears and embraces, speeches and endearments in the poco Spanish of my youth. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Loki closed his talons on the nut, hopped up to and between the bars of the window, and began the journey home. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

I poke my head through the bars and shout, “My feet are too big. Do you still want me to come down?” Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

Inside, it was busy, a popular place, the only table open a small one near the bar. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“This is a bar, Shady, not a ladies’ tearoom.” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

It’s something all bar and bat mitzvah kids share: a paralyzing fear of making a fool out of yourself in front of everybody you know and quite a few that you don’t. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

Charles ran to the Turf Club bar, calling for champagne for everyone. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You should call her. Her mom probably freaked out like all of our parents did, right? I mean, we did get totally busted at a bar, right?” Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

“It wasn’t my bar. And no, I didn’t see that.” Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

It was the same fellow behind the bar as before, still wearing his scowl. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I’d noticed that he was holding his mir-ror out on the gallery to keep track of my approaches and also that, against the rules, he sometimes left it balanced up on his bars. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

After offering one to him, she reaches for the book of matches that lies in an ashtray on the bar and lights a cigarette for herself. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

But here even Victoria was surprised, for her father agreed with her mother, saying that working in the bar at the Seventh Magpie was something that a well-brought-up young lady would not do. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

At high tide the bar completely submerged itself. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

Standard height, fluffy black-and-white plumage with distinctive barring, yellow featherless legs and feet. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

He ran to the steel door and caught the bars in his hands and shook them, as though trying to tear the steel from its concrete moorings. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Me sitting on the go-kart, my feet on the bars, Hirohito behind me pushing, and Vonetta and Fern at the rear, parading up Magnolia Street. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

He makes her sit down on the bar step. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

The fat young man at the other end of the stretch limo took a can of Diet Coke from the cocktail bar and popped it open. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

But then Twinkle had drunk four glasses of whiskey in a nameless bar in Alphabet City, and forgot all about it. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

He could make out the shapes of pilots sitting around the bar, large shoulders and barbered heads silhouetted in the pale light that spilled into the bar from the dining room. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bending down, he felt along the edge of the carpet near the wall for the pine bar—part of a music stand he had hidden there that afternoon. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had not even opened her Powerhouse bar or her potato chips, and now she traced the letters on the candy wrappers with her fingers. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

Its barred ceiling was low, its floor piled deep with rank-smelling hay. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

Jimmy yelled the last few words as Lily walked back into the bar and sat down. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

“I dreamed of my granddaughter, and when I woke to see the bars of the prison cell...” When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

And the moment I open the door, the man at the register rings me up–cha-ching–Even before I pick up a candy bar, because he knows I never leave without one. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

As if to emphasize the tenuousness of Levi Saunders’ existence, he became violently ill the day following his bar mitzvah and was taken by ambulance to the Brooklyn Memorial Hospital. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

“Sit back. Relax. Sunflower seeds from the snack bar?” The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

Vets packed lounges and bars, drinking, swapping stories, searching for men they’d served with. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

He saw the bare head of a white man—the back of the head—framed in the narrow opening, stenciled against the yellow glare of the restless bars of light. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

It was just a few bars, if you please, professor, of that sentimental little ditty entitled “Those Wedding Bells Are Breaking up That Old Gang of Mine.” Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

The mercenary reached across the bar, catching hold of Kvothe’s sleeve. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

He'd had a few partitions knocked down to make the place broaden out, he said, and then had them pine-panel the walls and fit up a special pine-paneled bar in the shape of a horseshoe. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

Aimee put a hand on my back and steered me over to the uneven bars for my next event. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

He stood up on his hind legs and looked in through the red-painted bars of the cage. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Their hair was tangled, but many of the people had dramatically painted faces, with a bright red bar from ear to ear, white-chalked eyelids, streaks of black charcoal. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The man calls out now and then as he runs the edge of his newspaper over the bars of the gate. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Danny’s brother’s bar mitzvah celebration, which I attended on a Monday morning during the third week in October, was a simple and unpretentious affair. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

The ticket booth clearly visible behind the gates is closed and barred. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

He struggled to get into the box through the door, which was barred by a piece of a wood blocking it. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her iron-colored eyes were all I saw at first—luminous, bemused, bright in the dim light from the bar. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

She lay there gnawing and licking at the stump of her missing leg, and the man sat still, one elbow on the bar, looking all around with an air of mild and knowing interest. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

I stood back from the bar and got a penny from my purse. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Jule ate saltines and sugary peanut butter, packets of salami and chocolate bars. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

A dirty pair of goggles—probably protection against bar fights—hangs around her neck. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

“We can leave here early on the morning of the twenty-second,” he said, “and barring accidents, we should make the camp ground in plenty of time for the grand opening.” Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

I used my fake ID— yes, I have a very good one—to get into the bar. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

The road bears up past the bar and to the right, going by the police stayshun and the jail, all one place and in use more than you might think for a town so small. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

They decided to join a school group for lunch at the snack bar. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Three of the castle-servants barred their way, sullen and questioning, as if they had been suspecting some plot of these two against their master. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

Ruby pokes her trunk between the bars and makes a circle in the air. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

“You’re the one who introduced my innocent being to that den of a bar. Actually, it’s all the fault of that dreadful girl, Myrna. She must be punished for her misdeeds.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The muted laughter and piano playing from the bar could still be heard through the wood-paneled walls. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

She said, “I’m sure it wasn’t easy seeing your father behind bars.” Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

No migrating eagle passed overhead; no barred owl saw her. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

He spent a lot of time in neighborhood bars and he’d get into fistfights sometimes after a couple of drinks. Twelve Angry Men 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the door I held on to a cell bar like it was the long bone in Rosaleen’s arm. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He says he’s sticking with us, so we all have to invite him to our bar and bat mitzvah parties. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

Jazz and country music poured out of bars and dance halls. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

He stuck a hand through the bars and waited until Koffi reached to take the bowl from him before deliberately letting it slip from his fingers and shatter on the floor. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

“Poppy, we love you!” she said, clinging to the bars with both hands by now. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

At recess they sit together near the fence and share granola bars. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

“Holy cow. Grill. Juice bar. Enormo-screen TV. Pineapple. This thing has everything.” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

It was nearing dusk when I finally gave up and returned to the Priest Hole, where I found my father at the bar, tipping back a beer with the regulars. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

“Somehow I doubt that a quick romp behind the bar was what she had in mind.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

It was late at night, but people hadn’t left the bars south of where he was, out toward Jack London Square. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

“I dumped him, he was a bad loser,” said Ginny, putting a finger through the bars of the cage and watching the Pygmy Puffs crowd around it. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

“So that’s why he introduces himself as Nikhil to the girl in the bar, even though she already knows him as Gogol?” Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

It could talk, but only in Portuguese, and it bit anyone who stuck his fingers through the bars. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

When, finally, I came to the lunch bar where I’d bolted the “Coney Island Red-Hots” on Monday, I decided to let my reservation at the Hotel Windsor go by the board. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

They climbed the steps and reached another door with a push bar. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

Half the shops seemed closed; the ones that remained open had new bars over their windows. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

The boy with the red hair put two candy bars on the counter. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

“It’s the bar,” Mary said, noticing how I was craning to see what it was. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

He knelt to pick up the pieces of glass on the floor, his voice rising from behind the bar like smoke: “Half an hour.” The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

He couldn't find volunteer counsel for his postconviction appeals, so most of his legal claims were procedurally barred because he had missed the filing deadlines. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

The next day, there would be a Snickers bar waiting on her desk. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

He directed me as I reached through the wire bars of the door and felt beneath it. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

Before we drive home, the four of us sit at the bar while Dale makes virgin cocktails for us and not-so-virgin cocktails for Lee. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

That must have confused the spirits, because they momentarily stopped hacking at the bars. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Clinging to life was like hanging from a bar on the playground at school. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

The five bars and three diamonds of a sergeant major. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

“No. Uh, Dad, I’m at a bar. The cops just busted it, and I’m not allowed to leave unless you pick me up.” Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

And while he felt guilty about making up the bogus cigarette story, Roy also couldn’t help but think that putting Dana behind bars was a public service. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Suppose four people are drinking in a bar. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hardly was he inside his room when the door was pushed shut very quickly, bolted fast, and barred. The Metamorphosis 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z

I drive to Jackson, where I find James already at the fire company bar, and he orders me a vodka cooler. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

Toby was in a booth at the back of the bar with Lily, Jimmy, and a tall guy Luke had never seen before. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

She put her hand through the bars again and stroked Arion’s nose. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

“I believe,” concluded Scott, “if Congress should at any time be of the opinion that a state of slavery was a quality inadmissible in America, they would not be barred...of prohibiting this baneful quality.” Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

He perched his foot, small cast with metal bar across the bottom to walk on, next to where I was sitting on the cot. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hoo stuffed the rest of the candy bar in his mouth. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’d had to have told someone he didn’t have any problems, such as premarital sex, to bar his place on the mission. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

She helped Kuda peel his bar and perched him on a bench. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

She'd make new friends and land her first job, working at a snack bar. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

The first few warm days of the year, the patrols will put out cages and tie a chicken or turkey or hog to the metal bars inside. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

There’s a bunch of bar graphs, but I don’t want to take the time to figure out what each bar means because I just want to say, “Oh yeah, you’re so right.” The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

I came out of the bottoms onto a gravel bar and stood and watched them in the moonlight. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The cops were eager to beat him, And shut him up behind bars, But then the Angels of Milagro Arrived in their jalopy cars. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

A long, thick handle was braced by a heavy bar; two heavy rings, like the links of a great chain, were set in either side. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

They were sitting, five of them, around a table in the room that served as their common room, living and dining room, bar, recreation room, and more or less everything else. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Seeing that Howard might bar Pollard from riding, Smith had started letting Woolf gallop Seabiscuit. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

The next night, however, when the warder came to the window, Tefu strode up to the bars and said to him, “From now on I want my own tobacco. Just give it to me directly.” Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Burton regained his composure and leaned on the bar. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

The little old woman moved closer to the bars, and at the same moment a guard motioned to her son. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

She pointed her spoon toward the end of the hall, where the tall wooden doors had been closed and barred. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Thus, when he went into the front bar, everyone thought he wanted a beer. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

I found myself able to imagine Margo here, leaning against the wall with musty rolled-up carpet for a seat, eating a nutrition bar. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

The Mexican bartender had gone home, and now the white man who owned the place was behind the bar, dusting off the bottles with a rag. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

A bar mitzvah is the ceremony in which a Jewish boy becomes a man—the first time he reads aloud from the Torah. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

The black bars on their sides made them look as if they had been grilled, and these also could become darker or lighter. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Heather buys the stuff to make mermaid water—a Big Blue bath bomb and a Sunnyside bubble bar. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

Chronicler shifted uncomfortably in his seat while Kote eyed him darkly from the other side of the bar. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Murmurs of approval rippled through the dimly lit bar. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

A huge stone door with iron bars slid open, and Amari was shoved inside a room with the rest of the women who had survived their journey. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hector carefully removes the bird, the damaged bars repairing as he sets the cage down. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Sometimes she would sit at a restaurant alone, at the bar, ordering sushi or a sandwich and a glass of wine, simply to remind herself that she was still capable of being on her own. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

His fingertips played slow chords on an invisible keyboard on the bar. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Waiting for them, its front paws on the topmost bar, was a very large, shaggy black dog, which was carrying some newspapers in its mouth and looking very familiar. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

“I see what we have,” the woman said enigmatically and clopped back to the bar in her straw sandals. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

He peered down through the bars of the cricket cage and exclaimed with delight. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

I have the towel over my head, and I’m staring at the apricot fruit bars in my cap on the grass. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

I take my jacket from the hook and put it on as Mrs. Brook pushes the bar on the door to the playground and it clanks open. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

The volume I hear is about five bars out of ten. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

He walks her to her apartment, which is on a run-down but pretty residential block, close to the bar where they’d met. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Clutching the bars of his cage with bound hands, Mance sobbed and begged. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I stare at my hands, which are wrapped around the narrow bar so tightly my knuckles are white. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

The light from the small hole shone on her in a bar and he saw her face dimly. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

But to a cow, a fresh pasture is like a salad bar, with lots of different things to eat. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Teresa moved closer to the bars, clutching their cold metal with her fingers, never taking her eyes off Meggie. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

“He was always at the café or the bar, never at home.” Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

I was grateful for her ministrations, but I knew that the “two new cups” she was so careful to mention were evidence of the color bar that she said did not exist. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I only know I ate a Mounds bar and it wasn’t my favorite most amazing thing in my mouth...so it must be different. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

Through the bars he could look down the long stone burrow that ran between the walls to the stony field beyond, but there was no way through. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

There's one thing left to do before we bid farewell to a grateful community—pay a visit to the bar mitzvah boy himself, Link Rowley. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

Some were experts on bird life: I saw a Pakistani on U-gallery, way up at the top, peering down through his bars into a nest where a mother was feeding her babies. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hermione drummed her fingers on the table, her eyes flickering between Ron and the bar. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

I last saw her over by the sushi bar, but then I started playing, and now, whoop! Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

But why don't you tell us a little about this pretend bar mitzvah you've been planning? Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

Takes another huge bite of his granola bar. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

The final night, even with my own bobble on beam and a not-quite-vertical handstand on bars, I came away with my fourth-straight National Championship win. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Altogether it was a bad time to work, which was why the bar of the Samirsky Hotel was full. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

His father had smiled for the first time since Levi’s bar mitzvah, Danny said, and his mother had wept with joy. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

The people-sea surrounding the bar parts and Tiny gets a couple of beers and offers me one. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

The sun seemed to be stopped just below the horizon, cutting gold bars through the water and slash ing beams of light up, into the sky over his head. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Knowing there were soap bars by the dozen, bacon by the rasher, and reveling in her shiny pots and pans and polished floors. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

By early 2000, United States prisons and jails held nearly 2 million people, meaning that one out of every 140 residents was behind bars. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Plunking onto a stool at the Frontier, he jubilantly splashed the feathers across the bar, then banged down his six-gun on the hard mahogany top. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He never managed to use his bar of soap, which was just as well, because he wouldn't have had time to rinse off the suds. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

A woman—younger than Val and pretty in the neon bar light—barely noticed Toby as she came up to the bar and asked for a pitcher of beer. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

“We just got off the phone with Rabbi Gold,” Mom supplies, pushing my bar mitzvah folder into my arms. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

Some of the town kids, not knowing it was bad luck to catch the carp, would scoop them out of the low waters and toss the fish upon the sand bars. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Next Foremole rummaged in his kit and came up with a tin of grease and a strong thin bar, one end of which was flattened like a spatula. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

For the million people who lived in Soweto, there were no stores, no bars, no restaurants. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

The boy looked at him questioningly when he saw the solid bars, but Dustfinger just laid a finger to his lips and looked up at one of the windows on the second floor. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

The system he used, while not as flexible or sophisticated as the one used today, relied on the grouping together of notes with horizontal bars called ligatures. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

The leaves that rustled around his feet on the outside have not followed him past the fence, though there is room enough for the breeze to carry them through the bars. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

When he turned the page to a new month, he treated himself to a candy bar. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

S’pose you had two or three jugs back of the bar. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

He stops fights, ejects drunks, soothes hysteria, cures headaches, and tends bar. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

A curvy sort of woman with a pretty face was serving a bunch of rowdy warlocks up at the bar. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

At seven o’clock on a cool November night, guests will arrive at the Robert E. Lee Hotel bar for the cocktail hour. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

I unwrapped the bar of soap I’d picked up at a liquor store, and eased into the water on the shallow end, but it was way colder than I expected. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

I was standing with Baba in the yard near the bar when some­one said, “Happy birthday, Amir.” The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“He wants a kip, and his bar’s turned into a railway station.” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

And it was because of this that nearly all hog owners usually left four or five old barrows, or “bar’ hogs,” as we called them, to run with each bunch of sows. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

The second quarter started, and Benji returned with ice cream and candy bars. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

So while Volpe’s father worked behind the bar at the Rex Café, his mother opened the world to her two children. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

The claws dug hard in Ogion's wrist; the barred wings trembled; the round, gold eye was dull and wild. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

When I reached the bar, I ordered a Pan-Galactic Gargle Blaster from the female Klingon bartender and downed half of it. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

We were in a twenty-foot-square cement room, and the opposite wall was covered with metal bars. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

It curved away on their left northward, back towards the hills, and so barred their road in that direction, at any rate while darkness lasted. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

“The rule is that they can’t be leaning against the bars of the cells,” the regular officer said to us, “and the cell gates are supposed to be closed.” Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mully had the keys for the j three gates, where bars of black iron as thick as a man’s arm closed off the passage. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Reggie checked his watch after the girl made it safely across the monkey bars, and that was when Siobhan stepped out from behind the tree. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

“Teresa?” he finally asked through the barred window of the lightless cell. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

He was said to frequent The White Horse, a bar down on the West Side. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

With the advent of the first primitive, unpadded starting gates in the early thirties, some riders actually died in the saddle, speared into the exposed steel overhead bars by rearing horses. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

She peeled the wrapper from the granola bar and popped it into the garbage can and went upstairs, leaving Mia deep in thought. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

We’d heard different stories about what happened—one was that his appendix burst; another was that he got hurt real bad in a bar fight. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

She tapped the bar code on James’s book. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Mikken had hammered a row of iron bars into the wall, so Bran could pull himself about the room with his arms. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

I was alone in the bar; Wilfred was out on the court giving a lesson; I decided to tell him of my decision not to play in the tournament as soon as he finished. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then she put in two more quarters and got chocolate bars. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a big block of roughly cut concrete, with one tiny, barred window and a wooden door that was locked with a menacing rusty metal latch, like something out of the Dark Ages. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

And then, partly to warm up, partly to avoid seeing a certain policeman for a third time, he ducked into a bar. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Suddenly, the little red light attached to its bars began to glow twice as bright, and Golan whipped his head around and searched the darkness behind him. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

She grabbed tightly on to a metal bar and yelped as it cut into the palm of her hand. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

The single window has no glass, just bars. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

There sat many men in bright mail, who sprang at once to their feet and barred the way with spears. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

We got to where there were still storefronts, but things, except for the bars, was mostly shuttered down. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

His face was deathly pale, and the lines of it were hard like drawn wires; the thick eyebrows that met over the nose now seemed like a heaving bar of white-hot metal. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

Nothing could shut down the bars and taverns. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then she walks to the back of the bar and blends in with the regulars who all stand by the DJ booth. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

The shamblers are reaching through the bars, their faces pressed into the spaces between, their mouths agape. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

With a yelp of terror, Gurgi sprang from the cauldron and scuttled to a safe distance, where he furiously brandished his iron bar and shook his fist at the Crochan. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

“The last one was so tiny the bars crimped my fur like a waffle iron.” Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Then suddenly, as though he couldn’t bear the suspense any longer, Charlie tore the wrapper right down the middle...and on to his lap, there fell...a light-brown creamy-colored chocolate candy bar. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z

But now I wasn’t as nervous as we all grabbed the metal bar. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Laleh ignored all the stews and rice and went straight for the bowl of cucumbers, which she ate whole, like candy bars. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

When we arrived it was quite empty, except for a policeman sitting near the door, the wife of the proprietor back of the zinc bar, and the proprietor himself. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

In the still woods, the only movements were bars of sunlight glinting like green glass through the leafy canopy. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

I rushed to the window, and throwing it up, peered out between the bars. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

Frieda bought potato chips, and we got three Powerhouse bars for ten cents, and had a dime left. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

It swelled during the opening bars to cover all other sounds in the gym. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

The manager walked around the bar, gripped their backpacks, and pulled James and Emily down from the bar stools. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

We enter a second-floor “salon” bar, basically a stand bar but one with private rooms as well. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

There had been a screw there once, where a little metal bar hung above her head. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

My father ended the interview by saying he intended to stay locked behind bars until the law dealt squarely with Dusty Muleman. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

There was a knock at my door and I could see Colonel Aucamp’s face at the bars. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was an opening in the bars with a flat, iron shelf attached on the inside. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

He said the DJ was playing behind the bar. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

The yellow sandstone outcrop ran parallel to the big arroyo behind the bar. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Within moments, they remove a block like a puke-green Hershey bar and break off smaller squares. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

He pulled a candy bar from the pocket of his jacket and unwrapped it. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

She wanted to strike at the bars with her bare hands, but the metal cut her skin. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

No more could Milkman run up the stairs to his room to drag him off to a party or a bar. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

But here’s the thing: I was used to falling on my Tkatchev and having my coach put me back up on the bar. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Two rats to a roller, they slipped four of these under the cinder block so that they lay athwart the hole, like bars across a window. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

Bod leaned against the bars of the graveyard gates. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

When he fell skinning the cat on the monkey bars, it was Mia he ran crying for, and Mia who dabbed the gash on his temple with iodine and stuck a bandage across it. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Clayton watched Beat Box’s hands grab the bars as his legs climbed. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

“Me too,” she said, and then she put her napkin back on the table and said, “I’m ready for that salad bar. How about you?” The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

“And I want to build you another drink,” Father Pinckney said, taking Bull’s glass to the bar. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The place of a freedom fighter is beside his people, not behind bars. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“People will never make that mistake. Without a doubt you operate the most dismal bar in the city. May I interest you in purchasing a hot dog?” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

A coffee bar is set off to the side, below a rustic-looking sign that says: Caffeine maintains my sunny personality. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Luke took her hand reluctantly, and as soon as he touched her, Jimmy’s voice rang out over the music and talking in the bar. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

And by that I mean that I liked his face and I was glad he existed—even if he couldn’t get me the crackers and the pen and the candy bar. Louisiana's Way Home 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

“Shake it off,” Aimee told me, because as far as she was concerned, I’d done one of my best bar routines ever. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

She folded it and smoothed it, and then hung it beside the inlaid bed upon a bar; then, drawing the door shut by its silver handle she slid the catch in place and went away. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He spent about two hours yakkin’ at my bar last night. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

“Tenorio has taken the body into town, and like the mad man that he is, he has stretched out the corpse on the bar of his saloon!” Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

I see Josh pushing people off of the monkey bars again. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Finally, he decided to paint a simple bar of gold. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

The cow mooed, put one hoof tentatively on the bars, then backed away. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

The first crowded public place he could find was a little bar, thronged and smoky. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Soon he was alone with the bartender, who was rubbing and rubbing the mahogany of the bar and trying with his eyes and his manner to get Adam to go. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Gussie was indeed a fearful sight nursing that way and he looked not unlike a man with his foot on a bar rail, smoking a fat pale cigar. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The message communicated by felon disenfranchisement laws, policies, and bureaucratic procedures is not lost on those, such as Clinton Drake, who are effectively barred from voting for life. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Was she trying to ruin me, or was this a trap set by some secret enemy of the movement waiting outside the door with cameras and wrecking bars? Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

He removed his straw hat and swept it grandly in the direction of the fresh salad bar, and called his cows to their dinner. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Above the bar, on a dusty plate-glass window, were the faded letters, DR. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tassels of toilet paper festooned every bar, and some thirty wads of toilet paper had been stuck to the walls with toothpaste. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Don't be indecent, Michael. Remember there are ladies at this bar." The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

For this day, also, he had ordered the press—as such—barred, white or black. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Rich kids across town w’hose schools have salad bars instead of just Jell-O,” I’m about to add, but I just say, “Thanks anyway. Not tonight.” Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

But when there’s obviously no possessive meaning, forget the apostrophe: You’ll never get into the honors program by hanging out in singles bars. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I stopped the lathe and pulled out the bar and threw it on the concrete floor. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Word that Parzival and Art3mis were here, chatting each other up at the bar, was already spreading through the entire club. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Major Danby stood barring the door, waving everyone else away in ashen silence. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

She helps Bailey squeeze through the bars, which are a bit tighter in this part of the fence. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

He always rode belly down, arms spread out, and hands gripping the T bar. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the bar, the barbershop, the club, and at the Red Lantern, I let it be known that there would be a reward for anyone who delivered him to me. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Milez, I’m sorry, but she murdered you in a couple of bars,” Hype says. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Aureliano would escape at dawn and come back early in the morning on the next day, each time more excited by the proof that she had not barred the door. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

“The housekeeper at Number Eighteen told the searchers that there were gold bars hidden in the toilet tank,” he laughed. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Outside, I am within a few yards of a liquor store, a bar that advertises “free beer tomorrow,” a convenience store, and a Burger King—but no supermarket or, alas, Laundromat. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

When they slotted the bars through the brackets, they made a huge X brace. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

And the customers who had seen me among them around the bar, recognizing me now in the waiter’s jacket, were pleased and surprised; and they couldn’t have been more friendly. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Their dæmons slipped through the bars and flowed ahead of them into the garden. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

It screamed and struck the air with broad barred wings, and rose up on the wind. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

From these bars they now hung pulleys wound with strong, thin cord, and at the ends of the cords they fastened hooks, which they slipped into the oval-shaped holes in the block and pulled taut. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

He had found a bar close by; only last week, the bar owner had come to the house asking for him because he had not paid his balance. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

I watched him fill his glass at the bar and wondered how much time would pass before we talked again the way we just had. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

The only difference was that Papa-Nnukwu’s house had a verandah, which was bounded by rusty metal bars. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

It was the best idea they had to work with, so they went back to the bar where the manager shuffled papers behind the counter. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Even the Pennsylvania Hospital barred fever victims, because it feared that the crowded condition of its building would allow the disease to spread wildly. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

Heavy iron bars separated them from where the captives were crowded together in the dark. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“Hul-lo,” said Jack Ketch, with a twitch of his mustache, and he smiled at Scarlett through the bars like a rabbit with a secret. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

The bar was very crowded, and our altercation had been extremely noisy; not one customer in the bar had done anything to help us. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

Joe was standing on a gravel bar in the Dungeness River, studying a pool, looking for salmon, and the sound of rushing water muffled the warden’s footfall. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

It was almost invisible against the foggy haze of the bar. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

Johnny came back and delicately set the bottle on the bar between us. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the bar was down, Arya finally felt safe enough to cry. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

One reason so many people have a false impression of the economic well-being of African Americans, as a group, is that poverty and unemployment statistics do not include people who are behind bars. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

He pointed to a ladder of iron bars that ran up a narrow concrete hole. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

He then closed and barred the heavy inside shutters and drew the curtains together. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

A man at the bar was watching me. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Jones had certainly taken over when he found out that man was a cop, leading him right over to the cabinet under the bar. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Aaron was in a bouncy seat they got from their church’s nursery, batting at the toys hanging from the bar. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

There stood Boots’s cage, and there were the four slaves who carried it—all fast asleep too, sitting on the floor with their backs against the bars. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

In the 1990s, while Wall Street was booming, one out of three black men be-tween the ages of twenty and twenty-nine was either behind bars or on probation or parole. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He lies down on all fours, peering between the bars. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

My Snickers bar says something about winning a million dollars, so I read the back label to see what the rules are, imagining that my candy bar is a winner. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

Hazel was just about to unwrap the bar when she noticed a flash of light up ahead. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

I grab one of the bars above my head and pull myself up. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

I imagined a bar on wobbly trestles, liable to fall down at any moment. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

Behind the bear, the door of the bar opened a little way and a man put down a large earthenware jar before looking up to peer at them. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

Tom nodded gloomily and returned to wiping glasses; Harry, Hermione, Hagrid, and the Weasleys walked through the bar and out into the chilly little courtyard at the back where the dustbins stood. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

The loss of my job did not evoke in me any hostility toward the system of rules that had barred my first grasp at the material foundations of American life. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

The lane went back to a barred gate, became defunctive in grass, a mere path scarred quietly into new grass. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

See, I sneaked into this go-go bar with a fake ID, and then, well, the bouncer and some guy named Buddy Ray assaulted me. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

I learned that Uncle Lee had been drinking in a bar, had probably been drunk, and was robbed and beaten in an alley. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

Then Loma appeared on the trestle, barring my way, flapping her arms at me like a farm wife trying to keep a goat out of the garden. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

While newspapers were still barred from printing my picture or any words I had ever said or written, the Post’s campaign ignited a public discussion of our release. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some time after noon, Kote came down the stairs to find him crushing walnuts on the bar with a heavy leather-bound book. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“I don’t want any bullets flying around my bar.” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

News spread between our window bars, across our clotheslines, and over the pigeon droppings that plastered the parapets of our rooftops. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

He never saw the bars of the window, which had been replaced as carefully as possible. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

West Virginia might have come to equalization, but it still held the line on barring married women from the classroom. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

“Nothing can get through the window bars,” Matt said. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He hoisted up a movable panel behind the bar that revealed a hidden stash of whiskey bottles. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

A point when I stop wrapping my hands around the bars as if I could rattle them. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hall ran the tightest, safest operation on the mountain, bar none. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

Back here there were fancy shops and high-toned bars, still operating. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

I toss TaShon a bar of soap and he is scrubbing Spot. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

He bent down near the bars to show me the slashes across his right forearm that he had made with a tin-can top. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

They may also be connected by their bar lines. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

Unlike taverns and lodges, which were hotels and restaurants as well as bars, saloons were primarily places to drink. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

Figuring out how, exactly, to do that is no easy task, however, when your felony record operates to bar you from any public housing assistance. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

His feeble hand resting lightly atop the mammoth gun lying on the bar, Amarante said, “Sometimes it’s necessary to carry a gun.” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Barbara pulled herself into a sitting position by holding on to one of the bars of her cot. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

When they reached it, the door was barred to prevent entry by Octavian or his men. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

There were metal guards over the headlights and tail- lights, and four large spotlights attached to the crash bar. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Ignatius looked over at the bar to try to attract some sort of service and caught the eye of the bartender who had served his mother and him. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Through the bars of the fence he could see Miss Lark’s Andrew daintily sniffing at the Next Door lawn and choosing for himself the best blades of grass. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

It had flushing toilets; there were no bars, only walls—and within the walls, you had far more freedom. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

And yet the balls sailed high over the bar and clunked against the posts. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

I stand up and walk to the outer bars of the rocket. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

I walk into the Braddock bar with fifty slender sticks up my sleeve. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Shady gave me a sideways look as he doled out a hot bowl of Cream of Wheat at the far end of the bar. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

Now they were drawing near, and it seemed certain that they would escape: they had already hewn down three Riders that barred their way. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Another day, Johnny brought in a pair of crudely made wood book ends and placed them on the bar with a flourish. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

One of the first things Fischer tried to do while he was behind bars was to ask permission to call someone—perhaps an attorney who could assist with setting bail. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

It was his first time behind bars, and of all the prisoners doing Katrina time,” as they’d termed it, he was the most perplexed by it all. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

The scribe glanced at the sword hanging over the bar and drew a deep breath, his expression becoming vaguely anxious. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

He glowered at the chaplain with swollen fury for a moment, his good humor gone, and turned back toward the bar disgruntledly, rolling from side to side like a sailor on his short bandy legs. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Bast burst out anxiously from the far end of the bar, wringing his hands dramatically. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I looked around the arena and found my family sitting over by the uneven bars. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Near the corner now a couple of boys darted out of the Five and Ten with handfuls of candy bars, dropping them along the walks as they ran with a man right behind. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

The menu above the bar is illustrated with a skull and crossbones, and it’s striking to see the skull smiling. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

The young man smiled, placed the hat carefully beneath his trench coat, and left the bar. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Men like Swart, Gregory, and Warrant Officer Brand reinforced my belief in the essential humanity even of those who had kept me behind bars for the previous twenty-seven and a half years. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The man pointed to a door in the corner of the bar. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

I decided it would be really fun to set a five-year-old on a bar stool at 6:42 a.m., take a running leap, and knock him down like we were trying out for theWWF. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

He lifted the bar again quickly, but on the eighth rep, he struggled. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

We touched the two glasses as they stood side by side on the bar. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

They gathered at bars and apartments, discussing details of the campaign, mocking the silliness of the news stories. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

They nonchalantly nodded to the bartender to pour a drink for some friend, while the bartenders, smooth as any of the customers, kept making change from the money on the bar. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

My whiteness could bar him outright from many possibilities, maybe even survival, in the Congo. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was the plain robin among them, longing for freedom and unable to sing for the bars around me. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

I’m trying not to worry about it as we didn’t hear a lot of names because the guards commenced beating on the bars with their nightsticks, drowning out the men’s cries. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Something about the way they’re dressed lets me know that they definitely weren’t playing ball at the park, nor were they doing pull-ups on the monkey bars like all the other guys in the hood. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Each splintered bar bent gracefully outward, like the petal of a chrysanthemum, and in the center of the empty cage lay one small golden feather. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I pull myself up, my arms shaking, and force my leg under me so I’m standing on another bar. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

Seeing his mother come into the bar and start to talk to his father about vegetables, Malcolm took the glasses from the Terrace Room and hurried back to the kitchen. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

‘Wrong. He didn’t have the money, Kat. He’d spent it all. The disposable camera. The Mars bars. The Cokes. The busker.’ The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

He reached into the bag and pulled out clunky black leather numbers with metal bars across the tops. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The State of Alabama had argued that procedural rules barred Mr. Nelson from challenging the constitutionality of the protocol. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“They have a great bar,” James adds, smiling. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

He lived during the Jim Crow era—when black men were considered free, but were barred from voting in elections, living where they wanted, or getting the same education or services as whites. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

The men in the bar think it’s very funny that the barman should be filhng baby bottles but he’s big and he tells them shut their lip. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

The guards shoved Gendry inside with the boy and barred the doors behind them, fust then, a breath of wind came sighing off the lake, and the banners stirred and lifted. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

He's facing the possibility of spending his entire youth behind bars! Monster 1999-01-01T00:00:00Z

Loud music rocks the air as we pass late-night bars and nightclubs. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

They finish their wine and Marco settles their bill with the woman behind the bar. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

I spent so much time practicing while paper-chaining that he learned my entire bar mitzvah by sheer repetition! Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

“Actually, you’re missing more than half,” he said, standing in the doorway behind the bar. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Reducing the amount of time people spend behind bars—by eliminating harsh mandatory minimums—will alleviate some of the unnecessary suffering caused by this system, but it will not disturb the closed circuit. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

It was from The Three Musketeers, which was a book way before it became the name of a candy bar. I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z

“Suit yourself,” the bartender said and drifted off into the shadows at the other end of the bar. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some have nothing to do with Lincoln’s death, like James Pumphrey, the Confederate- sympathizing owner of a stable, who spent a month behind bars. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

Mia spent all afternoon there, until it was time for her shift at the bar. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The big guy made it across in three swings, which was a good thing since, just as he landed, the last iron bar ripped free under his weight. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

She could go for a while that way, anyway, getting slowly used to less and less food until one bite of energy bar felt like a feast. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

He watched me smoothing it over my hands and then my face with that same air of looking in through the bars. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You went to a bar? Why is that a big deal?” Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

She takes her mark, composes herself, rocks back and forth a few times, then approaches the bar and flips right over it. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

I slam the explosives against the metal bar where the two doors join, and clamp down the claws around the edge of the bar so it will stay. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

She gathered a bar of soap, their toothbrushes, and two washcloths. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Within her crate, Songololo is now awake and down from her nylon hammock, standing at the bars and watching Otto curiously. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

“He’d tied his shoelaces up high on the bars, but I guess not high enough to kill him, so he’s there all pale going gaagaa-gaaghh.” Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

After work I went down to the dockside bar where all the whites tanked up on duty-free Heineken. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

One end of the tube was wedged between his bars at stomach level, and the other protruded halfway into the narrow gallery space between cell bars and fence, like a miniature bazooka. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

We were almost out when the man behind the bar called out. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Then he leaned over the bar top, staring into the sheriff’s half-empty glass of whiskey. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

Whenever they looked at him they saw his hands clinging to the bars, knuckles white under his suntanned skin. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

There was a ruckus from inside the bar and Cora stepped farther into the shadows. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

The only similarity between the rest of the town and the church is the small windows covered with iron bars, but the shambler proofing is barely noticeable on such an impressive building. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

The girls were in the midst of a jump-rope fad, so the parallel bars were pretty much deserted. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sting of it would stay with me for months, even as plenty of my colleagues at Sidley confessed that they, too, hadn’t passed the bar exam the first time. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

I slip into a quiet, out-of-the-way bar in the lower floor of a brownstone just off of Seventh Avenue. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then she flung the bar across the room. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

I don’t like seeing all those animals and birds and fish behind bars and glass just so a lot of people can stare at them. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

It was a German restaurant complete with sausages, sauerkraut, and beer steins hanging in rows over the bar, shining but unused. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

I ate olives, salted almonds and potato chips and looked at myself in civilian clothes in the mirror behind the bar. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

The song slammed on; various rappers took turns spitting sixteen bars in different languages. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

The sign outside read two sisters bar and books. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

“One minute. Oh . . . and so you have absolute privacy . . .” She waved her hand and iron bars slammed down over the windows. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

What the hell is this, about a Snickers bar being mistaken for a gun? How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

He bought candy bars and beef jerky sticks and more chemical hand- and feetwarmers. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

The jail resembled a fortress, with barred windows and cold stone passageways and tiered cells. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

He sat down on the jungle gym so hard he bent the bar, and buried his head in his hands. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

For dessert there was a Hershey bar—a smidgin from one corner for Chester and the rest for Mario. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It ate 1020 bar stock, burned it out like it was cardboard,” I marveled. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

“You might not feel as sure of yourself on bars as you do in your other events, but you can still do a great bar routine,” she assured me. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Charlie put out his hand and touched the screen, and suddenly, miraculously, the bar of chocolate came away in his fingers. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z

I started to reach into the bucket to hand the scones through the bars, but stopped. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a bar of candy—nothing more. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z

I put another five pounds on either side of the bar for him, and then kept my voice low as I continued. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

He was so beautiful, so terrified, so defiantly brave as he spat and snarled at his human captors through the bars. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

A few moments later three Specials were sliding across the wooden bar. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Now Ma and Laura saw her behind the bars, waiting for them. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then they started to dash at the cage, shaking the thin wooden bars with their great weight. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

Then suddenly, a small bar of chocolate appeared in the middle of the screen. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z

Their great hinges and iron bars were wrenched and bent; many of their timbers were cracked. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Crenshaw stopped unwrapping a candy bar and looked at him sharply, his eyes narrowed. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

The old hustlers sit around the bar, and I bring them food from the kitchen. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then he told me he lived in an apartment over the bar. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

A man with a cart was selling Cokes and candy bars. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Row after row of dark barred windows, all spooky quiet. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

The wife was bent over her husband as the soldiers squashed into the car and drove to the bar. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

A simple chalk mark drawn by the medical examiner on one’s clothes could have a person barred from entering his newly adopted country. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

He bit into the chaplain’s candy bar hungrily and continued with a full mouth. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

At which point, Herbie Goldfarb, on whom all the cop cars outside somehow hadn’t registered, tripped gaily through a pebble barrage and into the store to buy a candy bar. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I sat down at my desk and held the bar in my hand. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

It has always made me wonder if that bar stickup had really been solved, or if the wrong man had confessed under beatings. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

I looked up and saw him staring through the bars at me. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

We cut the Milky Way bars into thin slices for dessert. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

We stood slack- jawed, trying to make sense of the railings, the fences, the bars, and the spaces, both tiny and immense. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’s got a granola bar in one hand and a garden trowel in the other. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

A coffin at the center of the room served as a bar. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

It hits Tremaine hard enough to make him reel backward, dropping his life bar by 15 percent. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

To us, it was what a bar is to a drunk, or a church is to a Bishop. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Gymnova bars were springier and swung me faster than the bar setup I’d trained on for most of my life—and that day, I just couldn’t seem to get the hang of them. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

I let this drop curtly to bar him from telling me what to do about my work. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

Or he’d shake hands solemnly all around, and when you took your hand away there’d be a nut chocolate bar in it. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bronwyn went first: with one hand she raised the boy even higher, his feet kicking in the air, and with the other she grabbed one of the roof bars and began to bend it. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

And with a deep breath, I launch into my bar mitzvah. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

It was some time before the boy stopped battering at the motionless corpse, and even when he did stop, he held the bar poised over one shoulder, panting raggedly and looking around wildly. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Reginald grabbed the cage’s latch with his mouth and popped the barred door open. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Kote stopped polishing the bar and turned his back to the room. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“There’s a snack bar in the visitor center,” Thalia said. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

The air was warm, and music thumped from inside the bars. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

He winked at Ace and Sammy, drained his martini, then rose from his bar stool unsteadily and staggered toward the stage the band had just left. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Madam Rosmerta was staring over from behind the bar, apparently oblivious to the fact that the flagon she was filling with mead was overflowing. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

She walked to an oyster bar that looked onto the harbor and asked for a lobster roll. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

At this point, I think he’s actually grateful to have a bar mitzvah to distract him from the fact that his dream of Dino-land is circling the drain. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

He warned that the parade route Paul had requested passed near a number of bars and saloons and that some of the men may get rowdy and disruptive. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

He must have tired of being crippled, as prisoners tire of penitentiary bars and the guilty tire of blame. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’ll race you to a cold beer!” he said as he took off, running to the door of the bar. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

“So, I’ve started working on my bar mitzvah stuff,” he tells me. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

The problem was, instead of shaking off my disaster on bars, I was still feeling sorry for myself as I hopped up onto the balance beam. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

It was like a small city, laid out on a grid with mess halls, stores, bars, movie theaters, and even swimming pools. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

Jinx placed the money on the bar and took a seat behind the counter next to Shady, his one sure ally in the room. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

He barked an order at me one day, something like, “Pick up those soap bars,” and I looked in his mouth and saw a brand-new set of white chompers. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

He retreated to a spot behind me, holding on to my calves like protective bars. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

My mother stands in the aisle with her arm stretched above her head so she can hold the bar. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

English put the bar back up on the rack and sat up. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

I itched to be away from the bar to find the voice that had sung Aloine with me. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Now and then, one of the old bar’ hogs would break ranks to make a quick cutting lunge at the dog. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

Obinze, from the other end of the bar, had said, “Good!” drawing strange looks from everyone. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

They still needed him to get over the bar and win. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Behind them they had deposited a jumble of equipment: odd-shaped metal bars, pulleys, wooden structures that looked like ladders, other pieces of wood that resembled small logs. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

I yelled, seeing his eyes fasten upon a twisted iron bar. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

"It's funny what a wonderful gentility you get in the bar of a big hotel," I said. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

And it came to him that he was barring every exit to this house, except the exit through the kitchen, where Esther sat. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

“I’ll write you a note,” he says, searching for a spare piece of paper in the earthenware bowl on the breakfast bar. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

My dad was still tuned in, however, playing sofa soldier from the pullout in the office, the one with the metal bar underneath the seat cushions, specially designed to ensure maximum discomfort. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

She came home from Weight Watchers meetings to tell him how much she had lost or gained, hiding Twix bars in her handbag and then asking him, with laughter, if he wanted one. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Candles flickered on wooden tables in the dimly lit bar. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Just like at the bar on Saturday night. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

It was blocked by a row of iron bars like a prison door. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

“Actually, I’m selling candy bars for my soccer team. It’s a good cause.” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

I finished my drink more out of reflex than anything else, then stood and made my way to the bar. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

As soon as we had finished, we were rounded up again and quick- marched to a building with bars on all the windows and a strong door that our escorts unlocked and opened. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Thankfully, I manage to tell her about my history professor, who swears during lessons, rides a motorcycle, and seems much more like someone you'd meet at a bar than in a lecture hall. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Richard’s head is buried in Lil’s neck, and Em is practically sitting in the lap of a gray hair who wandered over from the bar. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

I played a few bars, surprised at how easily the notes came back to me. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s happening. Were finally witnessing something more painful than Nick’s bar mitzvah.” Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

It’s a good feeling, making Ruby laugh, so I draw another picture, and another, along the edges of the paper: an orange, a candy bar, a carrot. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

“A bar sinister,” he said to Penny, pointing. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

One way he showed his appreciation to the camaradas for their backbreaking work was to share a chocolate bar from his provisions. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

He rose smoothly from the table and began to make his way through the maze of empty tables toward the empty bar. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The holding cells looked much more like the prison he had anticipated—no white stone or glass displays, just dank gray rock and iron bars. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

When the bar rises up, I see nothing on my skin. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

Only his books were on the bedside table, and a partly eaten chocolate bar. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

The bar I’m holding shudders, and I scream through my clenched teeth as I fight to keep my grip. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

We move by a group of Hispanic guys lounging on stretchers who all look like they were in the same bar fight. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

Jet black hairs wound themselves around bars of soap. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

More bitter than getting fired, I was barred from Small’s. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“That was us, not taking care of you. Hold on now, this won’t hurt a bit,” I say, trying to work the pry bar along the plank that came loose. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

At first, all he was aware of were the heels of the shoes beating rapidly against the floor, and he wondered if Lalo and the afternoon customers in the bar downstairs could hear it. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

He followed Mace and Nettle into the din and fumy stench of the first bar along the front. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

They were still milling around, the juke box baying, the piano thumping, and over at the end of the room, drenched with beer, Supercargo lay like a spent horse upon the bar. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mia had sliced each word out neatly with a razor to form the gaps between the bars. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

His eyes moved toward the hunting knife that had been slung over the mosquito-net bar by the dead man the day he arrived. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Since it has no knob, she tugs at the bars over the window until the heavy door creaks open. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

As he picked up his glass, Ben saw his father rise to his feet and begin to speak to every Marine in the bar. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Because the bar of yellow soap was mixed up with the whole thing, she threw that in after the gun. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

He puts his elbows on the bar top. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

Basta pressed his face to the bars as if he could make his way through them. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

She shoved the love seat away from the picture window, took a deep breath, reached back, and swung the bar as hard as she could. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

The tied quarters here would sound exactly like a half note crossing the bar line. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

The pearl buyers’ offices were clustered together in one narrow street, and they were barred at the windows, and wooden slats cut out the light so that only a soft gloom entered the offices. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then Ice’s father got stabbed to death on the same day that Showman’s bar had a fire. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

I finish my granola bar, toss the wrapper into the garbage, and turn to go down the hall. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

At the forge she found the fires extinguished and the doors closed and barred. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

One of my last memories of Iran is my dad coming home with a case of Orich candy bars a few weeks before we had to escape. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

He placed restrictions on what he would eat, created a list of potential visitors who’d be allowed to see him and another list of those who’d be summarily barred from entering his room. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

On the eastern side, in the angle of two piers, there was a great door, high above the ground; and over it was a shuttered window, opening upon a balcony hedged with iron bars. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

He looked at the sky through the bars. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

Bran pulled himself from the bed, moving bar to bar until he reached the windows. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

For one thing, Aimee and I zeroed in on skills I needed to upgrade, not just on the vault but also on bars, beam, and floor. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

He pushed the bar up slowly, then lowered it and began the last rep. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

And then there was the problem of the bar ladies. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Link is oblivious to this, still buried in his bar mitzvah. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

We grabbed on to a bar on the car and sort of pulled up and jumped at the same time. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh, like Mounds bars. We have those here.” Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

I waited for more, but Nyame just clasped his hands again and stared out, wise and all-knowing, like he’d just dropped some crazy freestyle bars and the crowd was going wild. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Never before had I been in a public place or hotel where there was no color bar. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Your mother and I have said nothing because how can we possibly hold a bar mitzvah for you? If we’re caught celebrating it, we’ll be killed.” Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

All of my brothers came running when I struck up the opening bars to “The Maple Leaf Rag.” The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

Malachy, at the far end of the bar, turned pale, gave the greatbreasted ones a sickly smile, offered them a drink. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

I never previously knew that it is possible to become tired of eating GoFast nutrition bars. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

Then I unwrapped the second-to-last granola bar and mashed its bits into the sweet flesh. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

First, the chimps must be taught to obey, and usually this is done by beating them with metal bars. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Eleven at night and the guy’s at a bar and his kid’s eating at a diner. That’s real sweet. Sounds like my dad.” The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

I look at the turnstile and see how easy it would be to duck under the metal bars and slip onto that train just as it leaves the station. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I thought about it the entire walk home from Blue Spot, which is probably why I don’t remember which candy bar I bought that day. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

Afternoons around the bar, the old-timers who knew Cadillac well enough would tease him about how women who looked like his made enough to feed themselves, let alone him. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

By the end of 2007, more than 7 million Americans—or one in every 31 adults—were behind bars, on probation, or on parole. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

It was a sound exactly recalling the guards in prison running their nightsticks against the bars. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

A man in a striped shirt and suspenders pulled a lever and the lap bars came up, releasing the people who had been on the ride. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

Fully grown women were seen going into sweetshops and buying ten Wonka candy bars at a time, then tearing off the wrappers on the spot and peering eagerly underneath for a glint of golden paper. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z

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

Waiters light candles on the tables outside their restaurants; bar owners turn on neon signs. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

He’d set it down inside the cell and slammed the bars shut without a word. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Big Halley was behind the bar, his dark skin showing through his sweat-wet shirt. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not hastily, as one would explore a hotel room, expecting no surprise, opening and shutting the desk drawers, the cupboard doors, unwrapping the tiny individually wrapped bar of soap, prodding the pillows. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

There’s a giant picture over her clean white desk of her son, Noah, at his bar mitzvah. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

"Lord Frey has pulled his whole strength back inside his castles, and his gates are closed and barred." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“But I don’t take her to homosexual bars!” she says. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

“He thinks he knows everything,” Colonel Moodus would retort in a sulking tone to his own audience at the other end of the bar. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

“Grey Worm and the Unsullied will close and bar the gates at first light.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

And now there is the bad smell and the thought of fig bars and the storm. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

He denied that he was badly hurt, but he managed to look bravely-in-pain as he stumbled over to sit out the recess on the bench near the parallel bars. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We have ice cream bars in the freezer!” he yells. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

I soon discovered that if a wayfaring stranger wishes to eavesdrop on a local population the places for him to slip in and hold his peace are bars and churches. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Someone came around with a stack of small jars and fastened one to my cage; a little pipe led through the bars like a sipping straw—drinking water. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know. One minute you’re yelling at me, the next minute you’re giving me a bite of your candy bar.” Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Thus the instrumentarium was born—the complete set of which includes bass bars, bass, alto/tenor, and soprano metallophones, xylophones and alto and soprano glockenspiels. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

You see the view through tree branches as if through prison bars. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

The Monday after Link’s bar mitzvah, the town council votes unanimously to build a museum and tolerance center in Chokecherry. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

The man who filled drink orders from behind the bar would let him sit up on the counter and practice his magic tricks, and gave Kaz all the hot chocolate he could drink. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Every other window had bars across its frame. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

The bricks and burglar bars protect charred rubble. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

“You turn left, then right, then left again. And the gate’s got no top bar.” 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

I picked my way over the steel bars, getting closer and closer to the front, until a row of seats was resting on top of my head. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He whistled the bar of a song, watching Robert all the while. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

In the Mexican bar, Dad had an air of relaxation which I had never seen visit him before. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

I point past the bars, to where a little white girl with blond pigtails stands on the side of the road. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

“You better look into the bars,” she said. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

All this was done in half a second, and his eyes never left the dark-haired young man at the bar. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Nightclubs and bars and restaurants, too, with glittering metal signs, or ones made out of lightbulbs so that they’ll glow in the dark. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was narrow, cluttered, lined by stores, cafes, bars. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Brooke collapsed against the railing, her hands clutching the wooden bars. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

The exultant crowd exploded from the bar like champagne, hurling Turner and Nettle aside. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Another bag held shampoo, a bar of soap, a tube of toothpaste. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Like the three gates at the receiving entrance, the doors were large rectangles of rounded steel bars that slid on rolling tracks. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

One lay by himself against the barred door, the cold one, with a mouth full of clotted blood. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

These were the sounds that Taisin had made at night in her dreams: the eerie, half-senseless murmurings of beings trapped behind bars. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

After she pays, Millie picks up some plasticware from the condiment bar while I spoon her chili out from the pot. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

They went to Texas A&M University in College Station, met at a student pub where Jim tended bar, and married three years later, in 1988. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

"Yes, thank you, I would like a refill," Sydelle said to nobody and hobbled to the bar. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

Beside the bar what looked like a radio dial would, upon being turned, make the lighting throughout the house as mellow or as bright as the mood demanded. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The protein bar or Pop-Tart is designed to be consumed in the car on the way to school or to work. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

At first I thought it was just a split in the wood, but looking closer, I could see that the top of the bar was a movable panel. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

The door was locked, but the metal bar and a lot of grunting fixed that problem. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

All have tall barred windows on two sides, with loud exhaust fans at the top. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The man hangs his long arms from the top bar of the truck canopy; he eclipses the ruined village, the fields, the rising sun. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Kote remained at the bar, idly running his hands over the wood and the word. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Gaunt men with creased cheeks and women with dark red lipstick sat along the bar. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

My mother put a new box of Klondike bars in the freezer. Fourth Grade Rats 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the Michigan state police raided an illegal Detroit bar, they discovered the local congressman, the local sheriff, and the city’s mayor all having a drink. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

The high wooden bar forms one long L down the length of the room. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

When we asked her what she did, what her job was, she walked us to Oakland’s Seventh Street, where dusty bars and smoke shops sat in the laps of storefront churches. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sunday mornings in this year of grace 1965, imagine the “Christian conscience” of congregations guarded by deacons barring the door to black would-be worshipers, telling them “You can’t enter this House of God!” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. and Mrs. Antolini had this very swanky apartment over on Sutton Place, with two steps that you go down to get in the living room, and a bar and all. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

He tries not to think too hard about his face on chocolate bars and thongs in Buckingham gift shops. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

I stood on tiptoe and squished the loaf through the bars. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

It has been years since we left Iran—but I wonder about the candy bars. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

The room was dim, but there were bars of yellow sunlight showing between the slats of the shutters. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

During lunchtime he carried drinks and food to customers in the bar as usual, and when he was attending to the fire, he happened to see something that surprised him. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

How could he leave me in that raunchy bar and go off with his woman? I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was a year older than I, skinny, brown as a chocolate bar, his hair orange, his hazel eyes full of mischief and laughter. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

But she stopped quite short at the small cocktail bar at the far end of the room. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

I'm running past buildings of tan bricks, five stories high with black fire escapes and windows with bars. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Preparing to break the news, the nurses stocked up on candy bars for the girls. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

I took out the last square of the chocolate bar and broke it in half, giving Jenna the bigger piece. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

I dropped a bill on the bar for the bartender. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bars of metal were better for bartering, but full bars of metal were inconvenient to carry.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I got the first cut, but again, when I started cutting the interior angle, the bar worked its way out of the jig, and the tool dug in and broke. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

A stone gate barred the entrance to Trinity College. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

He hardly ever drinks, only at fiestas, or sometimes with his friends at a bar, like tonight. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Wrapping my hands around two of the bars, I touch my face to the empty space between them. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

He put his hand over his eyes to shield them from the stage lights and looked out into the dark part of the bar. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

Suddenly, all eyes were on Jinx, who sat quietly on a stool behind the bar. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

But often there were sheets and towels hanging to dry through the bars of windows, and this touch of domesticity always gave them hope. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The shreds he let trickle gleefully off his hand onto the ground, then he smugly tipped his cowboy hat to Bernabe with his invisible arm and lurched jubilantly back into the bar. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Skarpi made a small gesture to the bar- keep who set out a mug of beer as the children began to trickle out onto the street. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

These men and women they passed on Sunday mornings had spent the night in bars, or in cat houses, or on the streets, or on rooftops, or under the stairs. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

He goes at the hatch with a pry bar. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

The owner of the bar approached him, and the boy pointed to a drink that had been served at the next table. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“What kind of pageant would be in a bar? This is a bar, right?” she asks. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Our front door has a tiny slot to shove mail through, but anything thicker than a bar of soap gets left outside. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

If he could get it out of die plane, or if he could just get into it and pull something out A candy bar. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

James reaches into his wallet, slaps thirty bucks on the bar, and nods to the bartender. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

And everywhere, it seemed, was the sound of cellphones, one ringing out with a salsa tune, another with bars from Brahms. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

The animals in the menagerie are no less happy to see us—the chimps scream and swing from the bars of their dens, flashing toothy grins. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

I glanced in that direction and saw a darkened alcove just beyond the snack bar. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

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

I cleared my throat and hummed a few bars. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

“To tell you that the bar mitzvah is still on,” he replies. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

There were seven sows, two long-tushed old bar’ hogs, and fourteen small shoats. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Black” Burton, a man evil-tempered and malicious, had been picking a quarrel with a tenderfoot at the bar, when Thornton stepped good-naturedly between. The Call of the Wild 1903-01-01T00:00:00Z

Finally the mercenary’s gaze came to rest on the red-haired man behind the bar. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Measure or bar — Beats are grouped into measures or bars. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

When the Richardson curve crosses the vertical bar we have specified the waiting time to Doomsday: how many years until the population of the Earth is destroyed in some great war. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

A projector started up and a stag movie flickered grainily on a wall opposite the bar. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Slanting rain hit the bars of the window-grill and shattered into a fine spray over her face and her smooth bare arm. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lefty opened the bar at eight in the morning, and by eight-thirty the barstools were filled with men dulling themselves before reporting to work. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

"Yes. Beneath. But we can go no farther. The portcullis goes all the way to the bottom. And the bars are too closely spaced for even a child to squeeze through." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

They say: Did you even know we had a bar like that? Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

She sat them down in front of a black-and-white television set, gave each a chocolate bar, and they spent the entire day watching cartoons, while Tata smoked and drank beer. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

She releases the bars and paces outside my cell. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

The patch of moonlight that slipped past the rusty iron bars on our window fell on the book that our teacher, Parvathi, had given me before she moved away. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

She imagines that her brothers are sitting at the bar, judging her. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Dad stepped over the chain fence and knelt right next to the bars where the cheetah was sitting. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

“My friends and I climb up in the bars under the bleachers at the high school. If we fell there we could die too.” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

It used to be small-time stuff like costume jewelry for his mother and candy bars and newspapers. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

The piano was right next to the bar where I was sitting and all, and old Valencia was standing practically right next to me. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t fathom how a bear had gotten into the cage, only that I needed to get away from it, so I pressed myself hard against the bars. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

He made a fish spear with two points, not peeling the bar all the way back but just working on the pointed end. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

And Mario knew that Chester, like all people who are used to freedom, would rather die than live his life behind bars. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dale comes around the other side of the bar. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Shawn pulled her onto his lap and ate the bar in three bites. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

He reached behind the bar and pulled out a ziplock bag with a few bottle caps in it. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

She tripped into the bar in slacks and a pea jacket, carrying a covered birdcage. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yes, Mina. We will fix up the coop and live here, and we will put bars on the door. Yanek and I will see to it.” Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

“In your stables,” Taran said, “I saw hammers and iron bars. Will you grant us the use of them? Or,” he added bitterly, “must we pay still another price?” The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

The boy slipped the bottle through the bars. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

An explosive cheer went through the room as all the pilots headed for the bar to order their free round of drinks. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

After all these weeks, the bar is low. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

The next morning, after she’d choked down yet another granola bar, Ivy left early for school while Mom was busy wiping Aaron’s leaky nose. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

A double bar line, either heavy or light, is used to mark the ends of larger sections of music, including the very end of a piece, which is marked by a heavy double bar. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

At the corral the stock horses snorted at us and rubbed their heads against the bars, and Specklebottom took a kick at a gelded friend just to keep in practice. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

I grab another bar, find another place to wedge my foot. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

A strange woman from a bar filled with petty and not-so-petty criminals brought a drunk, underage teenager back to her house, where he spent the night. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Then he flung it again through the bars of the cell. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Blacken me if I know,” she muttered, then called down the bar. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The metal bar came down across our laps and locked with a loud clank—although there was still a considerable amount of space between our bodies and the bar. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

The elevator was prewar, with gilded, curving bars like a birdcage. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

My score, 14.966, was lower than I’d hoped, probably because my start value on bars wasn’t as high as on my other routines. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

I woke up because my alarm went off at six, and then I snuck into the kitchen and ate a granola bar and some orange juice. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

In Hadem at large, in the bars and restaurants, on the street comers and stoops, there could be heard more blunt criticism of Malcolm X than ever before in his career. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

I set the ice cream down cautiously and sit down at the breakfast bar. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

“At the Grand Hotel there’s a piano bar that serves chow. I seem to remember a pretty good T-bone. And I know they got a nice martini.” Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Quick as a blink, Bast grabbed the mercenary’s head with both hands and slammed it into the edge of the bar. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“Layla,” she said, “why don’t you go find us some more blankets and clothes. I’d rather not lay the boys on this dirty floor. And maybe a few granola bars or something.” Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

She comes and sits in the corner of the bar on one of the tall red stools with her nose in one thick book or another. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then Frank picked up a braided cylinder about the size of a candy bar. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

The customer who just entered hefts himself onto his usual bar stool, leans his forearms on the polished wood. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

We advocated the redivision of land on an equitable basis; the abolition of color bars prohibiting Africans from doing skilled work; and the need for free and compulsory education. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

His firm wanted him to come into the office full-time after his graduation from high school, read law with them, and eventually take the bar exam. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he grabbed the top bar instead, he balanced himself and winced. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

To improve their chances of tuning in to a good station, inmates draped wires over their bars and across the gallery floor. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jinjoo took out the last brown candy bar and shared it with her siblings. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

Shakily, Bast managed to find his feet and lean against the bar. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Finally, Javier dropped off the bar, panting, sweat dripping down the sides of his head. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

We watch as drag queens every shape and size and color give it their all and leave everything they’ve got on that stage in this dingy little bar out in the middle of West Texas. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

But the rabbi says I’m practicing ten times as hard as most of his other bar mitzvah students, and that I’m asking ten times as many questions. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

It looked smaller and shabbier by daylight, but it was the same place, with the zinc-topped bar, the espresso machine, and the half-finished plate of risotto, now beginning to smell bad in the warm air. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Cocktails are poured at the bar in a variety of oddly shaped and colored glasses. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

I am not saying there shouldn’t be prisons, but there shouldn’t be bars. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

The tires hang on ropes from a bar. Fourth Grade Rats 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

She turns her back as she finishes pouring a thermos full of tea and throws a granola bar into her briefcase. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

“No rules. No holds barred. It used to be an Olympic sport.” The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

“I offered him a chocolate bar, and he just let it drop outside the cage.” The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

We sat at the end of the bar by the television set. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

If the bar was full, he could command the room. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t want to change everything. I just want to try this and see how it feels. I’m thirteen, which is perfect bar mitzvah timing.” Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

The morning crowd was keeping the innkeeper busy, so I had to lay an iron drab on the bar before she paid me any attention at all. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

He had sold the liquor license and closed the bar. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Stop knocking that broom against the bar,” she screamed. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

But inside the bar not a lot has changed. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

The only exception is for those jobs for which state or local laws expressly bar people with certain specific convictions from employment. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

She slid the metal bars back in place when we were through, and we made our way quietly down the dark stairs of our apartment building. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

I got into fights at the bar or with guys on the street. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

He grasped the bars of the window firmly, ready to pull, and stood poised. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

I go to a Chinese- themed bar covered in graffiti. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

Amarante returned, almost daintily lifted the weapon off the bar and stuck it in the holster, and then suddenly they both started to laugh. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were a few men on stools at the bar, and they greeted my father with the ease of familiarity. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

I tap one end of the candy bar, making it teeter-totter on my knee. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

We used to watch together on weekends, with the Hangouts bar open in the corner of our screens, commenting on all the contestants,laughing, even though we could only see tiny squares of each other. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

Even when not barred by law from holding specific jobs, formerly incarcerated and convicted people in Chicago find it extraordinarily difficult to find employers who will hire them, regardless of the nature of their conviction. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

“Get ready for questions like, ‘How many bubbles in a bar of soap?’ or ‘How many wrinkles in an elephant’s trunk?” Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Bod walked down to the main gate of the graveyard, and looked out through the bars. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

He was probably there now, on a redwood bar stool, watching this exact game. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Then one day he snuck in a Snickers bar for lunch, and this kid practically begged him for it. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

"Raise the drawbridge and bar the doors. No one enters or leaves Maegor's without my leave." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

I stuff some of the granola bar in my mouth. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

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

There’s nothing but shattered glass around the empty bar. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

We held tight to the bar as it took the sharper bends. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

A man at the bar told Ellsberg that when his trial began, local bookmakers had set the odds at four-to-one in favor of the prosecution. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Somkit gripped the bars of the stall door in both fists. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

There were about eleven different men lying on the floor or propped up against the wall on the other side of the bars. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

She helped me see that even after an ugly fall from the high bar, a giant was nothing I couldn’t handle. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

With nothing else to give them, Jinjoo broke open another brown candy bar and gave two pieces each to her sister and brothers, only allowing herself to lick her fingers where the candy melted. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

The waiters were busy bringing drinks from the bar to the tables. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

This brought a loud laugh from Rainie, which sounded like someone had dropped an empty bucket on a gravel bar and then had kicked it. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The cartoon shows Justice barred from the room where the investigators met. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

It was a simple thing: just two standing poles with a bar between them. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

She used a much better carrier than I did—I currently had one bar, she had five. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

I did not try to find a bar that would sell an Indian liquor so that I could lose my sorrows by drinking. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

After I put my bags in one of those strong boxes at the station, I went into this little sandwich bar and bad breakfast. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

Once they were back in the belly of the bar, it wasn’t much better. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

As I stood against the bar looking out I could see them through the window. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

But an inmate down the gallery was waving his arm out between the bars. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Through the window of the Café Aux Amateurs I saw the long zinc bar. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

Then I went back to the rover and tied off the cord to the roof- rack bar on the high side. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

She showed him the opening bars of the Mozart sonata, and the ivory keys felt satisfying and smooth as he tried it himself. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

“Yes, probably to the bar on the corner. He’s gone. Did he hurt you?” Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bran used the bars to move himself to the bed, and Hodor pulled off his boots and breeches. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The idea is improvisation: the foil containers that come from salad bars can be reused as dishes; the lone plate becomes a cutting board. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘To stay behind bars, until use and old age accept them, and all chance of doing great deeds is gone beyond recall or desire.’ The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

She leaned her forehead against the bars and after a short silence went on in a thoughtful tone. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

He tossed his coin purse behind the bar and they left, trading a few more blows on the way, bursting out of the door into the night. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

I drove directly to the all-white bar and ordered a drink. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

His fingers scrabbled with the peanut shells on the bar top. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

They found Mr. Weasley sitting in the bar, reading the Daily Prophet. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

My dry mouth almost stuck closed with the chocolate and caramel, but I didn’t stop until the bar was gone. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

I sat hunched over, holding on to the rope, my big sneakers on the turn bar. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

It produced concrete-reinforcing bars, barbed wire, nails, and steel for cars, refrigerators, and military ships. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Bigger ran to it and caught the steel bars in his hands and swept the door forward, slamming it shut. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

My night bag, which contained only a flashlight, a few changes of clothes, and a granola bar, sat under my bunk bed, packed and ready to go. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

There were lighted bars and late open shops on each side of the street. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

Figure 1.2: The bar lines divide the staff into short sections called bars or measures. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, well, he didn’t die of praying,” Sheriff Dean said when Shady resumed his place at the bar. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

The silence in the bar now was profound, and even customers in other parts of the inn had become aware that something was happening, and had come to the doorway to watch. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

Winnie leaned against the fence, her hands gripping the warm metal of the bars, and thought about Mae behind another set of bars in the jailhouse. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

The ground fell away beneath him, the cage swung, and Tyrion wrapped his hands around the iron bars. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

He rested his tired head against the steel bars and wondered how was it possible for this man to know so much about him and yet be so bitterly against him. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

I press my forehead up against the bars and watch them for a long time. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

These cells, with bars front and rear, had dense screens installed from ceiling to knee level to keep the occupants from throwing things out. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Large majorities of black men in cities across the United States are once again subject to legalized discrimination effectively barring them from full integration into mainstream, white society. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Later, after he was released, he applied to the bar for admission as an advocate. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He washed the tables and the bar, moving with a patient efficiency. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Then he moves off, heading for the bar. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

After a couple of days, he wanted me to go out with him again to some bar, but I said no. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

She went to the window and, using one of her gloved fingers to bend a shade, peered at the bar next door. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

He gripped the hand bar and leaned out. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

She had packed a picnic for all of us and served this delicious mango juice she’d bought at the new juice bar that had opened up in place of Wilfrido’s office. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

In some bars and restaurants, funeral music was played; in others, the walls were hung with black crepe. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

The Maya used a dot to signify one and a horizontal bar to signify five; the number nineteen would thus be three bars and four dots. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

The Court decided to bar claims from federal habeas corpus review if they weren't initially presented to state courts. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

The people at the bar kept making jokes about women running naked out of the burning hotel. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

“I think I’m in the wrong bar anyway.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Stella ran her fingers gently over the round black letter keys, pressing the S for Stella part of the way down, watching the type bar rise up toward the roller. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

That fall, with both the bar exam and the wedding behind me, I called my father from work one day and asked if he’d check to see if the mail had come in. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

I have to look decent for my job so I take off all my clothes and stand naked in the backyard washing them under the tap with a bar of carbolic soap. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

“There was a bar there, I’ll always remember. It was called the Bucket of Blood Saloon.” Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

Finally, he pulled a stool behind the bar and began to polish the vast array of bottles nestled between the two huge barrels. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

He shows me into a small bathroom where there's a bar of green soap. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

Nonetheless, she turned to the bar in the living room, reached up for a bottle of Scotch, and poured a glass half full. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

Madame Manec sneaks Marie-Laure chocolate bars, slices of cake; this morning they squeeze lemons into glasses full of water and sugar, and she lets Marie-Laure drink as much as she likes. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Only the rolling sea and the bars of rich, cool light and the boat sliding up and down easily, as she was meant to, on the gende swells. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

I made my way to the bar where Anker and two of his serving girls were busy pulling drinks. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Alfred slowed down as hundreds of people came off stoops and street corners, and poured out of bars toward four cruisers parked behind Epsteins'. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then he says, “Now what I want you to do is hold on to the bars and just rock back and forth on one foot, then the other.” The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

As I made my way to the nearest bar, the avatars I passed all stopped to stare and point in my direction. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Tracked him down to a dingy bar and under the sound of the baseball game on the TV I asked him about the anomaly. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He cranked up his automobile and sped off, sending a plume of dust to settle on Shady’s clean bar top. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

Most of the cages were patches of dirt surrounded by iron bars, with forlorn gorillas or restless bears or irritable monkeys or anxious gazelles huddled in the corners. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

She poured the milk and handed me the bowl, then she perched at the bar, directly across from me, and watched as I shoveled spoonfuls into my mouth. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The gates of the manse were closed and barred. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

I drag one of the target dummies out into the middle of the room and, using some chinning bars, hang it so it dangles by the neck. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

The animals were at breakfast when the look-outs came racing in with the news that Frederick and his followers had already come through the five- barred gate. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

The granola bars would soon be gone, and I’d have to find another way to feed us. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

“I mean who calls bars for gay people homosexual bars?” Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

“I had daily to pass the office of one village doctor, the door of which was seldom if ever barred,” he wrote in a later memoir. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

He has worn a tie once in his life, to attend a friend’s bar mitzvah. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

On the first corner he reached there stood a café, with little green tables on the pavement and a zinc-topped bar and an espresso machine. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Whatever you call her, Stanchion’s got her behind the bar. I’d go grab her before he gets overly familiar and starts practicing his fingering.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

"Come on, Frankie," the man said to one of his friends in the group, and a short, scrunty fellow detached himself and came into the bar with us. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

“I’ll have a gin and tonic, thanks,” it says, and there’s Henry in the flesh, sidled up next to him at the bar, looking a little tousled in a soft gray button-down and jeans. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Behind the counter, Mr. Paul kept an ice chest full of soda, and on the right side of the display case he kept a cooler filled with ice cream bars. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

Some were leaning over the long bar that separated them from the cages, some were standing on the seats that rose in tiers opposite. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

After she falls asleep, I retrieve the bars. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

“I don’t want nobody fooling with that cabinet under the bar.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

She picked out a can of chicken noodle soup, a quart of milk, a loaf of bread, a bar of soap, a box of safety matches and four tomatoes from a bushel basket. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Can’t you read, you stupid Navajo?” he said, pointing at a sign hung over the bar. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

I went to the other side of the door, grabbed the hand bar tight and tossed my body into the wind, the way Styx had. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

When Bast finally turned from the bar, Chronicler’s eyes widened perceptibly, and the color drained from his already pale face. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The man stopped looking through the bars at the boy and looked down at the cake. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

I stood on tiptoe and stretched my hands up to the bars. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

The bar itself is a big oval, packed two people deep. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

His food was pushed between the bars at the front of his prison on the end of long poles, while the cub clawed and gnawed it. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

How was it even possible for kids to order drinks at a bar? As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

The dude behind the bar said, “Help you?” Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

When he heard the nurse’s cart making its way down the cellblock, he jumped up to meet her at the bars. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

She clung to the bars of the grating as firmly as she could. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

We found what turned out to be one of the last buses out of Tembisa, for the police were quarantining the ghetto, barring all company vehicles and public transportation. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You people go back in the bar, though, okay?” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The bar is full of plain ordinary folk, some looking down on their luck, some looking to celebrate. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You must be after the room,” said the man behind the bar, coming out to shake our hands. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

He reexperienced his gambling mania and his feelings of uselessness after retiring, but this soon passed because it was the 1940s and he was running the bar and grill again. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

I’d done okay in my other events too, tying for second on floor, placing third on beam, and fourth on uneven bars. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Not one would admit them; every time they were dismissed insolently and the door barred against them. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I came to teach you how to make soap. Do you know how much they are selling common bar soap now?” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

The three of us were crossing an open outdoor courtyard, passing a group of kindergartners in the middle of their recess, swinging from a set of monkey bars and running around the wood-chipped play area. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

The ones closest to her crept to the bars of their cages, and a few extended their arms, reaching for her. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

I shake my head and hold up my granola bar. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

If she had reached her hand through the bars, she could have touched it. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes I can almost fall asleep while sitting on the bar stool at her kitchen counter and listening to her, and I wonder if I could do that here today. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the power went out, he cursed and fussed and left the apartment in a fury, heading for a bar where he could sit in cool air, sipping cold drinks. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I grab the safety bar above me and hold on for dear life. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

Bronwyn obliged, reaching through the cage to grab the boy’s arms, then pulling him off his feet and up against the bars. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

He carried a jug to the bar, walking with a strange and not unpleasant grace. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

He turned it upside-down and set it on the bar with a dull thump of finality. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

For these two people who don’t know me from a bar of soap to invest themselves in my semi-irrational desire to find out what happened to my childhood hero? Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

The bar slipped and its upper end crashed against his forehead. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Hoo slammed the reservations book shut, pressed a hand against the pain in his ample stomach, unwrapped a chocolate bar, and devoured it quickly before acid etched another ulcer. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I left the bodega, I had a plastic bag stuffed full of ice cream—mint chip and chocolate and cherry vanilla and caramel swirl and Heath bar crunch. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

Once inside the dimly lit bar, Dell found a seat. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

It looked just past her face and didn’t turn its head when she tweeted and purred through the bars of the little cage. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m sorry I took you out to a bar that got busted. I feel like a tool.” Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

Chronicler watched him covertly, finding it hard to believe that this man humming to himself and cutting sausage could be the same person who had stood behind the bar just minutes ago, dark-eyed and terrible. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

On the block then were just one grocery, two small restaurants, a custom tailor, and a bar. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

The woman who'd let us in was mixing drinks behind a handsome free-form bar which was large enough to have graced a night club. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

“When you have a bar mitzvah,” she lectures, “you’re supposed to be surrounded by the people who care about you. They won’t fit in your house.” Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

But when I turned the key over and examined it more closely, I saw that it actually appeared to be wrapped in silver foil, like a stick of gum or a bar of chocolate. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Dancing, I looked over Brett's shoulder and saw Cohn, standing at the bar, still watching her. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

The bar struck the Lion fair between the eyes. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

He held a metal bar to the strings of the neck and plucked the strings over the belly. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

The last iron bar, as he broke it out, cut the brawn of his hand to the bone. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then we heard a whisper from outside the bars. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

“I was thinking of maybe taking over my dad’s bar.” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

I click on it, before slamming my space bar to pause the video and spinning around to fill them in. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

There was a stir of restlessness along the bar, shoulders hunched, legs were uncrossed. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m not sure where all the instrument sounds came from at the bar, but still. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

The law also requires that states permanently bar individuals with drug-related felony convictions from receiving federally funded public assistance. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

She stood at the corner of the bar and looked out over the empty tavern. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Another bar ran along the length of the Berg’s lower edge, with just enough space for Mark to slip his arm through it. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

Two sailors barred her way, and she said, “Down there! The prisoner has got loose! Get help!” The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I grip the bars and shut my eyes tight. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

I served hundreds of tennis balls and hit more against the wall till about six, then went to the bar. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Darlene put the cage on the bar and uncovered a huge, scrofulous rose cockatoo that looked, like a used car, as if it had passed through the hands of many owners. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Only Fred Carter had the guts to belly up to the bar. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

At night, we were able to talk with them through the barred door. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Chester leaned his black little head up against the bars of the cricket cage. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Anyway, we went down-stairs to the bar and had a whiskey and soda. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

One tiny monkey with yellow frames around his eyes pressed against the bars of his cage to watch me take the Pigman’s Wrist. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

After months behind bars, it didn’t look as though Bobby could emotionally survive for much longer. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Aunty Ifeoma stopped speaking to Papa after he barred Papa-Nnukwu from coming to his house, and a few years passed before they finally started speaking to each other. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

“You still ready to leave Eagle Point?” asked Wednesday, at the breakfast bar. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

She said Poppy was acting fairly calm behind bars. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

I yanked off the steel bars and flung the door open with a clang. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

Three times a week from some bar, supermarket, or tire-and-tool-cluttered service station, I put calls through to New York and reestablished my identity in time and space. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

He even claims he’s coming to my bar mitzvah tomorrow. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

He handed me the whole pack of rice candy plus a Hershey’s bar. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

There weren’t even any NPCs behind the front counter or the snack bar. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Beyond the bars, framed by the high, square window, slides a small patch of sky. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

I sat down on the curb and leaned my chin in my hands, stared at the bar across the street. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

The above-ground Zebra Room was a bar & grill, set in the middle of a busy commercial strip. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

She pried herself loose from the bar before the bartender could stop her and came over to Ignatius, who was huddled against the stage as if it were a warm stove. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

In a room off the bar there was a good jazz band playing. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

As he and Rondell climbed onto the bus, I went back to the waiting area and bought candy bars and Cokes and chips from the vending machines. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

June finds them at some point and steals Henry away to gab at the bar. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Across the street and on the corner there was a bar and restaurant. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

He looked up to see a strange, new face on the other side of the bars. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Go into any shops, bars . . . ?” “I spoke to a man in the station!” The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

We sat on high stools at the bar while the barman shook the Martinis in a large nickelled shaker. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

‘Then stop gaping at me through the bars, and open the gate!’ said Merry. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

He probably thinks the bar mitzvah is off, and he’s here to offer consolation. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

Melville was carrying two thick binders, and as we sat at the bar, he laid them before me. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

“Salad bar in the center. Specialty foods on the right. It changes every day. Looks like Asian food today. Probably soggy egg rolls and questionable sushi.” Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

I lived in Atlanta, Georgia, but I had been admitted to the Alabama bar a year earlier after working on some cases in Alabama concerning jail and prison conditions. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Teresa gripped the bars now, her knuckles white, her face pressed against the iron rods. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Between the beds was a broad damp stain on the carpet in the center of which lay a bar of soap and damp wads of lavatory paper. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

The first beat is usually the strongest, and in most music, most of the bars have the same number of beats. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

We loitered all afternoon in a dark little bar on Boylston Street, smoking cigarettes and drinking Irish whiskey. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Squirrels lived in the tree, and after weeks of tempting them with leftover breakfast scraps, Perry lured one off a branch onto the window sill and through the bars. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

I also noticed there was a mother and three kids at the back of the store filling up drinks at the serve-yourself refreshment bar. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

Alice didn’t show the slightest reaction at first, but made sure the glasses were safely on the bar before she turned round. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

They remained staring at the object on the bar for another silent moment, as if trying to commit it to memory. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Shady took up his rag and wiped the bar top to a shine. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

She was barred from taking a train or car and had to fly, making the trip much more expensive. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the time that I retained Walter Poliak, I was advised that I should also retain someone who was not connected with the struggle, as that would positively influence the Transvaal bar. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

While Mrs. Reilly arranged her cake boxes on the bar, Ignatius spread his expansive nostrils and said, “My God, Mother, it smells awful. My stomach is beginning to chum.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I sit on the little balcony outside our room, my feet up against the metal bars. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

His mouth was open in a furious snarl, and his claws—no muffling here!—stretched themselves between the bars in a downward swipe. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

It was almost time for her shift at the bar to begin, but she took the train uptown anyway, and found herself outside a redbrick prewar building with a black awning and a doorman. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

A body flew over an unused bar at the back of the room, and disappeared from view. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I skipped going to the cafeteria and ate half a bar of chocolate as I made my way to our lunch spot. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

That’s why the jump to the regulation height high bar felt like a crazy daredevil move. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

In the heat of the party he exhibited his unusual masculinity on the bar, completely covered with tattoos of words in several languages intertwined in blue and red. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

What am I supposed to do with two bars of chocolate, Coby? Booked 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

I imagine that everyone benefited from your willingness to share the bars of soap your mother sent. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

I see her face between the bars of the barrier, determined, her lips pressed together. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

The glasses he’d washed had drained dry, so before going upstairs, he took them back to the bar. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

I counted out five U.S. dollars to pay for the steel tubing and bar stock we were to use that day. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

I know this because he winks at me, and it takes him all of thirty seconds to gather up his cigarettes and lighter from the bar and slip his coat on. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

She hadn’t moved and her face was still pressed against the bars with the same sad, forced smile on it. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

“I think,” he said quietly, “I think...I’ll have just one more of those candy bars. The same kind as before, please.” Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z

There were even clubs and bars where both white and black people went together. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

"Oh, that's different," one of them said and they began pushing a path to the bar. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Genie, she took me back to the bar and we had more ginger beer, but this time in those skinny champagne glasses. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

“Whenever I eat a GoFast bar,” Ben says, “I’m always like, ‘So this is what blood tastes like to mosquitoes.’” Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

I slid into my seat as Macy placed a bowl of chips on the table, and Mom handed me a chocolate bar from a company I’d never heard of. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

On a particular afternoon when I was slipping off the bar every time I tried to catch it, I sobbed to Aimee, “I’m never going to get it!” Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Max rose and went to a small window; a pale bar of sunshine fell across his white head. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Abbey perched on the bow, watching out for obstacles, while I tried to navigate by the lights of the shoreline: motels, mansions, RV parks, tiki bars. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

In bars, they stared silently at the TV in the corner. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every time Dad says bar mitzvah, he looks like he’s just taken a swig of vinegar. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

Still looking smug, she walked over to the bar and asked, “You guys want a drink?” From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Alex tries to imagine what they must look like: the prince and the First Son, the two leading heartthrobs of their respective countries, shoulder to shoulder on their way to the bar. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

She smells of Dove bar soap, and her skin is soft, like Kleenex tissue. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

He’d walked past his first gay bar, encountered his first drag queens. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

But when he took out the piece of tinder, it was no more than a stub, smaller than a candy bar. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Toby didn’t particularly want to hang out in a bar with his dad or Bo. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

“Welcome to the Waystone,” the innkeeper called out from behind the bar. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“I’m just putting it right here on the bar,” he said. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

It was beautiful, clearly lined and barred, and I picked it up, felt that it was an omen of grace and flight and tied it to the mast down inside the boat. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

"My lord," he blurted at Mormont as he swung open the iron bars, "there's been a bird, you must come at once." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

It was only then she realized that Kainene had come with her and was silently holding her as she shouted, “Leave me alone! Leave me alone!” at the bar owner, who backed away. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

He could snap chains round his chest simply by taking a big breath, and bend iron bars that it took two men to lift. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z

Before any decision could be taken about what to do, she squeezed through a break in the roof bars of her cage and van­ished in the night. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Metal bars run from the nose all the way down to green fins holding the ship off the ground. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

The place still reeked of smoke and beer and forgotten snack food, but there was no one dangling from the chin-up bar. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

I figured I’d ration the bars later, but for now we were going to enjoy them. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

Inside, she unfolded handkerchiefs, crisp white underwear, bars of Lux soap, and chocolate, and she marveled that they had reached her intact, even sent through the Red Cross. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Most of the bars and shops that had sprung up around it had shuttered their doors. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Why, yes, I seem to remember it was. At least there was a kind of bar that fitted across the handle. Is that what you mean?” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Mom and Dad came out of the Bar None Bar, they brought us each a long piece of beef jerky and a candy bar. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

I was the only guy at the bar with a bullet in their guts. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

At the Alcazar he inserted into scripts the names of popular products, bars, and restaurants, including the Cliff House, and for this received another stream of income. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

“With the exception of some rather irritating posturing in bars, I don’t know if I’ve ever had anyone actually leap to my defense before.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Early in the twentieth century, inmates who prized special bars sewn onto their uniforms for time served were humiliated when, as punishment, these symbols of accomplishment were removed. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Everybody has to look at those, and no one else decided to have a bar mitzvah. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

He tipped his fur cap and leaned slightly on the bar of his postage cart as he rolled it away from the Vanderbeeker brownstone and down the street. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

No wonder Link wants to have a bar mitzvah. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

Judy and I sat on the wall by the zoo entrance as we shared a candy bar and a Coke. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he was younger, he’d sit at the bar and eat tater tots or grilled cheese while his dad laughed and held court for hours at a time. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

I get afraid when I see the gymnasts at a circus, sailing from bar to bar high above the ground, with no net to save them if they fall. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I put one of the candy bars back. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

A bottle was set on the bar before some. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

With a bar of soap, I fashioned a thick ball of lather. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

When we met him at one of his stores he always had a sundry basket of treats for her, trifles from his shelves, bars of dark chocolate, exotic tropical fruits, tissue-wrapped biscotti. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

I asked a bearded man sitting at the bar if Dylan Thomas was there. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

The boy noticed that the owner of the bar stood nearby, listening attentively to their conversation. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

It wrapped around trees and crept through bars of the playground. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

As much as possible I wanted this meal to be bar code-free. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

The site beeps once before displaying a single search bar. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

The whole time I’d been jumping and flipping and swinging from the low bars, she’d been watching me from across the room. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

The walls of this corridor were a series of barred arches, through which rain and icy winds blew in bad weather. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Vast as the Pacific was around us, suddenly, between us, it seemed a very narrow moat, with no bars or walls. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

All others, young and old alike, they barred from sitting. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were some Mexicans from the section gang drinking beer at a table in the corner and three Navajos slouching on stools at the bar. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

“He’ll only let me out once a day to eat and use the bathroom. I managed to get the key to the window bars, but if he sees I’m gone, I’m dead.” King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

There was not as yet any sign of a path, and the trees seemed constantly to bar their way. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Morales assured me that when he heard the rapping, he’d take the chessboard off the bars and place it under his bunk. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he arrived beside the men he put one foot on the lowest fence rail, rested his elbows on the second bar and looked into the pasture too. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

“That’s because there’s too many bars around here. Too much competition. What this neighborhood needs is a decent diner.” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

It stretches across the exercise yard and reaches through the high, barred windows. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

The hustlers at this time were in the daily six o’clock congregation, having their favorite bars all over Harlem largely to themselves. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes it was just half my candy bar. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

Coming back from a shoulder injury, I’d managed to turn in a polished performance on bars, my nemesis. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

She had no idea what was happening when she suggested one of my main hangouts, the bar of the La Marr-Cheri on the comer of 147th Street and St. Nicholas Avenue. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

They had only been in the bar for fifteen minutes, but during that time, the big blue sky had become a big gray sky. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

“Wonderful,” the sheriff groaned, stabbing his teeth through a hunk of the ice cream bar. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

My bar mitzvah folder under my arm, I edge my way to the stage. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

One passage had thick iron bars driven deep into the surrounding stone, blocking the way. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

He gives me a strange look and pushes himself down the hallway as I press against my mother’s arm, which feels like a bar across my shoulders. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

I glare and stuff a breakfast bar and a lunch bar into my backpack. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

Spread across the road was a metal bar, which we skirted. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

He did the same thing with about three other candy bars until he finally just grabbed a random one from the shelf, walked up, and set it on the counter. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

We went into the bar and sat on high stools and drank a whiskey and soda. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

The slope of the bars of honey-colored sunlight decreased; they slid up the bushes, passed over the green candle-like buds, moved up toward tile canopy, and darkness thickened under the trees. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

As soon as they arrived, the entire bar went into a sort of practiced precision. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

He swam languorously out to the raft, held on a moment, and swam languorously back to where he could stand on the sand bar. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

When he saw me approaching, he waved me over and wandered back to his usual perch at the bar, clapping me affectionately on the shoulder as he walked by. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

He jerked his head from side to side, hand tight on the tiller bar. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

He expected both of them to go tumbling into the creek, which was all right as long as they didn’t scrape any oyster bars. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

A little progress bar blinks in the corner of my vision while I run one of my hacks on him. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

She reaches her hands out and presses her dirty face to the bars. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

He was sitting on a tall stool at the bar, an old man with eyes like diamonds and the body of a driftwood scarecrow. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Finally, when she took hold of its bright red bar with both hands, it gave in and allowed itself to be steered by the triumphant naga woman. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Aaron drank off the last swallow of his beer and pushed the empty mug away from himself on the bar. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Sherman picked up the bar and pondered the wounded piece of steel. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

He turned down the street to Junior’s bar. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

He shoved a bucket of fresh water into the cell and slammed the bars shut. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Harry hissed, springing up and pulling Dobby back onto the bed — Hedwig had woken up with a particularly loud screech and was beating her wings wildly against the bars of her cage. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

Chocolate cookies and chocolate bars, stacks of them. The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z

The pyramid’s main doors were closed and barred at sunset. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“Then maybe we should call the baby Verdi,” Donald muses, just as the opera surges to its closing bars, and the tape ends with a click. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

A small white dog barks at me through the bars of a gate. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

A policeman, bored and tired, dragged his nightstick along the bars of an iron fence. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were twenty-five or thirty miles from the bars on the other side of the reservation boundary line. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Olive removed her leaden shoes and performed a gravity-defying gymnastics routine on a set of parallel bars. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

From Thursday through Sunday, in the evenings, he goes to a local bar, a gray stucco building with plywood over the windows and a gravel parking lot. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

The rest of the bar had gone quiet now; everyone stood and began gathering slowly around. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

He made a row of bold vertical stripes topped with thin loops, like bars and razor wire. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

He puts a hand on my elbow, and then turns to the bar, and all of a sudden I’m holding an honest-to-God martini glass full of something green. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

The sidewalk sprouted trees; the bars on windows were replaced with flower boxes. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

“Major Nwogu is calling you. He is at the bar down the road.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

I take out a long bar of wax from Dain’s desk, one end blackened. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The minibar in Jule’s room stocked potato chips and four different chocolate bars. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

With a baby still tugging at my breast, a girl just filling out, and my young-man son behind bars, I wasn’t ready to enter His Kingdom. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Chaol Westfall stopped short when he found the assassin dangling from the beam of the bedroom doorway, repeatedly hoisting herself up to touch her chin to the wooden bar. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Before we got busy he pulled out a hash pipe and a piece of hash the size of a candy bar. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

He leapt to the bars again to meet her. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

He slammed his tankard down onto the bar, causing a small geyser of something frothy to erupt from the top. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

There stood all the cows, waiting to be let through the bars. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Johnny squeezes her hand, gets her another drink from the bar, her fifth, although he doesn’t know this. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

The first time I kept falling off the bars, mixing up my skills on the beam, and doing little hops on landing from my tumbling passes on the floor. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

A couple more apples, some bananas, a few granola bars, and most of a pouch of beef jerky. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

He said nothing in 1943 when talk at the bar turned ugly. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

There was something incredibly foreboding about the place—massive and silent, adorned with the empty black frames of barred or meshed windows and broken-down metal doors. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

Mulch had to stifle a giggle as he dropped the last two bars down the hole. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

The portcullis was down and the gates barred, so she turned aside to a postern door. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

"At the end of the bar. Don't look now. I been saving him for ya." The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

Was he going to be barred from the room? The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

We stopped in front of a cage with bars, only about three feet from where we stood. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

One night during his marriage, Volpe went to a bar in the town of New Hope, a gay mecca in Bucks County. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

Catherine went along the lake to the little hotel to see Ferguson and I sat in the bar and read the papers. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

A very bright full moon was shining in the sky and by its light Michael examined the iron grating and looked through the bars. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

I didn’t even bother to go back out to the bar. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

His laptop is set up on the breakfast bar with a USB cord plugged into his camera. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Within, they found a pair of iron bars the size of saplings, with post holes in the ground and metal brackets on the gate. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

But near the top, where the rocket climbs higher than the swings and the trees, moonlight hits the metal bars all the way up to the peak. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

When he was eighteen, Dutchy moved to Minneapolis, where he took any work he could find playing piano in bands and bars. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

The bald man behind the bar gathered up the coins and deftly poured wine into Skarpi’s wide clay cup. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The fourth struck one of the cage’s wooden bars, and quivered for an instant before catching fire. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Lee Wei has us all lined up on the stage in high heels while Dale, the bouncer/owner, sits at the bar sipping on a tall boy. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

I overheard a few comments as I walked to the bar, and realized that yester- day most of them had seen me wrapped in bandages, presumably with terrible wounds underneath. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Dim yellow light through The rear window of the bar showed a vast pale form crouching upright and gnawing at a haunch of meat which it held in both hands. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

He didn’t like Mae behind the bar when a crowd of men were there. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We’ll go to the Gardner Museum. And the piano bar at the Ritz.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Sweeney pointed to the clock above the bar, held in the massive and indifferent jaws of a stuffed alligator head. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

Jule peered into the sack he held out: four Crunchie bars, Hula Hoops, Swedish Fish, two bottles of seltzer, and a bag of salt and vinegar potato chips. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

The smith’s prentice grabbed the bar with both hands and brought it down across the mercenary’s back like a man splitting wood. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

She lifted the bar, set it adde, and pulled open die heavy oak door. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

As they came closer to New London and the busy Thames River, Route 1 became increasingly cluttered with restaurants, bars, quick food chains and shopping plazas. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

The first time in my life I ever got a candy bar all to myself, and I couldn’t even take a bite. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

I let this sound wash over me as I hold onto the bars and close my eyes. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

Ivy went back to her family’s little campsite and looked around for her pillow, but there were only a couple of cereal bar wrappers and some bottles of water. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

He never will get completely over the memory of the bars. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Stores also use the codes to Keep track of what the-f have in stock. h>ut there is no reason bar codes couldn't give us more information. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

She rejected him with an inflexible and unmistakable determination, and she barred the door of her bedroom forever. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

And as for making an idiot out of myself, I took care of that long before the bar mitzvah could even get started. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

From the tiny barred window of their cell the women could see them, so close that if they had been able to reach out they could have touched them. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Marco waves at the woman behind the bar, who then brings them two glasses of Bordeaux, leaving the bottle on the table next to a small vase holding a yellow rose. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

With the newly hatched salmon in the Miramichi that spring of 1954 were young of previous hatchings, salmon a year or two old, young fish in brilliant coats marked with bars and bright red spots. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

She opened the cabinet under the bar and gave George a package wrapped in brown paper. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

He rolled over the bar and skidded down the inside of the chain link, not bothering to look for footholds. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Cole crouched and set the Snickers bar on a rock, then turned and retreated to the cabin. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

Her smell...a sweeter version of the bar they’d just left. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

When she reached her bedchamber, she barred the door and took off her dress. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The bars were still over the door, which was good news. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

He starts a run, reaches a midpoint in the second bar where there should be a set of complex harmonics, stops, and goes back to begin over, dissatisfied. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was perched on top of the monkey bars, and I was walking along the woodchips. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

He made his way just abaft of the cabin, then stood squinting up at the Susan Marie’s guys and stays and at the peaks of her stabilizer bars. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

The light flowed across the bar, scattered a thousand tiny rainbow beginnings from the colored bottles, and climbed the wall toward the sword, as if searching for one final beginning. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Otto preferred his mashed into milk and I had mine as is, gulping down three cinnamon-flavored bars in as many minutes. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

Rabbi Gold says becoming a bar mitzvah is taking some of that history on my shoulders. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

In the words of Orde-Lees, they were stuck “like an almond in the middle of a chocolate bar.” Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

I toss the candy bar back to him. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

The shadows of bars lay across the tiny patch of light; instead of brightening the cell, the wan rays made it appear only more grim and closed in. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

I walked up to the glass display cases and looked over the rows of gum and candy bars laid out on the shelves. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

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

With the sheets hanging from the bars like curtains? Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were, I noticed, half a dozen other pasty, middle-aged men who liked to gather around the monkey bars, and together we formed a small but decidedly creepy community. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

Kelton grabs the remote and finds the local news channel—except now the entire channel is just color bars. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Another time, they went to a gay bar in Philadelphia with a friend who was gay. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

Ruby is watching me from between the bars of her cage, and this box is the way out. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

The room was dark except for a faint, yellow light filtering through the bars of the window. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

By then she had retired from the concert stage, following a farewell tour that began with a sold-out concert in Washington’s Constitution Hall, where she had once been barred from singing. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

‘It is also as good a way of saying “here we are” as I can think of, bar shouting.’ The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Everyone followed the pointing finger to a kid leaning against the monkey bars, a big kid, chewing on a beef stick. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

The cells were different, too, with doors of solid steel instead of iron bars. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

A large bar of Belgian chocolate, a name brand, better than any I’ve seen since the war started. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

The spider scrambled to the cattle guard and disappeared between the bars. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

Martin stretches his arms up against the frame of the doorway like he’s hanging from monkey bars, and the top of his uniform rides up even higher. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

Then Mom and Layla had hugged, and Mom had wiped her eyes, all while Ivy watched from the doorway, half a granola bar stuffed in her mouth. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“So these two drabs,” he held a pair out for my inspection, “Could have come from the same bar, right?” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The third time, as he came up into the shallow water, I walked backward across the sand bar so he would not see me, and pulled on the string with all my strength. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Perhaps he would go into one of the bars where the grown-ups sat well into the night. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

Joey’s voice came down from the high monkey bar: “Rats don’t cry.” Fourth Grade Rats 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every gate was closed and barred and heavily guarded, though; no one was allowed to enter or depart the castle without Lord Bolton’s leave. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

In Washington later that day, a judge barred the Washington Post from printing any more Pentagon Papers stories until the court could rule on the government’s case against the paper. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Only two states—Maine and Vermont—permit people to vote while serving sentences behind bars. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

They walk to the bar at the Union Hotel. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

I snagged the remaining half bar of chocolate Jenna had given me from my backpack and broke off a square for each of us. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

Then Bast was there, barreling into the mercenary with one shoulder, striking him with such force that the man’s body shattered one of the heavy barstools before slamming into the mahogany bar. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I’m having a bar mitzvah on Saturday...or maybe I’m not. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

Now the other thing about this cover is that Judy’s got her elbows up on the bar and there’s a cigarette burning in her hand. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had to find the flow and get in sync with the bar, and I had to let it control me. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

The women were expected to sit silently, separated from the men by a bar and low curtain. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Catelyn gazed up at the bars and wondered how deep the rust went and how well the portcullis would stand up to a ram and whether it ought to be replaced. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

He scrambled beneath me, making angry sounds and striking my face as he tried to use the bar. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

She wished she’d kept that bar of gold so she could hit him in the face with it. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

On it were two thin hand towels, a half bar of Ivory soap. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Long hallways, with iron bars from floor to ceiling, ran from the door into the dim center of the building. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

The postmaster looked out between the bars of his golden grill. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Kaz helped him along, seizing the man’s arm and driving it through the space between bars, all the way up to the shoulder. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

A long scream sounded and Bigger dropped the paper, jumped to his feet, and ran to the barred door to see what was happening. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

First, in addition to inviting skilled Greeks to immigrate to the capital, the Ptolemies barred native Egyptians from spending more than twenty days in Alexandria at a time. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

The bottle on the shelf behind the bar was still full, but I supposed it was like any craving. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

Frankie tightened his grip on the metal bar as someone down the hall shouted, “Stop!” Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

The bar’ hogs weren’t any more vicious than the boars, but they’d hang with the sows and help them protect the pigs and shoats, when generally the boars pulled off to range alone. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

The smith’s prentice shifted his grip on the iron bar selfconsciously. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Nok lay on the floor of her stall with her face pressed to the bars. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

Longshoremen, or fences for them, would come into the bars selling guns, cameras, perfumes, watches, and the like, stolen from the shipping docks. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

We danced to a second song, and when we sat down again on the stools facing the pool table, our backs against the bar, he slid his arm behind me. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

“With the two of them behind bars, what happens to us?” Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

He had come home after working until four a.m. at the Pen and Pencil Club, the North End bar he owned. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

There were many of the regular customers draped around the bar. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Part of that wisdom is understanding what you were given—a city where gay bars are unremarkable, a soccer team on which half the players speak some other language. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

He drew from his pocket a rectangular bar wrapped in greaseproof paper and measuring about four inches by one. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

We talked about how Mr. Gardner doesn’t let us have snacks in class but always sneaks bites of the protein bars he keeps in his top drawer. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

He looked at her now, peering through the bars, his jeering face one more barrier, after padlock and chain. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

He held his hand higher and tightened his grip, and they could see the tremor in his fingers exaggerated by the bar. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

She could hear nothing but Basta’s shouting, and she ran back toward him, helpless but wanting to strike him through the bars, right in his bellowing face. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

They reminisced that three years ago no one would have even thought of locking their doors at night, let alone barring them. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“Never mind that!” she cried, slapping her hand on the bar. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

He asks a female bar buddy to take Lourdes to the public hospital. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

“Bottoms up,” I say, then I down it in a single gulp, leaving the empty glass on the bar. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

“Make sure you bar this, and don’t let anyone in. Certain death can make a man act in unusual ways, forgetting right and wrong.” Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

When nothing was forthcoming from the mercenary, he looked around at the other men at the bar. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Why are all these people coming to my bar mitzvah when everybody knows full well what I did? Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

He ducked, and the heavy bar crashed harmlessly into the hood of the Chevy. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The bar where I come from played music all the time to try and drown out the Noise.” The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

The two men exchanged some words in Arabic, and the bar owner seemed irritated. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Just before his army physical, he ate a fistful of candy bars; thanks to the consequent soaring blood sugar, he failed the physical. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

Then I heard her saying, "Why hello, little man. How lovely to see you. You have come for your chocolate bars, have you not? They are all ready for you. Do come in." The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

Had a midnight bar mitzvah in the basement of an abandoned building. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

I’M standing in Brent’s Drugstore picking out Mother’s Lustre Cream and a Vinolia soap bar, while Mr. Roberts works on her prescription. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

I shrug and pull out the granola bar in my lunch. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

Maybe that's why you have bar mitzvahs at thirteen—it's the perfect time to start exploring who you are. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

She deserves to be here, caged behind iron bars, trapped in her own jungle, left to stew in the memories. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

It’s supposed to cool and set for several hours before the so-called treat gets decorated with pistachios and coconut, then cut into something like bar cookies. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

He stops fights, ejects drunks, soothes hysteria, cures headaches, and tends bar. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

The place was packed, so Dad asked if they could sit at the bar, just for lunch. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

It turned out to be the exercise bar. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

A friend got shot in a bar one night, and he and some others beat up the assailant. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Armed with iron bars and sledges, the companions hurried back to the cottage and, while the enchantresses looked on curiously, Taran raised his hammer. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

The inner room, where Guenever slept had a window with iron bars. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

The stranger, a young man wearing a black suit, white shirt, and bow tie, set his briefcase on the bar and asked Shady for a glass of water. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

I did just okay on the uneven bars. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

But when I went in Brother Maceo wasn't among them and I pushed to the bar, deciding to wait over a beer. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m sure she must’ve been secretly pleased that she’d pushed me beyond my comfort zone that day, because I easily circled the high bar. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

The single book worked its way down the line like a candy bar on a wrapping machine. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

Grab the bars to the stalls and swing. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z

“Hallowfell was hundreds of miles away, Bast,” Kvothe said wearily as he wandered to the other side of the room and moved behind the bar. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Two guards sat outside the door, and another two waited by the window, which was covered by iron bars. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe here, Magdalys thought, gazing at the laughing card players and the scattered smaller groups chatting at the bar behind them. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

The fat man tending the bar rolled tobacco and stared at the back of Ridgeway’s head. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

More men were knocked down by the iron bar. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

I walked over to the shower cell and looked through the bars. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

My mom had already disappeared into her office, leaving the newspaper behind at the bar. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

I say, “Like a Mounds bar, but they taste different.” Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

Trina is grabbing a few last chip bags and candy bars through the busted cover of a vending machine. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

Ever since I did that interview with ReelTok, everybody knows about my bar mitzvah. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

There probably hasn’t been a bar mitzvah in this town since the beginning of time. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

This time, I lingered out by the bar, and then, when the flapper girl grabbed me, I joined her dancing in the mosh pit. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“When I was a child, I stole a Crunch bar from a gas station,” Laura Friendly began, taking a seat on the corner of the desk. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

Only in 1958, when he had stepped from behind the bar of another Zebra Room, would my grandfather have the leisure to remember his youthful dreams of roulette wheels. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Maxim was safe in his dressing-room, and the way through was barred against him. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Just then one of the dancing little bits of light from the lantern jumped between the bars of the gate, and Laura saw long, shaggy, black fur, and two little, glittering eyes. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

We did have one glass of beer each at a fairly respectable-looking bar, convincing, or seeming to convince the bartender that we were old enough by a show of forged draft cards. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

The grey walls, the blue bars, the strip searches, the showers behind bars watched by guards and cameras. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

She ran to her cell’s door and wrapped her fingers around the bars. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

“As long as there’s a snack bar without monsters.” The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

In the morning he could hardly wait to go out and look at the canoe in daylight, but his father wanted help clearing up in the bar after the busy evening. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

She got up and walked out to the bar. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

A window with a screen, but no bars. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

Martín and Brian sat at the bar area next to the kitchen to watch TV, flipping from MMA to basketball to hockey to baseball without settling on anything for more than three minutes. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

The guards now lifted the heavy bars of the doors and swung them slowly inwards grumbling on their great hinges. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Don’t know if I told you—they cut my hours back at the plant, and that old bar brings in diddly. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Several cages had been toppled, their barred metal doors swinging in the morning breeze. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Although she was a former softball player who had wrestled the controls in airplanes in the worst weather conditions, she could not pull her body weight up to the chin-up bar. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z

He was waving his arm madly through the bars, trying to get my attention. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

They parked the big rigs on a gravel bar, unloaded the ATVs, and continued toward the bus in the smaller, more maneuverable machines. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

While she was doing so, rattling the grate bars and clattering the lids, Mrs Compson began to call her from the head of the stairs. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

For one week all of Hyper Base had stopped dead, barring some paper work on the subsidiary asteroids of the group. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

Caitlin thought you were trying to hurt me because sometimes you pull people off the monkey bars. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Certainly I wouldn’t want anyone who looks like me handling my children’s toys or bars of bathroom soap. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

The window had bars across it, but no glass. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

They never stopped laughing and talking like they were having a party as they knocked on the door and the second set of bars on the door was lifted from outside. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

At least the people out here don't have dysentery, I think—but if “not having dysentery” is where the bar is set, that’s pretty low. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

The padded door banged open and a young boy clicked into the bar, scraping the metal taps on his flamenco boots across the floor. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

By coincidence—or maybe it was an omen, the boy thought—he came to the bar he had entered on his first day there. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Claudia didn’t really mind too much when she saw the snack bar. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

She lounged in bars and went home with any man who bought her drinks. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

I got two dollars’ worth of change from this tiny liquor store that had bars on every window, walked over to a pay phone outside a bar playing old-school rock songs. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

“I want the cheese crackers and the peanut-butter crackers and an Oh Henry! bar. And also a pen. To write with.” Louisiana's Way Home 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

It’s like he’s on his way to a bar mitzvah. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z

The neighbors peered around the doorway, and a line of little boys clambered on the window bars and looked through. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

The four old people, two at either end of the bed, propped themselves up on their pillows and stared with anxious eyes at the candy bar in Charlie’s hands. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z

I got to my feet next to the window bars and ducked around the side of the house to meet Mong and Rondell. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

I take more photos: the ongoing handball match, the monkey bars where we played Gladiator, the long yellow slide, the swings. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

I had to be willing to let the bar swing me around. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Don Walter cuts them out and puts them next to the others above his desk, and Don Lucho tapes some behind the cafe bar. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

A few Negroes, who could not enter the white bar, were served from the back. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Four grabs a bar with each hand and pulls himself up, easy, like he’s sitting up in bed. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

Fred and Chico danced and hopped and laughed and almost forgot about the prison bars between them. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

“You went out to dinner every night. You go to the bar for drinks. You’re going to the spa! You work, but then when you have any free time, you don’t spend it with us!” Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

Even from the car she could see the padlock and the chain that was twisted around and through the bars. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

Dustfinger went over to the grating and put his hand through the bars. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

I watched his eyes as he set the beer before me and slapped the bar with his enormous hand for his money. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bast struggled furiously to free himself, but Kvothe stood behind the bar, arm outstretched, motionless as steel or stone. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Frank took out his last sodas and some granola bars from the train ride and shared them with Percy. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

On a low wooden table set against the wall of the house was a paraffin globe lamp and ranged around it a rudimentary bar. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

A torn yellow streamer tied to one of the iron bars wafted up in the breeze, waving the word caution. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

She was sitting in the snack bar now, with her back to the valve. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

What this technique does is eke out as many as possible of the sympathetic resonances, or harmonics, latent in the reverberating strings, thus imitating the natural harmonics found in plucked strings and struck metal bars. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

He snapped the bar of hash in half and gave me some. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

Her foot slipped on a slick rung, and Celaena barely stifled her cry as she gripped the bars, cursing as her knee banged into the gate. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

He scrubs the bar of soap against me. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Behind smudgy glass hung chocolate bars, licorice whips and lemon drops. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Most times, he stares out the window past the safety bars to his own world. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

Barrel's eyes narrowed as he pressed his huge chest across the bar, looking suddenly sad. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Down the trail, out of the darkness of the bush and into the light of the slanting bars of sunlight, joggling along with his peculiar nautical roll, came—Ch. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Laura passed him a handful of candy bars, and he filled his pockets with them. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

I groaned and dropped my head forward onto the old wooden bar. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

“Hold this bar while I cut it,” Will whispered. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

It raises a lump in my throat the size of a bowling ball, and I start to wonder if I’m going to be able to mumble a whole bar mitzvah past it. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

And no seafaring men of Phaiakia perceived Odysseus passing through their town: the awesome one in pigtails barred their sight with folds of sacred mist. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

But in every case, he will tell you that he can’t forget those bars. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

The judge issued a temporary restraining order, barring the Times from printing more of the Pentagon Papers until the trial was concluded. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Elleven, Blackbird Ordinary, Baoli, bars with swimming pools and fountains, beautiful men, lights flashing everywhere overhead, beneath your feet, in the corner of your eye. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

"No matter how vulgar a hotel is, the bar is always nice." The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

The only bonding our coaches intended on us doing was with the vault table, the uneven bars, the balance beam, and the training floor. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

She reached into her backpack and pulled out a thick bar of milk chocolate. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

She looked across the yards and saw that Florry was still staring at her through the bars of the fire escape. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some shelves had rows of untouched chip bags and candy bars, all priced like they were endangered, precious goods. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Granola bars and fruit snacks and juice boxes overflowed from a little basket near the door. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I picked out a candy bar from the rack on the counter, but I can’t tell you which one because I don’t remember. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

Bast stopped in his tracks and dutifully gathered it up in both hands before walking the rest of the way to the bar. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

It took a few weeks, working on and off, in between patrolling the bars. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

He regenerates a good fifty yards behind me, with a new life bar. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Or it might be that a food is fun to eat—like ridged potato chips or cereal bars. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Jules turned the mug in her hands, slyly pointing to the wall behind the bar. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

That night, after Papa had shut up the newsstand, Chester was hanging through the gilded bars of his cage. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

He mashed his forehead to the bars, scanning the stable. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

I put the elastic strap back on the bar, then we jumped out and slammed the door. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

She continues to run around the outside of the caged room, as if maybe the iron bars won’t be there the next time around. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

The windshield on the Bomber wasn’t like the new 1963 cars, it had a big bar running down the middle of it, dividing it in half. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Something had reminded her; maybe it was the people in the bar talking about the Gallup Ceremonial coming in two weeks. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

And he stood up to go to the bar. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

An argument could break out at any moment—over lost car keys or bars of soggy soap or burned toast. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

Let’s say that a tough guy and a not-so-tough guy exchange words in a bar, which leads to a fight. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

The lights passed fleetingly across the faces of couples dancing, teenagers chatting in corners, some old guys nursing drinks at the bar, and waitresses working the floor. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

My mother wraps her fingers around the bars of my cell. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

I'd let my mind drift and soon it was me behind bars as the snotty kid in Jail Bait saying, "I never thought that carrying a gun would lead to this!" Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

Maybe he would just walk and walk and walk until the warmers and the candy bars ran out and then sit down and never get up again. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

They are mostly poor sections with cafes, bars and businesses of all sorts alongside cluttered residences. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

One year I had chosen to give up the radio, and another, candy bars. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

There are bars on the ground floor windows, not because we’re criminals or anything like that, but so no one busts in and steals from a bunch of kids who’ve already lost enough. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Later the ceiling turned to wooden planks, and I could hear voices above us and the creaking of footsteps, as if we were walking under some kind of bar. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

Once in a while when I got too far off the beaten path, he would come around and cram a bar of soap in my pocket. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The line-up at the bar was silent now, dark faces with a courteous lack of expression. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

The doorway was empty, the chin-up bar was empty, the couch was empty. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Caleb was the first to bound up the steps and out into the light when Mr. Lucas undid the iron bar and together we heaved the root cellar doors open. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

Some of the inmates had been leaning against their bars, talking; they stopped when I came into view. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

In one city, a famous gangster robbed a bank of five thousand dollars and spent the whole lot on candy bars that same afternoon. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z

Several groups of people do leave the bar, but I see no signs of Archie. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

And once, when I bit into a candy bar and saw how lumpy it was, how full of secret dark spots and creamy goo, I sacrificed that as well. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Suddenly, he flipped the mattress off the bed, uncovering the bars that held the mattress in place. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

Moss waved goodbye to his friends, then swung a leg over the top bar of his bike. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

To her left, her campaign laptop is open to an indecipherable page of data and bar graphs. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Reggie presses a button on the computer, and paragraphs of text appear under the “MicroScan” bar at the top of the screen. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

A bar mitzvah is a Jewish thing, and Dana is Jewish. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

They were still inside the castle, with every gate closed and barred and the battlements thick with sentries. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I hung around in Small’s and the Braddock bar so much that the bartenders began to pour a shot of bourbon, my favorite brand of it, when they saw me walk in the door. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Its catchy tune is in 4/4 time - that is, it has a steady marching pulse of four principal beats per bar - and it would be written or printed out thus. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Joe wandered quietly on plush carpeting through a maze of corridors, leading to a full cocktail bar, then a cigar shop, then a writing room, and then a library with oak paneling and heavy beams. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

A thousand captives watched through the wooden bars of their stockade as the horn was lifted high. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The manager walked around the bar, gripped their backpacks, and pulled James and Emily down from the bar stools. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Aimee explained bars were harder for me because I was so short and my hands were small. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

The museum restaurant wouldn’t open until eleven thirty and the snack bar wouldn’t open until after that, so they left the museum to get breakfast. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

We went in and sat at the breakfast bar, stared out the window at the bird feeder, and talked. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

Shelly’s eyes got as wide as saucers when I flew past the bar. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

Golden bars of light slant through the library’s windows. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

“Tell you what, I could really get used to this sight! Your face looks good behind bars. They’re just the thing to stop you from waving your knife around under anyone’s nose.” Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

“Stop being chicken. You can steer it Those legs’ll reach the turn bar easy. Just hold on to the rope and keep it steady.” One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

One, an excited creature with wings, began to throw itself against the bars, creating a ringing noise. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Mattie’s was a combination bar and grocery, the grocery aspect limited to a sparse selection of goods, soft drinks, bread, and canned foods for the most part. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

It'll be tricky to figure out how, though, because our doors are always locked, our window always barred, our guards always awake. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

Suddenly a cart laden with bleating lambs rolled past, and one of the smallest creatures wiggled through the wooden bars of its cage and tumbled to the street. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

He raised his voice and knocked his empty mug hollowly on the top of the mahogany bar. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The gold bar popped out of the ground just in time for her foot to hit it. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

II Jones was blindly running a sponge along the bar. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

She stepped back from the bars, disgusted, and the warriors snickered again in earnest. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

But after a brief stretch, the tunnel simply stopped with what looked like a sheet of metal barring the way. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

Except for the black bar Isagol had painted across her eyes, temple to temple, like a slim mask. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

She would say, “Khosrou, let’s have a race to see who can eat their candy bar first.” Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

A series of tall, barred windows runs down either side of the shell. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Axel wraps each hand around the fence bars. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Picturing the almond Hershey bar roof and the shutters made of cinnamon licorice sticks, Dicey did fall asleep. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

He stalked toward her, slashing at the air as if to cut a path through a wall of enemies, though no one tried to bar his way. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

In a large room adjacent to the main bar, the pilots of 367 and the pilots of 234 faced each other from opposite sides of the room. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The light has seeped from the sky by the time my sister gets back with bottles of water and chocolate bars. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

I’m stuffed-animaling the playground so well that after a while there’s only monkey bars left and one shape that’s coming toward me so I stop blurring and suck my sleeve more. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

And they weren’t watching him because he was so good at doing dismounts from the parallel bars. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z

The ravens began to scream noisily and fly at the bars, beating at the metal with night-black wings. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Slowly, he stepped up to the bars of his stall. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

In other words, the Court barred any victim of race discrimination by the police from even alleging a claim of racial bias under the Fourth Amendment. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Heat tears through my chest, and I smile as I grab the next bar. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

Human nature is the same—people at the South are the same as those at the North, barring the difference in circumstances. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

In fact, the bar he was working on looked unchanged, but he’d pulled enough iron from it that the cloud between his hands was nearly black. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Each time I was over at the ranch, working in the bar, I would tune in to classical music. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

He stops and pats the upper bar of the triangle frame. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

This particular candy bar had as much chance as any other of having a Golden Ticket. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z

The residents, for their part, assured Boori Ma that she was always welcome; they never drew the latch bars across their doors except at night. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

I had every worker in the place yanking the paper off those bars of chocolate full speed ahead from morning till night. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z

Look, let’s say you’re at the store, and all you want to buy is a candy bar, but there’s a real long line. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

While they worked, Inej barred the doors set into the arches on either side of the corridor. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

I run all the way to the monkey bars and I HIT Josh hard and yell, LET GO OF HIM! Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was, in fact, inferior to the Brasserie in every respect but one, which was that really very sizable shots of off-brand whiskey could be got at the bar for fifty cents each. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

When Dad saw me, he stopped talking and looked at me the way he did every time I had to track him down in a bar. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

What if someone she knows walks into the bar, recognizes her, and word somehow gets back to Lourdes’s mother in Honduras? Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

They might already be captured, or eating at the snack bar, completely unaware that we were being surrounded. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

Songololo had rummaged through my pack, grabbed a handful of granola bars and a pair of socks, and was now running across the clearing. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

She saw his death: knifed outside of a bar, past midnight with no witnesses. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Kote lowered his voice a bit, drawing the attention of the customers away from the guest and back to his side of the bar. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

She rushes or lingers at the salad bar, so that she can sit by Kat or even Sierra, who she doesn’t even like all that much. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

“The kids who are going to find the Golden Tickets are the ones who can afford to buy candy bars every day. Our Charlie gets only one a year. There isn’t a hope.” Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z

This guy, he was from the club, he was yelling at them because they kept bouncing in the snack bar, which was off-bounds for still bouncing. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“This is the way to the palace, and it is barred to common Folk.” The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Just before we get to the bar, I see Possibly Gay Jane hovering by a tall table. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

“Oh, I never guessed that you would be such a fun person to know. You were so hostile in that dreadful, tacky bar.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It starts at eight o’clock in that lounge off the main lobby. The bar with sofas.” Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

I didn’t feel ready to debut the skill in competition though, because I still wasn’t consistently catching the bar. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

People goggled through the bars at him as he lay, starving and weak, on a bed of straw. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

The girl’s brow furrows as she stares at him through the bars. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

So the beats are organized even further by grouping them into bars, or measures. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

Conversation at the nearby table had nearly ceased, and he knew that everything he said would be audible as far as the bar. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

“There,” he said, pointing his chin at the bridge, “they sleep over there, in alleys between the bars.” Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Matt finished dinner with a handful of peanuts and a chocolate bar. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He pushed through the doors in a sprint, skidding into the nearly empty bar. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Then Ignatius winked wildly at a woman leaning on the bar, a fortyish Latin who leered a terrifying response with a gold tooth or two. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Vega and Sunnshyne sat on the floor, munching granola bars, watching us build. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

He explains the basic equipment you need: a couple of magnets, some small iron bars, some iron pointers. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

“Only the key ingredient in my favorite candy bar,” he answered. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

Not the whole paw, of course—the bars were too close together. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

I got down from the barstool, dragging my forehead off the bar as I went. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

“This is why I’m having a bar mitzvah.” Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

Late spring sunlight shone through the breaks in the masonry and through the barred door, shocking in its brightness, and Scarlett blinked and covered her eyes at the suddenness of the glare. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

She offers to pay her share when the bill comes, as she’d done in the bar, but this time he insists on treating. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

I try to hum a few bars, my hand hovering over Apa’s back, but the song sticks inside my throat, refusing to come out. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

“Hey, guys. Does one of you want to get me a bag of potato chips or pretzels from the bar inside?” Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Treasure had been cemented into castle walls, in the form of gold bars, and the builders had been executed afterwards. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sun was behind the hills southwest of McCartys by then, and he walked with the long shadows back to the bar to find Harley. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

To ordinary citizens, the sentinel ships might have been protectors, but to Sefia, who had never been ordinary, they were prison guards, barring her escape. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

The fence has vertical black bars with pointed ends that bend outward, as if to skewer anyone who might try to climb over it. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Pastor Howard lit a kerosene lamp and set it on a long bar top. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

We weren’t showered with trophies or prize money, but we did each receive a chocolate bar, which was even better, as far as I was concerned. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

I forgot—I had to ditch it over the bar when the cop searched me earlier. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Where are we?” she whispered as they ducked through cramped stone tunnels, passing dark caves fitted with iron bars. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

My scowling friend was nowhere to be seen, but a cluster of folk were gathered around the bar, excitedly discussing something they saw there. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Now he understood why the owner of the bar had been so upset: he was trying to tell him not to trust that man. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was sitting in a bar very much like the other bars he had seen along the narrow streets of Tangier. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

She pulls a candy bar from her pocket and holds it out. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

It seemed as if the monkeys knew something had happened because they started making noise and pulling against the bars. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

I still went to the gym every day, but I didn’t touch the uneven bars. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

“Wouldn’t it be something, Charlie, to open a bar of candy and see a Golden Ticket glistening inside!” Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z

But I remember exactly what I said to him anyway, purposely loud enough for some people at the bar to hear me. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

I looked up and saw the black bar of the bridge span pass over us. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

Inside, at the Cova, I bought a box of chocolate and while the girl wrapped it up I walked over to the bar. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

And, like a grizzled extra scurrying out of the bar just before the climactic final shootout in a grade B Hollywood Western, Bud dropped a dollar onto the table and hurriedly split. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I reach for the iron grab bar and fling myself upward. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

Dimple was staring at the bar and the bookshelves, openmouthed. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Shady occupied himself by scrubbing down the bar top. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

Round spheres that resemble birdcages rise and descend while one or more aerialists move from within the sphere to without, standing on the top or hanging from the bars on the bottom. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Burton lowered his voice so the others in the bar couldn’t hear. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

I parked and found my way to the prison entrance and walked inside the main building with its dark corridors and gated hallways, where metal bars barricaded every access point. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

From the back of the room, two men in dark cloaks came toward the bar: one tall and proud, one short and hooded. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Many participles have turned into prepositions, such as according, allowing, barring, concerning, considering, excepting, excluding, failing, following, given, granted, including, owing, regarding, and respecting, and they don’t need subjects at all. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

When he did, he was hanging from the third-to-last rung like they were monkey bars, which he’d never been able to cross in his entire life. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

They had got my parents doing things like taking bus trips to factory outlets and playing a dice game called “bunko” and hanging around the piano bar at the Ramada Inn. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

When I came out, someone down on V-north was waving his arm madly out of his bars. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Wrestling wildly with the stout bars and bolts, he managed somehow to open the small iron door. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

The massive entrance was barred with iron gates, heavily padlocked. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

“Nearly half of the members of the metropolitan bar earned less than the minimum subsistence level for American families,” Jerold Auerbach writes of the Depression years in New York. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

I love the worn wood walls and the low light, and the quiet old men who sit around the bar in their nice pressed suits and talk about their street days. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

I looked at the boy and remembered my own hasty bar mitzvah in Kraków. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

Shady stashed something under the bar and mumbled words I didn’t catch. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

“I’d had my bar mitzvah. I was supposed to be an adult.” The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

While I was waiting for the pizza to come out of the oven, I saw Charles, alone, at the end of the bar. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

The metal bars feel like icicles against the backs of my thighs. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

But just then Bagman glanced over at the bar, saw Harry, and stood up. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Angela and Hilda chat at the far end of the bar with the lady serving beverages while Sergio talks to a tall guy with chest hair that puffs out from his tank top. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

They could hear the barman down below, rebolting the door of the bar, then climbing the stairs. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Behind the bar Mr. Thirsty, a skinny man with a large Adam’s apple, polished a glass. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

With those two thoughts in mind—neither of which really gave me the sort of lift I needed—I left the lunch bar and walked rapidly back to school. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

There were five or six customers all gathered in a group around the bar - one guessed from their appearance they were agricultural people of one sort or another - but otherwise the room was empty. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

Jackie came to visit and brought me Hershey bars and toothpaste. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

Natalie slid a yogurt container, a granola bar, and a water bottle into her backpack and hoisted it to her shoulder. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Knocked around for a while, tended bar, took the long route through college, got started late on a career. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

Then Irene started drinking and “dancing on chairs” in bars, finally leaving to live with a man. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

There’s a heap of rags, a few bars of soap, and a carton of baking soda in the indoor lavatory, Miss Larsen tells me, in case you want to freshen up. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

He took a cigar, leaving payment on the bar, and went to light it on a gas burner. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

Across the tops of these the rats fastened strong, light bars of metal, probably, Mrs. Frisby thought, from the Toy Tinker’s truck. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

While I have always enjoyed gardening, it was not until I was behind bars that I was able to tend my own garden. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

A stooping figure bearing a lantern appeared through the door behind the bar. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

He had wanted to enlist in the army, to fight in World War I, but he had been barred because of a recent surgery. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

She dug out a granola bar wrapper and a pen from underneath the seat, but no notebook. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

There were never any potato chips tucked into his food vaults, no chocolate bars or marshmallow figurines. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z