But she had to avoid the various flying beings who were still fighting in the air, and keep clear of the rising land below. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Cultures rise and fall, but there is no other known time when a large-scale society disintegrated—and was replaced by nothing. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

“Of course you do,” Acererak said, motioning for me to rise. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

I felt even more panic rise up in my throat. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

As the elevator rises, I draw a line in my head from our rooms to the opposite side of the ship. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

The way Mr. Birkway read this poem, you could hear the tide rising and falling, rising and falling. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

A moment of anesthetized silence filled the room until P.K., raising his hand, rising and ejecting out of his seat, shouted, “God killed the little booger.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Before Cahokia's rise, people were slowly hunting the local deer and bison populations to extinction. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

But the ground at their feet was slowly rising, tilting as it did so. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

We were sitting in the grass on the rise at the edge of the school playground. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

The neighbors’ radios were all silent, and his mother hadn’t yet risen to fix his father’s breakfast. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

She found her legs weak when Chaol put a hand on her back to motion her to rise. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Over the rise and fall of the wind, he could hear his father’s laughter. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

I imagined Mr. Pirzada’s daughters rising from sleep, tying ribbons in their hair, anticipating breakfast, preparing for school. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

There was nobody about, but he could smell bread rising. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

At dawn he stopped on a grassy ridge to watch the sun rise; he let the mare graze, part of the cycle of restoration. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Let us pray,” he said slowly; but Turner thought that the prayer he prayed wasn’t rising much above First Congregational’s steeple. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

Her face burst into a grin, and it was like watching the sun rise. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

On his chest, rising and falling with the deep, regular breaths of a solid sleeper, lay a thick book about tropical plant life that he’d taken from a shelf. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

Alex half expected the snooker table to rise out of the floor, but instead, on every wall, a panel slid up to reveal floor-to-ceiling television screens that immediately flickered into life. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

The snakes, with a soft hissing sound, were rising up on end and bowing to something behind Jane and Michael. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

The waters will rise, and everyone will drown. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

As the mouse looked on, Cook put her face into the steam rising from the pot and took a deep breath. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

It is when the moon rises that the hyena’s day starts, and it proves to be a devastating hunter. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Shadows danced off the columns rising around us like trees. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

The lantern hanging from the low-slung ceiling of our cabin swings wildly, casting wavering shadows that rise and flow just as uneasily as the waves. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

The word conjures up drive-ins, tract homes, waves of heat rising from the blacktop. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Solemnly they watched Arthur go down onto his hands and knees and look under the beds and then rise, dusting his hands. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

The energy that was buried with the rise of the Christian nations must come back into the world; nothing can prevent it. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

The temperature in the car had risen steadily since we had climbed in. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

“Now, I’m going to ask all of you to rise and go into the church and take a seat on the front bench,” he said, edging on to more definite commitments. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

As I reach the door, Coin’s voice rises above the others. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

He looked down, saw Longstreet rise, move off, shoulders bowed, wandering head down and lumbering, like a bearded stump, to stare out at the lines. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Running behind his father, Ben began to feel a disproportionate joy rise in him. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

With Mother’s help, I rise to leave, but I am seized by a pain that grips my entire belly and I cry out for help. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

So with this idle and luxurious living and rising when they would and sleeping when they would, he waited for his grandson. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

The western edge of the city has become a holocaust of crimson and carmine from which rise multiple towers of smoke. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

This time I saw shadowy forms rise up from the side of the road. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

A fourth factor was the two-way link between the rise in human population density and the rise in food production. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

I watched the cratered road rise and fall, whirl its tail around the mountainside, counted the multicolored trucks packed with squatting men lum­bering past. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

At first he didn’t see anyone else in the shop, but then, like a mermaid rising from an ocean of paper, the girl emerged across the room. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

She would have walked beneath yellow-ringed pines rising to a brilliant eastern sky, and her senses would have succumbed to the joy of the morning. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

“O.K., Bull,” Luther Windham said, rising to shake hands with Bull. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was light out when we found them, the sun rising slowly in a pale-blue sky, casting a warm glow over the fields of sorrow and grief. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

One very certain hand rises high up in the air. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

We watched McNair’s ex-wife rise from the grave to try to eat him. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

Her family might not rise higher, but they would no longer sink lower. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

It would be no less true to say that Estraven’s acts had risen out of pure personal loyalty, a sense of responsibility and friendship towards one single human being, myself. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

And certainly no one, no one, dared repeat in her presence the rising rumors that, after eight years of fighting, the Soviets were losing this war. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

Too anxious to sleep, they had risen almost magically at the same time and sought each other out. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

Dazed and unable to rise, the man was dragged away by the kapo, who continued to beat him. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

It sat on the hill above us, a dark shape crouched against the moonlit sky, its crooked chimneys rising like broken fingers from the roof. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

As they moved on, they could see a movement on the horizon to the left and right, and ahead of them a dirty-colored smoke was rising slowly to add its darkness to the dismal air. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

In the voices of thick-necked men was heard a rising quality of debauch, the baying of a collective id. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Foot pressed on the brake, he screeched to the right and saw the front hood of his truck crumple and rise. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Lord Amolf shoved himself up, a vulture rising from its prey. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

She passed the clapper to Reed, who traced the engraving of the rising sun with his fingernail. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

“It’s all flat and hard if you don’t let it rise.” Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

Now, he cared, his pride had risen, he could no longer be docile about himself. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

“I always rise early. The morning is the best time for me to work.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Sometimes when she had nightmares, a thunder and lightning storm would rise up out of nowhere, illuminating the sky like a lullaby created just for her. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

She glared at her husband, her small, high breasts rising and falling rapidly. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

As another hour passed and the Brahmin could not sleep, he rose again, walked up and down, left the house and saw the moon had risen. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

Each time he had come in contact with her it had risen hot and hard. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Teapots that pour into teacups and minuscule curls of steam that rise from them as the seconds tick. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

I knelt down on one knee and did the same, then swung my hand in the direction of the rising sun. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then I saw her rise, leap, and land with a thud on the floor and trot down the hall and down the stairs. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

By the mid-1930s, as Hitler ascended to power in Germany, droves of scientists sensed the rising menace of the Nazi political agenda and left the country. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

They needed only to rise up and shake themselves like a horse shaking off flies. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

A strip of land juts out into the marsh, and rising from it is a giant white wheel with dozens of red passenger cars dangling from it at regular intervals. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

I rise from my haunches and walk to the doorway. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

Working with a round tin of metal polish, they waxed a dim gloss on the dull zinc pipe rising from the cement on his groin. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Something was rising from the gravel that covered the football field. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

It was a chilly morning, but she felt perspiration rise on her skin. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

“Something that makes the tower rise higher and higher.” Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

After the army’s attack, which lasted for days and ended in many deaths, Fazlullah made one of his strangest announcements: He declared war on the government and called for people to rise up in violence. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

They talked back and forth to each other, their voices rising. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

She tried to rise, and agony seized her and squeezed her like a giant's fist. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Not long now and the sun would rise. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Their voices rise and some words drift across the expanse of the courtyard. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

We walk around one of the plates on the right side to the back of the stage, which rises at an angle from the ground. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Two diving boards rise to face each other from opposite sides of the room. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

He felt his father rise off him slowly, coming up beaten by a son for the first time in his life. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even public failure, for then you’re guaranteed a greater audience for your eventual rising. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

My breathing, the journey of the drips of water that trail from his skin onto mine, the rise and fall of his chest, the blink of his eyelids. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

I do not find work when the sun rises. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

It never happens that a new constellation suddenly rises out of the east. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sun was rising out of Lake Michigan. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was as though the blade of a knife was rising from the water, sharp end up. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Higher and higher she rises until the whole sky swallows her up. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

They were the weak wicks from fishermen’s cottages, who had risen early to catch a ride in the complicated creeks of the salt marsh. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

“All rise!” a court officer called out when the judge walked in. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

To and fro he swayed, now so near the brink that almost he tumbled in, now dragging back, falling to the ground, rising, and falling again. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

Let’s now return to our earlier questions about the rise of food production. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

My first thought was the boy’s bread, but the rise and fall of the boy’s chest told me he hadn’t died in the night. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

Ernest recognized that the rapidly rising stature of the Rad Lab in worldwide physics was based partially on its generosity to other universities seeking advice, manpower, and radioactive products. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

He was clearly a rising star of astronomy. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

The Link house stands on a cul-de-sac, up a slight rise with tall young oaks raining acorns over a small front yard and a curtain of cedar and pine bordering the back. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

It avoided publishing most obituaries, never mentioned the rise in crime, and was vague about the spread of the disease. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

One element of the growth is the rise of for-profit prisons. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

If the global temperature rises by 4°C over the next fifty years, as is evidently possible, the whole of the Appalachian wilderness below New England could become savanna. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

It tells us that our notion that it is the best and the brightest who effortlessly rise to the top is much too simplistic. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

Outside, the sun was rising higher and higher. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

The land before them began steadily to rise again. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Phil’s eyes are still closed, and I watch his chest rise and fall with his breaths. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

But now they were freshening as when the breeze rises. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

When my mother grew up in the Bronx, despite rising poverty levels, the sense of family and community were strong. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

But people like Marina show the rising generations that it is possible to make a difference—and that it is worth it. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

I managed to rise, but it was like holding the weight of the sky again. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

With a groan and then a clonk, the rising room halted; the sudden change jolted Thomas from his huddled position and threw him across the hard floor. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Finally they came up to a low rise at the rear of the gym. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

He raised himself up on one elbow, listening, searching in the dim light of the newly risen half-moon. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

But the longer he stared at that water, that foaming green water, rising higher every second, the more certain he became: The Titanic was in trouble. I Survived the Sinking of the Titanic, 1912 2010-06-01T00:00:00Z

“Now rise, and go in the peace of Christ.” Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

It made the hairs rise along the back of his neck. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

She rises and stands staring down at him. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

Millions of people around the world had fallen in love with this musical, but I squirmed in my seat, trying to rise above the inexplicable torment I felt every time the melody repeated. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

It was then that I heard footfalls on the stairs—not the outside steps I had used, but a steep, narrow flight rising from behind the stage. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

He heard a shriek, and then rising, spreading waves of laughter in discordant tones. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

I hear shouts rise from the street, peppering the house. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Coursing through my veins, easing the pain, lightening my body so that it rises back toward the air and rests again on the foam. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Certainly, it was quite a strenuous walk - though I can say it failed to cause me any real difficulty - the path rising in zigzags up the hillside for a hundred yards or so. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

First cartographers, then mathematicians, then anatomists, and then astronomers began to play the game, which was inherently competitive and immediately gave rise to priority disputes and, more slowly, to eponymic naming. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

She and her father cook a pear tart and burn it by accident, and her father opens all the windows to let out the smoke, and she hears violin music rise from the street below. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

The initial development of food production in China was therefore independent of that at the same latitude in the Fertile Crescent, and gave rise to entirely different crops. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Sir Fig Newton was curled on the floor by Dad’s chair, soft wheezing snores accompanying his rising and falling tummy. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

Where the sand ends, woods begin to rise sharply. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Don’t rise — Aunt Marge reached for her glass of wine. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

She breathed fast through her nose and tried to ignore the nauseating stink of sopping sawdust rising from the ground. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

They all picked up the refrain, asking again and again in a rising plea: Mother May I? The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Flora Baumbach, about to rise with the found pin, quickly sank down again to protect her sore shin in the shag carpeting. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was dark now, and the moon had risen above the trees. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

I mastered the rising hysteria, lifted up my head, and took a firm stand on the stool. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

Behind the terror, I can feel the flames of anger, burning, rising. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

Instantly, I felt the blood rise in my cheeks. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

The red liquid rises all the way to the top, so fast it shatters in his hands. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

Then, finally, just about the time I started drifting off to sleep, I’d hear Old Yeller rise to his feet and go padding off through the corn. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

That’s because when crime is rising, people clamor for protection, and invariably more money is found for cops. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

Trub’s laughter floats in the air behind me, and all three people in the tent turn in my direction as a red cloud of dust rises at my heels. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

He watched his daughter’s daemon rise and dominate her: her eyebrows, like his, were lifted, the heavy-lidded eyes beneath them grew round, and one corner of her mouth was raised dangerously. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Thomas realized his voice had steadily risen as he spoke, and he felt heat in his face. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Though we despised the classification system, most of the men had by that time risen to at least C level, where they were permitted to study. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Grass and weeds were sprouting around the edges, but putting his hand against the crack, he could feel a draft of air rising from below. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

Nevertheless, their exact meaning is specific to each particular culture, giving rise to art’s incredible diversity. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

He pointed two fingers, and the dogs began to run around him in a perfect circle; a closed fist then directed them to rise to their hind legs and yip. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Then it appeared against the rising sun, Apollo’s own chariot, only electrified. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Tendrils of cigarette smoke rise from clumps of farmers in overalls and dusty feed caps, their tired faces as grimy as coal miners’. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I thought it might be intended for Venus rising from the waves,” the doctor said. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

Several were already rising to the evening hatch of fly. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

I heard the noise rise to a higher, almost hysterical pitch, somehow making it possible to hear without yelling, our voices moving blurrily underneath. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

It said the Hazaras had tried to rise against the Pashtuns in the nineteenth century, but the Pashtuns had “quelled them with unspeakable violence.” The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

The waves were big as buildings, rising from far out. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tuesday, January 8,1935 The next morning seems just like normal, with Natalie watching the sun rise and then asking for lemon cake. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

We did everything we could to rise above their lies and distortions, trusting that the way Barack and I lived our lives would show people the truth about who we really were. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

When I wake up, the sun has already set and is beginning to rise again. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

She begins to rise, but a single word from me stops her. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

This year she could plant her garden at the right time, although rising lake water might make it difficult to reach the little island. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Just as a man rises in the mornings to dig ditches for his bread, so I’d work daily. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

He watched Baba's body rise from the dirt, mouth open in a silent scream as a creature stalked forward, a being with wretched black eyes and blood dripping from its maw. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

It’s terrifying, but I feel a rage rising in me, too. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

“Oh, yes, yes!” cried Camilla, whose fermenting feelings appeared to rise from her legs to her bosom. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

We were coming closer and closer to the pit, from which an infernal heat was rising. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

This both reflected and gave rise to new styles of thinking. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

I could count each rising and setting of the sun, every glistening star in the night sky. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Whatever else Mrs. Clarke intended to say was drowned out by the rising wail of a most unpleasant sound—high-pitched, unhinged, emanating from the vicinity of the piano yet entirely unmusical. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

I heard his white cup shatter against the floor as he uncrossed his legs, rising. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every summer, she selects a rising senior to be in charge of the summer show—to pick the script, cast the players, and direct the whole thing. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Met Bong’s voice rises as she speaks his name, as if uttering “Pol Pot” brings her closer to his power. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

But it was the best of times for science in that this very peculiar tumor gave rise to the HeLa cell line. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

In fact, the road and all markings on it had been swallowed up beneath the rising black waters. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

Besides, these poor fools are only trying to get a rise out of me. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

We finish the meal in silence, but when we rise to go into the sitting room, Cinna puts his arm around me and gives me a squeeze. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

He must have been sitting there when I came in, for on a table that held a beautiful dwarf tree I saw smoke rising from a cigarette in a jade ash tray. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

I can tell by the glow near the horizon that the sun is about to rise. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

A heat burns inside of me as it rises all the way up through my cheeks. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

The surprising number of consecutive runs of heads or tails of various lengths give rise to further counter-intuitive notions. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were always more mosquitoes rising up from the road like great columns of smoke, always moving ahead of us, and we dreaded them. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jody looked back in time to see the hammer rise and fall again on the flat forehead. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

If I jumped I should not see the stones rise up to meet me, the fog would hide them from me. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

She sits in the back row alone—knees raised to her chin, high-waters rising higher—lonely, quiet, staring out the window. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Tally squinted in the dawn light, eyes scanning the sky for a fleet of hovercars suddenly rising above the trees. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Forcing himself to rise and carry on, Matthias continued his explorations. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Almost by accident he glanced up the ridge, in time to see a third man not one hundred yards away, on foot and also carrying a rifle, rise into view. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“My son, fear the Lord and the King, and meddle not with them that are given to change, For their calamity shall rise suddenly, and who knoweth the ruin of them both?” The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

This work left the main question unanswered: why would mercury rise only 30 inches and water only 33 feet? Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

By diverting snowmelt from the ever-present Andes icecaps to high farm terraces, Wari was able literally to rise above the drought and flooding of lower elevations. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

The voices ranged from low and mournful to high and exultant; they blended together in rising and falling harmonies that filled the night. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

I stood there in the dark feeling a rising excitement as their voices played around me. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

People were pacing, pretending to smile, sitting a moment, then rising to pace again. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Yet if you look east, at sunset, you can see night rising, not falling; darkness lifting into the sky, up from the horizon, like a black sun behind cloud cover. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It is better that we should go now,” said Nathan, rising, “while it is still light. We are not yet used to this city...darkness does not help.” Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

Balloons by the dozen were rising, circling, and drifting away through the door, sailing off on the gentle wind. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

With the apartment windows open, you can taste the carbon monoxide rising from the street below. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Robert/1 ask you, what did we rise against Aerys Targaryen for, if not to put ah end to the murder of children?" A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

"Now you know what I mean," she said, her voice rising as she put her hands on her hips and looked forward. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

One of the old people remembered seeing the water rising and suddenly realizing that his house and goats would soon be underwater; he picked up a child and a goat and scrambled up the hill. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

My sleep was dreamless and deep, and I rise languidly, stretching as I meet the Snakes eyes. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

If I tried to rise, he’d shoot me in the back. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

The leprechauns had risen into the air again, and this time, they formed a giant hand, which was making a very rude sign indeed at the veela across the field. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

“You — you just told me that the — the Dark Lord’s going to rise again...that his servant’s going to go back to him....” Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

Hundreds of feet for sure, and still rising, until it blocked out the sky. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

Over the rise I could sense the city of Petoskey, the smoke of stoves and chimneys down there. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Light pours down upon it from the sun, true, but also heat rises, from the flowers themselves, you can feel it: like holding your hand an inch above an arm, a shoulder. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

With this in mind, I can rise above every nasty remark. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

If you could for a moment rise up out of your own beloved skin and appraise ant, human, and virus as equally resourceful beings, you might admire the accord they have all struck in Africa. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

It whips around Mars so fast it actually rises and sets twice a day, running west to east. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the distance, perched on a low rise, was an elegant, stately home with long windows and multiple chimneys. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

College graduates have received steady pay increases over the past two decades, while the pay of everyone else has risen little more than the rate of inflation. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

A squad of mounted policemen lashed themselves around the corner and galloped past, the horseshoes thudding dully through the snow, the men rising high in their saddles, shouting. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Business picked up and prices began to rise. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Elinor’s voice was rising again, and she forced herself to lower it. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Narrow trails rising above deep gorges now forced the company to go in single file. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

I fell asleep watching the rise and fall of Rose's breaths and tried to imagine us in another time, building instead of running. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

The rising sun made a silver trail across the water. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

In all this discussion of the Fertile Crescent’s advantages for the early rise of food production, we have not had to invoke any supposed advantages of Fertile Crescent peoples themselves. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

The trees, predominantly oak, were more fully in bud, and there were occasional clumps of wildflowers—bloodroot and trillium and Dutchmen’s breeches—rising through the carpet of last year’s leaves. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

With the sun rising Tehlu laid the body of the demon on the wheel. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

It would set unseen, as it had risen unseen that morning. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

That was saying something in light of Hitler’s rise in Europe, the Nazi persecution of Jews, the New England hurricane, the business and employment slump, and the war between China and Japan. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

I was aware of the mound beneath her cutoffs rising toward me, just a little, rising and suggesting itself. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

I could feel the heat rising in the room. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

One by one, thought bubbles trickled from my brain and out my ears, rising into the ether. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

On my back, I catch my breath, my chest rising and falling, and see blue sky and clouds shaped like huge pancakes. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

The fire burns, the smoke rises, Manchee’s tongue hangs out in a stunned pant, till finally I say, “Viola.” The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

But I looked neither to rising sun, nor smiling sky, nor wakening nature. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

That night the two of them drifted like smoke through the twin towns of Beaumont and Banning, and the rising of the sun found them in the Mojave Desert. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

What seemed to be a long, black pole began to rise slowly out of the heart of the whirlpool. . . and then Harry saw the rigging. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Five hundred feet high and more, they rise above the canopy like old tombstones. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Feeling vomit rise up in my throat, I turned to Lucas to see that he had his eyes closed and his hands clasped together. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

And by day, I knew how to keep the rising sun to my right and the setting sun to my left. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

I quickly became the best saber fencer on the Columbia High School team, and I watched my ranking rise at the local competitions, often coming home with medals in my hand. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

The Earth seems steady, solid, immobile, while we can see the heavenly bodies rising and setting each day. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I rise, but he's still pushing at me. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

We could hear her voice rising and rising. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I knew from my clock that the earth was about to reappear, and right on schedule it popped into view, rising like a blue and white jewel over the desolate lunar horizon. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Inside, the night's torches had burned low, and it was hard to know that the sun had risen. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Which gives rise to the thought that maybe he’s hiding in the last place we’d expect; the place he despises more than cauliflower and piano lessons combined—Meadow Creek Elementary School. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Beads of spit fly from his swollen purple lips; a deep animal-like growl rises from his throat. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

The moon was on the rise and shed some light for me to look around by, but also made strange shadows on the tombstones. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

As she waited for the dough to rise she sat on the back doorstep and looked out across the garden and the meadow, but there was no sound from the Wood today. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

But I have a job to do, too—despite the fear rising from my gut and threatening to explode every cell in my body. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

He looked behind him at the rising sun, then smiled across the chasm. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

He turned back to his soup bowl and shut his eyes, willing himself to feel as light as the steam rising into his face. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

The air was thick with humid summer heat which seemed to rise off the grass like steam. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

A rising union man named Samuel Gompers stopped by Burnham’s office to discuss allegations that the exposition discriminated against union workers. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

They did not rise as early as market folk. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hanako gaped—the destruction stretched on and on, only seeming to stop at the mountains rising on the horizon. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

I shout to Gale, and rise to my feet. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

When the sun rises, it throws the shadow of Mount Elgon westward and deep into Uganda, and when the sun sets, the shadow reaches eastward across Kenya. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

As she was about to rise, she heard voices coming toward her. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

A jolt shot down his spine, sending a chill through his skin, bumps rising on his arms. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

‘Oh, rise!’ she said, extending a hand of marble fairness. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

Another deep guttural roar began to rise from the crowd. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

The sound of another chopper rises in the north. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Food production’s spread proves as crucial to understanding geographic differences in the rise of guns, germs, and steel as did its origins, which we considered in the preceding chapters. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

My father had risen before all of us, to seek information in town. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ms. Wyman looks mildly annoyed to have her morning yoga breaths interrupted, but she smiles indulgently at the box on the wall and says, “Boys and girls, please rise.” The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

I have now concluded, sir,” said Joe, rising from his chair, “and, Pip, I wish you ever well and ever prospering to a greater and a greater height.” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

This gave rise to a further dispute as to whether Leibniz had arrived at his theories, as he claimed, independently, or had cobbled them together on the basis of a reading of the Principia. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Dad’s singers are onstage at the Municipal Auditorium, waiting for the curtain to rise. Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

“Yes,” said Sister McCandless, gravely, “it’s more than a notion. The Devil rises on every hand.” Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

His voice sank to its lowest register; it would rise to a squeak and he would clutch at the air as though the ground were opening beneath his feet. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

And it was then, as she stood there, her shoulders rising and falling with her breathing, that Tommy seemed to become aware for the first time just how frail she was. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

The group continues to run down the tunnel, doing their best to slog through the rising river. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

Then father and son would quietly read the paper and sip their coffee together before Bobby would rise, pat his Pop on the shoulder, and head off to ride the commuter train into Manhattan. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

Steer east and think about what happens when the sun comes up and the big fish rises. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Obiora said, rising, the fear in his eyes not quite shielded by the brazen manliness in his pidgin English. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

A couple of avatars have already turned their attention to me after my two purchases, and their interest makes the hairs rise on the back of my neck. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

During the afternoon of the following day, still going westerly and while coming off a rise, I saw ahead what looked to be a village situated in a dell. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

If he moved very quietly to where his father was sitting and if he leaned very lightly against his father’s knee, Adam’s hand would rise automatically and his fingers would caress Cal’s shoulder. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

I rise up to see a much different face. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

I swallow the tire iron that’s rising up in my throat at the thought of Miss Hilly hanging around this house. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Over the tops of the roofs a column of smoke still rises, higher now than before. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

He called you brother or sister, and he’d be loyal until the sun quit rising in the east. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

In contrast, a monstrous form of racism that was rising in Europe exaggerated and demonized individual distinctions. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

They saw the sun rising over the country of the goblins. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

Her voice was tense and rising in pitch. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

At the top of the rise when he looked back they were still standing there. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

Hence the package that worked well in the latter valleys also worked well enough in the Nile Valley to trigger the spectacular rise of indigenous Egyptian civilization. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

"Let them rise. My roots are sunk deep." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

At other times, two languages may come together, fuse, replicate, and give rise to nests of new tongues. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Three strokes it rang, like silver in the air, and ceased: the third hour from the rising of the sun. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

I hear some kids running around in the backyard, and soon I see their faces appearing now and then, rising and falling from a trampoline. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

Even in winter the roadsides were places of beauty, where countless birds came to feed on the berries and on the seed heads of the dried weeds rising above the snow. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

These swells were more like a rising in the water, a lifting that seemed to come from the earth itself, as if a hand were cradling and holding the Frog. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Balls of light rise up high above it, silver and red spheres which explode and rain down in showers of red, white, and green stars. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

As I watch her windup, the questions I typically try to shove down rise right on up. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

“Enough!” the king roared, rising from his seat, his voice thick with irritation. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

He was from New York by way of Chicago, and was a rising new novelist. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

Writing has evolved de novo only a few times in human history, in areas that had been the earliest sites of the rise of food production in their respective regions. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Diana started to rise, but Mrs. Kennedy waved her back into her seat with a laugh and a shake of her head. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Tides would rise and turn, in their own rhythm. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

She narrowed her eyes and felt the vision rising around her. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

The sound would rise in waves around her like water, almost as if it could lift her off the ground. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

The steam is still rising from the gravy—it’s not brown Jell-O yet. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

The scent of the spring night filled their nostrils until the sweetly burning smoke rising from Booth’s pipe flavored the air. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

By midmorning, they climbed over a rise in the road and saw a small bay ringed with mountains. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Only through the harshest tests can God’s chosen rise. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

We all know that names rise and fall and rise—witness the return of Sophie and Max from near extinction—but is there a discernible pattern to these movements? Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

It had a buoying and tonic impact upon me; my senses would strain and seek for more and more of such relationships; my temperature would rise as I worked. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

It’s Mama Ya-Ya’s ghost rising, all sparkly like diamonds, all glittering with rainbows. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

He spotted Newt and called to him, trying to suppress his rising fear, telling himself things would be okay, that there had to be a reasonable explanation. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Their clear laughter came up, separated by distance from the tumbles which gave it rise. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Behind me, black crows rise from the trees, flying west against a fading sky, calling to one another. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

At the top of the rise, the two foxes stopped. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

I feel the anger rise to my forehead, hot as a fever. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

Wilfred, the father, the family protector and provider, was the first to rise. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

As they approached the creek Dicey had seen on the map—only the map called it a river—the land developed a few gentle rises. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then, muffled voices, her mother's rising in anger, in persuasion, her father's deeper murmurs of explanation and self-defense. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

But when I looked back along the dirty, rocky road with the heat rising up off it, I decided I must be closer to town and should just keep going. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

They were thunderclouds of deep gray-blue, rising columns of layered darkness. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

But now, as he stood in the doorway again, homing to her presence, he thought he saw her shoulders rise with apprehension, her elbows draw in. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

She staggers, falls to the ground, then rises laboriously. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

But at that moment we heard Mrs. Croft’s electrifying voice rising up the stairs. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

I backed away from her towards the window, my old fear and horror rising up in me again. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

The women in the Delta knew I had risen above the tragedy of the church bombing, and they loved and admired me for that. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

I started to rise up onto my hands and knees but a fist slammed into my cheek and shot the light out of my eyes. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

The road ahead was long and straight, rising toward a ridge of trees. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The former says that if the sun has risen in the east every morning since the dinosaurs walked the earth, you can bet dollars to donuts it’ll do the same tomorrow morning. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

I said to myself, the statement rising to a question as I recalled how suddenly he had abandoned our bed. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

In time, the Stockyards’ gate towered before us, all ivory limestone and rising turrets, as grand as any wall in the White City. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Naheed slowly stood with the rest of her class, uncertain of what she had just been told, voices rising up around her. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

“It’s just over the rise. You’ll find it with the sweethearts.” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

I can hear my voice rising in anger. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

I opened my mouth in desperation, trying to get some air into my lungs, and managed to rise to my feet, but I began to shake. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

There had been a time during her dying when the noise and the smell of her had made anger rise in Kate so that she considered killing her quickly to get it over. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

The green kite drew closer yet, now rising a little above us, unaware of the trap I’d set for it. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Perhaps Gaia had risen, taken one look at the modern world and decided to go back to sleep. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

The sun was just rising when I got to the capital. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

Only then did Ansley’s eyes rise to window level and make a peremptory examination of the other cars. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“La, la, la,” Mrs. Spitz sings again, and the same rising notes are echoed back. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

He tried again to rise, but his arms and legs only sank into a slippery smoothness, like a deep silk pillow swallowing his limbs. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

“Don’t talk back to me,” Father said, his voice rising. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

Bubbles like amber jewels tumbled up and up and up, breaking and rising and breaking. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

Behind the little rise she had found herself on, the land sloped gradually down and then up again; the fullest view lay in front, across that immense prairie. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

The Corporal looked beyond Jonathan to the house, then to the line of retreating men, then to the rising sun. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

But last night I pouted when Mother insisted one of my brothers must rise first this morning to bless our house because only male feet can bring luck. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

The sun was steadily on the rise and the living birds were beginning to chirp in the distance. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

The wet leather of Tayo’s boots and the hunter’s elkskin leggings made steam rise around them like mountain fog after a storm. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

I can feel it rising to the surface. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

Then I feel it—the lift, the rising of the plane, and I see the ground stretching wide beneath us, everything getting smaller by the second. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

The rising sun lit them from beneath with flames of murky red; but soon it climbed above them into a clear sky. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

I noticed the rise and fall of my chest. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

I feel as if something is rising out of the earth. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

He’d been there the longest and was too weak to rise. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

“What can I do for you?” he asked us pleasantly, rising from his seat. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

The laugh that booms out of the sheriff is genuine, and an ugly feeling rises up in me. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

“When I think of the days I worked and the miles I traveled to achieve these things for the Woman’s building, my ire rises a little yet.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

The next minute under a second explosion part of the wood rises slowly in the air, three or four trees sail up and then crash to pieces. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

After dinner they drank vodka and smoked, the volume of their voices rising steadily. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

If the water rises too high, I might not be able to get to it. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

Solid rock rising two or three hundred feet up without a handhold or a foothold in sight. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

They kept as close as they could to the western side, and they could see the dim shapes of the low cliffs rising ever higher, shadowy walls with their feet in the hurrying river. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

The only difference would be the cigarette seemingly permanently fastened between their lips, rising and falling in accent as they spoke. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Neither of them spoke as they watched Mama’s chest rise and fall for a while. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

The rain floods the village and the water rises to Pa’s waist, drowning many animals. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then the moment broke and the boys began to push back their chairs, rising from the desks, shuffling as usual. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The rising sun set the eastern horizon on fire with golden rays. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

We girls took turns waking up really early in the morning, before the sun had risen, to get in the long line at the well. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

As the sun began to rise, she turned off the highway just outside Erie and drove until she found a quiet rural road. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

On such a night back in her other life, in the windowless cott with her mother, she might have risen to enjoy the moonlight. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

MOP: Bren, if your clothes get any brighter, the sun is going to cease to rise. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

“Did you know at the time,” Knabe said, voice rising, “that he sustained that the state law didn’t apply at all in the city of Montgomery?” Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

I feared for his life; I despaired that he should ever rise from his bed again; and I could not abide the hunger. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

Not until He laid her low, before this very altar, had she dared to rise and preach the gospel. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

It rises perhaps twelve meters and then unfolds as if by magic into a simple T. A high house on the edge of the sea. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

The rising sun was hazy, and behind it, following it slowly up the sky, there was a growing darkness, as of a great storm moving out of the East. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

The water was rising past the second floor. I Survived Hurricane Katrina, 2005 2011-04-01T00:00:00Z

Beside him Pippin was nodding towards sleep; but Sam was staring forwards into the rising fog. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

After all, every known written account of the Inka was set down after the conquest, a century or more after Pachakuti's rise. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

In the darkness he could feel his strength rising, coming over him in die cooler air of evening. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Both are speckled red, and points of blood start to rise and dry. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

“I dare not, Headmaster! If I join the table, we shall be thirteen! Nothing could be more unlucky! Never forget that when thirteen dine together, the first to rise will be the first to die!” Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

But even though Mariela has been one of his stalwarts, she seems disengaged and in no shape to rise to the occasion and win a part. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

I pray that the Negro will not miss his chance to rise to greatness, to build from the strength gained through his past suffering and, above all, to rise beyond vengeance. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sound of the bees diminished, sustained yet, as though instead of sinking into silence, silence merely increased between us, as water rises. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was not one of the reformers who had campaigned for Prohibition, but she believed in the rule of law, and the rise of the gangsters appalled her. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

There was a quiet rising joy in Lee. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

On the opposite side of the road, grassy hills stretched to the horizon, empty of civilization except for one darkened convenience store at the top of the nearest rise. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Billy poured in more water and kept the steam rising for fifteen minutes. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Hi, yes,” I said, rising to shake his small, hairy hand. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a strange feeling rising in my chest that followed—like something heavy was trying to work its way up from my center. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

The Andromedans are making their way down their respective bridges, too, and as the doors rise farther, I get a glimpse of what’s inside. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The moon was sup-posed to rise but there was a mist over the town and it did not come up and in a little while it started to drizzle and we came in. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

I went back to the postoffice, treading my shadow into pavement, go down the hill then they rise toward town like lanterns hung one above another on a wall. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

The same constellations always rise at the beginning of autumn, say. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

In late March of 1862, coffee had reached the unheard of price of seventy cents a pound, and the papers predicted that it would rise even higher. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bullets were flung among us—I saw men collapse before me—or grab a limb and topple—rise up—and stagger. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

I pause in the act of rising to study him, his sharp ears and fox-fur hair, the softness of his mouth, his long limbs spread out in sleep. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Still far away, forty miles at least, they saw Mount Doom, its feet founded in ashen ruin, its huge cone rising to a great height, where its reeking head was swathed in cloud. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

She paused, her chest rising and falling rapidly, the color high in her cheeks. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Pain rises around me, so sharp and real it is better than the sadness. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

But Jefferson would not rise to the bait, convinced as he was after his earlier exchange with Abigail that he had already made a heroic effort that had been summarily rejected. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

The sun was low in the sky and surrounded as I was by trees, I had no reference point to tell me whether it was rising or setting. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

There was the same zinc pipe rising from the hard stone mass over his groin and leading to the dear glass jar on the floor. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

“When they are pushed down long enough they will rise up. If they bite you, they are trying to fix things in the only way they know.” The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mo and I put our hands on each other's shoulders, and we bobbed together in the rising waves. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

Rinaldi took the note, folded it without rising from the bed and slid it in his breeches pocket. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

As deaths from simple infections rise dramatically, a new sense of teamwork spreads throughout the world. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

Soon after they had locked the door, I could see the Negro's face, a molasses-colored moon, risen at the window grating, but I pretended not to notice. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

As Boxwood dropped back on all fours, Blackberry saw that the hinge had buckled and risen just clear of the wood. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Someone is always saying something too honest, and voices rise, and then one of them stomps off. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

"Maybe he was right for the old Gerta," he says, rising to leave. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

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

“Nothing happened,” I said, my voice rising to match Dad’s. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Holmes promised stirring views of Englewood, perhaps even a glimpse of Jackson Park off to the east, where the buildings of the fair soon would begin to rise. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

He dared not risk having them on the wrong side of the moat should the castle rise against him. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

At once, everyone rises as seven justices enter. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

As he began putting programs into place over the summer, a rising chorus of hostile voices had begun to call him a radical, a socialist, even a Bolshevik. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

A slowly rising dread stole into me and I would look at my mother for long moments, but when she would look at me I would look away. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

These and other discoveries add details, which continue to fascinate me, to our understanding of how agriculture’s rise triggered the rise of agriculturally based complex societies in the ancient world. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

“The pleasure is mine,” I say, painfully aware that I haven’t shaved in two days, my clothes are stiff with manure, and that manure is not the only unpleasant scent rising from my body. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

Islamophobia was on the rise in the United States, perpetuated by violent stereotypes and religious extremism portrayed in the media. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

His voice broke when he told of how two of his father’s household slaves had risen up the night the gate broke. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Dad waited a while, still convinced that under the laws of physics she must ultimately rise. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

The whole sky seemed like a black top spinning from the mountain where Atlas was imprisoned, and where the Titan palace of Mount Othrys was rising anew. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

He saw them cut the legs from Jory's mount and drag him to the earth, swords rising and falling as they closed in around him. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

They topped the rise and started down into the ranch-cup, and they lost the sun from their shoulders. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I will, sir, I most certainly will,” said Peeves, rising up in the air again. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

He taught them to rise above their brutish roots. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

He saw past the present moment as though with a magic scope; through this special lens he saw an empire rise, grander and mightier than anything his father had commanded, even in his heyday. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wait and wait and wait until the sun rises. Ghost Boys 2018-04-17T00:00:00Z

Indeed, how else are we to account for their rise? History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instead of wondering what made crime fall, think about this: why had it risen so dramatically in the first place? Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

In less than a minute it had set once more in the west and then, without any pause, risen again in the east. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

Sure enough, the elevator had shot right up through the roof of the factory and was now rising into the sky like a rocket, and the sunshine was pouring in through the glass roof. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z

It was like watching the sun rise, Dimple thought, or the streetlights come on at dusk. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

There was a distant mutter of thunder borne on the rising breeze. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

There was an open valley below him, partly cultivated, then a long bare rise to the Union line. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her soft, dark hair is smoothed stylishly around her youthful face, with a slight puff of hair combed just so to rise from the top of her head. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

With all the energy and love I could offer from my being, I pulled alongside the head priest, pleading for Inti to rise and join us in another year. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

Isidore felt a laugh rise up inside him; he nervously choked it off. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

The twins’ voices rise and fall as they keep up their chase outside. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

October 5, 1957, was the kind of day that never failed to delight Christine Mann, a rising senior at the Allen School for girls in Asheville, North Carolina. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Within the period covered by the rise of modern pesticides, the incidence of leukemia has been steadily rising. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

The phone rang again and Mariama spoke in French, her voice rising, and she stopped braiding to gesture with her hand as she shouted into the phone. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“I’ll see you this time next Sunday, and if I find this church risen one foot off the ground I’ll hold you personally responsible.” Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

The fog was rising, lifting to the tops of the trees. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

The sun was just rising, making the water glitter and the clouds glow orange. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Just beyond the cornfield was Snowberger’s, its tidy white fence holding a tiny kingdom safe within its arms—with the old sawmill boardinghouse that was my home rising up like a castle in the countryside. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

The balloon was drifting lower, and the ground was rising. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was dangerous, how fast her voice was rising. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Ralph sighed, sensing the rising antagonism, understanding that this was how Jack felt as soon as he ceased to lead. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

A steamy mist was rising up now from the great warm chocolate river, and out of the mist there appeared suddenly a most fantastic pink boat. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z

Until your chest no longer sees fit to rise. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

It took an hour to climb the stepped rise that way: crutches and pack first and dragging himself after. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Out here she understood how she fitted into the scheme of the moon and stars and the constant rise and fall of life on the earth. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The mist on this rise had fled away, and he felt that he stood, as he faced the lone tree, beneath the naked eye of Heaven. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

Lying in the tall grass under the willows, I watched the sun rise. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

As I crossed his shadow, thrown long over the garden by the moon, not yet risen high, he said quietly, without turning— Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

In other words, the racial ideology that gave rise to these laws remains largely undisturbed. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Because the earth is flat and there are hardly any trees, the trailers rise out of the landscape like skyscrapers. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Cautiously, Link half rises from his chair and holds up one finger. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

To Cockcroft he grumbled that Lawrence’s mistake was “one of judgment and point of view rather than of the errors in technique which can give rise to such a situation.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

For her entire life, St. Helens had been the beautiful mountain rising into the sky. I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z

Only then did I see the slight rise and fall of his chest. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

Smart enough to rise to the top at any school. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were in the sky now, racing the rising sun. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Then he saw the young moon rising; under its thin light there loomed before him a black wall of rock, pierced by a dark arch like a great gate. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

We trudged over a low rise, through a nearby field, to a little brown shed with a rectangular animal pen beyond it. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

Sand from the dunes rises in a funnel around us. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

“She likes to watch the sun rise,” I say. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Occasionally she would rise from the mattress, pounding the wall with her bare fists. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

“Your way must be to bring Christ to her,” I say, my voice rising with indignation. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Alex suddenly had a vision of himself trapped in blackness with water rising up to his chest, his neck, over his face. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

After a while, I rise and join Tess and the Girl. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

It rises from a spring up the hill, inside the valley, and it must come from deep underground. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

The falls to our left, spray and rainbows in the sky, the sun rising ahead of us, the valley below. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

Reynie had just ended the letter when he heard Sticky rise and move about the room, and then, after a pause, whisper, “Reynie, are you awake?” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

The heat was coming up at me from the floor, rising in slow waves. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Her “people,” whoever they were, did not rise to Buck’s defense. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

I see the tiny chest, struggling to rise and fall, struggling to continue breathing. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

I also hear some Noise rising from across the village road in the direkshun of the meeting hall but there ain’t time to think about that now. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

Lieutenant Cross nodded and closed his eyes while the others clapped Strunk on the back and made jokes about rising from the dead. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The ghost of a girl had risen out of the toilet in a cubicle behind them and was now floating in midair, staring at them through thick, white, round glasses. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

They stood looking at the building rising above us, the liquid dark of the oil simmering dully in the stray flecks of light that struck their pails, bent forward, their shoulders bowed. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

I cross an iron bridge over a ravine of railroad tracks, find the brick walls rising stories above me, go through a set of double doors, and then I am inside the factory. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

With the rise of chiefdoms around 7,500 years ago, people had to learn, for the first time in history, how to encounter strangers regularly without attempting to kill them. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

My spirit rises, light as a feather, to the wide sky. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

Cast out the sinner, let the guilty rise and confess. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

And, today, as she finally leaves the Lonesome Highway to face the next five hundred miles of Montana, Annabelle needs to rise. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

I try not to let my chest rise, but it’s really, really hard not to. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

“And we are determined here in Montgomery,” he said, his voice rising in intensity, “to work and fight until justice runs down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.” Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

In the shallows beyond the breakwater an ancient corpse rising and falling among the driftwood. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

Behind them, New York City seemed to rise out of the sea, but it didn’t look so tall and imposing from out here, more like a toy set. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

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

They raised their glasses: “A rose by any other name...” they said, and sniggered to hide their rising panic. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

A hubbub was rising from the party, some yelling and cursing—a fight perhaps. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

The police helicopters were rising so far away that it seemed someone had blown the grey head off a dry dandelion flower. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bronze, they were, brighter than polished shields, glowing with their own heat, burning behind a veil of smoke rising from the dragon’s nostrils. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I saw faces, bloated and distorted, rise up from the murky surface. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

They both started to rise but she put a hand out, stopped them. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Starlight began to shine again, and the grasses of the hillside were whitened with the light of the moon just rising. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

In the last of the daylight flooding through the windows, she became a wavering silhouette, smudged at the edges by the steam rising from the sink. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Freedom, he realized, did not come only from rising up against oppressors or tyrants. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

I rise again and push the empty cart back down the aisle, the wheels squeaking across the carpet. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

It was rising and falling on the walls. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the rise of the curtain, Faith and Luke are onstage, seated across from each other at a book-stacked table. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Everywhere men were rising from their despair and dread, seizing their weapons, crying one to another: ‘Rohan has come!’ The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

Drug use and abuse is nothing new; in fact, it was on the decline, not on the rise, when the War on Drugs began. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

“Maybe, but we can’t just hide. Either way, when the sun rises, we’ll be toads if we don’t fight back,” Seven said. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

Sickened and terrified, I feel the plate begin to rise. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

His eyebrows rise at that, cracking the clay on his forehead. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Marcus would rise and release his madness on the world, and she would become his slave. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Here was a street paved in lapis lazuli, the carved facades of buildings rising up on either side. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Anger rises in me again like black water, but I stop suddenly. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

Each utterance seems to rise from the aural cotton for Werner’s ears alone, then melts away. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Also, prices of critical supplies such as oil, bread, and sugar had risen because of the policies of the government in the capital city of Khartoum. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Why?” she said, watching the emaciated chest rise and fall beneath his sheets. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

She stared at the floor, rocking violently, her chest rising and falling fast with each breath. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Voices rise and fall around me—Izzi’s anxious murmur and Cook’s rasp. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

“And now we were winging toward Japan,” he said, “surrounded by scattered clouds that were edged with reddish gold from the slanting light of the newly risen sun.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

The president rises from his bed, slips on a pair of battered slippers, pulls on a weathered robe, and walks down a second-floor hallway to the library. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

Enchanted Mesa was a dark silvered shadow rising up from the valley into the sky. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

That night she lay in her narrow bed upon the scratchy straw, listening to the voices of the living and the dead whisper and argue as she waited for the moon to rise. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

On the other hand, human population densities were gradually rising throughout the late Pleistocene anyway, thanks to improvements in human technology for collecting and processing wild foods. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t want to hurt you I” the chaplain insisted with a rising hint of exasperation, even though he was still rooted to the spot. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

The principal asked the class to rise, and one by one they walked across the stage to receive their diplomas. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

The wind was rising, and it seemed colder in the yard than it had when he'd gone in. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

When she stepped ashore she found herself in darkness for the rise of the ground, and the trees, cut off the moonlight. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

For most workers, the only time in the last three decades when the rise in hourly pay beat inflation was during the speculative bubble of the 1990s. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

He dove into the plane just as the stairs started to rise. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

I believe I saw him bang his head again as they disappeared over a small rise. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Cheers began to rise from the semicircle of boats ahead, from the beaches, from the observation train working its way along the shore, and—loudest of all—from the ferryboat chock-full of students. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

He lay and waited for the beak to open so that he would see the scarlet inside of its mouth, for it to rise up and swoop down at him, making for his eyes. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

Just as he started to rise, he caught sight of a deer, which bounded into the orchard from the woods beyond. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

After eighty-one days of exhausting, extremely hazardous climbing, Waterman reached the 14,573-foot summit of Hunter, which rises in the Alaska Range immediately south of Denali. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You shall rise or jail by the ghost king’s hand,” Annabeth said, “the child of Athena’s final stand.” The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

The moon was always a brilliant white, and once in a while the night wind brought the hooting of owls and the rise and fall of voices from the refugee camp. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

The ball rises and almost seems to freeze in the exhausted air, spent by so much cheering and hitting and incomprehensible effort. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The machine gun opened fire once more from a black rise above the motor pool, and orange tracer bullets skimmed like low-gliding dashes over the tops of the shadowy tents, almost clipping the peaks. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Now, with the sun newly risen and the mist lifting, they could see the city of tents that stretched in every direction. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

The birds, which had risen in a flurry at his roar, squawked and swooped around overhead before settling again on their nests. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

In the east, where Pong had thought the sun was rising, a black column of smoke rose above the rooftops. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

The Second was watching him, the moon of her face rising in front of him. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

I walked my bike up the little rise and over to Aunt Florentine’s grave. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

In the silence that followed, however, Desdemona felt a strange emotion rising inside her. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

The blinds fell closed again and I saw a small leather-bound notebook rise from a table and crack open in midair. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

They fill silence with their weight, dense and warm, like bread dough rising under cloth. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Brian rises out of the darkness of my mind and takes my hand like he did in the movie theater and pulls me to him. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Once, though, she broke her own rule; in need of additional supplies, and reluctant to rise from the catastrophic mess that barricaded her, she asked Eliot to fetch something from the kitchen. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

The sky was cloudless, the jagged mountains rising black on black until the very top, where their cold crowns of snow and ice shone palely in v the moonlight. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

‘But the Sun has not risen, yet,’ said Merry. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

All her fine resolves about trying to understand and to be patient, and already she could feel the defiance rising again. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

His voice had risen in volume with every passing word until he was shouting, his body trembling. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

To understand the rise of Christianity or the French Revolution, it is not enough to comprehend the interaction of genes, hormones and organisms. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her sculpted black steel breastplate was inlaid in gold and showed a harpy rising with chains dangling from her claws. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The people who had built the Teeth had misjudged the sea rise quite a lot. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

So, as Booth rises to his feet and wanders back into the theater to plan the attack, it never crosses anyone’s mind to ask what he’s doing. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

The listening buildings, rising upward yet, leaned, closing out the sky. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

We do not rise to hug him, because he does not like us to. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

She rises up slowly out of her chair and says, “I still can’t believe you talked me into this nonsense.” Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

The rabbits were slow and hesitant and Chervil himself seemed unable to rise to his usual brisk manner. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jinx ran away from the festival grounds and into the woods, fear rising in him. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

A second later, a holographic screen rises up from the desk. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

And the fear rises inside me like a bird. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Bigger had an impulse to rise, but he remained seated. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

The whole gigantic structure seemed to rise toward Heaven itself, stone leaping into glory. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

The commadant’s lips thin and his eyes narrow and an expression of slow and intense malice rises in his face. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

When the plants were watered, she sat alone, knees to chin, and rocked herself back and forth as the sun began to rise, a faint pink stain creeping up the eastern rim of the sky. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her eyebrows rise when I don’t leave, watching as I retreat to a corner to fill them out, chewing on the end of the pen. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Dylan’s head rises into view above the seat in front of us. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

I do not respond, and his brows rise. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The creamer mixes in and the coffee turns a light brown with some dark coffee grounds rising to the surface. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

A group of people, including a spider and a being with glowing eyes, confronted a terrifying creature rising out of the sea, their hands outstretched, preventing the evil from advancing. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Did the feeling against the Jews in the city rise only because a Jewish lawyer is defending a black boy? Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

“You told him,” Moss said, to himself at first, and the sound in the church began to rise, so the next words out of his mouth were at the top of his lungs. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

He raised his hands and once again swore his prophecy that the animals and all of nature were rising up against us. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fine steam began to rise up from the sodden ground, and the tree trunks, and the smell of it came thickly into Kingshaw's nostrils. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

He turned his head to see what kind of dish she carried, but quickly looked away again when he saw that it was a bowl with steam rising from it. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

The ground was rolling and uneven here; soft and muddy near the river, rising in a gentle slope toward the kingsroad, stony and broken beyond it, to the east. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Olanna saw the smoke rising like tall gray shadows before she smelled the scent of burning. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

I could almost hear words rising into her mouth and then being swallowed back down as she waited for the right ones. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Without rising I kicked out with my feet at her ankles. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Dothraki eyed the sword as he passed; Dany heard curses and threats and angry muttering rising all around her, like a tide. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Only a few twisted shapes of metal remained, rising above the trees like skeletal fingers grasping at the air. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Declaration laughed like a maniac as she ran up the rise and into the cemetery, toward shelter at Aunt Florentine’s grave. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

The other girl, Daisy, made an attempt to rise--she leaned slightly forward with a conscientious expression--then she laughed, an absurd, charming little laugh, and I laughed too and came forward into the room. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

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

So now the polar ice caps are melting, sea levels are rising, and the weather is all messed up. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

There is a sudden interlude in the frenzy of the game as he takes off his helmet and rises only to his knees. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Up the road,” began Jonathan, struggling against his rising tears. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

She says ’tis their way of getting a rise out of us because Dad is a foreigner from the North and he won’t have anything to do with any of them. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

My mother imparted her daily truths so she could help my older brothers and me rise above our circumstances. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

He looked above the tip of the island, hoping he might at least see the smoke rising from Lizzie’s house, but he couldn’t make it out at all. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

Can I rise on my legs fast enough? The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

The actual Games don't start until ten because so many of the Capitol residents rise late. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

My big voice rolled through the woods, and their little voices seemed to rise and answer me. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘Three suns already have risen on our chase and brought no counsel,’ said Gimli. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

“Ah, Hazel Levesque,” he said, “you cost me dearly! If not for you, I would have risen decades ago, and this world would already be Gaea’s. But no matter!” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

By the time he reached the fringe of the wood, the sun had risen, and was coming faintly through the mist. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

The road dipped between rising turf-banks, carving its way through the terraces to the river’s edge, and up again upon the further side. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

The great pale silver blade was rising slowly, catching the brilliant light. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

It rises from the earth, answering my call as it courses through my veins in a sudden rush. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

In the dimness her outline appeared, the rise of her breasts beneath the T-shirt, the soft hill of her belly, and then the brightness of her underpants, converging in their V shape. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

The first beat was a rising one which faltered at the top. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

It had seemed to rise in many minds at once, the initial intent simply to celebrate the four hundredth anniversary of Columbus’s discovery of the New World by hosting a world’s fair. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Once on the landing, I again crawl along under the sill until I’m at the same vantage point as last night, then rise just enough to see into the studio...He’s still there. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Drogon's long neck snaked out and he opened his mouth to scream, steam rising from between his teeth. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

He felt as though the night must have changed him; yet here was this woman rising from his bed as though she had risen every day of her life. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

When you put a block of wood into a tank, the level of water in the tank rises. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

When the sun rises tomorrow, it’ll be thanks to the paper chain. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

The hairs on the back of my neck rise in warning. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

I’m rising to my feet when a woman throws open the door. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Taran knew, without stopping to think, that a north wind had just begun to rise. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

When the buckboard topped the rise Adam could look down on the little cluster of buildings which composed the Hamilton seat—a house with many lean-tos, a cow shed, a shop, and a wagon shed. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Goosebumps rise up on every millimeter of my body. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

One caught the captain in the temple as he tried to rise. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

"Stick, stick, stick and run," screamed Donatelli, but his voice was lost in a rising chorus of boos. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

As Joe raised a hand to acknowledge the wave of applause rising to greet him, he found himself struggling desperately to keep back tears. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

No no no, she said inside her head, but she saw it: a flicker of red, rising from the pavilion of the guildhall. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

She peered into the water as she crossed the bridge, eyeing the dark line on the pylons where the water had once risen. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

The maize field was at the end of a long, rutted dirt road that led up a rise. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

I kept a vigilant watch, sometimes rising in the small hours of the night to gaze out at the moonlit lanes and hedgerows. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

Cool white in the darkness, the freckles gathered on her shoulders and cheeks like cream rising to the top. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

I stalked forwards, the water now risen fully to my chest. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

A vision, as it seemed to me, had risen at his side. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

So she sat on the porch and watched the moon rise. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

I place my hat on my head and rise. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

An evil black moon rising from the undercarriage of a toppled riding mower. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

I breathe a sigh of relief and rise up to get ready for choir practice. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

They saw the fur on his shoulders rise, his hindquarters begin to lift from the ground, and the tip of his long tail begin to twitch like a thing with its own life. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

Bouncing up and down 011 his side vigorously, Ignatius sensed a belch rising in his throat, but when he expectantly opened his mouth he emitted only a small burp. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some might have lived in that space happily, rising alone. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

He rises from his chair, and I am so sure he is going to ask me that I feel a twinge of disappointment when he turns instead to the wife of the Spanish ambassador. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Half-hour after daybreak the buzzards rise from the leafless billboard tree and flap away like the sound of old black satin dresses beat together. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a bright, sunny day, and Seattle looked like a beautiful place, with inlets and bridges, wooded islands dotting the bay, and snowcapped mountains rising in the distance. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Black horses in glittering, silver-mounted harnesses, the rumble and rattle of a ruby coach on cobbles, and on the door panel the familiar crest—a rising eye. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

He saw the sun rise over forest and mountains and set over the distant palm shore. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

He saw bright pearls rise from the depths, bubbles swimming on the mirror, sky blue reflected in them. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

And then the tunnel began to rise; moments later it twisted, and Crookshanks had gone. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

Beyond that stretched a clear field, flat and then rising up to massive crumbling stone walls. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

I felt a sweltering hate rise in me, but I didn’t know where to direct it. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Her breasts were rising with the leaven of her years, and her face had the calm and warmth of beauty. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Nommo rains from a cloud, rises in the vapor from a human mouth: a song, a scream, a prayer. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

But before she could work it out, the creature had risen, and the group began to move away along the highway, with Mary riding among them. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

She saw the ridges of muscle on Velutha’s stomach grow taut and rise under his skin like the divisions on a slab of chocolate. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

They had to cast them all off at once if they wanted to rise straight and not “yaw about like drunken camels,” as Ozwin put it. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

A scratchy feeling rises in my throat like I’m coughing up sandpaper. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

The winds began rising from the bay waters, racing over Oakland and sweeping low over the hissing weeds, which nodded back and forth in great shimmering waves of gold. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Billy’s anger was not going to rise with hers. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

The passage seemed to go on for miles, and always the chill air flowed over them, rising as they went on to a bitter wind. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Haye was sleeping peacefully, his eyelids fluttering, his chest rising and falling. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

So hot you can see the steam rising up from the ground. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

Raymie watched the Tag and Bag cart rise up in the air as if it were attempting to leave the earth altogether, and then it entered Swip Pond with a surprisingly small splash. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

Why is it that night falls, instead of rising, like the dawn? The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

Indeed, being Welsh, I feel the better for it, having clearly risen above them in my time of evolution. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

We get out of the car, and, with Mackenzie’s permission, I untie the helium-filled brain, and release it, watching it rise up and up until it disappears. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

I stare at the tin of dominoes, blind anger rising suddenly from my toes. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Often they rise in a sheaf as they follow after an airman. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the cold wind whipping up off the water made goose bumps rise on his flesh. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Paul Ellis told his son that there was a secret society of Southern men who would rise up someday and restore Dixie to her former greatness. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Artemis tried to quell the excitement rising in his chest. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

The once-sleepy city of Selma was now the storm center of the civil rights movement, and tensions were rising. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

Outriders spied the Manderly banners—the white merman with trident in hand, rising from a blue-green sea— and hailed them warmly. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Some economists consider the findings of the new studies murky; it cannot be definitively shown that mobility has fallen during the last generation, they say, only that it has not risen. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

“They know that Mount Othrys is rising in the West. They know of Atlas’s attempt for freedom, and the gathering armies of Kronos. We have voted to act.” The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

I rise from my chair and step forward. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

The heaviest rains fall then, and if the river is going to rise, it rises then. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

We in his family recognized the danger in his extremely calm speech, and the rising color creeping toward his hairline. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

She limps, and Jesus, dear God, a scorching burn rises up her legs. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

The red dirt at my feet shifts as more of it rises from the ground, dancing up my limbs and seeping into my very bones. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

When he catches up to me, his chest is rising up and down, up and down. Watch Us Rise 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z

He glances back in the direction of the acrobat tent, he can see the top of it from the courtyard, rising taller than the surrounding tents. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

One clear illustration of this is the fact that war hysteria increases in intensity as one rises in the social scale. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Sophia rises from her seat and plucks one of the cream tarts from a tiered dessert platter. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

But after the long swim, the terrible knife fin rising above her, the away and apart and alone, she didn’t have the energy, the heat for this moment. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

When I reached the crest of the bridge I saw the Archives for the first time in my life, rising like some great greystone over the trees to the west. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Thus love fuels war, turning it into an inferno whose heat and smoke rise to the heavens. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

I started to cry and plead and call to God to stop me as the lid began to rise. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

I rise and wheel the desk chair to the corner, take my glass, let him pour. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lawrence cautioned Sproul that personnel expenses at the Rad Lab were destined to rise sharply, for the lab was becoming the victim of its own success. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

He holds his cup in his hands and brings it to eye level, staring at it until a soft curl of steam rises from the surface. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

The shame and fear and hate which Mary and Jan and Mr. Dalton and that huge rich house had made rise so hard and hot in him had now cooled and softened. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

So when I rise up on tiptoe to kiss him, it doesn’t seem forced at all. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

At the top of the rise Seth halted, staring down the gentle slope on the far side. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

“It’s rising somewhere,” he answered, and then after a moment said, “Observation: It would be awesome to fly in a superfast airplane that could chase the sunrise around the world for a while.” The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

“How old are you, girl? Sixteen? Seventeen? Nations rise and fall. Markets are made and unmade. When power shifts, someone always suffers.” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Slowly, he followed her gaze, new fear rising within him like a tide. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

For years they would go underground, rise up for a few fights, then go back into hiding. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

Anger is rising inside me, pure, fiery anger. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The fury rising in Emily propelled her up from the ground and forward. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

The sensation rises up from inside me and I know you’re still here, holding sway. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

She would rise at 6:00 a.m. to catch a bus to the subway, change trains three times, and arrive at work by 8:00 a.m. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

“Mary is rising,” said August, her voice concentrated into a whisper. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a large assembly, but as the three of us looked down at it from the top of the rise, it seemed oddly muffled and small in the great expanse of snow. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

There she was, planted before me in the path, rising on thin legs out of the rootless devouring earth. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

This layer cake of manure, woodchips, and straw gradually rises beneath the cattle. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

The combination of the northern winter and early rising proved too much for Descartes’s comfort-loving body. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

Some people rise from their chairs, and I see two reporters standing by the wall with their phones out, recording. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

In the heat they produced—a humid, overbearing swelter—the smell of sour mildew seemed to rise from everything. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

I call down to Pouncey, who’s working the hand crank that keeps bucket after bucket of chain rising up the rounded side of the silo and spilling in through the opening. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

Mount Doom was burning, and a great reek rising. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

We ran down the road - Rashid, Aunt Gloria, Mum, Dad, Kat and I - with coats flapping, umbrellas blowing inside out, hearts pounding, hopes rising, my hand shaking itself out. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then he yanked down another, and another, his fury rising with each one. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

Kingshaw watched him for a moment, his fury rising, and then began to run, down the corridor and the staircase, across the hall and into the sitting room, clenching and unclenching his hands. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

On the one hand, my head was a mess of tumbling worries: rising poverty, falling blood counts, alarming potential for quarantine. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

He waked before day and departed just like he went to bed: by rising from the pallet and tiptoeing out of the house. Absalom, Absalom! 1936-01-01T00:00:00Z

In connection with the nearly universal use of insecticides that are liver poisons, it is interesting to note the sharp rise in hepatitis that began during the 1950’s and is continuing a fluctuating climb. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

The wood smoke rising from the home-hearths rose from his heart. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Pax galloped down the cliff, tore across the valley bottom, and strained up the final long rise to the meadow. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

A gray-green mist filled the wooded air with a soft half-light, making the surrounding trees rise up like vaulting shadows. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

Its land slopes upward, along the rise of a hill, covered in dense clusters of evergreen trees. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

If the sun refuses to rise, we will make it rise. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

NOT until we were sailing through the Jersey countryside did my spirits begin to rise. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lawrence suddenly found himself waging a fierce batde against rising complaints at the AEC about the MTA’s high cost and indifferent performance. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

He dropped the sharp rock and tried to rise, but his knees were weak and he felt dizzy and sick. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

My feet, however, didn’t dare leave the ground, nor did my arms rise up to fly with my sisters’. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

Or maybe I was rising on my mother and father’s hopes for me. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

Standing on metal legs, it rises above the trees. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

Wave after wave, Ralph followed the rise and fall until something of the remoteness of the sea numbed his brain. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

But I knew the one I must use, if I was to rise again, more powerful than I had been when I had fallen. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Meanwhile, another ferocious wind was rising in the Pacific. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Mom rises and peers around, resting her fists on her waist the way a superhero might. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

All around us the noise level rises and falls, punctuated by choruses of alohas sung out by greeters and families alike. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

I felt the urge to run rise up deep from my bones; it was instinct now. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Now, it is extremely unlikely that Negroes will ever rise to power in the United States, because they are only approximately a ninth of this nation. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

The rising sun was burning off the drifting tendrils of fog as Tyrion led them off. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“Just don’t rise to his baiting and he’ll tire of it soon enough.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The voice of the crowd rises into one universal scream as we roll into the fading evening light, but neither one of us reacts. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

It’s starting to rise as the sun makes its way to some other part of the world to bring smiles onto other people’s faces. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

His little legs are flung over his mother, slowly rising and falling on her belly. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

The entire gym rises up in anticipation and Boy21 dunks the ball with resounding authority. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

It seemed to rise up from the center of my whole being and take over. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

Rejoicing that their Lord is risen, they carry the news to the nuns seated in the choir. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

I stared at him for a few long seconds, the anger rising in me like a boiling thermometer. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

‘But if we are guests, we bow to our host, and after we have eaten we rise and thank him.’ The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

She smiles at us with so much pride it’s like the sun’s rising over the table. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Lawrence was already occupied with the twenty-seven-inch cyclotron rising in the wooden Rad Lab. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

He rises and walks behind the desk, taking hold of the back of his chair. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even with the hubbub, Charles’s routine stayed the same: He would rise early in the morning and go for a walk before breakfast. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You stopped talking to me!” she says, a hint of frustration rising in her voice. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

An overwhelming richness of vegetation may have caused the level of oxygen to rise above today’s concentration, with a corresponding depletion of carbon dioxide. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I jog in place, lifting my knees in a fierce rhythm that raises my breath and sets my heart pounding, but doesn’t quite drum out my rising thoughts. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

No one seemed to notice the huge Greek trireme rising into the sky. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

I pivoted and saw whorls rising from the village next door. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

They raised their beers to what they saw rising from the mountains. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

At late afternoon, when the sun was beginning to lower and the mosquitos were beginning to rise, the green pickup truck returned. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

The inner voice rises up and reports the answer in an instant, perfect thought. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

My shoulders rise to my ears, since my hands are busy packing up as quickly as I can. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

Quickly rising to her knees, grunting the note of friendship, she slipped her hand over his head and clasped the top of his nose firmly in her fingers. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

But before I could rise from the table, Mr Morgan said: 'I just wondered, sir, there's a fellow we like to listen to on the wireless, his name's Leslie Mandrake. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

“I have paid for my honor,” answered Taran, his voice rising, “more dearly than you would pay for yours. Do you ask me now to cast it away?” The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

The path narrowed to a ribbon, the ground rising sharply on our right side and dropping away on the left, a carpet of green tree- tops spreading beyond it. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

Missus Whitworth’s smile does not waver, but the slightest bit of pink rises in her cheeks. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

“Skeeter, I have a million things to do today—” The panic is rising up in my throat. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

I stepped into the garden as the sun was rising. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Jessie felt the telltale signs of her temper rising as hot blood rushed through her body. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

When the Belgian rises to close the window, the scent of all this reaches him: the storm, the ditch, the woman with the corn. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The darkness to the east undulated and flickered in the rays of the rising sun. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

The water slides up my bare calves as it rises, cool and soft. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

His shoes sank into the soil, which had become black and soupy in an instant, the water level rising. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Dunbar shouted at him emphatically in a voice rising clearly above the raucous commotion. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

His broomstick was still rising higher and higher, and started to drift lazily toward the forbidden forest and out of sight. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

It began in the 1960s with the rise in popularity of wigs made with South Korean hair in the African American community. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

Uncle Wilson smiled into the cloud of smoke rising from his pipe, and he crossed his bony legs. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

For the first time, I felt anger rising within me. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her arm rises and falls with a dancer’s grace. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

I caught a glimpse of the small, white wafer, the risen Christ, and then I closed my eyes and felt the host placed on my tongue. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Meanwhile, tensions between my mother and me were rising. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

At the point where I last saw him when the clouds descended, a sharp left turn would have taken Harris forty or fifty feet up a rocky rise to the tents. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

There was stunned silence from my brothers, followed by a rising swell of muttering and hissing. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

While the gods fought each other to a bloody standstill, an army of monsters would rise in the north. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Always there is the sense of a tide behind them, rising, gathering mass, carrying with it a slow and vindictive rage. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

All about me was a deep intense silence, and in it I heard my prayer, voiceless, wordless, rising up and up endlessly like the incense which burnt perpetually upon the altar. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

He smiles, bends and kisses the top of my head, the first notes of “Summertime” rising from the piano. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

The fireball continued rolling and rising, twisting itself into an enormous mushroom shape, glowing dark purple thousands of feet above the desert. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

She thought she saw a blush rising; but a moment later, Old Chao had both his shoes on. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

“If the ocean keeps rising the island will be swallowed up by the waves and I don’t even know how to swim!” The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Even in this skies-forsaken place, I can point unfailingly to where the sun rises and where it sets, to the Empire's capital in the north, Antium, and to Navium, its main port due south. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

As he turned onto West Grand Boulevard, however, he saw a pillar of smoke rising into the air. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Mr. Tweedie swallowed twice, his Adam’s apple rising and falling with emotion, but said nothing. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The swell was slow and oily, as if the water was reluctant to rise. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

As a college student in Germany, Fuchs had watched the rise of the Nazis with disgust. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

The dactyl screeched and took a few steps back from the noxious fumes now rising from the carpet. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

The wind picked up and the ground trembled as the horizon began to rise above the treetops. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

He was hanging upside down asleep, but the smell of me rising up to him would probably wake him up at any minute! Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

When it came time for the Yugoslavian crew to rise and sing, they launched into an odd rendition of “Yankee Doodle.” The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

"Okay," he said, swallowing down the dizzy feeling rising from his stomach. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

"Give it to me," he said, motioning for it almost immediately, his palm up, rising and falling with each step. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

For a few moments he hovered, his body rising and falling between his wings. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The brown water had risen to within inches of the wooden walkways. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The fury rising in Emily propelled her up from the ground and forward. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

‘The Cracks of Doom,’ he muttered, the old name rising to his mind. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

The apartment itself is small but luxurious, with built-in mahogany bookcases rising to the ceiling and dark, oily, wide-planked floors. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Hi,” I chirped, and smiled brightly as if I were a blinding sun that had just risen. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Mother asked, her eyebrows rising like crows’ wings. Rickshaw Girl 2007-02-01T00:00:00Z

I can see that Janice senses it’s all her ship, but the waterline is rising and she needs to make decisions. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Kit had risen to her feet and stood clinging to the table’s edge. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

A small wind had risen with the sun, blowing drifting snow over the smoking ashes. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

I say, my voice rising in a whine. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

The voices of the Ents were still rising and falling in their conclave. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

I’m accustomed to getting up before the sun rises; he pulls me back to bed. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

“Then why? Why do you hold me here while the sun is about to rise?” Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

He pressed his hand against it as they came up the last rise before the village. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

Unlike the fog in my hometown, the smoke wouldn’t burn away with the rising sun. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Gwydion hauled Taran into the saddle behind him, spoke a quiet command, and the white steed moved quickly into the rising mist. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

The chaplain looked from one to the other of the two men with rising doubt and hysteria. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

From upstairs, the thud of feet on floorboards and children’s voices, two or three at least, talking at once, rising, falling, and rising again, perhaps in dissent, perhaps excited agreement. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Then I notice something is rising up around me. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

She pushes down on the tops of her knees with both hands and rises. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

"And where we end. Esgred is yours, sweet prince. Take me to your castle. Let me see your proud towers rising from the sea." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Frankie raked a hand through his hair, his voice rising in agitation. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Yet those other Mediterranean zones not only failed to rival the Fertile Crescent as early sites of food production; they never gave rise to indigenous agriculture at all. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

‘No, and will not rise today, Master Holbytla. Nor ever again, one would think under this cloud. But time does not stand still, though the Sun be lost. Make haste!’ The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

In many urban areas, the gap is far worse, rising to more than 37 percent in places like New York City. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

“Gudu momi. Have you woken up, eh? Did you rise well?” Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

Taran felt a surge of answering anger, a flush rising to his cheeks, but he turned away. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

Toward the end of that year, the friends reunited at the American Physical Society meeting in New Orleans, where they basked in their rising eminence and remained, evidently, inseparable. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Huge gray mountains, steep and rocky, rise up into the clouds. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

When they came out, he stood on the rise of the church steps among the four enrobed ministers. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

They came to a gentle rise, where the main chamber widened to more than a hundred yards across—wider than the length of a football field. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sun was rising for the third time since he had put to sea when the fish started to circle. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fire rising from a pan on the stove, licking the ceiling and walls. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

The tide, steadily on the rise, had turned about three and a half hours before, at six- thirty; by midmorning sunlight lay like a glaze over the water, warming his back pleasantly. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

The cracked and broken pieces stand and re-form themselves around the liquid until the cup sits complete once more, soft swirls of steam rising into the air. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

I felt myself rising, light-headed with transcendence, an overflowing fountain. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

In his neighborhood, miles from the closest levee, the water had risen slowly enough that he knew it was unlikely that anyone had died in the flood. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

She could see the angel Xaphania gliding above the landing ground, and then rising and wheeling up to the tower as the craft made for the ramparts. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

The mosque sits firm as a rock, rising above the river of noise and movement rushing around it. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

He and Jay used to pretend that those big oak trees were ancient creatures rising from the earth’s core. I Survived Hurricane Katrina, 2005 2011-04-01T00:00:00Z

You have to picture what it was like to see that great mountain of flesh suddenly uncurl and rise into the sky. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

My stomach rises and falls like I'm on the tree swing at home. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

The main hall could accommodate more than five hundred, and its rising minarets announced prayers five times a day. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

That was fair of François, he decided, and the half-breed began his rise in Buck’s estimation. The Call of the Wild 1903-01-01T00:00:00Z

You do not have much time before the sun inevitably rises. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Afterward, she tottered on his arm, rising faintly over his line of vision, in a pair of suede three-inch leopard-print pumps. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

His voice seemed to rise from a calmer, deeper place, and he didn’t blink nearly as much. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

Around them animals were stirring: horses stamped, birds began, waking, to sing the dawn in, and here and there across the market meadow, those in the tents were beginning to rise and move. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

Behind them rise the steeples of several churches. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

By the time we got to the stores, those old Little Rock feelings had risen up inside of me again. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Suddenly, a flock of pigeons rise squawking from the grass. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The last Reb infantry walked away over the last rise. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

She imagines that her love can rise farther than that, much farther, up into the universe, into unreachable places, and to unreachable people. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

The moon was rising above the last mesa he had crossed from the east. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

“No hero is above fear, Percy. And you have risen above every hero. Not even Hercules—” “POSEIDON!” a voice roared. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

It is then I notice that not all of us has risen. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

One of the robed figures, the furthest-off one of all, the woman whom Digory thought so beautiful, was rising from its chair. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

Long after the moon had risen, they sat together, talking. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

I was rising out of myself, like I had at the marsh. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

The Man in the White Shirt felt the blood rise into his face. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

The sun was already beginning to set beyond new black clouds which were rising in the west, and men came out into the open to watch the last sunlight flame across the fields. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The first two hold me up with the rising of the sun. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

I feel thick, hot disgust rise up in my chest. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Slowly I let my gaze rise, immediately realizing again the horror of his eyes, drugged and cloudy. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

As he shuffled back, those freckles got lost in the red rising in his cheeks. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

I could feel the colour rising to my cheeks; if this man didn’t know 1 was lying then, he didn’t deserve to be on the police force. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Walls of evergreen trees fall and rise, breaking open to reveal wide meadows. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Molly feels anger rising in her chest—at Dina’s unwillingness to accept her for who she is, at Terry’s judgments and Jack’s need to placate her. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Robert and William slept soundly, their arms wrapped around each other in their trundle bed, their chests rising and falling in unison. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“For a fine dinner to celebrate. Come back to the coffeehouse a week from today, and we’ll watch the prices rise together.” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

At age forty, approximately one woman in a thousand develops breast cancer each year, whereas at age sixty the rate has risen to one in five hundred. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now every morning, Mac would rise early to put on a pot of coffee, and Bobby would come down in his clean white shirt, his tie loosened and sleeves unbuttoned. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

The entire structure is oriented toward the exact point at which the sun rises on the day of the summer solstice. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes it was a rising sound, like a question. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

The babies lay curled on Estella’s chest, their small bottoms rising and falling with her breath. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

There, heaven knows, I told the men to wait and guard the ships while I sent out patrols to rising ground. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Staring up through the ragged branches of the acacia to the stars, spangling the dark sky, he could see only the kindly face of Rekh the goldsmith rising before him in reproach. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

She rises slowly and takes a few steps up to the microphone and into the light. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

He heard her rise and then slump into a chair. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

She may have respected Woodhull, but she also realized that tensions were rising and the debate was dividing the women’s movement and weakening the National Woman Suffrage Association. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

From the direction of the cave I saw it: a thick column, rising fast, as if it came from a bonfire. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

As Gwydion helped him rise, Taran still stared in disbelief at the simple attire and the worn, lined face. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

“She just wants to get a rise out of you.” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Only when the moon began to rise—the edge of its great disc growing brighter and brighter on the skyline below and behind them—did he at last beg Holly to hurry. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The mountain is a biological island of rain forest in the center of Africa, an isolated world rising above dry plains, fifty miles across, blanketed with trees, bamboo, and alpine moor. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Rashid watched Diana’s eyes rise and flick back and forth from person to person, as if she wasn’t sure what to do. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Momma’s voice had risen to a shouting pitch, and I knew that whatever wrong I had committed was extremely serious. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We could take them only at great cost. The moment we attack one the others will rise against us.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

It's a rectangle with a henna-inspired border and a cooking pot in the middle with steam rising from it. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

The bomb was an exact copy of the American implosion bomb tested at Trinity, and the rising, twisting, pulsing ball of fire looked just the same. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Will Bigger Thomas rise and face the Court?” Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

The injured girl was small, and despite the slight rise and fall of her chest, she looked dead. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Harry did not dare look directly at Draco, but saw him obliquely: a figure slightly taller than he was, rising from an armchair, his face a pale and pointed blur beneath white-blond hair. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

The slanted rays of the rising sun fell into the basement. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

And so down the line it went, with each guest rising briefly, making a short speech, and then resuming his place. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

He could not know if they wished him to come to them as passionately as he wished to rise. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

They were mere yards from the front of the worship hall, the statues of the Six rising to meet them. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

The light of the fires jumped and danced, and the people sitting around the storytellers were boulders rising from the earth. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

It begins to rise upward now, as if being slowly vacuumed into the sky. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

I can’t tell if the sun has just set or if it’s about to rise, but everything in this world seems to be at peace. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

“You leave my sister alone!” he howled, rising, teetering to his feet. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

Soon the Argo II was rising into the sky. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

In September the average number of deaths per day began to rise at an alarming rate, and relatives and neighbors hurried anyone they suspected of having yellow fever off to Bush Hill. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

Satiated, the dark bird rises and joins a rolling cluster of rain clouds in the northern sky. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

She buttons my sleeves, and when she leans down to retie each of my black shoes, a mildewy smell rises from her bonnet. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

The coronation, which will mark my rise to power as well. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The storm which had been around us broke, and the rising dust seemed to shut off the light of the sun. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

She glanced at the rising sun— Time was running out. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

The stars above twinkled through the rising smoke, and Koffi used them as her guide. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

A whirring sound starts—like some kind of turbo jet engine—and rises to a fever pitch. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I push open the heavy doors, cross myself, light a candle, and sit in a pew, the dying Christ rising high above my head. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

“Come. I just want to make it to the top of that rise. And then we can rest.” The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Stores, nightclubs, cafes, and schools had closed, and drug dealers, gangs, and violence were on the rise. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Anya read one of her borrowed dragon books until the challah had risen enough, and then she stuck both loaves plus the little extra piece in the oven. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

He crossed a yard and followed a fence that led into Darling Street where Pilate lived in a narrow single-story house whose basement seemed to be rising from rather than settling into the ground. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

We would both rise to our feet, both of us knowing I was not deceived about her offer to tea nor she in my mention of a promise to Maxim. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

But they would rise and then get killed again. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

A tendril of something began to rise up in her stomach. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

Kyril Montana watched the chopper start, lift jerkily off the meadowland, and rise at an awkward slant, then whizz down the canyon, almost clipping treetops. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

As the opening draws near, apprehensions of small business owners rise, while others welcome the employment opportunities and shopping conveniences a SmartMart promises. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

More than one thought, like Holly, that the two does were likely to give rise to trouble. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

I stood trying to think of a neutral course that would resolve this quickly risen nightmare, but my tongue would not move. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

And his voice came out without rise or fall, without emphasis, and without any emotion. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

No smoke had risen from the chimney since that fateful Halloween; still they stared up at the Westing house, murder on their minds. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had got bored and had almost finished ironing my shirt when suddenly I heard Francis’s voice rise, with a hysterical edge. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

She could feel the heat rising from the ground outside, through the wheat brown, splintered planks of the outhouse in the yard, up through the walls and into her room. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

I turned to follow her hand and saw the clouds lifting and the earth rising up to meet us. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

Any second I expected to see Richard Parker rising up and coming for me. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

A knot on Jim’s head was rising, and there was going to be a nice purple welt on his leg. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Anger temporarily blocked out my nervousness about meeting the other tributes, but now I can feel my anxiety rising again. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

We laid her down with her feet toward the east so when the Day of Judgment came she would—may God grant it—rise up to face Jerusalem. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

Even though his fingers are callused from years on the streets, they’re so careful and gentle that I feel heat rising on my cheeks. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

He didn’t want Otis rising to join this fight, but as Ephialtes closed the last few feet, Percy had to switch focus. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

I hope to become a pilot so I can escape the pressures of my life and rise above all the tension that surrounds me. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

He could almost feel the clay under his hands, rising on the wheel—his own wheel!—into a shape that was grace itself. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

I clench up, dread rising in my throat. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

“What did you just say?” he asked, his voice rising. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

Walt and Billie had both known poverty when they were young and after struggling to rise above it saw nothing wrong with enjoying the fruits of their labor. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Some of us aren’t living hand-to-mouth. Some of us have risen in the world.” The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Every few minutes his voice would rise again as he called out a line or two, indicating where everyone should be in the prayer book. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

The buildings on this street, so near that John could touch them on either side, were narrow, also, rising like spears into the sky, and they were made of beaten gold and silver. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

And so did Goddard, even if he wouldn’t admit it aloud—for why would Goddard set this challenge before him if he didn’t believe Rowan would rise to it? Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

It was late afternoon; she’d only just risen, and it took her some time to shake off the effects of lull, the draught she drank to help her sleep. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Let us rise to the call of freedom-loving blood that is in us and send our answer to the tyranny that clanks its chains upon the South. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t want to feel the sadness caught in my chest start to rise and fill me up until it feels like I’m stuck beneath the water of the bayou. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

The two men walked between the rows some more, made the crest of the rise, and turned west behind some raspberry canes. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

He wore his cuffed, baggy work khakis and a short-sleeved white shirt, and labored at the center of a rising red cloud of dust like a crew-cut genie who’d just appeared there. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Harry gripped his flanks with his knees, feeling the great wings rising powerfully beneath them. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

Ben asks, his voice rising with the horror of it all. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

The sun rises in the sky until it’s directly over us. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

The din rises as people find their tables and their voices, though I can’t imagine anyone is actually saying what is on their mind. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

It was just that she had also begun to rise, once she had watched the gray mist of twilight give way to early sun, and leave for work. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

A pathetic mewling sound rises in my throat. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Those who believe that advocacy challenging mass incarceration can be successful without overturning the public consensus that gave rise to it are engaging in fanciful thinking, a form of denial. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

In the previous fifteen years, violent crime had risen 80 percent. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

As a result, despite one of the great education explosions in modern history, economic mobility—moving from one income group to another over the course of a lifetime—has stopped rising, researchers say. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

Perhaps because of rising standards of living, children are being treated better worldwide. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And that is all, ”said Dr. Calvin, rising. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

Their dark leaves shone and their berries glowed red in the light of the rising sun. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Grace looked like she was about to cry, and Joaquin felt a small well of panic rise up in his chest. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

My chest rises and falls, which is the only way I know I’m still breathing and standing here in the middle of my room. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

At last the hobbits saw, rising dimly before them, a steep dark land: they had come to the feet of the mountains, and to the green roots of tall Methedras. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

He pointed out toward some black shapes rising from the water against the darkening horizon, then raised a spyglass. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Already he could see the water level rising. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

In its place a new school has risen instantly, like a mirage: light-colored, block-shaped, glossy and modern. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

General subsidence of the waterfront, combined with a rise in elevation inland, have erased the city’s original oudines. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

A jockey in the pack heard a deep, plaintive sound rise up over the shouts from the crowd. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

A frail column of smoke was rising from the roof of one of the sheds, and I saw a horse tied to the door. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

He pulled and tore at it to loosen it and just as it broke free and his heart leaped to feel it rise he looked up, above the bag. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

When his turn arrives, Werner throws the water like all the others and the splash hits the prisoner in the chest and a perfunctory cheer rises. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

By 1900, at age twenty-six, he had risen in the ranks of the merchant service, carrying mail and cargo around the British Empire. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

Hannah could hear her voice beginning to rise into a whine she couldn’t control. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Steam rises from the surface so thick it obscures the walls, the ceiling, the dark shape in the corner. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“You will pardon me if I do not rise,” he said by way of greeting. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Note what appears to be smoke still rising from ruins in the center of the photograph. remember. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

Strong wing beats carried her into a thermal, a column of warm air that rises from the sun- heated ground in a spiraling bubble. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

There was an eerie glow in that part of the forest, and a thick plume of smoke began rising up from the snowy treetops. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

The next morning, The day returns, but nevermore Returns the traveller to the shore, And the tide rises, the tide falls. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

They traveled the length of the island with an air of disregarding it and being set on other business; they were less a progress than a momentous rise and fall or the whole ocean. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

How if a person dies, and their body is stolen by a zombie master, the zombie master will make the body rise and work all day and all night as a slave. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

TaShon rises to his knees, grabs his milk, and drinks it gone. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

"You will rise to the task; it is only necessary that you work hard and follow instructions." Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

As I lay on the earth, dust rising up in a thick haze, Sumac plummeted toward me with a loud cry. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

“Oh, my dear boy. Do not take that weight upon your shoulders, or you shall never rise from your knees.” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

Then suddenly with a deep-throated call a great horn blew, and the blasts of it smote the hills and echoed in the hollows, rising in a mighty shout above the roaring of the falls. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

They both stretched their arms to the rising sun. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

She stepped back into the street and saw smoke rising from the schoolhouse. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

Then he made every person in his section of the stands rise and sing the anthem with him. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mama’s blood pressure had risen dangerously after Patria’s breakdown on the front lawn. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

We would be pitiable creatures indeed to be so weak, for is not a man’s spirit given to him to rise above his misfortunes? Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

When they reached the bottom, the sun was just rising above the lake. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

Hazel felt a wave rise up inside of her and crash. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

The street lay dead quiet in the light of the lately risen moon, the gunfire thin and for a moment, distant. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

I can feel the fight rise in me. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

The kiln had to heat up slowly—too rapid a rise in temperature at the start, and the vessels would crack. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

I feel new words rising in my throat, prompted by the truth serum. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Suddenly a song began: a cold murmur, rising and falling. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

I rise and reach for a towel to smother it, when there’s a tentative knock and the bathroom door opens, revealing three familiar faces. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Oh, would the sinner rise tonight, and walk the little mile to his salvation, here to the mercy seat? Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

I imagined all the bubbles in the sea—always churning, rising. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

His voice was accelerating with emotion and rising again. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

On the night he had disappeared, he waited until the full moon had risen before leaving the tavern, and then he took his customary route home. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

He felt the heat rise in his face and neck. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

A wind that had sprung up in the night was blowing now keenly from the North, and it was rising; but the lands about looked grey and drear. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

In the bottom of the ninth, he connected on a long line drive that was still rising as it flew over the center fielder’s head. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

Stargirl’s hands were rising now from the arms of the Hot Seat... Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

His sentences usually had at least one break of faulty breath control, so that, often, his emphasized words, instead of rising, sank. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

Dread rises up in my middle, but I put it to the side. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Alarmed, I walk faster, and see that the fire rises from large, man-sized metal bowls set up on the sidewalks. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Cool with me. But, uh, a few pesky logistical problems. We got what—two weeks until that Roman feast day when Gaea is supposed to rise?” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

At first I don’t understand, but when she trembles and rises to my touch I realize what she’s showing me and want to cry with joy at the knowledge of it. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

If each of the ten items needed for the manufacture of something or other has risen 8 percent, the total price has risen just 8 percent, not 80 percent. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

A plump tangerine moon had just risen over Lake Michigan. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

A shout, beginning among the factionless and spreading to the Dauntless, rises up from the crowd like we are all parts of one organism, following the commands of a single brain. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

From World War I to Hitler’s rise, the Jews in Germany had been increasingly intermarrying. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

I must give the impression, therefore, despite my early risings, that I didn’t much care how lucky we were. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Tensions rise as the Southland enters the third day of the Tap-Out, but government officials say relief is on the way.” Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

And the stage contorts and trees rise as the dream twists into something else entirely. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z

The sap began to rise in the sugar bush, and Cutler’s was in a frenzy of activity. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

The big boy watched from the woods, and I could just about feel the envy and insecurity rising from him. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

"Hanged if I caught sight of that steep rise off to the side of the road," explained Captain Nips. The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z

The temperature was rising, the sun was shining longer and longer each day, but Endurance wasn’t free yet. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

Dicey nodded her head and watched the mists rising almost in straight lines, like rain going backwards. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Harry felt the color rising in his face. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

She was 3000 feet above sea level, but between the Tay and the Dee, the Cairngorm Mountains rise higher than that. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

Mount Elgon brooded over the town and the trees, rising to an undefined height, its profile buried in an anvil thunderhead, bathed in golden light. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The wonderful smell seemed to rise with them and fly out to fill the night. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

Ash felt heat rise in her cheeks at Lore’s words and asked, “Why would you think that?” Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

And then the bus was nothing but rising exhaust down the road. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z

The train arrives shortly after the sun has fully risen, and on the way to Boston the stories continue, while Elizabeth knits and Lorena props her head up sleepily on her arm. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

I watch the rise and fall of his T-shirt. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

There will be flooding too, as the seas rise and surge onto the land. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

His hair rises in a wave from his forehead. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

Joon’s head was tilted down, and there was barely a rise in his chest when he breathed. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

The library is part of an ancient high- rise that now lies almost entirely in the water several hundred feet from the lake's eastern edge, completely overgrown with wild grasses. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

Monday arrived cold and raw, with a rising wind that brought a smell of snow from a sky the color of plain carbon steel. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“For Gogol Ganguli,” it says on the front endpaper in his father’s tranquil hand, in red ballpoint ink, the letters rising gradually, optimistically, on the diagonal toward the upper right-hand corner of the page. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“They’re playing with the clocks again,” said Montana, rising, preparing to put the baby into its crib. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You have chosen well, though the path will not be easy. Many monsters will rise against you. Even some of my own servants have sided with Gaea, hoping to destroy your mortal world.” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

The bright moon is already on the rise, filling the arena with that strange twilight. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

He felt the anger rise like vomit in his throat. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Petersburg lies on an island; the Devils Thumb is on the main-land, rising from a frozen bald known as the Stikine Ice Cap. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The answer, once she had risen, once she began working with Nokomis to care for her family, was a sad answer. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

"Yes," she said, rising clumsily, "Send him in." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

We rise when the shadows grow long and head to our beds before the sun rises. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The path continued rising and falling for about another quarter of a mile, then dipped down into a hollow. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

He tightened his haunches to rise, then looked back in surprise. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

To the east, the sun was rising behind a long row of gray clouds. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

She patted my leg before rising to leave. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

He was very afraid, but a new emotion was rising up in him, giving him strength to keep putting one foot in front of the other. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

I rise to an elbow and decide not to dance around this. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

I rise from my bed, retrieve my journal, and do something I have never done before: I write what happened. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

We shot back over the little rise we had just topped, and took the nearest cover. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

There was sky above them, blue and clear to their surprise, for down under the Forest-roof they had not been able to see the rising morning and the lifting of the mist. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

The women’s voices rise around me, a soft chant that is still too loud for me, after the days and days of silence. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

I observe a small crab rising out of his shirt pocket. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

“Mad, am I?” said Moody, his voice rising uncontrollably. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

“Bacchus, where did you—?” The entire floor rumbled and began to rise. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

I will—I must— rise and plow the fields as soon as the baby comes out. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You need to tell me what happened,” Annie said, her voice rising. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

I force myself to rise and enter my room. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

The quiet laughs rise all around me, but Mr. Daniels holds his palm toward the class without taking his eyes off me, and the noise stops. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

I watch her chest rise and fall as she sighs, and then she shifts her gaze to her lace-curtained bedroom window. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

The guilt that rises up in me is near to crippling. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Good to be high up here; the smells of death don’t seem to be rising. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The rising sun makes a pinhole on the horizon. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

In the darkness just before dawn, they called us to rise. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

He fought down the anger rising in him. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

The shadows rise, morphing into a manlike shape. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Gerald asks questions about the recent rise of Hindu fundamentalism, a topic Gogol knows little about. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

From among the battle-hardened youth there shall rise the Foretold, the Greatest Emperor, scourge of our enemies, commander of a host most devastating. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

The vines were remnants of a handrail from a footbridge that the rising waters had washed away. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

He could feel a big lump already rising out of his scalp. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Ginika parked in the circular driveway of a house that announced its wealth, the stone exterior solid and overbearing, four white pillars rising portentously at the entrance. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

I vow to rise first every morning to stare at the dew on the green fruit shaped like a lightbulb. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

Molly, sitting across from Vivian in the living room, puts her book down and starts to rise. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

From her core came the desire to rise up to meet the gauntlet they had thrown down. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Each morning she rises at 6:30 and stretches in her underwear and makes a good pot of coffee. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Forgetting all decorum, I leap through the soft wet soil, careless of the seedlings underfoot, and rise on my toes to embrace him. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

A great big wonderful waxing bomber’s moon was rising as she arrived at the pickup airfield, and Maddie landed just before the local squadron took off. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

My hand rises to Mama’s brooch, and I rub my fingers over each point of the star. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Then my father’s voice spoke over the rise and fall of the music. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Angry red welts are rising on Henry’s arms and neck, on Abram and the others, too. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

With all this lightness I do not rise, I descend. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

The door to Helene's room opens, and I rise, but the physician shakes his head. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

A moment later we saw plumes of black smoke rise from the Tang people’s town. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

He watched how slowly the moon was rising, and hunched his shoulders against the cold. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Papa pointed to the smoke starting to rise from the stove. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

It was kind of amazing to watch the pink rise from her neck to her hairline as she spoke. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

He saw one of the men rise and flash a light. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

The branches of the trees swayed in a rising breeze. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

“This is too much!” he said, angrily rising again. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

I peer down the highway where the rising sun flashes on the windows of the endless line of trucks and buses and cars. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

I ended with a rise up, and then fell forward into a handstand, only to arch my back and let my legs curve behind me, never touching the ground. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Oppenheimer’s repute as a theoretician was growing, but the rise in Lawrence’s professional stature was on a higher plane entirely. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

The criminalization and demonization of black men is one habit America seems unlikely to break without addressing head-on the racial dynamics that have given rise to successive caste systems. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Tibbets and the crew watched the sun rise as they passed over Iwo Jima. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Boots said, her voice rising in pitch and intensity. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe when we got together and let our pain out it would rise up and reach someplace where the kid could feel it, too. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

The only thing that got him out of bed was knowing that every second he wasted meant he was one second closer to the rising of the sun. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

Then I hear a rising cadence of joy that makes the benches, walls, and windows seem to tremble. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

In a matter of seconds, the bees flew off, but they left behind two boys covered in stings, angry red welts rising on their faces and arms. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

An announcer’s voice then came over the public address system, asking the sellout crowd of eleven thousand to rise for the prayer, which everyone eagerly did. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was something slightly vague about his face—like bread dough that had begun to rise, smoothing out the bumps and cracks and depressions. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

He had been taken in hand by a lady who hoped to rise with the magazine. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

So we just stand there silently, watching our grimy little station rise up around us. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

I head past the mechanic shop, the library, and across the street to where all the low rising buildings look the same. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

My eyes burn and I am too weak to rise; the scent of sweat and blood makes me feel sick. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

But I think it’s like rising, growing even taller and seeing sights over a hedge, colors you’ve never seen before. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Meggie felt her anger make the blood rise to her face. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Ellen’s voice has risen in volume and pitch, her palms planted flat on the table. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

He realizes that he will probably not do as well as the few who have risen to high office or who were able to buy the vineyards where their grandfathers once picked grapes. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

We sat on the deck, watching the Hercules constellation rise in the night sky. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

“I was the one who insisted upon your father. I thought he was an up-and-coming preacher. A man with his wealth, with his connections—I thought he would rise like a star in Maine.” Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

Oasis Circle is a clearing, a nearly perfect circle of green ground cover and trees rising at least sixty feet, protecting it. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

Something more awful than all our African ancestors is rising with the seas. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

He seemed that instant almost to rise to pity. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

But eventually the river narrowed and deepened again, and soon ahead of them began to rise the mountains of the great central Asian plateau. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

I follow the rise of a rugged, green landscape, dotted with houses and buildings that look so tiny from here, they’re almost unnoticeable. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

On his left he could see tower tops above the' inner wall, their roofs gilded by the rising sun. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

And then he did rise from his wheelchair. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

I hit the wall until my shoulder aches, screaming for help, watching the water rise to my waist, my rib cage, my chest. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

It was his manner—the warmth of him, like steam rising from tea. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Then, a million voices seemed to rise up outside the windows, and they said: “Ten! Nine! Eight! Seven! Six! Five! Four! Three! Two! One!” The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Spender saw the thin dust rising in several places in the valley and he knew the pursuit was organized and ready. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Battle cry...rises from the throats of free men everywhere,” he wrote, imagining the movie opening with a prophetic voice-over. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Now that every turn in the weather whistles an ache through my bones, I stir in bed and the memories rise out of me like a buzz of flies from a carcass. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The dead may have risen and we might have been living in the end times of Revelation, but folks still wanted their tobacco. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

In the preceding min­utes its whining had been rising in volume to a scream. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Voices singing and sighing, rising, straining, then surging, teeming with pleasure that burst syllables into fragments of laughter. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Or maybe robots rise up and murder us all. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

On his knees, unable to rise, Jonas tried a second time. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

I try to rise, to fight back, but the next thing I feel is Sophia’s hands on my chest. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

It must be my honesty rising in revolt against all this sneaking around. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

That night the rain fell hard, and while they slept, no one had any idea that the river was quickly and steadily rising. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

"Stark!" they called as Bran trotted past, rising to their feet. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

It was by this time half-past five, and the sun was on the point of rising; but I found the kitchen still dark and silent. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

As we circled it, rising in a spiral, the sheer height of the thing blew my mind. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

The stela recounted the rise of a warrior-king named Harvest Mountain Lord who celebrated his ascension to the throne by decapitating his main rival during the coronation. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

She pitied him and rising lightly from the water like a sea-gull she told him his one chance was to abandon the raft and swim to shore. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

My apartment building, and everything else in my neighborhood, gets smaller and smaller as we continue to rise. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

I could feel the soggy heat rising from his body like he was a wet tea bag that had just been lifted from boiling water. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

To the south and east I could see smoke rising into the sky and the low, brown buildings of Trebon. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Outside, horses graze in a meadow, migrating birds dip and rise in perfect formation. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

In 1795 a selection of bones made their way to Paris, where they were examined by the rising star of paleontology, the youthful and aristocratic Georges Cuvier. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

Dill tried to laugh, but the rising black dome of rage pushing up through his chest and lungs cut him off. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

They made an undulating ridge, often rising almost to a thousand feet, and here and there falling again to low clefts or passes leading into the eastern land beyond. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Now I began to understand why Gethenians complain when the temperature rises in winter, and cheer up when it falls. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t a big hill that overlooked the farm, but at the rise he pulled up on the reins. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

As she saw me rise, she came over and asked, “How are you feeling?” Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the grave was filled, the young soldier tossed the shovel aside and then pointed to the watching boy, making a rising gesture with his hand. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

But now, with the temperature rising to the nineties at midday, I worry that it’ll cook in the trunk. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

The thought of the big stack of bills on the kitchen table rises in my mind. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

The sun had risen and was shining brightly when he returned with more comforting news. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

At the word tomorrow, something between fear and indignation rises in my chest. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the communal kitchen, smoke still rises from the ashes. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I felt the heat rise in my face, too, but from embarrassment, not indignation. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Birds swooped just below me, playfully dipping and then rising on the air currents. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

It was late on a summer’s night, when the twilight lasts forever, and it was warm, but still, Bod felt goose-pimples rising on his arms. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

He could hear the rising alarm in his own voice and was ashamed of it. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

Might the tall, thin man rise up and declare: We don’t like Ike. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The tracks came down out of the country on a banked rise and ran through the woods. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

On the river, you might see a stately junk, tottering its way upstream, slatted sails rising to meet the wind. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

The newly minted “human geneticist,” Josef Mengele, would soon rise to become the most epically perverse of Nazi researchers, whose experiments on prisoners would earn him the title Angel of Death. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

The rising mist of the river swirled in the beams of spotlights. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I had finished I lashed the oar in a vertical position to the inside of one of the corners of the raft, flat part, the masthead, rising in the air, handle disappearing underwater. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

On came Achilles, glorious as the sun when he rises. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now John finally rises to go upstairs, teetering a little, pulling his robe tightly around him. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Japan’s rising dominance and its sometimes touchy relations with its neighbors make it more important than ever to strip away persistent myths and to find answers. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

I cracked a pod from the stem and blew into the silk-lined hollow, sending the remaining puffs sailing, a snowy shower rising, vanishing into the clouds. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

I had risen up in bed, I bent forward: first surprise, then bewilderment, came over me; and then my blood crept cold through my veins. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

Everything was sort of violet and still, the sky green paling into gold beyond the gable of the house and a plume of smoke rising from the chimney without any wind. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had risen half-an-hour before her entrance, and had washed my face, and put on my clothes by the light of a half-moon just setting, whose rays streamed through the narrow window near my crib. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

I laugh and look away, willing the flush rising in my cheeks to vanish. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

Pycelle moved so slowly that Tyrion had time to fin-ish his egg and taste the plums—overcooked and watery, to his taste—before the sound of wings prompted him to rise. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

It looked like a child’s drawing of a skeleton rising up out of the ground. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

But no police have come, and no smoke rises from the stacks at Minerwa. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

But the light of the short day was fading, and on the next rise of the road he could make out the thing, tower or tree or whatever, no more clearly than before. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

She sat on the stoop, listening to the voices of her parents rising and falling like stormy winds. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

I may not be too late and it’s only how my chest rises and my throat grips that makes me realize all along I’ve thought I was too late. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

Sudden storms can rise at night and swamp ships without a trace. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

She drove all night and reached the Upper West Side as the sun was rising. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

For a few moments, Peeta and I take in the scene of our mentor trying to rise out of the slippery vile stuff from his stomach. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

It was hard to breathe in the rocky heat rising from the ground. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

I put my hand on the rise of her hip. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

The bombs fall diagonally; the bombers rise and scramble. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

We are breathing at the same pace, our chests rising and falling in unison. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

The air began to blush with a hint of pink, streaks of red, orange, purple rising behind the water. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

The prioress bids me rise and searches my face. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

There was a rising murmur of voices and he sensed that it was caused by his movements. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

So he worked from the chair, not rising, and every now and then he rested his head in his hands and closed his eyes and blanked the brain, and so rested. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Osage historian Louis F. Burns observed that after “only shreds and tatters remained” of his people, they had risen “from the ashes of their past.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

I won’t revile any more, it is senseless, I could drop down and never rise up again. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

He can feel heat and humidity rising from the loamy earth. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

It is difficult to see how such chaotic initial conditions could have given rise to a universe that is so smooth and regular on a large scale as ours is today. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

But what the myths show is how high they had risen above the ancient filth and fierceness by the time we have any knowledge of them. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

The wind had risen, cold and biting as a winter gale, but the forest opened a little, and as the ground dipped, they found themselves in a protected hollow in a glade of alders. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

“This is a time to take things easy?” my father asked, his hoarse voice rising. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

‘I will,’ said Frodo, rising and shivering a little as he left the warm blanket and pelts. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

‘If Gondor has such men still in these days of fading, great must have been its glory in the days of its rising.’ The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

The sun rises every day and defers to the moon every night. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

The painting brightened and then seemed to awaken, each mermaid and monster flexing and turning ever so slightly, as if rising from an epic nap. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

I realize I’m staring and glance away, heat rising in my cheeks. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

I felt him inhale, his chest rising with the movement. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Perhaps it was nothing more than his temperature rising and falling in fits. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

The hammering of our feet is the only sound other than the rising scream of the approaching airstrike. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

I felt a new fountain of hope rise up inside me. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The moon would rise in a few moments now, and he must attack before it rose. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

Or, as others said, would the sea rise over the island in a terrible flood? Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Eagle walked up toward the couch, and I felt the Colonel start to rise, but I held his shoulders down firmly, because if the Eagle smelled the Colonel’s breath we were done for sure. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

I feel the heat rise in my cheeks. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

Ms. Morales asked, her voice rising with incredulity. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

As Joe watched the flag rise with his hand over his heart, he was surprised to find that tears had crept into the corners of his eyes. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

I stopped as we reached an isolated alcove at the far side of the building, well away from the crowd that had gathered to watch the smoke rising. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

The sun is pouring through the windows, and as I bounce on her bed to annoy her, dust rises and sparkles in the sunrays. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

A star is a phoenix, destined to rise for a time from its own ashes.' Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Especially instructive are cases in which a single wild plant species was variously selected for different purposes and thereby gave rise to quite different-looking crops. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Yet, Sam Adams protested, this rising up of an army of a thousand from the very soil of New England had badly frightened General Gage. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

She went rigid with fear, goose bumps rising all over her body. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Mama rises shortly after for the dawn prayers, and I also hear Thaya Jaan running the water in the hall bathroom. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

Percy managed to rise and found himself shoulder to shoulder with Jason. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

But now a short, angry wizard stood before him, refusing, point-blank, to accept the prospect of disruption in his comfortable and ordered world — to believe that Voldemort could have risen. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Frankie curled over, one hand clasped over his head to protect it, the other steadying himself as he tried to rise. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

The possibility of a runaway greenhouse effect suggests that we have to be careful: Even a one- or two-degree rise in the global temperature can have catastrophic consequences. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Anger rises in me and crowds everything else out. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

As he watched, they grew faint, shrouded in the rising morning mist. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

Outside, Porthmadog’s squat houses shrank away and Miss Wren’s mountain came into view, rising grayly above the hills. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

Then rising swiftly up, far above the Towers of the Black Gate, high above the mountains, a vast soaring darkness sprang into the sky, flickering with fire. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

As the canoe made its way down the river, Roosevelt’s temperature began to rise again. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

The sun was newly risen, and the rocks and the lichens and mosses on them shone crisp and brilliant in the morning light, but nowhere could he see a figure. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

So he seemed to the lovely nymph Scylla when she was bathing in a little bay and caught sight of him rising from the sea. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

And for the next few days, whenever I saw the secret guard conferring in a corner or as they walked across a field, I’d feel a flush rising to my cheeks. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

The curtain has already risen on Our American Cousin. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

Two women in yellow dresses a few feet away rise and join a trio of men. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

His head was pounding, and even the gentle swaying of the litter was enough to make his gorge rise in his throat. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Then, like Lazarus reanimated, his chest began to rise and fall. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Then the little gurgling laugh came again, and the rising mad sound of it drowned out the voice, and then suddenly absolute silence. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

He heaved himself up for a better view and would have risen from the bed if the nurse had not restrained him. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

The old man turns his blind head, rising from confusion to listen. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s fine,” he said quietly, as he passed Lupin, who had half risen from his chair. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

My heart leaps to my throat when the shooter’s head rises. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

The Martian desert lay broiling like a prehistoric mud pot, waves of heat rising and shimmering. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m rising to my toes and my hands are on his chest and my eyes are closing and my lips are touching his. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

My swift rise to E’lir alienated me from most of the other students. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

He blew a smoke ring, the blue-gray circle rising up boiling within its own jetting form, hovering for an instant then disintegrating into a weaving strand. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Darkness has given me a brief reprieve, but by the time the sun rises, the Careers will have formulated a plan to kill me. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

She looked at me, then she spoke rapidly to the little girl in Italian, with a rising inflexion, then a pause, interrogatory. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

He closed his eyes, not to get lost in thought, but to quell the rising anger within him. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

They seemed to be rising out of the ground. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The ironmen will tell you that what is dead may never die, but rises again, harder and stronger. Like Reek. He smells of the grave, though, I grant you that.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The rocks stretched for miles, rising into jagged, fang-like mountains that pierced the cloudy sky. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

“That girl can flap her gums about me until the sun rises and sets again. I really don’t care.” Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

Then they went over a rise out of view, and she leaned down to stroke her baby’s hair, so beautiful beneath her hand, and went downstairs again. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

"A newsie challenged me to do something different—to not have blond hair for once. I rise to every challenge given to me." The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

The bridge had been bombed after all, so we watched them come in line after line over the railroad bridge, the smoke of the burning synagogue still rising black behind them. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

About this time we hear the sound of clicks rising from the sector adjacent to us. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

My nervousness rises like a trill in my throat as I realize, she knows. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Try to not be held down by gravity, and see how high you rise. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

I felt the heat rise to my face. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

We paused a moment to marvel at how the rising rim of gold sun silently announced itself by illuminating the sky with brilliant, broad streaks of pink, purple, and orange. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

I could just make out two stocky towers rising over the trees in the distance. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

Toby nodded at that, hope beginning to rise inside him once more. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

Others step in front of Saleem, and in the flurry of yells and moving bodies and rising dust, someone shoves him to the ground. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

A big, prosperous city rising up on its own in the stifling Amazon forest? 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

This in its small way is the very stuff of myths—the poor and suffering child who rises to glory, on a limited scale of course. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But being cut off from the exit's not good idea, so it’s early to rise tomorrow, before the sun even, so we can put some more ground between us and them.” The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

“Oh, come on, Moss,” said Esperanza, rising to grab his arm. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

I tried to see what he was looking at, but there was nothing there except for the Tuscarora Mountains rising up to meet the darkening sky. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

A thick smoke started rising from the village. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

The phenols, as we have seen, have a strong effect on metabolism, causing a potentially fatal rise in temperature; this is brought about by the “racing engine” effect of uncoupling. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

My arms rise slightly—as if recalling the black-and-white wings Cinna gave me — then come to rest at my sides. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

When it stopped, she would awake and rise. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

He wanted to see if Mom and Joe were running yet, too, but the rolling light pointed the other way now; the rising smoke stung his eyes. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

The mockingjays' voices rise up in a shrieking cry of alarm. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

We felt that all businessmen were thoroughly stupid and that no other group was capable of rising to challenge them. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her nerves were especially brittle with the rise in the humidity. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Lee rode left up a flat grassy rise. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I dashed outside in time to see a horseman come over the rise of the road from the direction of Danbury. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tawantinsuyu is known to have risen and fallen with breathtaking rapidity, but the exact chronology of its trajectory is disputed. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

A few moments later she calls my name and I rise from my desk, all eyes on me, and make my way to the porch. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

I opened the blinds, exposing the rising sun. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

Crowds of bright flowers were rising up from the dirt. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

He turned around very slowly—and there they were, hardly three steps away, as if they had risen right out of the snow. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

The sheets were rising and falling around me with Anna’s breathing. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Old prisoners scrambled for the upper tier, the more desirable, since heat rises. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

That the Roke-wind had risen against him was proof the thing that hunted him must be very close upon him now. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

I still can’t see him, but his voice seems to rise up from an adjacent bed of red roses. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Several other women were already rising to the beginning sounds of the drums. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

While we talked and waited for the souffle to complete its magic rise, the smell of baking chocolate seeped out of the kitchen and filled the house. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

The rise of the American saloon was the most visible symbol of what was becoming a greater national problem than ever. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

It’s evening, with a melon-colored sunset, loons calling in the distance, the drawn-out rising note that sounds like wolves. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

The sun eventually rises, its light slipping through the cracks and illuminating Peeta's face. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

I see it in his face, his fury rising every time he looks into my eyes. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

“You’ve already read this book. I’ve seen you, and besides, it’s only a silly novel—not fit for reading, and a sin on the Sabbath—” Lyddie could feel the gorge rising in her throat. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

The long bones have risen to the surface of her face, the skin tugged downward on them as if by irresistible gravitational pull. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Hell, I ain’t stopping now. I just got here,” die woman answered, rising rhythmically. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

She felt that old anger rise up in her, the anger that made her squeeze her fists, which she did now. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Then, mounting their ponies, they went slowly on again, feeling their way by the rise and fall of the ground. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

The noise rocked the air yet again, and the land beneath them suddenly started to rise toward the sky. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

Here, the results of recent molecular biological studies are illuminating in linking germs to the rise of food production, in Eurasia much more than in the Americas. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

She stalks off, and I reluctantly rise for our fourth straight day of house duty. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

My voice rises an octave with each word, each piece of the night terror flooding back to life. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Under the thick canopy of trees, it was difficult for true sunlight to find its way through, but that didn’t stop the heat from rising as the hours passed. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

“If you will excuse me,” she said, rising, “I will call my woman.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

But at the same time, we ought not be misled by those who insist that violent crime has driven the rise of this unprecedented system of racial and social control. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Conor felt the anger rising in the pit of his stomach— A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

There are glimmers of light in the sky as the sun gets set to rise, the road pointing right toward it, the river, too, rushing toward the dawn. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

“Todd!” he barks, feeling the rise in my Noise and getting excited himself. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

The noise outside had risen to a dreadful crescendo. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I got a message from home today. Our father is sick. They said he did not rise well three mornings in a row. I want to bring him here.” Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

I look down, embarrassed, and when I look back up I see that he’s rising to his feet. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Certain stars rise just before or set just after the Sun—and at times and positions that vary with the seasons. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The moon had risen higher, and floating in the Sound was a triangle of silver scales, trembling a little to the stiff, tinny drip of the banjoes on the lawn. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

A pale figure rises, little clods of earth from the milpita soundlessly crumbling off the small body. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

Below my rising panic lies an ocean of regret. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Caroline is just like you. She sleeps a hair thread away from waking, and she rises with the roosters.” Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

Around me were seabirds, egrets, and herons, as well as species of murky fish, many of them probably unknown to science, the only evidence of them the occasional spiny fin rising from the surface. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

We rise, dismissed, and she takes each of us in turn, pressing her chilly mouth against our cheeks. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The church would cling to Aristotle for a few more centuries, but the fall of Aristotle and the rise of the void and the infinite were clearly beginning. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

They make feelings rise and clatter and wreck, and sometimes that’s dangerous. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

When a severe selection pressure is applied—a rise in temperature or a sharp restriction of nutrients—organisms with the “fittest” phenotype are selected. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Wisps of smoke— suggesting she has either just been extinguished or is about to burst into flames—rise from her clothes. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Through the rising steam, he could see the beady eyes of all the monkeys glittering through the branches like hundreds of diamonds as they watched as well. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

The galley skimmed the water like a dragonfly, her oars rising and falling in perfect time. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

All eyes are fixed on people like Barack Obama and Oprah Winfrey, who have defied the odds and risen to power, fame, and fortune. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

It is rising, rising from the ground until it is so big that it blots out the sun. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

A battle took place on her face as she tried to stop the feelings rising up inside her. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

I find the trees especially striking, the way the rising sunlight glints off the leaves, highlighting various shades of green in different places. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

One rise over, she could see the magnolia where she had met Wash on New Year’s Eve. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

He thought it was an animal, and when he peered around the corner of a mausoleum, he saw an arm rising and falling with the steady, vicious thwop. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

My body doesn’t stop rising until I’m standing right in front of Quinton’s floating desk. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

The ogre fell to the straw-covered floor, and did not rise again. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

And then, like a gust of wind, the music picks us up and we are flying in hang gliders like birds over the mountains, swooping in valleys and rising over peaks. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Later that night, the sun less than an hour from rising and the guests finally gone, Soraya and I lay together for the first time. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

I rested my palm on Fig, comforted by the steady rise and fall of his tummy. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

His rondels were golden sunbursts, all his fastenings were gilded, and the red steel was burnished to such a high sheen that it shone like fire in the light of the rising sun. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

And still the oddest, tiniest rise of anger surfaced when his grandmother talked to his father like that. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

Cello music swelled out from the house, rising higher and higher until it lifted off the earth, sailing toward Venus. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

With the way I'm standing, my dress has risen above my knee, and the soldier notices. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

She had risen half off the bench, her whole body demanding that I answer her. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

The curtain rises, and the set is a hallway in our school. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

The sun would not rise for a little while yet. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

I rise, crossing the room to put one gloved hand against the pallid green skin of his face. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

As the carriage slowed to a stop, I began to rise. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

The air was still very cold and a cold night was coming, so that the brew, rising from cold water to a rolling boil, gave the good smell that competes successfully with other good smells. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

A small surge of gladness rises in my chest. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

And then at three or four in the morning, when the sun was poised to rise again, I would start the fast all over again. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

I feel a flutter through my chest as it rises, and a force as it flies out of my mouth. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

One of the soldiers stumbled in the rising dust, and the box crashed to the ground. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

Matt saw an ancient fish rise from the depths to look at him with a round, yellow eye. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Outside, the skyline has changed: the Park Plaza is no longer the tallest building around, but a squat leftover, dwarfed by the svelte glassy towers that rise around it. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

We got the fire going pretty high—almost as high as where Danny hid the flag—and the crackling and snapping and small explosions of pine resin sent out sparks that looked like rising stars. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

Don’t try to fool the populace, McCourt.You’d have to rise early in the morning to fool the likes of me. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

A low rising sun floods the kitchen with soft pink light. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

Like a strong wind, Dad rises from the clouds, strikes down the stairs, swift and sharp and mad as lightning. The Crossover 2014-03-18T00:00:00Z

Complex clusters of stone buildings, so tall and imposing they looked like gods rising out of the water, reached for the sky. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

As they got closer, the enormous, grand palace seemed to rise like a growing mountain. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

But race riots, anti-Vietnam War demonstrations, and crime in general were on the rise in American cities, and Ginny and the Warden worried about their children’s safety in Birmingham. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

Percy tried to sound confident, though he could feel the level of panic rising in the room. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

To show causality, we need a scenario in which more police are hired for reasons completely unrelated to rising crime. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

Loneliness rises all around me like fog in the early morning. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

She stared at it, then put her forefinger on her mouth, and I could see her chest rise and fall in shallow breaths. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

The trees had risen to meet him as he darted back the way his father had directed. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

The dress has the smell of old dead grandmother and I worry she might rise from the grave and curse me before the whole family and all assembled. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

A lane snaking to Marl Bank and Castlemorton, fields, more fields, a glimpse of an old gray turret rising above the firs. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

From the vantage high in the mountains he saw plumes of dark smoke rising from the land below. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I felt the blush of an anger rise on my neck. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Inside, it disintegrates and gives rise to a wormlike creature, which then develops into the new Phoenix, ready for the next five hundred years. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He lifts into the sky, silently rising higher and higher into the darkness. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Tidal waves were rising and, like starving mouths, swallowing morsels of land down dark blue throats. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

But when he came in earshot he heard the trampling roar of sea on rock, where combers, rising shoreward, thudded down on the sucking ebb—all sheeted with salt foam. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The strings of yarn flew free, rising on the breeze. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“And what would you do? Take them all on? The superior man rises above such squabbles,” White Deer reminded Father. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

To live between the prospects of an unknown eternal sky and a dark, enveloping Earth must have been glorious—for how else could it have given rise to such magnificent expression? Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Not long after supper, Sounder’s master went out of the cabin and stood listening, as he always did, to see if he could hear the cold winter wind beginning to rise in the hills. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“So I suppose you’re going to tell me he caused the hurricane in the West Country too?” said the Prime Minister, his temper rising with every pace he took. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

In the pause that follows, a gale of laughter rises from a few tables over, rippling through the air before settling back down, disappearing into the low, steady hum of conversations and clinking glasses. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

The audience members rise to their feet and cheer, making a noise that Withers can only describe as “breathtaking.” Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

She could smell the fragrant orange scent rising from his hands. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

“I cannot thank you enough, esteemed guest,” said the Archivist, stiffly rising from his little fire. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

There’s screaming, rising up and echoing between the buildings, between the chugging trains. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

“Lord, grant that the worthy among us here shall rise above wickedness and come out of the darkness into the wondrous light of our Holy Father. Amen.” The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sun had finished rising and its full radiance was dissolving La Llorona’s form. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

Dust-coated brick houses rise four stories on either side of the alley, and the noises of the market fade. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Night was come, and her planets were risen: a safe, still night: too serene for the companionship of fear. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

Their souls would go to the Underworld, and Alcyoneus would not rise—at least not yet. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

“Come see us again,” she offers, and Dedd, forced to rise to this politeness, adds, “Yes, now you know the way.” In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Marie-Laure can feel stone blocks mounting vertically on both sides to brush their shoulders: they seem to rise forever. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

To be sure, apostles of freedom have risen in many places. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

A voice rises above the wind and waves. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

As if by osmosis, a dark swell of emotion rises in me. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

As she strolled through the family rose gardens watching the sun rise, she felt happier than she had ever been. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Outside the wind was rising, clawing at the shutters of his chamber. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

A silver mist was rising from the snow and a delicate arc of light had formed above them. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

As the mummy lurched into camp, Burleson realized that it was none other than Beck Weathers, somehow risen from the dead. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

This time the words were on a pathetic rising note. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

I closed my eyes as I heard the deep moaning sound that issued from him, and the rising crescendo of the student body joining in. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You must know,” said my sister, rising, “it’s a pie; a savory pork pie.” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

There were shimmering forms of spirits, too, as if the dead had risen from Hades to watch the batde. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

Inside it was half-dark, for there was only one window high up on the wall and a thick blue smoke was rising from a corner where a young woman was busy cooking. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

Perhaps this was only the first of a whole battalion of crows, that would rise up and swoop at him. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

As the star of the West sank below the horizon, another star was rising: Islam. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Noodles started, his voice rising to another level each time he said it. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

The sun, rising against black pines and leafless trees, filled the grove with a baleful light. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

When he leaned forward to take the money, his stench—like sour milk and feet that hadn't been washed in weeks—flooded my nostrils and made my gorge rise. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

But she looked the same as she always had, only calmer somehow, asleep in the hay next to Bronwyn, her small, feathered chest rising and falling softly. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

If there’s a fight you hear the voices rising and catching each other up. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

After all, January 30 was the birthday of Wilhelm Gustloff, for whom the ship was named, and also the anniversary of Hitler’s rise to power. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Later he’d found himself lying on a little rise, face-up, tasting the field in his mouth, listening to the rain and explosions and bubbling sounds. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

She is a strange sight—a small rising sun in a field. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Smell of dish soap rises from the hole. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

The rising sun sent fingers of light through the pale white mists of dawn. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

I’d been asking myself that question since waking to the sound of pans clanking downstairs and the smell of bacon and coffee rising upstairs. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

In the same moment, his servants drew their weapons and a wind came out of nowhere—a howling, unnatural gale that whirled around the little island as the sea began to rise. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Another has been the problem of disentangling cause and effect in the rise of food production. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

It did not seem like today; a generation had risen and declined since he had talked to her last. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

Next, the Vapostori knelt in the direction of the rising sun and extended their arms with the palms upward. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

To a certain extent, Conant was bluffing, for the rising concern in Washington and the scientific community about a possible German bomb made an allied effort seem imperative, regardless of the prospects of success. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

I ask, feeling like a fire- work just set off, rising and rising and full of brilliant anticipation. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

A wind rises as the sun warms the earth. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The plane soars to the end of the valley, rises and turns elegantly, heading back toward the local airport to the west. The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z

Outside the castle, the sun set and the stars came out one by one and then they disappeared and gave way to the rising sun and still Despereaux slept. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

Some countries faced with rising drug crime or seemingly intractable rates of drug abuse and drug addiction chose the path of drug treatment, prevention, education, or economic investment. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

It called for individuals to rise up and work against the government. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Except it’s not the Goldengrove anymore, because the hobgoblin king and queen have captured the fairy princess whose laughter makes the sun rise. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

When Ira was nearing six, my mother was afflicted with consumption, and was soon so feeble that she could not rise from her bed. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the sun rises in the west and sets in the east. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Downtrodden Americans gravitated strongly toward the Horatio Alger protagonist, the lowly bred Everyman who rises from anonymity and hopelessness. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

She watched her mother rise and walk to the window. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

A stack of dirty pots rises from a sink, and a kettle of water boils on the stove. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

He pushed his undrunk tea back at Percy and waited for Ludo to rise; Bagman struggled to his feet, swigging down the last of his tea, the gold in his pockets chinking merrily. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

All at once we’re outside in a large field surrounded by woods, then we rise off the platform and become wrapped in clouds. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

I feel like a crystal glass that’s going to shatter if the noise and the tension, if the struggle and the fighting, if the loudness of it all rises even one decibel more. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

How many cries had risen up to her ears in the fire and smoke? City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

Anya hoisted the bowl, careful not to knock down too much of the dough’s rise. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

They waited and waited and finally got up when they heard the revving of a car engine and rising voices from nearby, “My money is gone! My money is gone!” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

He had chosen to rise in a balloon, convinced that the spectacle of a gigantic balloon suspended in the clouds would be an irresistible form of publicity for almost any carbonated drink. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The road trips to Irving and Abilene and San Angelo in that endless caravan of RVs and Suburbans and plain old sedans rising forth so proudly from the bowels of West Texas. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Trees were rowed the length of the long block beyond me, rising tall in dripping wetness above a series of cluttered backyards. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

He is firm in one conclusion, having risen from the factory floor only to be knocked down: “There is no working up anymore.” Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

But ahead were the naked granite mountains, rising out of erosion nibble and standing monolithic against the sky. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

I looked up now, and saw a curious thing: Behind Mr. Sharpe, Mr. Gitney was trying to rise out of his chair, but seemed unable so to do. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Harry stood quite still, eyes glazed, watching the place where a bright gold rim of dazzling sun was rising over the horizon. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

“Come back, boy!” she shouted, but Neville was rising straight up like a cork shot out of a bottle — twelve feet — twenty feet. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

The candle flames, rising up stilly on the night air, were reflected from the golden lioncels which studded the deep blue canopy of the bed. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

The full moon, well risen in a cloudless eastern sky, covered the high solitude with its light. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dad looked up at the three-quarter moon that was rising to the east of the city. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

Herbie killed the motor, and they both remained immobile for a moment, grinning stupidly through the windshield at the lovely stream and at the golden sunglow on pine tree tips rising along the slope beyond. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

But he was grinning at me, his tongue on his cold sore, his hand rising again. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Next he saw a cellar hole with smoke and stench still rising from it. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The unused field had a scrubby rise hiding its far side. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

"And the waters of wrath will rise high, and the Drowned God will spread his dominion across the green lands!" A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

It cuts so deep, I swear I can feel the blood rise and fight to bust out. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

The three of them stand there as the sun rises high enough to confirm their worst fears: every soldier they can see wears blue. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

For the third time in the century, the United States found itself trailing technologically during a period of rising international tension. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Is not the flame of a new faith rising from this sacrificial readinessI Indeed it does seem to Werner, as the weeks go by, that something new is rising. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

It seemed inconceivable that a spectacular streak of milk-white flame, rising and setting with the stars night after night, was not there for a reason, did not hold some portent for human affairs. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I stood for a few moments in front of each cell, checking whether an inmate was breathing by the rise and fall of sheets and blankets. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he was completely cast down she would prevent him from ever rising again by holding before him the evidence of his blood-guilt. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

Doctor Gordon’s private hospital crowned a grassy rise at the end of a long, secluded drive that had been whitened with broken quahog shells. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

The whale was enormous, rising so that its front half was totally clear of the water, towering over him, looking down on him, studying him. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

The anthem's playing yet again and we rise as President Snow himself takes the stage followed by a little girl carrying a cushion that holds the crown. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

The ground was rising steadily, and as they went forward it seemed that the trees became taller, darker, and thicker. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Granny had serious doubts about being able to see them go any further, for the cost of black education had risen dramatically, and her earnings from gardening had not. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Numbers rise and fall on the little screen, until finally it settles on 97 percent. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

I shouldn’t rise to the bait, but I do. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

She knocks again more insistently, and my resentment rises. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

On the rising ground behind the house, barely visible from the road, was a vertical orange tank twenty feet high. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Have I not described a pleasant site for a dwelling, when I speak of it as bosomed in hill and wood, and rising from the verge of a stream? Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

The veterans hadn’t noticed anything because Ruth, at the same moment, had risen to her feet and was fiddling with her coat. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the same time there was despair in his eyes, for the risen sun was reddening even Mrs. Harker’s pale face. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

At last in the rising sun it became what it really was—a red ship with two red sails. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tree-ear was no longer lying down; he had risen to his knees in the excitement of the story. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

A little later, I heard Spot beller like a fighting bull, then Mama’s voice rising high and sharp. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

Indeed, shortly after dark, after Beidleman’s group failed to return and the storm had risen to hurricane intensity, Boukreev realized they must be in trouble and made a courageous attempt to bring oxygen to them. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

The buttery fumes still rising from the tub, I think that is what pulls me from bed. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

The tide was rising, and the fisherman was eager to prepare for the day’s catch. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

She pointed at a distant temple tower rising above the forest of buildings. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Max breathes those two faint words, her shoulders rising and falling. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

The kind of bathroom they used to build in America when the country was on the rise. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

"No matter," Judge Ford said, rising to leave. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jon Snow remembered the wight rising, its eyes shining blue in the pale dead face. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Moss shouted, and the blood rushed to his face again, the heat rising in his cheeks. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

He pulled at his red whiskers and ran a hand through his thinning hair, which made it stand up like flames rising behind his head. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

It stumbled, finally, then fell, and did not rise. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

The sun here rises and sets at six exactly. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Despite the rising sun, stars sparkled in the sky next to a crescent moon. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

It’s like we’re all underwater, holding our breath until we can rise again into the air. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

All, including the emperor, sank to the floor in deference, and one of the queen’s companions had to nudge a servant to rise in order to take the peach. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

He says there’s many a young man that was hanged and now moldering in a lime pit that would be glad to rise up and dance the Irish dance. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

And for a city that had been so poor before Hitler's rise to power, the sound of work, of hammers ringing along the docks, building ships and U-boats, is beautiful, too. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Shh,” I say again, cuz my chest is starting to rise, my Noise starting to buzz too loud to be of any use at all. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

The music and laughter rise in the air. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

She could tell the marks of the leopards—who always drank at night—and the tiny marks of the duiker, who came shyly down to the river just as the sun was rising. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

I saw deer and hares, and once, at twilight, I swear I saw a phoenix rise, trailing smoke. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

The rising sun, small and cold in a bright sky, sent shadows westward from every break and hummock in the snow. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

Second, the price of steel and other materials had been on the rise. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

One of his lips began to rise and fall. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Outside the harbour on this side there rises for about half a mile a great reef, the sharp edge of which runs straight out from behind the south lighthouse. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

“This is it,” I said, my voice rising. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

Right away, as if I’d swallowed something, I felt a moist sickness rise up in my throat. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The ammonia reek of human urine rises from a nearby oleander hedge. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were real grown-up lunch boxes, proof that we had risen to the status we had looked forward to for so long. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

But before they could reach it, a party of horsemen appeared at the rise and galloped toward them. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

It consisted of a series of four brick terraces, rising above the Euphrates River, with lush flowering shrubs and trees spilling over the city. The Annotated Mona Lisa 1992-06-01T00:00:00Z

Although the sun had not risen, we could see it clearly ahead. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Nekwa, Papa-Nnukwu is still asleep. He will be upset that the medicines made him oversleep and he did not wake to watch the sun rise.” Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

When you talk, your voice, with its pauses, stresses, rises, and falls, shows how you intend your words to fit together. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

A knight stands in the road, his shoulders rising and falling, his sword in its scabbard casting a serpentine shadow on the ground. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

“Do you see what I’m talking about?” he asked, his pitch rising. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

A wind had risen, whispering among the black clusters of trees. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

I looked in the direction he gestured and saw chimney smoke rising from behind the hill. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“There won’t be any more trains tonight,” he said, “but we’ll rise at dawn and deliver you to the station before the first one leaves in the morning. Good enough?” Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

IV The Levy home stood among the pines on a small rise overlooking the gray waters of Bay St. Louis. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Good morning to you,”—said he, rising and walking off abruptly. Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z

Now there was a stripe of white hair rising from her forehead, as wide as her hand. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

In Hel’s world, the sun never rises and the day can never begin. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

He let his fingers trace along her outline, falling and rising again as they moved down her hips. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

"No," he says, and his face is so close, I can feel the heat rising off him. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

As I rise to return to the stateroom, there’s a shout of surprise from the men unrolling the canvas. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

He reined up, the horse rising and kicking the air. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

You might as well ask the sun to stop rising in the morning! P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

“It didn’t mean anything to us,” he remembered, “until a large group of planes came near the ship and we could see for the first time the rising sun emblem on the plane wings.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was his houseplant, hopeful green leaves rising from three bamboo stems, and when she took it, a sudden crushing loneliness lanced through her and stayed with her for weeks. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

You called me Pease, then!” he spat, rising and slapping me till I bent sideways over a bench. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

During the day the sun refused to rise gradually, as it had before. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

A long stride measured the schoolroom, and presently beside Miss Temple, who herself had risen, stood the same black column which had frowned on me so ominously from the hearthrug of Gateshead. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

Takumi looked at me with poorly disguised panic, and I felt lunch—fried chicken—rising in my stomach. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

They were said to have been seen at night rising from the ground like birds on fire. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

Dad’s voice, which had risen to fever pitch, now fell to a murmur. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

I am uncomfortably aware of the heat rising in my neck at the prospect of making heirs with Helene. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

I crouch to see where the water is coming from, but it seems to be coming from nowhere, rising up from the box’s glass bottom. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

Everything in my stomach was rising up, but I forbade that too. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Lillian had risen and was sitting at the kitchen table reading the Charleston News and Courier and finishing her first cup of coffee. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was thinking about her nightmare—Thalia’s tree splintered by lightning, Gaea rising on the hillside and unleashing her monsters on Camp Half-Blood. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

We did not have a strike though we saw some circles on the water from rising fish. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

By Alexander’s time, the rise of major philosophical schools, such as the Academy and Lyceum in Athens, began to introduce a degree of conformity on cosmological questions. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

The moon had risen higher since she and I had been by the horn, and the light coming from it wasn’t as bright. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

She holds the pool cue out, the tip of it touching my chest, her full eyebrows rising in challenge. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

A flicker of furtive movement in the shadows catches my attention, and the hair on my nape rises. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

We were early to bed and early to rise. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

As they reached the first of the houses, Lyra looked to the right and left, peering hard into the dimness, for the Aurora was fading and the moon still far from rising. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

‘They’ll never find us,’ he said, his voice rising, ‘even if they knew where we were, even if they sent a hundred people, they might never ever find us.’ I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

He turned and looked at the boy crouched above him blinking in the smoke rising up from the lamp and then he descended to the lower steps and sat and held the lamp out. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

One of the drunken slumberers had risen from the pack and was stumbling toward the boardwalk. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

It was the morning of the fifteenth of March, and over the Vale of Anduin the Sun was rising above the eastern shadow, and the south-west wind was blowing. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

The afghan is draped across her thighs, the rubber plant rises behind her like a fan. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

The Skulls' barracks rise ahead of us, and we duck inside. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Eagles, for example, identify thermal columns rising from the ground, spread their giant wings and allow the hot air to lift them upwards. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

From far below me a barber-chair thumping began and I felt myself rise on the tip of the sound from the floor. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

I look at her and smile as a wave of heat rises in my cheeks. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

And she reached into the bowl and pulled out the lump of rising bread dough and put it on her head. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

I felt a sort of dark anticipation rise up in me. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The afternoon sun painted her white and gold—rising on her hills like a noble city in a happy dream. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Luxa was rising up along the web spinning and twisting at a dizzying rate. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

She looked out at the wide expanse of golden grass being lashed by the rising wind, and wondered whether Anya had closed all the windows in their house in Rook Hill. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Cicero writes of the orbis he sometimes means the habitable dry land, a disk rising above the waves, and sometimes the whole globe of land and ocean. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

He was relendessly cheerful, even in the face of Mom’s rising anger. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The leaves shimmer in the heat, and the chitter of cicadas rises across the field. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Away to the east where the night was rising, the perimeter line was under heavy artillery fire. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

When the sun had risen further the old man realized that the fish was not tiring. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mom and Connor are in the corner, waiting as steam rises from the waffle iron. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

“Ma’am, I’m very grateful. We’re still rising. I guess we’ll go on up awhile yet. How many of you will it take to pull us north?” The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

He visits the dealer frequently, despite the rising prices, and buys one bottle after another after another. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

But by the late twenties, as he had witnessed the menacing rise of eugenics in the United States, he had begun to reconsider his enthusiasm. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

They were identical, a hundred of them with plumes of bluish smoke rising like a forest into the air. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

While she spun honey across the tops of a fresh pan of cakes, she explained to me in detail how the Assumption was nothing less than Mary rising up to heaven. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Angkar fears the survivors and children of the men they have killed will rise up one day and take their revenge. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Behind them, to Lee’s surprise, the zeppelin was still laboring to rise. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I nod, and Ayesha rises, knocking her head on the edge of the bunk as she stands up. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

As she steps out of the hotel elevator, smiling at him like he made the sun rise, his brain goes to mush. Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

He somehow knew that she would never rise and walk that long aisle to the mercy seat. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

I settled back on the couch and ran my hand over Fig’s rising belly. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

“What if he’s a spy?” another woman’s voice calls, rising in pitch. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

Ben Franklin’s autobiography was punched up after his death to underscore his rise from obscurity. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

The woods’ve been rising up into hills for an hour or two now and we rush up ’em and down ’em and up ’em again and sometimes it’s more like hiking than running. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

We tried to paddle against it but had no more luck than flot- sam caught in a tidal wave, and then it thudded against our feet and we were rising, too, riding its back. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

I have only the haziest recollection of waving at my mother and sister in a rising cloud of diesel exhaust and mosquitoes as they began their slow, permanent exodus from the Congo. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Gaines could stomach the police cars, but he wasn’t necessarily prepared for the towering antenna rising up from the KMID-TV van. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

I rambled:... the relationship of the novel to the rise of the middle class in eighteenth-century Europe. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The hill jutted above the dense tangle of forest, rising solitary and sudden, its windswept heights visible from miles off. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Here the grass was almost as tall as he was, rising up all around him, a shimmering green cage. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

August gazed at the sky where the moon was rising, large and ghostly silver. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Breathless and sweating, I look at the narrow tracks rising steeply up the hillside: old goat trails leading through the barren hills of Turkey. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

I breathe deeply, and his chest rises and falls with mine. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

I stuff the pendant back into my pocket and rise. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

She reminded me of a little canary back there, her gentle whistle rising above the voices, organ, and piano. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Chineke! I thank you for this new morning! I thank you for the sun that rises.” Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

Since a Terraplane is another thing with wings, I edged up to twenty-five miles an hour, watching the needle rise. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

The only thing that distracted her was the rising frustration that someone had tried to reach her via gram and she had no idea what the message was. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Beyond it, Harry could just make out the ghostly shapes of hundreds and hundreds of tents, rising up the gentle slope of a large field toward a dark wood on the horizon. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Later, when the cut bush was dried, we set fire to it and watched the thick smoke rise to the blue summer sky. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

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

So I got to head out tonight and be there when the sun comes up, ready to strike the first big fish that rises. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Matthias started pacing, his voice rising, as if the memories were getting the better of him. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

In their living room, at the empathy box, Iran swiftly snapped the switch, her face animated with growing gladness; it lit her up like a rising new crescent of moon. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

The sun was beginning to break through, the mist was rising. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

While the rain continued it had seemed like the murmur of their voices, rising and swelling a little, now and then, with gusts of emotion. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

Mark let go of the device just before he hit the sharp corner of the slowly rising hatch door, leaping to catch Alec’s hand and grab at the metal with his other. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

I can measure the rate of water rising over time. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

She watched the smoke rise into the sky and thought sadly of all the books the Starks had gathered over the centuries. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

She lowered the bowl, only to behold — rising above its rim like the morning sun — Grover. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Rupp property is on a rise, an exposed plateau, from which he could see the harvested, glowing land of River Valley Farm—scenery that occupied him for perhaps an hour. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

Byzantine domes hovered over the city like rising balloons. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

They stared at the muted brown home, a tall chain-link fence rising up around it. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

I fell onto my stomach and was beginning to rise when I heard a yelp from behind me, a grunt, the scuffle of boot heels on the floorboards. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

“I’ll let you get some rest,” Doc says, rising from the bed. Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

The hedge is destroyed, the rails of the light railway are torn up and rise stiffly in the air in great arches. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the fields of Veracruz, among farmers and their donkeys piled with sugarcane, rises a mountain. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Then I fell into a sound sleep that lasted hours beyond my usual rising time. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

She rises and goes behind the desk at the nurses’ station. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

The heat rises from the green hood, reminding her of the ocean the day before it wiped the beach clean of homes, God’s bits of wood. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“What we are is what you made us. On Bear Island every child learns to fear krakens rising from the sea.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z