| 单词 | barn |
| 例句 | The stewards had commissioned a veterinarian to go over to the Howard barn, pull Seabiscuit out, examine him, and determine whether or not Smith was lying about his horse’s condition. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z We slept in the open when there was no barn or shed to be found, which was most nights, sleeping on top of one another like dogs for the warmth. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z By the time I pulled myself together Mrs. Deebs was saying, “Okay, everyone line up for a little piece of shoofly pie before we go to the garden, and later to the barn.” Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Four legs good, two legs BAD was inscribed on the end wall of the barn, above the Seven Commandments and in bigger letters. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z Napoleon approved of this poem and caused it to be inscribed on the wall of the big barn, at the opposite end from the Seven Commandments. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z Hand Clap backed the wagon into the barn, and we put the tailgate down and propped some boards against the wagon bed so we could use them like a ramp. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z Booth doesn’t realize the Garrett brothers are outside guarding the barn, nor does he know that the cavalry is surrounding the place. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z Thomas looked over Newt’s shoulder at the big faded-red barn, pushing thoughts of the girl aside. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z He walked over to Fred, pulled the letter out of his hands, and began attaching it to the leg of the nearest barn owl. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z Just as always, in the afternoons most of the Eastern Seaboard streamed into the barn to stare at Seabiscuit. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Horace’s dad walked off as stoop shouldered and sad as Pa looked when he left for the barn after I’d been hurt. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z She sits on a milk stool in a corner of the barn cellar, near the pigpen, and watches animals, hour after hour. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z When we came back, there was Dad with four four- by-fours, erected at the edge of my meadow, and a pile of wood that would have covered a barn. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z He halted the entire regiment outside the barn and turned to Log-a-Log. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z She couldn’t have slept any more than he had—he’d heard her leave for the barn in the middle of the night, and she hadn’t come back until nearly dawn. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z A few days later, Smith led Seabiscuit up onto a railcar, and the Howard barn pushed off for the Detroit Fair Grounds. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Smaller trees grew overlapping against one another, creating an impenetrable wall that stretched around so far that her house and barn could have fit inside. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z “That’s the rule with soldiers. Take the good pewter out to the barn and hide it in the hay.” My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z I intended to back the cart right up to the barn door, and try to get the grate that far on the sled, and then onto the cart. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z 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 "It's Dog Squad to the rescue!" cries Nala, who has clambered undetected up to the rafters high above the barn floor. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z The moon over the big red barn illuminates the open field. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z The Cape Playhouse looks like a barn filled with rows of benches. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z He sets Marie-Laure in front of the barn doors and knocks softly and waits and knocks again. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z He usually ran the last little way to the barn. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z So I went and got the old dog crate out of the barn and a handful of sunflower seeds. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z A few moments later the barn grew still. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z Beyond the house was a barn and flanking both was the field where the farmer had been plowing. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Where the boards had fallen away at the sides of the barn, honeysuckle grew in. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z After the rain let up, he pulled on some clothes and went into the slanted red barn to see the swallows. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z Out on the farms they did that too and they torched some barns. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z He arranged his weight on his sore palms and followed her to the barn. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z If he did not go to the barn, Baker would burn all of the Garrett property. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z The patched places showed up bleak against the wasted pink paint of the barn. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z However bad the rest of the farm, the barn and the house looked, her grandmother had worked on these fields. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z In the barn they scavenged a few handfuls of some grain he did not recognize out of the dusty floor of a metal hopper and stood eating it dust and all. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z “What barn? Just a pile of sticks. House too. Kindling.” Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z “Young ladies need something sweet. And when you’re done with that, you’ll have a good wash and move to your new bed over in the barn.” Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z If you have a barn, and it’s still standing in the morning, it’ll have rocks and keys and bolts embedded in the wood like they were shot from cannon. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z There are cows in the barn, too, helping with the heat. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z I went to the barn, the corncrib, and looked under the porch. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Smith somehow got her pulled into a van and taken back to the barn, where she lay helpless. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z I wish I had another block of straw for when the one in the barn runs out, but I’ll think of something. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z His eyes blinded with tears and he turned and went weakly out of the barn, and he rubbed his bristly whiskers with his wrist stump. Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z We pulled up to the barn as the wind picked up. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z We walked on the dirt road over the bridge and back to the school’s barn, a dilapidated leak-prone structure that looked more like a long-abandoned log cabin than a barn. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z The rain brought in by the night wind began to fall on the barn roof. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z “Good smell here,” Florida said, as they picked their way along beside the barn. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z In the barn he became a disarmingly affectionate glutton, “as gentlemanly a horse,” marveled Smith, “as I ever handled.” Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z “I don’t know about that, but no sense worrying about what may never be. But I don’t expect there isn’t any boy that ain’t never, at least, thought of swinging from the barn.” Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Pollard went right ahead and lied to reporters, telling them the barn strategy was to concede the lead to War Admiral and then try to run him down in the homestretch. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Then we stood in the high entrance of the great barn and smelled at the sweetness of alfalfa and the bready odor of rolled barley. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z They swept by the house and cut across the stubble-field to the barn. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z Fitzsimmons’s barn, consisting of horses owned by the Wheatley and Belair Stables, was teeming with precocious youngsters and proven, high-class older horses. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Like sprinters cued by a starting gun, Baker rushed into the barn with Conger at his heels. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Poet walked around the barn, tapping the bottoms of people’s feet with his walking stick. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z I hadn’t even stepped into the barn since the storm. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z The air was now so full of balloonists that the barn cellar looked almost as though a mist had gathered. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z Her grandfather, Dyedka, sat in the barn on a stool and milked a goat. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z So, mostly, except when Aden had to show off, we played cowboys and Indians if we were playing in the barn. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “Lady Constance will have to”—huff, puff—''give her permission,” said Mrs. Clarke, who, if anyone had asked her, would have sworn that the journey both to and from the barn was decidedly uphill. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z Francia’s waiting for me at the door to the barn and I follow her out into the main road. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z “There is a wounded animal in the barn, or perhaps more than one! I am going to see what the trouble is.” The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z After I took the book back to my room, I was heading to the barn when I heard a horrible noise, almost like a scream, but not human. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z It’s like a huge barn out on a farm in the middle of nowhere. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z They called for Grandpa and Lena in the barn, just to be sure, starting with small voices to avoid startling the cow and gradually building to shouts. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z Fiona led them to the barn, which held two wagons, three horses, and numerous pieces of farm equipment. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z Delia followed her twin sister into the barn, but not before she gave me an apologetic smile. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z Jody arrived running and threw open the barn door and led the wet pony in by his forelock. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z I started back behind the barn, in the part with all the big trees and acorns. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z At the foot of the end wall of the big barn, where the Seven Command-ments were written, there lay a ladder broken in two pieces. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z Screaming, they made a mad dash for the door at the other side of the barn. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z She had seen the final destruction of her stables, her barns dragged off by the storm, but she had managed to keep her house standing. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z We have a schedule worked out, sort of a countdown, and by early June we will be out of this cave, and out of Mr. Fitzgibbon’s barn, I hope forever. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z Seabiscuit may have been trapped in the barn, but his idleness didn’t hurt his celebrity. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z I crawled under the barb wire, stepped around a wet cow splat, and headed for the Snodgrass barn. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z He stayed at the barn and worked over her to save her life. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z I picked up my muddied hat and led Violet back to the barn, quieting her with an extra portion of hay. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z Down in the barn cellar, the animals, too, went to sleep early, all except Charlotte. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z If you enter the barn, the swallows swoop down from their nests and scold. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z Back at the barn, the Howards gathered to watch the horses cool out. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z The locksmith brings back a shirtful of vegetables and fills a tin bucket at a spigot and eases shut the barn door and feeds his daughter in the dark. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z The colt plunged through the rail, somehow got his hooves back under him again, and fled for the barns. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z And then there was the cold storage cellar, standing quiet, alone behind the barn. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z “Dan wouldn’t come and get his supper, neither. Wouldn’t come no closer than the barn. Begun howling right after dark. Versh heard him.” The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z He had a piece of cloth that he intended to use to collect seeds from the haybales but when he got to the barn he stopped and stood listening to the wind. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z Coming up through the barn lot, I saw him rolled up in a ball on the ground in front of the corncrib. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Sometimes my mother went in the barn and filled the pail with chicken feed, but before she reached the chicken coop, she set the pail down and moved off in another direction. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z He heaved her over his half door and plopped her down in the barn aisle. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Lieutenant Baker calls to Booth, telling him that the barn will be set on fire unless he surrenders. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z Us men sat down on the back porch steps and watched the sun set behind the barn. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z “No. I bet this barn will hold her.” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z “Out at the barn, feeding the mule. He got in late, so I managed to get up a pretty good supper for him,” she said. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z Then, to Genie’s amazement, a barn swallow landed not two feet away from him. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z I slept in the hay and played with the mice in the barn. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z Rain began its blitz, tranging bullets off the roof and strafing the puddles round the barn. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z I've learned not to take too deep a whijf when mucking out the barn, but most of the smells are good, wonderful, and hopeful, if smells can be such a thing. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z Next day Wilbur was taken from his home under the apple tree and went to live in a manure pile in the cellar of Zuckerman’s barn. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z Then they’d move outward, sweeping the farm, crawling up trees and into the barn attic. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Further evidence of nighttime mischief became apparent as she looked out of the hayloft and into the main part of the barn. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z He remembered how Mr. Phaneuf had rescued him once when Harvey Cranch had cornered him near the old man’s barn. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z It was a big barn and we could hide in the hay if we heard any one. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z The triangle sounded, and Billy Buck came up from the barn before Jody could get out of the house. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z Conger and Baker had another plan: They wanted to burn the barn. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z She helped him into his backpack and then turned away, picked up a block of wood, and began to shave off slices as if he were no longer in the barn. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z Keeping under the raised floor of the barn, they all three scuttled back toward the elm trees. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z I was tied to a stable post in the barn. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z The sheep stayed near the barn, too, for protection. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z The dull tinkling of broken pottery echoed around the barn over and over, until the last milk bottle remained. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z This meant putting up hooks for hanging the meat in the barn. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The sun had not yet risen far above the horizon as Seth and Dale walked along the rutted lane that ran away from the barn. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z Suddenly, Duke and Scruffy burst into the barn. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z Bailey looks around at the sheep, at the house and the barn up on the hill lined with apple trees. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Like this barn stopped being a thing the moment Frank left it behind. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z Meanwhile, inside the barn, the scrappy young puppy, Tater, is leashed to a post. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z She stayed awake to drive me out to the car barn at four-thirty in the mornings, or to pick me up when I was relieved just before dawn. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z I could hear him singing and whistling clear to the barn. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z “Hmph. Go on, then, and run that extra wire back to the barn. Then clean up for dinner. Hurry up, now—your grandmother’s waiting.” Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z He stood in the center of the barn bay and listened but there was nothing. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z They rode past the barbecue restaurant and the burnt-out barn and the golf course, whose dew-topped greens looked like silver ponds. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z The race, contested before ten thousand fans, was a barn burner. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z He saw the cows right away, as soon as he got past the barn and the fence. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z And then at the very top of the hill we turned off, walking to the very edge of it and looking down on the barn below us. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z And that’s how I start my first day in Farbranch: inside a dark barn, sweeping dust from one corner to another, seeing one single stitch of blue sky out a door at the far end. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z I imagine a white farmhouse with black shutters, a red barn in the back, a post-and-rail fence, chickens in a coop. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z I find Henek and Danuta in a section of the barn that has been fitted with wooden beds stacked on top of one another, ladders going up their sides. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z Theaters went dark, streetcars never left their barns, and almost no automobiles were on the streets. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z “We’ll be staying in the barn. We need water, wine, bread, cheese and anything else you can spare.” Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Mistress Cutler watched Lyddie like a barn cat on a sparrow, but Lyddie was determined not to give her cause for complaint. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z Silent and terrified, the animals crept back into the barn. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z The sheep—there were four hundred and fifty or so—were kept outside in a small forest-sheltered pasture to the rear of a large metal barn. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z At the Howard barn, Smith waited, flanked day. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Such subterranean tunnelers as shrews and moles capture them in some numbers, and then perhaps pass on the poison to predators such as screech owls and barn owls. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z The cows stayed in the barn all the time now, except on sunny mornings when they went out and stood in the barnyard in the lee of the straw pile. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z Mother slept, her skin the color of an old weathered barn. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z His moans rang off the barn walls and worked on everyone’s nerves, but no one gave in. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z There was a henhouse outside, and the barn, which now only housed their old camper van, would have been perfect for a couple of cows or a horse. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z And he didn’t know anyone from Bone Gap who would want to sleep in the barn, except maybe Charlie Valentine’s chickens. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z There were stables, cowsheds, a piggery, a chicken house, and two large barns with haylofts. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z Ma’s cattle calls echoed his as they ran for the barn. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z Moran and I got to the barn at the far side, dizzy with intergalactic travel. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z A very traditional barn with no room for black sheep. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z We thought that it should be in the country, but not too far from a town, so that we would have access to grocery stores as well as barns and gardens. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z She slipped out the door and disappeared into the dark barn. Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z But the image seemed to be fading, especially when compared with the forest full of villagers and the tiny house and horse barn she’d left just hours before. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Pa’s breath hung in the air like smoke, when he came along the path from the barn. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z We took in the room, quickly at first to scan for danger, and then with more care to see everything we could in this space that was not forest or dilapidated barn. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z He had a sickening mental picture of a barn full of ponies, a roadster for Anne, motorcycles, a swimming pool, and, ultimately, the poor house or a debtors’ prison, if they still had such things. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z She left the stream and made for the barn, which sat right next to a peeling white house, now dark and sleeping. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z The crew rolled open the big barn door at the far end of the sound stage. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z She set it down by the barn door and ran away. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Templeton, who had been resting in his home, scuttled away into the barn. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z Farmers in the floodplain build houses and barns on stilts. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z The stupid goat had broken his leg two weeks earlier, and Anya’s grandfather wanted him to stay in the barn and rest for at least a month. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z So Charlotte sang a lullaby, while crickets chirped in the grass and the barn grew dark. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z As soon as I was dressed in old clothes, Louie dragged me to the back of the barn and we settled in to watch. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z I hurried out to the barn to crank up. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z Everybody knows that when a barn rat looks down into a barrel that seems half full of shucked corn, he never suspicions that it’s really half full of water. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z He returned to Seabiscuit’s barn at Aqueduct Racecourse that night and penned a letter to Charles Howard. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Between the house and the bam he stopped and listened for his brother, and in a moment he heard him hammering at something in the big new tobacco barn. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z They have made an art form out of grammatical yet unparsable sentences: The horse raced past the barn fell. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z “You call setting a man’s barn on fire the wrong foot? Leading a mob against Mr. Ebgard the wrong foot?” Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z He was probably doing thirty or so when he tried to cut between two barns. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z We spent a long time shoveling out in front of the house and barns — again. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z She snapped up a shade on the other wall and found a window that looked out to the barn. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z A large, windowless barn, sided in silvery corrugated metal, made one side of the farmyard. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z He spotted Hedwig nestled between a barn owl and a tawny, and hurried over to her, sliding a little on the dropping-strewn floor. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z Howard brought a man to the barn to make plaster casts of Seabiscuit’s hooves for the production of souvenir ashtrays. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Standing in the barn next to his perfectly sound horse, Smith was dumbfounded. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z The boys slept out in the barn accept during the coldest weather, when they made up pallets on the floor in front of the kitchen fireplace. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z In the corner behind Dyedka’s goat cart, a large hole had been made in the side of the barn. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z And, sure enough, the fox took us right back to the barn. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z “Nearly broke his neck last summer when he decided to see if pigs might be able to fly. He and one of Elmer’s weaner pigs took a nosedive off the barn.” Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z A child cried for cats left behind in the barn. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z We passed red barns and stone mills, small white houses with black shutters and houses with wooden fences around their sprawling land, everything silent and still. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z Baker shouted an ultimatum to the fugitives: “I want you to surrender. If you don’t, I will burn this barn down in fifteen minutes.” Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Which it couldn’t be, because the only things that lived in the barn were the mice and the birds. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z The two ladies had reached the barn, and Mrs. Clarke flung herself in front of Penelope, blocking the doors. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z Behind the house was a large barn and hundreds of vineyards. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z Still hidden by the barn, he made himself inch his foot forward. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z PE for Joseph was lifting weights in the barn. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z For now, I tended to people in the barn as best I could. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z “We’re all going home today. The Fair is almost over. Won’t it be wonderful to be back home in the barn cellar again with the sheep and the geese? Aren’t you anxious to get home?” Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z Through the open door that led into the barn came the sound of moving horses, of feet stirring, of teeth champing on hay, of the rattle of halter chains. Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z Stranger still, the barn was empty—no mare, no goat either. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z Seabiscuit turned and walked back to the barn of his own volition. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z He remembered the raised floor of the barn across the farmyard. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z He was explaining this armband now in the cement-block hog barn. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Alone now, Matthias crossed the sunny field leading to the barn, just as Basil had taught him: zig-zag, crouch, wriggle and weave. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z Howling through Tijuana, the wall of water crashed into the racetrack, hurling houses, barns, and bridges along with it. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Then she panted as she trudged into the barn and pulled open the cellar door. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z The Minute Men, from behind stone walls and barns, trees, bushes, had opened fire. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z After a few days I found myself alone in the barn with Isaac. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z As I looked around, a cloud of crows flew over me, straight for the woods in back of the barn, cawing their heads off. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z Swirling the solution a bit, she exited the barn. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z He built barns, crawling around in the rafters and pounding nails. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z While groans, fiendish gurglings and backfires were emitting from the barn, the house itself would be organized confusion, as the family carried out its preparations in accordance with prearranged plans. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z Smith went back to the barn and readied Kayak for his purse race. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z A few minutes later, Greenberg dragged himself back to the offices with Smith’s counterdemand: No one was to show up at his barn asking to examine the horse. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z With a yell, Matthew leaps forward, running the length of the barn toward me. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z Someone suggested that mercenaries be sent over to the Howard barn to forcibly haul Smith into the office. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z She could see it in her mind, the whole place, the slope, the trees, the tumbly barn against the hill. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z Pa kept staring at my leg as we headed to the barn. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z Darkness fell and the next day came, and still we hid in a pile of wood beside the barn. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z Back at the farm, Dicey took Sammy to the barn to begin patching, while James and Maybeth rode their bikes up and down the driveway. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z Near the barn, Shmuel and the other men stood smoking and laughing at one joke after another. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z He could hear Dad banging around downstairs, stomping in and out from the barn or the machine shed. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z When he passed the burned place where Anya’s house and barn had been, his eyes bugged. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z Everyone in the Riddle barn knew Smith was trying to coax early speed from Seabiscuit, but the idea of a horse outbreaking War Admiral was unimaginable. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z The SS took the women and children to a nearby barn, where they were held for a day, and then they, too, were executed. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z She turned away from me and walked fast in the direction of the barn. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z It covered house and barn and fields and woods. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z Now that school was over, Fern visited the barn almost every day, to sit quietly on her stool. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z I had been walking the mule out to the barn and slowed my walk so as to be close enough to see and hear but not look to be nosy. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I cut boards from Bando’s barn siding into two heart shapes. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z She wouldn’t die like that in her own barn with the chickens watching. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z He told me he had lots of candy in his daddy’s barn. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Finally, finally, I reached the barn, gasping and sobbing for air. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z Just before dark, Grandpa told me to drive his car home and park it in the barn. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z To prepare Pollard for a rocket start, Smith sent him out for races on every front-running sprinter in the Howard barn. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z The footsteps came around the barn—the first boy with another boy—a young man—tall and muscular as an action hero. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z I grabbed the spool of wire and stalked down the trail toward the barn. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z “And that the nasty vodka you brew in that barn of yours rots you slowly from the inside out!” The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z I waved at Karl, out by the new barn with Wayne Robbins. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z A groom pointed to a gray man sitting in front of the barn where the Howard horses were kept. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z He told me he was living with his wife and a pack of kids in a mobile home behind the barn, making his money working oil rigs in North Dakota. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Sergio takes us to a little area near the barn where my mom has to stand on a haystack to get reception. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z Then he’s to pull it o’er to barn number three on the Tanner north sixty. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z His ratty home under the pig trough was too chilly, so he fixed himself a cozy nest in the barn behind the grain bins. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z Howard, chattering gaily about how he had been mobbed on the train by Seabiscuit fans who were coming to New York for the race, swung by the barn for a quick once-over ofhis horse. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Juanita helped me pick up the clothes from the barn’s dirt floor. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z As he walked toward the East Door, he couldn’t stop picturing Winston in a dark corner of the barn, gnawing on raw pigs’ feet. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z He answered with a small meow, and then he and I hurried back to the barn to take care of Plug and Violet. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z He knew tractors and combines, of course, and had seen his dad’s bush hog and manure spreader and gravity wagons up close, in the barn. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z I hear shouted from the front of the barn. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z Lot sizes were small, and owners usually filled them up with cottages, barns, sheds, and outhouses — all made of fast-burning wood, naturally. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z The wood smoke still smoldering from the barn fire made Anya’s eyes water, and her stomach clenched. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z When Polly hung herself in the barn with a loop of hemp, Old Jockey said, You did everything together. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z He pushed the barn door open and walked over to a box on the desk in there marked outbox. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z He hadn’t been able to see much of the barn the night before, even with the flashlight. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z Lord have mercy!’ and I went running to my aunt’s house to ask who was gettin’ beat over in the barn.” Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z Fern did not come regularly to the barn any more. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z I stop, deep in the dark of the barn. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z The grass between the house and the barn looked untrodden. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z “You’ll have a new barn in no time,” I said, wiping an already dry plate with a towel. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z The cheering died out, and they were alone, trotting past row after row of barns. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z The barn where I worked all day is on fire. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z And Dear Imam, are we allowed to pray in a barn if there are pigs nearby? Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z Both he and Finn ran back to the barn. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z He looks across the barn and sees Lieutenant Baker opening the door. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z The sun was still straining to clear the east end of the grandstand when the Howards pulled up to the barn. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z It said they like sunflower seeds, and you sure have a lot of those in that trash can in the barn. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z Sean stood in front of the open barn door, his large form casting a long shadow. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z He was starting to really like those birds, especially after learning what the barn swallows symbolized. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z The boy gathered his breeches and flung himself out the barn window. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Then it quit, and I could hear a cow lowing up at Russell’s barn. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z Near me a big barn or granary bulked up in the dark, and in the distance beyond it I saw little volleys of sparks going up on the wind. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z Howard contacted Smith and told him he had a horse he wanted him to look at, stabled in the Fitzsimmons barn. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z She stood and looked around for a minute, and I held my breath in the shadow behind the barn, and was glad I was wearing a brown shirt and muddy jeans. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z Every morning, after Jody had curried and brushed the pony, he let down the barrier of the stall, and Gabilan thrust past him and raced down the barn and into the corral. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z “Now I can bend and shape pieces of iron I find around the ruins of the Gribley house and barn. Eventually I’ll forge them into shovels, ladles, and even nails.” On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z We drifted by gray barns, cornfields in need of irrigation, and clumps of Hereford cows, chewing in slow motion, looking very content with their lives. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z I lodged my pack against the barn wall and carefully reclined on it. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z “Are you sure that it was a barn?” The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z It was then that I saw several tiny figures flying in and out of my field of vision over the barn. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z The three of them flying back to the red barn each time a new Pokémon is captured so that they can make a pretend record of their battle. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z With one loud squall, he scooted under the barn. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z On one side of the little room there was a square four-paned window, and on the other, a narrow plank door leading into the barn. Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z But when I got home and opened the side door to the barn, I found Black Dog there, rummaging through our bedding. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z With a final growl, it wolfishly snapped the barn boards like twigs. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z If I saw him coming into the tavern, I’d go out to clean the barn or down to the woodlot to do some chopping. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z They had rested in the straw of a starveall, or lonely barn, and woken to find themselves attacked by rats. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z He doesn’t look for all the red barn pieces or the daisies in the field or the glimmers of sunlit water. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z “I do have a dad. He doesn’t come around very much anymore. He likes trucks, and barns, and fishing.” A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z The reporters, drowsing in the barn aisles, jumped up when they saw him. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Black Susan ran out and hid in the barn, but Jack leaped in circles through the snow, barking as though he would never stop. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z “Okay, I admit it, so did I. Left it in a bucket by the barn door.” Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z There was nothing for it but to carry on with my chores, pulling my overcoat even tighter about me as I slogged to the barn. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z The rain splattered on the tin roof of the barn, like a drummer who was just learning how to play, uneven and off-beat. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z But she sticks out her chin all the same, says, “Try me” to Frank like she’s ready for a real challenge, like she’s a barn swallow going after a hawk. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z “Most folks come to the house, not the barn.” Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z But as Bobby passed a storage barn and, beyond that, a livestock corral, he heard a horse’s tail swish. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z His color was better, and he was snoring like a barn full of plow horses. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “I will not be going back to the barn,” she said. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z Finn and his brother didn’t have as much as some, but they had more than others, including a peeling white house, a matching garage, and a red barn permanently slanted to the left. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z “But I was able to drag the burning bundle away from your barn before it went, too.” Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z Now Rosie mooed whenever she heard Joseph coming into the barn. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z Papa was out by the barn harnessing his team. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Tucked in a grove of old lilacs, it is surrounded by barns and outbuildings that are sagging toward the ground. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z A roll of chicken wire was the last item in Uncle Chester’s stock of supplies stored in the barn. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z Each week the autumn grew colder and wetter, and the inn, although dirty and drafty, was much cozier than any barn or dung heap to be found outside, so she remained, empty of heart. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z A shed attached to the barn was already engulfed by flames. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z Blackberry, Speedwell and Hawkbit ran at once, taking Boxwood and Clover with them into the darkness under the barn. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Sigurd turned and dragged her away from the barn. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z If they are kept primarily inside a barn, you should provide a container of grit for them to eat as needed. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z It was about the same temperature whether I was inside or outside the barn. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z The barns were kept up better than the houses. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Home, where the backyard always beckoned, always safe and protected by the house and the barn and the woods. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z The brothers nodded and, with final smiles of farewell, left the dim circle of the candle’s glow and crossed the darkness toward the open barn door, the glasses chinking against the bottles as they went. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z As he drew nearer he saw where the lights came from —two barn lanterns, the shades tinted, one blue and the other yellow. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z When the barn was burned to a pile of glowing coals, the men asked Jethro to draw water from the stock well to throw around the edges of the coals. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z I Went on running through the light snow, and then I came up behind the barn and eased myself around it into the barnyard. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z I’m careful to always close them when I leave the barn, so it doesn’t rain on my typewriter, and so no animals get in. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z How the tornado came their way and took down half of the barn and most of the house. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z Emmett and George’s woods beyond the barn are crisscrossed, leaning, too big to go over, too scary to stay in one place for too long, so Axel races deeper and deeper, under and through. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z “Now be a good boy and go directly to the bus. I’ll be watching from here, and when we get ready to tour the barn I’ll get you.” Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Shortly after, Fair Knightess was led over to the Howard barn and moved into a stall down the row from Seabiscuit. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z He ran back down the hill, and the three of us wandered over to one of the big trees and sat down beneath it, staring toward the barn, which still glowed with the party inside. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z She came shuffling around the side of the barn, followed by a retinue of chickens. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z The stakes were in the tack room of the barn, as was the tying-twine, so when I finished hoeing I tied them up. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z Soon the car was passing the other side of the barn and the field beyond, views Luke had never seen, though he'd lived his entire life within a hundred yards of them. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z When I got to Petaluma, I looked for a pretty little red barn, a cornfield, and farmhouse, like the ones on the Petaluma package. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z The barn, solidly built with Karl’s own hands, put up a brave fight. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z I described Buck’s Peak, with its many junkyards, barns, corrals. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Since the fire the year before, there were also no trees at all where the new house and barn now stood, either. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z Question for later: Is there such a thing as a Jamaican barn swallow? As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z Houses or barns or under the bank of a roadside ditch with the blankets pulled over their heads and the noon sky black as the cellars of hell. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z I’m standing on the red railway car that sits abandoned next to the barn. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z It was soft green country, a land of orchards and good big barns. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Setting that popular idea aside, the stewards fired the leg-weary Greenberg back to the barn again, bearing yet another message. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z She couldn’t believe that a shield with a red dragon on it was a coincidence, seeing as the dragon in Anya’s barn had been red. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z He stood with Newt in front of the barn of the Blood House, getting ready for his first training session with a Keeper. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z “In the barn,” he slowly revealed, “they are in the tobacco barn.” Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z When it stopped, the man slung me over his shoulder and dumped me into a heap of hay in a barn. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z So I dragged that rattling old wagon around the back of the barn. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z Looking through the window, I watched John go to the barn. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z Janie walked to the door with the pan in her hand still stirring the cornmeal dough and looked towards the barn. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z They are relieved when they leave the icky barn where the little Piggy girl lives. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z When I open the big wooden shutters in the barn loft, I can hear weird animal noises from the farms all around during the day, even though they’re really far away. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z Ann, get to the barn, milk the cow and drive her to the Common. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z All day Pa was busy, banking the little house and the barn with dead leaves and straw, held down by stones, to keep out the cold. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z When we kids played around the mule barn, we peeked through its dirty, screened windows to look at the ghostly stalls and the ancient harnesses. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z When it was all gone, another special meeting was held in the barn for the animals to inspect Frederick’s bank-notes. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z When we’d finished my hearth and home lesson, he took me out to the barn and helped me get Violet and Plug settled. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z His name was James Manning, and he had infiltrated the barn area with plans to break into Seabiscuit’s stall and shove a sponge up his nostril, impeding his breathing. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z “Can I take this to mean,” asked Wilbur, “that you have definitely decided to live here in the barn cellar, and that I am going to have three friends?” Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z And then the clear twilight air was split by the screech of a saw biting through wood from behind the barn. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z Inside the barn three bodies hanging from the rafters, dried and dusty among the wan slats of light. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z I'd slid halfway down the curve of the barn roof, clattering between dreaming and waking, before I got my balance back. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z The public pressure on the Howard barn was enormous. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Tiller put down his brush and went to the open barn doors and gazed out across the holler. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z “He didn’t steal the cows, they followed him out of the barn of their own accord.” My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z I ran down to the barn to milk the cow, and though I hurried as fast as I could, I was gone about fifteen minutes. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z With a host of newsmen congregated outside, he led Seabiscuit out and stood him in an open space between the barns. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z The barn of shackles, the hole in the earth, this broken-down boxcar—the heading of the underground railroad was laid in the direction of the bizarre. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z They followed them around the side of the barn. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z We had spotted a small barn a few kilometers back. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z He was helping his dad and the TV crew break down the set inside the barn. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z After a while, Jody took a lantern and went down to the barn. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z Pretty soon we was just working our way around the barn but getting nowhere. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Then, with the pretext that the animals were losing their fertility, he transferred his barns and stables. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z At one end of the big barn, on a sort of raised platform, Major was already ensconced on his bed of straw, under a lantern which hung from a beam. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z He took the horse back to the barn and pulled off all of his shoes. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z One afternoon, Dad climbed into the excavator and dug a pit next to the old barn. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z The noise was partly because the tractor was still in the barn. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z They scampered to the back wall of the barn and tried to kick out a board so they could crawl out. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z And so Wilbur came home to his beloved manure pile in the barn cellar. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z They came up behind a barn where it was suddenly peaceful. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z There were plenty of deer and it was an awful nice feeling to have a deer hanging in the barn, knowing that we were going to eat well. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The barn was nothing but a jumble of ash and planking. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z The pellets buried themselves in the wall of the barn and the meeting broke up hurriedly. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z Ray’s at the edge of the red barn, nose to the ground, in pursuit of some scent. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z “Lock the barn tight this time. You hear me, son?” Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z I went out to the barn and cleaned myself up as best I could, and then I went into the taproom. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z He lined up the top tree on a mountain with the weather-vane rooster on the peak of a distant barn and scrambled down. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z Then to the barn—where I had also been. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z When Sam saw her he came a little way out of the barn shadows. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z She would visit the barn at once, to see what aid she might render to the miserable creature—or creatures—within. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z Up in the right-hand corner is a barn. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z Dad disappeared in the direction of the barn, and Mother went into the living room to meet the caller. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z It was he who had given the alarm in the barn, for he could not sleep and at the sound of scratching had started up at once. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z He and I each took one and ran for the barn. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z The hay smelled good and lying in a barn in the hay took away all the years in between. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z Billy was in the barn, as he had promised, and the pony was worse. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z “Not so fast. What do you mean, you passed my barn? This is private property and I’m in the middle of nowhere.” Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z It was dark in the barn, except for a little bit of light from the high dusty windows, but I didn’t care. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z He drove them on a flat dirt road that led around the barn and behind it before heading straight up a slight incline, through an overgrown field, to another field. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z A house with a sloping red roof and a barn where cows mooed, a sheltered well right in front. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z Frightful took off, hit a strong updraft, and was lifted over the field and barn. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z Then we borrowed Slats to haul the planks from the collapsed barn on Bando’s property. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z She, too, would have hidden in the barn if she could. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z When he returned to the barn, he carried in his mouth an advertisement he had torn from a crumpled magazine. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z Mama looked like a farmer seeing his barn burst into flames. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z She crept out of the barn and around the side of the structure, seeking the stream that had led her here. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z Conger ordered the Garrett sons to collect a few armfuls of straw and pile them against the side of the barn. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Of course you have burned a man’s property—barn, farm implements, hay, and grain; you have polluted his well with coal oil and terrified his family. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z Matthew held the letter at arm's length, the way Luke had seen him hold dead baby pigs when they had to be carried out of the barn. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z Harold was the smallest barn owl nestling, and a great worrier. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z She backed against the barn doors and held them closed. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z If the stranger had already been to the spring, he’d been uncomfortably close to the whiskey barn. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z He went to the barns to see Seabiscuit, then hung up his tack. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z They were mansions, as large as the Garners’ house and barn put together. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z And maybe, just maybe, if this worked, he could convince Dad to let him sneak out to the barn and help there, too. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z Luke turned and ran, blindly, not even slowing down to creep alongside the barn. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z From the direction of the barn Jody heard a shrill whistling scream and a splintering of wood, and then a man’s voice shouting. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z As Pa and Ma tore out of the barn bareback, Pa called, “John, get Seth Clemson over here!” Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z They passed farmhouses, barns and an occasional weathered gray shack raised off the ground on piles of bricks. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z There, just off the highroad, stood a great barn. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z “In that case,” she said firmly, “Lady Constance will have to come out to the barn and view the situation for herself.” The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z A minute later he started again — and the splash of milk was the only thing we heard in the barn. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z He stood in the door of the barn and listened. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z Saddened and angry, he drove home, parked near his barn, and walked to a large bird mews. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z At this there was a terrible baying sound outside, and nine enormous dogs wearing brass-studded collars came bounding into the barn. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z They showed up at the barn every morning at seven sharp, Howard with sugar cubes, Marcela with Wee Biscuit, a toy Scottish terrier given to her during a visit to Bing Crosby’s house. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Fame has seized her and appropriated her, name, barn, cows and all.” The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z Doña Ana’s barn still stood, and the animals inside whimpered softly, as if their normal voices would make the wind start up again. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z After the hoisting of the flag all the animals trooped into the big barn for a general assembly which was known as the Meeting. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z I dart inside, and the barn is a warehouse. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z There was also a slow woo-woo-woo sound from a barn owl hid out waiting for a mouse to make a mistake. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z He heard horses’ hoofs plodding on the road and far-off pounding on wood where a neighbor was shingling a barn. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Every evening, when the darkness had settled over Bone Gap, Finn sneaked out to the barn. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z Smith went back to the barn to see his horse. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Outside I was greeted by Luke’s goat, Kamikaze, who nibbled my shirt as I walked to the barn. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z The next morning I hung around the house for a while, and then nonchalantly whistled my way out to the barn. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z “There’s a dragon in the river. I saw it in our barn. They want to catch it.” Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z The three of us ran through the back of the barn and into the waist- high grass, and lay down. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z Then I went out to the barn to look the cattle over more carefully, in case any of them had been hurt. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The barn smelled strongly of leather and hay, but the stalls— at least, those she could see—were empty. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z I seen him last night, waving his arms in the barn. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z Now I guessed its use: I must fasten one end to the house and one to the barn. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z “The barn’s no good. The roof leaks and it’s out too far.” Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z Just let it come toward sundown and he’d head for the gate like a cow for the barn, hanging onto it and bobbing his head and sort of moaning to himself. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z The cow barn is a simple open-sided structure where the cattle eat twenty-five pounds of hay and produce fifty pounds of manure each day. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Engulfing fields in dense mats of root and vine, kudzu swarmed over entire farms, clambered for miles along telephone lines, wrapped up trees, barns, and houses like a green Christo. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Darkness had long since fallen when we reached the top of a hill and found no barn or house in sight. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z Jojo, without being told, had taken over most of Stella’s barn chores. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z The hides we nailed to the barn to dry. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z She had once come into his barn and discovered jockey Farrell Jones lying on a cot in the cold, drafty tack room, desperately ill with an infection. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Across the fields to the south he could see the shape of a house and a barn. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z The barn wasn’t at all what I imagined. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z We padded it with hay and put it in an empty stall in our barn, hidden under some dirty old croker sacks. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z Carl Tiflin and Billy Buck were not in sight, but from a metallic ringing on the other side of the barn, Jody knew that Billy Buck was just starting to milk a cow. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z And while she went through the barn, the halter chains rattled, and some horses snorted and some stamped their feet. Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z They were both quiet as we watched the front door of the barn for Javi. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z It’s a pretty big barn, 200 to 250 feet from end to end, maybe, and about half full of baskets of crested pine. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z “Load it on their pony in the barn and send it along on the next train.” Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z When the animals had assembled in the big barn, Snowball stood up and, though occasionally interrupted by bleating from the sheep, set forth his reasons for advocating the building of the windmill. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z And she and Joe brought out that old sleigh in the barn and even found the bells in the harness room. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z Dyedka had built both the house and the barn in his youth, and though the house was comfortable, it was obvious where his priorities had been. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z When we got there, the barn was dark except for a double stall in the corner. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z “Didn’t I tell you about locking the barn door to keep out animals? Never figured I’d have to lock out the likes of this here. ’ Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z The barn door opened then, and a thin, stooped black man limped over to them. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z The barn’s roof had fallen in, and some of the sparks jumped to the house just as Dyedka arrived with the goats. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z We all looked up when they entered the barn, a young man carrying a pistol, followed by a short blond girl in braids and a pink hat. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z The holes were spaced roughly five feet apart and followed a generally straight line, passing the barn and eventually leaving the yard along a narrow path into the woods. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z T. P. fell on me and the barn door went away. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z My mothers knows, underneath all the fancy details that cost so much, this house is still a barn. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z It was strange sleeping in the barn with all those soldiers and it felt a lot less safe than you might have thought, given how many guns were around. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z The little barn cat that hated the barn and always found a way to sneak inside. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z As I approach the lights in the cow barn, I slow down and stop. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z The sun itself was going down, and Mama came around the side of the barn. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z She waved as he rode away with the goats following, and as soon as he was out of sight, she slammed the barn doors shut. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z It w as cooler in the barn, but even in the shade the eye looked bad. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z He heard Carl dismount from his creaking saddle and slap the horse on the side to send it to the barn where Billy would unsaddle it and turn it out. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z The field between the barn and the river was full of rushes and tall grass. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z As the manure/woodchip mix decays it heats up, warming the barn. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Surprisingly, instead of ordering their men to rush the barn and take Booth, they first sent an unarmed civilian to disarm him. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Beyond these lay the orchards and the barns for the work horses and cows and mules. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z He was drawing on it now, in a French barn, in the small hours. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z There was the occasional barn and once a row of little houses but they looked deserted and we didn’t want to risk finding out for sure. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z From the kitchen window comes the wit wit wit of a barn swallow, footfalls on ramparts, halyards clinking against masts, hinges and chains creaking in the harbor. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z The barn was black as night in contrast and warm from the hay and from the beasts. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z The Ameses lived on the edge of town, and behind their house were barn and carriage house, vegetable garden and fenced paddock for two horses. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Church had inspected Smith’s farm home and seen there, hanging from a barn rafter, a length of rope tied with the same kind of knot that was used to bind the four Clutters. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z That ended with a fire in the barn that spread to the house. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z Howard began slipping out to the barn in the morning with Pollard, and one day when the urge was too strong they got out a stock saddle and cinched it on Seabiscuit. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z The sight and sound of water became a torment; Fitzsimmons habitually avoided areas of the barn where horses were being washed because the spectacle of flowing water was agonizing. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Joe found a gaff hook in the barn and began to carry it secreted in his pocket. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z On the road back to Anya’s barn, she kicked every little stone she saw. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z He went back to the barn and led Night into the yard. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z It was truly gargantuan—wide enough to fit Anya’s barn inside it, and twice as tall as the trees surrounding it. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z She remembers to talk honestly about hot cars and aisles at the grocery store and not going beyond where the big red barn can see Axel. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z “You wouldn’t know the barn to see it.” Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z It was a little creepy, all abandoned like that, and when the blackberry bush rustled, I ran back toward the barn and decided that was enough exploring. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z Adam felt as though his brother were inspecting him through the cracks in the barn. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z The animals were left to themselves in the barn. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z “Take him out to the barn, you hear?” Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z I looked at the barn doors noisily slapping back and forth with the force of the storm, and I couldn’t help but feel powerless. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z Construction began on the milking barn in Oneida. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z He had hanged himself with rope from a beam high up in a neighbor’s barn. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z Hedges of honeysuckle—twisting, strangling vines—had grown over what must once have been a split rail fence between the house and barn. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z She shivered, then followed him out to the barn, where they fed hay to the work horses, Popel and Hopei, in companionable silence. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Bing Crosby had stayed up all night recording at Universal so he could have the day off, and came with Mrs. Bing, rooting for yet another hopeless long shot from their barn, Don Mike. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z The camper van, standing in the abandoned barn like a solid, multicolored animal, was more familiar to Meggie than any of the houses where she and Mo had lived. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z Yeah, she had the old red barn and the stables, but they were empty. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z “We have to do something about this one. The blacksmith said he’s the one who started the fire in your barn.” Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z After the race, Howard learned that members of the Riddle barn were publicly mocking him for being afraid of War Admiral. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z As I stepped out of the bedroom, Pa loaded up his plate and John’s from the fireplace, then turned to go out to the barn. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z A large wooden house and a barn loomed before them, and hidden in the surrounding woods were five-hundred-gallon copper stills. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z “Grandpa told us never to enter the barn.” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z Florida looked around the barn and out through its wide open doors at the far end, toward an arch of tall leafy trees. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z In the foreground is an open barn shed with a farm wagon inside. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Back at the barn, the stable hands were shocked. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Her sons had nailed plywood sheets to the windows and along the front of her house, so that the only way in was the back door leading to the latrine, barn, and pigsty. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z The sun was coming over the ridge now, glaring on the whitewash of the houses and barns, making the wet grass blaze softly. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z He remembered his own children climbing those trees and racing to the barn and all piled together on the porch swing. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z I looked in the direction of the barn, but when Papa cleared his throat I turned in my seat. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Some of the dockers, training their field glasses on Tom Smith’s face as he led the horse back to the barn, noticed a glaring incongruity. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z “There are a whole lot of good tools in that workshop against the barn,” Daddy said. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z As you head back from the house to the barn, the pasture, the far field, the pond and the brook all lie on your right. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z Dad always worked from sunup until sundown in the weeks before the first snow, trying to stockpile enough money from hauling scrap and building barns to outlast the winter, when jobs were scarce. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z “It’ll be like camping, only nicer because there’s a roof. Well, except that we don’t have our sleeping bags. But we can make another nest with our clothes like we did in the barn.” Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z It took effort for the riders to avoid looking right at it every time they rode in morning workouts or circled the barn walking hots. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z The big cow and the little one were standing in the door, and we could hear Prince and Queenie and Fancy stomping inside the barn. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z The wandering boy found a deserted barn a ways off the road. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z After that she moved quickly into the barn. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z I took the tractor back down to the barn and hitched on the plow. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z “Dan was only split through the head with the pig-shaped weather vane that flew off a barn. Now let me see that police report.” Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z She’d ordered him into the barn to rest and taken his crutches hostage. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z It ran only a short distance before Duchess struck and carried it to a tall spruce behind the barn. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z The barn was gone now and one year they had cut the hemlock woods and there were only stumps, dried tree-tops, branches and fire- weed where the woods had been. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z An early milkman saw what he thought to be black figures coming out of a barn immediately before it burst into flames. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z The tracks of the big bear were all around the barn, and there were marks of his claws on the walls. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z I’d slop the pigs and fill the trough for the cows and horses, then I’d hop over the corral fence, loop around the barn and step through Grandma’s side door. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z She nodded again and walked to the center of the open barn, pointing at the floor directly in the middle. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z About the foresters bringing more rigs out to clear more trees, the enormous flatbeds that rolled across the field empty and returned with logs piled higher than the barn’s roof. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z At nine o’clock the wind sprang up and howled around the barn. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z One drift is even with the roof of the barn and they climbed up there and slid down in that bucket over and over again. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z Probably at Howard’s insistence, he let the press come into the barn to see the horse, albeit without narration from the trainer. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z She looked around their yard and pointed to a pile of blue plastic near the oak tree that must have blown out of the old barn. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z Then the dog was rushing upon him and he turned and made for the raised barn. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z I went and found Harry in the barn, where he was mending a harness. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z I don’t know whether the smell of the barn got less or our noses grew used to it, but after a while we stopped noticing it. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z It was very quiet in the barn, and the quiet of the afternoon was on the ranch. Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z Axel doesn’t make it to his house, not even back to the big red barn, but places aren’t always what is needed to feel home. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z And out through the kitchen door there’s the muddy barnyard and back of that the barn. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Migrants huddle around the San Jose church like cattle pressed up against a barn seeking protection from a cold winter chill. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z The room was the size of the main portion of her barn, but instead of being filled with hay and goats, it was filled with a huge, tall bed and a massive carved wardrobe. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z I try to sound as if I were asking if Alice were in the barn pitching hay. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z She decided that if she slept in the barn, she ran the risk of being eaten by a dragon. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z At that moment, I wanted to tell him how sorry I was that he didn’t have a Ma and Pa, but then my own Pa called him from the barn. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z He had told me about the barn fire, but he had never told me that he, too, had been caught in it. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z “That big new guy’s messin’ around your pups out in the barn.” Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z The tunnel enabled him to get from the barn to his hiding place under the pig trough without coming out into the open. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z The face-off lasted for seconds that stretched into eternity, and then, with the scrabbling of claws, the dragon fled to the darkness at the rear of the barn. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z If she crossed the intersecting road here, she would continue along the river path and pass the large barn that housed official vehicles. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z “Next thing you know, you’ll be expecting me to sleep in a barn with horses and hay and God knows what else.” Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z Then they had them march back to the hog barn which had been their home. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z He skidded sideways and slammed into the corner of a barn, then fell in a heap. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Anticipating the barn was about to be burned down, Booth challenged all of his pursuers to honorable combat on open ground. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Caleb and I jumped over the fence and found the animals huddled by the barn. Sarah, Plain and Tall 1985-04-25T00:00:00Z It is common for aspiring jockeys to be so rubber-legged upon dismounting from their first circuit around the track that they are unable to walk back to the barn. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z The night was dark and they were soon out of sight, though he could hear them moving down the side of the long barn. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Henry does Web stuff from the barn they converted into a home office and Willow works at a nearby hospital. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z The old woman shuffled back to the barn, and after a quick glance at the fools and the knight, Anya followed. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z He had been to the barn, had thrown rocks at the swallows’ nests under the eaves until every one of the little mud houses broke open and dropped its lining of straw and dirty feathers. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z “The first night in the barn, when I took out the shrapnel. You said some things.” Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z Anya grabbed the bottles and lifted the barn’s cellar door up. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z He sent Chase on a pointless errand to the barn. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z The lane began on the far side of the barn and led into the woods. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z I wonder about Dutchy—if he’s sleeping in a barn with animals, eating only pig slops. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z I cleaned the hen in the barn on my father’s workbench, cut it up into frying-size pieces, and divided it evenly into two piles, one for him, one for me. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z He goes on toward the barn, entering the lot, wooden- backed. As I Lay Dying 1930-01-01T00:00:00Z He struck a match, intending to smoke a cigarette, but something seen by the light of the flaring match brought him to his feet and carried him across the barn to a cow stall. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z It came briskly round the corner of the barn, saw the rabbits and stopped dead. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z But later this afternoon, I saw the barn door had swung open again, so I went back up and found them. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z In the tall grass behind the cattle barn he found a folded newspaper. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z Then the hay would be hoisted, sweet and warm, into the big loft, until the whole barn seemed like a wonderful bed of timothy and clover. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z To the far left are a large barn and a grass pen. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z Papa would be out by the barn or maybe already out in the fields. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I go in the barn where, after my eyes have adjusted to the dim light, I see a tall girl with bangs and shoulder- length soft brown hair crouched over a pig. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Then he had to hurry to an early evening fire, which was quickly put out, before the signal for the O’Leary barn fire came in and he was off again. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z I stared at the barn wall for a while, and blinked and blinked, trying to pretend everything would be okay. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z The New York trip had told him that he had a very good horse in his barn, and until the weights were assigned for the hundred-grander, he intended to keep him hidden. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Outside the barn, Elizabeth stopped, and leaned against the barn door. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z Then handed me up a series of makeshift ladders into a loft above another loft in the barn where I am now. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z Because Zachary had just come out of the barn, wiping his hands on his dusty jeans. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z I felt strong and powerful and vindicated as I kicked a blood-splattered feathery lump out of my way and headed for our nest in the corner of the barn. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z In the barn he found Billy Buck with the pony. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z Have you ever tried to sleep while a pint-size maniac is rattling off hundreds of detailed inquiries about the web-spinning mechanisms of the common barn spider? Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Reaching Grandpa’s store in the middle of the afternoon, Papa said, “I’ll put the team in the barn and feed the stock while you unload the buggy.” Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z He went back to the gable and stood studying what he could see of the house beyond the corner of the barn. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z I was nervous, and I went to check behind the barn one more time, and something moved in the grass. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z Had he come here to leave this calling card—more to threaten than to harm—after setting fire to Karl’s barn? Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z I took the vegetables to Mr. Slocum, and when I got back home, parked the car under the barn shed and sneaked up to the loft. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z The other four kittens—Frank, Derek, Spike, and Priscilla—had moved to Finn’s barn, where the mice were now busily dying of despair. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z When he was nervous he was talkative, and he had spent the afternoon calling Marcela at the barn over and over again and chattering at her. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Once inside, Pita walked around the poorly lit barn for a while, playing with an old rusty rake and a pitchfork she’d found in a stall. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z We walk for three weeks, finding the occasional respite in the barns of sympathetic villagers. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z But at the time I just glanced at the garden and went on to the barn to see after the animals. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z If you want to know what eight hundred thousand links look like, picture a forty-foot silo attached to a small barn. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z Then I got into the habit of skipping breakfast each morning and going straight to the barn. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z I heard Father make a grunting sound, and then the door banged, and he stomped out to the barn. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The tiny striped barn cat trotted into the kitchen, whirled around his ankles. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z The herd hurried past, heading to the barn, and her grandfather followed behind them in a little cart. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z On each side of the Hearse, fields of squat, luminously green plants stretched out into a gray forever, broken up only by the occasional horse pasture, barn, or stand of trees. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z We couldn’t hear them any longer, but we watched as they sat down on some hay bales in front of the barn. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The kegs were in the barn where the speakers were set up. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z Fern phoned and got her Aunt Edith, and her Aunt Edith hollered for Uncle Homer, and Uncle Homer came in from the barn and talked to Fern. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z Behind that was a still littler barn, which looked queer in Pennsylvania where barns were usually ten times bigger than their houses. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z Some nights Edmond had to lock her in the barn if we wanted to be alone but secretly I felt desperate for her because I knew exactly how she felt. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z “Go on out to the barn. I’ll come in a minute.” My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z This was before the current house and barn were constructed. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z Baker ordered John Garrett to enter the barn and take the weapons from the fugitives. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Finally Faro led him to the last place I had been before leaving, the barn where I had put the tractor away after cultivating. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z The cows were always glad to see us — maybe because they had nothing else to do, closed up in the barn for the winter. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z “Would you at least take me in the barn to see the cows?” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z Seabiscuit rolled around the track, then slowed to a walk and returned to the barn. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Then she rolled out an old tire from the corner of the barn. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z Members of the Riddle barn came out to the track to watch him. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z She watched as he trotted across the yard and stopped in front of the barn. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z He stabbed the ground and swung over it, stabbed and swung, until he planted himself in the doorway of Vola’s barn again. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z When Laura walked behind Ma on the path to the barn, the little bits of candle-light from the lantern leaped all around her on the snow. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z On her trips to the barn, Marcela also noticed something new. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Once the hogs disappeared, Georgina and some of the younger women took the children to the barn for games and sing-alongs. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z The first big gust from the crowd came as Seabiscuit was led from the barn to the paddock. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Without saying anything, she tugged gently at his mane and led him round to the end of the big barn, where the Seven Commandments were written. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z He lay in the high barn loft all night, listening to distant animals and insects and trees, the little motions and stirrings. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z Smith tucked Seabiscuit away in the barn and waited for a break in the weather. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z But I found myself looking down the country lane that leads to the barn, checking to make certain no one’s car blocked the path. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Behind a barn, by a pile of broken slates, his body chose the first option for him. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z The Indians slept at the verges of fields or in old chicken houses or barns. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z He sat on the bench in front of the barn squinting into the sun like he was waiting outside the barbershop for a cut. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z Coming up through our barn lot, I saw my father feeding our stock. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z “He just said he wanted to see you when you got home. He’s somewhere down by the barn.” The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z I could not trust the people in the barn. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z There’s only so much you can ruddy well do if no one lets you leave a barn. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z Next to the barn was Papa's mound of hay for bedding, nearly as tall as the barn, covered with canvas to keep the rain from rotting it. Sarah, Plain and Tall 1985-04-25T00:00:00Z Once outside the barn, Pita stood behind me, staring at the sorriest sight we’d ever seen. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z Her father was out in the barn, forking hay to the mule, taking care of the chickens for her, and milking the cow. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z “So if we don’t go into the woods or the barn, and don’t bother the fairies, we’ll be fine?” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z Bales of straw made a ramp up to the griddly barn roof, so up we climbed. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z Racing up the side of the long barn, they heard the Labrador barking in excitement as it ran to the full extent of its rope. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Shehad been uncomfortable using it for a long time, because every time she saw it, she remembered him in it, riding into her barn, right before he took Håkon and set the barn on fire. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z Out in the countryside, barn roofs and entire outhouses flew away. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z So I went to borrow some of your tools from the barn. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z We’d done this search before when a calf went missing from the barn. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Piper met Jonathan through their cooperative; he worked with one of the doctors and she ran the milking barns. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z She glared at me, and took off running, the long way that isn’t really a path, around the barn. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z The barn w as big, but horses is horses. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z He had an owl in his barn who talked to him at night and a pair of swallows. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z Guarded by Spot, a surly Dalmatian who took hunks of flesh out of reporters who got too close, he stormed around the barn and fretted, pouted and balked in his workouts. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Behind the house loomed an immense brown barn, at least five stories tall, topped by a weather vane. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z The sukkah itself was in the field between their barn and the river since there were no trees out there to hang over it. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z It was at this moment that three more rebel muskets discovered themselves in the dark of the barn, and fired at our flank—causing great confusion, though I believe none was struck. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z Or suppose they were hiding in one of the houses or barns along the side of the road? My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z A stone wall bordered the held, and a low barn stood at the far corner. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z Wing in paw, the reunited comrades strolled off to the barn, chatting amiably as if there had never been a cross word between them. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z I slept in the barn, ate in the barn, worked in the barn. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z Marcela, who had stood with him in the barn, stayed behind. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Tiller stepped away and slipped out onto the porch and stared out through the trees to the creek, and then he looked up the hill toward the barn. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z If Charlotte herself was unable to go home to the barn, at least he must take her children along. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z There was an old farmhouse, and around it, barns, outhouses, stables all converted for us to live in. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z If there were a story he could tell that would get him out of this barn and back on the road to Pax, he would tell it. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z The sheds look more like a military barracks than a barn. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z We cross bridges standing on stilts over water inlets, red barns tucked deep within rolling meadows, a giant wood-carved bear standing at the edge of the highway. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z Big barns and many sheds lay behind the houses. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z The hawk had been in their barn since then. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z Filling one of Miss Love’s boxes, I remembered one time Smiley said his folks were gone off and he’d get his little sister to go down to the barn with us. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z So we wanted to find a farm, preferably a big one, with a big barn and silos full of grain, near the mountains. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z The noise seemed to be coming from the direction of the barn. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z A few hundred miles south, Tom Smith sat in the sun by the barns at Hollywood Park. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Booth stepped to the front of the barn and peered through a space between two boards, examining the manhunters. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z They reached the top of the slope and saw before them the barns and the farmyard. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Alyce left the barn and went next to the smithy, where the manor blacksmith and his apprentices were hammering lumps of iron into shoes for horses. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z “Okay, right. I hurt my foot last night. I’d passed your barn, and I needed a place to stay, so...Look, I’ll go.” Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z I returned at night to my barn office. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Far down the road the sun glared cruelly against a tin sign nailed to a barn. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z Daddy and Joe went out to look at the old barn while Marly and Mother looked at the things in the cupboard. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z “Awake as an old barn owl,” she said. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z The farm where he's taken her is crowded, he says, and it has six people hiding there already, sleeping in a barn. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z She has relocated her offices from an abandoned minimall in Florida to an abandoned barn in New York, and I have found her. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z Finally there came a night when the gale was so violent that the farm buildings rocked on their foundations and several tiles were blown off the roof of the barn. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z “Alone? My best friends are in the barn cellar. It is a very sociable place. Not at all lonely.” Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z Around the barn in the hen house she found Edward, egg basket still empty, kneeling before the chickens. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z They led the mare back into the slanted red barn. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z I shimmied the length of a purlin, which took me to the framing beam at the barn’s edge. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Beyond the cat, quite far beyond, between the barn and the house, she saw what looked like a troop of dark gray figures marching in columns. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z Some birds sat on the barn door and watched him. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z The neighbor found him in his barn the following morning and made a deal with the farmer to trade Dutchy for a pig. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z He began showing up at the barn in neat gray suits, dark vests, whipcord trousers, wing tips, and on race days a restrained Republican tie. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Then the barn wasn’t there and we had to wait until it came back. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z He dumped them in a pile at the door of the barn and sat there and wrapped up his numb feet. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z Seabiscuit skipped back to the barn, “obviously,” said one railbird, “in a marvelous humor.” Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z It was actually three stories high ’cause the other end of the barn started on a hillside and this side was at the bottom of the slope. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 Perched on top of the barn was the largest nest I had ever seen. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z As soon as they were near the barn, Anya slipped inside the house and leaned Ivan’s staff against the wall by the door. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z Grandmère stood in the middle of the barn, with one hand on her face as she looked around. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z They turned around and waddled back to the barn. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z The grass was dry and withered, and the cows must be taken out of the woods and kept in the barn to be fed. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z “How did you ever get them to follow you inside the house? A week ago they had to be dragged into the barn with a rope!” The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z “But, my friends, if that ancient egg ever breaks, this barn will be untenable.” Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z If the doña insists on going, she can take that dirt road up ahead and then cross over onto the road that is paved all the way to the coffee barns. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z The hay came down like a mountain slope to the other end of the barn, and there was a level place as yet unfilled with the new crop. Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z “Oh, everybody in the barn cellar. Wilbur and the sheep and the lambs and the goose and the gander and the goslings and Charlotte and me.” Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z I put her crate in the barn and stuck some food inside, but I latched her door closed again. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z At the Howard barn, there was shouting and running. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Claire remembered a few years back, when she had been a Ten or a Nine, the boys who were her age-mates had all been fascinated by the vehicle barn. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z She glanced around the barn and up at the old stained rafters, feeling a little sad that this was the end of it and the old man didn’t even know it. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z Tiller wondered what it would be like not to have trees and creeks and barns, and what it would be like never to have been rocked. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z He was about to sit down again when he heard the second thud and saw the barn doors shake. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z Laura was afraid that Pa must kill one of the little calves in the barn. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z Pastor Schatz from the Lutheran church had recently organized a barn raising. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z Lumbly shut the barn door, the chains jingling with the vibration. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z In the barn they had found the wheelbarrow, which they determined might be easier than carrying Goldilocks the entire way to the ivy shack. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z And now we all sat in an abandoned barn, trying to create a fire for warmth. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z I jogged across it trying to find the least muddy spots, and went into the barn. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Seconds later she came to the barn door, pushing a reluctant ewe who was starting labor. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z Rosemont emerged from the barn three days before the race and scorched the track in his final workout. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Snow fell so thickly I could barely see the barn. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z He'd be hidden by bushes and the barn through much of his yard. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z Pa said, “Were it one a our’n? You think someone leaved the barn door ajar?” Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z A patchwork quilt of green and brown fields surrounded a huge barn and a slightly smaller house. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z Booth and Herold looked at each other and, without exchanging a word, ran for the woods behind Garrett’s barn and waited. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z "In Maine the barns are attached to the houses sometimes," said Sarah. Sarah, Plain and Tall 1985-04-25T00:00:00Z The young mouse stood in the gloom of the barn, knowing he was being watched. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z “I was sitting at my kitchen table, reading, when I heard a noise from the barn. And there she was.” Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z Smith walked over to the Wheatley barn and presented himself to Fitzsimmons, asking to see the horse of whom Howard had spoken. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z “Keep her wake up till we get back to the barn.” The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z “Oh yeah, ever heard of a barn owl?” Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z We had lain in hay and talked and shot sparrows with an air-rifle when they perched in the triangle cut high up in the wall of the barn. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z It’s ruddy dark in the barn now and I can hear grunts and barks and clanks and then I hear Matthew cry out in pain at what must surely be a bite. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z The barn was dark and warm and sweet. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z The new crop of horses coming into the barn was a big one, and the stable string had to be culled. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z “And if you don’t mind beans—” The ground rumbled and rolled as I stepped out of the barn. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z She gave the pump handle a few quick jerks, hurriedly splashed water on her face, then headed over to the barn, grabbing the feed sack that hung on the fence as she went. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z The enormous barn contained just one cavernous room with a few closets around the perimeter. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z I could see a few houses and barns scattered about, surrounded by golden fields, or pale green pieces of pasture with dots of white sheep. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z “Run and fetch some rope from the barn,” Miss Maggie yelled as she ran. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z The boot thumps and the sound of dragging dulled as they moved from the hollow barn floor to the solid earth outside. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z “Go,” Dr. Martin says, and Byrd and Lark skip and sing and hop as they head toward the big red barn. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z He strode out of the barn, tossing the key at Nathan. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z “It’s an old barn. Chi-Boy, come with me to check it out first. We can crash there. They’ll be no fire tonight, so walls would be good.” The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z Jody’s father and Billy Buck came out of the barn and walked over. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z I found Charlie out in the barn early one morning before school. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z He looks down at the spring, then up the road and back toward the barn. As I Lay Dying 1930-01-01T00:00:00Z As he went down the side of the barn, he could hear Hazel out in the open, near the doe Haystack. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Dicey watched it go into the distance, back to the barn, then around it and out of sight. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z Samuel built his house with his own hands, and he built a barn and a blacksmith shop. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z George carried the barn owl over to the window and it took off. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z And whenever the cat was given a fish-head to eat, the barn would smell of fish. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z She stopped in the snow, staring at the possessions outside the barn, evaluating the contents and whom they might belong to. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z In the country there were barns and silos stocked with grain and corn, and chicken houses full of eggs. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z “I suppose,” he began, flexing one hand, then the other, “I suppose you can go back to the barn, if you want. Were not using it. But we have an apartment.” Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z At first I could not see anything but shadows, and then a sudden breeze whipped the fog away from the front of our barn. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z After I milk Violet, I must also clean out the barn each day. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z He turned and looked at the house, and he turned back and looked toward the barn where his father and Billy Buck were. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z Finally I got a burlap feed sack from the barn to put my stuff in, though it barely filled one comer. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z “Nothing wrong with that gal that a good poke in the hay barn wouldn’t fix. And you’re just the stud for the job.” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z We hardly ever used them, using the normalsized side door instead, so the barn doors creaked on their hinges as if reluctant to open. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z The schoolhouse was next door, a long, single-room barn of a building raised on concrete stilts. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z One evening, a few days after the writing had appeared in Charlotte’s web, the spider called a meeting of all the animals in the barn cellar. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z One of Doherty’s sergeants, Boston Corbett, volunteered for a suicide mission: He would slip into the barn alone and fight Booth one-on-one. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z They had always kept more to the back part of the farm, away from the cabin and the barn, where people were. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z If this blizzard lasted more than a day, I’d need a way to get to the barn to take care of Violet. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z Inevitably, uniforms wind up in barns and sheds. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z Jody seized the bucket and ran, down past the bunkhouse, past the barn, with the heavy bucket banging against his knees. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z The barn was already engulfed in flames, so Patrick and a group of neighbors began pouring water on the cottage. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z In a moment he was back, and we ducked across the road through the rain and around behind the house to the barn. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z It took me over half an hour to get them safely back into the barn. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The Howard barn preferred that their opponents keep thinking that way. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z The ground around the barn was cleared of snow by many footprints, animal as well as human. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z “She stays here one more night, then move her to the barn. You have the hunger?” he asked me. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z After this they went back to the farm buildings, where Snowball and Napoleon sent for a ladder which they caused to be set against the end wall of the big barn. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z Jethro took down the lantern that hung on the outside wall of the kitchen and started down the path toward the barn. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z Whatever it was they came up with, I knowed it waren’t fair that I wouldn’t get to know till tomorrow after I finished my chores at the barn. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z Every night Smith drifted off to the sound of raindrops ringing off the barn roof. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Back up at the barn I carefully stowed our booty: matches, soap, clean clothes, more blankets, dog food, a single candle I found under a chair, and some books. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Tying off* a secure knot, I let out the rope and fought my way back to the barn. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z Now came, however, the boys out of the barn, and they descended upon us with sickle, froe, and scythe. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z Smith took the horse back to the barn. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z The barn was awfully drafty, too, but I guess I ought to be grateful that it was. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z A charred bundle of hay, still smoldering, leaned at a drunken angle against a pile of rocks, spitting distance from the barn. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z Shawn and I spent the better part of a week making purlins to finish the barn roof. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Life in the barn was very good—night and day, winter and summer, spring and fall, dull days and bright days. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z The sun had barely broken over the trees as she pulled Zvezda back to the barn by his horns for the third time. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z Now it is not so bad: Mr. Whiskers and I have beat a path to the barn. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z George turned and went quickly out of the barn. Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z The sheep nosed open their stall door and milled around the barn, bleating. Sarah, Plain and Tall 1985-04-25T00:00:00Z Miss Maggie said, not really asking, sure that I would go with her to bring the sheep into the barn. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z With his hands pushed into the pockets of a gray overcoat, Spencer circled the track on foot, moving by a palette of colorful barns and turning leaves. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z The habit of building farmhouses and barns was said to have begun among the inhabitants of the Marish down by the Brandywine. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z The lights exploded to life in a hullabaloo around the barn and a thumping beat rattled in my bones. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z The cocker spaniel heard the commotion and he ran out from the barn to join the chase. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z Then I banked the fire, locked the doors, and took her back upstairs with a chamber pot of warm water and a lantern I’d found in the barn. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z Shawn said it was time to mount, and I climbed onto the barn roof, sure the corral would descend into violence. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z There were two or three of them in the barn, in my father’s workshop. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z But there’s a barn to one side with a lantern in the window. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z The barn was still dark, but the faint glow of sunrise lit the window in the hayloft. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z He was too dispirited to tell Billy how the barn door had blown open and let the pony out. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z It is a completely normal place, out of sight of the barn and house, close enough to the road that I can hear cars passing. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z And at dawn there was the sudden sound of hail, like stones tossed against the barn. Sarah, Plain and Tall 1985-04-25T00:00:00Z She picked up the flour sack and took it to the barn cellar outside. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z The Howards came to the barn almost every morning, and Charles stayed on, sometimes for fourteen hours at a stretch. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Looking around the barn, we saw that it was most definitely abandoned. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z When they could, they stopped at small farms, where Tristran would put in an afternoon's work in exchange for food and some straw in the barn to sleep upon. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z After a few minutes, Anya advanced to the rear of the barn, ready to stab the dragon in the face if it came for her. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z The stewards complied, and Greenberg stumbled back to the Howard barn. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z The top of the barn comes swooping up out of the twilight. As I Lay Dying 1930-01-01T00:00:00Z “No, sir. We re living in the barn.” Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z Claiborne handlers had been so dismayed with the colt that they had hidden him in a back barn when Phipps came to look over her new crop of horses. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Several nights a week, after Mr. Jones was asleep, they held secret meetings in the barn and expounded the principles of Animalism to the others. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z With Juanita by my side, I looked out to make sure the boy was leaving as I pulled the barn door shut. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z Against the same wall as the office, but in the opposite corner of the barn, Margo has set up a kind of bed—four forklift pallets beneath an orange air mattress. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z “I’m going to hide y’all in the barn. I do most of the work around the place, so Daddy is not likely to find you if you stay quiet.” Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z Henek takes me to sit on a cut log near the barn door, and I tell him what I’ve come to say. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z As the fire grew, it lit the inside of the barn so that for the first time the soldiers could also see their quarry in the gaps between the slats. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z I didn’t say a word all the way to the barn. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z We pulled the oxen through the gate and drove them into the barn. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Already a flight of four had been seen over the southwest shores of Hosk, not alighting but spying out the sheepfolds, barns, and villages. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z Daisy, our milk cow, all but tore the barn lot up and refused to give any milk that night. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z He came upon the barn from the hill above it, stopping to watch and to listen. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z Then there’s Mr. Morgan and Mr. Collins chasing some Farbranch men into the storage barns, firing their rifles after them. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z Overnight Aureliano Segundo became the owner of land and livestock and he barely had time to enlarge his overflowing barns and pigpens. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z Besides the goats and chickens and growling domovoi, the barn was still and empty. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z Would he sell the house and the barn and puny parcel of land? Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z The flames of her barn were taller than the trees, a titanic torch licking at billowing smoke in the sky. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z Howard stood by the barns and blinked at the clouds, a sarcastic smile on his face. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z He hopped down and went back to the barn, where he gathered up some redwood planks, a phone, and an alarm clock. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z George chuckled, “I bet Lennie’s right out there in the barn with his pup. He won’t want to come in here no more now he’s got a pup.” Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z He squeaked open the barn door and peeked in. Stone Fox 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Looks away from Byrd and out over the field, out toward the big red barn. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z On the road ahead, he can make out several acres of uncut hay and the gentle profiles of unlit farm buildings—a house and barn. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z After the whipping, Papa said, “Son, we go’n go out to the barn, you and me. I think it’s time I told you a few things.” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z He frisked him to make sure he was unarmed and, like a schoolmaster taking a disobedient student by the collar, marched him away from the barn. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z There is still a great pile of Explosive 808 hidden under the hay bales on the floor of this barn. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z I shouted to Pa over the fence as I came up to the barn. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z We raided the barn and the pond both. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z “I have to patch the hole in the barn.” Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z Herold put the matter to rest, announcing they would sleep in the tobacco barn, then. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z She pushed her chair back, standing abruptly, and said, “I’m going to sleep in the barn.” Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z “Would you like to come down to the barn and see the stock?” he asked. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z Besides, setting her own barn on fire made no sense, especially since the O’Learys carried no insurance on their property. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z Tiller and Sairy gaped at the ragged hole chopped in the side of the barn. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z The next morning I went to the trash pile behind the barn. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z I offered my services to farmers for food and a bed of straw in the barn. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z It resembles a somewhat slimy, buck-toothed ogre and generally resides in attics or barns belonging to wizards, where it eats spiders and moths. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z One other thing happened at that barn dance that made a great impression on Johnny. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z One morning soon he called her out of the kitchen to the barn. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z So someone had put the horse in the barn along with some feed. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z “It’s a beautiful place. But it’s a long way from the barn. Think how far we’d have to carry food. And no electricity.” Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z As they went through the barn the horses snorted and the halter chains rattled. Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z And the barn, and all the rooms of the house. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z And finally she saw it as if the moon was illuminating it just for her: a barn slanted to the left. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z A sickening noise ran down the long line of barns. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z If Tyler left too, Dad wouldn’t have a crew, and without a crew he couldn’t build barns or hay sheds. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Father had left about thirty feet between Dragonwings and the crest of the hill where it sloped sharply for some hundred feet before opening on the ruin of the Esperanza estate and our barn. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z I turned away and looked out the window, where there was nothing but fields and now and then a falling-down wooden barn or some old, abandoned colored house. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z It was about ten feet long, glistening gray, with a painting of a barn owl above an olive tree. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z “But you don’t go to a job, make any money? How do you buy things? Like all those tools in the barn? Like”—he waved around the cabin—“all your stuff?” Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z In the hush of the barn, Marcela suddenly changed her mind. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z The house sat behind a small orchard, and beyond it, a barn was slowly falling down. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z The fans of the falcons of the Delhi Bridge trooped back into the clean, roomy bird barn and watched with great concern while Perry stroked the terrified falcon to calm him down. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z The balcony of the second floor merged into the barn and there was hay coming out between the columns. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z The room is cavernous, with high, slanted ceilings and exposed wooden beams that give me the feeling of being in a giant barn. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z I look up to see a mama barn swallow skitter off from her nest for more food. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z They hoisted the screaming rider up from the foot of the barn wall and gently laid him on the horse paraphernalia. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Her arms were full of potatoes as she hurried back out of the barn. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z The barn isn’t red, like I thought barns were; where it isn’t painted, it’s just really old brownish-gray wood. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z Back at the barns, men carry in hay on wooden forks, dump grain in the mangers, and carry out manure. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z The barn and cabins need either rebuilding or repair, but the main house made it through the fire. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z In the fields, around the house, in the barn, in the woods, in the swamp—everywhere love and songs and nests and eggs. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z “Bet they’re not going to like what we did in the barn, either.” Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z First night after dinner, Jacob Little showed me how to bring the cows into the barn, or, if the weather was good, to leave them be but check on the fences. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z He ordered the Garretts to move away from the barn or he would shoot them. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z The next morning I started trapping around the barn. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Her voice had turned dangerous, like something that could burst into flame and peel the roof off the barn. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z They made him sleep on hay bales in the barn and beat him if he complained. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z The barn was eerie and half lighted, like dusk without a lantern. Sarah, Plain and Tall 1985-04-25T00:00:00Z The afternoon sun sliced in through the cracks of the barn walls and lay in bright lines on the hay. Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z “Good boy,” Miss Maggie said again and again as she led him out of the barn and into the wind. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z Mark had suddenly gone basketball-crazy, and talked Dad into nailing an old tire rim to the front of the barn for a hoop. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z The encounter with the rats in the barn had been no joke and had proved their worth. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z I saw I had left the door to the barn loft open. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z For Smith, walking into that barn must have been akin to entering a cathedral; telling Fitzsimmons that he could improve on his work must have felt like sacrilege. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z He was drinking corn whiskey with Martin in the barn loft one night—the boy wouldn’t say where he got the jug—when they started talking about the women of Randall. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z I loved the tidy geometry of those fields, the pops of color that turned out to be barns, the flat county highways that ran straight to the horizon. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Pippin could see all the Pelennor laid out before him, dotted into the distance with farmsteads and little walls, barns and byres, but nowhere could he see any kine or other beasts. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z It’s cold and dirty in the barn, and they both look thin, but not ghetto thin. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z “See you at the barn, first thing tomorrow,” Scruffy said to Fred. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z Hide her, like Anne Frank, maybe in the barn? Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z As I turned to go to the barn I couldn’t help but smile. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Sigurd had tried to kill Anya and Ivan twice each, three times if she counted when he had thrown her into the river near her barn, but she still didn’t think she could... Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z The house and barn were gone, and smoking piles of ash and charred wood were all that remained. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z The collapsed wreckage of the barn, a windmill with three fins, and a burned-out husk of a house. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z "If we stay in this barn one more minute, I'm gonna kill both of you! Let's go!" A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z Taking flight, she sped around the barn and into a pine tree at the edge of a woodlot. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z Crooks, the Negro stable buck, had his bunk in the harness room; a little shed that leaned off the wall of the barn. Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z But when he was ready to go back to the barn she brought him a pan of steaming meal. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z Since I arrived the explosive has been not-very-safely hidden under bales of hay on the floor of the barn. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z “And didn’t he go live in the barn for a while?” Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z It came in so low, it had to climb at the last minute to clear the barn. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Denna kicked idly at a charred timber half buried in ashes near the remains of the barn. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z The marmalade cat spat the young mouse out upon the barn floor. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z Hiring himself out to neighbors and relatives, he chopped wood, plowed fields, brought in hay, and built barns and cabins. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z Apparently in an effort to mollify the inflamed press, he let photographers back into the barn. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z I walked out of the barn and through the fields until I came to the tracks. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z Somewhere along the way, a little spotted stray dog fell in with the Howard barn and began to travel with it. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z I waited for my eyes to get used to the darkness of the barn. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Fanning out, the riders make a circle around the house and barn. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z As we rode past the old barn, weathered gray and leaning into a clump of hollyhocks and daisies, I pointed toward the shed. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z I didn’t have interest; Bobby Gene couldn’t hit the broad side of a barn, as they say. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z One afternoon in June, when Wilbur was almost two months old, he wandered out into his small yard outside the barn. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z He managed to beat Seabiscuit in a short blowout one morning and returned to the barn cocky and full of himself. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z We have a whole house of our own, way bigger than anyone’s apartment, and a barn too, and a place that’s sort of like a garage for tractors. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z Still, there’s something about coming into a barn full of warm cows, their sweet breath, the scent of the dry hay, and the sounds of their shuffling and snuffling. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z The farmhouse, the cottage, the barn, the fence. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z A goat poked its head out of the barn door; then another joined it, and another. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z Alsvindr nickered at her from his lean-to barn as she passed it. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z When night came you slept in a barn, if there were no dogs, a cane field, or an empty sawmill. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z They followed the odd prints to the back of the barn. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z “But I have to know,” he muttered fiercely, and crept alongside the barn before making his dash for Jen’s house. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z They were unfailing in their attendance at the secret meetings in the barn, and led the singing of Beasts of England, with which the meetings always ended. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z Quiet trepidation settled over the Howard barn in the week before the Santa Anita Handicap. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z On Friday nights, Dad and Mother often went to a lecture or a movie by themselves, holding hands as they went out to the barn to get Foolish Carriage. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z I clung to the fact that these words were, despite their coldness, less harsh than the words he had spoken to me in the barn. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z “I made the stage. It’s in the barn.” Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z The barn creaked and then started shaking as if there were an earthquake. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z He stared at the ramshackle barn and the peeling paint on the weathered house, sights that should have been entirely foreign to him, but weren’t. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z The latter pointed to the barn adjoining the farmhouse. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z He knew I’d rather be bagging groceries at Stokes than driving the loader in Blackfoot, the dusty town an hour north where Dad was building a milking barn. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z She and Ivan hadn’t brought their weapons back to the barn since. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z But when no one was looking I would slip into Ella’s room and steal a book and take it back of the barn and try to read it. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z With no daylight to illuminate its interior the barn was quite dim, and yet with so much dry hay scattered everywhere, Penelope was afraid to light a candle. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z The barn was darkening gradually and, in their stalls, the horses shifted their feet and rattled the halter chains. Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z I thought of the carts outside the barn. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z At the back edge of the barn he hesitated, staring into the seemingly endless gulf between the barn and the trees at the boundary between his backyard and the Sports Family's. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z I could see the cabin but turned off to check on the barn first. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z He had never heard of barn swallows before, but he had definitely heard of parrots, and no parrots were present. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z It was the kind of barn that children like to play in. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z When I dashed into the barn, the sheep scattered in all directions like corn popping. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z And so in this place and that, by burned homestead or barn, upon hillock or mound, under wall or on field, still they gathered and rallied and fought until the day wore away. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z At a second, louder whine, several cats appeared from the barn nearby and glared at him with tiger-eyed resentment. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Two small buildings—a house and a barn made of rough wood and logs— stood nearby. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z Wilbur loved the barn when it was like this—calm and quiet, waiting for light. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z The next morning he hid Jenny’s sandwiches inside his coat, and at the barn he picked up a few eggs from the nests up in the loft. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z James and Maybeth and Sammy pulled at the honeysuckle on the side near the barn, while Dicey explored the cobwebby barn inside. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z She took my hand and we went on past the barn and through the gate. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z When that scheme failed, they attempted to talk him out of the barn! Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Whatever creatures were living in the barn were probably more frightened of her than she would ever be of them, even if they panicked and touched her. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z Then I turned around and started to push the girls back into the safety of the barn. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z “How was it he eventually gave up living in the barn?” Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z Behind the barn was nothing but a patch of dying grass. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z Maybe some sympathetic Pole would take me in, hide me in their barn. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z He snuffed in every corner, in the barn, in the cow-shed, in the hen-houses, in the vegetable garden, and found traces of Snowball almost everywhere. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z Dallas stood in the middle of the barn. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z Father threw off the crossbar and swung the wide barn doors open. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z She whinnied softly when he walked into the barn. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z Boston Corbett watched the assassin’s every move inside the barn. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z One afternoon Billy Buck leaned the many-tined manure fork against the barn wall. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z The stinky place: Nothing smells like a sheep barn with four or five hundred sheep crammed in. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z I settled Plug in the barn, rubbing him down. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z Winston showed Thomas around for the first hour, pointing out which pens held which animals, where the chicken and turkey coops were, what went where in the barn. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z So while he slept I went down to the barn, got from my father’s workshop a wrench, a pliers, a screwdriver, and a hammer, and went to work. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z She follows me into the barn where I set the bucket down. As I Lay Dying 1930-01-01T00:00:00Z Miguel was on the shorter side, but his shoulders were broad as barn beams, and his arms long and muscular. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z Only Lennie was in the barn, and Lennie sat in the hay beside a packing case under a manger in the end of the barn that had not been filled with hay. Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z Jody jumped into his clothes so quickly that he was out the back door before Billy’s swinging lantern was halfway to the barn. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z She had come out on the back porch to empty her wash water just as I headed for the barn. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z Mucking out the barn, I saw Uncle Chester's chest. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z The Fitzsimmons barn was one in which a horse who did not display spectacular talent could slip through the cracks. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z But the goat had chewed off his splint and, apparently bored with the comfort of the barn, pushed through the doors and followed Anya out to the onion fields. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z With the can bumping my leg every step, I carried it to the barn and filled the tractor’s gas tank. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z Back at the barn, Pollard jumped off and handed the reins to a groom. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z To their right was the tractor shed, and beyond that was the barnyard fence and the barn itself, casting a long shadow. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z Mr. Loomis backed the tractor all the way out of the barn, shifted into forward and drove it in a small circle in the barn lot. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z The long layoff from racing, culminating in a week stuck itching in the barn, took its toll. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z There was a tall extension ladder in the barn, so they could reach all the damaged places. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z Joseph and I shoveled by the house and the barns, and shoveled and shoveled and shoveled, and we had to throw the snow higher and higher to make it over the drifts. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z Lurvy took out an enormous handkerchief and blew his nose very loud—so loud, in fact, that the noise was heard by stableboys over at the horse barn. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z The rest of the animals sat facing them in the main body of the barn. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z Inside the barn, we shed our ponchos and, armed with a curry comb and a dandy brush, each took a horse, Cinders for me, a roan named Clover, in the next stall, for Miss Maggie. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z I knew it must be the same barn fire that had claimed the lives of Yakov’s parents. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z Janie got up with him the next morning and had the breakfast halfway done when he bellowed from the barn. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z I walked to the barn and sat a few minutes, leaning my back against the rear wall, looking out into the pasture and thinking. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z A mournful hush fell over the barn, broken only by the long, low moans of a saddle pony who missed his absent stable companion. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z The police cleared a path for him, and War Admiral, his head low, was led back to the barn to the lonely clapping of a handful of fans. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z “Maybe. But she was in my not-very-fancy barn with ten bales of hay, so I guess someone wanted us to have her.” Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z So it had been from the days many years ago when the first settlers raised their houses, sank their wells, and built their barns. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z After that we inspected the barn across the way, the kennels in which there were three pointers, one of them not feeling so well. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z She looked out the barn window for a minute. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z She threw open the barn door and stepped inside, lifting the lantern up to get a better look at the situation. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z The chickens squawked and flapped around the barn, Håkon’s distress sending them into a tizzy. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z I really wished then that I had that wood stove moved in from the barn so that I could have a real oven and do some proper baking. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z Unseen by Booth, he walked up to one side of the barn and peeked between one of the gaps in the barn walls. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Rain fell on the roof of the barn and dripped steadily from the eaves. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z Miss Love took a green print sunbonnet of Granny’s from a nail in the kitchen and we headed for the barn. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z As Annabelle runs Highway 12, alongside miles of ranch fencing, and the occasional cattle barn and farmhouse, she tries to envision it. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z Its scales were glossy and dark, each one the size of a barn and encrusted with shells from a millennium of living underwater. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z There were only two feed bins in the barn built to keep out mice and I’d already stacked one with potatoes and the other halfway with nuts and com and cabbages. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z In a special spot in the barn, their hawk, Germogen, slumbered on his perch. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z “It was in my barn, chasing the chickens! And when it ran away, it went straight through the wall.” Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z It let out a long moo, making the barn shake simply by shifting its stance. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z They didn’t have a choice but to sleep in the barn. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z It was raining we could hear it on the roof, sighing through the high sweet emptiness of the barn. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z They rode past the blackened bones of houses and barns without number, chimneys sticking up like grave markers, the husked stone walls of ravaged mills and granaries. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z The workbench took up a whole gable wall of the barn. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z James and Dicey worked out plans for mending the biggest holes in the side of the barn. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z Duke points to a trail of broken nutshells leading to the barn doors. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z The mule was off grazing by the barn and with a halter in my hand I went to get him. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z They were racing to the front door of the barn, not the side one off the backyard that Luke always had to use because it was hidden from the road. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z By the time Penelope had made her way back to the barn carrying a basket full of fresh-baked plum cakes and a large pitcher of milk, the sun had already dipped far below the horizon. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z The entire village was gathered in the field between the river and what remained of the barn and the house. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z The barn was pleasantly warm in winter when the animals spent most of their time indoors, and it was pleasantly cool in summer when the big doors stood wide open to the breeze. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z He took her out to the barns, helped her up on the backs of the horses, and watched her ride. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z “Well,” said Dr. Dorian, “I think she will always love animals. But I doubt that she spends her entire life in Homer Zuckerman’s barn cellar. How about boys—does she know any boys?” Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z I could not make out where Father was in the barn when I first got back. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z He waved a hand at an old overstuffed chair we had found in the mansion and brought into the barn. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z We used to go down to the creek or up into someone’s barn and play cards or flip coins and bet on them. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z The barn was divided into twelve smaller pens, each with a thick layer of fresh straw for them to bed in. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z The barn’s loft held over three tons of timothy hay, delivered earlier that day. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z A basketball hoop hangs off the side of the barn. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z “Let's get going. We can’t make light tonight, so we need to hurry if we want to get camp settled in the barn.” The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z The master chained her in the barn fifty times, and fifty times she loosed the chains and went home. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z A breeze picked up, the tall grass outside the barn tilting away from it, and I pulled my sleeping bag over my shoulders to stay warm. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z The first stretch was a long pasture; the barn itself, square and red and big, rose in the distance to her right; to her left, farther off, were the chicken houses. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z On the east side, in front of the house, a barn stands clear of the ground on staddle stones; and opposite is the cow byre. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z But ten seconds later Billy ran from the house to the barn, where Mr. Fitzgibbon was working. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z Ab Russell was in his lot, but I didn’t bother to ask him and I hadn’t got out of sight of his barn hardly when I saw the ford. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z At the barn that afternoon, Takumi decided we needed to have a freestyle contest. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z No swimming hole, no barn, no cows, no chickens, no pigs. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z He could see the red roof of the barn sticking up above the oak trees, and he could hear a dog barking unemotionally near the house. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z The painting right in front of me showed five geese flying over a red barn. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z The horses snorted out in the barn and the chains rang and a voice called, “Lennie. Oh, Lennie. You in the barn?” Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z “The producers are terrified of that new show Seal Squad Seven. Anyway, we’re going to shoot tomorrow. At the ranch. The writers figured out a way for the action to take place in our barn.” Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z They were prosperous farms, you could tell, because the barns gleamed with fresh red paint and the houses often had swimming pools out front. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z He stopped the car in front of a weathered barn and turned off the engine. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z Coming back from the barn, he said, “In the morning, I’ll go over and tell Bill Lowery to come up and open the store.” Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z One end of the great barn was piled high with new hay and over the pile hung the four-taloned Jackson fork suspended from its pulley. Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z As Smith led the horse back to the barn, someone gave him an incredible piece of news. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Cowsheds, stables, pigsties, barns, bungalows, hayricks, anything that got in its way went toppling over like a nine-pin. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z I picked up a dried piece of manure to throw it at him and drive him into the barn. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z When we first walked into the barn, the smell nearly knocked me down. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z For Booth, this was his final and greatest performance, not just for the small audience of soldiers at Garrett’s barn, but also for history. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Back at the barn, resting his sore legs, Greenberg saw Smith laughing. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z First on the path is a big wooden barn, built as watertight and solid as the bridge, like it could last there forever if anyone asked it. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z All the buildings here are ancient, but there are no barns left in the village. The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z My milk can I left at the barn; I would come back at four to milk again and would fill it then. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z Not to go too deep into the woods behind the barn. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z We hid it in the barn loft under the hay; it would keep well enough in that cold weather. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z He spent every minute with the horse, sleeping in the barn, watching him eat, personally wrapping his legs in stall bandages, but he wouldn’t let him out to work. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Woundwort would give them tasks—to search for hlessil in a certain direction or to find out whether a particular ditch or barn contained rats which could later be attacked in force and driven out. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z I looked all around the barn, calling, but no one else was there. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z “Need to patch up a few spots over behind the barn next,” called Mr. Babkow, fastening the fencing to its post. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z Or Baby Jesus, who was born in a barn and died on a cross, with nobody’s lips to kiss before he went. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z She brought him his eggs and went to the barn for milk. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z Since its heyday as a planter’s mansion, parts of the house had been used as an army bunker, a birthing hospital, and a goat barn. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Pa took the shovel and shoveled it away, and then he shoveled a path to the barn, where the horses and the cows were snug and warm in their stalls. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z As we rolled in, Mr. Little came out from the barn and started walking toward us. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z We could hear the rain, a rat in the crib, the empty barn vacant with horses. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z The landscape was a tableau of farm fields, barns, horses, cows, chickens, and the occasional house. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z Garland was so simple—seven acres of land containing exactly one house, one barn, a vegetable garden, fruit trees, a pickup truck, and only one other person. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z At the barn, Billy showed him how to fix a ball of cotton on a stick, with which to swab out the breathing hole when it became clogged with mucus. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z We pass a dying barn with a shattered roof, and a stained mattress shoved up against the speed-limit sign. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z Just when I thought all was lost, Velia and Delia burst through the barn doors wielding what could only be described as giant metal baseball bats. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z He climbed the old ladder into the loft of the barn behind Harley’s grandpa’s house. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z “Yeah, he couldn’t hit the side of a barn,” another one said. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The cows came jumping out of the barn. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z “Do you really think it’s safe in the barn? I mean, what if the lechuzas are in there?” Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z They staked out the barn, constantly asking Smith to pull the horse out of his stall for photo sessions and even to let them sit on his back, as if he were a carnival pony. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Boston Corbett, along with every noncommissioned officer at the barn, received $1,653. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z “Angel! Why haven’t you done something about the kids in the barn?” The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z We both watched it move toward the opening over the hay pile, the steady noise of glass over and over and over soft barn wood, a hollow sort of noise. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z After a little while he went slowly back to the barn. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z “Let us stay long enough for me to talk to him. We’ll hide in the barn.” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z With no ideas—and no lightning-bolt suggestions from the heavens—I finished my barn chores. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z This morning, as I have said, I went out to the barn to milk, and when I came back I heard him calling before I reached the house. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z There was a rise of voices in question, a drum of running feet and the men burst into the barn. Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z He rubbed the side of his face against the barn wall and stamped a hoof. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z The cold barn was soon full of twitching muscles and nasal whinnies. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z Hours before Seabiscuit was to undertake his public workout, Howard and Smith retreated to the cottage by the barn. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z A little white chicken came out of the blackberry bushes out behind the barn on Great-Uncle Jim’s farm the other day. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z Velia demanded, glaring at me as I tried to push her into the barn. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z The house gleamed with white light and the barn was brown and warm. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z He claimed it was an accident, but I had peeked at his preparations in the barn. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z At the base of the structure, thrusters fire, throwing Pouncey, Link, and the others clear of the barn. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z I eyed the shed behind our rental house and was reminded of one of the paintings at the hospital, the red barn. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z When the walk-ups were over, Smith would take the horse back to the barn. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z The barn was a small structure, with room enough for the two animals, some bales of hay, spare parts, and a pitchfork. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z “What kind of barn is that, anyway? A magical barn?” Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z She shifted into D, and turned the wheel so it would head straight down the road to the barn. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z Whenever we came across the creek, Vonetta wheeled JimmyTrotter’s bicycle out of the barn and rode it in circles around the barn and house while Fern chased after her. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z They took the bikes into the barn and dried them off with the tack cloth there. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z “Folks used to help each other more than they do now. If a man’s barn burned in my neighborhood, why, everybody turned to and in a week he had another barn—full of hay.” Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z I took a couple of steps toward the barn door and the blind girl sat up, her milky eyes blinking. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z “The last time I swang in this swing, I almost crashed into a barn swallow,” he yelled. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z The heat from the burning barn, shed, and fence was so hot that the O’Learys’ house, forty feet away, began to smolder. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z Finn went first to the fridge to get a couple of apples, then to the barn to check on the mare. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z The cries of his victims rang out as barns blazed, and ships foundered on a stormy red sea. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z I’d like to see the old home place, the barn and the rail fences. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z That would be to take a straighter route, across the farmyard between the barn and the chicken house, going not too close to the house but cutting the distance home by half. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z If she’d had time, she would have liked to paint the whole barn. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z One of the chickens flapped her wings, and as she did, the barn door slammed open. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z He squinted, trying to make out the barn in the dark. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z I daresay it is only a rat scrambling along the rafters of the adjoining schoolroom: it was a barn before I had it repaired and altered, and barns are generally haunted by rats.—To proceed. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z I’ve already covered the whole barn more than once, counted the baskets, recounted them, made an attempt to fix the loose board in the wall even tho no one asked me to. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z To the east, a fence and shed of James Dalton’s went up in flames; to the west, a barn smoldered for a few minutes, then flared up into a thousand yellow-orange fingers. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z “What kind of help? Are you hungry? I’ll bring you some seeds from the barn loft. I know where they’re stored.” Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z Seth pointed at the back of the barn. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z One by one, he flung them to the barn doorway, then followed and slid them inside. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z In that very race he was badly injured and limped into Irwin’s barn a seemingly ruined horse. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z The barn was still dark, hollow with the emptiness of the displaced people it housed. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z After perhaps five minutes, I heard the churning metallic sound of the starter, and the sputtering of the engine, muffled because it was inside the barn. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z It was while pushing himself up that Sullivan first saw the fire — a single tongue of flame shooting out the side of the O’Learys’ barn. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z A moment later, something heavy dragged after the boot steps, and liquid leaked through the wood slats of the barn floor into the cellar. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z Horses all over the barn became his mortal enemies. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z And then a magpie landed on the miller’s barn and would not be chased away. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z I stopped at the barn and picked up a gunny sack. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z She went first to the barn, where the men were sharpening hoes and sickles in preparation for the summer hay cutting. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Just as she decided to return to the attic and search for a hidden door, Kendra noticed Dale coming from the direction of the barn with another pie tin. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z When you get just past the middle of this you can see it all, the river, the house, the barn, the trees, pasture, everything. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z Agnes, the barn owl who lived with her nestlings in my highest hollow, flapped her wings in annoyance. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z She sat down and started bucking the door with both feet, the same method Seth had used to break into the barn. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z I scrambled to my feet and rushed to the other side of the barn where Pita had abandoned the rusty old tools. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z It became his habit to creep out of bed even before his mother was awake, to slip into his clothes and to go quietly down to the barn to see Gabilan. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z She shoved the dragon’s face backwards, then grabbed Ivan by the arm and pulled him into the barn behind her. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z She kept it in her barn, covered with blankets. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z It had been agreed that they should all meet in the big barn as soon as Mr. Jones was safely out of the way. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z Just the fishing, and barns, and trucks, because those are facts he knows for certain. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z The barn was empty: not even the leftover scent of manure greeted us. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z There’s a hard hat in Mrs. Strawberry’s barn. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z Inside the barn Jewel slides running to the ground before the horse stops. As I Lay Dying 1930-01-01T00:00:00Z When he ran to the door he saw the barn enveloped in flames that leaped far into the sky; hay, grain, wagon, harnesses, and plows were feeding them, and they were hungry. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z He drove Smith to his barn and introduced his horses to their new trainer. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Then she helped her father set up a pallet in the barn for Spoon Man. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z Baker and Colonel Everton Conger pull Booth from the barn moments before it is engulfed in flames. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z I prayed Pa would think better of it, take the milk stool back to the barn after supper and never bring it back. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z “And that,” he was to testify the next day, “was the last I seen them. Nancy leading old Babe off to the barn. Like I said, nothing out of the ordinary.” In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z Seeing no one, he pointed his flashlight at the barns and flicked it on and off twice. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z He wasn’t in the house or in the barn or in the chicken coop or anywhere. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z Women were nailed to barn doors, children mutilated. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z I spent most mornings digging potatoes and carrying them back to the barn to store in the feed bins while Piper went off searching for natural morsels like watercress and sweet chestnuts and honey. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z He flicked it on, and a wan yellow glow illuminated the barn. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z He’d sat in the pickup in the barn—a car wasn’t much different. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z The autumn days grew shorter, Lurvy brought the squashes and pumpkins in from the garden and piled them on the barn floor, where they wouldn’t get nipped on frosty nights. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z “Anything left on the ground will get too wet to be of use, Nate. What we don’t get in, we lose,” Pa said as he led Vernon into the barn. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z From outside the barn came a cry of men and the double clang of shoes on metal. Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z We watched the stars from our place in the barn loft. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z Finally, Reggie stepped out of the barn and found Coach Douglas. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z “Then I’ll have to stay in the barn. I’m not supposed to leave my company. Wait, I’ll tell somebody where I’m going just in case they want me.” My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Later that day I found Edmond in the lower barn feeding the animals and I played with Ding while he milked the goats. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Pigs need warmth, and it was warm and comfortable down there in the barn cellar on the south side. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z “If I catch you out of the barn again, I’ll break your other legs!” Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z His teeth were nubby and yellow, like an old barn dog’s. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Richard Garrett made a claim against the U.S. government for compensation, for the value of his property, including the burned barn and the corn and hay consumed by the cavalry horses. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z “Squire Gingivere says, sir, that if you were to admit yourself in the wrong and apologize to him, then you could both be friends and live in the barn again.” Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z Stepping into the barn felt odd, like all that dust settled inside me somehow, making me feel dirty. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z Her eyes darted between the numerous pieces of farming equipment around the barn, but none of it would make a dent in the Varangian. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z Pollard turned him and brought him back to the barn. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z She and Ivan had gotten too rambunctious practicing with the weapons Kin had given them inside her barn just after this year’s Shavuot, and they’d knocked all the tools off the walls. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z They come to see the little piggy in the barn. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z There were assorted milk pails hanging on the barn wall; I poured the milk into two of these, dividing it evenly, and put one of them on the back porch for Mr. Loomis. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z When the cows became as big as barns, I would be there. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z The building felt large, like an enormous barn. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z To the right, there’s a barn and a fenced pasture with horses. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z Dad had a contract to build a milking barn in Oneida County, about twenty miles from Buck’s Peak, so Shawn puttered around the yard, adjusting schematics and measuring I-beams. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Why didn’t twenty-six armed soldiers, under cloak of darkness, charge two civilians hiding in a barn? Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z So, while I waited for the custard to cool, I ran to the barn, backed the tractor and cart to the loading platform and lowered the tailgate. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z All the way in now, not a farmhouse or barn was left standing. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z They searched farmhouses and barns, questioned the occupants, making their way south to Port Conway. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z He nods at the barn and unlocks the door and we walk into a big, bright room that smells like paint. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z To my amazement, he drove straight past the house to the barn. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Jemmy began burrowing like a barn mouse under the moldy straw. The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z Martin’s final bad omen happened that morning: A mob strung up a husband and wife who hid two colored boys in their barn. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z I face out toward the big barn they have as a garage, and I write it in imaginary letters twenty feet high. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z A barn was suddenly made of gingerbread and spun sugar. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z The barn looked freshly painted, and some of the roof shingles were the raw pink of new wood. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z Fletcher removed the blanket and the fugitives stretched their aching limbs as they took in the barn. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Out in the barn, he threw hay down from the loft and carried buckets of com from the crib in preparation for the evening feeding of the stock. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z Running clumsily across the dirt street, Sullivan made his way directly to the barn. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z We, of course, had to try it, and I held the horse—or tried to—while my friend jumped from the hayloft opening in the barn onto the horse’s waiting back. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z He sat inside the barn and stared out, looking at nothing. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z The sun from ambush was threatening the world with red daggers, but the shadows were gray and solid-looking around the barn. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z I sat right down on the barn floor and cried hard. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z I started across the grass, heading for the barn on my own. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z I walked a bit out of my way, to pass close to Perilee's to see the progress on the new barn. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z Now that the broken egg was buried, the air cleared and the barn smelled good again. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z She and Charles hovered by the barns, waiting. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z The barn and the farmhouse burned down years ago—before my parents bought the property and built a one-story brick rancher. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z With two lechuzas at their backs, they busted out of the barn as if their heels were on fire, never once looking back. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z It had two legs near the front of its long, snakelike body, and it used them to propel itself around the barn in pursuit of the feline house spirit. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z And now I sat in a freezing barn, alone, so far from home. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z He said he knew a thing or two about comfort, and in the barn he set about arranging their quarters. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z By the time I stopped I was high enough to see over the squatter pines and over the roof of the barn where Miig and Chi-Boy were scouting. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z On a table in the center of one end of the barn were also a number of ancient mine telephones. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z “Run down to the barn and call your father.” The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z In turn, Smith put up with Howard’s love of the spotlight, the long stream of friends and reporters he brought to the barn, his need to be in the center of things. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z “However, at this very moment, they are still locked in the barn wearing nothing but blankets, and Lady Constance has not yet given me leave to move them into the nursery.” The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z As I set the can back in the shadowy eaves of the barn, it seemed to glow with a radiant whiteness I had never seen before. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z The next morning, when he emerged from the barn, Smith was enveloped by a herd of agitated newsmen. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z The river tore the edges of the farm lands and washed whole acres down; it toppled barns and houses into itself, to go floating and bobbing away. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Roy Lee’s D.A. needed work though, and O’Dell’s eyes were as wide as the barn owls that nested on the tipple. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Many meetings were held in the big barn, and the pigs occupied themselves with planning out the work of the coming season. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z With a tremendous crash! a section of barn floor collapsed into the cellar. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z A few suggested that “Peg Leg” Sullivan had gone into the barn and had set it on fire while drinking. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z As soon as were out of the barn and away from the door, she turns to me. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z A log barn stood back from it, and a steam-bath house at the side nearer the river. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z It was strange to think her barn burning down wasn’t the most unbelievable thing that had happened to her that night. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z Down the stairs, the natural cavern beneath the barn welcomed her with a cool breeze. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z I only nod in response and she gives a little wave and leaves, walking back across a barn that’s growing ever darker. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z Papa carried the wooden ladder from the barn and leaned it against the hay. Sarah, Plain and Tall 1985-04-25T00:00:00Z The rat entered the barn the way he always did—creeping along close to the wall. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z I had discovered them on a shelf in the workshop in the barn. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z And they burned every fence and house and barn in sight; the railroads they bent up like hairpins—over two hundred miles of’em.” Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z If the cards went into the barn boxes, mice might chew them up. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z The barn had several windows, but the lowest were three stories off the ground. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z Alby pointed to the large barn in the back corner, its red paint long faded to a dull rust color. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z The barn door had blown open, and the pony was gone. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z I am not a large man, and when William pushes past me, thrusting me into the boards of the barn wall, I worry he's cracked all my ribs. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z I walked past him and out of the barn. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z Addition after addition, porch, shed, and a couple of barns, the end one at least four stories hig^i. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z “No. No, no, no. This is my barn you broke into, so ‘What are you doing here?’ would be my question.” Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z Dozens of Japanese farmers, he speculated, had stores of dynamite in their sheds and barns which could be used for sabotage. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z Around a bend, we see a large white farmhouse with Greek pillars, a barn, a silo, and a fenced yard where a dozen or so pickup and farm trucks are parked. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z The barn door creaks open, and a man sticks his head out. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z I changed into overalls and headed for the barn. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z “Put the muck in a barrow and cart it out behind the barn. And then come on in for lunch when you’re done.” Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z Dicey ran out to the barn, but he wasn’t in the gloom there, either. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z And every Sunday of late he had gone out to Lexington to watch the Minute Men drilling, a little secretly, behind Grandsire Silsbee’s great barn. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z There was even an old wood and leather harness hanging on the wall of our own barn, though I had never seen it used. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z Then Jody turned and trotted out of the barn into the dawn. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z One afternoon, when Fern was sitting on her stool, the oldest sheep walked into the barn, and stopped to pay a call on Wilbur. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z So one day, not long after one of Bristol’s mutts gave birth to a litter, the men all went to the barn to put their tools away. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z Then he walked down to the barn, rubbing his hands together. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z Ivan ran in circles around the barn, yelling, while the goats chased him. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z He shrugged, then looked pointedly at the barn. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z Smith arrived at the barn at four the next morning. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z That he’s sorry Ray was hurt, and he’s sorry he said Ray could come, and he’s sorry he broke his promise about not going into the woods behind the big red barn. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z Little Willy backed over to the barn door, still holding his eye. Stone Fox 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Sometimes in farmyards when the cows return well fed from pasture to the barn, one sees the pens give way before the calves in tumult, breaking through to cluster about their mothers, bumping together, bawling. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Abel blew his warm breath against the lock before opening Sommensen’s warehouse—a mildewed barn built of creosoted timbers, put up more than fifty years earlier. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z Sketch out a plan like he does for houses or barns. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z In the barn they strapped the horse into a muzzle each evening to stop him from eating his bedding. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z In the Southfarthing the vines were laden, and the yield of ‘leaf’ was astonishing; and everywhere there was so much corn that at Harvest every barn was stuffed. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z I wandered back and forth from my barn to the house. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Warm as they looked at quilts and handmade furniture in a heated barn. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z The shadows of his little goat legs moved back and forth under the barn door. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z Something scurried across the vacant yard and disappeared under the barn. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z The rest had followed Hazel when he roused them and, without explanation, told them to go quickly outside the barn. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z We walked back to the barn, a bit sheepish from having overreacted. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z She wanted to go patch the hole in her barn and do some chores quickly so that by the time Ivan’s papa came back, she’d be free for the day. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z She returned to the kitchen again so she could get some sugar, an egg, and water that wasn’t the freezing stuff from the cellar well, and returned to the barn. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z Delia sprang up into a sitting position beside her twin, and her eyes went to the doors on the other side of the barn. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z Soon, he, too, was filled with a new determination; Storey borrowed money from friends, dug out some old type from his barn, and had the Times publishing again on October 18. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z To make it easy for her to feed our stock, I cut some poles from the hillside and boxed up one of the stalls in the barn. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Far off, she can see the Hutterites’ long barns, and rows of apartments that look like portables. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z In Sequim your butcher might also be the volunteer firefighter who saved your house or barn, as well as the neighbor who helped you rebuild it. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z John rushed out before Pa could respond, but I saw him shake his head like he had when I picked up a seed bag from the wrong end and dumped it on the barn floor. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z “I hurt my best friend,” Axel finally says, turning from the big red barn to Byrd. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z Jody ran frantically after the lantern and caught up to Billy just as he reached the barn. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z I could see the red light within the barn. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z Dicey examined the places in the barn wall where the wood had been torn away, or fallen awry. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z There it was, stacked up behind the barn, waiting for willing hands. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z After we ate, I started clearing out the barn shed for a garage, but couldn’t make much headway for folks dropping by to see the automobile. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z I swung up my hammer and eased over to the barn. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z With a frown, he said, “This was in yer barn, ye say?” Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z As he got near the barn, he shied at a rock in the grass, stumbled, rared up, and raced away, tail arched high. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z One kid who had not picked up on it was a teenaged apprentice jockey named Farrell Jones, who joined the others at the barn as Seabiscuit was led up. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z “And what about when that mousetrap snapped? Man, I could hear him swearing all the way up in the barn.” Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z We ducked into the barn and stared at the tavern. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z During the winter, the cows and other animals come off the pastures and into the barns. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z I wanted to run down the hill from the barn and through the kitchen door that banged behind me and see my mother and my father sitting at the table peeling apples. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z We climbed the hill to the barn, crawled between the fence wires, and crossed the field. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z The sun streaks were high on the wall by now, and the light was growing soft in the barn. Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z Maybe Priscilla was thinking of other things that had just shown up in Finn’s barn, but he wasn’t going to talk about that. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z Here was the place, a farm with plenty of room and plenty of work for them to do, and the bay just beyond the marshes, and a sailboat in the barn. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z I threw my underwear in a ditch when I left the barn. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z If I could get there, I would stash the swan in her barn until the war was over. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z “I trust he has been attending to his chores in the barn.” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z On December 1 Smith walked out of the barn and stooped over the dirt racecourse. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Dicey turned toward the dilapidated barn, where the truck must be. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z At the humans’ farm, there were always fat mice in the warm barn. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z There were no lights on in the barn, no car or truck beside it. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z It wasn’t until I was nearing the end of the pile that I became certain there was somebody standing outside the barn, just beside the doorway. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z Two cows were standing in front of the barn blinking, and we could see two more behind. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z I hauled it in the old wooden handcart, some from the pile outside the barn, some from the henhouse. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z Home, where he could cradle the new baby pigs in the barn, climb the trees at the edge of the woods, throw snowballs at the posts of the clothesline. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z She looked down toward the swamp and the barn and the workshop and the tree house, with its round windows peering out from the sides of the massive tree trunk like astonished, unblinking eyes. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z Jody’s father walked into the barn and stood with them in front of the stall. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z She should make sure the barn was closed up tight against any dragon invasion. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z Caleb got up and went over to the small barn window. Sarah, Plain and Tall 1985-04-25T00:00:00Z George asked, “Did you see Slim out in the barn?” Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z Anya startled away from it, and the domovoi vanished from the railing as Sigurd rode his giant horse into the barn. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z And then he jumped up and went quickly out of the barn. Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z Right then, a swallow dived past the open door, twittering and squeaking loud enough to wake even strange girls sleeping in other people’s old barns. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z She walked across the garden, but then broke into a run the rest of the way to the barn. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z We had also tried to cover up the spaces between the boards with mud and straw, but even so the wind would get through into the barn. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z The Gypsies always came in August—telling fortunes, selling lace, tarring barn roofs, trading horses and mules. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z “You think something took Grandpa and Lena to the barn?” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z Better to die on a journey than in a barn, I say. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z I called, wandering around to the barn and in where the horses and the cows stayed dry on days like this. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z Everything possible was carved with designs, even the stanchions where the goats put their heads and the stalls in the little barn. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z Joel Salatin had gone off to the barn with his grown son, Daniel. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z A couple of years later, during a stable trip to New York, Smith decided that he had just about worn the hat to death and left the barn in search of a replacement. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z ‘You wouldn’t be bothered to go out and catch a mouse in the barn like other cats, would you?’ he said. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z The next night, the trainer loaded the entire Howard barn onto train cars for a trip south, to Columbia, South Carolina. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Even so I broke a couple of fingernails; but by sunset I had it lying in pieces on the barn floor. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z I meet him every day at the mailbox, since I can see him driving up from the barn window. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z “But Mary and Joseph couldn’t find a hotel anywhere! So they stayed in a barn.” Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z Well, I tried to show him, but my leg gave out on me, sending me into the hay bales alongside the barn. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z Dyedka’s goat cart sat in front of the hole in the barn. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z They stretched out as her barn groaned and collapsed, shooting sparks up to illuminate the black clouds like fireflies in the night. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z The click of a hammer being pulled back echoes loudly in the barn. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z It showed just the corner of the Garners’ barn, but when Jen turned it a bit, the entire Garner house came into view. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z Around midnight they had arrived at the mule barn, finding a rusty padlock on the back door, knocked loose with a whack from a hammer out of Roy Lee’s car. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z In the barn loft, Dallas aimed his binoculars at Mr. Trepid, Florida aimed a camera, and Sairy and Tiller kneeled behind them. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z The great barn was glowing with lanterns swinging from the hand- hewn timbers. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z She took us to the barn where she had stayed for two years. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z With a little care and planning it’ll be the Ormaie Gestapo HQ that goes up like Vesuvius, and not this barn. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z She grabbed the dog’s collar, opened the gate, and told me to go around the back of the barn. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z “I imagine that’s so. But look at that barn. It’s big and they been prospering.” Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z He waved a hand at her and ran back to the barn. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z Back before Axel was born, Byrd green-scaped the whole property from the turn up the driveway to the big red barn. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z They went off to find the Afrikaner in the barn, supervising the birth of a calf. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z I hoped I didn’t smell too much like the barn. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z I was stuck in a stranger’s barn with seven loose chickens that no one knew were mine, and a hawk-chicken outside. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z “Go to Uncle Chester’s trunk in the barn. Bring me the crepe paper flowers you’ll find there.” Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z The visitors came up the narrow road through the forest from the south; they filled the spare-rooms, they bunked out in cow byres and barns. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z Sigurd bellowed, and he slammed his fist against the side of the barn. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z I walked for a long time, more than an hour, and ended up all the way back behind the barn again. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z Probably back inside the barn to spend time with the other goats. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z There was a barn where the cows and pigs were kept, and there was a greenhouse filled with blooming flowers and growing vegetables. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z And they hadn’t discovered the tunnel beneath the barn. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Just then he opened the side door on the garage, which was shaped like a little red barn. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z “I dunno. I was bored. I went by your barn, but I didn’t see you. Just that little house-thing you built.” Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z After his barn was struck by lightning for the third time, he told Sarah about his broken promise to Madame Zeroni. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z Any number of perfectly harmless things could be hanging on a barn wall, but what they really looked like were human heads. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z Some of Wilbur’s friends in the barn worried for fear all this attention would go to his head and make him stuck up. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z Anya returned Alsvindr to his little barn and brushed him down quietly as she let the idea of bringing Papa back swirl through her mind. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z Kin limped into the barn, letting the door fall shut behind him, acting as though a thousand birds rushing past was a normal occurrence. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z That evening they found a barn in which to spend the night. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z I peel myself from the wall of the barn, decide that maybe my ribs aren't broken after all, and hurry after the miraculous children and their miraculous dog. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z He lay on his side, staring at where he thought the barns entrance was, waiting for the first signs of light. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Ten straight days of downpour kept Seabiscuit in the barn, taking the edge off of his form. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z The next morning, in the barn, Tiller said, “Florida, you have a...a...way with wood.” Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z Still not sure where things were going, my father motioned toward the barn, which was a bit farther from the cabin. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Anya was of the opinion they should let the goats sleep in the house, and her family could move into the barn. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z For the time being, the knowledge helped keep the Irwin barn solvent. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z The grooms could circle the barn and come around again, and there he’d be, exactly as he was before. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z When the horse left the barn, they tramped along en masse behind him, joining large throngs of spectators on the apron of the track. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z One morning when I awoke very early, I saw my mother walking up the hill to the barn. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z It presented a face of definite elegance to the street, although behind that wings and ells dwindled quickly in formality until the house ended in a big plain barn. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z “I’m very young, I have no real friend here in the barn, it’s going to rain all morning and all afternoon, and Fern won’t come in such bad weather. Oh, honestly!” Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z The following afternoon Smith emerged from the barn to swing Pollard up on a horse for a race. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z We all fantasized of more than a barn. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z Across the track, Tom Smith was leaning against the easternmost barn, turning a straw in his teeth. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z A barn owl brought Neville a small package from his grandmother. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z The last rays of the sinking sun streamed through the open barn doorway, lighting up formerly darkened corners. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z As soon as she crossed the garden, Anya could hear the chickens raising a huge ruckus inside the barn. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z It was a misty, cold evening, just dark, with a heavy low-lying fog, and even with the light on the back of the barn, it was impossible to see anything. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z Then after a few minutes, she went to the barns to find my father. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z “Let me get this plate to Mrs. Bates, then I’ll meet you at the barn,” Stella said as both girls picked up speed. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z Then we went out to the patch of grass where Sophie and Butter lay, and he got Sophie up and led her to the barn. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z The barn door screeched as he opened it, a thing it never did in the daytime. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z He gives me one more important look before he heads back to the front of the barn. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z Every Sunday morning at ten o’clock the animals assembled in the big barn to receive their orders for the week. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z Once, toward the end of this period, he took it on a longer ride than just around the barn. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z Dicey made herself stop thinking about the sailboat in her grandmother’s barn. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z This speculation was sparked again by a report that lay on my desk in the old barn that served as my office. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Someone else called Smith, who rang for an ambulance and then sped toward the barns. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z At the Howard barn, life had to go on. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z They tried to get close to him for a rubbing when he went into the barn and stretched and bleated for a little touch on the nose. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z The soldiers searched the barn and other buildings on the farm but found nothing. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z A few outbuildings, a toolshed, a little barn had all sagged into piles of faded slabs and rusty nails. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z He worked a sedative effect on the whole barn. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z I looked at the trees and thought of the big stork’s nest I had seen on top of the barn. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z They’s still plenty light and you can work in the barn, and tonight I wants you to stay with Missy. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z On the way to the barn, Jody noticed how the young grass was up and how the stubble was melting day by day into the new green crop of volunteer. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z Howard walked out to the barn every morning with a quiver in his gut, afraid that they might make a mistake and reinjure Seabiscuit. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z They turned and walked slowly down the hill toward the barn. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s right next to a farmhouse, which is all white and picturesque, with barns and outbuildings. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z Anya patted the goats on her way out of the barn, and she made her way to the house as she untied hay from her hair. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z When I lay down in weeds or a barn at night, I whispered into the dark: “Come and look! You won’t believe your eyes!” Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z He leaped around the side of the barn, expecting that the horse would explode from the building, galloping off to wherever loud, furious horses went. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z They took the two horses back to the barn and cooled them out together. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z The next morning Mr. Fitzgibbon started the larger of his two tractors, the huge one he kept in the barn, the one that pulled the combine in the fall harvest. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z The washing was done and the sheep driven to the barn to dry off for tomorrow’s shearing. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z A few days earlier a half dozen drunken soldiers had noticed her cow in her barn, butchered it right there, and carried the slabs of beef back to the encampment in the dark. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z “We could get brave and head that way,” George says, pointing off beyond the big red barn. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z They huddled by the well, watching the barn above them go up in an inferno that nearly scorched them where they stood. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z Leafie strode over, fearlessly grabbed the cow’s heavy leather collar, and led it to the barn. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z At sundown Sam and Mole camped by an abandoned barn on the side of Mount Warren. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z A tired half hour later, he could see his own house, the roof of the barn canting as if leaning a bent elbow on a dark line of cloud. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z The defendant had seen the sign on the barn and wanted to buy Ole’s farm. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z More than that, he was planting tobacco, and a long new tobacco barn stood impressively behind the house. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Then brothers John and William Garrett grabbed blankets and a pistol and spent the night in the corn house, watching the tobacco barn and waiting, listening for suspicious sounds in the night. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z The air in the barn was dusky in advance of the outside day. Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z We found her in the barn, which was hot and hazy with straw dust and pollen. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z She rushed to the back of the barn. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z The school barn owl was waiting for him there. said Harry. said Ron. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z Sometimes at night when I came back to the barn, I would find a chair where I was sure it had not been, or books mis- shelved. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z Inside, the store was about as tidy as an actual barn and didn’t smell much better. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z Later, he got up from under his greatcoat, pulled on his boots and groped his way through the barn to relieve himself outside. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Art had a gun, a pre-Second World War surplus clunker of a thing, which he kept in the barn. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z In forward again, he drove it back into the barn and turned it off. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z He had painted the house and the barn, and as the time approached he had a woman in to clean the house, to clean it to the bone. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z On the other side of the barn, another cow and the horse were tied to the wall, straining to get loose. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z They named him Match in honor of the occasion and sent him over to the barn to cavort with Pocatell and Seabiscuit’s guard dog, Silver. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z She tried to grasp at the barn wall, but her fingers only grazed against it. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z If a stable had no horses in a race, its contract jockeys were allowed to freelance for other barns. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z At seven o’clock that evening he was alone in the crowd in Wiggins’ barn. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z Looking at Vola, her face still tear streaked from what had happened in the barn, he knew he couldn’t leave things as broken as they were. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z Taking the string with her, the lechuza flew out of the barn through the hole in the roof, into the darkness and rain. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z When I wasn’t working in the barn, I worked in the fields. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z She counts—silos and hay barrels and barns. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z At first they lived in the corner of a barn they shared with an Indian family. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z Finn scratched for the flashlight Sean kept by the door, but the light was weak and yellow, casting the barn in sepia. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z There were stones by the barn path and a big gray stone near the fir tree. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z I’m sorry to have to tell you this, Agnes, but your farm looks really run-down, like those paintings of barns with the roof falling in. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z We peered under porches and opened sheds and circled barns. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z I lay back and thought of August, our wedding, and how we’d make a big nest for the storks above our cottage, just like the nest I had seen on top of the barn. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z Smith took Seabiscuit back to the barn, his secret seething in his head. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z “We make it special in the barn. We have some dangerous creatures in there, too, so it’s still off-limits.” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z She hoped Fern would go out and play with other children, instead of heading for the Zuckermans’ barn to sit and watch animals. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z Papa picked up our savings box, started walking toward the barn, and said wearily, “Let’s stay in the barn tonight. Tomorrow we’ll look for another place.” The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z “Sure. You seen him in the barn, an’ he tol’ you not to pet the pups so much.” Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z Tomorrow night I’ll be back in the barn loft, and it’s even colder there now than it was in October. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z We enter the barn not through a door but through one of several gaping holes where the wooden wall has simply fallen away. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z George and Frank working on the barn, or Byrd making mint tea for everyone, or Axel learning to walk on George and Emmett’s front porch. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z The day before I was to make one of my trips I took my furs out to the barn and hid them. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z The priest and a brave band of villagers armed with rakes and pitchforks and sticks tied into crosses hurried to the barn. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z I envision the future day when this campaign is finished, and we grown older and commenced men of means—with wives of our own, and children, and farms, perhaps, laid about with barns. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z Their houses and barns and haystacks, and the unsuspected secret passages inside the big farmhouses, were called depots and stations. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z Because of his mother or his father or the way she had appeared in the barn, Finn hadn’t believed in Roza. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z She struggled to keep her arm up as she walked him around to the back of the barn. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z She pushed herself up, dazed, as she heard the dull slam of Sigurd’s boots on the barn floor. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z Off to the right, Dicey saw the lopsided barn. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z The cart and the platform are almost exactly the same height—not by accident; my father built a sort of earth-ramp leading up to the barn just for that purpose. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z At home, sugaring time would come soon, and already we’d carried the pails and the taps and the tubing down from the barn loft and begun to wash them all out. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z But she found that the barn was not nearly as pleasant—too many people. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z The barn they’d used to hide this stuff is where I am hiding now. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z Mr. Segee was next to the barn raking through his truck patch. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z Juanita and I clung to the wooden slat barring the barn door. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z But the minute I pulled out the piece of marked silk thread, the lechuzas launched themselves off the roof and flew into the barn, wailing and screeching. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z She patted the tree and turned back toward the other side of the barn. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z Next Hendrik put a collar around his neck, snapped a leash to it, and dragged him, protesting, all the way to the barn. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z And as I step toward the entrance to the barn I realize one bit of Noise is separating itself from the general murmuring outside. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z Harry strode over to the barn owl, took the letter off its leg, and unrolled it. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z The one in the front turned around and went back into the barn. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z Sure enough, in the corner of the yard opposite the barn, there was a light blue playhouse up in a thick tree. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z Anything at all, so long as it didn’t involve talking about what we had done the day before in the barn, what we both knew we wanted to do again. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z “The children are”—huff, puff——puff.—'‘the barn!” The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z I went to the barn, trying as I went to guess what he was thinking. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z He will go on through the barn, into the pasture. As I Lay Dying 1930-01-01T00:00:00Z If I had an exorcism, I would be killing the boy who had survived the barn fire. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z It then quoted her as admitting she had been in the barn on Sunday night at nine- thirty and that a cow kicked over the lamp. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z I stepped around to the back side of the barn. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z Mr. Whiskers and I waded through the snow to the barn. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z She grabbed Tidbit’s hand and dashed out of the barn. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z She had gone into the barn to get more rope for securing the posts of the booth’s framework. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z Outside the barn, Conger, Baker, Doherty, and the cavalrymen tensed for action. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z It was the kind of barn that swallows like to build their nests in. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z He put the pup under his coat, and he crept to the barn wall and peered out between the cracks, toward the horseshoe game. Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z The old farmhouse—the heart of the Cottages—had a number of fireplaces where we could burn the split logs stacked in the outer barns. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z Neil Young sings like a barn collapsing but his music’s epic. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z What barn do I want him to take my wagon to?” The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z Dad said loudly as he came around the corner of the barn and into the pony pen. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Stir-crazy cattle in the barns stick their heads out the windows and watch pink dolphins sporting on their doorsteps. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Miss Trotter pointed her chin to the field past the barn. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z She ran out of the barn, away from the castle, through the frosty predawn streets of Kiev. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z The lane isn’t familiar until I glimpse the barn. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z Once outside the barn, I reorganized my pack. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z I figured she was out at the barn, and she was. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z I turned her back out to pasture, closed the barn door, put the top on my can and walked back to the store, through for the day. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z “I can do that puppet show for you now. Come to the barn.” Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z Jen interrupted frequently with questions and comments—“So you've never been away from your house except to go to your backyard or barn?” Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z Another banner showed a white man that was wide as a barn holding hands with a white woman that waren’t much more than a stick with a hank of yellow hair on top. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z There is an old wood-coal stove in the barn that my mother used to use before we got gas. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z After the hoisting of the flag, the animals were required to file past the skull in a reverent manner before entering the barn. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z As the first prayer ended and I closed the first knot, the rain stopped completely and the rest of the lechuzas screeched in pain and flew into the barn. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z Two days later the animals were called together for a special meeting in the barn. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z The big barn door was pulled half open. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z Jody, who was helping Doubletree Mutt, the big serious dog, to dig out a gopher, straightened up as the ranch-hand sauntered out of the barn. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z When we finally got to the barn, we found an old oil lamp hanging just inside the door. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z A cold barn, she had said, that kept food from going bad. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z This was an important event in the barn cellar. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z There was yet a lingering odor of cows in the barn and he stood there thinking about cows and he realized they were extinct. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z But in the barn it was quiet and humming and lazy and warm. Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z He saw what he first thought was a bale of hay in the corner of the barn. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z Most days I was the one who went to my grandfather's barn to carry home a pitcher of milk from his cow. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z They pass farms, spotted cows grazing in fields, red silos, white wooden churches, barns with rusted tin roofs. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z The barn was twice the size of the house, built on top of a natural cave that served as a root cellar and cold storage. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z As soon as Axel sees the big red barn, he charges ahead and shouts for help. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z We had glass in our windows and their barn wasn’t the size of ours neither. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z When she wakes, barn swallows are chirring beneath the eaves and music is raining down through the ceiling. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z “We should get back to the dirt path and try to find the next mark on this map. Teresita’s husband said the path led to an old abandoned barn. We could rest there.” Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z Early the next morning, Fred, Nala, Scruffy, and Tater stood outside the barn, watching the scenery and prop people, who had worked through the night, load in the final set pieces. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z After resting, I got up and went to the barn to get the tractor. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z Our mule was running in circles, the cow was running toward the barn, and even the chickens took notice when the dust swirled around them. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “The corn told me that if you follow the stream going east, you’ll find a red barn with a slanted roof. Did the corn tell you that?” Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z Dashing past the barn, the smokehouse, and Mama’s flower pit, I ran through the house and got to the front door just as Papa hurried up the walk. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z When she woke up, the barn was bright with sunlight, the cat was gone, and a beautiful dark-haired boy was standing there, gaping at her. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z He pointed to the southeast corner, at the animal pens and barn. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z Boys came out of the shadowy part of the barn. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Within this ring stands the farmhouse, with its barns and outbuildings. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z All around the barn, the storm had churned the dirt near to mud. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z Many of the textbook examples become intelligible when the little words are restored: The horse which was raced past the barn fell; Fat which people eat accumulates. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z At lunchtime, Francia comes to the back of the barn with a sandwich and a jug of water. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z Jenny was sober as she went about her work, and Jethro roamed about the barn and woodlot with deep trouble hounding him. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z Perry picked up the jesses, leashes, and falconry bells he had taken off the birds and walked the short distance to his bird barn. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z If Joseph’s father had come within range, you know he’d have limped out of that barn. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z Sometimes, if the work horses were to be used that day, Jody found Billy Buck in the barn harnessing and currying. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z He got to his feet and half ran, half shambled out of the barn. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z Wilbur’s new home was in the lower part of the barn, directly underneath the cows. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z I even told them about the root cellar full of supplies in the wheat field, and the gasoline buried near the old barn. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Ma had pots to mend, so she kept to the brick oven out behind the barn, heating up metal scraps to melting so she could build little dams out of that steaming hot liquid. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z “Tourteau’s family hid me for two years in that barn,” she continued slowly. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z He laughed, his mouth wide open like a barn door. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z “Their iron pony is still in the barn, stocked full of coal. And look.” Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z But even when it’s a good fall, you might’s well count on it, Will: fore the year’s out yore mule’s go’n die or yore barn burn down.” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z Soon the barn caught fire, and within minutes the corner of the barn blazed brightly. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z As I swept my pitch to throw the hay slop into the barn, lightning spooked the horses, and they jolted the wagon. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z He drank from his canteen, and walked around the barn. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z “In the barn,” he said, turning his hat in his hands. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z "But it can also be performed by a charlatan! A trickster! I bet that jongleur sleeping out in the barn could dazzle our eyes if we let him." The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z Hearing his mother open the lunch pail and then gasp with rage, a memory stabbed him and he trotted away toward the barn, conscientiously not hearing the angry voice that called him from the house. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z It was the place Dicey wanted, the big house, the acres of farmland, the barn, the water and the boat. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z Lots of times Mama came out there to the barn shed and sat on the milking stool just to watch us. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z We batted and struck and clubbed and raked, and as we did, one by one the lechuzas flew off our weapons, hit the barn walls, and fell to the ground, squealing like stuck pigs. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z The rope was looped around a cleat that was inside the barn. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Dicey and her family went to the door of the barn. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z Her father came across from the long barn. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z A lot of them went into the church or Mr. Heron’s barn out behind. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z When I entered, he hollered that the room was colder than a barn and called me all manner of rude names. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z “If I open the barn, do you promise not to charge me?” Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z It was this gusting, swirling wind that drove the flames from the O’Learys’ barn into neighboring yards. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z After some days the farmer’s wife came to the barn and said, “You must not run away. There is a new law. All children must work on the farms.” Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z But there was, in the barn, an old hand-cranked machine for making cornmeal and hominy. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z Dallas, oblivious to Florida’s warnings, raced up to the barn. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z Little Willy’s sled flew by the schoolhouse on the outskirts of town, and then by the old deserted barn. Stone Fox 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z As we passed from the barn, we heard the muffled and frightened moo of the cow, the frantic squealing of pigs, and the rustle and cackle of hens and roosters. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z Formal schooling—if you could call what happened in the wooden barn next door to my grandparents’ house “formal schooling”—went only to fourteen years of age. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z The stage was against the far side of the barn, and staggered across the enormous dance floor between it and the doors were four huge cages on raised platforms. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z I started toward the tree, but I stopped short as soon as I came around the corner of the barn, and flattened myself to the wall. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z It is dark in the barn, warm, smelling, silent. As I Lay Dying 1930-01-01T00:00:00Z My father was right: my mother did haunt our house in Bybanks, and the fields and the barn. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z Cliff was in his seventies and still minding the tobacco barn behind the farmhouse his father had built decades earlier, checking the furnaces several times a day to make sure they stayed at 120 degrees. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z He shooed the press out of the barn, slung a rope across the entrance, posted a guard, and retreated to his track cottage, sitting by an oil stove in a cramped room. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z When I got back to the barn Mother was saying, “Sam, we don’t even know if he’s alive. You have to come home now. We need you.” My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z |
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