Night touched him with cold fingers, and gooseprickles rose on his bare skin. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The night air was warm on his bare skin. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Lycaon sprang through the air, his claws extended, his fangs bared. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Tam Lin had marked the route with a red pen and added comments using his own creative spelling, such as Ratlesnakes heer and Saw bare under tree. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nothing electrical apart from a bare brown bulb. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

Though they didn’t have any shovels, the camaradas used axes, knives, and their bare hands to dig a grave. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

Finally, Alys lowered her to the bed and pulled the length of wool cloth up around her bare shoulders. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Their sheep killed hedges, snipped valleys bare, and their pigs nosed up the very roots of what might have grown. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

Beneath her bedsilks, a fine sheen of perspiration covered her bare skin. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The queen put her hand on Hrothgar’s bare shoulder as he slept and looked at him thoughtfully, exactly as Hrothgar had looked at her and at his people. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the backyard he found Mrs. Reilly hanging a spotted and yellowed sheet on a line that ran through the bare fig trees. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

She leans against the bare living room wall and puts her j face in her hands, as though I’ve hurt her. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Touch the water with your bare hand. She will sense you are human and will come for you,” Yitoo said. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

He bared his teeth at me, eyes flashing. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

The mother yawns, baring her yellow teeth before she nuzzles her head against the baby on her chest. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

There was the dry hot summer morning when I scratched my bare arms on briers while picking blackberries and came home with my fingers and lips stained black with sweet berry juice. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Much later that day they came down from the bare mountains onto a spur covered in grass and dwarf rhododendrons. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

I kicked my bare foot at a bunch of tall grass. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

The ground around her was bare, the grass lay in sad clumps at her side. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The walls were bare grey stone, lit with the distinctive unwavering reddish light of sympathy lamps. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

From below her woven nightdress emerged two bare thin legs. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The little boy stood bare­foot, one arm wrapped around the man’s thigh, his shaved head resting against his father’s hip. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

On her hard bare feet she went to the hanging box where Coyotito slept, and she leaned over and said a little reassuring word. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

He felt that he ought to be able to reach out with his bare hands and carve from naked space the concrete, solid reasons why he had murdered. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Then he lit a second torch and ran its flame over his bare arms. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

She stood still, her bare feet rooted to the cool cement. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

Otto pressed himself hard against my bare skin, his soft little cheek rubbing against my shoulder. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

I thought that this was how he moved through a crowded room of his loyal cadre, baring his tiny perfect hands, him looking at each of us at least once, connecting and lighting up. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

The shack’s one room was bare of furniture and crowded with people. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

Black tents sprouted like mushrooms after a rain, and blankets and bedrolls cov-ered the bare ground. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

He found Sefia exactly where she’d been the last time he looked: bent over the book, her bare shoulders slender and dark with sun. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Why had he bared his teeth at her? Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

But there she was, smiling and proudly baring her body, as if she’d just had the operation and didn’t realize they’d sucked out way too much fat. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Parker Head had become a curved slope lolling easily and lazily up against houses and over fences, leaving a bare patch now and again to show just how high the snow had reached. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

“Ah, well, you'll probably never be as crazy as I am!” she muttered, putting a thick pair of socks on her bare feet. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

It yowled and landed on the other mother’s head, claws flailing, teeth bared, fierce and angry. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

Then, with his bare hands, he tore the body open. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

A small child cowered in the corner, her blonde hair loose and tangled, her feet bare and black with dirt. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I get the bare bones of this from my parents over the beef stew. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

She felt it on her cheek and down her bare calf as she passed along. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

I had my dinner in a restaurant, and when I had settled in with a drink and a comfortable chair and my bathed bare feet on a carpet with red roses, I inspected Charley. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Medwyn passed through a cut in a bare shoulder of the cliff, and the next thing Taran knew, they suddenly emerged into a green, sunlit valley. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

I rolled up my sleeve, baring the letters I had scratched into my forearm. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Along here, again, were bare spots in the ground cover. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

I stayed on my back, then put my bare feet up against the wall. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Rotten vegetables carpeted the bare concrete and maggot-infested meat smeared the brick walls. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

They don’t walk through the field or wander in the bare patch left by the storm and on out to the creek. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

The stones lay lumpish and cold under my bare feet. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

My dog sat up in front of my bare feet, beneath the metal table where Dad and I drank our Saturday coffee. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

“Now here,” Mama said, going over, “you girls get back in bed. You’ll take a death of cold being up like this in your bare feet.” Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Four’s cold hand clamps around one of my hips, one of his fingers finding a strip of bare skin just under the hem of my T-shirt. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

The dragons stood out stark on his bare arms, curling up around his Adam’s apple like spikes. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

Jerome had his hand on my bare stomach. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Unspoken things have arisen between Helene and me, things that have to do with how I feel when I see her bare skin and her awkwardness when I tell her I worry for her. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

“Amazing,” she called out to Liyana in her bare room, “that Mozart could write this when he was six and I have trouble playing it when I’m forty.” Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

My bare left foot patted to beat the band while she was singing “Yes, Sir, That’s My Baby.” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Actually, it was less a smile than a baring of teeth. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Mertyn stood swaying in his bare feet on the cold floor. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her bare feet bumped against the bed rail. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

“Forgot to mention it. Slipped your mind, I daresay. He was bearing down on Harry like a great bulldog, all his teeth bared. “ Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

She tried to smile, but it felt more like she was baring her teeth at her friend, a warning signal to stay away. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Where the river broadened out into Blackwater Bay, the boom stretched taut, a bare two or three feet above the water. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

He cast off his skis, for the lakeshore was rough going and bare of snow in places. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

The barest frisson of tension tinges Helene’s voice, and I clear my throat. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

And with that, both rats bared their teeth and moved in on him. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

The windows are bare because I don’t like curtains. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

The new shoes felt strange to feet that had run bare for almost seven years. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the day of the Moon Festival, the king of the City of Bright Moonlight arrived at the Imperial Palace with his bare pot. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

I lay down beside her on the bare mattress, and she was asleep in seconds. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

They believe it so deeply that if that ever really were the case—and he said here’s the stage, here’s the bare bulb—they wouldn’t question it. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

On each of her bare feet was a string of cowry shells and small bells that chimed as she moved towards me. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

All I succeeded in doing, however, was in shaving my arms bare of their hair. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The walls were bare, the ceiling high and shadowy. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The house was straightened up and neat; the kitchen soft, bare, and shining. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The four families shared a common kitchen, which had a single bare lightbulb. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

I had been standing on the stone balcony in bare feet. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

I hated things like swimming and changing in locker rooms because I hated being so bare in front of other people. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

The woods fell away and they came to scattered groups of birch, and then to bare slopes where only a few gaunt pine-trees grew. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

The shorn hair falls on my feet and shoulders, itching whatever bare skin it finds. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

We still had our beds and chairs and bureaus and dining-room furniture, so we could get along, but even so, the house was bare and echoey. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

She stands up and starts juggling the soccer ball with her bare feet. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

Oiling themselves like roast meat on a spit, and bare backs and shoulders, on the street, in public, and legs, not even stockings on them, no wonder those things used to happen. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

She listens awhile, then applauds, kneeling there in her bare feet. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

He knocked off more salt and pepper shakers, then tipped over a table, yelping in fright, and, fangs bared, he repeatedly charged at the crazies gathered outside. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ordinarily, at summer’s end, as now, some leaves would be falling, and by the time snow came, later, many trees would be bare. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

His bare foot crunched down on a bullhead thorn. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Everywhere but on the north-facing slopes and in the shadowy ravines, the snowpack had melted down to bare ground, exposing the previous seasons rose hips and lingonberries, which McCandless gathered and ate in great quantity. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her bare arms were raised, her fists around her head, as if she were about to punch herself in the ears. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

Her maids, leaving their quarters, came with white arms bare to clear the wine cups and the bread, and move the trestle boards where men had lingered drinking. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

I watched their lips move as they spoke; Mama’s bare lips were pale compared to Aunty Ifeoma’s, covered in a shiny bronze lipstick. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

Men and women alike wore painted leather vests over bare chests and horsehair leggings cinched by bronze medallion belts, and the warriors greased their long braids with fat from the rendering pits. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The plain, meanwhile, was becoming bare and depopulated. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

This is why the typical chicken yard quickly winds up bare and hard as brick. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

With his bare hands, he pried another chunk of rock from his mountain and began shaping it into a ball. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

She could tell that the fog was thick from the clammy way her clothes clung to her and the damp feeling of the air on her bare hands. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I figure if things ever get really cold, I can tape that to a bare patch in the rover, and the RTG will be winning the "heat fight." The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

I stare at Audrey’s bare feet, her ankles, her shins, then make my way up to her face. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

In his honor Daenerys had donned a Qartheen gown, a sheer confection of violet samite cut so as to leave her left breast bare. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

For example, there were even the present-day accounts of how a man named Onofre Martinez lost his arm, and of how a tiny woman called Ruby Archuleta killed a deer with her bare hands. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Who ever heard of angry revolutionists swinging their bare feet together with their oppressor in lily-pad park pools, with gospels and guitars and “I Have A Dream” speeches? The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

She placed colorful flowers around her face to disguise her glowing eyes, and any bare patches were covered with tree leaves and strips of moss. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

It crept up his bare skin, his chest, his head. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

But nobody paid any attention to him, and finally he poured himself a drink and tottered back up the stairs with it, in his bare feet, to bed. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

We posed in front of the New Dealer office, our feet dirty and bare for the whole world to see. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

The night air was chilly on her bare skin. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

I want to touch him, but I’m afraid of his bareness; afraid that he will make me bare too. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

She looked more like a living Athena Parthenos, with the same golden robes and bare ivory arms. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Very slowly it split itself wide, showing the bright blue inside of its mouth, two bare fangs. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I have to admit it’s much tougher here than I expected, but at least everyone seems to have the bare necessities. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Inside there were bare walls and a small folding table. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

She smiled, with the barest suggestion of teeth. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

It’s really weird, but when you see someone’s bare feet for the first time, they just seem so...helpless. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

His bare back was covered with welts from a whip. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

“Remove your shoes and socks, please. You’ll need to stand on it with your bare feet for the Magic-Meter to work properly.” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

She bared her teeth at them like some kind of crazy ferret. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

She just waltzed in on her expressive, blue, highly arched bare feet. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

She wore a loose skirt of some silver material and a sleeveless top of green, and her spurred feet were bare, like the man’s. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

To the men struggling with the spears Snow said, “Take the heads and bum them. Leave nothing but bare bone.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Even though her feet were bare and the ground was covered with sticks and pine needles, she felt no pain, for this walk was leading her, perhaps, to that destiny that Afi kept speaking of. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

I heard his bare feet on the floor and felt his weight as he settled into bed beside me. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The little boy was buried under a mound of blankets—if the bare mattresses around it were any indication, the other boys had gladly donated theirs to his pile. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

But I decided to save my riales for my first pair of shoes, because my bare feet looked ugly next to all my classmates’ shoes and boots. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well,” Libby says, baring her own teeth at me. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

There seemed to be the barest flicker coming from over where the roller coaster had been. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Shrubbery loses its bright snow headgear and stands bare and frail, too undernourished to hide the drains it was intended to hide. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was tired of sitting on the limb, and my bare feet were getting cold. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was still in her nightie and her feet were bare. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I flexed my bare feet against the ground, trying to keep my legs still. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

His feet were bare, shackled around the ankles and also chained. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

When I lay down next to him, our arms touched, mine bare and his in an olive-green hunting jacket. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

People woke up to find fire at their windows, and ran from their doors howling warning, only to encounter the same flames everywhere, leaping and lapping, laying the countryside bare. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lyddie scrunched her body into itself and tucked her bare feet under the low stool, fearful of seeming in the way. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

Farther on, two spearmen faced each other across a little trickle of a stream, practicing their thrust-and-parry in the fading light, their chests bare and slick with sweat. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Suddenly, she removed her shoes and began stamping on the shells in her bare feet, slowly at first, then faster and faster in a mad flamenco, her arms thrown up in the air. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

South of the bridge, Michigan Avenue is a busy street, crawling with people, but here it is bare. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

I rest my arms on the concrete wall and look down through the bare branches that are like dry coral. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

The upper wind settled in the West and deeper and wetter clouds rolled up to spill their laden rain on the bare heads of the Downs. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

The interior was unprosperous and bare; the only car visible was the dust-covered wreck of a Ford which crouched in a dim corner. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

It was empty, just a shallow, circular pit of bare stone. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I wasn’t thinking about anything, because I was half asleep from the sun beating down on my bare head. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

There was a half-second pause as it studied him, baring a row of yellow teeth crammed into a gummy black mouth. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

The altar was shattered, the wall coverings shredded, the walls themselves bare. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her mother’s slender bare feet were within Naomi’s reach, and she longed to touch them, massage them as she had on the mornings after her mother had danced late into the night. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

I saw a bare, bleak pool of black life and I hated it; the people were alike, their homes were alike, and their farms were alike. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

But her feet had not felt the earth in ever so long, and her thoughts had been replaced by whirlwinds and storms that swept all her cupboards bare. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

My bare feet make sticky sounds on the floor as I walk, my hand skimming the wall to keep my path straight. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

And now his bare legs kept brushing against my jeans. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Ignatius bellowed, baring a tan fang or two. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I'd like to sit down, but I'm not sure I want to plant my bare bottom on some public piece of university property. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

His yellow teeth were bared in a grin. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

But Meg continued to run, as swiftly as an antalop, with her bare feet twinkling behind her, and Gareth gave it up. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

The prophets must have gathered wood earlier because a great heap was already present at the center of the bare knoll. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Windows around the front section look like its mouth is cracked open, baring long teeth between the top of its head and bottom of its jaw. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

No-one bothered to look at a little ragged boy running along on bare feet. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

He opens it with his bare hand, cracks one of the back windows open, and pours the beer out through the crack. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

Someone’s bare foot was on my calf and then my back, and I was being trampled. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Claire glanced through the window that displayed Sophia’s group of infants, who were dangling in swings suspended from the ceiling, kicking their bare feet against the carpet. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

The great strides of the pursuers brought them closer, so close that in a fearful backward glance Taran saw one of them, teeth bared in a snarl, reach out to clutch the stirrups of Lluagor. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

In the heat of early afternoon, they would remove their helmets and flak jackets, walking bare, which was dangerous but which helped ease the strain. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Chas Becker was not pleased when I pulled the covers off his face and actually touched his bare arm, shaking him. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Her brown feet were bare, her outgrown boots still slung over her shoulder. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

I stared at her bare feet as she said this. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

It will be good to feel warm again, if only for a little while, he told himself while he hacked bare branches from the trunk of a dead tree. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

He was under the bare ash boughs and the flowering blackthorn of March. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

He picked up the hot sword blade with his bare hands. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

In bare feet and overalls, I looked out my bedroom window. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

“He had the advantage of surprise,” said Minya, all but baring her teeth. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

The towns where we preached were stripped bare of young men, with it still being wartime, and this fanned the fires of Nathan’s private torture. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Their every secret would be laid bare by technology. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

He had slept the night away, and the grey of morning was dim among the bare branches. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Some of them splattered clear down on his bare feet, making dark splotches in the dust that covered them. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her bare feet carry her past the third one, and soon she’s up alongside her nemesis. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

If you move often and lack vehicles or draft animals, you confine your possessions to babies, weapons, and a bare minimum of other absolute necessities small enough to carry. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

I shivered worse when the wind hit my bare skin, but I knew it was better than being in wet clothes, so I went to work on my shoelaces. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Denna was wearing a dark green dress that left her arms and shoulders bare. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The broken bridge was a bare five yards ahead. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The ceiling of the building was high up and baring its rafters. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

His bared teeth were a hand’s breadth from the Lady’s face, and she gazed at him with perfect composure. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

He stared at her, and bared his teeth, and all she could think was how stupid she'd been and how Hot Pie would gloat when they found her half-eaten body the next morning. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

And then only thirty feet of bare stone would separate her from it. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

This one was bare too, the same size as the first one. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

One by one Miss Bimp’s students come out, sweaters over bare chests, shoes with no socks, jumpers with no shirts beneath. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

My dad was sitting alone at a bare metal table. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

It was only a faint improvement over the first one, bare and exposed to the wind. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

“If I could push the world back all those miles with my bare hands and make it change direction, I would do that, Julia.” 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

My feet are bare, and the ground is uneven here. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

His sandy hair, considerably longer than it had been when they dropped in, was lighter now; and his bare back was a mass of dark freckles and peeling sunburn. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

Exhausted from hunting and my lack of sleep, I go back to my compartment to find it stripped bare, only to remember we’ve been moved because of Buttercup. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

But it’s her bare legs that are somehow shocking to see. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

We all let out a sigh; all stood at attention and silently bared our heads. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

The branches are bare and black but they are covered with dripping white candles, translucent layers of wax frosting over the bark. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

I realized they were both staring at my bare legs. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

“I will tear her apart with my bare hands.” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

He stands and presses his lips to mine, his mouth open, his hands on my bare hips, his thumbs slipping under the top of my jeans. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Olyvar Frey offered it up hilt first, and her son drew the blade and laid it bare across his knees, a threat plain for all to see. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

It took the barest second, the softest brush of Nina’s fingertips. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

The trashman shoved the boat away from the dock with his bare foot and they were off, down the river. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

It did not feel cold to her bare hands, and whether that was because it was really glass or because she was so frozen that ice felt like wood to her, she did not know. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

Shoba walked over to the framed corkboard that hung on the wall by the fridge, bare except for a calendar of William Morris wallpaper patterns. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

His voice was tinged with the barest trace of hope. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

The skeleton of a large junk, its ribs lying bare, its backbone running straight and true down the bottom. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Above their heads the trees were full of ravens, their feathers fluffed as they hunched on bare brown branches, staring down at the pageantry below. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“You might find somewhere to stay in Tal Al Karama, a village near the Roman road. You should reach there this evening. A quiet road through pine woods and bare hills.” Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

Her bare shoulders shook as if she were cold. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

In her hands she held a flickering light, which wasn’t a lantern or a candle but seemed to be a ball of raw flame, attended by nothing more than her bare skin. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

Dad mimes strangling Prophet with his bare hands, then says to me, “How about that haircut? Looking pretty pre-Raphaelite there with all those long, dark locks.” I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

The id of the town was bared, gathering into something terrible, fed by the slow accretions that came with a blazing hunger for retribution. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

We played lawn tennis with homemade wooden rackets and soccer with bare feet on a field of dust. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Keep them. You still have to walk back through the school and—” His eyes drop to my ripped dress, my bare skin, and he jerks them up again. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

They summoned her back now with the palms of their small hands laid flat against the bare skin of her midriff. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

My room is stark—a narrow bed, a small table, a bare lightbulb, an old chest of drawers for my clothes. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Other than my plant and the bowls, even my desk is bare. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

I sniff the bare skin of his neck—a mix of soap, sweat, and hot dog. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

“Jane, your little feet are bare; lie down and cover yourself with my quilt.” Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

The pent waters spread out into a long oval lake, pale Nen Hithoel, fenced by steep grey hills whose sides were clad with trees, but their heads were bare, cold-gleaming in the sunlight. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Sean sat back on his heels, the barest hint of a smile on his face, one palm pressed over his heart. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

“The gas station, I run here in my bare feet! The kids run next door...” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

“And you got yourself a dog, Charlie!” she said, rubbing her bare foot along Wishbone’s back. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

I feel the cool night air on my bare skin, the swirling in my chest. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Yet when he made to touch him, the wolf bristled and bared his teeth. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“Hopefully it’s a pack of man-eating wolves that we have to take on with our bare hands.” Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

He pulled her sweater up farther, and then, without thinking about why, he pulled up his shirt, too, and laid his bare stomach against hers. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

Aunt Ivy had branded that message on my bare legs countless times. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

Rani isn't, but the soles of her bare feet look tougher than my slippers—rougher even than Amma's feet. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

As she crossed the library with the vase in both hands, she heard what she thought was the sound of bare feet on the hallway tiles outside the library door. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

But the hall was bare, with only a few stragglers rushing to class before the bell rang. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

A hand wrapped around my bare ankle and tugged me back across the ground—but not before my fingers closed around the handle. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

“We have bottled all the stars this evening, my young friends. Gah, the confetti!” he said, and lightly brushed a seed from my bare shoulder. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

‘Five leagues or one,’ said Gimli, ‘we cannot escape them in this bare land. Shall we wait for them here or go on our way?’ The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

A print of a bare foot alternating with the flat print of a flip-flop. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

He wanted to strangle Octavian with his bare hands, but at that moment, Gwen gasped. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

While he fried the plain bamboo shoots in the pot over the fireplace, Minli looked around the bare room. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

He got up and looked around at the low, snow-covered hills dotted with bare bushes. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

I tapped my bare feet on the wood floor. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

A rocking chair against the bare walls of my room. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

The man now furrows his bushy eyebrows at me and claps a hand on my bare shoulder. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

I look over and see Miss Leefolt’s eyes done wandered down to my bare legs. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

His sword was across his knees, the steel bare for all the world to see. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Lon crept through the corridors, his bare feet achingly cold against the snowy marble. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Then I put on my robe and, eating an apple I’d found in the house kitchen, walked downstairs in my bare feet to see if any messages had been left for me by the phone. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Sometimes, they even costumed themselves with dusty curtains and old tablecloths, scissoring through the faded fabric with Mamá’s gardening shears or tearing them apart with their bare hands. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

“No, wait—” said Will, before Sir Charles could speak, but Lyra ran around the desk, and from nowhere Pantalaimon was in her arms, a snarling wildcat baring his teeth and hissing at the old man. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

We sat at a bare table, each of us staring at our plates. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

The first layer of white cotton was bare. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

She kicked the bag with her dirty bare foot. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Presently the path turned round a huge bare shoulder of rock and plunged into the gloom of soft-sighing trees. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

“Well, try to kill her on bare ground,” Mama cautioned. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

I rested my hands on my bare knees while I laughed, but I kept my eyes on Declaration. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

It is Johnny, padding down the steps with bare feet, dressed in old flannel pajamas with a ticking stripe. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

The ravine was bare, no place to hide, no way for the rest of us to run across the clearing and into the woods without making a lot of noise. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

When she came strutting across the yard in her white sundress and bare feet, I don’t think I’d ever seen her look so pretty. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

I'm in a dim, chilly cave, my bare feet freezing despite the cover, the air tainted with the unmistakable smell of blood. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

People lying down on single sheets of newspaper or sitting on the bare ground staring at nothing. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

But Ekon was grateful for it; he relished its burn on his bare arms and face as he and Koffi wove through the lunch crowds of the city’s central market. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

The first time I tried, Richard Parker bared his teeth, rotated his ears full round, vomited a short guttural roar and charged. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

At 21,300 feet, Camp Two consisted of some 120 tents scattered across the bare rocks of the lateral moraine along the glacier’s edge. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

They had been great friends since second grade, when Tommy poured his chocolate milk on Calder’s bare legs and asked him how it felt. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

If this were one of the Hindi movies Hassan and I used to watch, this was the part where I’d run outside, my bare feet splashing rainwater. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

She inched her way toward him, then kicked him with her bare foot. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

Ron sat on the edge of the grave and stripped off his shoes and socks, which he placed upon the elf’s bare feet. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Separating the huts from the trees was a wide stretch of bare ground, which he knew would be inspected each morning for the footprints of rodents or the looping trails of snakes. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Or perhaps it was the same dream: a pack of wild dogs, all kinds of dogs, running with furious speed across a bare plain this time, intent on hunting and killing something he couldn’t see. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

He poked around for a beet root and squeezed out the juice with his bare hand. The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z

She could just make out the horizon, the barest difference between black sky and blacker sea. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

The track to the Foresters' farm was bare mud, trodden into mire by the feet of horses and cows and sheep and dogs. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

Blue-fire lamps make even the bare, sand training fields of the school seem ghostly. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

And she knows what bare skin feels like. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

She gazed straight down at me from almost twenty feet, unquivering, wordless, her hair rubbing against the branches, hanging those narrow bare feet out into the air. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

A second pair of bare feet appeared beside mine in the sand. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

As soon as my glowing blade appeared, the Hydra whipped toward it with all its heads, hissing and baring, its teeth. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

Evan lay on his back in the dark, throwing the baseball up in a straight line and catching it in his bare hands. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

But, except for the Plymouth and the weathered cross and the mum-mified banana tree, the tiny yard was completely bare. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The fella looked us up and down, from our bare feet to our patched-up pants. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

One day she kicked at a cracked sheep’s skull with the side of a bare foot and sent it bouncing over the edge of the hill. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The light grew stronger and soon he could see that a little way ahead there was an open track of bare gravel. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

I sat at the far end of his chair, holding his bare feet. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Teeth bared, the bonobos jumped and shrieked in the trees. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

In the lobby the doorman dozed, his starched bib buckling beneath his chin with his breathing, his white head bare. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her bare feet moved swiftly over the cool metal of the angel’s palm, as though she were trying to keep up. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

The land dried up and the grasses headed out miserably a few inches high and great bare scabby places appeared in the valley. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

The breast she had left bare in the Qartheen fashion was as perfect as a breast could be. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Uncle Antonio told her of the deserts in Baja California, describing them as terrible places of heat, sand, and bare rocks, with no water to be found. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

He slipped off his sandals and clambered up to them, gripping the bare stone with his toes, and he looked into the shallow caves. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lore has it my father once wrestled a black bear in Baluchistan with his bare hands. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

It was bare and sandy and full of tombs and relics and Egyptians and I didn’t fancy it at all. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

Each one was bent at the knee and ended in a bare brown human foot. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

The room is still hospital bare, and I have a sinking feeling because he’s been to the hospital but didn’t tell me, and there’s something about all that blue that makes me feel suffocated. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

When we reached him, his teeth were bared and his hackles raised. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

There was a chill to the cobbles beneath my bare feet that made them arch. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

You had only to look at his bare knees between the top of his socks and his short pants to know that he would win. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

She grabbed two of the jelly bean fish from the bag in her bare hands and looked back at Seven and Thorn. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

Joey went off to O-Hall, and I ran on frozen bare legs for the boys’ dorm, where I used to live. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

The dog bared its teeth as my blood sweetened its mouth. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

They had been painted red years ago but had chipped over time, revealing layers of orange and green, and patches of bare steel underneath. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

Farid lowered his head and gazed inscrutably at his bare toes. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Under the dripping bare lilac trees a large open car was coming up the drive. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

All that was left was Cool Papa’s hat rack, the bare bed, and an oak dresser. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

Sefia tensed, remembering the sensation of his arms around her, his bare skin, his heart drumming frantically in his chest. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

My bare toes wriggle, and the splendor responds as though it was only waiting for me to make the first move. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

A bare space surrounded by paper screens and curtains of raw silk, perfumed with the scent of ginger and cream. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

One withered breast was left bare in the Qartheen manner, to show a pointed blue nipple hard as leather. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

His boots were always loud on the bare floor, but he never came into the room. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

From there, I could see a long line of bare spots all along the edge of the bluff. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

Like shoes taking away the tough leather her bare feet had grown, the City took away the back and arm power she used to boast of. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

To be able to tear metal with my bare hands. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

They stood in a bare room, handcuffed together, as Palmer unloaded shells from his automatic shotgun. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were huddled on bare earth in the middle of a garden of pink blazing-star flowers. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

Just as Mr. Benson had said, we could see the path they had worn down through the ice and snow till the bare black earth was visible. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not five minutes later, Zooey, with his hair combed wet, stood barefoot at the washbowl, wearing a pair of beltless dark-gray sharkskin slacks, a face towel across his bare shoulders. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

A plank of wood hung from two thick lengths of rope, with a stretch of bare dirt below, where years of feet had worn away the grass. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

The trees that were shedding the last of their leaves stood bare but dignified among the loyal green of the pines. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

Her feet were bare, and the cuffs of her pajama pants rose past her ankles as she sat in the grass, settling the book in her lap. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

I stood at the window to admire the sunlight slanting over the golf course, and burnishing the bare trees on the distant hills. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

The ground was bare and muddy, and dotted here and there with drifts of melting snow. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I look at his sneakers and bare ankles. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

I kicked it aside until it was just me against the bare sheet. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

My classrooms were all decorated, the halls—everything but her office, which remained as bare as ever. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

The bare walls were painted a pale green that reminded me of the hospital room where I recovered after I had my appendix taken out. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

She ridiculed her own attempts at genealogy; the family tree was wintry and bare, as well as rootless. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

“I had to dig with my bare hands. I was afraid.” The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a bulldog, his slobbery mouth and bared fangs not two feet behind me. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

Where the dim bare slopes that they had crossed should lie, he thought he saw groves of trees. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

He unlocked the door and waved them into a large room, bare except for some benches and old lockers. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

It looks like a storage closet, just one bare lightbulb glowing over shelves of suitcases. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

When he went away, I looked around me: three bare walls, a toilet, and a cot. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

They sat on the bare stone in a circle, all of them cloaked and hooded, rough still shapes like a circle of dolmens in the faint glow of the fire yards away. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

He passed his hands over the flames once, and then the woodpile was bare and cold, not burned at all. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

She then stands in her bare feet on the ceramic tile floor and breathes a sigh of relief as the coolness of the tile flows through the soles of her feet. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She kicked her heels and bared her teeth. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Her pale arms, bare almost to the shoulder, were thin and wrinkled, with faint blue veins and a few purple scabs. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

She would have somersaulted home on bare gravel before she got back into Claire’s car. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

She waited, expressionless except for perhaps the barest trace of puzzlement. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

She’d taken a small tin of tar, and as Celaena rose from her crouch in the windowsill, her sticky, black hands and bare feet easily gripped the stone wall. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

A boy in a thin shirt and thin tattered trousers walked out of the darkness on bare feet. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

The walls were bare white except for three different prints of sailing ships, which was probably as far as his grandma’s thinking went toward what boys might like. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

They lay down on their bare mattresses, tired, miserable and I don't know what else. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

But there was something ’bout that one particular spot that was calling Mrs. Brown and telling her to brush at it with her bare hand. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

“It may have slipped out in the night,” Nathan said, and we went back, unhopeful, to where we had slept but the ground was bare and innocent. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

With a blood curdling scream he sprang from the tree with claws outspread and long, yellow fangs bared. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Coiling the rope into her pack, she averted her eyes from his bare skin. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

The only sounds were occasional snorts from the engine of Dr. Stanpole’s car when it turned over with special reluctance, and a thin, lonely whistling the wind sometimes made high in the still- bare trees. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

They knew that life nowadays was harsh and bare, that they were often hungry and often cold, and that they were usually work-ing when they were not asleep. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

Samuel read, “ ‘And she again bare his brother Abel. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

The domovoi tugged on his long beard with one hand, and with the other he pointed a stiff finger at Anya as he bared his teeth. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

When he bared his teeth, the flesh of his maimed cheek parted and revealed a row of yellow and black molars. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

I sniff his shirt, then lift my head to take in the bare skin of his neck. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

It was just the barest luck that had allowed Nailer to recognize his father and duck away. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

He showed me into a little bare room with a desk in it. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

He moved on now, his knees bent slightly, his shoulders crouched; his bare feet were wise and silent. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her bare feet slapped against the cold marble floor. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

She had a book, but she wasn’t reading; her legs were thrown over the arm of her chair, one bare heel kicking, with obstinate, lethargic rhythm, at the wicker side. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

There was a woman riding on the horse’s bare back, wearing a long grey dress that hung and gleamed beneath the December moon like cobwebs in the dew. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

She had run up the slanted plank, in her bare feet, crying. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Her skin was as bare as the Happy Buddha’s belly, except for the neat rows of stiff curls that hugged her head. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

The nasty, smooth, clean, man-smelling peg was laid bare to the length of a rabbit’s ear, but still it did not come loose. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Satins and foils and stiff brocades, encrusted with jewels and trimmed in furs with the heads still on, glassy eyes, bared fangs and all. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

When she could not run any harder, any longer, she’d fallen from the thick jungle of corn plants onto a bare, grassy field, trees all around. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

Leaves blown by a cold autumn wind sailed across the sky, baring trees in the woods. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

Ma’s eyes wandered between the bare knees poking beneath the dress and the device attached to Caroline’s forearm. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

I washed the dust off my bare feet and splashed the water over me for the coolness. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

The voice was light, perhaps only a child’s voice, singing sweetly and thinly, on the barest breath, and Eleanor smiled and remembered, hearing the little song more clearly than Mrs. Montague’s voice continuing about planchette. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

Saber-toothed Small Bob leaped to his aid, snarling at Tartarus and baring his fangs. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

The lightning bolt stopped just short of hitting him, as if it had picked up the barest whiff of Aru’s misgiving. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Technically, they could buy carpets, or bangles, with their breasts covered and their bottoms bare. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

It would be many months before the rice was harvested and the poor allowed to glean the fallen grain from the bare fields. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

Overhead, several bare bulbs glow like tiny moons. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

He started rocking back and forth, gently at first, but then more and more violently so that when he came forward his head knocked against the bare stone of the wall. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

She felt a hand an her bare breast, twisting her nipple. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

But then, up ahead, on a narrow wooden bridge, she spotted the shine of a bare scalp. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

The girls and I danced with our escorts until the balls of our feet hurt, and we were forced to slip off our heels and dance in our bare feet. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

“The bare minimum, for my children,” she’d declare under her breath, all the livelong day. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

A few old men sat on the benches underneath the bare trees, looking dourly toward the blank gray sky overhead. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

Not only did the tenants have to restock their bare shelves, they had to add Westing Paper Products by the gross to their orders. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

And though it still feels strange to be so far away from soft dirt beneath bare feet the ground is firm here and the one tree blooms wide enough to shade four buildings. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

The Director bares his teeth in a menacing smile. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

Only six weeks later would his whereabouts become known, and then only by the bare bones: he was at MIT, working on an unidentified “war project.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Its only approach was defended by a gatehouse, behind which lay the long bare ridge the Con- ningtons called the griffin’s throat. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

But her feet wanted more than just the sensation of bare wood, her feet wanted to go. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

Victarion did not like this sea, nor these endless cloudless skies, nor the blazing sun that beat down on their heads and baked the decks until the boards were hot enough to scorch bare feet. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

She had then on a dark-blue silk dress; her arms and her neck were bare; her only ornament was her chestnut tresses, which waved over her shoulders with all the wild grace of natural curls. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

I was forced to walk lopsidedly across the room with one shoe on and one foot bare, weaving through the mess of furniture and junk. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Her child calls to her, waves a bare little branch in greeting. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

He presses his body close to mine and rubs his hands over my bare arms. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

His bare feet made no sound, falling softer than leaves in the thin dust. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Break,” I say, flashing him what is known to primatologists as a “fear grin”—half teeth baring and half grimace. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

We followed her down the path, and as we did, I noticed her feet were bare. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

His mouth was open and his teeth were bared, like one of those dusty, dead animals on display at a natural-history museum. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

The mercenary’s bloody face went white, and he bared his teeth as he stared up at his conqueror. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

The worst part was when Mr. Dussel decided to play doctor and laid his pomaded head on my bare chest to listen to the sounds. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

And then, emerging from the shadows, still terrifyingly larger than life, and this time with teeth bared, came the big—bad- “No!” The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

“The Old Man of the Moon! Another story! Our house is bare and our rice hardly fills our bowls, but we have plenty of stories.” Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

Six days or more had passed since he reckoned that they had only a bare supply for three weeks. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

There were dim anbaric lamps along the wall, which was otherwise bare and whitewashed, with doors to the left and right. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

The deep mud of the shallows was cool and soothing to his bare feet, but he could take no pleasure in it. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

There was a small rug in front of the bed, and a long bare dresser across from it, near a door to another room patched with pictures of singers and movie stars. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Olly’s suddenly right next to me, his hands on the bare skin of my ankles, holding me steady. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Without thinking, Jinny dropped to her knees and began to beat at the boys with her bare hands, brushing and slapping the bees away as best she could, flinching at the stings on her hands. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

It did look like a fist, Jon Snow thought, punching up through earth and wood, its bare brown slopes knuckled with stone. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The plain was rich with crops; there were many orchards of fruit trees and beyond the plain the mountains were brown and bare. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

He walked up through the vegetable patch, kicking his bare toes into the dust. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

I rub a bare foot across the hypnotic swirls of the thick Tribal mg on the floor. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

At the end of its own cul-de-sac, it was a large modern house of the “architectural” sort, bleached cedar, its split levels and asymmetrical terraces self-consciously bare. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

He begins to calm, with just the barest catch in his breath, and he releases my blouse, my shoulders. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

In anger he bared his teeth—a habit, Granny said, that he had formed while fighting in the trenches of the Civil War—and hissed, while his fists would clench until the veins swelled. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had glanced over her shoulder—her very bare shoulder—and said, “Is there something I’m supposed to be doing?” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

For two days and two nights, in my bare feet and a uniform that looked like men’s pajamas. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

He sat on the ground, his feet bare, his linsey-woolsey blouse veined with dirt, his dark face caked with mud. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

“We’re pretty much down to the bare minimum. We have trouble finding things for all the inmates to do—there are only programs for three or four hundred men.” Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He laughed, silently, rocking on his heels, his gappy teeth bared. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

He wore the remains of shorts and his feet were bare like Jack's. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

So now Odysseus made his shirt a belt and roped his rags around his loins, baring his hurdler’s thighs and boxer’s breadth of shoulder, the dense rib-sheath and upper arms. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Runnels of water were trickling through the arch from the uphill side, and the bare earth was beginning to turn into mud. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

For a moment, he thought she was about to show him a prison mark, but her dark bronze skin was bare. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

When I reached to drag the stump away, he snarled and lunged at me with bared fangs. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

Anxiously he clicked to the second frame, and what he saw was no less discouraging: a dirty bare foot. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

And Adam knew Eve his wife; and she conceived, and bare Cain, and said, “I have gotten a man from the Lord.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

"My good Horse," said the Hermit, who had approached them unnoticed because his bare feet made so little noise on that sweet, dewy grass. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

Absently, he bent over and scratched his bare ankle. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

Powder and rouge cover one side of her face; the other side, bare, looks green. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

His bare torso seemed hewn from steel, and though she knew it wasn’t possible, he seemed bigger, as if the very structure of his body had changed. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Matt’s bare feet moved silently beside him, and the only other sounds were Kira’s walking stick, which made a muted thump with each step, and the dragging of her twisted leg. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I open my eyes, Max is coming back into the room with an untucked shirt and bare feet. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Someone held a lighter to his face and they saw his bared teeth and flecks of white in the corners of his mouth. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

The bank on each side of the oak tree was bare and consisted of a light, gravelly soil. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

His eyes fixed on a shallow depression in a soft patch of sand: the imprint of a bare foot, definitely human. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Uri pulled down the hatch, snipping off the daylight, then he flipped a switch and a bare lightbulb burned among the cobwebs in the ceiling. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

“My favorite researchers,” he said, his teeth strong and slightly yellowed, bared in a wide grin. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

Snow frosted the bare branches of the few spindly trees. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Ma looked pretty, with her bare arms plump and white, her cheeks so red and her dark hair smooth and shining, while she scrubbed and rubbed the corn in the clear water. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her bare hands worked them into the ground, prodding and gentling, as if putting to bed an endless supply of small children. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

In my empty room, I lean against the bare wall next to the plastic garbage bag filled with my possessions. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was crying, walking in my bare feet and feeling the wet heat still inside the bricks. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

I sat on the windowsill, wiping my eyes, propping my bare feet against the jamb. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

“Jude, you keep smiling a pleasant smile in front of Madoc, but all I can see anymore is bared teeth.” The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

He bared his teeth and crept backward, eyes glowing golden in the light of the maester's torch. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Her long auburn hair tumbled unbound across bare white shoulders and down her back. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Some tore strips from their canvas jackets and wrapped them around their bare feet, but once the canvas got wet it was worse. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

It was a great bare barn of a building with a corrugated iron roof and was considered the only public building large enough to support a trial of so many accused. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

All the intelligence she had gathered on the Black Tips came back to her in a sickening rush—Oomen, Geels’ shambling enforcer, the one who could crush skulls with his bare hands. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

It gave her a small feeling of satisfaction to notice that Vandara’s feet were bare and her face dirty; the woman had made no special preparations. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I got ’im,” he muttered, his clenched teeth bared in a smile. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Alongside me ran the corporal, Himmelstoss, and trod on my bare toes. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

So she left him alone, made herself a bed of straw beside his, then paced up and down between the bare walls. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

The fields were bare and wet; a long way away 1 could see a campanile rising out of the plain. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

Hazel emerged from the kelp forest, escorted by two vicious-looking mermaids, who were baring their fangs and hissing. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

There the last living things gave up their struggle; the tops of the Morgai were grassless, bare, jagged, barren as a slate. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

Hanging on his chest, which was otherwise bare, was a white disk with a spiral pattern on it. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

On the bottom of one of his bare feet was a scar identical to the motionless woman’s. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

I look across the yard at the bare flower bed. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

She proud & limping, her pretty bare feet hideous with open wounds and her white face swollen with bruising, ignoring me. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

The terror on the stairs had been brief—a bare three minutes in time—and terror had served as an anesthetic. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

She touched the warrior’s bare arm, relishing as he screamed in pain. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

If they wanted to survive, they must travel light, harden their hearts against sentimental keepsakes, and trust that they could make do with the bare bones of equipment. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

And then it was gone, flying back to Mordor with the speed of the wrath of Sauron; and behind it the wind roared away, leaving the Dead Marshes bare and bleak. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

The waters cool and pleasant on my bare feet as I head downstream. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

The waves crashed against his bare feet and the wind blew his hair into his eyes. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

There was bare flesh lounging everywhere, most of it plump, and Hungry Joe began to die. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

The sky was blue-green and the branches of the oak trees in the back yard were black and bare against this color. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

This is the story I believe in: When God was a child, the Rift Valley cradled a caldron of bare necessities, and out of it walked the first humans upright on two legs. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The monster bared its fangs to strike and got a mouthful of Celestial bronze javelins. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

That night, she used the twine to garrote three of our jailers and broke the necks of the other three with her bare hands. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

And in the front, where the band had stuck directly to the bare skin, there remained a whole lot of small patches of brown leathery stuff that no amount of washing would get off. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

When the trussing was done, his body formed a U, his face and feet toward the ceiling, his bare back toward the floor. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

She took a step, and frost crackled beneath her bare feet. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Then he found the matches his dad had loaned him, struck one carefully, and held it to the first bare wick. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

There were a couple of iron cots with bare springs, one against either wall, the mattress pads rolled up at the foot of them in army fashion. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

He beckons to her, and she walks down the hallway, the blue light at the end making her bare head glow. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

I recalled the bare trampled ground around the tree, the fireplace of rocks filled with ashes, the wood chips from the making of my bed, and resolved hereafter to keep my yard clean. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

“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

Stumbling across the room to my CD player, I wince as markers jab my bare feet. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

The moon ran with him, slipping through a tangle of bare branches overhead, across the starry sky. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Their delicate winged bodies, prone and limp, were snarled in the girls’ hair, attached to their clothes, even stuck to their bare arms and legs, like dried pressed flowers. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

The Cobras were laughing because they figured the dumb, scraggly runt would get out of the East End in about as good shape as a bare big toe in a convention of snapping turtles. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

They drift to the bare earth like a thousand feathers, memories of my terror and aloneness and cold dark nights, until I’m left bare. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

Bast doubled over as if punched in the stomach, baring his teeth and making a noise halfway between a growl and a scream. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The Aronstein flag painting was down and leaning against the wall, and my parents’ four-poster bed had been stripped bare. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

"This island's more or less a bare rock. We shall make short work of searching it. We'll soon ferret out U. N. Owen, Esq." And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

This one, on the other hand, had on a black turtleneck and black pants, but her tiny feet were bare. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

You must plan experiments on the basis of probability, even bare possibility, rather than certainty. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I also manage to keep my eye on the ball—which has changed direction—and with my bare hand, I reach back and snare it. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

We passed countless people standing in the streets like statues, their toes bare on the stones, nightclothes blowing in the unnatural breeze, mouths agape. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

I follow his gaze to my bare stomach—my shirt’s ridden up—then lower to where there’s no hiding how I’m feeling. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

The floor was swept bare, with bags of seed and fertilizer stacked neatly by the door. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

I asked, watching Cotton jumping onto a milk crate in the yard with orange Popsicle juice running down his chin and onto his bare stomach. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

Alby showed the slightest hint of a smile, a bare crack in his usually hard face. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

The stands were scarred, the walls needed paint, the naked light bulbs seemed ugly, their bare, black wires like the dead branches of a stunted tree. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

Ruth stayed in the wagon, her bare feet curled up under her skirt and her thumb in her mouth. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

The lords clasped their bare heads as if they'd been scalped. The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z

Twigs crackled under my bare feet, stinging the soles. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

I glanced down at my skirt and blouse and bare feet and shook my head. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

But when she bared her lord’s leg, bending near, she knew the groove at once. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then she took off her own footgear and wiggled her bare toes. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

But he saw nothing of the great Odysseus, who sat apart, as a thousand times before, and racked his own heart groaning, with eyes wet scanning the bare horizon of the sea. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But then,” Lazlo added, “if someone managed to steal it from you—” He looked to her bare wrist where no moon charms now hung. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

The door of the house where the boy lived was unlocked and he opened it and walked in quietly with his bare feet. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

In his rare laughs he bared his teeth in the same way, only now his teeth did not flash long and his body was relaxed. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

But he had; all his life he had hated on the basis of bare sensation. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Police boots stepped back from the rim of a pool of urine spreading from him, the bright, bare electric bulb reflected in it. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

My bare feet find every discarded twig and branch on the forest floor. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

“Claws, at least,” Jesper said, shifting his gaze to his own bony bare feet. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

The wolf lowered its head and bared its teeth. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

I shrugged and stared at my bare feet, cleaner than they’d been in years, almost unrecognizable. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

We drank and looked across the bare room. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

The Dumpster’s metal flank felt cool and crusty against his bare back. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

Not even halfway up the walkway I see Momma through the screen on the door in her nightgown, her arms folded and her bare foot tapping. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

“I don’t have any shoes,” I told Lissa, suddenly conscious of my bare feet. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

The Berg stopped up ahead, its blue thrusters pointing downward now as it hovered fifty feet or so above the Town Square, a roughly square-shaped area they’d left bare when building the settlement. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

His room looked bare, everything packed away, it was as it had been the first day he had come into it, the day he had fought with Hooper and punched him in the face. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

The maidservants were cleaning the last crumbs off the tables when coins suddenly came rolling over the bare wood. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

The big male who had sniffed at her cook-fire that first afternoon approached and bared his frightening teeth. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

But they weren’t in the protected section, so she figured it was fine to run her bare fingers over the smooth and fragile paper. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

The Negro who turns now, in the moment of near-realization of his liberties, and bares his fangs at a man’s whiteness, makes the same tragic error the white racist has made. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sunlight shone through the bare branches in slanting golden rays as they approached the abbey. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

He puts his cut-up hands to the opening of his robe and pulls it apart enough to show his bare chest. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

That it was bare and cold and smoky, heavy bags hanging from the ceiling that Ms. Adams gave bare-knuckle jabs and right hooks to. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

One head leaned down next to Grover’s ear and bared its fangs. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

The trees and bushes are mostly bare, but I see a few green blades emerging. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

I stretched the cord into the pantry, pulled the string on the single bare bulb. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

He stood over his prize and opened his mouth, baring his fangs. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

In the small creek that wormed its way down through our fields, I caught crawfish with my bare hands. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

He stood there with his bare face hanging out, burning hot all over. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Then the Palace was only a long bare room, lit dimly by two small windows, walled with unpainted wood smelling strongly of fish meal. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s really freaking chilly out, and I have no idea how these soccer kids are surviving with their shorts and bare legs. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

There are no counters in the kitchen, only the bare sink; there’s no stove. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

When I’m among the bare trees at the bottom I look up. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Manchee jumps, his teeth bared, but Mr. Prentiss Jr. is faster, kicking him away with a vicious boot to the face. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

The white wolf turned and bared his teeth. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The needles were uncapped and bare, obviously used. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The person’s bare right hand, naked to the frigid wind and grotesquely frostbitten, was outstretched in a kind of odd, frozen salute. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

Now those memories are like a gray winter tree, sharp and bare. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

I can see that this rule doesn’t apply to everyone because the white woman next to us is trying on a pair of high heels in her bare feet. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The SS man with the list took one last look around the empty apartment, at the seven of us sitting or standing on the bare floor. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Jeremiah took off his flip-flops and slipped the shoe on his right foot, leaving his left foot bare, and took the field. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

He bared his fangs, burning me with a look. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

But all of a sudden, everybody was looking at her dirty, bare feet. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Our little girl ran about in the sun bare and beautiful as she grew, with no clothes to hamper her limbs or confine her movements. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

Plodding up the hill through the mud and beaten-down grasses, he slammed his bare feet down hard. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

Then he took off in a blaze of speed, his bare feet churning on the dirt. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

The room was as small and square and bare as a prison cell. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

Piercing screeches hurt my ears as the giant bats descend from the rafters, fangs bared. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

We stood on the tile in our bare feet, slugging down the cool, smooth water. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

After the bath, I diapered her but left her otherwise bare. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

It kills me a little to have to give the sheriff even the barest semblance of respect when all I want to do is test the edge of my sickles against his neck. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

I look around for something to scoop it up with; I know I shouldn’t touch it with my bare hands. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Her bare feet skipped over the carpeted steps and soon she was standing before him. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

In silver inlay on the breastplate of his burnished scarlet armor was a white tree bare and dead, surrounded by a flock of onyx ravens taking flight. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Laika pressed up against my bare thigh, and I patted her fur. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

She jerked away and threw herself down again, her lips pulled back, her teeth bared. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

The cook leaned through his window and rested bare elbows on the serving counter. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Just the bare bones. A hardware self-check. It's got a lot of 'nonfunctional' systems, 'cause they were on the panels Watney removed." The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

She sat between the roots of the lime tree, clad in a one- piece smock of green girded with a quiver of arrows, and her feet and arms were bare. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

She went to the window and stared out, trying to spot the bird among bare oak branches that stood out black against a broken sky of gray and palest blue. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Her skinny bare legs glistened with insect repellent. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

The bare wood was comfortable and familiar under her feet. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

“I’m sorry I let the refrigerator get so bare.” The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

When blood dripped on my bare feet or poured over the book I was reading, he was kind. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

Her bare skin looks so white against the floor. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

A cockroach ran out from behind her stool, and she stepped on it with her bare foot. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

Word was he’d once crushed a man’s skull with his bare hands, wiped his palms clean on his shirtfront, and kept right on drinking. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

The boy spit, kicked his bare foot at the dirt, and said, “I knowed it!” Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

The man tried to retrieve it, but the monkey bared its teeth at him. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Now we just call it “Millenium,” and it is a stretch of bare land and several rusted metal sculptures—one an abstract, plated mammoth, another shaped like a lima bean that dwarfs me in size. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

Some days, shelves at the commissary were bare long before day's end, leaving hundreds to walk away with nothing. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The walls were bare—as bare and as unbroken as smooth, curving metal can be. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

Hayhead was carried in between two of the other guards, a bloodstained bandage wrapped about his bare chest. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

He bares his gums, revealing perfect, peppermint-Orbit-white teeth, and his mom licks both her thumbs and smooths back his eyebrows. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

It was utterly bare: a platform of tumbled rocks with not a blade of grass to be seen, no tree, no bush, nor any moss or lichen. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

They were rounded, wide, and her teeth were bared in a fixed smile. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

His voice was like a sheet of smooth grey slate, without the barest hint of inflection or emotion. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

There was a Cealdish boy with lace on his shirt, a little girl with bare feet, and myself. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The ship went through the bridge, moving under bare poles like a ghost in broad day, with three gulls hovering above the stern like toys on invisible wires. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

I fold back the sheet, get carefully up, on silent bare feet, in my nightgown, go to the window, like a child, I want to see. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

The grave markers had been painted white, but by someone in an obvious hurry—gelled globs covered them and bare streaks of wood showed through. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Indians who had once used hatchets to bare the skulls of white men drifted over from Buffalo Bill’s compound, as did Annie Oakley and assorted Cossacks, Hussars, Lancers, and members of the U.S. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

‘But they go with a great speed for all that,’ said Aragorn, ‘and they do not tire. And later we may have to search for our path in hard bare lands.’ The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Something about their eyes hidden under those shaggy manes...Frank had gotten sick from the barest glimpse. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Their eyes became outraged by the bare board walls. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

The rough stone had scuffed her bare feet. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

He actually bared his teeth and began to make this low, scary growl in his throat. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

“We had to fix instruments on the aircraft with our bare hands, our skin stuck to the metal, and our hands bled,” Irina said. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

The Object’s knees were spread apart and her legs, which were somewhat heavy in the thigh, were bare high up. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Those things that are presented to the eyes and depicted on panels or paper become fixed more firmly in the mind than those that are described in bare words. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

So he mounted the stairs, the worn bare treads, the cracked and scaling wall on one side, the balustrade with its intermittent missing spindles on the other. Absalom, Absalom! 1936-01-01T00:00:00Z

Leaving a boat-shaped patch of bare dry earth, cleared and ready for love. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I never touched her bare breast, and her hands never got lower than my hips. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

I could feel her looking at me, but I kept myself turned away, looking out the window at the bare trees. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Monkeys gathered in the high, bare branches at sunset, whimpering to one another as they searched the sky. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The winter had started out bare, frosted the trees deeply, and then the deep snows had fallen. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

Of a spreading pool of clear liquid with a bare bulb reflected in it. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

When we get there, Al is sitting in the chair already, and a small, narrow man with more ink than bare skin is drawing a spider on his arm. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

I loved the hole in his jeans and the dirt on his bare feet and the scab on his elbow and the scar that laced through one eyebrow. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

Then he looked down at his left wrist, bare now of any prison mark. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

I look at the reflection in the mirror: my wide eyes, the bed with the gray sheets pulled taut, the dresser that holds my clothes, the bookcase, the bare walls. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

The attackers bared angry fangs at her from the cover of the ditch—of all the Redwall defenders the big badger was the one they most hated and feared. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

It was kinda sad seeing the walls all bare. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

It had a patina, as though from the soles of bare feet in generations, like old silver or the walls of Mexican houses which have been plastered by hand. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

He plopped down on top of my bare feet. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

A wide plain spread out beneath them, bare and brown, its flatness here and there relieved by long, low hummocks. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Only enough strength was left in the old dog for a valiant baring of his teeth. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

He would flip them on the bare floor, on the rug and on the bed. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

One is that it sounds quite bare compared to later harmony. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

The collar slides sideways, baring one of my shoulders. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Then, in answer to a foreboding call from a dark part of his mind, he leaped from bed and landed on his bare feet in the middle of the room. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

I was interested in the pictures of the bare landscape, wondering what the Martian weather conditions were like and if life might ever have existed there. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then he bares his teeth and screams a long, inhuman howl, bringing his foot down on the glass again and again and again. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

Come on, he thought baring his teeth in the darkness—come on. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

The flowers which had been round her neck we found upon her mother’s bosom, and her throat was bare, showing the two little wounds which we had noticed before, but looking horribly white and mangled. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

He could hear the wind rattling the bare branches of the elms that lined the street. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Once the faja is no longer holding up my anaco, it falls to the ground, the thick, dark cotton pooling at my bare feet. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

All traces of the wedding had disappeared, and the house and courtyard were bare and unfamiliar. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Do you have any other hidden talents you aren’t telling us about? Can you build a stage using your bare hands? Manufacture a full house out of thin air?” From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

When the trunk was finally stripped bare, I assumed it would have to stop. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

He’d taken off his gloves and was running his bare palms over the stones. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

She extended her gloved hand, and Ash reached out with her bare one and they clasped fingers firmly, and the huntress looked a bit confused. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Holly bared her teeth; it was answer enough. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

The flood was taking them into an area of hills and woodlands, hills that crowded closer than before and woodlands that were partly bare and partly evergreen. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

We drove slowly in this matting-covered tunnel and came out onto a bare cleared space where the railway station had been. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

It required the very barest amount of commitment or expectation. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

He scowls, curling back his lips to bare his teeth. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

Then grouse feed on them too, finding them on bare and windswept ledges or following the antelope to feed where they have scratched away the snow. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

They bared their sharp teeth and grumbled up a low, rumbling growl. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Beyond those, ringed by bare dirt, stands a pretty cottage with a thatched roof and stucco walls. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Now it was daylight, he would be even more afraid of touching it with his bare hands, but he wouldn't tell anyone about its presence in his room. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

Edward bared his teeth, crouching in defense, a feral snarl ripping from his throat. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Tally let her bare feet trip, and tumbled down the slope. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

He trotted past where I stood beneath the tree, his bare feet slapping the walk in the silence, going for a few feet and then the high, hallucinated cry beginning again. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sarai’s fingertips did, at some point in the heedless flow of dream time, find themselves slipping under the hem of Lazlo’s shirt to play ever so lightly over the bare skin of his waist. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

She stood there for what seemed like hours, tears slowly leaking from her eyes, her bare feet growing colder minute by minute. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The old knight took pains not to look at her bare breast as he spoke to her. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Con was asleep in his bedroll on the other side of the low-burning fire, and the trees arched above in a rib cage of bare branches. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

“You think too much,” Kaede murmured, and she pulled Taisin’s hand from her hair and kissed her bare wrist, pushing back the sleeve of her tunic. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

I’d assumed he was in for murder, for squashing a family to death with his bare hands, but it wasn’t anything like that. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Everyone looked up at him, smiling, clapping, waving their arms over their heads, bare bosoms and all. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

They built a pyramid of leaves and twigs, branches and togs, on the bare sand by the platform. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

Cluny the Scourge bared his fangs, grinning wickedly into the dark. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Her green gown is both sleeveless and strapless, leaving her shoulders and arms completely bare save for a long silver chain with what appears to be a silver locket around her neck. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

The girl's eyes grew wide, and not because he had bared her breasts. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

I nodded, my fingers finding the bare skin of his forearms, tracing the muscles and overlying veins there. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

He froze for a bare moment, then finished scratching down the rest of the sentence. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

A chill skittered up Ekon’s bare arm like a spider; his mouth went paper dry. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

She fixed him with her glowing red eyes and bared her fangs. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

She liked Gothic details: mist hanging over a silent lake, gnarled roots heaving up from the earth, a solitary crow in the branches of a bare tree on the shoreline. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

It was a round hill smooth and bare, standing by itself, the most northerly of the downs. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

He squinted past the bare trees in the cloister garden, trying to penetrate the shadows of the columns where we stood. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

I pushed myself up onto my hands and knees, ignoring the bite of the frosty air on my bare skin. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

She crosses the too puffy rug in her bare feet. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

We headed into the old grove of trees, now bare of fruit, the grove of the Cleopatra tangerines. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

She’s alone, sitting in her chair with her bare legs crossed. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

The coolness of the rich, black soil felt good to my bare feet. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Wrap up in this. It’s not much, but it’s better than the bare stone.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

He picked one ready arrow from his table where it lay bare: the rest were waiting still in the quiver for the young men’s turn to come. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The one thing that kept us going in the bare, holiday-less classroom of Mrs. Baker. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

The ancient, giant mahogany trees, all the trees, the game, everything of the forest was being destroyed, and the land was forced to lie flat, he said, and bare as the palm of his hand. The Color Purple 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sun moved downward toward the bare stone teeth of the mountains, and Kino set his direction for a dark and shadowy cleft in the range. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fearfully, she felt her way through the unfamiliar rooms in her nightgown and bare feet. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The slinking yellow dog paused to turn and bare its broken brown teeth at Omakayas, but she crossed her eyes at him and couldn’t have cared less. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

After stepping out of the elevator, he was led down a corridor and into a large, bare, windowless room where guards removed his blindfold. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

A thin blanket had been pulled up to her bare shoulders, but it wasn’t long enough to cover her entirely, and her feet stuck out from the other end. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

My bare feet felt the throbbing earth and my body trembled with excitement. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the bank on the further side of the bay the rabbit holes were plain to see, showing dark and distinct in the bare ground. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

In a flash of steel, Cain had his blade at Grave’s throat, and the pockmarked assassin bared his rotting teeth at him. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

At roll call, I was pulled out of the lines and marched to a wooden “horse”—a polished, barkless log with four wooden feet—and laid over it with my bare back facing up. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

What passed for the director’s office was four bare, cracked walls, a mat on the floor, a table, and two folding chairs. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

When both twigs were undressed Nel moved easily to the next stage and began tearing up rooted grass to make a bare spot of earth. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Standing in front of a smallish brick house with a yard that was probably pretty nice in the summer but was pretty bare right now. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z

The cold stream lapped his bare heels momentarily, but then he was into the air above it and falling awkwardly and landing on his bottom. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

Goosebumps jumped all up and down my bare arms. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The dark secret face was laid bare to the light, to my gaze. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

It landed on Butler’s arm, touching the bare skin. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

The curly hair on his bare chest was as shiny as the hair on his head. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

Without word, without hesitation, Jinny turned, crossed the small room, and kicked the door open with a bare foot and strength she had no idea she possessed. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

As I watch, it starts to snow, flakes falling silently onto bare branches. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

Beneath his window six cherry trees stood sentinel around a marble pool, their slender branches bare and brown. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Hannah finally heard the commandant’s car, then saw it as it barreled toward them, down the long bare avenue between the barracks. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dogs barked; a pair of them snarled, facing each other with bared teeth in the path, a dropped morsel between them. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He stared at the bare walls, the locked door, the dirty floor. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Her bare feet left bloody footprints upon the path—sliced by every stone and sharp stick she stumbled over. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Because Boukreev wasn’t breathing supplemental oxygen, he had apparently decided to strip his load down to the bare minimum to gain every possible advantage in the appallingly thin air. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

The summit of a hill stood out above the water, crowned with a clump of trees, mostly oaks, whose bare branches looked mournful against the gray sky. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

Our names echoed from bare trees, bounced back from the snow, became unrecognizable. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

Cinders, coarse gravel, and granite boulders covered much of the ice, but every now and then the trail would cross a patch of bare glacier—a translucent, frozen medium that glistened like polished onyx. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

I walk down the hall in my bare feet. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

The office itself, a large room with four desks, on each of which sat a computer, looked bare and untested, as though it was everybody’s first day at work. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

The piece of curtain Victor had cut off was hanging on the wall Ida had put a carpet on the bare floor. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

He felt the strings of the bow guard unravel and the bare air blow across his exposed wrist. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Wind whistled through the bare rocks with a lonely, keening sound. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

No ribbon falsified her blameless and implacable headgear; on her woolen head there was only the barest minimum of oil. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

Jockey sat in his maple chair, tapping his bare feet on the dirt. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

The straw was damp, not a good place to sleep, but still better than the bare stone floor. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Instead, he just looked at his hands, which appeared bare and wounded without his rings. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

I thought of Hamlet's anatomy book that showed a skeleton laid bare beneath the skin, a grim reminder of waiting Death. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Dark splotches of blue and purple camouflage Uhmma’s bare back and shoulders. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

I tried not to notice that his fingers accidentally brushed against my bare thigh. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

As Mabinty Bangura, I danced on my bare toes in the mud of the rainy season, disturbing the breeding mosquitoes, who would rise up in anger and bite me—bringing malaria. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tonight they sit in a striped tent beneath a rather large tree, its branches black and bare of leaves. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

The first soldier bares his teeth at me."There are dozens of them out there," he snaps. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

Now in the fall the trees were all bare and the roads were muddy. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

He covered it with his mouth, then kissed a path down to her bare shoulder. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Bull just stood there, sweating through his shirt and staring down at his enormous bare feet. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

She looked at the bare white walls that surrounded her. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

I unbutton my shirt and stare at my bare side, which is patched with bruises. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

It was planting time, and the backs of the field hands were bent as they leaned over the long rows, sun glistening on their bare backs. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Grandma Knife bares her teeth at me in a rare—and real—smile. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

Bright red in the face, he balanced first on his right hand and then on his left, bare legs up in the air. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Monday morning was blue and white, and everything was blowing: cumulus clouds, bare branches, scraps of rubbish. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

Sekani scurries in and sits behind me, propping his bare feet on my shoulders. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

His feet were bare, covered in white sand. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

He splashed some tepid water on his face from the basin beside his bed and took his time squatting in the garderobe, the night air cold on his bare skin. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

He puts his hand on my bare waist. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Green and long grew the grass on Snowmane’s Howe, but ever black and bare was the ground where the beast was burned. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

They leaped up at Mo, baring their yellow teeth. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

With his pale finger, Baruch traced a map in the bare soil beside the fire. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Hooligans attacked our building, again pelting the windows with rocks, pulling people from the first floor to beat them with their bare hands. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

Her white nightdress was smeared with blood, and a thin stream trickled down the man’s bare breast which was shown by his torn-open dress. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

The branches were mostly bare of leaves now, and the squirrels were in full-fledged autumnal hysteria, frantically seeking nuts and burying them everywhere their tiny one-track minds could think of. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

His bare legs were dusty and red with welts from where one of the monkeys struck him repeatedly with the stick he had given to it earlier. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

The earth immediately about the door was bare. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Director Horus closes the umbrella and sets it down next to his bare feet. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

The cicadas rose up, and I ran with bare feet across the grass. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He counted half a dozen identical impressions, all made by the same set of bare feet. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

His chubby legs and bare feet poke from beneath his wrinkled shirt. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

The first one I saw fell from a branch and crawled across my bare arm before flopping off and disappearing into the rotten palm leaves. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the trees the topmost branches are bare, the remaining leaves yellow, paper-thin. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Just room after room of bare walls and dusty wood floors. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

But to be honest—I love the feel of the Persian carpet on my bare feet. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

Seven comes in and steps over me, putting his big bare foot near my face. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

He saw her flinch as the bullets struck her body, saw red blooms of blood appear on her chest, her breasts, her bare thighs. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Geak waves at me again and even attempts a smile, baring her teeth. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You were saying something about your art. How art bares the soul of the artist.” Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m suddenly very aware of my bare shoulder. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Behind crates and cabinets and peg-boards of tools, the walls are bare granite. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

His eyes flicker down to Alex’s hip, where it’s bared above the sheet, and he says as much to himself as to Alex, “I am very, very gay.” Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

The white column of her part, the sight of her bare wrists, pains Gogol when he first catches sight of her. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Ignoring the pain in her bare feet, Sefia stomped through the undergrowth. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Donatelli showed tickets to a sleepy old man at the door, and led them through a dark corridor into a large, bare room filled with older men, half-naked boys, and cigar smoke. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

He sat at my feet, stretching his bare ones out and lying back on the dirt. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

I could sprint on wet cement in bare feet no problem. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

The barest sprinkle of dragon bone scrapings, like minuscule white petals, for power. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

The ice was bare of snow and embedded with a coarse black grit that crunched beneath the steel points of my crampons. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Mothers’ League was asking that the 101st be removed from inside the school or at least cut to a bare minimum. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the blink of an eye he was surrounded by Stark guardsmen, bare steel in their mailed fists. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

I was in bare feet, wearing a pair of shorts. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Some women wear slightly saucier evening gowns, with bare shoulders here and there, but long kid-leather gloves ensure they don’t have more than a few inches of epidermis exposed. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Before she had quite arisen, she called our names and issued orders, and pushed her large feet into homemade slippers and across the bare lye-washed wooden floor to light the coal-oil lamp. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

I slipped my bare feet into my running shoes and walked past Joey. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

She’s wearing her gray snowsuit jacket but the hood is back, her head is bare. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

He recollected that on a good day in winter, when the maple trees stood bare, he could look through his dormer window out beyond the trees and see the green salt water to the southwest. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Alice can sleep on the bare ground and be perfectly comfortable. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Gilly bared her teeth and shook her head violently No at him. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

I don’t have any memories of him, just this sort of warm glow, maybe the barest trace of his smile. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

It was like she’d suddenly lit down out of the air like a buzzard or risen right up out of the bare ground around the rocks. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

He offered to kill his son with his own bare hands. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He spins back to dodge the attack and lunges at me, teeth bared like a dog’s. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Now, in the dark, she could only feel them there, tendrils brushing against her bare legs. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

The largest wolf had Collins pinned to the ground, its huge fangs bared. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

She was fascinated by the stories she heard told in that big bare room. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

I looked down at my feet, tanned and bare. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“That’s what I do. I hunt snakes and kill them with my bare hands.” Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

A rush of dead brown leaves, Asha told herself, bare branches creaking in the wind. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

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

His boots clumped on the bare wood floor as he walked over to her. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

In my bare feet, I walked as slowly as possible down the hall to the arched doorway that led to our living room. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

There were hundreds of magazines, all with exciting, colorful covers, pretty girls, beautiful clothing, and lots of bare skin. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

It’s enough to see the frail line of his calf, bare old bone, to want to lean in a little. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

My bare legs move like cold molasses, my hands like wooden blocks. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

My bare feet bled, and my stomach growled after the food ran out. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like all the King’s House this room was high, red, old, bare, with a musty chill on the air as if the drafts blew in not from other rooms but from other centuries. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

She pogoed into the air and knocked her bare heels together. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

This secret is like having hot burning coals under my bare feet all the time. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

The great sentinel was right there at the top of the ridge, where Will, had known it would be, its lowest branches a bare foot off the ground. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Jefferson did well to find a private space, as cramped and bare as it was. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

Arul grabbed the bottle with his bare hands and dropped it into my sack. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

“The only wrong I have done is to take shoes to the children in Colliers whose bare feet are blue from the cruel blasts of winter,” Fannie said. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z

But he did visit her very often—hopping on his one bare foot, steadying himself with hand on wall. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

One of Isabel’s stuffed arms brushed up along my bare leg. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

When our bare knees touched, the way they had to in order to even fit back there, I couldn’t help but remember Irene and the Ferris wheel, just like an allergic reaction. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

My feet slap, bare and cold, on the cobblestones. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

The path they rode wound up and up, into bare and stony hills. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

He was princely and broad-shouldered, and had nodded off propped up on cushions with a book open on his bare chest. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Getting here with even the bare minimum was a trial. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were mangy, some with patchy fur, others bare, their pink bodies swollen with deformities. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

They had now climbed up to the top of a great hump of bare rock. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

For now, the lot was bare, save for dirt, stones, and weeds. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

They bought two beds, fitted out the bare kitchen, and settled in. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

The fog was thinning now under the heat of the sun that shone bare above on the peak in a bright sky. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

He said passionately: “Lady or damsel, what that thou be, in an evil time bare ye a bow; the devil made you a shooter!” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

The statue in the huge chair was just as detailed—a man staring straight ahead, his hands gripping the armrests, with bracelets on his wrists and anklets above his bare feet. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Her bare legs and arms were bruised and scraped; one ankle was badly swollen and she favored it, limping to the table where Alys had set a bowl of porridge. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

The two crouched low to the creek bed, still dripping and bare. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

I feel sorry for the bare trees that have lost their leaves and are waiting for spring to bring them back. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

Every time he sees me he barks like crazy and bares his teeth. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

I watched him move around the dim, dawn-lit kitchen in his bare feet. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

They wore elaborate headdresses, their languid, elongated eyes closed, their bare chests draped with carved chains and amulets. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

She wiggled her bare toes and looked up at the sandstone cliffs where the swallows were inside their round mud nests, making high-pitched noises. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Gwydion stood as a wolf at bay, his green eyes glittering, his teeth bared. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

And then, at the mercy of an overwhelming impulse, he bent forward, pressing the flaring end of the clarinet to Tessie’s bare knee, and blew a long note. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

With anger that had been brewing all day, he attacked him and started hitting him hard in the face with his bare fists. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

His few simple possessions were gone and the room was very clean and bare. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

At first they might only run out around the woodpile and back, in their bare feet. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

He twitched and sighed often in his sleep, as old dogs will, and for once his shabby tail with the bare patch on the last joint was still. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

And she scrambled up, hand over hand, forcing the beating wing aside, and seized the angel’s hair to wrench back his head and bare his throat for the snow leopard’s teeth. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Together they watched the dawn grow slowly in the sky, now bare and cloudless, until at last the sunrise came. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

I help him dress, leaving his feet bare so we can walk in the water, and pull him upright. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

It bared its fangs at the group of demigods. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

“There’s been an investment in education here, above and beyond bare bones, and it paid off,” he said. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

How the English will stare at him with his deerskin breechcloth and bare chest! Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

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

He drew his bare feet up and sat cross-legged on the bed facing me, still examining me with interest. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

The animal glanced up at him, bared its fangs and continued to count. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

He moved his hands up my bare chest as he continued to silence my screams with unwanted kisses. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

A bare lady in a punt drifted on a lake of water lilies in a gold frame. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

To either side of the bridge are the tops of trees, bare of leaves, with a covering of snow on them, as after a heavy moist snowfall. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

The direwolf swung his head from side to side, nostrils flaring, then bared his fangs in a snarl. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I lifted the lid to the baker's trash bin and found it spotlessly, heartlessly bare. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

We entered a hallway where a bare dim bulb shed faint blue light against green walls. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Kurleket grabbed a handful of hair and yanked his head back in a hard jerk, baring his throat. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The suit came up to her waist and left her chest and shoulders bare. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

They could hardly feel as much of each other as I had felt when Vivian had touched my bare wrist. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The bed was hard, the covers thin, the floor bare, the air cold—like any room in Karhide. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

It was like a pack of jackals, circling, sniffing, treading closer, and he knew they wouldn’t leave him now till they’d eaten him bare. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

For an instant, the trees are gone and I see open space over a short stretch of bare earth. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

All alone, outside the pueblo, on the bare plain of the mesa. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

I do not know what I expected to see but I did not see anything except the fields and the bare mulberry trees and the rain falling. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

He thought for a moment of Willis Hurd, and he didn’t need to worry any longer about keeping his skipping to a bare minimum. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

Though near Robb's age, she was slim as a boy, with long brown hair knotted behind her head and only the barest suggestion of breasts. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

He hadn't anticipated that it would rock and tip the way it was, but he spread his bare feet for balance. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

His eyes were open, his mouth was open as wide as it would go, the teeth bared. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The top of the climb brought several hundred yards of bare, gently sloping granite, like walking along a whale’s back. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

I got to my feet and shuffled on until I saw a single bare light bulb on the porch of a house built about a hundred feet down the side of the mountain. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Soldiers move in and out, knapsacks on their backs, tanks are driving through, and there are bare shelves in the shops. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

This is the confusing switchover: Jupiter has no problem baring her soul to me now, but it’s always from across the room. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

He remembered how the direwolves had come at him out of the shadows, and suddenly he could see them again, snarling and snapping, teeth bared in his lace. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Her feet were bare, her golden hair artfully tousled, her robe a green-and-gold samite that caught the light of the candles and shimmered as she looked up. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Once he blundered into Rumpy, who bared his fangs and sent him into hysterics. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Matthias followed, hands gripping the rope, bare feet pressed against the wall. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Another time she secretly counted all the bare bottoms. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

He had no feathers so he just left them bare, figuring for fish they only had to travel a few inches. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

They have an ongoing argument about necklines and bare shoulders. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

It’s a conversation I don’t know how to have without baring my entire soul. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

She pulled her bare hands up inside the sleeves of her coat. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

She was pleasant and direct, even warm, but there was a privacy about her, a reluctance to bare herself completely to the world, the same quality as Obinze. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Her mother wore shorts and a tank top as she worked the pedal of a sewing machine with her bare foot. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

My bare walls were once covered with Miss America posters from floor to ceiling. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

The sight of her there—her blue legs, bare to the knees, entangled in his rumpled blankets, and her hair mussed from his pillow—made for an aching-sweet vision. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Water dripped from his wet clothes onto the bare plywood floor. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

I wrap my bare arms around his torso, the insides of my wrists against his spine. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

The front of the car tipped upward on the bare beginning of the long hill. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

His eyebrows are bare, his head is bare, his cheeks are bare as a baby’s bottom—but chubbier. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

But I’d miss everything about him—his fascination with horses, the way he could fix chariots or crumple metal with his bare hands, or tie bad guys into knots. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

The flagstones were cool beneath my bare feet, but the sun burned red as it mounted the sky. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He stretched out his bare, unsuntanned legs, feet together, on the leg rest, and, almost simultaneously, took a small, ten-cent notebook out of his right hip pocket. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

It slapped against my bare legs before thwacking the concrete. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

She stared down at her own bare, dirty feet, which stood so close to the fancy white shoes of the mistress. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

High cliffs lowered upon either side, and thrust forward from its mouth were two sheer hills; black-boned and bare. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

She sat alone at her bare dining table—even her table mats were in his house—and ate the rice. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

The few days of lead time were just enough to scope out the bare essentials of her new life: the location of the nearest AME church, mealtimes at the Lucy home, and transportation to work. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Both his arms are wrapped around me, and his leg is stretched out across my bare thighs. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

He’s on the edge of the cot, his bare feet crossed and his red hair mussed. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

Her bare feet are medium-sized, and they hit the ground lightly. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

He bared his teeth; and then with a hissing breath he spat before the king’s feet, and darting to one side, he fled down the stair. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

They had no green on them, but were bare and white. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

His bare toes curled into the soft earth. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

Hers were bare, long-fingered, rough, with nails chewed to the quick. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Miss Leefolt slap Baby Girl on the back a her bare legs so hard I jump from the sting. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Catching his horse by the bridle, Ser Dontos tried to mount, but the animal would not stand still and the knight was so drunk that his bare foot kept missing the stirrup. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

He pressed his advantage and leaped off the well, still baring his fangs. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

I struggle with the bolt, but my bare hands aren’t strong enough—and I curse the shipbuilder who left her like this. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

The trees on the hill were huge and bare, like skeletons. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

He watched her bare feet pad up the icy metal steps, and followed her up to the roof. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

A bare foot swept by her head, its big toe catching on her kerchief and pulling it in front of her face. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

He wore pants that stopped high above the ankles and a cut-off T-shirt, and his bare toes wiggled in the sand. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

She pushed the tunic back, and Taisin's long black hair brushed over her bare shoulders. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

I heard Millard’s bare feet slap away across the floorboards, and the door swung shut behind him. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

The entire school came out, all the children hopping around in their bare feet. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

The boys, slapping their bare feet in the mud, were listening. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her bare legs tightened around the dragon’s neck. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

There was a bare handful of people inside, not surprising as harvest was in full swing and there were still five or six hours of good daylight left. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“I mean, I know the bare bones of it from Zack, but I want to hear it from you.” A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

I had pictured a great bare room with benches, like a church. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

As the light faded from the thick sky, Hazel slipped once more across the hard, bare earth under the railway arch, came out on the north side and sat up to listen. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I have bested a thousand monsters with my bare hands.” The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

We stand in his closet, and she covers her mouth at how bare it is, how much is gone. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Yellow teeth bared, she launched herself at Con’s horse, who reared and struck at her with his iron-shod hooves. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

So even though the kitchen cupboards are bare, we find over thirty canned goods and several boxes of cookies. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

A big, pudgy child—who can shatter a stone bench with a bare fist. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

From the vantage point of the Night Zoo, she’d only ever seen the barest glimpses of Lkossa’s namesake temple; up close, it seemed more than a little daunting. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

It was warm against the soles of my bare feet. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

The grass was mostly dead, the dirt had gone from brown to gray, and the one tree that did still stand was bare and leaning like a creature over a small child’s nightmare bed. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

The cupboard is bare except for a bag of dried rice, some sugar, and spices. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some of the scales were dented, pitted, and cracked; others were missing entirely, revealing long, crooked scars in the bare skin beneath. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

Her bra strap was left bare over her shoulder and Aileen had fastened the dress to the bra with a safety pin, just to keep it from sliding down. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

No, if they tried to take her from him, he’d rip the world apart with his bare hands. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Also, I was having these bizarre dreams about hunting down wild game with my bare hands. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

"I have. I know," he answered, and shot his arms out of his sleeves showing several inches bare above the wrist bones. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

The landscape glowed under the moon: wide, bare hills with occasional little gullies, where streams trickled down among the trees that clustered there. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

A British nurse grabs my arm and I feel the sickening lack of muscle, the bare nerve rolling between my skin and bone. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

His single bright eye fixes on me, and he bares his teeth, trying to wrench himself away. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Quite without warning, Cassiopeia snarled and bared her teeth. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

The priestess and die seneschal were happy to see her garbed in a tokar, a proper Meereenese lady for once, but what they really wanted was to strip her bare. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I flung off my cape, showing off my pale arms and bare neck. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Pinmei looked at Amah’s face for answers but could see only its bare outline in the shadows. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

I watch with fascination as children with oily black hair, wearing old, dirty clothes run up to our cyclo in their bare feet. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I could feel that clamping down and see how my mother had pulled the blinds down so low that the bare rollers were showing. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

She ran down the hillside in her bare feet, feeling the earth alive beneath her toes, her nightgown flying behind her in white linen wings. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

He looked impressive in his dark master’s robes, and it was bare seconds before the whispering, shuffling theater of students hushed to silence. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I had my legs pulled up to my chest and my arms wrapped around in front of them and my head resting on the dark dry skin of my bare knees. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

One stomp would have broken all the little bones in my bare feet, so I wasn’t very chill. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

I saw the giant bend and clutch the posts at the top of the stairs with both hands, bracing himself, his body gleaming bare in his white shorts. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Zahotep turned back to his drill and Ranofer started down the length of the shop, his bare feet cringing away from the gritty carpet of stone chips that covered the dirt floor. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

He was working sixteen-hour days, but security meant that he could only tell her the barest details about what he was doing. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

I yell, looking in alarm first at the point where August disappeared, and then down at the bare coupling and ties that race beneath the cars. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

His bare arms are hard with muscle, and he moves with fluid grace. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Still, my head is next to hers, which I would gladly, at this point, twist off with my bare hands. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

When his hands slipped under her hoodie and shirt to rest against her bare back, her blood caught on fire. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

After Mom and I finished putting away my suitcase of bare necessities, she said to me, “Why don’t you go out and explore, honey?” Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

I turned to see him in his bare feet, perched awkwardly on a bit of dry ground surrounded by huge puddles, one hand on the side of the barn to keep his balance. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

They sailed through the air as the river churned and wailed below them, splashing Annabeth’s bare ankles with stinging brine. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

She had her teeth bared and arms out to strike, and I bared mine right back. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

But then Monkeyman took off his shirt and just stood there in his bare skin and held his hands out and his head to one side. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

From up there, Tally saw bare stretches among the flowers, expanses of dry, sandy earth. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

They were walking across bare earth, dry and cool to the touch; overhead there were heavy wooden beams holding up the floor, and above those the floorboards themselves. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

The little boy started clucking and pecking ’round on the stage then he commenced scratching at the floor with his bare feet and you’d have swored he was digging up worms! Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

There was an open valley below him, partly cultivated, then a long bare rise to the Union line. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I got to the road, I didn’t even care that the asphalt was burning hot under my bare feet. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

Frowning, he threw himself down again, pulling an edge of the matting over his bare legs. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

He pulled off his glove and offered his bare hand. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

He twisted around and looked at his bare feet — they had become elongated and the toes were webbed too: It looked as though he had sprouted flippers. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

She rubbed her bare head with her free hand. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

The adobe ceiling was low, the dirt walls entirely bare, and the only light came from a pair of lanterns set in a corner. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Posters were tacked to the wall, almost haphazardly, as if Javier had tried to cover every bare surface with something he liked. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

He looked around again and saw only the bare brilliance. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

I lay in bed for a while, listening to Isaac breathe and the wind knot around the bare branches outside. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

“We get Inej’s feet patched up—” She flexed them, then stood, testing her bare soles on the gravel. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

And I hadn’t seen her with bare lips since she was my age. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

One conductor stepped on my bare toe, crushed it, as he trampled past. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Fangs bared, he met them head on, slashing and snarling. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

He took the long way out, his steps ringing loud against the floor and echoing off the bare stone walls. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

He steps across the bare floor to the corner. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

I slipped my bare feet into a new pair of tennis shoes Dad had given me the week before, and I followed Cade Hernandez out of my room to face my audience. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

But there wasn’t much other noise—only the little noises of night on a riverbank, wind in the bare branches, the hollow rush of water beneath the damaged stone bridge. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

Because my environment was bare and bleak, I endowed it with unlimited potentialities, redeemed it for the sake of my own hungry and cloudy yearning. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

My bare feet were getting sore from the flint rocks and saw briers. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

She shifted her bare feet on the wooden plank. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

Only Tayo could hear it, like fingernails scratching against bare rock, her terror at being trapped in one of the oldest ways. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

I hear what they are saying, but the words get lost amid the sounds of wheels on the street, bare branches rubbing against each other, and the tramping of boots. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

From the trains, everything is visible: the bare feet, the crooked backs, the bad teeth. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

The ground rumbled beneath her bare feet, and the bunkhouse shuddered around her. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

With it, I had bared myself, and left little doubt as to my interest in her. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

The people, the thousands of people who had dangled so peacefully and quietly, now surrounded Roza and Finn, crouching like animals, needle teeth bared. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

The armory doors were open, and Bran glimpsed Mikken at his forge, his hammer ringing as sweat dripped off his bare chest. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The room has been stripped bare, down to the sheets on the bed. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Grownups sat on the sidewalk and dangled their bare feet in the running gutters. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

She turned toward me, the bare hint of a smile on her lips. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

I can sense his thoughts, glimpses and glimmers of his hands against my skin, running along bare thighs. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

After which the sight of her bare blue ankles and slender calves struck him with a deep allure, so that he blushed and looked away. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

No sound but the wind in the bare and blackened trees. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

The watchdogs lay like dark wet stones, with their heads cut off, teeth bared. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

The earth is scorched bare; not even briars will grow. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

In the late summer yet another of Snowball’s machinations was laid bare. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

The stone was so cold on his bare back it felt like it burned. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

There were eyes painted on the church door, narrow red eyes, and ugly stone demons the height of a man stood on either side of the entrance, their teeth bared like savage dogs. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

As they played, rooted in their places, she pranced around the grass in her bare feet and long lemon- yellow dress. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

It was not bare stone, as in Ember; something soft covered it, like silvery hair, as high as their knees. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

We huddled together under a fleece blanket we found under the seats, our bare shoulders touching each other. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

When Aravis came to herself she found that she was lying on her face on a low bed of extraordinary softness in a cool, bare room with walls of undressed stone. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

Mr. Lawson presses four cold, sticky pads to the bare skin around my right knee. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Though there were blankets over the cages, I could hear the animals stir as I passed by them, the floor creaking beneath my bare and chilled feet. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

She had bare legs and was applying bandages to her blistered toes. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Standing in her bare feet, she turned away from the mirror and faced a door leading into Level 2. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

His father’s pale bare head bobbed above the crowds of laborers, an apparition of evil with his red dragon tattoos running up his arms and curling about his neck. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

On his bare feet he was wearing a pair of ridiculous sandals that for some reason had holes cut along each side, with a large hole at the end where his toes stuck out. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

After a while, he sat down on the bare earth, his legs stretched in front of him, and Ugwu wished he had not; there was something so undignified, so unmasterly about it. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

A bare toe dug into the dirt of the roadway. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

Or after stepping on my acorns in bare feet. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

The mother bear rose to her full height, bared her yellow teeth, and faked a lunge toward him. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

When she’s really in for it she has to wait until her father comes home and whacks her with his belt, right on the bare bum. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

The scantily dressed girls curled up in the backseat, or bared breasts in the front, or fixed flat tires, bending way over. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Mia was cleaning the stove when Izzy stomped in—somehow clomping in bare feet as loudly as she did in her Doc Martens—and stopped. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The mulberry trees were bare and the fields were brown. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

If he were alive, he would rip them apart with his bare hands. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

He moves his mouth from Henry’s to the side of his neck, the spot below his ear, kisses and kisses it, and bares his teeth. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

There she is in her violet dress over the green skirt over the yellow skirt, bare feet, orange ribbons around her ankles and in her chippy-choppy hair. The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z

He plunged his bare hands right in and started scrubbing, but Annabeth and I had to suffer through hours of hot, dangerous work, especially since there were tons of extra plates. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

What could I dream of that had the barest possibility of coming true? Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

I grasped it hunched by body, placed my bare feet on the rough trunk, and began to climb. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Kit leaned her bare elbows back on the prickly thatch. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

The doctors probed Lincoln’s bullet wound with their bare, dirty fingers, sticking their pinkies inside Lincoln’s brain. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

It can be molded with bare hands, but unlike silver and some other metals, it does not dissolve in certain acids. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

She looked, surprised, down at her own bare feet, realizing suddenly that they had carried her, unfeeling, down the iron stairway. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

Then her gaze shifted to the back of his bare head. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

Then beyond the gleam of the beach and the bare rocks and reefs, more than a league beyond them, I saw a great white crest moving down upon the island. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Viola and I keep our talking to a bare minimum so we don’t give any more away. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

They sat at a long, bare, wooden table. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

Lexie scanned the living room: only a few throw pillows stacked on the carpet, bare walls now except for some stray thumbtack holes in the plaster. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

She glances down at his right hand resting on the rail, frowning as she regards his bare, unmarked fingers. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Pine trees flanked the road, fewer than I remembered and many of them bare, but it was good to see trees again after the arduous drive through the Khyber Pass. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

With only the barest hint of hesitation, he swallowed the tranquilizer-laced champagne. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

Ignoring her question, he holds out an open notebook, and in the flickering light Isobel can discern a bare black tree. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

The hall she stood in was bare of ornamentation but for a pattern inlaid in the floor. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

There were the long rows of bare trees, the big hotels and the closed villas. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

Eventually, I found what I thought was the path we had walked Zu out on, but it turned out to be nothing more than an old side trail, overgrown and unforgiving to bare skin. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

I ran and dumped the bunches in a pile on the bare ground outside the yard fence, then hurried to bring a live coal from the fireplace to start them burning. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

He burrowed his bare toes into the earth. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

I'm clothed in a brown pair of army trousers, and my bare chest and arm are bandaged. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

About it lay a smooth sward, shelving down on all sides to its bare unbroken rim. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Although it is significantly expanded from "Introduction to Music Theory," this course still covers only the bare essentials of music theory. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

His bunk was bare vinyl; his desk empty; an outline of dust where his stereo had been. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

Her feet were bare and that was when Milton saw them: the red toenails. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

He has made himself scarce since baring his intent to kill the captain. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

A pair of bare feet, bluish in the cold, catching on the uneven paving stones of the alley. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

She scoots close enough for me to feel her bare arm against mine. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

And this man, this thing, pulling me to a waiting horse with the barest explanation. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

I took one look at my bare feet and winced. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

His eyes fixed on us— on the Object’s bare legs lying in my lap—while his face remained embalmed. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

I remember Mitt pointing at the gnarled trunks of my father’s tanned bowlegs bared beneath his shorts and saying, “Grandpa’s a bulldog.” Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Again and again he struck Cole with his bare fists. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

Arya padded down the alley, balanced lightly on the balls of her bare feet, listening to the flutter of her heart, breathing slow deep breaths. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

A herd of bare feet pounded against wood planks. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

She would have the entire staircase—no, the entire apartment—stripped bare and redone. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The earth had been laid bare and was scored with long scratches and furrows. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The ground was cool under my bare feet and suddenly, for the first time since we had crossed the border, I felt like I was back. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

He looked so huge and wild, and Cecilia with her bare shoulders and thin arms so frail that Briony had no idea what she could achieve as she started to go toward them. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Beyond the village, beyond the river and the streams, Laila saw foothills, bare and dusty brown, and, beyond those, as beyond everything else in Afghanistan, the snowcapped Hindu Kush. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

He turned only his eyes to where the princess seethed and, with the barest smile, added, “Not even you.” Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

The earthen wall of the fortification that faced the river was bare and ugly, and the houses beyond were no more than plain wooden boxes. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

How Jack and Connor cheered me on as I dug in with my bare hands, clenching my teeth against the cold as I gripped its slippery shell. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

The quarry was on a hillside, not the calm and pleasant Chamundi Hill, but another, lesser hill, bare and rocky, with here and there a few clumps of prickly pear. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

She appeared to be not in the least ill at ease sitting on an upturned box in a bare room and drinking tea out of a mug that she balanced on her knee. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

Two days later Carol says her father has given it to her good, with his belt, buckle end, right across the bare bum. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

The women wore gowns that left one breast bare, while the men favored beaded silk skirts. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Her face rested on my bare shoulder, and her hand lay flat on my chest. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

Koffi hadn’t worked with him in the Night Zoo long, but she recognized his bare face, mahogany brown like her own, framed by tight black curls. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Standing under the airship, his feet bare in the grass, he was transfixed. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

I pull the sword out of its sheath and with the bare sword I run toward the sound of the battle. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

Then her gaze shifts to the back of August’s bare head. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

The men in the cab — four of them, pressed shoulder to bare shoulder — were all wearing evening gowns. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

She climbed off the dragon’s back and she could still see the monkeys through leaves and branches, their bared teeth flashing. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

I see a woman's bare legs spread wide with a man between them. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

The cool air felt heavy against my bare arms, as if it were holding on to raindrops that were reluctant to fall. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

Set’s altar, which had always been rather bare in comparison to Isis’s jeweled and flowered throne, was suddenly rich with ornaments. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

The diabetic dogs bared their teeth and barked soundlessly in our direction. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

He bares his lengthening canines in a grin. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

A bare window overlooked Massachusetts Avenue, a major thoroughfare with traffic in both directions. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

When I arrived in my cubicle, I grabbed my company-issued visor and gloves from the rack on the bare cube wall and put them on. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Her wide smile, her hair in a braid over her shoulder, her bare arms, and the way she's leaning into him. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Across the valley, clearly discernible among the bare trees on the opposite slope, he saw two familiar and beloved golden and white figures. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

I pick up my bag, frantically searching for a place to hide it, but the room is completely bare. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The leg was twenty feet up, wedged in the first forking of the trunk, bare, severed cleanly above the knee. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

The rain beat down on her bare back. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Striking the queen mother dead with his bare hands would not advance their cause. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

We slept in abandoned villages, where we lay on the bare ground and hoped that the following day we would be able to find something other than raw cassava to eat. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

He stood in the dim gray light, watching the darkness push between him and the bare room. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

We line up in a hallway too bright and too bare, where my brothers await us frowning, all wearing the same shapeless white gowns. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

I got a tolerable grip and the rocks didn’t hurt as they had on my bare feet. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

She was hunting, her dress short to the knee, her arms bare, her hair in wild disarray. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Late in the afternoon he and Ron escaped Hermione’s baleful presence again, and under the pretense of scouring the bare hedges for nonexistent blackberries, they continued their ongoing exchange of news. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

The sun came out once before it went down and shone on the bare woods beyond the ridge. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

She is dressed in the same clothes she wore the last time I saw her, Abnegation gray, stained with her blood, with bare arms to show her tattoo. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Since Pearl had been born they’d lived, by Mia’s count, in forty-six different towns, keeping their possessions to what would fit in a Volkswagen—in other words, to a bare minimum. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Chess strained his ears, trying to listen for even the barest hum of a reply, but there was nothing. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

There I was, laughing and smiling and enjoying the day—fishing pole gripped in my hands, bare feet propped on the railing—when the nausea would strike. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

Claire swung her bare feet to the floor and winced at the cold. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

As Theresa appraised her new apartment from the doorway — four bare walls, two filmy windows — she could not help but imagine what Helen would think of the decor. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

He laid his hoe down gently, and savored one last moment of feeling warm soil beneath his bare feet. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Hello, Finnick,” I say, just as casually, although I’m feeling uncomfortable at his closeness, especially since he’s got so much bare skin exposed. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

The poplar trees in front of the schoolyard were nearly bare, but in the evening wind a few yellowed leaves still twisted down. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Giant stinging nettles grew in clumps among the boulders, and they brushed against our bare skin and caught our legs on fire. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

A waterfall of blond hair splashed on her bare shoulders. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Meanwhile he was at a loss to know how to destroy the only one that they had found, the Horcrux that currently lay against the bare flesh of his chest. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Shelves lined each wall, some bare, others stacked with Wonder Bread, rice, toilet paper, and pigs’ feet. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Down below were the gardens, bare now but beautifully regular, the gravel paths, the trees, the stone wall by the lake and the lake in the sunlight with the mountains beyond. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

He sets them to work, he gives back to them the bare minimum that will prevent them from starving, and the rest he keeps for himself. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

The parking lot was warm under my bare feet. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

When I closed down the browser window with his calendar in it, there was his email account, logged in, laid bare. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had tied rabbit skins around her hips to save the precious cloth for her eventual arrival in Zimbabwe, so everything from her waist up was bare. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Glancing down at my bare feet, the storekeeper said, “I have some good shoes.” Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The desk is bare except for a black phone, a fat, tattered logbook, and a pile of watches and handkerchiefs and necklaces crumpled down on one comer. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

Gram had abandoned her parasol to the side of the tent and was dancing with Old Joe, her long dress skimming the grass as she spun on bare feet. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

Then tiny furry legs tapped his bare forearm. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

She follows a nurse across the portal into the bare foyer. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then he pushed himself away from the frame and began to run up the hill, his bare legs beneath his tunic pumping desperately. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

He comes back a few minutes later with his sweater on but nothing but bare skin underneath. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

The lettering was so small and exact that I had to stand up on the carpet and put my bare eyeballs inches away from the map even to guess each location. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

The word had an electric crackle to it; saying it aloud produced the same feeling you got when you grabbed a snake in your bare hands. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

At this those faces, cloaked in desolation upon the waste sea beach, were bared; their eyes turned toward me and the mighty lighting, foreseeing pleasure, one by one. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

I thought the best answer was a demonstration: I took off my socks, held my bare foot up to the glass, and wiggled my toes. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

When it reached a certain point which he had fixed, beside a bare branch, he roused the others and led them up the slope toward the elms. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

They had their own hootch at the edge of the perimeter, fortified with sandbags and a metal fence, and except for the bare essentials they avoided contact with the medical detachment. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Pocahontas runs up the hill, nimble as a deer on her bare feet. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

He was lying on the bare red earth, staring up at the sun. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

His hand starts on my cheek, and then brushes over my side, fitting to the bend in my waist, curving over my hip, sliding to my bare leg, making me shiver. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Her bare feet bleed on their way across the balding grass. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

Then he looked down at my dirty bare feet. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

Soon Hannah's side of the room looked like she'd already lived there for months and mine was bare except for some red striped sheets, a soft pillow, and a cream-colored blanket. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

“If Lady Melisandre were with us—” Finally, after a nightmarish day when the column advanced a bare mile and lost a dozen horses and four men, Lord Pease- bury turned against the nOrthmen. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The air is warm on my bare back, and my breath comes in short pants, my embarrassment almost overriding my fear. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Was I very gleeful, settled, content, during the hours I passed in yonder bare, humble schoolroom this morning and afternoon? Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

He wanted Nurse Duckett with her dress up and her slim thighs bare to the hips. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

The rest of my room was bare now. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

She sat in a chair by the fire, and the animal laid his head across her ankles and drooled on her bare feet. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

Part of his brain keeps getting stuck on how strange, and strangely wonderful, it is to see Henry like this, open and bare in every way. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Then he bunched his shoulders into attack position and bared his teeth. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Our bare arms touched as we ate, our thighs, and it felt like heat lighting, it felt like a quick brush against the electric fence at Klauson’s Ranch, like the promise of something more. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

“Wait till you see the inside. The walls are bare, and when we got here yesterday, he had nothing in the fridge but some apples and a wedge of Havarti.” We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

Trails that they did not even know existed were apparent, now that the trees were bare and the undergrowth had died down. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

I put one bare foot on the rail. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

The room was completely bare except at the far ends. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z

Masses of bright yellow hair tumbled to her bare shoulders in thick curls. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Edward snarled even more ferociously, harshly, his lip curling high above his glistening, bared teeth. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

The stone floor was bare but for some straw gathered along the edges of the room. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

What they allow to happen to other human beings so that they can have the illusion of power, the barest whiff of control. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

Lazlo saw that hers were bare and that she was curling her toes into the pebbles and the soft mud beneath them. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

“No sculpture, no carving or bas-relief, almost no painting or drawing—the interiors are completely bare. What we do see are these huge mounds—and textiles.” 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

I got up, my bare feet soft on the wood floor, and shook him. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

She rubbed Wishbone’s belly with her bare foot. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

Two or three small children of various sizes, all pale, with smudgy faces and bare smudgy knees, wobbled along in the shadow of her skirts. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

Already he is feeling the whip coming down like judgment on his bared back. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

He had, of course, seen plenty of bare limbs before, belonging to the American and European ladies who took his tours. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

Every week since Dorcas’ death, during the whole of January and February, a paper laid bare the bones of some broken woman. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

He wanted to strangle the good doctor with his bare hands. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

I touched the small pillow where Abuelo’s head had rested and had an image of him deftly peeling an orange in a long ribbon to his bare feet, which were brown, calloused, and delicately shaped. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

His face contentedly deep in fee pie, his toes curled inward and his bare soles together, he sits and chews and swallows while his daemon becomes a mouse and grooms her whiskers. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

The grindylow bared its green teeth and then buried itself in a tangle of weeds in a corner. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

Alert, I passed through the dining-room to the stairs and proceeded up to the bedchambers, walking carefully with my bare feet lain upon the extreme edges of the steps, so that they might not squeak. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

The women on Calle Madrid are bare- armed in tight, sleeveless blouses. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sensation of his bare skin under my hands was so unexpected. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

“Don’t worry,” Call began earnestly, “you wouldn’t have to—” at which point my bare heel slammed down on his bare toes. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

But inside the stores, the racks were nearly bare. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

Barbarossa stroked his chin and angrily dropped his hands when he realized it was bare and beardless. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

It had seemed so empty with the bare plywood bunks and seats, hollow and echoing. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

The warrior’s eyes glinted; he bared his teeth in a horrible grin as he raised a dagger. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

I watch her blond head until it disappears around the bend, and I feel bare, like there’s nothing left to protect me against pain. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

But as the sun filtered down through the bare branches and glittered on the new snow, the Wood was every bit as alive as it was in the summer. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Alex followed her through another door and into a bare square room with a chair and a desk and, on the desk, the first Stormbreaker he had ever seen. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

The people of Bone Gap whispered, No, don’t, please, as she slipped the bare hand inside the writhing mass of bees. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

There’s no shade on the light, just a bare bulb overhead, which makes my face look pallid and ill, with circles under the eyes. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

His teeth were bared and fury flared in his eyes and the Song of the Enemy roared in his ears. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

I heard him walking down the hall in his bare feet. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

His bare cheeks were ruddy with the cold, and his legs complained more loudly with every step, but Tyrion ignored them. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

He gestured toward the black mamba and the mongoose again, and as if cued, the mongoose hissed, baring small, pointed teeth as its amber eyes flashed. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

This is not the kind of house where you can burp freely and run around in your bare feet. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

My bare feet slip a bit in the loose sand on the side of the road. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

Her feet were bare, her mouth stained damson. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

He felt safer away from places where he might meet bare under tree. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

She bared her teeth to show them but not to smile. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

My bare feet have never felt anything as smooth as the cool red-tiled floor. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

Houses sprawled in every direction over bare terrain, with newly strung electrical wires crisscrossing overhead. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

The lights are still on, but the shelves are bare. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

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

Mr. Armin forced Julian's hands away and pulled at the neck of the shirt, laying Julian's torso bare. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

The girl scampered out of reach, her bare heels disappearing as she turned a corner, her brother forgotten. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Alighting as gently as thisdedown, she curled under her toes to keep her talons from piercing his bare hand. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

She padded to her basin on small, bare, callused feet, silent as a shadow, splashed cool water on her face, patted herself dry. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Celaena glanced at her nightgown and blushed as she noticed him staring at her bare legs. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

In the morning I went to wake him and his jaw was locked open, his teeth bared, cursing the end to its face. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

She bares her teeth to the mirror and wipes a smudge of pink lipstick off one of them. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

Nora’s long legs, one of which is propped up on the table and the other crossed over one of Bea’s, her thigh bare where her dress has ridden up. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

The silence drew off, baring the pebbles and shells and all the tatty wreckage of my life. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

Then he was licking his bruised knuckles and looking at the bare stick, while the skull lay in two pieces, its grin now six feet across. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

She heard a rustling sound inside, then the muffled sound of small footsteps on a bare floor. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The painted leather burst into sudden flame as she skipped closer to the fire, her breasts bare to the blaze, streams of milk flowing from her red and swollen nipples. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

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

Most of the digging and construction was done by workers using shovels, buckets, and bare hands. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

She was wearing a man’s nightshirt, much too big for her, and I found myself staring at her bare legs—tawny calves, slender ankles, lovely, dusty-soled boy-feet. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

The floor vibrates under my bare feet and the rumble is soothing, loud enough to cover a conversation. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

If only so she could kill her with her bare hands. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

The leader of the pack, an old male with a grizzled white muzzle and a blind eye, moved out to meet him, snarling, his teeth bared. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The ancient, giant mahogany trees, all the trees, the game, everything of the forest was being destroyed, and the land was forced to lie fiat, he said, and bare as the palm of his hand. The Color Purple 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

He wanted to suck her finger, to lick honey from her nipple, to smear ice cream on her belly, as though it was not enough simply to lie bare skin to bare skin. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

The blackened floorboards crumbled under her feet, burned away to bare stone in some places. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Stricken, the girl spun on one bare heel and darted back out to the garden. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Her fingers reached up to her bare pink scalp and touched it, exploring it tentatively. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

Laika, freshly bathed the evening before, following a complete body massage on a dead jackrabbit, rested her chin on top of my bare foot. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

She lifted her bare wet shoulders in a small shrug. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

Fully awake and on fire with puzzlement, Lyra nodded and slipped her bare feet into the shoes Mrs. Lonsdale put down for her. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

We kept the list down to a bare minimum, just a few friends and Mrs. Ruiz. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

"So," he says, "you think it would honor our families if we went through the rest of our lives in mourning? Maybe living in an empty room? With a bare lightbulb overhead?" What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

I place one hand to the bare skin of my injured knee, massaging the muscles with my chilled fingertips. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

As he did so his bare feet grated on some gritty substance in the doorway. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

At first I thought it might be soundproofed like Alder Whin’s, but looking around I saw the walls and ceilings were bare grey stone. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

There was a bolt of white-blue that seemed to leap from her bare finger to the camera’s outer shell. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Jinny glanced around as best she could, at all the legs, the dirty bare feet of different sizes, hanging off the benches on either side of the table. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

I folded my arms, ineffectually trying to cover my bare, bloody chest. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Normally the forest quickly fills in bare spots, such as those created when big trees fall, and damage is kept to a minimum. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

That’s also when the man came out into the hallway and saw us, then the blinking light laid bare and in plain sight. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

As he spoke he absentmindedly crossed his legs and began to rub one of his bare feet. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

While 7-Building’s yard contained a running path, benches, vegetable gardens, and a great view of the Hudson River, the SHU had a bare blacktop courtyard divided in two by a chain-link fence. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

You can see the Pennines all around the city of Stockport, green and bare with fast-moving stripes of cloud and sunlight gliding overhead like a Technicolor moving picture. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

“You’ve d-done it!” said Harry through chattering teeth, but before the words had left his lips the outline had gone, leaving the rock as bare and solid as ever. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

There were a few bare trees around, and some snow gusting over dead brown grass. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Warmer than feathers, the bare skin would raise the eggs to seventy degrees Fahrenheit. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

Learning for him had always been hard, like catching water in his bare hands, it would all slip through, all be so near and yet somehow not useful to him. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

All I can think about is how the Erudite stripped me of my watch and my shoes and led me to the bare table where they would take my life. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Wordlessly I bared my back and he lashed me with a strap. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

About twenty feet across, the Map Room had concrete walls bare of any decoration. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

The strange thing about Roman soldiers in the comics, according to Rahel, was the amount of trouble they took over their armor and their helmets, and then, after all that, they left their legs bare. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

All day it grew bigger, and before night the whole yard was bare mud. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is a large, drab, bare room in need of painting, with three windows in the back wall through which can be seen the New York skyline. Twelve Angry Men 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

With this in mind, the sight of her bare blue toes curling into the river mud struck him with a deep poignancy. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

One of the short arrows of the Lamb Men stuck through the meat of his upper arm, and blood covered the left side of his bare chest like a splash of paint. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

He touched her bare breast lightly, and whispered, “Let me stay and help persuade you.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I never once heard him complain of anything, not even his bare feet, which were always swollen and must have pained him constantly. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

One girl, the picture of despair, leans her cheek in her hands, her too-short skirt revealing bare legs above her shoes. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

“And with those bare feet and that toy sword? Are you kidding?” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Stunned, when I felt them glide up my bare arms and over my shoulders. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Or dig his nails into his bare skin like he is doing. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

Their bare branches spread out to join together the separate patches of land. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

The floor seemed to rock while you waited for Miss Billsop to bare her fangs and spring. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

"The father of the right-righteous shall greatly rejoice; and he that begetteth a wish child shall have joy of him. Thy father and thy mother shall be glad, and she that bare thee shall rejoice." The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

She bared her teeth in an attempt at a smile. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

My bare feet hit the wooden walkway with a strange echo. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

He lay quietly a few moments, waiting for his mother to go back to sleep, and then he slipped his clothes on, and crept out in his bare feet. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

I kept waiting for her to cross a bare patch of ground where it would be safe to build a fire. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was enough that he could pretend to ignore Cecilia’s bare arm at his side—he could feel its heat—and the hostile gaze of Briony who sat diagonally across from him. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Even now, she could see only the barest outline of the girl she had been before. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

In the Library, the long curved tables were bare; the reading lamps, unlit. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

On the deck of the ship the crew lined up, ten hearty men bared to the waist, each grasping the rope, and began a rhythmical march from one end of the ship to the other. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

But the bare portion of the wire wasn’t black or even singed, and the positive lead's insulation wasn't melted at all. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

She straightened her skirt over her knees, and looked uneasily around the bare room. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

Hair artfully disheveled, grin adorably rakish, dimple bared. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

Carefully, he stuck out his bare foot and pushed the trunk a few inches. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Leaving Qarl to his dreams, she padded down the keep’s exterior stair, the steps creaking under her bare feet. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The dog bristled at her, baring its teeth in an ugly snarl, but let her pass by. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

He always reminds me of a tiger—strong, fast, agile, and mean when he bares his teeth. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He bared his bruised knuckles at me, a startling contrast to the elegant finery of his silver rings. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

With my heart pounding, my body shaking, the rough board scraping my bare knees, I begin to cross. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a bare and ugly place, with a mean little grate that would not allow a good fire. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

Sefia was suddenly aware of his skin, of the dips where the water pearled and the sheen of bronze on his bare arms. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

The room was as white as all the others, but hardly bare. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

He put his hands on her shoulders, and her bare skin was cool to the touch. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

She felt a sudden chill, and gooseflesh pimpled her bare arms. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

She was crumpled like a baby bird that had fallen out of its nest, and there was blood coming from her head, staining the marble floor that was freezing cold under Maya’s bare feet. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

The asphalt under Ishtar's bare feet cracked, and everything around her and Nergal took on a hazy glow. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

The walls were bare except for a small mirror. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

It was as though here were a palace long dead except that early lilies bloomed among the rocks of the gardens and the golden flowers of the early trees of spring blossomed upon bare branches. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

"Would that I could come every night," he said as she rubbed his bare feet. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“Let me check my book,” she’d told him when he’d asked if she was free Sunday evening for a drink, and then he’d listened to her footsteps clicking across a bare wooden floor. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

I ran a bare wire across the battery terminals and got a rewarding spark. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

She bared herself in one smooth, unhurried motion, as if she were back in her own chambers disrobing for her bath with no one but her bedmaids looking on. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

We are being looked at, assessed, whispered about; we can feel it, like tiny ants running on our bare skins. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And I will break your ship in half with my bare hands and send your friends to an early grave.” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

The barest amenities, on which we rely for opening conversations—Hello, are you there?, from us, followed by Yes, hello, from them—will take two hundred years at least. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The show claimed that when apes and chimps smile it’s only to bare their teeth in a grimace of hate or aggression or terror. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

The sharp pine needles poked at Ophie’s bare feet, filling the night air with their clean scent, and something small and scurrying ran across the path in front of them, but Ophie barely noticed. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

He was standing in his bare feet, his shoes and socks having flown off during his wild ride. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

She fell to her knees in the road, not minding the scrape of the pavement on her bare skin, and threw her arms around his shaggy neck. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

The back, south-facing wall had been entirely replaced with glass, and, beyond the shade of the cedars, the lawn stretched bare to the wide river. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

He sprang up with his fangs bared and his skeletal chest heaving. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I thought of her standing in the schoolyard, her cold, bare hands balled up in fists at the ends of her sleeves. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

The stark gray sky and bare tree limbs feel more suited to her than the uncomplicated promise of sunny spring days. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

When Otto put pressure on it, she bared her teeth at him. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

Her eyes moved out over the sugarbush; patches of snow and deep brown leaves lay on the ground under the bare trees. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

Drawers in tables gaped, the bureau was stripped bare. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Whereupon the alcoholic, who was not yet an alcoholic back then, turned over the bottle, and, as if pouring nothing more dangerous than milk, sprinkled the spiders onto his bare forearm. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Thank you is bare, put butter on my bread," my mother snapped. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Before she lay the first egg, both she and 426 had lost so many feathers on their breasts that these areas were naked and bare. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

He lay perfectly still in the grass, his shirt open over his sculpted, incandescent chest, his scintillating arms bare. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Both her gloves were gone, and her bare hands appeared to be frozen solid. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

Jan Sorensen leaned against a plywood garbage bin; Marty Johansson stood with his feet planted wide, his forearms folded across his bare chest, his T- shirt tucked into his pants waist. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

The fur was old, and there were small bald patches where the bare skin showed through. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

She landed with one bare foot, causing a lot of laughter among her fellow trainees. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Her head swayed this way and that, watching him out of those vertical pupils, her fangs bared. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

The rushes were scratchy under the soles of his bare feet. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

In tribute to their recently repaired friendship, Ron had kept the bitterness in his voice to a bare minimum. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Tree branches that should have been heavy with green needles were stripped clean, as if a giant had come and swept them bare with his fingers. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

You know the path, but wander, thrilled, over the bare and pathless rock, as if it were solidified air and cloud. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

We shared a wall between our sideshow tents, venally baring ourselves to the curious and craven. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I finally stretch out again and slide my bare feet between the sheets, I huddle against myself, trying to get warm. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s what I said to her on the day of the bare feet and the blood at the athletic field. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

And under my jersey, I have on a long-sleeve shirt that reaches all the way to my bare feet. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

Farquar rolled up Palmer’s left shirtsleeve to the top of his shoulder, so that the entire arm was bare. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

He presses his weight against Axel’s bare leg. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

With a small finger, Mary Alice pointed out the bare platters. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

There was hoar frost last night, and all of the bare branches are coated white and sparkling. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

My bare legs almost glow in the dark. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Sam whistled the three notes, “Come to me,” and ran to the bare rocks at the top of the mountain. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

Wouldn’t catch nothing but air with his bare hands. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

All he wore was a pair of ripped trousers, and his bare feet gripped tentatively at the ground. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

“With one hand. Huge Feng Fu! The man who strangled an ox with his bare hands! The emperor’s soldiers must have special powers. They are invincible.” When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

Our labour tills the soil, our dung fertilises it, and yet there is not one of us that owns more than his bare skin. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

The room whirled around him, all bare walls and dark shad-ows, with a single narrow window. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Lots of shops were dark and bare; nowhere could I find a store at which to get insect repellent. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

He was beginning to feel claustrophobic and he was relieved when they passed through a door and into a vast, cathedral-like room that was practically bare. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

Great masses of curled brown leaves lay tangled in the dead grass, and the branches that thrust against the graying sky were almost bare. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

I stood in the corner with my bare feet on top of my shoes and no pants and wondered if the glass would break. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

It shone on the floor like spilled sugar, and when she slid from her gryphon’s back, it was cold under her bare feet. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

For some reason, the image of Maya baring her teeth at the Savanna table across the room popped into my head. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

Could he trust bare, naked feeling this way? Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

They dug through the rubble with their bare hands. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

How could he avoid taking the Snitch with his bare hand in front of the Minister? Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Birds sang in the bare trees and children played out of doors barefoot and naked to the waist. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

They didn’t want to sit down, didn’t want to touch any surfaces in his office with their bare hands. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I wrote to my mother saying that it was unbearable to work with bare hands, and she sent a parcel...with a pair of pink silk ladies’ gloves! A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

"We must, Your Majesty. I want her as bare as possible." The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

I looked at bare trees and thought they were beautiful. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

Running made me think of Father Amadi, made me remember the way his eyes had lingered on my bare legs. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

The air had no trouble working its way through Hazel’s shirt, and she felt the bite of cold on her bare hands. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

Fig gathered in a tight ball at my bare feet. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

Lyra left his side and walked across the combat ground, bare and clear as it was, leaving her little footprints in the snow, and the bears on the far side parted to let her through. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

Frightful was making a scrape, a peregrine falcon’s nest, which is nothing but bare earth or, in Frightful’s case, an iron plate where she wanted to sit. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

I managed to see Winnie, who beamed when she saw me and seemed as happy as one could be in a bare police cell. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the brilliant glare of the moon the only colors were stark black and dead white, and every edge was jagged and every surface bare. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

From there it was easy: ledge to beam to lower ledge, and down with a dull clang as her bare feet struck the roof of a massive tank. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Beneath his bare chest, he felt the soft folds of the magnificent cloth that covered the bed. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

Mobs of children ran down the gangways on bare feet, squealing as they launched off the sidewalks and dove into the river. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

She bares her teeth at me and lunges forward at full speed, her fist raised. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

She was still looking at this strange man from the homeland she had never known when Magister Illyrio placed a moist hand on her bare shoulder. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“Ah!” he screamed, feeling more of the rock scrape against his bare skin. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

June tilts an unconvinced look at him, and he kicks at one of her knees with his bare foot. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

At times they could see stretches of the interstate highway below them through the bare stands of secondgrowth timber. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

The soles of his bare feet looked as black as barbecue coals. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dead ravens sat on bare brown branches, wings crusted with ice. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

He darted forward, through the shadows, onto the bare knoll at the top of the ridge, where large boulders stood like sentinels, guarding the mountains. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

He paused in midair like a stop-action TV shot and turned, almost losing his balance, to face the questioner, who was sitting on the fence nearest the old Perkins place, dangling bare brown legs. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

The boy with the sticking-up hair strode up to the tallest girl and without a word, stomped on her bare foot. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

Sydelle Pulaski stared at the bare wicker bottom, then sank to the rim of the bathtub, shaking her head in disbelief. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

She kept baring her front teeth and nibbling on her food. Fourth Grade Rats 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

And I could picture her again: she unravels the carpet halfway each night so her hip isn’t against bare concrete as she lies on her side. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

The earth was bare and dry, and did not reveal much. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

I glanced down, but the floor was bare. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

The landlord led me up a timber stairway to a small room, rather bare, but perfectly decent. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

Down to the river and out to the harbor, where the lighthouse stands on a hunk of bare rock, tall as a giant with a head of light. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

She could scale a wall with ease, and had even demonstrated by climbing up to her own balcony with nothing but her bare hands. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Beyond that, a few bare elms, arching high and graceful, though in that bare landscape looking like the skeletons of trees. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

It was a bare hall with two windows and closed doors all down the corridor. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

Many of the beliefs and attitudes demanded of him are never plainly stated, and could not be stated without laying bare the contradictions inherent in Ingsoc. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

In some passages I had the strong feeling that the writer was directing her disapproval at me, which is why I finally want to bare my soul to you and defend myself against this attack. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

The younger ones had bare heads, which made Liyana feel relieved. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

But his face was tilted back, his lips retracted and teeth bared in a ghoulish parody of a smile. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Goose bumps stippled his bare arms despite the heat, but he did his best to ignore them too, and continued his counting. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

His warm hand has found its way inside my sweater, running up along my bare back, tracing the valley of my spine. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

He was shaking inside her shirt, against her bare flesh, his fur needing her warmth. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Marlena is in one of the plush chairs, her bare feet resting on an ottoman. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

My father would marry two or three more wives, who would spatter cooking oil on our bare toes and lie that we were crying for naughtiness. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Despite its poverty, the room had a bare brightness. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

They’ve covered the bare floors with white carpets; round white banquet tables overflowing with white lilacs fill the room. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

It was a little creepy to see the expanse of bare floor before him. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

They converged on my position with bared teeth and blood in their eyes. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

A twisted, pale figure writhing in agony, chest bare and hideous. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Then she turns and walks away on long bare legs, her devil tail swishing back and forth. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

She moved away from the window and slumped on the couch, putting her bare feet up on the coffee table. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

I considered leaving off my boots, as feet that can run bare over Tarbean’s rooftops are in no danger of being hurt by the roughest forest floor. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Her feet were bare as she crossed the lawn to set the footboard into place. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Not that I couldn't kill the sheriff properly with my cavalry sword, or my bare hands if it came to it. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

I felt his hands on my bare chest. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

You don’t know what this stuff is they feed the kids within these painfully bare institutional walls. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

“I forgot. We got to mash them in our bare feet.” Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Far away, at the edge of the room, was a high wooden stage, empty and bare, a dim spotlight shining onto it from high above. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

“Look at those bare ridges,” he said, pointing. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

I’m glad for the heat; maybe it can cover some of my blush, which is already threatening to burn up my face as I study his damp hair and bared muscles. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The direwolf turned his head and looked down at him, baring his fangs in a silent snarl. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Tawny, sun-streaked hair fell in waves to his tanned shoulders, which were bare and freckled. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

It has a tight bodice, a low neck, a full skirt; it brushes against my bare legs as I walk. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Her bare footprints were clear in the dust on the floor. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Taken together, they laid bare the workings of Conexco’s day-to-day operations. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Pushing with her bare feet, she inched upward. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

The fields were bare and planted with winter wheat, and Ada sat in her chair in the living room and stared outdoors. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He made them take off their shoes and stockings and stand in their bare feet on his green carpet while they sawed away. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Their shoulders were broad and bare, their hips narrow and wrapped in cotton shentis of purest white. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

The dry, scorched plains around Meereen were flat and bare and treeless for long leagues, but the Yunkish ships had brought lumber and hides up from the south, enough to raise six huge trebuchets. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“He killed someone, Ari. He killed someone with his bare fists.” Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

Snow was piled all along their bare, dark branches, and it sparkled in the sunshine. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the three months he rented our room, I’d never seen his bare back. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

It was bare, stripped of King Hamlet's liveries and banners. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

How much they must miss, never to feel the earth beneath their feet, or the wind in their hair, or the tingle of the starlight on their bare skin! The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I shouted as I ran forward in my bare feet. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then Sister Betty came through the people, herself a nurse, and people recognizing her moved back; she fell on her knees looking down on his bare, bullet-pocked chest, sobbing, “They killed him!” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

The roof is not lit at night, but as soon as my bare feel reach its tiled surface I see his silhouette, black against the lights that shine endlessly in the Capitol. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

She touched one with a bare foot, as if the plait were some sort of unknown animal. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The knowledge was more galling than the bare fact of his abduction. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Seminary Ridge was thick with trees, but the fields on both sides were bare. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was standing in her little night shift, scratching one leg with the bare toes of the other. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

But the breath of the Black Tortoise of Winter was still shaking the bare tree branches, and the birds were still as asleep as mussels deep in the sea. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

Death is a beautiful woman, with wings and one breast almost bare; or is that Victory? The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

Shaking off sleep, she touched her bare finger, remembering with panic that her ring was missing. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

I watched as she ran cold water into the tub and then warmed it with her bare hands, swirling them around until steam rose. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

Dimple began to notice other things; how close her bare arm was to his. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

There it was: a smooth globe of crystal, now dark and dead, lying bare before his knees. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

He tried to scream, but instead of his own voice he heard another’s saying, “Pinch him harder. Did ya get bare skin?” Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

Stella yanked the boy close, dry leaves crunching beneath his bare feet. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

I attacked the wall, punching hole after hole into it, and when I’d made enough holes, I tore it down with my bare hands and bloody knuckles. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

The barrel-vaulted entry was cold and bare, lit by the same harsh light as the Grisha cells in the prison wing. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

The cottage was bare—it always had been—and chill and lifeless from long disuse. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

It ripped off every groundsel leaf, leaving the limbs bare. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

She knocked them off and crushed them under her bare feet. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The two daughters were gently sweeping the bare stone floor with stiff brooms, and the son was polishing the silverware. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

I slipped off my flip-flops and slid a bare foot over his black coat. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

But then Daily and Meeger strike out and the next guy hits a pop fly the shortstop catches with his bare left hand. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

The birds had eaten her lips and eyes and most of her cheeks, baring her stained red teeth in a hideous smile. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

A rat ran under the bare feet of some people standing near us, but no one paid any attention. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Puritan service seemed to her as plain and unlovely as the bare board walls of the Meeting House. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

Shin took off his sandals and tucked his bare feet underneath him on the hotel sofa. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

She stung my palm until it was red, then lashed me across my bare legs until welts rose. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

She knocked the coals aside with her bare hands, ignoring the searing pain in her fingers. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I set my bare feet down on the floor and walked to the door and peered into the hallway. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

The dog statues bared their teeth and growled. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Friendlily, because he felt well-disposed toward the world—his setting had been at D—he patted her bare, pale shoulder. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

Everywhere, rulers and elites sprang up, living off the peasants’ surplus food and leaving them with only a bare subsistence. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ekon winced as the first drizzles of rain pelted his bare arms, slicking his sandals so that every step was harder and harder. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Madame Ratignolle looked more beautiful than ever there at home, in a negligé which left her arms almost wholly bare and exposed the rich, melting curves of her white throat. The Awakening 1899-04-22T00:00:00Z

His black eyes showed a glint of satisfaction, especially when Pantalaimon slid out of Lyra’s anorak to bare his white ermine teeth in a hiss. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

His gray suit was torn, and his bare feet were deformed, the long toes capped with talon-curved nails. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

She darted away, bare feet silent in the grass. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

When she lifts her head, he keeps his eyes locked on hers as he slides her coat from her shoulders, resting his hands on her bare arms. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Her cool fingers had passed over his skin, and though the itch had been terrible, bare seconds later it was as if the bruise had never been. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Ray stops at a tree, bare in the back from deer rub, and sniffs, and sniffs, and sniffs. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Lieutenant Scheisskopf turned white as a sheet when Major Major reported to him in California with bare feet and mud- caked toes. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

We were a small tight group, clustered together, our bare upper bodies touching and shining with anticipatory sweat; while up front the big shots were becoming increasingly excited over something we still could not see. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

But then, without thinking, I rip away the remaining fabric with my bare hands. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

I felt his fingers counting up my bare ribs. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

It dug its slender claws into his sleeve while inspecting Meggie with its gleaming beady black eyes, and when it yawned it bared teeth as sharp as needles. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

It was very quiet as Dustfinger let the burning torch lick his bare arms. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

In reality I lay many hundred miles away in an alien land, and would wake, before many seconds had passed, in the bare little hotel bedroom, comforting in its very lack of atmosphere. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

In return for your four confinements and all your labour in the fields, what have you ever had except your bare rations and a stall? Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

I have nothing left to be ashamed about—but I pull my uniform shirt lower over my bare thighs anyway. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

I sat until my fingers were numb where they curled against the familiar planks of wood that my father had laid with his bare hands all those years ago. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

The golden monkey’s teeth were bared, and all his fur was standing on end. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Nathan felt his communication stone pressed up against his bare thigh through a hole in the shorts he was wearing. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

The creamy toe of her bare foot scratching a velvet leg. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

We want him to come out, step into the light, bare himself. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

And in the center of the floor, on a bare mattress where I had once slept, was a brown-haired girl curled up into a ball. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Her feet, which were usually bare, looked unnatural in high heels. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

It’s splendid, no question, but the thought you cannot escape is that you have to walk this view, and this is the barest fraction of what you will traverse before you’ve finished. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

With twelve Benefits under my belt, I’ve hardly seen so much as a bare elbow there, much less bosoms and shoulders. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Farmers grab a few harvests, but the soil is not bared to rain and sun long enough to incur permanent damage. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

On my way back home, Calvin Suggs and his two buddies plunged off his porch and came after me, splashing in their bare feet across the road. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

He hadn’t realized how much of her height was in her legs, smooth bare legs that glowed gold in the moonlight. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

The water slides up my bare calves as it rises, cool and soft. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

She had expected a photographer’s apartment to be covered in photographs, but the walls were bare. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Her bare feet, with Band-Aids on the heels, swung in the air. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Soheil is already at the bare plot, raking the earth, spreading out the soil where seeds will grow. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

That was good of him, not letting me mop up the mess with bare hands. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

The crowd is swelling, not just with factionless wearing black armbands with empty white circles on them, but with people from every former faction, their arms bare. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Around me I know it’s empty, all the furniture is gone, the floors are bare, no carpets even; but despite this the cupboard is full of clothes. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was fed by shade-preserved sriow in the summer, and now and then it died completely and bare rocks and dry algae were on its bottom. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bristle bared her teeth and snarled at her brother. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

One of the wolves bared sharp teeth, foam frothing from its mouth. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

Children in colorful T-shirts and shorts kick soccer balls on sidewalks with their bare feet, ignoring the grunts and screams of the food cart owners. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

But when day came he sat on the rocky shore and broke his own heart groaning, with eyes wet scanning the bare horizon of the sea. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Kaede twisted back in her saddle and stared at the bare trees behind her, trunks the color of ash. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

The feel of bare flesh on his fingers made him want to gag. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Rising on its hind legs, it bared its teeth and bellowed out a thunderclap of a roar. The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z

She stared at the figurine pieces on the floor and then knelt and started to pick them up with her bare hands. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

He came to a bare spot between two large patches of weeds and sat down to rest. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

She watched him, too, looking at his face and his working hands and his bare shoulders and his feet. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

As the newsreel cameras whirred, Moch, dripping wet and bare chested, held one of the cup’s handles and Burke, in a suit and tie, held the other. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Bailey peers at a nearby rose, and while it is cold and frozen and white, there is the barest hint of scent as he leans closer. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

“Fair enough,” Maya said as Grace settled next to her, putting her bare feet in the water. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

And no one could mistake the men of the Anvil—extensive tattoos on proud display, arms bare despite the chilly weather. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

People in Port- au-Prince that do not go bare wear sandals, or else they wear sneakers. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Taking his newspaper with him as he escorted Meggie to the lavatory, he killed three more moths and a butterfly that was fluttering helplessly from wall to bare wall. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Her bare feet arch elegantly, and the ankle bracelets she wears accentuate her graceful movements. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Behind it a steep shoulder of the land lay grey and bare, and beyond that the dark shapes of the Barrow-downs stalked away into the eastern night. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

A few clumps of snow cling to the ends of bare branches overhead, and there are glistening white patches of it on the ground, but they’re thawing. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Aside from his bare feet, he was dressed in his usual thick jumper and jeans. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Was this what it felt like to be exposed, for all of her private thoughts to be laid bare in front of the one person who she had wanted to be perfect for? Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

One of the girls has five different colors in her hair, and her arms are covered with tattoos so that I can’t see even an inch of bare skin. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

We lay there in the darloiess under quilts, our voices bouncing back from the bare walls; and we chuckled and had a great time talking about the miracles. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

If your chest is hairy, it takes even longer to get the electrocardiograph all hooked up, because first someone has to shave little bare patches for the medical sensors. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Through the thickets of bare trees, you could see houses that were invisible during the summer. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

The walls in Dr. Singh’s office were bare except for this one small picture of a fisherman standing on a beach with a net slung over his shoulder. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

Not coming here in the first place— that seemed like an obvious choice—but my bare wrist, which makes it impossible for me to know how long I have been sitting in this room. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

He was almost beside her, his teeth bared as he growled. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Grudgingly I let myself be pulled down onto all fours, straddled, and spurred by bare feet into a sluggish gait. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

Next to him was the legion’s standard-bearer, Jacob, holding the golden eagle, and six huge cynocephali, their canine teeth bared, their swords glowing red. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

We have been together all day, in our cutoff shorts and bare feet. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

They sat the chaplain in a hard, straight-backed chair that stood behind a small, bare table. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

A soft noise, like the movement of bare feet on the floor, and then the click of the window catch. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

He’s seven feet tall and baring his teeth. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Upriver the land was more rugged, die dense forest giving way to a series of bare stony hills that rose high and wild to the north and west. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

He woke as quietly as he did everything else, with the barest twitching of his fingertips. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Inside it was damp and cheerless, and supper was served on a long bare table that had not been scrubbed for weeks. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

Wang Lung had his coat off and his back bare, but she worked with her thin garment covering her shoulders and it grew wet and clung to her like skin. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

The giant snake hisses and bares it fangs, its beady yellow eyes glaring. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

Lyra tore at the brambles with her bare hands, Will slashed and hacked to left and right, as around them the combat of the shadowy beings became more and more savage. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Her golden hair tumbled across her bare shoulders, and around her waist was a woven belt studded with emeralds. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Instantly, in total silence, both dæmons sprang around, becoming wolves: mad light eyes, bare white teeth, menace in every line. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

“Though I usually prefer to use my bare hands. What shall I name this blade?” The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

A few seconds later he got off again and walked back to where Sasha now paced the sidewalk on bare, charred legs. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Even though I should be encrypted and off the grid, I feel like his stare is stripping me bare. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

It was still too short, bare golden fuzz over skin that showed cuts and bruises from his last fight in Hellgate. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

I sat in the chair next to her, pulling my knees up and tucking my bare feet under my cotton nightgown. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

I can only watch, wide-eyed, as my phone falls to the ground, hitting the carpet with a soft thud and a bounce that lands it on the bare wood floor under my bed. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

She was bare and tiny, a girl standing in front of her first crush, confessing everything. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Between the dreamer’s bare shoulder blades, the perched moth trembled. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

The day was hot and she had taken off her sweatshirt and tied it around her waist, baring her shoulders to the sun. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

But Clotho has had enough, apparently, for he bursts through the blanket, his long brown tunic swinging around his bare knees. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

Through the bare branches he saw a wild waste of gray water, surging from left to right across the wide open space that had been Port Meadow: he could see the city’s spires beyond it. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

At zero, I touched the bare tips of the ignition wires to the battery. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

The bushes rustled, and a lean black shape came padding from behind the weirwood, teeth bared. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

I look at the empty room, dirt and dust I would have sworn didn’t exist littering the bare floor, then walk through every inch of the echoing apartment. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

I didn’t know what tickled worse: inhaling dust mites, or Viper’s sharp whiskers poking into my bare leg. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

Instead, like a brutal punishment, Lourdes feels the grip of her mother’s hand on her bare infant leg, hears her mother’s words before she left for the asylum: “I will not remember her name.” Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was paralyzed with anger, his tiny fists still bunched as he stared down at his bare toes. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

The rat scuttled across the floor and stopped again at the box and searched quickly for the hole; then it reared once more and bared long yellow fangs, piping shrilly, belly quivering. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

I threw a wild overhead right at one of his cheek scars, but he caught my fist in his bare hand and squeezed so hard I thought he was gonna break all my stupid fingers. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

Now there were long outcroppings of granite with deep crevices between, and Kino walked on bare unmarkable stone when he could and leaped from ledge to ledge. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

How often had she and Viserys stolen away in the black of night, a bare step ahead of the Usurper's hired knives? A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

I thought of him standing before the looking-glass in his bare bachelor bedroom curling them round his finger. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Generations of Volpe’s students had heard him say, “If all we had was a bare stage with one light bulb, we could still do theater.” Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

The medium threw back his head and bared his teeth. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Fox’s tail swished angrily, and he bared his teeth. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

The barest trace of magic stirred the air. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Accept nothing but the barest of human necessities. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

They were young and elegant, dressed for a ball, the women in long gowns that left their arms and shoulders bare, the men in black-and-white evening dress, and they each carried a glass. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

Then I stood on my cabbageroses carpet in my new funeral dress, in my bare feet, surrounded by my things. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

And that Ms. Wyman, I swear, wouldn't blink at removing your liver with her bare hands and eating it with a spoon. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

He’s in his shirt sleeves, bare arms sticking shamelessly out from the rolled cloth. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

Behind the woman’s small house there was a bare dirt yard, and in the light of the lantern that Con held, they found the woodshed. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

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

Grassland, mesquite, scattered low shrubs, and bare rocky soil surrounded both sides of the border. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

They look at each other, brows arching, eyes narrowing, mouths opening with bared teeth. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Gwin climbed up to his shoulder, baring his tiny teeth, sharp as splinters of glass, as if he had recognized the hatred in Meggie’s eyes as they rested on his master. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Kino looked down at her and his teeth were bared. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

Snowdrifts covered the stretches of grass that I had walked every day of my life, the mounds of garden earth that I had turned with my bare hands. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Penelope saw each member of the table react to the noise in his or her own fashion: Cassiopeia bared her upper teeth, and the boys grew alert and bright-eyed, ready to spring. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

A girl of fifteen or sixteen years, he judged, dark hair plastered across a gaunt face by the falling rain, her bare feet muddy to the ankles. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Evers was out near Delaware Park, a line of bare trees at its back, a baseball field off to one side. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

The boat weaves in and out between countless tiny islands, some with small brightly painted wooden houses on them, but many with not a house or a tree on the bare rocks. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

They scooped up pebbles with their bare hands and tossed them up over the edge of the hole. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

June’s short hair was mussed, and her feet were bare. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

The door swung open, and Connor stood in the entryway...with his bare chest on display. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

Deep red blood erupted from the collision, spattering William’s bare skin. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

The countryside beyond the low buildings is mostly empty: a few figures and a handful of vehicles move along a bare highway. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

He holds up his hands in protest, long bare fingers splayed. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Zakariyya’s walls were bare except for a row of photocopied pictures. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Aunt Robbie, meanwhile, kept her part of the house like a mausoleum, the furniture swathed in protective plastic that felt cold and sticky on my bare legs when I dared sit on it. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

But one table near at hand stood broad and bare. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

“Let us be thought over-much plain and simple, even bare, rather than gaudy, flashy, cheap and meretricious. Let us manifest the taste of gentlemen.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

I lay there fully dressed under the cell’s bare globe, trembling. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

My bare feet slapped on rough cobbles, splashing through puddles and taking shortcuts through alleyways. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

He could see his breath, but his bare arms didn’t have goose bumps. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Behind them was a little bare space, and then the bulls galloping, tossing their heads up and down. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

The train stopped in Vevey, then went on, passing the lake on one side and on the other the wet brown fields and the bare woods and the wet houses. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

Then she lifts her bare feet into her lap. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

The ground feels good under my bare feet. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Only once the rooms were bare did they make their move. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

He bared his teeth and licked his lips, as Blackberry had done before the dead hedgehog on the road. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

James got into his own hammock—and oh, how soft and comfortable it was compared with the hard bare boards that his aunts had always made him sleep upon at home. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

Outside, on his landing, there was no moonlight, and he felt his way in the dark, first on the carpeted upper staircase, and then, for the last two flights, on the bare, polished oak. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

In the middle of the space, a single spotlight illuminated a curved sword, its blade bare and supported by two silk-covered wedges. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

“If you insist,” he finally said, baring his knees. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

No soft blanket of grass welcomed them.here, only the hard dusty ground, bare and strewn with stones. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

In the rearview mirror Mr. Kapasi watched as Mrs. Das emerged slowly from his bulky white Ambassador, dragging her shaved, largely bare legs across the back seat. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

He had been held in prison once for three days for printing a picture in which Trujillo’s bare leg showed between the cuff of his pants and the top of his sock. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The furnace wind lifted his crimson cloak and beat at his bare face, yet he could not turn away. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

His white-walled room was bare except for a bed with a gray blanket, a toilet without a cover, a shelf for clothes, a cement table, and a barred window facing onto the center group area. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

He was a tall man, though not so tall as Captain Orlov, and he stood with his bare shoulders thrown back, thinking about what the Russian had said. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had never really looked at her grandmother before, just at the enemy she had to trick, just at her bare feet. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every drawer was empty, every bare surface without so much as a fingerprint. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

I’m saying your mama’s ugly like . . . ummm . . . . . . like bare feet in September! The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

At some point a bare plank floor had been installed over the packed dirt. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

They ran up the stairs; their bare feet drumming against the wood, their laughter announcing their arrival at their parents’ door. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

She could feel a sunburn starting to spread across her bare shoulders. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

The room, bare except for an easel, wasn’t much larger than a walk-in closet. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Then the creak of a stair, and feet wearing thick socks came into view, and a flash of bare skin, and a blue silk dressing gown that she recognized. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

The skin of my bare feet recognized the skin of the red earth with all its wrinkles. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

Jam puffed out a hard breath and focused on the soles of her bare feet, pressing them into the wood of the floor, uneven with age and paint and rough varnish. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

I cleaned up my front yard, scattered needles over the bare spots, and started a small fire with very dry wood that would not smoke much. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

She emerged with her back to him, her hands over her head, the tops of her bare shoulder blades perspiring, supporting something still hidden from view. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

"You are almost a man grown now, and my heir," Lord Randyll Tarly had told his eldest son, his long knife laying bare the carcass as he spoke. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

She glanced at his bare chest, which was sweaty, bony, and streaked with old scars from weapon-making accidents. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

The weeping willows were bare but still massive and threw up their twisted arms like women in grief. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Nor did Sam find any nook or hollow to shelter in: only bare stony slopes frowned over by the cliff, which now rose again, higher and more sheer as they went back. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

The wind had picked up, bending the bare trees in her yard. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

If Aunt Letty had fallen on bare boards or even on the carpet, I suppose all her bones would have been broken: but by great good luck she had fallen on the mattress. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

When he tells them they could do theater with a bare stage and a lightbulb, they absolutely believe it. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

In a handful of silent minutes, the boat slipped into the cove and nestled its green prow in the sand at their bare feet. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

He just stood there, blinking through the water- drop sun blur, the hydrant gusher smacking his thin, bare ankles. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The moonlight streamed in from the window, lighting the bare hut. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

Her sleeve fell back, revealing her bare wrist. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

“No—it’s too cold. You must be freezing on that bare floor, with no clothes on.” Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

She strolled toward him, her bare upper body sleek and trim, without an excess gram of fat. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

The air-conditioning is too strong, chilling her bare legs and arms. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Finally they reached a little wooden shack like the one they’d stopped at earlier, where a dim bulb glowed on a bare wire over the door. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

I relish the feel of soft, wet earth beneath my bare feet. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Its bare dead eyes gaped out of its head, pleading for mercy. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The lane was muddy, the weeds were dry and brown, the trees bare. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

It was bare and bleak and the autumn wind whistled through the chinks in the earthen wall. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

Standing in the freezing mound that was thickening around his numb feet, Jonas opened his own tunic, held Gabriel to his bare chest, and tied the tom and dirty blanket around them both. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

As she went across the hallway she gave out a cry of sheer vexation which was amplified by the raw acoustic of the bare floor tiles. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

The crow hopped across the bare rock and leaped upward, arcing toward the girl’s shoulder. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

She was slightly taller than Ash, and she rested her left arm on the horse’s withers; the sleeves of her tunic were pushed up, and her hands were bare. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Its bare patches glimmered in the fuzzy light. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Putting down his carrot, Hazel ran across, scrambled up the bank and joined him on the bare ground under the low, close boughs. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Relax, Chaol,” he said, and his hand slipped to rest on her back, his fingers grazing her bare skin. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

The beginnings of an idea scratched at the back of his skull, an itch, the barest inkling. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Siddhartha stood there unmoving, his arms folded; the moon shone on his bare shinbones. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

Slowly the downs drew near; It was still an hour before noon when they reached them: green slopes rising to bare ridges that ran in a line straight towards the North. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Not knowing what to say or do, I tiptoed in and just stood at the foot of the bed, one bare foot on top of the other, and looked at her and Grandpa. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

The East Wind was streaming through the bare branches of the trees, and seething in the dark pines on the hills. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

“His screaming woke her up. She ran into the snow like that—nightgown and bare feet—and found him in the corral. His own horses had trampled him. That was all.” Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

The artist on this platform holds pieces of flame in her bare hands, and she forms them into snakes and flowers and all manner of shapes. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

I watch her and hear her bare feet lightly touching the earth. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

When I looked into the temples, I could see the holy sadhus sitting in long rows, bare chested, their heads shaven, holding sacred lamps and accompanying their chanting with bells. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z