Mack pulls the chain hard, but Ruby refuses to move. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

They appreciated the extra money in their pockets, but they could not let go of the anger they harbored toward those men who reaped the same benefits but refused to join the union. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

She and my dad refused to take the decision out of my hands. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

When we voiced our concern, Haldar said it was not our business, and flatly refused to discuss the matter. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

“But we’re supposed to be six feet—” I start to say as she moves away from me, stretching our arms out but refusing to let go. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

The nurse refused, and Calder and Petra stood up to go. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

The rain had seeped into the garbage cans and in the alley there was the rank odor of wet refuse. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

I said that since neither she nor Dad could be bothered to work, and since she refused to leave Dad, the government was going to do the job of splitting up the family for her. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

“They seem to like it in prison. They have refused.” In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The attendees refused, saying that they had been invited in their private capacity, not as members of the ANC. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Less than half, however, believed it was wrong for neighborhoods to refuse to rent or sell homes to black people or for social clubs to refuse to admit them. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

The birth of a work of art is an intensely private experience, so much so that many artists can work only when completely alone and refuse to show their unfinished pieces to anyone. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

He rolled his eyes and refused to respond when I tried to put the pencil back in his hand. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

The immigrant victims of two of the robberies he had been charged with most recently had refused to testify against him. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

By the time we shower and crawl into bed, I have ice in my lungs from my short, quick inhales that refuse to calm down. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Still she refused to open her eyes until she heard a man say, “Hello there.” Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

To realize there was something ugly, and I refused to see it. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

If she’d decided to stay but still refused to be his wife, maybe he was pouting. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

All I know is this: I refuse to miss this chance. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

What you would chiefly have noticed if you had been there was the smells, which came from unwashed people, unwashed dogs, scent, garlic, onions, and the piles of refuse which lay everywhere. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

Whenever I met any of my erstwhile comrades, they refused to acknowledge my existence in accordance with a party principle that made it imperative that all “traitors be isolated from the working class.” Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

If I refuse to do what she says this time, who knows where my defiance will end? Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Mei Ching told them about the reward, but she swore she would refuse it. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

If what she said was true—and Taisin seemed to believe her—then how could they refuse? Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

She refused to leave, talking about how it was her home and no thugs were gonna run her out, not even when somebody broke in and stole her television. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

Justice was mystified by my reaction and refused to listen to me. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Only once in his ten years has he been in trouble—when he met a dog who refused to negotiate. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

She refused to leave, but the men didn’t force the issue, concerned that if she was provoked and became violent, it would require “at least four strong men” to subdue her. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

She was right in refusing to torture herself by being with me. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

“But since she refuses to stay in the hospital, you need to know. These next few months are going to be... pretty hard.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

The Washington Post, however, refused to participate in the press blackout. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

I almost lost the courage to refuse again, but I thought of my landlord grandfather, of Dad detained at the theater. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

"What sort of master would refuse his prentice a penny to see a play?" The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

She doesn’t budge, though, and crosses her arms in defiance, refusing to leave. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

When the other girls crouched to slap the stage, I tilted; when we were to cartwheel, I swayed, refusing to allow gravity to do its work, to draw the sweatshirt any higher up my legs. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

I refused to name the horse, so we called him the Yearling. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Still, he refused to let it go; it was the only thing, he said, that matched his muddy, sopping, finely tailored suit. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

"Oh my God, Mouse? He's the craziest of them all. He's always got a hammer or a jackrabbit or something stuck in his back pocket, and he refuses to wear a shirt." Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

From there he preached Socialism and mulled over his disgust at Blanca’s having married someone else, refusing to accept Jaime’s explanations and consolation. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

She lost weight, refusing to eat as if wasting away in despair. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

“Tell me what you are seeing,” said Louisiana, who was facedown on the floor and refused to stand up. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

Governor Nelson D. Rockefeller refused to negotiate directly with the inmates, and on September 13, worried that the inmates were harming their hostages, the state police launched a bloody battle to retake the prison. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

During the last few days of April, Mother Lois had humbled herself to make several trips to North Little Rock’s school headquarters to plead for her job, but they had refused to reinstate her. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

About a mile and a half out of town, a deputy blocked the entrance to a bridge after the runners had passed over, and refused to let reporters and cameramen go any farther. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

He relocated to Georgia because, he found out belatedly, his wife refused to live anywhere else. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Chief Powhatan refused to give in to the hostage takers’ demands, and Pocahontas remained a prisoner. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

I suppose Maxim, as always, refuses to play?” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

But then another round of battles began that would last another five years—because the orchestra refused to pay her on par with her male colleagues. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

She scratched at her headscarf but refused to let Dad adjust it for her. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

When I refused, she joined us instead, crowding in with me and Otto. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

She kept badgering Old Tallow to bring her a mirror, but the old woman refused until one day Angeline screamed at her, shockingly, that she wanted to see herself. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

She refused to call Fern by her name, and that made Big Ma right about Cecile. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

My eyes are weary, my thoughts are on overtime, refusing to let me sleep. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Anderson was being unfair to Compton, who wisely postponed signing Oppenheimer’s statement until he could read the bill, and refused to support it once he had. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

There were a lot of people involved because they had to keep swapping over guards, and my C.O. refused to tell me who it had been, to protect them, you know? Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

I refused to let myself think how ridiculous I must have looked to them. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bobby Moch heard him, glanced back at him, but refused to take the bait. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Now they’d come because Mrs. Pohler had refused to give Regina the key to the attic—where we all took turns hanging our wet linen—until her own linen was dry. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

I hooked my pinkie with hers and said okay because this moment was too good, and I didn’t want to ruin it by being all weird and refusing to pinkie-promise her. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Restaurants that refused to serve Dorothy Vaughan had no problem waiting on Germans from the prisoner-of-war camp housed in a detention facility under the James River Bridge in Newport News. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

She said soy milk was more nutritious than cow milk and although he refused to drink the grainy fluid in the morning, he watched her do so with an uncomplaining common sense. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Their host, a grizzled one-armed petty lord by the name of Harwood Stout, knew better than to refuse him, though by now his larders must be well nigh exhausted. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I had taken her so much for granted that I hadn't even thought of my debt when I refused the job. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

The chicken’s body struggles and twists, refusing to die, until Kim whacks it again, this time smashing its head. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bliss refused to let him into the sickroom, claiming that Baxter would disturb Garfield. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

All countries and islands, afraid for the same reason, refused to receive her and give her a place where her child could be born. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I am sorry, M. Poirot, but I must refuse to answer that question.” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I refuse to sleep in my boots!” the Centipede cried. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

He had refused to admit the painful truth that was now confronting him. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Actually, the meeting had been called to discuss Renault and what could be done about the stubborn freshman who refused to fall into line. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Others will only joke about it, while others refuse to discuss it at all. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even though she was a law-abiding citizen, she felt so strongly that she should be able to sit that she refused to move from her seat and was then arrested. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Until then I had rejected him, refused him his own reality. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

She didn’t like to think about her failures—the seagull she couldn’t turn into a dragon, Coach Hedge’s baseball bat stubbornly refusing to turn into a hot dog. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Not the French doctor who had refused to treat my father. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

She heard the buffalo boy’s laughter as he refused her money, saw the king’s generous smile as he willingly parted with his family’s treasure, and remembered Da-A-Fu’s last words to her. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

Moreover, Einstein refused to believe in the reality of quantum mechanics, despite the important role he had played in its development. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“There is a path designed for everyone and everyone must walk in his or her path. This is your path. You must walk it. To refuse would be...unfortunate.” Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

Archimedes refused, since his mathematical proof was not yet finished. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

But I wanted to leave things in order and not just trust that obliging and indifferent sea to sweep my refuse away. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

“Little niggard!” said he, “refusing me a pecuniary request! Give me five pounds, Jane.” Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

“Move,” I yell, pushing through the drovers, throwing my sharp elbow into soft bits when a few of the men refuse to budge. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

I requested a meeting with my colleagues, and to my surprise, the authorities summarily refused. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dr. Trefusis, who went to minister to Slant, delivers word from the sick-camp that one of the inmates of that place has refused food. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

“Almost nightly, in fact. That you refuse to accept that your marriage is over—” “That is simply not true!” The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Cole stood but refused to hold his parents’ hands. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

“Now we are in this hellish misery,” he went on, refusing to listen. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Two of them told me they would refuse to work if I made them stay back. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

They refused to waste their time on a bankrupt theory that would destroy their reputation as code breakers. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Me because I’m really rested, she because she simply refuses to lie down. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

More refuse showered down from windows and balconies: half-rotted fruit, pails of beer, eggs that exploded into sulfu- rous stink when they cracked open on the ground. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

But he still sat with his head in his hands, refusing to look. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

This time the black workers refused to defer to the black aristocracy. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

The guy must have been shattered, but he refused to go to sleep. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

There can be no doubt that the overwhelming majority of present-day Muggles refuse to believe in the magical beasts their ancestors so feared. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

What if they refuse to open the door, or slam it in my face? A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

Then he’d cleaned the spatter of rain and moisture from the floor of the refuse room, and made sure there were no scraps of rope or other signs of their presence. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

So her job is to convince you that a $300,000 offer is in fact a very good offer, even a generous one, and that only a fool would refuse it. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

“They refuse to listen to reason. Everything is black and white. Good or bad.” Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

Whereas Robert Stewart Howard was wealthy, his son evidently refused to base his life on its advantages, embarking on his westward journey with virtually no money to his name. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I want to know why you refused the trade to get my brother back. And whatever else you know about my brother’s disappearance.” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

She, after all, was the only one who really understood why Eva refused to attend Sula’s funeral. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

If the njuzu offered you food, you must refuse it or be doomed to stay forever in their watery realm. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

But, reconciled by his success, he yet refused to forego the privilege of criticiz-ing this order. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Throughout her life, Stone had to deal with people who refused to call her by her preferred name. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Why he at first refused to come to West Virginia with us and only at the last possible moment overcame his reluctance and jumped into the car. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Women have ways. I’ve heard. You can refuse him—” Her mother shrank away from her. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

It was dry, unappetising, cut in a wedge from the outside; but I had not the courage to refuse it. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

This did not have the effect that he wanted, because Esperanza refused to break her stare with him. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Z could have refused Trepid’s request right off the bat, but he figured that Trepid would just find someone else to do his dirty work, and that would not be good. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

I refused to look directly at her when I replied, “I like them okay, but my mama did bad things, so social services had to take me away for my own good.” Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

He had no real cleverness or secrets for good business; he simply refused to fail, leaving absolutely nothing to luck or chance or someone else. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

But she stubbornly refused to give up on Mother. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Yes, even though I gave instructions to all the teahouses to refuse treatment to her. Someone has disobeyed me." The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

Something told me to refuse, but I was intrigued and, underneath it all, was probably flattered. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

The university refused, and the samples were tied up in litigation for years. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

But even when Helen spanked her and called her a bad bad girl, Mona refused to produce the shoe, and in the end Callie went to school in one old shoe and one new one. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I dunno,” Bloom said, wondering where to begin, begging himself to muster the guts to refuse. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her husband refused to display the deference one might expect from a policeman. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

The man that Churchill called ‘a naked little fakir,’ refusing food in a British jail? The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

But Africa shifts under my hands, refusing to be party to failed relations. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

As we wait, the minutes turn into hours, the hours into eternity, and the sun refuses to lower in the sky to make time pass faster. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

If I refused, it meant that I did not love my mother, and no man in that tight little black community had ever been crazy enough to let himself be placed in such a position. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

But Howling Mad Smith refused to order his Marines to retreat. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

The most outspoken members of the community refused to internalize the contradiction, openly equating the foreign racists America was moved to destroy with the American racists it chose to abide. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Buttercup whispered, “I am your servant and I refuse.” The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

I slapped his hand away and kept on walking, refusing to acknowledge him. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

My uncle wanted to marry Mama, but Sharia also gave her the right to refuse his offer, which she did. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

Though he refuses to admit to himself that he is looking for her. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

I wait for her to refuse to talk about it, as before. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

When Bobby denied the very existence of Auschwitz, refusing to acknowledge that more than one million people had been murdered there, Laszlo told him about relatives who’d been exterminated in concentration camps. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

At school, Oscar always refused to say what his middle initial stood for. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

But he was an awful athlete and simply refused to participate. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the magistrate refused to hear the case, even going so far as to ask a court officer to evict me. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

And Tiny says to Jane, "I mean, it's such a tragedy, isn't it? The only thing Grayson has going for him is that he's adorable, and yet he refuses to date." Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

Eddington was shocked by that implication, and he refused to believe Chandrasekhar’s result. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

He refused to believe it when Dustfinger told him they hadn't come with him, he had left them behind in a book along with the thieves who used to beat and kick him. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Anne swung the torch nearer the pile of refuse. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

Business that had been refused a few days previously was now welcomed. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

By refusing this small violation of his privacy, he’d earned himself a big violation. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

People who refused fatalism because they could invent small resources insisted on culpability. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Lynn and I were rich, we would make Mr. Lyndon an offer he couldn’t refuse and buy that house for my father. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Do we increase our risk by refusing to follow the government’s request?” asked Sulzberger. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

And I refuse to look at her because then she’ll know I’m lying. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

The Flanders and Swann song “The Reluctant Cannibal” tells the story of a young member of a cannibal tribe who refuses his dinner, insisting that “eating people is wrong.” Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

Big Ma fussed at Mr. Lucas to “help Ma,” and Ma Charles refused Mr. Lucas’s hand when he tried to help her. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

I don’t like being watched; I refuse to get used to it. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

Carroll advised him that he had some sick prisoners the local hospital refused to treat, so he had ended up buying the medicine himself. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

He had, it appeared, continued to refuse to issue forth, crying that marching on the rebel there was death, sir, utter death; though he himself had recommended the seasonability of attack. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

But the peak refused to give me up. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Legal rulings empowered people with developmental disabilities to refuse treatment and created rights for the mentally disabled that made forced institutionalization much less common. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

I point to the patches on my jacket, which is increasingly wrong for the weather, but I refuse to shed it. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

He felt that he couldn’t lie if asked a direct question, and yet if he simply refused to answer, the assumption was that he was hiding something crucial. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

From early childhood, Izzy had been fiercely, stubbornly independent; she refused to ask for help with anything. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

His staff was with him: gaunt Goree asleep in his saddle, refusing to lie down. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

As workers came to him for their wages, he berated them for doing shoddy work and refused to pay them, even if the work was perfect. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Unnerved, Spassky refused to draw and left the hotel in a huff. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

But despite many telegrams and letters sent to him, Gary refused to bargain. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

He had asked for what he knew I could not give, and I had refused. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

Hassan would tarof and say, “Please, share some of my wife’s tea,” but the doctor would refuse, not even with a long, drawn-out compliment. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

Prior to the Bostick decision, a number of lower courts had found absurd the notion that “reasonable people” would feel empowered to refuse to answer questions when confronted by the police. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

She refused to back away, but looked down at him as if he were something disgusting she had found stuck to a lavatory seat. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

He was forced to leave the law firm where he worked when he refused on principle to represent a liquor dealer in court. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

When he refused to show up for the parades I marched in, this separated me from him that much more, while the events he did show up for left me miserable with embarrassment. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Hey, wait a minute—” Bruno called, but Bloom refused to acknowledge that he had heard. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was scared to think about it, to even entertain the notion, but he found that once he’d acknowledged it, its roots dug into him, refusing to let go. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Newspapers would not publish our statements; printing presses refused to print our leaflets, all for fear of prosecution under the Suppression of Communism Act. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes I closed my eyes hard to avoid thinking, but the eye of my mind refused to be closed and continued to plague me with images. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

The frigid winters and the dry desert­ like conditions of the tundra prevent metals, papers, garbage, and refuse from deteriorating as it does in warmer zones. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the massive dog refused to heed his whimpering request until he crossed some invisible boundary beyond which the savage cur would not travel. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Algernon refuses to run the maze any more; general motivation has decreased. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

I may be uncomfortable, but I refuse to be ashamed. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

You spat out the first sip and then refused to eat or drink anything else. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Nathan no longer said perhaps; only a faint spark of hope, obstinately refusing to die, brought him out each dawn to scour the heavens for a sign. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

Indeed, Woodall refused to relinquish leadership of the expedition or make any kind of compromise, even after he received a message from President Mandela appealing for reconciliation as a matter of national interest. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

A driver showered insults upon a woman named Epsie Worthy when she refused to pay an extra fare at a transfer point. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

Those who lived by the sword were forced to die by it It was as if everything would lead to sorrow, so long as man refused to forget the past. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the time, the PAC members on the island refused to believe our claims that the exiled PAC had opened its doors to whites and Indians as members. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

At Hanawon, many defectors flatly refuse to believe that this fundamental pillar of North Korean history is a lie. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

He lived in the dingy shacks of the white landlords and refused to pay rent. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

"If the queen has any sense, she'll accept my terms. If not, I'll make her rue the day she refused me." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Even my employer in the store refused, saying it was too much money. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

It stuck up at a jaunty angle, refusing to come out. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

It’s like an actor remaining in character and refusing to leave his dressing room, or a writer refusing to leave his garret after finishing a book. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

They took him to her and he asked her for his life, but she refused. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

She outgrew it two years ago but has always refused to let me have it. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

Wasn’t it crazy to go on refusing to sell the chocolates, particularly after that last warning yesterday by Archie Costello and The Vigils? The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was furious when Garfield refused to name Conkling’s choice to the Collector of Customs at the Port of New York. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

I simply refuse to do that wretched math every day. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

All the same, Old Chao would come, he couldn’t help it; and she could not refuse him. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Clover asked Benjamin to read her the Sixth Commandment, and when Benjamin, as usual, said that he refused to meddle in such matters, she fetched Muriel. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

It was also unusual to find teachers who demanded from students their very best, who refused to succumb to the notion that there was no reason to challenge them because they simply didn’t care. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Idas refused to give her up; he even dared to fight with Apollo for her. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

She refuses to be so far from the place where her husband made his life, the country in which he died. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

She refuses to eat them, considers them poison. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Ever since Melvin Edwards backed out of your wedding all those years back, you’ve been afraid of love, refusing to take a chance. Like May said, it’s your time to live. Don’t mess it up.” The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

As air gradually seeped back into his lungs, he strained to raise his right arm, but his arm, like a broken branch in the grass, refused to move. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

But on the day the labor group picketed the restaurant, Paniagua refused to put down his order pad. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

She also refused to do medical tests on the first female body in space. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z

“We’re already in all kinds of hot water,” I said, refusing to apologize. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

The governor sent his sons to order the men back to active duty, but the soldiers refused to go. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

Around the perimeter is a shallow border of refuse where the shops stood. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

All the brothers and sisters said goodbye to Rosa with a kiss on her cold forehead except for Clara, who refused to go anywhere near the dining room. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Shirley refused to go to school for the next two days. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

Adam had occasionally tried to get me to “jam” with him and I always refused. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Many former friends thought the paper was too radical or too embarrassing, and they refused to subscribe. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

“Yeah. A man that refuses to live in Montgomery, Alabama.” Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the top of the stairs, I’m embarrassingly winded, but I refuse to let it show. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

The blood runs from your eyes down your cheeks and refuses to coagulate. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I pull out my phone and look at the number again, still refusing to understand what he’s telling me. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

She refused to wear jeans, refused even to believe Will when he told her that most girls did. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He refused the Order of Merit, which the President of the Republic awarded him. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

“All butchers are monsters to someone who refuses meat,” Shmuel said. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

I tried to give him the grocery money back, but in typical Persian-uncle form, he refused it. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

"Courtesy to fellow artistes," said Captain Nips, refusing the money. The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z

Still half-asleep and turned away from the door—I refused to believe this was happening—I heard the sound of boots approaching my bunk and then stop. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

“I regret that I cannot indulge your childish whims, but I refuse to pity you in the manner to which you are well accustomed.” The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

When they asked to borrow a bicycle from a black family in the name of the Cultural Revolution, they were not used to being refused. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

She shook her head, refusing to open her eyes until they were inside the police station. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

“No ... I haven’t heard anything . . .” He told me the Mississippi jury refused to indict in the Parker lynch case. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The wicked skates refused to obey and dumped her on the ground once more. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

He helped my father get her down the steps because she refused to let the EMT guys put her on a stretcher. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

The knots refused to yield, slipped from their numb fingers, and only bit more deeply into their flesh. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

Had I refused out of fear as well as from resentment? Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

He said to Bono, “You refuse still to tell me what you heard?” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

I refuse to get out of this seat. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

It was probably a deadly insult to refuse something from a god, but I didn’t want anything that Ares had touched. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

He tries to peel the image from the sticky yellow backing, to show her the next time he sees her, but it clings stubbornly, refusing to detach cleanly from the past. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

My brain cried out the orders, but my legs refused. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

Bobby had refused to append his name, implying his own doubt as to the girl’s paternity. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

He had confounded them all by passing the test, although they still refused him the ballot . Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

The vocal cords refused to work, but I could snap my fingers. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

You can laugh and refuse to believe me, but I don’t care. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

As he helped her from the ship into one of the small boats, Bill refused to look at Amari directly. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

The boiled yam and peppery greens refused to go down my throat; they clung to my mouth like children clinging to their mothers’ hand at a nursery school entrance. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

The next day, once again, I refuse to wear the new blouses. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Meantime, the governor of Massachusetts, Calvin Coolidge, refused to broker a compromise. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

But how could she refuse a cousin so far from home whose family life was in ruins? Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

I sought a seat for him in a hidden and lovely spot, a dry stump of a tree; nor did I refuse to let him, when seated, place me on his knee. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

My parents refused to conform to a lot of things. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Eye sat stiffly between the other men and refused to enjoy the view. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

When he was one and a half, he’d refused to eat anything but porridge for months on end. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

I could still hear the drums echoing in my head from the previous night, but I refused to be happy. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

In a strike, workers walked off the job and refused to go back until the company agreed to their demands. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z

Pouncey refuses to work unless he’s in charge of the guillotine, and he gets pretty obnoxious about it. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

Once I invited Danny to come home and eat with us, but he refused the invitation with a lame excuse, looking a little embarrassed. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

“I felt squeamish; yet I could not refuse to take the trip. So I put on a bold face and walked into the car.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Quang-ha took a stab at refusing to get a high school education as well, but it didn't work. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

Ms. Steck is still cleaning up from the Socrates Project party, and I refuse to take off my toga. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

Yes, he could take the job at Dalton’s and be miserable, or he could refuse it and starve. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

I have always favored a more active, militant style of protest such as work strikes, go-slow strikes, or refusing to clean up; actions that punished the authorities, not ourselves. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Come on. I guess you might be useful. Besides, I’m pretty sure Miss Sarah and Miss Rose would have my hide if I refused you.” Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

“After all, we can’t simply send you home for refusing to fly more missions and keep the rest of the men here, can we ? That would hardly be fair to them.” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

They took it personally when someone who could obviously run circles around the rest of the class completely refused to play the game. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

I plant my feet to the ground, refusing to move. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe he would even hide and refuse to be guest of honor. Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z

But I refuse to hate him for being another reason for people to whisper about me. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

His mother refused to tell him how she’d been able to get it. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

The men refused to fire at him, that man had been brave, he deserved to live. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I refused, even though I no longer had any illusions about what an education could do for me; I had already encountered too many college-graduate handymen. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

She had refused, on that first night, to let her husband touch her—Hisao was unclean, his hands were rough, he had no money but a few coins. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

In Montgomery, only seven years have passed since Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a city bus. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

“And if we refuse to cooperate with your spectacle?” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

She wasted no more words upon him except to refuse his gold. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Before I can refuse, she slaps a tray down on my table. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

There's someone out there who wants to buy me water only Haymitch is refusing to let it go through. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

He agreed to return to the thicket to feed Booth and Herold the next morning, but he refused to bring horse feed again. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even though Cook had offered many more times for Ophie and Mama to stay in one of the rooms in the empty servants’ quarters, Mama continued to refuse. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

The freedom to salvage some small goodness by refusing to become like my mother, by dying for something that is worth dying for. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Tad refused to look out the door to see if Frankie was coming. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Ron launched into the story, starting with the barrier at the station refusing to let them through. “— so we had no choice, Professor, we couldn’t get on the train.” Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

But the alchemists were strange people, who thought only about themselves, and almost always refused to help him. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The informers disappeared, and others refused to take their places. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Cracks were beginning to appear on the surface, but she’d always been a stubborn constant in my life, and I refused to count her out. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

She stopped ten yards short of the men and refused to budge. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I had refused, scarlet with embarrassment, she had shrugged her shoulders disagreeably. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

No one under the spell of his voice could refuse him anything. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the ban went into effect in 1920, reformers who had campaigned for it were pleased, but plenty of Americans refused to comply with the new rules. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

It was only two years earlier, in January of 1962, that Birmingham’s Bull Connor had refused to desegregate the city’s public facilities. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

But in this one thing, he refused to allow himself to be kneaded her way. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the Dutch ambassador tried to humiliate her by refusing her a seat, Nzinga had shown her power by ordering one of her advisers to all fours to make a human chair of her body. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

The next few days, I refused to talk to Mom. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

“I think refusing was part of the test. If we’d cheated, they would have known it, and I doubt either one of us would be here.” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

He wanted to refuse, but if he did, could he ever find his dad? Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

And then he spoke: “We do not really merit the grace of God if we refuse to think about the words we sing. ‘ Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Half a dozen Jews would be murdered today because one man refused to die without a fight. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

The only thing she refused to do was the shopping. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“I think a mistake the Dauntless make is refusing to he cunning,” I say. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Board of Education decision, the university refused Meredith’s enrollment, and Governor Ross Barnett tried to block his admission. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

I reach for her hand, and then it seems natural to continue the gesture and give her the hug I’ve refused Papa all month. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, anyway,” I said, going back to what we had been discussing, “soup kitchen or not, they would not have refused an old ailing woman.” Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

We couldn’t refuse visits from the chief, no matter how we felt. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Scrimgeour’s representatives admitted that he had met with Dumbledore at once upon taking possession of the top job, but refused to comment on the topics under discussion. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

She brought half of the cup to her mom, who refused it and insisted that Hali drink it all. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

You couldn’t refuse a hungry widow who’d lost her husband in the war some cloth or molasses on credit, but then how could we pay for new merchandise ourselves? My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he tried again, she refused him again. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

I refused to look at Highlights for Children because I was now twelve. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

But it’s hot tonight, like summer is refusing to leave. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z

Grandfather was about to refuse, and then he saw Jody’s face. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

He couldn’t refuse her that, for she’d seen worse than a dead body, and it might calm her. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

She held out her wrists to be handcuffed, but the marshal refused. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

“He refused it. I shall not fail to take it. Shall you?” The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

“Let’s keep going. Do you want to invite that girl from your gym class who refuses to wear her gym uniform because she thinks it’s un-American?” A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

Irwin was a very hard man to refuse, and Smith had few choices. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ned sent Alyn to seek him out and offer him a position with the Hand's guard, but the boy was flush with wine and victory and riches undreamed of, and he refused. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

But there’s another part of me, I guess the part of me from right now, the older me, that refuses to do that. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

“Seabiscuit will either be a positive starter tomorrow, or we will refuse his entry entirely.” Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Full of water, the can was too heavy for us to move, and Luke refused to take out his leg, even for a minute. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Hearing this, I grip his arms tighter, refusing to let go. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She says it wildly, like she expects us to refuse. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

A hard-hitting linebacker and captain on the football team who left the field and refused to return when a brawl erupted in his final high school game. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

As Karl Johnson explained to me, “I’ve seen young physicians run from these hemorrhagic viruses, literally. They’re unable to work in the middle of an outbreak. They refuse to get off the plane.” The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bunny, who had been relatively calm, was now on a rampage because Henry refused to drive him down to Washington, D.C., to see an exhibit of World War I biplanes at the Smithsonian. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Sure that Sylvia was snitching, Louie refused to sit at the supper table with her, eating his meals in spiteful solitude off the open oven door. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

“What will I say to the men who asked me why I refused to fly more missions?” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

The directors insisted on many gates, and the railroads refused to channel their exposition traffic through a single depot. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Alyssa is trying to convince Basil to go with Daphne to an evacuation center, but of course, he refuses. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Once he was on the platform Archie knew he could not refuse to go on, even when he heard about the tickets. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

But Thomas rolled over and refused to say another word, worried he’d mess up this new sense of being encouraged, eradicate the reassuring calm that filled his heart. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Wart knew that if he told the elder boy about Us conversation with Merlyn, Kay would refuse to be condescended to, and would not come. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then Finn lay down in blood, bold king with all his company, and the queen was taken; and, loaded with rings King Finn could not refuse, the Danes sailed home. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

I understood perfectly well what he meant, but I refused. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wonder what Maman would do: risk her arcana to help her country and queen, or refuse. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

They claim they aren’t, but they refuse to let me bring Sacred home because they say pets are a big responsibility and they don’t want to be the ones taking care of him. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

The new American president, John F. Kennedy, refused to be bullied, demanding hard intelligence about the Soviet Union's military capabilities. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

I hugged the casket and refused to leave. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

He got the nickname Spoony because when he was young, he refused to eat with a fork. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

The only glitch had been when the ring vibrated, giving off a little alarm, refusing immunity to his grandmother’s new husband because he was a bot after all. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

What if I run back to my family today and refuse to leave? The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

She famously refused to participate in the 1913 march unless she could walk under the Illinois banner—and she did so, defying the organizers’ plans. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

Gale asked to be dropped off in 12 with me, but he didn’t force the issue when I refused his company. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Ugwu placed his hand on his head and struggled to remember what Mama had looked like the last time he saw her, standing by the kola nut tree, refusing to leave home. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

I refuse to give Father the pleasure of a reply when he talks to me. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes after, or even during a run, he will rage, throw himself against the walls of the maze, or curl up and refuse to work at all. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

She holds out her hand and watches as the raindrops refuse to reach her skin. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

I could take hours trying to explain, and even then have him refuse me. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

I rotated in darkness because I refused to open my eyes. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Another lab director might have been inclined to fend off poachers from rival universities; Lawrence welcomed them, or at least refused to stand in their way. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

The church, refusing as it did to get involved in temporal matters, remained the only sanctuary. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The three knights had got into it, and sat down to see what would happen, because knights were never supposed to refuse an adventure. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

We all heard them call my mother ‘ ‘crazy’ ’ to her face for refusing good meat. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

And even though they couldn’t stop their much larger mother from lifting them up and plunking them into the water, they could refuse to touch the soap or washcloth. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

This picture hurt the big Greek’s feelings, and he refused to be reconciled until Singer had made his face very young and handsome and colored his hair bright yellow and his eyes china blue. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

They despised any leader from among their own number, refused to follow or even listen to him, on the grounds that he was no better than they were, that he should stop putting on airs. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

I slept and the house turned dark and silent, but Mom lay next to me, refusing to leave my side. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Despite repeated questionings and stern talking-tos both at school and at home, she had refused to say anything about what had caused this outburst. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Half my paychecks bounced, and she refused to reimburse me for my penalty charges, claiming that it was my bank's fault, not hers. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

He refused to take his eyes off me. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Hearing the thrill in her voice, how can I refuse her anything she asks me? Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

Their laughter hounded me, but I refused to look back. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

A German woman sitting with Cummings refused to salute. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

She offered one to Margaret, who refused, and started searching for something inside her pocketbook. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Cursing, Bernabe stumbled through heaps of mud and refuse in order to get a closer shot, but the raven scrambled frantically away. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

And I really refuse to change my whole personality to be liked by guys. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

Walter offered to take a couple of us with him but Daddy refused. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

I remember because it was the first time in my life I refused candy. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

Our legs refuse to move, our hands tremble, our bodies are a thin skin stretched painfully over repressed madness, over an almost irresistible, bursting roar. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

But his parents refuse to give him the money to fly to England on his spring break. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Thomas refused to make eye contact with any of them, afraid of looking guilty. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Yet he looked at me from beneath his red-checkered keffiyeh with eyes burning fiercely, refusing to be humbled by his age. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

She knew her family might refuse to see her, but she had to try, she said. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

She refused to believe I was her son. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

But her eyes linger on me in a way that refuses to let me. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

I was of course refused permission to attend the ceremony, as was Winnie, but Oliver accepted the award in my absence. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tyrion refused the swan, which reminded him of a supper with his sister. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Staggering from the examination room, Livingston sought out Lawrence to warn that he almost certainly would be refused his doctorate, due to his failure to demonstrate a grasp of basic nuclear physics. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

For instance, I was hungry enough to eat a pig, a rabbit—heck, I’d have eaten a muskrat when things got really bad—but Mom still refused to serve it in the house. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

He started banging around the gate like Chance-view and refused to settle down. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

She retreated to her room, refusing to come out for meals or even talk to anyone through the door. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

And at once this possibility became an established certainty: John had refused to come because he didn’t like her. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

I refused to become a princess but adopted the titles of Court Linguist and Cook’s Helper. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

The third time when I refused again, he was angry. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

“Now I know why he went to Cleveland,” she tells people, refusing, even in death, to utter her husband’s name. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

They literally live in bathwater—dirty as it may be—yet refuse to bathe. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

The matchstick-eater, something inside her whispered, but she refused to listen. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

“Come,” said she, “I will tell you something, in return for what you have told me. He did speak yesterday—that is, he wrote, and was refused.” Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z

“He won it, if you really think there was a Gallic War ...” Caesar, from the first, had been the one historical figure Phineas refused absolutely to believe in. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had placed his sketchbook under my bed and refused to look at it. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

Ophie couldn’t help feeling, however, that it was desperately unfair, someone so kind and lovely being killed and everyone refusing to talk about her, forgetting her, even. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

“How can one country make another change its clocks? What if everybody refuses?” All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

“Can they kick a person out of jail, even if he refuses to put up bail? I don’t think so.” Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

She should drive down to the capital on the pretense of seeing the exhibit at the Colombian embassy and refuse to leave. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I refuse to think about what happened the day before. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

In the same year the State of Alabama, alarmed and angry at the damage done by the chemicals, refused to appropriate any further funds for the project. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

In a correspondence beginning in 1668, Hooke implored him to switch to telescopic sights, but Hevelius stubbornly refused, claiming that he could do just as well with open sights. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

Jupe refuses to “publicly participate in an activity so subjected to the male gaze,” but she lets me toss her around in the backyard. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

It was just as well her garden had refused. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

I grit my teeth, refusing to make a sound. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I was expecting you to shriek and refuse to leave the house, but you just shrugged and put on more lipstick. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

The Jehovah’s Witnesses held out, too, refusing to salute the Nazi flag even though it meant persecution. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

I refuse to let go of his hand. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

“But maybe he doesn’t care . . . it’d probably just make him admire Crouch even more. Yeah, Percy loves rules. He’d just say Crouch was refusing to break them for his own son.” Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

I wish I hadn’t refused to go on the ship the last day. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Besides beetles and unripe berries, he’d been able to swipe only a few crayfish, which Gray had refused. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

The sun was a toddler insistently refusing to go to bed: It was past eight thirty and still light. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

So he told her in hideous detail what would be done to her if she was a prisoner who refused to give answers when the Gestapo questioned her. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

"Elias refuses to kill me, and he dies for it? You're going to punish him for showing mercy?" An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

She put on the bark cord of mourning and refused to cut her hair anymore. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Washington gave Genêt what amounted to a diplomatic cold shoulder, meeting with him very briefly, but refusing to discuss the subject of United States support of the French. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

Initially, Jefferson simply refused to assign Washington any culpability for the Federalist conspiracy, somehow suggesting that the person at the very center of the government was wholly oblivious to the schemes swirling around him. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

Angel at first refused to notice, but as the beauty of the music grew in intensity, all of the pain and memories of her past grew within her. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He forces us to work with the threat of whipping if we refuse. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

But he refused to back down from his beliefs, saying, “If I am the last, lone voice speaking for nonviolence, that I will do.” Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

We refuse to waste our energies and yours in premature and ill-considered actions. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I said you could have a rest,” her father says when Celia refuses, not even looking up from the pile of papers he has spread across the dining table. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

In third grade, he and I spent about a week convincing Alice Evans that velour was a kind of animal fur, and she refused to wear it for the rest of the year. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

The more fiercely Nick struggled and clawed, the more pressure Julian applied, yet Nick refused to yield. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

My father refused to complete the financial aid papers; finally, in desperation, I stole the tax returns from the glove compartment of his Toyota and did them myself. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

The old woman who had lived there had refused to leave, but Capricorn wouldn't tolerate prying eyes so close to his new hideout and gave his followers free rein. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Women resigned from suffrage organizations, and prospective recruits refused to join. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Milo took a firm moral stand and absolutely refused to participate in the Glorious Loyalty Oath Crusade until Captain Black called upon him with his delegation and requested him to. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

The poor guy had exhausted himself trying to start a conversation with Thomas, who’d refused to respond. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

I clung to the bed, refusing to leave this world for dreams. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

The lawyer who escorts her to the theater refuses to explain despite the manager’s protestations, abandoning her as quickly as he can with no more than a shrug and the tip of a hat. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

We refuse to leave Special Defense and end up waiting in the hummingbird room for news. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

She refused, over and over, to give any single person her devotion, preferring instead to make a home for herself that she defined on her own terms, and of which she was master. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

I want to stay longer, but Mom refuses because she doesn’t want to give Cuba any more hard currency, as if our contributions will make or break the economy. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

"You can't do those treatments all at once. You must learn to refuse. You should only do three at a time, especially when you have back-to-back appointments. Your arcana levels took a massive dip." The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

When we were called back into session that morning, Judge Rumpff was informed that the police refused to bring the chief to court. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was really giving me a choice — I was free to refuse, and part of him hoped for that. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Besides, I refuse to ever “choose” between two women. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

The rivers dried up; the rains refused to fall; the cattle and people died of disease. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I tried to, but Bailey refused to cooperate. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

After breakfast I asked him very nicely to take the garbage out, and he refused. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

Summer refused to move from the steps, even when Osha followed the torch, Bran in her arms. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

I refused to go into the dressing room. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Ever since she was little she would cry and refuse to say why. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The idea of abortion was abhorrent to Bobby and he refused to even discuss it. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

It had to do with both aliens and yoga and was surprisingly addictive, but Twig refused to play it. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I refused to dwell on the last thought, concentrating instead on making things safer for him. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Suddenly the agent noticed all the refuse that had been left behind, pieces of waxed paper and tinfoil, discarded Baggies, a few aluminum bean dip cans, empty cigarette packages, and some crushed coffee cups. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

All of these Uncle refused to believe were true. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

They used as a reason for my transfer that I refused to take some kind of shots, an inoculation or something. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Powell glared, still refusing to give up his package. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The request of Mrs. Ferris for the ashes was refused,” the undertaker said, “because the dead man left closer relatives.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

“Don’t call me again unless it’s to say you’re participating in fixing your own problems. Why should I help someone who refuses to help themselves?” Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

He simply refused to sing a song done wrong. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

She asked him to go out and keep the younger ones occupied, but he flatly refused. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

He refused to look his brother in the eye. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Afterward my mother asked the Captain to come home and have supper with us, but when he refused, no one pressed him to change his mind. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

She hoped Elena wouldn’t speak of what her heart refused to remember, hoped that the queen wouldn’t mention what she had spent so long forgetting. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

In fact, only seven of the ten cardinals sitting as the council of the Inquisition signed the sentence, with Barberini among the three who refused. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

“Slavery is forbidden in Pentos, by the terms of the treaty the Braavosi imposed on us a hundred years ago. Still, they will not refuse you.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

He refused and was shot through the spine with a shell that ripped open his shirt front and dropped some of his guts onto the beach. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

“However, I expect they were outnumbered and somewhat thrown by the arrival of our warrior. What say you, Warrior? Do you refuse to go with me as well?” Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Once or twice when it was raining, I’d invite them to come into the house, but they’d refuse, knowing it was just politeness on my part. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I refuse because the last time I drank shots of vodka with Lorena, I threw up so hard it came out of my nose. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

It refuses to die or run cold, always finding its way back into Mary’s body But one night, surely, it has to succumb. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

I took these questions to my father, who very often refused to offer an answer, and instead referred me to more books. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Finally back in the United States, Houston and a friend, still in uniform, were returning home on a train when a white man refused to sit next to them in the dining car. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Victor excuses himself after finishing his coffee, refusing to weigh in on the cake issue. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

If he doesn’t turn around, if he refuses to talk to me, I’ll just barrel right into him. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

“Romeo and Juliet didn’t play by the rules. People had expectations for them. Wanted them to act and be a certain way. But they refused.” The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

As reported by Ida Wells-Barnett, they pointed out that blacks “couldn’t have created a riot by themselves” and refused to hear any more cases “until some white men were brought in.” A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“We said that we would help you!” they cried the next day, after Joaquin had gone home with Mark and Linda and Maya had disappeared down the street, refusing a ride from everyone. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

In court, the suffragists argued that they had refused to stop picketing because their action was legal under the Constitution. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

I asked questions, too, but perhaps I refused to acknowledge the signs. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

When the mother called them for dinner, both refused to move, each clinging to their dishes of wet dirt; Minli had to smile at their foolishness. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

She refused to scream, although her whole body begged to release the sudden burst of fear. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

If he’d been a real man, he would of refused, and then either walked out or set to work like his job depended on it. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

We’ve rejected that easy flow between dimensions: we want the dead unmentionable, we refuse to name them, we refuse to feed them. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

He could have ended the beatings by running away or succumbing to tears, but he refused to do either. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

If my mom decided that Ali didn't live up to his photographs or that he was an ogre with halitosis and no discernible sense of humor, she could have politely refused to marry him. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

The cruellest man could hardly have refused to visit her with such messages. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

How could I feel sorry for a counterrevolutionary’s family member who refused to support the Red Guards? Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I didn’t believe her, so I would try to refuse it, but she insisted. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

The two women go back and forth for a little while longer until the information lady refuses to say anything more, just keeps pointing to the other window. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

Though he resolutely opposed apartheid and refused to allow KwaZulu to become an “independent” homeland as the government wished, he was a thorn in the side of the democratic movement. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Although I was now almost nineteen and longed to join my brother and sister, after all my parents had been through I couldn't refuse their plea for me to stay with them. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

The doctor Milton had spoken to—the specialist—refused to discuss details before he’d had a chance to examine me. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“You fool. I refuse to spend the remainder of my life in a wheelchair.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had no appetite, refused food, and lost weight. Stuart Little 1945-10-17T00:00:00Z

She choose-s He refuses I’m getting better at hissing, no longer spitting on my forearms. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

He refused to allow it in the house, except for the millet beer that was necessary for religious ceremonies. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

I also learned that Marley had been a Rastafarian, and that Rastafari believe in a “whole body,” which is why he had refused surgery to amputate the toe. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

It seemed like a weird thing to do, so I refused at first, except when ordered to. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Fang was smirking, a sad, knowing smirk, his big pointy teeth refusing to be contained. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

And that’s why I refused to go into her room, why I started crying and ran to the elevators, and why I said I would never go back. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

A majority opposed the oath but chose to sign nevertheless, especially after the regents decreed that those who refused would face dismissal. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

“No offense, but I refuse to take relationship advice from a dude who’s never been in one.” Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

They disliked Bilbo and detested Frodo, but so magnificent was the invitation card, written in golden ink, that they had felt it was impossible to refuse. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

When Sefia had brought it up with Nin, her aunt had gone sullen and silent, refusing to answer any questions or even make casual conversation for a whole day. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Mr. Milgrom told me—and then the both of us—not to return, Janina refused to obey; we returned to the furious voice and the smack that never came. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

I refused completely that they should put him in a special class. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

She never refused the favor, just as she never refused the countless men who sought her out, even in the twilight of her maturity, without giving her money or love and only occasionally pleasure. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Marian met her through a family friend who had offered to pay for her lessons, but Patterson refused to take the friend’s money. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

Dean refused to intercede, and within a week Teller made good on his threat. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Whenever Mom saw Mr. Fitzgibbons, she tried to pay him, but he always refused. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

If you refuse, you are marked a traitor and could be killed. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nevertheless she refused to let Eliot walk around when she was chopping. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

The next morning in court one of the prosecutors made the announcement that White and everyone in the buzzing gallery were expecting: Ernest Burkhart refused to testify for the state. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Urvashi refused to rent space anywhere, because I have an image to maintain, and I’m not going to put my feet on a floor that’s been stained by other people’s shadows. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Fortunately, she refused my proposal and ran off with someone else. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

White folks not only refused to share with me, I was told to keep quiet because they would punish me if I complained and spoke my desire for those precious goods or privileges. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

When I refused to be the child they knew and accepted me to be, I was called impudent and my muteness sullenness. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tehlu asked them three times if they would cross, and three times they refused. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Senator Fulbright was still refusing to give him a straight answer. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

And this filled him for a moment with a holy rage—that she stood, so brazen, in the congregation of the righteous and refused to bow her head. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

I refused to let my parents get sucked into the void. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

But I refused to cry in front of Hattie and Olive, even if they were asleep. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

Sheriff Clark tried to herd them back onto the road, but they refused to move. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

I take in a deep breath, about to say yes—I mean, why would I of all people refuse—and he bites his bottom lip, waiting. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

They didn’t understand, and they refused to listen when she tried to tell them. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

It’s an effort to stoop; despite the exercises, I can feel my body gradually seizing up, refusing. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had extracted no promise of help from him, but he hadn’t refused me, either. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

I understood at once why the boys had refused to come. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

When Stanton asked Lucretia Mott to sign the petition for female suffrage, she refused. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Years later, when Laura offered me one of her winter jackets, I refused to accept it because it was a woman’s jacket. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

“Not at all. It was shepherds who were the first to recognize a king that the rest of the world refused to acknowledge. So, it’s not surprising that kings would talk to shepherds.” The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Things in the house were already strained enough with Siobhan refusing to play tennis just to prove a point to her father. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

That night I dreamed I was at a circus with him and that he refused to laugh at the clowns no matter what they did. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

I refused to ride in the car; I didn’t deserve it. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Bora now realized that he must either commit mortal sin and save the lady, or refuse to commit it and let her die. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t understand her stubbornness in refusing to believe in dragons. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he refused, she threw a goblet in the fireplace and carried on so loudly that the Master and Colonel Hawkins finally called for the carriage and left for a tavern. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Vu Lee refuses to apply to a real college, instead will go to a cooking school in San-fran-cis-co, where his idol once walked. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

Each one glared back at him and refused to take it. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

His eyes said things, and mine refused to listen. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

The last thing I remembered was the young girl throwing a fit because the mother refused to let her get breast implants for the party. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

How do you thank a brother who refused to let you go, who seized your hand and wrenched you upward, just as you had decided to stop kicking and sink? Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Her mind refused to register what her eyes and ears told it. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Then Merry took the horn, for it could not be refused, and he kissed Éowyn’s hand; and they embraced him, and so they parted for that time. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

Gold had the legal right to refuse, but decided there was no point. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

And some of the things she knew, she refused to tell, saying nothing but “Phhhhtttt” when Raymie asked for more information. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

Denied the breast, he refused a bottle, food or water. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

And they killed a man in the valley because he refused to wear his pants short the way the Taliban did. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

He would have been amazed, uncomprehending if I refused to forgive him. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

He refused and went to the end of the colored portion of the line. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Friends urged Anthony to declare bankruptcy, but she refused. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Benko requested and Bobby refused: “Yes, I wrote it, but I had a terrible time in that jail. I want to forget about it. No, I don’t want to sign it.” Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

He should have refused Leon’s invitation, but the moment it was made his pulse had leaped and his bleated yes had left his mouth. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

He refused any anger toward her; he rejected it because he could not be angry at the wrong person. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Kerwin took the blade—too afraid to refuse it, the captain judged—but he had never used it. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

But the King refused to surrender him, and in the contest Minos was slain. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

At first she had refused to understand this and had insisted that duty was less important than love and she hoped Kabuo felt the same way. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

And yesterday, after class, he’d shoved the short story anthology deep into his locker, refusing to bring it home. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

She would’ve wanted to take a selfie with it if her mom hadn’t refused to buy her a phone…. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

And, of course, he refused to sit in the seat that I had assigned to him and he went to the back of the room and sat. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sound of ruffled feathers managed to soar above everything—the THA-thump-THA-thump-THA-thumping of his heart and the huff-huff-huff through his nostrils—but he refused to open his eyes. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

He refused to be serious, he was infuriatingly unserious, but he was as committed to the things that mattered to him as anyone could possibly be. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

For weeks I refused even to venture into the driveway to collect the morning paper. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

Aru struggled for balance as she climbed up, but she refused to believe they weren’t getting out of here. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Instead of merely lying in bed in a passive state, he became disoriented and angry and refused to take medicine. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

We agreed that we would pull over and open the box when we were far enough away, but now that we’re moving, Henry flatly refuses to stop. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Everyone was too busy praising the Lord over Vonetta, and we refused to hear him. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

One hour, two, three pass, and my eyelids refuse to get heavy. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

For nearly a year after our first conversation, Deborah refused to talk to me. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

I heard Miss Colette sat herself in the middle of the street and refused to budge until her mother agreed that he could come with them. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

As well as this, she kept being sick and refused to eat and ran a temperature. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

Anastasia was so angry when she found out what Dad had done that she refused to speak to him. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

When the grateful Athenians would have given him a large sum of money he refused and asked only that there should be friendship between Athens and his own home, Cnossus in Crete. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

But he refused to let go and instead pulled the noose tighter until the Zhen, unable to breathe, fell to the ground. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

She refused all appeals and, like a black-veiled prophetess, declared Denmark cursed. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

The message was straightforward: urge President Thieu to refuse to participate in the Paris peace talks. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

It’s just about this boy who refuses to grow up, and when Wendy grows up, he feels very betrayed. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

I flatly refused to sit under some leaking roof listening to a demagogue out to make money by sending people on guilt trips and pretending to speak in tongues. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

I refused to set myself up for disappointment. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

At this point, I hadn’t actually seen the lion, and I absolutely refused to leave. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tears welled up in Polly’s eyes, but she shook her head and refused to cry. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He’s made a marvelous recovery. He refused to lie in bed and has been up on the wall helping out. You can’t keep a good Fieldmouse down, my dad always says.” Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

I refuse to look up because I know Ms. Washington’s looking at me, and the last thing I want to do right now is to make eye contact with her. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

And Hunter wouldn’t be any sort of witness, if he refused to send the game to Omi. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

I refuse to take any notice of him, and the next time he shushes me, I’m going to shush him right back. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Reporters from the Charleston News and Courier, the Columbia State, and the Savannah Morning News drove into town and were refused interviews by both Sammy’s parents and Emma Lee’s father. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

He'd refused to eat, cried and screamed for most of a night, even punched Old Nan when she tried to sing him to sleep, and the next day he'd vanished. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

I refused to turn my head to see if my classmates were laughing at me or, worse, pitying me for having a name that was too hard to pronounce. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Since they had married, it was a point of honor between them that Lillian serve grits and Bull refuse to eat them. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The navy warned islanders, in a message printed in the Review, “to kill a rumor by refusing to carry it further.” Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

A group of adults looked on, refusing to move at the policemen's command, and muttering about Clifton. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

I could have refused that telegram Saturday after Saturday. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

“Haven’t you begged for them? Can I refuse you anything? Oh! you cannot deceive me,” and Mademoiselle approached her beloved instrument and began to play. The Awakening 1899-04-22T00:00:00Z

I listened carefully when I heard that two of my cousins had been refused admittance to an ‘all-white’ swimming pool. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the one about the cruel hunters in their red coats and the nice boy who felt sorry for the fox and refused to tell them which way it had gone. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

Daphne always refused to allow us to call him “Uncle Basil” in her presence. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

What can a girl do who has refused to die? What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The next night she simply refused to go to sleep. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

The other side he refused to hear were those who dismissed alchemy as a deception, a delusion, a fantasy. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Sammy refused to speak or help, just sat cross-legged with his jaw set, picking at the dirt with his finger. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Celey, like an embarrassed little boy, refuses to make eye contact. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

He makes several attempts to rename her in the following weeks, but she refuses to respond to anything but Celia. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Ehrlichman explained that Attorney General Mitchell kept calling, asking permission to tell the Times to immediately halt publication of the Pentagon Papers—and threaten prosecution if they refused. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

He was pleased to see that his photographic self was putting up a good fight and refusing to be dragged into view. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

“My client is already in police custody and it is his right to refuse. ...” Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

The physician refused to let him go, and rushed the uncooperative jockey to a hospital in San Mateo, where attendants tried to hold him for observation. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

I refused to do anything he wanted me to do. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

But he relentlessly refused to admit her to his sick room. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

“No, I don’t,” she answered, refusing, with a small shake of the head, to credit his intensity. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

Why should he refuse, week after week, to start the great explosion which the young men wanted to get started and have finished before the year was well into the summer? Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

He runs his fingernail along the wood grain in the table, refusing to look at me. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

“Now, look. I will tolerate, for now, your little biblical menagerie in the living room. But I refuse to have this,” he said, flicking at one of the painted peanut-tears, “displayed in our home.” Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

“You can’t give up. You won’t give up. You threw that book in my face because somewhere inside you refuse to give up.” The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

Particles of ash swirled loosely in their midst, but refused to coalesce. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

In it, every one of our people in Montgomery, all on the same day, simply refused to ride the bus. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

But she refuses to indulge him, moving her chair out of view with a scrape on the pavement; she doesn’t want to be mistaken for a tourist in this city, she says. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

He refused to accept Louis Agassiz’s idea of ice ages–"the refrigeration of the globe," as he dismissively termed it–and was confident that mammals "would be found in the oldest fossiliferous beds." A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

For a week and a half following the February violence, Mayor Grabarek refused to comment on the troubles. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

She climbed the rail, refusing assistance when the crew tried to help her, and clung to the rigging, her body wavering in the cool air. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

The boy denied having anything to do with witchcraft, as well he might, but his fellow tribesmen refused to believe him. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

Had he refused to give the belt he would surely have died. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Later we found out that Dad probably would’ve beaten the charges because the Carmichaels had refused to come back to the Keys for a trial. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

And I refused to let the game end till my spin landed on Angela. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

"I refuse to waste any more of my precious time in here!" Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Hall refused to get off the bus, and the driver tried to push her off. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

“She must have some motive, more powerful than appears, for refusing this invitation,” was Emma’s conclusion. Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z

He’d come home from jail at 11 P.M. in a taxi and the driver refused to take a cent from him. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

What kind of daughter would refuse this tradition? I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

But the woolly mammoth slept on, refusing to stir a limb in her behalf. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

When the teachers refused to move, the sheriff drew back and began to jab Reese in the ribs with his nightstick. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her throat refused to make a noise, but Pinmei’s quaking hand reached upward. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

Some doctors tend to feel they’re invulnerable, while other people, doctors included, refuse to set their work aside because to do so is inconvenient. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

Finally, Booth says that if Atzerodt still refuses to go along with the conspiracy, Booth will shoot him dead on the spot. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

In a show of solidarity, Anthony refused to run for reelection as secretary, letting go of control of the organization she had founded two years before. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Beowulf, badly bruised, refused to relinquish his hold. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z

An astronomer looked through his new telescope into the stars one morning and then refused to ever look to the heavens again. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

Children did not have two parents who refused to love them. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

She walked away and refused to talk to me. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

Paul refused to wait patiently. $he had learned about the power of the press and planned to use it to her advantage. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

He glanced around then said, “The navy threw him out for insubordination and refused him his pension. He has a sister to support near Belendt. I got him his money.” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

My mom kept insisting that they take a statement and open a case, and they actually refused—they refused to write up a charge sheet. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

And then Old Hirsch hides the food money because I refuse to bring home cigarettes. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

"I had a long talk with the police today, but I refused to tell them who the bomber was." The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the bus drove off, Lyon returned to her original seat, and when she refused once again to move, Gates arrested her. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

“You are only hurting yourself by refusing to cooperate.” Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

She opened her mouth to tell him, but her tongue refused to cooperate. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Maysilee keeps asking, and he ignores her until she refuses to move any farther without an answer. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Why, it must be because you have no other purpose but to plague me. How many times have I refused you?” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Her mother refused to buy them for her, preferring instead to buy white socks, navy blue school underpants, four gray blouses, and a dark gray skirt. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

Since I refused to get out of the car, Lucy came to sit in the backseat with me. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Those of us who refused to participate—refused to voice aloud our opinions—would fail. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

“You refuse to follow the court order,” Dad replies tersely, standing. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

Her head spun from the pain and the smoke and the tears she’d refused to let fall during the climb down or when Frankie had insisted she climb through that hole after he did. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

“Do you know the penalty of law if you refuse to register these names?” Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

“Having refused what I considered an impertinent request, I could see that my personal safety was in jeopardy.” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Bruno Goll refused to hand it over, insisting that a fire truck had already passed. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

But if you adamantly refused—and only then—I was to give you the message.” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

Still, I refused to take the blame for Luke’s mess. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

When ordered to “step aside and let the black students enter the university,” Wallace refused to move. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

In church, I used to try and get my brother to play tic-tac-toe on the bulletin, but he always refused, shushing me and pointing to the preacher. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

Citizens in another Delaware town refused to allow one ship from Philadelphia to land and take on fresh water, and they attacked and sank another. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

I refused again when I could have been a guest on the top-rated “Meet the Press” television program. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Werner is eight years old and ferreting about in the refuse behind a storage shed when he discovers what looks like a large spool of thread. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

There is a sick, reactionary villain in the script, an Irish landlord who refuses to rent to the couple, who by this time have been married in this subdued Ethical Culture ceremony. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

She stood in the driveway refusing to get out of the way. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

If I put my seal to this, I will forever be remembered as the lord commander who gave away the Wall, he thought, but if I should refuse... A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I hold onto that hope like the frayed end of a lifeline, because I still refuse to face any of the alternatives. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Maybe I can just take the diploma and then refuse to go to sewing school, or run away if I have to. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The narrow alley is empty except for some piles of refuse and the icy stains of someone’s dirty dishwater. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Her heart refused to remember the body swaying under the magnolia. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Was it because I refused to give in myself? The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

He labeled Bateson’s experiments “utterly inadequate” and refused to believe de Vries’s studies. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Mami puts some lipstick on me, but I refuse the hairspray because Sam says that sprayed hair looks like an astronaut’s helmet. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

But he was worried when she refused to go to the hospital, worried when she would allow only Finn to touch her. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

It has found me here on this island, in our little town, in a back alley where sleek boys smoke in a stairwell amidst the day’s uncollected refuse. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the morning, she refuses breakfast, and even at ten A.M., when her visitors are told to leave so that she can be prepared, Mary is still hopeful. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

He refused to get up and prepare for the night’s travel. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It was when Lenny talked to you the way he talks to me. When he refused to believe you about that debate club of yours and said you just wanted to make trouble.” The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

The passengers refuse to come out and stay hidden beneath the deck. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Army offered us rations, which gettings Sip and I could not refuse; and so we repaired to the city gates, where our fiddlers’ fingers took to ruder labor. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

He complained about the hair on his shoulders, but Miranda thought him perfect, and refused to imagine him any other way. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

It was too big to steal and its owner refused to part with it to the sick widow with eight children whom Mack invented and patronized in the same moment. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hermione refused, with a pained look at the way the elves kept bowing and curtsying, but Harry and Ron loaded their pockets with cream cakes and pies. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

She refused to be pacified, but I had shown myself in a favorable and Christian light. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Besides, if I refused to go, it would be taken as an admission of guilt. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was said that even the Father Abbot himself would flatly refuse to treat a snake, no matter how bad its condition might be. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

“A couple of the professors are refusing to submit a list.” The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

If the bribe had been anything but a magic square math book, it would have been so easy to refuse. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Together we approached one, who begged to be allowed to pass by us in order to go speak to a friend, but he was refused by Smith. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

But he refused to go to the hall to inspect the new conditions and decide whether they’d been sufficiently improved. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

And with that, I refused to go back. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

“I promised I would meet with you. It is fine. I knew that when I refused any more of his field work, this would be my job until retirement.” Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

No. No. No. Around me, my men drop, suffocating as they refuse to kill their friends, or falling beneath the merciless blades of Blue Platoon. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

The paper was stretched tight between us, like two stubborn dogs who refused to let go of a dirty sock. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

The bonobo either hadn’t been given anything to eat or had refused it — he was so thin. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

The list of prominent scientists who had refused to work with him was long and growing longer. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

I do not want to leave Chou behind, but I cannot refuse the reassignment. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Only the sharks stubbornly refused to be colourful. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

He refused to smile and only stared back, searching my eyes for reasons to calm. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

Herold refused to give his name, not sure if he could trust the captain. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Here the smell of bodies and refuse was worse, trapped by the sweating moisture of salt water. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

When she still refused to move, the detective grabbed her by the wrists and pulled her to the back seat. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Blood roared between her ears in protest, her heart pounded harder, but she refused to let the breath go. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

As much as I wanted to see Jackie and Tito in person, I refused to shriek. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

Her husband had refused to come, but no matter. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

She refused to write down MAN, even though it kept smacking her in the face, blocking her view of other words. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

When we pulled in for our stop in Spartanburg, South Carolina, the bus driver refused to let me retrieve my other books from my suitcase, no matter how politely I asked. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

She crosses her arms, and for a moment it looks as if she’s going to refuse. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

When Flittman recovered and reported back for work, the horse refused to leave the stable with him on the wagon seat. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once she crossed the threshold of Building 1244, she entered a world of equals, and she refused to behave in any way that would contradict that belief. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

The streets were narrow and Lyddie stepped gingerly around the refuse and animal droppings, lifting her skirt with one hand and trying to balance her new trunk under the other arm. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

Law enforcement officials refused to investigate her claims of innocence prior to sending her to prison. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

She refused to put her players at risk. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

But I did not expect his answer: “The Weaver will refuse it. Unanswerable questions have wrecked Foretelling groups.” The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

We needed the fresh air, they said, and it was essential that we refuse to surrender to fear. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Rosa Parks was not the first person to refuse to give up her seat on a segregated bus in Montgomery, Alabama. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

I smile and thank them before closing the door, firmly refusing them entry. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Maybe he woke up one morning and decided he simply didn’t want to play a game against people who refused to obey the rules. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

She refused to look at Jamie again and instead stared at the statue. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

“They’ll get their chance. Now if you are refused three times in the course of running from the tower to the river, you go all the way back to the tower and start over. Naturally.” A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

I sat down, started crying and shouting and pounding on the floor, and refused to get up. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Any student refusing to sign will be sent to a German labor camp. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Some people felt sorry for them and offered them places to stay, but most of the refugees refused, because they said the war would eventually reach our town. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Luther Baker refused to reveal the body’s location. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

She puts everything into her classes, cares and listens, and above all else, refuses to label people. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Edwin gunned the engine and angled out of the bay, refusing to look back. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

His friends at school refused to believe George when he told them, even when he swore on his heart. I Survived the Sinking of the Titanic, 1912 2010-06-01T00:00:00Z

Somkit stood with his hand on his satchel for so long that Pong thought he was going to refuse to show it. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

Mr. Sandrouni said, “He asked me to adopt him, but I refused.” Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

She walked east, to where the refuse sat by the river. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

“Very well—and this offer of marriage you have refused?” Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z

In the morning, he refused to go out for breakfast, so I went to the supermarket for groceries and brought us both a bag of food from Hardees. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

It’s hard to read Fischer and Orasanu’s study and not be just a little bit alarmed, because a hint is the hardest kind of request to decode and the easiest to refuse. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

I was the one who refused the truth. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Though Tashbaan looked very far away when they first saw it, it refused to look any further away as they went on. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

He had new ideas about how to break the stranglehold of slavery and refused to give up his guns. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

She drew a breath, as if to refuse me out of hand, then shrugged and looked into the bag, poking around. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The news that a schoolgirl had been arrested for refusing to surrender her bus seat to a white passenger flashed through Montgomery’s black community and traveled far beyond. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

“I am doing what I must, my dear. The offer was too sweet to refuse. I’m sorry.” The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

Molly has learned to pick around the meat—even in a dish like this, where you can hardly tell what’s what and it’s all mixed together—because Dina refuses to acknowledge that she’s a vegetarian. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

In Milagro, waiting for Amarante Cordova to drop dead became like waiting for one of those huge sneezes that just refuses to come. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We had a falling-out,” he said, “and that is something I refuse to discuss, now or in the future. Suffice it to say, I have not communicated with James Halliday in over ten years.” Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

I said, “They pulled me off because I refused to walk off.” Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

There was some spark in that small frame that refused to be quenched. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

He had the completely unenviable job of being Byerley’s campaign manager in a campaign that wasn’t a campaign, for a person that refused to reveal his strategy, and refused to accept his manager’s. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

Uhmma refuses to let her pick us up for church even though we are right along the way. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

We keep playing as Dylan goes on and on about which hot beverage he and Samantha should name their firstborn after, and I refuse to be Uncle Ben to any child named Cider. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

I’d check in with him daily, ask him if anything had happened, if anyone had said anything to him, but he refused to talk about it. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

When Flint refused to move away from the place where Flo had died, Fifi had to leave him so she could feed herself and her one-year-old son, Freud. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

It was so beautiful and scary, I wondered about the science of storms and how sometimes it seemed that a storm wanted to break the world and how the world refused to break. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

I refuse to eat outside, too many bugs that could get on my food. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

“A man saw them in front of my cabin and offered me so much money for them, I couldn’t refuse. He said they were fine examples of Adirondack furniture.” On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the summer of 1944 she came home to Virginia on the Greyhound bus to visit her mother, but was arrested on the return trip to Baltimore for refusing to move to the Colored section. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

But Luma stayed where she was, head down, in the shade, refusing to even make eye contact with her players. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

Frightened, he stared at all the peering faces, refusing to let go of Jonathan. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

I make a vain attempt;—they refuse to come away. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

If he refused, for any reason, it would only confirm his suspicions that Marcus had something to hide. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

No doubt the Lannisters had good reason for refusing to honor King Robert’s debts, but it was folly all the same. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

When she had seen enough, she put the mirror down gently, turned away, and refused for a long time to speak. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

Other people came in with their sick animals—a dog that had swallowed a corncob, a lethargic cat, a puppy that refused to eat. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Over nothing worth the fight. So I refused to be one of them. And here I am. And here I’ll stay.” Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

I feel like an old piece of leather, drying and cracking in the heat. every step is an effort, but I refuse to stop. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Leo was about to say, What if we refuse to go to the stadium? Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

By refusing to work in the prison’s basket-weaving shop, Osborne got himself sentenced to a night in the “jail”—a barely lit room between Auburn’s Death Row and its generator that contained eight metal cells. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had grabbed my arm and whispered that my refusing to see our father was a grave sin. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

It was as if a prop on which I leaned had been roughly kicked away, and I felt frightened and refused to believe him. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

He tried taking Tylenol, hoping it would help his severe sore throat and fever, but the pill lodged in his throat, refusing to dissolve. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

A.M. said, “That monster made an offer that many of our brethren couldn’t refuse. Clock Watchers need something to do. When time is frozen, there aren’t many options.” The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

But she refuses to surrender to that hair of hers, and every morning, it goes back into the braid. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

He refused to give her the car keys until she cajoled him with kisses and caresses. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

She had refused to even hold Hassan, and just five days later, she was gone. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Do you remember the words of Okeoma’s poem about making the sun rise if it refused to rise?” she asked. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Don’t refuse something like that,” he said to her emphatically. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

The punishment for refusing to bow to the king was worse than the punishment for witchcraft. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

But the National party refused to end apartheid; instead, each year the system was fortified by the promulgation of laws to entrench white rule and privilege. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Should he have refused when other electrical agencies requested sanctuary for their workers? Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Two taxi drivers honked and honked at a jammed intersection, refusing to budge. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

And since the executive knew he didn’t have the right to refuse, he stepped aside. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

The houses simply refused to get any smaller. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

“Because we refused, duh. He had thirty wives already. Didn’t you know those women were his wives?” Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

People cried when their large items were refused. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

‘Needless is Théoden’s demand, but it is useless to refuse. A king will have his way in his own hall, be it folly or wisdom.’ The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

And I refused to be upset when Zara wasn’t waiting for me before homeroom. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

I didn’t recognize the voice, but I refused to turn. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

Two of the companies refused to pay the full amount, citing excessive insurance clauses. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

When those in the central plateau staged a rebellion—refusing to be treated as slaves—their insurrection was put down violently by Marine-supervised Haitian police, not unlike the French masters had done to their ancestors. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

He refused to be made an American citizen. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

I knew I had landed that touch, and I asked the ref to look at the touch again on his screen, but he still refused to give me the point. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

“Your grandmother might refuse my help. She and your grandfather have never held me in much esteem. But if she will accept my assistance in locating Stan, I will give it.” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

“Nonsense! a man does not imagine any such thing. But what is the meaning of this? Harriet Smith refuse Robert Martin? madness, if it is so; but I hope you are mistaken.” Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z

Bunny, I knew, had been hitting him hard for money in the past weeks, but though Henry complained about this he seemed oddly incapable of refusing him. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

The weavers at the Massachusetts Corporation had all refused the agent’s demand that they each tend four looms and take a piece rate reduction as well. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

She did not speak, but she looked up at him with a face made very eloquent by happiness, and a smile which said, “No one can refuse me anything today.” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Why have you refused to see me?” he asked. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

He hesitated, and when he refused it was obviously about as easy for him as tearing out his own soul. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

But when people confronted me, I refused to confirm it or deny it. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

He turned to me and said in some agitation, “They are refusing to give me my letter.” Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I can see you understand them. Counters, measurers, theory-makers. All pigs eat cheese. Old Snaggle is a pig. If Snaggle is sick and refuses to eat, try cheese. Games, games, games!” Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I refuse to take the insult,” Ma Charles said. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

Into his heart the thought will not enter that any will refuse it, that having the Ring we may seek to destroy it. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Maybe fear and desire ran along the same tracks in her body, but she refused to confuse Wash’s giving with Henry’s taking. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

The Lumiere brothers refused my request, so I was forced to build my own, which I did using leftover parts from my automaton. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

But Pork Chop refused to wear any of them. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Say no more. Instead, think carefully. If you refuse, you shall become a voiceless, mindless slave, without even hope of death to release you from your bondage.” The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

Though charges were dropped against him within seventy-two hours, the DEA refused to return his Learjet. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Still refusing to answer how and why questions. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

He brought me into his home when Mother refused to bring me into hers. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

The harvesters refused to call the uncles “khans.” Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

On the first day of school, her homeroom teacher refused to believe she was who she said she was. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

So Abel became our only transport, and he would refuse to take us places. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

I refused, saying it was a confidential matter between myself and my attorney. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He further declared that Eratosthenes’ earth measurement was “supported by such subtle arguments that we cannot refuse our assent.” Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

That was the freshman who refused to sell any chocolates. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The twins walked by and refused to help. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

She also may have felt ambivalent about the suffrage issue because she was a Quaker; many Quakers refused to vote because they did not want to participate in a government that waged war. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

And I refuse to be a bystander any longer. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

She refused, her voice higher, lighter as a panic rose within her. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

As soon as I do, she stops dead in her tracks and refuses to move forward until I go first. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the afternoon of the day when her father had refused to buy her a book, Matilda set out all by herself to walk to the public library in the village. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

Given the odds, “my staff refused to do anything more with it. They said it isn’t worth working on; there isn’t enough material. We can’t do anything with it.” The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

I was too hungry to refuse, and took a few cookies, trying not to wolf them down. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

And this presented her with a problem that she had refused, at home in Maryland, to think about, but from which, now, she could not escape: the problem of their life together. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

There was no blood, but Otto’s toes had curled up and refused to straighten. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

Only ... if Mother or Robb did anything treasonous, called the banners or refused to swear fealty or anything, it would all go wrong. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

I stubbornly refused to be the first to break it this time, fighting hard against the temptation to peek at his expression. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Most of the nation said they believed it was wrong for unions and churches to refuse black people membership and for employers to refuse to hire African-Americans. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

He’d stubbornly refused to get a license for years, insisting on riding his bike everywhere. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Still, many scientists refused to believe HeLa contamination was real. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Just as she predicted, most people gave them stuff and refused to take any money, which was just as well, since they only had nineteen cents between them. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Twice the midwife refused to come to laboring mothers who had nothing to pay, and so the unfortunate women had to bring forth their babies with none but a neighbor to help. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

I refused to take it at first, saying it belonged with him or his children instead of me. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

In the morning, Phoebe refused to get up. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

I did not refuse it, for my appetite was awakened and keen. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

Not knowing she could refuse, Carla nodded meekly, on the verge of tears. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

There is no wind to carry, bear, or even refuse to bear, a sound so heavy with regret. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’d jerk his head this way and that or sit down and refuse to budge. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

Dad said something about freaks of nature, and Mom called Dad a Mr. Know-It-All Smarty-Pants who refused to believe that she was special. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m worried he’s doing something far worse than that. I refuse to halt the games just to bow to a hacker’s threat—but the safety of our audience isn’t something I want to compromise.” Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

In a time in America when it was of arch importance for a militant black voice to reach mass audiences, Life magazine wanted to do a personal story of me, and I refused. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mama holds out a plate with a ravioli-like dish with meat inside and, when everyone refuses, scrapes the last of it onto her own plate. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

If I had refused, she would have thought I was trying to be “womanish” and might have remembered St. Louis. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

I refused, telling him that he had led the organization in exile far better than I ever could have. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The magnetic screws refused to be coaxed back into their grooves without the proper tool, so Artemis was forced to glue them too. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

But he refused to answer when addressed in English and forbade the speaking of English in his home. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Still, his mother continued to carry him with her, refusing to believe he was dead until the chief forced the baby from her arms and buried him. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He drove his superiors and fellow officers to fury, partly by repeatedly disobeying instructions and partly by his paranoid habit of refusing to divulge his strategies, such as they were, to anyone. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

He refused to go up on deck to get fresh air. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

White learned that Rudensky had been recruited to assist with the escape but had refused. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Mr. Ray said Mr. Price was pretty successful, but refused to leave the hood. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Decade by decade, she watched Rosa Parks’s fame grow as the person who had ignited the movement by refusing to surrender her seat to a white passenger on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

“I keep trying to help you,” he says, “but you refuse to be helped.” Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

But Rumpff refused to recuse himself and instead offered the assurance that his judgment in the Defiance case would have no influence on him in this one. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the beginning Rosaleen refused to join in, but soon she was going right along with the rest of us. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But he refused to share it with a colored lady.” Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Yet I feel guilt at being full, for Therese again refuses to take food. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Hermione was now refusing to speak to Harry and Ron, but she was such a bossy know-it-all that they saw this as an added bonus. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

Only old Benjamin refused to grow enthusiastic about the windmill, though, as usual, he would utter nothing beyond the cryptic remark that donkeys live a long time. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

"Well..." she said again, still hesitating, still refusing to say "No." Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

Though they carried him from one police station to another, though they threatened him, persuaded him, bullied him, and stormed at him, he steadfasdy refused to speak. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

“You sweet, stubborn satyrs refused to accept my passing. And I love you for that, but you only delayed the inevitable. You only prolonged my long, painful passing, my dark twilight sleep. It must end.” The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

“Better you than me,” they said together, but Harry had an idea that Snape wouldn’t refuse if there were other teachers listening. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

Despite the escalating black rebellion, the government still refused to talk. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Believing that higher education was a waste of time for girls, he refused to pay a penny toward it. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

She sat there, dusty from nine hundred miles of driving, and refused to move another inch. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

I am wondering if he has always worn this or only since Addie’s refusing to say the Pledge, when I further notice that his tie does not go with his shirt. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

“I couldn’t have done, could I? That was the whole point, he was refusing to tell Snape.” Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

I look around the room, refusing to believe there’s no water left in here. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Should he have refused to allow all of his employees safe refuge within the gates of the plant? Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Bake until a tester inserted in cake refuses to come out. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Some men refuse to rise and are left sleeping, soon to become Union prisoners. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

For a moment she was tempted to refuse, or at least to argue. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

At first he refused it, saying that it was meant for Tree-ear. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

“Indeed,” replied Elizabeth, “I am heartily sorry for him; but he has other feelings, which will probably soon drive away his regard for me. You do not blame me, however, for refusing him?” Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z

All through the riots people had tried to break in, but the concrete walls and thick iron doors had refused to yield. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Laney will latch herself on to Mr. Jeet’s leg and refuse to let go.” The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Each time they refused me, they implied clearly that I had probably come by these checks dishonestly and they wanted nothing to do with them or me. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The two of them fought and bickered the whole time, and after that first trip my mother refused to go back. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Mom and I waited for it to grow while the Korean Fire, our survivor flower, blossomed around it—but that iris seed refused to sprout. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

How could we stand up for ourselves if everyone cowered in fear and refused to speak? Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

But Curtis refused to even listen to their offer, stating that he would not accept any plan “that might be construed as a pardon of the men on trial.” 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

Miss Peregrine climbed it with grim resolve, holding the banister with both hands to pull herself up one step at a time, refusing any help. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

One afternoon, after he had refused to do the school- work they brought to him, his television privileges had been revoked. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

All of the Muslims in the compartment had offered me food, and I had refused. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the SS-HJ refused to drape their vehicles in white flags. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

The next morning she did not get up, and when the maid brought in the breakfast tray she refused to have her open the curtains. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I refuse to look at Peck, who’s leaning against the kitchen counter. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

He refused to take it, gently suggesting she needed it more than he did. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

By that time, Charlie refused to take them down because it was already closer to next Christmas than it was from last. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

Even in a different context, I refuse to use the word “hype” again. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Before the deportation notice, he refused to speak with a Jamaican accent or use Jamaican slang. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

He was so impressed that he tried to give her his wristwatch, but she disdainfully refused it! A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

She also refused to get put into any bubble. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Grandmother kept Nhamo by her side and refused to let her run any more errands. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her mother wasn’t a woman I wanted to offend or to hurt, but my conscience wouldn’t let me refuse her if she wanted to learn. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

During the first day of our strike, we were served our normal rations and refused to take them. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Here and there a Luddite holdout refuses to open an email account, just as thousands of years ago some human bands refused to take up farming and so escaped the luxury trap. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Women beat up on the clerks who refused them help, or who made them wait in line for days, or who wouldn’t see them at all after they’d waited for hours. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

He ran his finger over a couple lines and said: “Jenny says you’re still refusing to talk in therapy.” We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

In refusing to do so he was simply being greedy, intransigent and ruled by unfounded fears and mistaken beliefs. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Laomedon promised, but when Hercules had slain the monster the King refused to pay. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

The whites offered coffee, nodded, and smiled, but refused to budge an inch when it came to Jim Crow. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

Mr. Lewis’s left eye is swollen shut and blood drips onto his shirt from a slash on his cheek, but he refuses to go to the hospital. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

Burr, true to form, refused to make any promises to deliver New York to the secessionists, but he also would not repudiate the conspiracy. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

I refuse to put on a show for them. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Sierra was sniffling, but she refused to let the tears out. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

This was the first time she had ever encountered anyone who refused immunity. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Eleanor Roosevelt refused to obey the segregation rule. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

Tommy refused to be snubbed and, cupping his ear to the carton, shouted, “What’s that? No kidding! You’re crazy about me. Inside that answer machine all those brainy cells are rooting for me to win.” In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

“My client is an officer of the law, Mr. McAllister. By refusing to lower the volume of your music, you were in direct opposition to a police order.” Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Despite all the evidence, most researchers still refused to believe there was a problem. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

She speeded up and refused to be shaken off. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

A year later in Alabama’s capital city, Montgomery, Rosa Parks refused to surrender her seat to a white man and move to the back of a city bus. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

Worried that Ang Dorje was so distraught that he might refuse to go down, Hutchison beseeched him to descend from the Col immediately. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, refusing to ask for help isn’t going to.” Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Having already given her address at the ferry, she was asked again when she returned, and refused, saying she had done so earlier. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I refuse to believe that he gave you orders to search my office!” Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Wright-Patterson Air Force Base had refused to allow further testing on women astronaut candidates for fear that the public would think they advocated women in space. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z

Bon refused to fight I said: ‘If you don’t fight I shall kill you as you stand.’ The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He said she was always impulsive like that, and she always loved movies. She grew up watching everything in black and white, because their mother refused to splurge on a color TV.” I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

The pigsty stank, and so did the outhouse, the refuse pit, and the field workers plowing in the sun. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

The fact that our lack of care and concern may have been, at times, unintentional or unconscious does not mitigate our crime—if we refuse, when given the chance, to make amends. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Anyone knowledgeable about human societies can cite innumerable examples of societies that refused crops, livestock, and other innovations that would have been productive. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Since President Lincoln refused to officially recognize the Confederacy, the stars remained. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

When a few of the king’s knights strapped them onto their feet nonetheless, the big southern horses balked and refused to move, or tried to shake the things off their feet. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I refused again when a cover story was offered by Newsweek. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

I refuse to quit, and I won’t let my companions fail, either. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

That was actually the crux of the meeting—I’ve tried to refuse my share of the crown’s money. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

By and by I will not get sick; I will refuse to. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her past was a mystery she refused to discuss. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

But if she was told to, she would not dare refuse. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Katie refused to dance with the feller provided for her, a vacuous vulgar boy given to remarks like: “I thought you musta fallen in,” when Katie returned from a trip to the ladies’ room. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was Salahuddin the butcher, who showed up with a calf and two sheep in tow, refusing payment for any of the three. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

And when she refused him, full of dread, He took up his sword, and smote off her head — But there was the miracle! Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z

But Karna the Generous could not refuse his mother what she asked of him. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Uncle got lost and refused to stop for directions because, he kept saying, he knew the way, which he obviously didn’t. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

He waited to see whether El-ahrairah would refuse the wager, but he did not. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Frank refused to believe he’d been chosen by the Fates to go on this quest just so he could take online courses in turnip cultivation. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

St. John was not a man to be lightly refused: you felt that every impression made on him, either for pain or pleasure, was deep-graved and permanent. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

Derek refused to stop, so my father leaped right into his boat. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

I had no real desire to waste my time throwing balls at bottles to win cheap prizes, but Audrey refused to let me spend another Friday night wallowing alone in my room. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

Ever since Coach Harper and Dr. Williams refused our request to create privacy in the Torture Chamber, she hasn't stopped steaming about it. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Did you know that this grocer refuses to hire Negro workers? Don’t spend money where your people aren’t respected and can’t earn a living,” she says. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Like if they refuse to believe in gravity, they can simply ignore it. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

In my village, refuse was heaved behind our houses. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

He had nominated himself to order whatever food he could afford with twenty bucks, but refused when I asked if he wanted me to go with him. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

My eyes grew dry as I stared out the window, refusing to blink, refusing to miss a single second of watching the trees and roads and cars and houses slowly grow larger and larger. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I refuse to deal with a human who can’t appreciate quality tailoring.” The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Then, almost at the end of their journey, they came upon a Giantess—and all the sorrow of the world was turned to futility, for she refused to weep. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You can see how I refuse my pension in order to get rid of the torture of waiting for it until the day I died.” One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Eventually, it occurred to me that self-respect had required him to refuse. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

It would not have occurred to Ifemelu to refuse the check; now she could pay some bills, send something home to her parents. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Reynie finally settled on lasagna and chocolate milk—and ice cream, since Sticky refused to do Constance’s bidding. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

There was no refusing, however inconvenient it might have seemed to fight a war with Meissen porcelain under one arm. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Baba had refused repayment until Dello had shown up one day in our driveway in a Benz and insisted he wouldn’t leave until Baba took his money. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Gerald, fearful of what he might find, refusing to even imagine what he had discovered, raced across the cold floor and opened Angel’s door. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He refused to move until my brother took his cows in a different direction from the rest of the village herd. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

To keep our spirits up, he called out hup, two, three, four, but Mom and Lori refused to march along in step. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

He refused to run for president for those first elections. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

We’ve been at it for four months and the store still refuses to hire Negroes. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

She refuses to picture what she shall see soon enough: her mother’s vermilion erased from her part, her brother’s thick hair shaved from his head in mourning. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

And when the mangoes refused to fall, the children cried, stomped their bare feet, and collapsed in frustration on the ground. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

"I will refuse him," Ned said as he turned back to her. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

I feel the old man’s gaze on me but refuse to meet it. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

“Just trying to attract attention,” Baby Kochamma said and resolutely refused to have her attention attracted. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Polish government was intent on proving that it was as antisemitic as the Nazis and so refused to grant the refugees permission to reenter their homeland. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

When he refused to believe this, I looked under all the desks without finding one; but he remained unconvinced. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

But Cressen had refused, and in the end he had won. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Lumpy insisted that he could walk no farther, and he refused to discuss it any further. faze/phase. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

It attracted whatever refuse there was in the office, and whenever pens, eyeglasses, purses, or cigarette lighters were missing they could usually be found somewhere in her desk. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

A heavy snow, the heaviest of the autumn so far, was falling; my driver refused to take me farther than to Shusgis’ house, as he did not have snow-cleats on his tires. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

Marcus glanced at me, but I refused to look him in the eyes. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

Still, at least nine in ten truckers here, one trucker at the stop says, refuse migrants. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

He refused to teach me any sygaldry at all, and on top of everything else, he began to ration what little sympathy he thought safe for me. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

When Cofield returned alone, the staff refused to give him the records because he wasn’t a doctor or a relative of the patient. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

She, herself, felt the distance, but refused to lord it over us. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ellie clutched her bag and refused a newspaper from a kid and watched the main entrance by the ticket counter. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

In November 1926, when a reporter wrote to White fishing for gossip about Hale, White refused to provide any, insisting that Hale would be “treated as other prisoners are treated.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

I refuse to look around in case I see someone, everyone, watching me. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

They said hello, but if she refused to answer, well, they didn’t see why they had to say hello anymore. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yes—if you like to put it that way—I refuse. They had to do with—with a task I had undertaken.” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

He assumed the position but refused the promotion and took the stand that he would never accept it as long as the Conservative regime was in power. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

I realized why my dad refuses to shop for anything, even golf clubs and fishing gear, with my mom. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

When Artemis Senior had disappeared, Angeline Fowl had become more and more attached to the space, eventually refusing to leave altogether. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

But Officer Callahan refused to do anything and restrained the black cop from making a move. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Unfortunately, my grandmother got really sick during this time and refused to go to the hospital. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

I offered her some warm milk but she refused. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

He was surprised when, in front of everyone, she hugged him, refusing to let go. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

But if one thing or one living creature refused to weep for him she would keep him. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

At first, her mother refused to believe she was gay. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Then she leaves me to stew in thoughts I refuse to sell. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

Five hundred feet above the South Col, where the steep shale gave way to a gender slope of snow, Namba’s oxygen ran out, and the diminutive Japanese woman sat down, refusing to move. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

When Highboy brought out a pint bottle of gin, and they laughed and passed the bottle from mouth to mouth, he refused that also. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

My mother was, at this time, some thirteen years of age, big with child, and in little state to refuse. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Can you imagine that, Cochran? A Trinity boy who has refused to sell the chocolates? Do you know what’s happened, Cochran? Do you know why the sales have fallen off?” The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Matthew refused to leave, so Emily and James agreed to meet him by the bucket man after they found their book. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

After the burial he drew up and personally submitted to the president of the republic a violent telegram, which the telegrapher refused to send. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

“That small child, Nneka, just died and her mother has refused to let them take the body and bury,” Ugwu said, after he greeted them. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

The questioning over for now, Wells refused to let Mary return home. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was probably right, but I refused my heart its loosening, kept it tight and impervious to him. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

Nothing to eclipse the kiss I refused to give him that would have been his last...or could have saved him. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

He refused to submit to cruelty and tyranny. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Milton was beset by a storm of emotion he refused to acknowledge. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Second, and perhaps most important of all, Prohibition failed because tens of millions of people refused to give up drinking and would do anything to get their hard liquor, beer, or wine. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

They were the only ones going to be “saved”—but Peachy refused to raise her own children that way. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Jenna asked if the school could set up a changing space for girls who need privacy, but Coach refused. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

She hugged all of us except Dad—she had refused to speak a word to him since he plundered Oz—promised to write, and climbed into the station wagon. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Prisoners who refused would receive “write-ups” that went into their files and face months of solitary confinement. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

As always, the man in the grey suit refuses to enter the flat. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

He refused to buckle under the burden of grief and loss. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

George tries his best to gently unravel the sheet, to get busy with his part of the rescue, but Lark refuses to budge from her cocoon. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

But mine managers refused to acknowledge that the miners had the right to join a labor union. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z

Apá has been sitting in the back of the room all day, refusing to speak to anyone, staring off into nothing, like he always does. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

As much as she refused to admit it, Mr. Miller, Clayton’s father, was right: at times Clayton Byrd could be a handful. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

Mike was firing away, sogging Webb from head to toe, and Webb was standing there taking it, like the day he refused to have a water-gun fight with me. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

My feet move, and the two women look up from the pile of refuse they’ve been collecting. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

They loaded their truck with all the things they had confiscated, including the bicycle that Qian had refused to lend them. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ugwu knew the poem: If the sun refuses to rise, we will make it rise. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Tears were bubbling up inside me, but I refused to let the other girls or the coaches see me cry. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

When my mother and grandmother told the story of our births, it was mostly of how Caroline had refused to breathe. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Howard University refused to accept any such restriction, the Superintendent of Schools promptly withdrew the offer. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

“I think so too, Miss. Bessie said she was sure you would not refuse: but I suppose you will have to ask leave before you can get off?” Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

But I was no longer a boxing fan, since that incident years ago, so when Uncle Pietrus, a boxing fanatic, obtained two scalped tickets and invited me along, I refused. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was an empty lot full of garbage, with rats scampering among the refuse. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Vincenzio refused, on the seemingly reasonable grounds that there were plenty of jobs for doctors but very few for mathematicians. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

“But this office refuses to give them one!” Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

I refused to be convinced to fear him, no matter how real the danger might be. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Brigid had brought some Irish concoction that Mrs. Bedlow seemed to be trying to refuse, but the girl would not leave until she had been allowed to spoon some of it into the patient’s mouth. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

I demand, but she refuses to say any more. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

While I desired the privileges that came with higher classifications, I refused to compromise my conduct. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Finally he refused to take the bus any farther until Mr. Popper got off. Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z

No matter how they reassured him, he refused to enter the arena. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

If I’m going to die, it will be because I refused to murder a girl. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Another hour passes, but her stomach refuses to settle down. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He learned his letters late, so the story goes, and refuses to look at anything over a page long. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

And because of their gifts, my parents could not refuse their invitation to join the church. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

They refused to inform my wife as to where I was to be taken. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

His hands refused to let me move so much as an inch. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

“Anemone, the nymph who refused to yield to the wind.” Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

Johnny refuses to dance but bobs his head. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

And she refused to say any more about it. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I do not trust myself in this, and I refused this thing, even as a freely given gift. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

A new shape for a teapot, a new inscribed design—these were things that the potters refused to reveal until a piece was ready to show to a buyer. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

I get it every time, but I refuse to be driven out of the woods. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then, when he could eat no more, Sibanda would return to his home and would refuse to eat. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

Skeeter refuses to give any more away on this intriguing subject, so we turn instead to the relationship that will undoubtedly fascinate her readers more than any other. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Governor Wallace refused to receive a delegation from the marchers. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some people refused to believe Stephanie and Erin were into each other and claimed that someone who wanted to embarrass Erin must have posted the picture. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

He refused to buy anything unless the honor of his family demanded he do so. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Those who refused to quit were dealt with harshly. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

He had refused to recant his heresies, including his belief in other inhabited worlds. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Some hippies barricaded themselves in the Science Building, in the lone bomb shelter, and refused to let anyone in who didn’t know the words to “Sugar Magnolia.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

But those swift feelings of contempt never lasted long enough for her to refuse those drive-in movie sessions where she was the sole object of someone’s hunger and satisfaction. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Delsa and Norma were supposed to help, but most of the time they refused, especially when I tried to get them to do the unpleasant tasks like changing Raymond’s diaper or scrubbing the rice pot. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

After our big brawl, though, Mrs. Schein refused to let Kim come over to my house, convinced that her daughter would return on crutches. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But, Fiver, I think they may refuse to go much further. And then again, you say all this and yet you say you’re too tired to swim?” Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Miig locked eyes with Lincoln, who in turn refused to look away. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

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

But, no matter what Lourdes said, Pilar refused to pin up her hair or hide it under a knitted cap as other girls did. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Adam Trask refused to buy in a hurry, and Bordoni was asking a big price and using the selling method of pretending not to care whether he sold or not. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

He stopped talking about Tyler’s leaving and refused to hire a hand to replace him. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Then he discovered that if he hatched mallard duck eggs, the ducklings refused to follow him. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

She kept to her vow, and so long as the war went on she refused to serve Continental officers. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I tried to laugh it off, shrugging and starting a stream of “no big deal” sentiments, but he refused to allow it. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

They say she bawled bloody murder and refused to come into the house, so Uncle Herm finally had to drag his whole family away before they even had a chance to take their coats off. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

In any case, Elizabeth refused to hurt her sister this way. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

“Excuse me, Mr. President,” he said, “but they indignantly refused.” Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

She refused to believe that her husband had died. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

If he’s refusing tea, then what are we supposed to make forced conversation over? Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Lucy Stone refused to run for president of the new group. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Their other relatives had modern electric bread ovens now, but Sitti refused to touch them. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

The coloured students in Alexandra had till now refused to participate in the school boycotts, claiming that they were not being taught Bantu Education. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I suppose we can hardly refuse,” ventured Rachel. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

Those who refused to answer were automatically regarded as guilty and were blacklisted, meaning that they were not able to find work for the duration of the second Red Scare. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

Although he hated the old country, he stubbornly refused to like the new country. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

I would have refused, but he gave me no chance, and before I could put down the receiver I heard Frank’s voice. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

This ancient refuse became ammunition in a long-running academic battle between Harvard botanist Paul C. Mangelsdorf and George Beadle, a geneticist who worked at Stanford, Caltech, and the University of Chicago. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

“Yesterday the he-goat locked the tank and refused to give me the key,” Jomo said. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Refuse to be a puppet, refuse to be a clone. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

After we presented test results that confirmed his innocence in 2000, I begged prosecutors to retest the evidence, but for fifteen years they refused. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

I try to look away, but my neck refuses to turn. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

I loved having the power to say yes or no, and refusing anything was a special pleasure. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

Henry refused to compromise; he left school, abandoned his plans to become a clergyman, and took a job as an agent of the American Anti-Slavery Society. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

But Arod, the horse of Rohan, refused the way, and he stood sweating and trembling in a fear that was grievous to see. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

It is not simply a matter of refusing to acknowledge an obvious, though uncomfortable, truth. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

I refused to give her my records of classes and grades. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

As Germany grew more desperate for soldiers, some boys who refused to join were threatened with accusations of treason or even execution. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh, yes, I would like a cat! I only asked for a kitten lest you should refuse me a cat. No one would refuse me a kitten, would they?” Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

The vampire business smacked of Dark Shadows reruns, and I refused to take it seriously. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

She probably would have burst into tears if Gregor hadn’t refused the offer. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

But now that I have, there’s no way to refuse. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

To refuse to go through with the marriage would bring dishonor on my family. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

The Supreme Court had banned the execution of people with intellectual disability, but states like Alabama refused to assess in any honest way whether the condemned are disabled. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Blanca said nothing, but from that day on she refused to join them at the table and missed no opportunity to make the Frenchman feel unwanted. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Had he not repeatedly refused my mother permission to attend any of the several churches in our neighbourhood? Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

When they reached the ranch, the peasants, emboldened by the support they had received from the press, refused to let them in, demanding a court order. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the first Saturday in October, my father refused to come down to the visiting room. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

The soldier is trying to get Starry's contact information, and my sister is sweetly but firmly refusing him. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

So he refused to recognize Haiti—America’s only sister republic. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

When his lungs finally gave out and his miners refused to let him on the man-trip anymore, Dad joined her there. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

So far I had refused to suckle and give her relief, but I kept close by. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Christian was offended at Tycho’s high tone and the way he treated the King as an equal, and not least by this haughty phrase, which implied that Tycho might refuse a royal request. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

If my face got any warmer, my eyebrows would’ve started smoking, but I refused to look away. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Most scientists refused to go even that far. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

“I will go nowhere, I will fly fighters,” Valentina said, and refused to get up from the chair where she was sitting. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

As a teenager, he rebelled and refused to go to school. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

Barbarossa refused to sleep in the same room as the other children. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

How would it be if he refused to permit the change of subject, if he insisted upon arguing the case against Malfoy? Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Baba had offered to drive them to Bamiyan himself, but Ali refused. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“And I’ve told you a million times,” said Lupin, refusing to meet her eyes, staring at the floor, “that I am too old for you, too poor...too dangerous...” Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

He glanced back at the sledge, a bit of refuse in the vast torment of ice and reddish rock. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

Judge Ford told him about Theo's proposal, but Sandy refused to go along. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It watches out for them when I’m not here. They refuse to accept a servant.” Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

"I'm awfully sorry, sir," I said, worried lest he report me to Dr. Bledsoe, the president, who would refuse to allow me to drive again. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

"You've felt that hunger, every mother's son of you. Would you refuse to let him satisfy it?" The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

Chou comes over and offers her hand, but I refuse it. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She refused to ask and instead took it as a sign. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Her old bracelet was too big for her wrist, but after being away from it for so long, she refused to remove it. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Amari felt her heart quicken, but she refused to let Clay see that she was scared. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

If I refuse to go with them, will they cut my throat? Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Not much longer now,” says Frau Elena, her palms out in front of the stove as the water refuses to boil. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

He was working with Bryson, a little boy who refused to make anything except vases that would eventually become pencil holders, but his parents seemed to be thrilled with each and every one. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Or, refusing to do so, had been imprisoned at Elsinore, or worse, killed? Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Words stick to my tongue and refuse to come out. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

Brian believed that Mom and Dad needed to be forced to be self-sufficient or they’d be dependent on us forever, so he refused to take them in. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Twice it happened that when my brother took his cows out in the morning that bull got in front of the rest of the cows and refused to move. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nor did the idea of refusing her advances even cross his mind. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

“Eh, well, I’d be lying if I refused it,” said the old man, taking it off the point of Heqet’s knife. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

Henry Lee, for example, apprised Madison that the assumption debate reminded him of those glorious days of yesteryear, when the Virginia Assembly refused to recognize Parliament’s right to tax colonies. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

That night two gardeners, who refused to look at Matt, removed his bed. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the age of six, Clara had foreseen that the horse was going to throw Luis, but he refused to listen and had had a dislocated hip ever since. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

After three years on the team I had finally gotten to the point where I refused to give it any more attention. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

It really wasn’t bad at all, though Katz refused to admit it. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

The books were dumped, like animal refuse out of a wheelbarrow, onto the pyre. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

A white mob lynched Private Charles Lewis in Hickman, Kentucky, when he refused to empty his pockets while wearing his army uniform. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

The authorities refused to renew it, insisting that we move our offices to an African location many miles away and virtually unreachable for our clients. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It represented an additional delay, an additional period or interval in which something could happen, and I just for once got up on my hind legs and almost flatly refused to go to New Mexico.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Haven’t you heard how those American embassy people treat Nigerians? They insult you and call you a liar and on top of it, eh, refuse to give you a visa,” Amaka said. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

When my father said that my mother was not coming back, I refused to believe it. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

Stanton and Anthony refused to apologize or back down. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

He even refused to use the litter box if it wasn’t scooped after every, um, bathroom break. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

Although Bobby had received numerous requests to give a deposition, he continued to refuse, so the case was dragging on. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

I refused the money and accepted a cup of coffee instead. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

She offers him some mandu, even though he hates Korean food and has refused to eat it since junior high. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

Then it stopped with its hood stuck in the undergrowth and refused to go any farther. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Because the houses we wanted to build would be on Indian reservations, we were refused help. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Teapot tasted the difference and refused to eat it. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

I refuse to make them feel better about killing my friend. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

We took pictures with Marsha and some of the staff, and her daughter is in every shot because she refused to let her mother go. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Viola refused to call it either the laboratory or the former slave quarters. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

The DHA refused to provide any reason for its action, but there was no mystery about what had happened. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Ned begged her to tell him what had occurred, but she refused. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

“I think that those who wished to seek shelter in Cathair have already come; most of the rest refuse to leave their villages.” Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

If Cobb refused to let the actor cross the bridge, Booth had no other way out of the city. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I refuse to show myself out of doors in my bare feet,” the Centipede said. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

As the emotional conversation drew to a close, Lawrence pleaded with Alvarez to follow his lead for the good of the lab and refuse to testify. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

His characters escape from Cuba on rafts of sticks and tires, refuse to harvest grapefruit, dream of singing in a rock and roll band in California. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

One of them, entitled Afloat, flapped its endpapers, drifted to the ceiling, and refused to move despite Artful Guile trying to tempt it back down with a bookmark. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Frank refused to explain exactly what his “family gift” was, but as they flew north, Frank did tell them about his conversation with Mars the night before. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Skirting or briefly inhabiting the bottom of the scoreboard does not make one a failure, but remaining there, refusing to fight, does. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

His enemies made much of the deception, labeling Lincoln a coward and refusing to believe that such a plot existed in the first place. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

Frank offered me half of the money he did have, and I refused it. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

Prince had refused to cut his hair and wouldn’t be joining the team. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

We’ve gone up to visit them two or three times, but they refuse to come down to the Keys. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

My parents had at first refused to believe the emergency room doctor’s wild claim about my anatomy. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

I also refused to stay at home when Char traveled, and learned every language and dialect that came our way. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

The two refused even to look at each other. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Of course, Baba refused, and everyone shook their heads in dismay at his obstinate ways. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

I had taken her so much for granted that I hadn't even thought of my debt when I refused the job. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Dogbreath” Doge, who refused to be interviewed for this book, has given the public his own sentimental version of what happened next. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

And even then they all refused to ride back to the factory in the elevator. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z

He did not like sitting beneath her, and he fumed when the slaves offered each dish first to the khal and his bride, and served him from the portions they refused. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

His father was an engineer with claims to numerous patents, and he refused to let Dave be interviewed without lawyers present. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

Representative Thetus Sims of Tennessee had broken his arm and shoulder by slipping on ice several days earlier, but he refused to seek medical care until he cast his vote in favor of the amendment. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

“Better than you know,” said Tyrion, refusing to rise to the bait. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I offered a taste to Laleh, who refused—it was too hot, and it had not been sweetened at all—and then took my own sip. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Granted, they were there because Burr challenged Hamilton, and Hamilton concluded he could not refuse the challenge without staining his honor. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

“There’s this new girl at the Bean Bar. She says French is the language of love. And that’s why she refuses to speak it.” Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

He halts, refusing to walk any farther, standing in the middle of the path. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

He assumed I was indulging him because we were close to our destination, and he refused. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

“Too much power,” he said, pushing off the wet ground, refusing to admit that it hurt like hell. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Those who desire to be purified cannot be refused and the black stain of his guilt had grown fainter and fainter through his years of lonely wandering and pain. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nobody was refusing him permission to be up on the wall now. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

But the air force, which was the agency charged with space exploration in the late 1950s, refused to consider any woman for astronaut training. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z

“We may depend upon it,” said Agnes wisely, “that Sir Lancelot refused to strike a felled knight” “We may depend.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

At a time when mental illness carried a deep and almost ineradicable stigma, Elizebeth refused to let it create a chasm between her and her husband. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

I can’t breathe, like I’m drowning in the tears I refuse to shed. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

“My dad says some of his workers saw her. And now they refuse to step foot in that part of the forest.” I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z

Indeed, a sizable faction refused to accept the fact that two unknown men, two thieving strangers, were solely responsible. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

But my mother refused to speak to me. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

She took the necessary steps to deal with my unknown father’s rights, but my mother refused to give me up. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Luke runs by us with a smirk, while Emily holds her head high and refuses to look in his direction. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

Then Minho said he had a special assignment from Newt, and more or less told Thomas to get lost, refusing to answer any of his questions. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

In spite of the increasing nastiness of those scribbled spells, he had refused to believe ill of the boy who had been so clever, who had helped him so much... Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

There is a rabbit saying, “In the warren, more stories than passages”; and a rabbit can no more refuse to tell a story than an Irishman can refuse to fight. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

He could often be found baling hay and chopping wood at his country home on Long Island, refusing to let any physical limitations get in his way. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

He refused to let his army enter and loot the city. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mom began phoning anyone she thought might help her refuse to take me. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

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

“Of course. And when Mrs. Gause refused to do her bidding...” Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

The trick was to refuse to allow your pain to prevent you from living honorably. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Her youngest daughter, who was about twelve, had reduced most of our staff to tears because she refused to let go of her mother the entire time she was in the office. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Such were the answers Father Mike brought back to us the diird day after Desdemona refused to get out of bed. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

When he tries to drape me in his mother’s jewels, I refuse them. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

I walk out, and he refuses to follow me. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

Like a man suffering much because he can smell food but not touch it, he would watch his family take their miserable portion of thin soup, refusing himself to take his share. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

In other circumstances Mr. Clutter would have refused. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

The government owed the tribe annuity payments for the sale of its Kansas land but refused to distribute them until able-bodied men like Ne-kah-e-se-y took up farming. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

He had a cell opposite Walter’s and Walter used to complain that he would demand Walter’s breakfast from him each morning, and that he was too scared to refuse. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Although we were the poorest family on Little Hobart Street, Mom and Dad never applied for welfare or food stamps, and they always refused charity. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

After international investigators confirmed that a North Korean torpedo sank the Cheonan, voters in the South refused to rally around President Lee, who had said the North Korean government should “pay a price.” Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

At first they refused, not because of the time and effort it would take to get Caroline to the mainland every Saturday, but because there was no money. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Thomas refused to break eye contact but decided to say nothing. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

It maddens me that Carlyle refuses to commit to any sort of opinion. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

“How can I excel at a game when you refuse to tell me the rules?” The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

I attempt a handshake but he puts his hand up, politely refusing to shake it. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

He offered to share his supper, but there was hardly enough for one person, so we all politely refused, insisting that he go ahead—at least, Caroline and Call were insisting. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the years leading up to the American Revolution, the women of New England refused to buy English products and English tea. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

When a School Board official refused to listen to her and tried to throw her out of his office, Ann grabbed the telephone from his desk and hurled it at his head. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

They slept beneath a set of stairs in an alley behind a tavern, tucked between a discarded stove and bags of kitchen refuse. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

But he said nothing, wondering whether it might not be Kingshaw who would refuse to go with him. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

Besides, I liked getting out on the Yazoo, and I wasn’t sure what R.C. would do to me if I refused to go fishing with him some time. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

Boxer refused to take even a day off work, and made it a point of honour not to let it be seen that he was in pain. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

But no matter how mean they were or how much they reared, Charlie refused to hit the horses. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

I don’t stare back—I refuse to stare back. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Mom wanted Mbandaka, I guess in honor of what the city had gone through, but I refused; I couldn’t think about that horrible place every time I saw this sweet little bonobo. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

What was the sense of making the stewardess stand guard over us if she refused to protect us from strangers? One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had refused to let anyone cut it since their mother had gone'. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“We must not completely refuse. And we must show that we are not hysterical. Form three lines.” Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

Once, for example, he and Duma Nokwe flew on the same plane from Durban to Johannesburg, and when the airline bus to town refused to take Duma, Kennedy refused to ride in it as well. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Students James Hood and Vivian Malone eventually were admitted into the University of Alabama,’ but George Wallace refused to accept defeat. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

I bow my head during the prayers but I refuse to pray, though I don’t know why I do this. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Most refuse dealing with the racketeers but carefully, carefully. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

But Salvador was in love and refused to listen to anyone. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

Outside, the sun hangs low in the horizon, refusing to give way to the entrance of the moon coming from a world away. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

I refuse all drinks at restaurants because I figure I can buy a drink anywhere—it’s the food I can’t cook that I’m here for. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

If she refused they would bear false witness against her, claiming they caught her in the garden with a man. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

But now that I was helping him, I refused to let him go. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

She had refused to charge that much but did take another five hundred as a deposit. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

Remember in 1284 when the Pied Piper of Hamelin who, when the king refused to pay him for ridding the town of rats, turned the irresistible music of his pipe toward the children? Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Hunter refused to leave; he was more in the woods than in his cabin anyway, and seemed to look forward to spending his last days in the places he felt most comfortable. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

He solicited an emergency meeting in Washington with Warren Weaver, refusing to divulge the subject in advance but offering to arrange government clearance for Weaver if he desired a full discussion. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

He had refused their food, though he had, as usual, accepted a mouthful of water; and then he had seemed to curl up for a sleep. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Babiki sat in the passenger seat, staring straight ahead, refusing to budge. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

After our parents refused to intervene—“Your car, your solution,” they said—I asked Auntie Buzz to mediate. Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

He refused to take things lightly, though he was always quick to laugh. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

This was a savage whose image refused to blend with that ancient picture of a boy in shorts and shirt. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

For many weeks, Ivy refused to set foot in the forest. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

The year before he was looked after by a university student named Abby, a slim, freckled girl who read books without pictures on their covers, and refused to prepare any food for Eliot containing meat. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

Milo was not convinced and absolutely refused to deprive Major Major of food, even if Major Major was a Communist, which Milo secretly doubted. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Cole’s father had refused to pay additional legal fees, and now a public defender would be assigned. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

She couldn’t help but be curious about the man who loved Aunt Rose so much that he refused to pass on. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

My body refuses to remain still in the chair, mouth drinking desperate sips of air. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

He refused to believe either that food would become more plentiful or that the windmill would save work. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

He had refused fancy clothes or makeup for this interview. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“No, it’s your fault for refusing to fly them,” Colonel Korn retorted. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Through his illegal radio broadcasts, he encouraged parents to refuse polio vaccinations for their children. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

This morning the cook had refused to spare her enough water even for a decent bath. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

Since he, too, was an object of hatred, I felt that he might refuse me but would hardly betray me. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

She stuffed the postcard under her pillow and then smoothed the covers that she’d refused to straighten before school. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

Now a bitter part of her refused the treasures of the Valentine farm, even as every day some blessing part came into bloom. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

He just sat across from me, running his finger around the edge of his dirty plate, refusing to look me in the eyes. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

I did feel different: larger, fuller, more complete, no longer divided against myself—compulsion to comply against wish to refuse. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

Naturally I was not at all prepared to receive a letter refusing permission. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

Her attorneys refused to enter a plea, a preliminary hearing was set for two weeks later, and she returned home. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

The Frenchmen made a polite show of refusing, but Nettle came round the table and shoved the gifts into their arms. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

She’d heard myths like that: a kid with an old lady begs for shelter, and when the rude mortals refuse—boom, they get turned into banana slugs. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

At one point, he had refused to say a certain name aloud and wrote it instead on a piece of parchment, which he had thrust into the Prime Minister’s whiskey-free hand. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

“What can they do to me? I’m breaking no commandment. All they can do is wag the ‘naughty’ finger at me, and refuse to wave good-bye as I drive to the airport.” Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Moss leveled Esperanza with a glare, and she refused to look him in the eye. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Emerging from the hole, they carried the hedgehog in the rope sling across their backs, refusing any help from the badger or the mouse. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

“They’d need your brother alive to learn what he knows. And if Quinton has refused to say anything, then there’s a good chance he and Maria are still out there somewhere.” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

After that, he went to the corner and stood there and refused to move. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Nhamo almost choked on the sweet, fiery substance, but Rosa refused to go until she finished. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The police refused to offer any protection to the protesters, who now were picketing in violation of a government order. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

But for some reason his mind refused to focus on that. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

The guards outside the door still refused to let them leave the room. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

As the world darkened, Dany settled in and closed her eyes, but sleep refused to come. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

But for some reason, they refused to have a discussion on suicide without specifics. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

Shin refused to make a life plan, and Song said she and others at LiNK allowed him to get away with it. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

The twigs were bitter, so you refused to use them. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

I knew that if I simply refused, Sass would find a way to make me give them up. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

He was trying to make me an offer I couldn’t refuse. The Million Dollar Shot 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

If you just clung tightly enough and refused to let go, you might...well, you might get to live. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Then said the Great Gamelegs at last: “No more; you offer terms I cannot well refuse.” The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

If the sun refuses to rise, we will make it rise. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

She refused to let her dad fix them, just like with the bumper sticker. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

The three of us were willing to make the attempt, but when Mac contacted the fourth man, he refused. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Songololo looked longingly at us while we ate, but refused to come near. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

The upside was that because she’d been so worried about being late, Dimple had driven ten above the speed limit the entire time, refused to stop for breaks, and made it early. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

I stripped off the gloves and tried to hand them back to Frankie, but he refused to take them. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

“You have driven away my business with your preachings. You have refused me the yew tree, my best source of healing. You have turned this village against me.” A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

“Do I understand you to be refusing hygiene instruction?” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

And when Natalie refuses to eat one bite of supper, so stuffed is she with lemon cake, my father knows too. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had the lugubrious face of one who simply refuses to be consoled. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

The dentist was sympathetic; he had refused to treat Mac unless Mac’s leg irons were first removed. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He doesn’t know what to make of the whole arrangement with Maxine, but as odd as the terms of the invitation seem he’d been unable to refuse. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Both of those companies refused to let me to tour their plants. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

They seemed to have a separate, mulish identity of their own that refused to be washed and folded and stowed. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

Laborers refused to work, merchants cheated their customers, and brigands ran at large. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Arthur had refused to discuss taking over Garfield's duties under those circumstances. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

When they got home she offered to make him a hot cup of tea, but he refused. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

The Standoff Mark Antony, forced to take action, tried to engage Octavian’s forces in battle, but Octavian refused to fight. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

“I suppose that will do, but a little bit of color would really be nice for your complexion. Since you refuse to wear makeup...” When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

The fair’s director-general, George Davis, at first refused to believe it. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

But despite the officer’s rank and experience, Alfons refused to believe that the Nazis would systematically murder people, and he told him so. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

No, I couldn’t refuse to help the girl—help her avoid at least some pain. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

Beijing refuses to allow defectors to make claims for asylum and prevents the office of the U.N. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

“You refuse to see things as they truly are!” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

That he refused to recite the Pledge of Allegiance. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

The next day, demonstrators waiting to register at the courthouse refused to obey the sheriff’s order to line up in the back alley where they had been confined the day before. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

Still, I refuse to grab my jacket from the peg inside the front door. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Patients refusing to eat, having to be held down, medicated, fed intravenously. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Liddy refused to put the lead hunk into his shoe—the limp-inducing device was part of his cover, designed to distract passersby from his face, but it was just too painful. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

I crossed my arms, refusing to be impacted. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

And though even Duntz had forfeited his composure—had shed, along with tie and coat, his enigmatic drowsy dignity— the suspect seemed content and serene; he refused to budge. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

He lay on the ground, his skullcap split, refusing to let the attendants take him to the hospital. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t figure out what went on at the Green Lantern, and Mom refused to discuss it. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Neither refuse to give help when it is needed,” Medwyn continued, “nor refuse to accept it when it is offered. Gwythyr Son of Greidawl learned that from a lame ant, you know.” The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

That surprised me because I had offered Carrie a chance to learn with him, and she had refused. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

When the guards finally saw us, she refused to let go. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

His legs stayed put, hanging limp, refusing to respond. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

They refused to stand at attention when Marina entered the classroom, as they were supposed to do for a senior instructor, and had to be scolded by Marina’s superiors. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

“You know, Addie, ever since you started this business of refusing to say the Pledge, I have sensed in you a rebel without a cause.” The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

He was thinking of his green worm, which had been behaving oddly, refusing to eat and hanging from the side of its box with its chin tucked in. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

They can make you sad, these horses that nobody rides much anymore; or they can stand proudly and beautifully as a kind of symbol of a people who refuse to die. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Most of them simply refused to believe that Westerners were capable of such an achievement, which had eluded even the strongest Sherpas. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

He refused to sell the beasts to the rendering factories, maintaining that they deserved something of a retirement for their years of loyalty. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Despite these dire warnings, he still refused to be treated, and he even rejected taking pain medicine to ease his agony. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“The Admiral came to him and looked him in the eye, but that other horse refused to quit. We gave all we had. It just wasn’t good enough.” Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

When asked to enumerate or explain, he refused. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

Sometimes this short, straight-backed young girl hummed under her breath, or sang, while she hoed the com or tugged on the reins when a refractory mule refused to budge. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

The ancient mouse refused to say more until they were safely inside his gatehouse study with the door firmly shut. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

My mother, incidentally, is also bursting with curiosity and simply dying to ask what we talk about, only she’s secretly afraid I’d refuse to answer. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Since she refused to partake of the local social life, Jean de Satigny was forced to go alone to the numerous events to which they were invited. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

He might see through the ruse and refuse to leave the house. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

Within this section the office occupied the third floor, a storage area the second, and refuse the first. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I refused to answer, she finished dressing and went downstairs. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the hearing, the authorities grilled me as to how I got the newspaper, and I refused to answer. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

At least they've invited me, one of us, in at the beginning of something big; and besides, if I refused to join them, where would I goto a job as porter at the railroad station? Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

And wedged in a crack under all the refuse, he found what he’d been looking for. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

But he could not, and he refused to see Walter. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Audrey tried to make me sit in the front seat on the way home, but I refused. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

He refused, however, to do the menial jobs required of members to sustain the community. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

I hiccupped, finally finding the bananas you’d refused to eat that evening and handing you one. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

He offered again to travel alone, and again Gray refused to turn back home. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

We look like we mean serious business, like we refuse to die until we save the world from all its ugliness. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

And, as we all know, probes often refuse to obey directives, choosing instead to attack humans on sight. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

He never came to The Breakfast anymore and he refused to talk to me or answer my questions, even though I hadn’t done anything to him. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

Con refused to give up; his stomach churned at the thought of losing Shae. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

I was asked to sign the petition and I refused. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

We were pushing the court to enforce the law in these cases, and when they refused, we were having success getting the Alabama Supreme Court and federal courts to grant relief. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

She refused to be bound by ridiculous ideas of what black people couldn’t or shouldn’t do. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

The hoopskirt of my favorite dress kept popping back up like a child who refuses to lie down. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

A few enemy soldiers who refused to give up were still left in the jungle. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Women wore their hair down; some even refused to don a corset. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

She did not want to read the terrible things written about her, but she did not dare refuse. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

But when he instructed his staff to give the injections without telling patients they contained cancer cells, three young Jewish doctors refused, saying they wouldn’t conduct research on patients without their consent. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Melquíades talked to him about the world, tried to infuse him with his old wisdom, but he refused to translate the manuscripts. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

“She’s trying to get me to invite them round,” he said, “just so she can refuse. Power games.” The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Renault, refusing to take up the defensive, swept forward again, landing a few strong blows on Cain’s blade. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

I refused to speak and waited for her to come to me. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

The worst part was when Moniba would refuse to talk to me. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Her voice faltered, but she refused to cry in front of him. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

Malcolm refused to see the impossibility of the white man conceding secession from the United States; at this stage in his career he contended it was the only solution. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

I tell him how I’ve lost all my friends because I refused to join their activist crusade. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

He doesn't refuse the offer of wine, but when he starts in on his soup, I realize it's the first time I've ever seen him eat. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

When it began to refuse food, we opened the back door and let it escape. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Amari refused to think of Clay any longer, for she knew his evil spirit could never touch the love she was already beginning to feel for the child within her. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

She also refused to route her travels through Pittsburgh to see his family. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

As Palmer’s anti-Red crusade steadily fell apart, he refused to admit that he and his agents had done anything wrong. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

I refused to speak to him because he had left me for such a long time. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Killing the pigeons and putting them out of their misery stubbornly refused to mean the same thing. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

She refuses to remove her coat despite the warmth of the theater, giving only an adamant shake of her head when he asks her why. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

For the following forty-six years, the state of Alabama refused to erase from its books the names of the two thousand arrested children. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

I refused, so the chill in the trailer remains. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

There exist many actual cases of hunter-gatherers who did see food production practiced by their neighbors, and who nevertheless refused to accept its supposed blessings and instead remained hunter-gatherers. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

So many refused to buy nonunion clothing that Marx & Haas had to close one factory. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z

Mrs. still didn’t like any of it and refused to eat in a house full of “wrong-thinking people with male-chauvinist-pig ideas.” Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

Because I refused to live invincibly on all the days I didn’t get an alert, I wasted all those yesterdays and am completely out of tomorrows. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

I refused to silence my voice when I knew I had the potential to change the world. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

It reminds her of their life together, of the unexpected life he, in choosing to marry her, had given her here, which she had refused for so many years to accept. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Problem? There’s no problem,” said Ron, still refusing to look at Harry. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

The white lending agencies, however, refused to make the loans. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

No matter how she screamed and schemed, her husband refused to loosen his purse strings. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

They escaped from time to time and gave him a certain amount of annoyance, but he refused to kill them. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

Yet, in Florence’s heart tonight hatred and bitterness weighed like granite, pride refused to abdicate from the throne it had held so long. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

At first, each child refused to sleep, afraid of the other two. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

I believe in my mother on a bus and Black people refusing to ride. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

It had been two weeks since she fell ill, and Dr. Morris still refused to let her return to work. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

Small business owners refused to cash checks of individuals who were crossing the picket line. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

On the cave floor what looked to me like nothing in particular turned out to be an ancient midden: a refuse heap. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

“We’re going to hand these out at grocery stores that are still refusing to hire us.” Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

I wanted to call an ambulance, but Charlie refused to wait. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

One of the women tried to press coins into Eliza’s hand, but Eliza politely refused and put the money back in the sisters’ shabby purse. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The secret workouts worked for Seabiscuit, but because Smith refused to explain himself to the press, they created a serious misapprehension. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Some of the nuns fear that the touch of any man compromises their chastity. Thus Angelina suffers greatly from a boil, for she refuses treatment. And any complaints of the womb go sadly untended.” Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

As for my own parents, they still kept the telephone nearby at all times, refusing to leave the house together. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

When he refused to get in the tub, Mrs. Moss would wash him roughly with a cloth, pour shampoo on his head, and then dunk him to rinse it off. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

She looked so appealing and so pretty that I could not refuse her, and there was no possible reason why I should; so I took her with me. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

“Vegetables are good for you; your mother says so too. Have some more,” she insists, until Father intervenes and upholds my right to refuse a dish I don’t like. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Apart from these, he should refuse to listen to anyone else, pursue his goals directly, and be obstinate in the decisions he has taken. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z

But Needles looked like he was falling asleep and was refusing to acknowledge his brother at all. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

EJI had asked the Department of Corrections to install security cameras in the dorms, but they refused. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

They refused to be driven, bleated almost continuously, and stood with their heads lowered; they were finally carried from the pasture . Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Fang was right about one thing: I hadn’t known, had refused to know, didn’t want to know now. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

In the end I was so angry that I refused to talk about the story. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

“If we’d refused to fight,” she says, “our friends would have died. What were we supposed to do?” An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

It is hard to imagine that any country Irish girl refused him. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Not knowing for certain, but refusing to give way to those who claim certainty, was a privilege I had never allowed myself. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Clement hurried me back to the car and refused to say a word to me all the way to the sanctuary. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

What about that ingrained resentment toward yuppies, so strong he’d refused to even consider moving to some of the most interesting cities in America? Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

A friend, J. L. Chestnut Jr., who would eventually become Selma’s first black lawyer, urged Lafayette to go home, but he refused. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

In that case the proper thing would be to refuse to have at all. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some states, like Virginia, simply refused to comply: in 1936, a black student from Richmond named Alice Jackson Houston applied to the University of Virginia to study French, but she was denied admission. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

To their surprise, John Garrett refused to take them in for the night. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ma stared at the old temple, but refused to get out of the car; she merely looked out the window. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

And even though she checked “yes” to all the symptoms on the card the doctor gave her, she refused to accept the diagnosis of panic attacks because panic attacks happened only to Americans. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

I felt a tear burning in the corner of my eye, but I refused to acknowledge it. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

She makes me repeat the riddle and refuses to let me tell her the answer. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

He is refusing to unleash his whole strength on her. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Pavlov said that Fischer’s “tantrums” were an insult to the World Champion, who had every legal and moral right to refuse to meet Fischer. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

"Why would you want me as your Hand, if you refuse to listen to my counsel?" A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“What would they do to me,” he asked in confidential tones, “if I refused to fly them ?” “We’d probably shoot you,” ex-P.F.C. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

In India, Gandhi also preached noncooperation—refusing to use or buy British goods. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

Cheetahs usually refuse to carry out that elaborate courtship ritual inside a cage. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

He was an elderly man who’d refused to move when the neighborhood started going colored. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

Gabrielle continues: "The second suitor you set her up with has refused to go on a date with her. She's been eating her feelings all morning." The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

When they urged her to hurry, she obstinately refused. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

If the Bureau refuses the trade, no one is safe. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

I refused to read any of the stories. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Not wishing to call attention to himself, the agent gave the horn a brief beep, then drove right up to the pig, which snorted desultorily, refusing to move on. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Why don’t you just refuse. We’ll put the story on cassette, a hundred and fifty pesos, with a signed glossy photograph thrown in for free.” In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

This girl poisoned herself after refusing to say whose child she carried. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

She knew that, even though she had never danced like that with another person and had refused Caesar when he asked. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

He didn’t know anything about it, except that the bus driver refused to land there. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

The women parted, and the rest of my words mushed together into a lump on my tongue and refused to come out. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Jam was not afraid; she refused to be afraid. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

These were questions with one terrible answer, which her grandmother refused to give. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Apart from their fatigue and malnourishment, it was evident they had seen something that plagued their minds, something that we would refuse to accept if they told us all of it. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

“That’s so very generous of you to offer. How could I refuse?” Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Otto looked about, this way and that, refusing to give up, because giving up was something else legends didn’t do. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Surely they could not refuse so generous an offer? Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

And if he refuses—I try not to think. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

Amah would never refuse to tell a story—how could she? When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

Taryn and I hear things, even if no one means for us to—stories of humans sleeping on stone floors and eating refuse, believing themselves to be resting on feather beds and supping on delicacies. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

To their dismay, the doctor refused to help them. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“So, she just refused to accept my apology. Which, okay, after I talked to Sahil, I kinda get why she was mad.” From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

He instinctively understood that if he refused to react, Tom would lose interest. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had half expected his friend to laugh at him, to refuse with some biting comment that would remind Milkman that Guitar was a mystery man now, a man with blood-deep responsibilities. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

A sergeant from Charlie Company refused to take his squad out on patrol. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wanted to be a woman, but that seemed to me to be a world to which I was to be eternally refused entrance. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Cordelia’s date is always a boy of lesser value, and she knows this and refuses to approve of him. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

His left eye had collapsed, a line of raw redness showing where the lid refused to close, and his gaze had lost its command. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Because I can tell you do by how you refuse to look at my torso like the whole sun is sitting on my chest. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Despite being refused membership to white clubs, I was now allowed to take part in their tournaments. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

But they knew they were fast learners—and with their country depending on them, they refused to give up. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

As federal judge Prentiss Marshall explained, “The average person encountered will feel obliged to stop and respond. Few will feel that they can walk away or refuse to answer.” The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

But then his editor refused to change his book deadline again and he had to take over a summer session class and we never went anywhere. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

My primary motivation behind buying a car, despite the scarcity of my funds, was that I refused to be driven around town in a car with red and blue lights on top. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

She refused, and said she would sooner die than submit to his loathsome caresses. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

He found one about the size of his own head, but it refused to move. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

My dad had stayed at the house every night, refusing to go on any out-of-town runs or to stay away from my mother for more than a couple of hours at a time. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

All now seemed dry and silent; but refusing to despair Sam stooped and listened, and to his delight he caught the sound of trickling. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

My friend Derrick remembers white students refusing to yield the sidewalk when he walked in their path. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

I didn’t think I could rightfully refuse him permission. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

“One, you refuse to give us the Book and we go home, leaving you to rot in this sewer.” Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

Hatred again stirred in him, but he had no longer the strength to refuse. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Grandma refused to talk while they were in the ravine. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

Johnny refused to go and couldn’t see why Katie wanted to go. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the Hitler Youth collected, most people gave because to refuse could mean a black mark against them. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

He refused to let go, instead hauling me closer so he could snarl his next words in my face. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

When he just nodded to the guard in the parking lot Elinor simply refused to believe the worst. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

I don't know how long they might sentence someone for refusing to disclose the details of an affair, but I imagine it wouldn't be more than a year or two. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

I get a couple of pills and some water into him when he's not noticing, but he refuses to eat even the fruit. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

After that Martha gave her chores to do on weekends and refused to let her attend the movies with her friends. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jan lit another cigarette and offered one to Bigger; but Bigger refused by keeping his hands folded in front of him and staring stonily at the floor. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

It is that they refuse to leave you alone ever again. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

Go, go, she thought, but her body refused to obey. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Small children refused to leave their mothers’ sides and screeched the minute one of the white-shirted men came near them. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Ever since then, she has refused to come unless I issue an official invitation. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mam was vain about her thick, dark hair and refused to cut it ever again. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

“El Jefe is many things, but he’s not stupid. He won’t refuse the consul. Remember, he really wants to win back the Americans so the embargo stops.” Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

And suppose he were married and his wife refused him for fifteen years. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You should go to school and tell your principal I refuse to buy your supplies. I bet he’ll have some lying around somewhere.” Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

She refused to answer such a silly bunch of indiscreet questions. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

I stiffen and shove a spoonful of food into my mouth, refusing to look at her. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

I had met her when she had gone to work at H. M. Basner as a replacement for an Afrikaans-speaking secretary, Miss Koch, who had refused to take my dictation. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

People keep on standing, refusing to believe it’s gone. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Blanca called me in so I could hear what the soldier had to say, but I refused to believe it. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is as futile to seek the past there as in a refuse of dishes encircling a table, each with its own crust of gravy, its own tale of bone and crackling. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

The skull-faced man had quickly thrust his hands behind his back, as though demonstrating to all the world that he refused the gift. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

But the penguins simply refused to eat spinach or oats, and Mr. Popper was much too honest to say they would, even though he knew the money would come in handy. Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z

Theodore Roosevelt had already warned what would befall an Indian who refused his allotment: “Let him, like these whites, who will not work, perish from the face of the earth which he cumbers.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

The others in her troop tried to draw her out during their first days in the mountains, but Felicia refused to say anything. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the North Vietnamese refused to make any concessions. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

Which was really awkward, since Mom and Dad still refuse to sit anywhere but the second row and I kept having to twist around to see the rest of the congregation. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Doli, still muttering angrily about his buzzing ears, rode last, as rear guard, although he flatly refused to make himself invisible no matter what the circumstances. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

“Suddenly I heard the voice of a child begging for my life to be spared. But Chief Powhatan refused the requests. He declared, ‘No. The Englishman will die.’ Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

She marveled that he was volunteering this much—hadn’t he refused to tell her almost anything about himself while traveling from Endovier? Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Yossarian was making an uncouth spectacle of himself by walking around backward with his gun on his hip and refusing to fly more combat missions, Milo said. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

But Mom had refused to have children unless Dad agreed to raise them as Catholics and to attend church himself on holy days of obligation. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

The trouble was that most patients refused to be photographed, and hospitals were afraid of law suits. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

But I got in worse trouble for refusing to apologize. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

I refuse to play with Grace or Cordelia or even Carol after school. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

She heard the bus driver’s command to move, but she refused. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

The bird half of Miss Peregrine had so thoroughly dominated her nature that it was refusing to be driven away without a fight. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

She politely refused, the same way she shrugged off the people trying to sell hair products at the mall. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

She refused beef slightly dark or with edges not properly trimmed. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was almost always a good atmosphere around these sessions and I don’t remember anyone being refused a share of the headset. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

No. Frank refused to believe Percy was dead. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

“Now, Mother, did you really think I could be so silly and selfish, after I’d refused his love, when it was freshest, if not best?” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

Although the boss had ordered the tailor to take the stairs, he refused. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z

“Ah’ll clean ’em, you fry ’em and let’s eat,” he said with the assurance of not being refused. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

Battles clashed on both sides of them; Thomas refused to look, refused to help. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Parents were not compelled to send their children, but those who refused were called unpatriotic. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Stone wrote to friends back east with stories of a woman who “carried petitions all through the town for female suffrage, and not one woman refused to sign.” Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Now refuse covered the farm and was creeping toward the mountain base. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

"Take me to it," said the gentleman in the hat, and it did not occur to Dunstan to refuse him. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

Celia watches both of them, Poppet biting her lip and refusing to meet Celia’s eyes, while Widget leans against the door. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

But on that first day of school, Mom refused to get out of bed. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

One of those watching all of this from a distance was William Brown, the fire alarm operator at the Courthouse who had stubbornly refused to correct Schaffer’s original signal to Box 342. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

Surrounded by people I knew and liked, with my mother’s eyes looking pleadingly into mine, it was hard to refuse. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

This could be done quite easily by bringing up the subject of his car and why he refuses to buy a new one. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

“He got paid either way, so I’m not sure it mattered. He seemed completely biased against Marcus. He wanted him to plead guilty, and take a deal, but Marcus refused.” From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

For more than eight months, the Senate refused to vote. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Nanko was standing on the cliff motioning us to hurry, so I refused to let him go back for it. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

He reaches out a hand and touches the ridge of Henry’s shoulder blade, the skin where the sheet has slid off him, where his lungs stubbornly refuse to stop pulling air. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

I pulled a blanket over my head and refused to come out until we were beyond the Muskogee city limits. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

“I told her after I left the building that if she would return to me and stop her quarreling we would live together again, but she refused to come back.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

My mom had refused to buy me new batteries because, of course, she thought it was a waste of money, so I snuck out to the shops and shoplifted a pack. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

“Seriously, nothing. Now why don’t you answer my question, since you seem so intent on getting information out of me, but refuse to give any up yourself.” Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

Lainie attempts to persuade Tara to join her for an extended holiday in Italy, but she refuses. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

She has to remind her father to come out of the parlor for meals, though lately he has refused more and more often, barely leaving the room at all. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

During the day the sun refused to rise gradually, as it had before. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Once he focused on a goal, the Warden refused to quit. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

Joel refused to accept payment for the food, calling it my pay for the week’s work. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Just show my face and they might stop, but my legs refused to move. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

The neglect of the dishes, I discovered, was due to a curious impasse: Sally, the maid, now serving also as cook, refused to clean dishes, despising the lowly office of scullion. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

Otto refused to let go of her, even when she shook her leg violently. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

But to refuse to see him could be worse. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

But dogs would refuse to share their food with others of their kind, as the wolves were doing now, growling pleasantly and feasting in friendship. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But I remember you well. You were brave. I’d never seen anyone refuse Circe’s hospitality, much less outwit her. It’s no wonder Percy cares for you.” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Still, Ifemelu never kept the books for more than a day, and sometimes refused to take them home. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

He was afraid also that Doc Daneeka would still refuse to help him when he went to him again after jumping out of Major Major’s office, and he was right. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

On the way home, all Suesetta can talk about is the boycott we will be having next month at one of the local grocery stores that still refuses to hire coloreds. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“Well, people are nervous,” Devine said, refusing to snigger along with the rest of them. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, right now Tom Dobashi who used to live over in Block Nine is in jail in Los Angeles for refusing to report for his physical.” Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

As the pile of refuse grew, Anne swung her torch closer and closer to it. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the end, Stanton refused to attend the meeting, leaving Anthony to run it on her own. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

“What if you refused to answer the letter.” Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

Outside along the street were the refuse cans from the houses waiting for the collector. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

But that same man had refused to free Martin’s wife and daughter. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z

Remember, whatever you do or whatever happens I am still your mother and there is nothing I would refuse you if you wanted or needed it, and nothing would change it. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Thomas refused to admit how bad that sounded, but an idea hit him. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

When they said I was depressed, she refused to let them medicate me. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

The cards have been telling her as much for years but she refused to listen, choosing to see only the other possibilities, the alternate paths to be taken. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

“I have tried to make your landlord change his mind. I have done everything I can. But he refused. He wants you to pack out in two weeks.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Brought before a grand jury that was considering criminal charges against Daniel Ellsberg, Russo absolutely refused to give evidence, even when offered immunity in exchange. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

I refuse to accept that they want to name us all “Zeta.” The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

She was flat chested, insisted on wearing glasses and no makeup, refused to grow out her hair, and commonly occupied spaces—like Insomnia Con—that seemed to be implicitly reserved for men. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Walter offered to take a couple of us with him but Daddy refused. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

I now refused food from strangers, fearful that it might be voodooed. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

This is such rubbish that I refuse to argue about it. Eats, Shoots & Leaves 2003-11-06T00:00:00Z

“This is just animal refuse, right? You peasants do your own business somewhere else?” The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

It was as if he hated cleaning up after the kids at D. Franklin Middle so much, he refused to clean up after himself when he finished his workday. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

I refused to say it the southern hymn way—“the sweet by-and-by.” Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

When his ministers timidly suggested waiting until spring, he refused. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

It was a punishment tough enough to demand explanation, but the stewards still refused to reveal what had happened. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

The other women paid their bail, but Anthony refused. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

There was no way I could refuse to help Susie find the rest of her family. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

The New Yorker sneered at the error, Ogden Nash wrote a poem about it, Walter Cronkite refused to say it on the air, and Strunk and White declared it illiterate. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

One thing for sure, she told herself, even if the entire team fell upon their knees and knocked their heads at her feet in three reverent kow-tows, she would refuse to join them. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

Miss Winthrop looked delighted, at least until she remembered my mother had just refused. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Both of them were arrested for refusing to give up their seats on Montgomery’s segregated buses, just months before Rosa Parks refused to budge. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

When at last Hazel had got him back to the ditch, he refused at first to go underground and Hazel had almost to push him down the hole. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

We played by Carlos’s rules and he refused to let Manuelito play. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

He knew that such testimony would be false and had told the prosecutors that he refused to lie. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

She wanted to hate him for refusing to invite her; she was his Champion, after all! Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

I found myself unconsciously urging the spacecraft at least to stand on its tiptoes, as if this laboratory, designed for immobility, were perversely refusing to manage even a little hop. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he reached for Nademah, standing on the grass, she refused. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

The press hounded her for a statement, but she refused to give one. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

He was so thin, said one observer, that his hips could have made a passable hat rack, but he refused to eat. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

My mind obsesses over the pictures my mind makes up of their deaths, which refuse to let go of me. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I didn’t really consider what would happen if he refused. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Third, he refused to sign any contracts, making it impossible for most corporations or individuals to proceed with any kind of legally binding arrangement. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Told that the boy was twelve, the agent refused to sell her a ticket. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“I am your Prince and you cannot refuse.” The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

“I refuse to let those folks in that office demean me because I have the audacity to ask for help.” On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Michelangelo was the last to slide down from the cart, and he refused the valets’ help. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

I finally went on strike and refused to drink anymore. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

Wasn’t refusing to sell the chocolates a kind of perversion? The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

She ordered Shinae to go with her to the police station, but the girl refused, saying she was terrified of dead bodies. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

All those children sent on trains to the Midwest—collected off the streets of New York like refuse, garbage on a barge, to be sent as far away as possible, out of sight. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

I ran to see what it was, and then I did see and I stopped, frozen, my brain shouting Run away! but my legs refusing to listen. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

After that, it flatly refused to go lower, and nothing I did mattered. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even though he was nervous and scared, he told Minho he could take one of the sections himself, but the Keeper refused. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

“I must refuse,” answered Taran with a smile that ill concealed his anxiety. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

When he refused to stand, she picked him up. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

The world may be mean, but people don’t have to be, not if they refuse. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

The boy had exchanged hard words with a white man and been killed, because he refused to turn down his music. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

There was a possibility that if I did get a scholarship to an American university I would be refused a passport. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

A Ministry official emerged some time after the appearance of the Dark Mark alleging that nobody had been hurt, but refusing to give any more information. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

The “Jones Theory” was much repeated—especially to the Joneses, a dignified and sensible family, who refused to be flustered. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

Gnarbone seems repentant at having to say that, but it’s clear that none of us can refuse the Crown Prince. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

It got to the point where she refused to allow him to see her, talk to her, or get anywhere near her. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“Your mother’s,” she said gruffly, and then refused to say another word about it. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

He got left out of games, boys refused to sit next to him at dinner, or pretended not to hear if he said anything in his dorm after lights-out. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

I scrub and scrub, but the diapers refuse to turn pure white. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“She is a heretic, and she refuses to attend Meeting. She has no claim on your charity.” The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

He refused to accept that Ernest might have participated in Strauss’s campaign against him or engaged in any of the rumormongering about his Communist tendencies that periodically swept the Berkeley campus. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

When they reached the crowd, they pulled Ben to his feet in front of Alby, their leader, where Ben hung his head, refusing to make eye contact with anyone. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Dewey, speaking of his encounter with Perry Smith on this particular day, remembered that he had been very surprised when Perry refused to sign the statement. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

His cell smelled so bad that guards refused to step inside. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

Of course I didn’t want her to, but how could I refuse? The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

He was very, very quick and had a lot of power; but when I suggested he work on the gaps in his game, he refused to listen. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

He found himself wondering if he had done the right thing by refusing Lord Renly's offer. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z