Steam is rising off the hot pools, and the red leaves of the weirwood are rustling. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Outside were snowy mountains dotted with pine trees, the sun rising red between two peaks. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

All around him, wights were rising from beneath the snow. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The little window is open, through it I see the familiar picture of the street with the rising spire of the church at the end. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Back in 1968, people saw Earth rising over the moon and believed they mattered. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Stargirl’s hands were rising now from the arms of the Hot Seat... Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

He could feel her breathing next to him, could see the puffs of steam rising from her mouth before disappearing into the cold sky. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

I can already feel the welt rising up, the swelling closing my eye. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

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

The flame sped into the air, rising higher and coming closer and shedding sparks and smoke, and then fell with a great splash of fire near the gun. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

I could feel dread rising in my chest. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

We watched them against the horizon line, rising and falling. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Now, eight years later, he was good enough to be the only rising junior on the varsity team. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

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

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

It was still night, but the first red glow of dawn was rising in a faint crescent over the pine woods. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Sister McKinnon, it was good to see you. I—” Brother McKinnon grabbed Dill’s arm and squeezed hard, his voice rising, spraying flecks of spit. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

Blond-haired, well built and as graceful as a cat on the court, Andre was one of South Africa’s rising tennis stars. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

The rising sun was buttering the clouds, the sea was royal blue, and dolphins darted in and out of the water, weaving between the rocks with absolute grace. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

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

There before her in her mind’s eye was a fortress rising up from the frigid sea like a mountain of snow. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

I can make out only the first two letters before the remaining letters get lost in curves that look like a sales chart for a business that is rising and failing regularly. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Nathan looked at the rising half-full moon; shadows were covering the desert, deepening and darkening the colors of the land and mesas. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

A horn’s brassy trumpeting split the air without warning, its summons rising from the distant Temple of Lkossa to reverberate across the Night Zoo’s lawns in long, sonorous notes. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Half a mile east, a dark plume of smoke was rising where a tent had been set afire. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I saw in my mind escarpments rising into the clouds, a kind of natural Great Wall of China. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

But no one said a word; all eyes were glued to the girl, now lying there as if asleep, her chest rising and falling with shallow breaths. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Mom and Dad seemed frozen, staring at the rising water. I Survived Hurricane Katrina, 2005 2011-04-01T00:00:00Z

Instead, she stood at the door and watched her angel, his lids closed, the form of his body beneath the covers, rising and falling as he breathed in and out. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

Blinking and bleary-eyed, Ash went to the front door and opened it, and the rising sun flooded into the hall, momentarily blinding her. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

The rain was falling faster now and the wind was rising. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

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 moon was rising and its reflection on the water made a long silver-white path that connected seamlessly with the ground. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

“Do you see what I’m talking about?” he asked, his pitch rising. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

We stand on a hill seeing a huge ridge that extends miles south of us, rising in the mist. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

The smoke was getting thicker and flames were rising above the edge of the roof. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

The yells of fighting and sharp crackle of smashing glass blended with dinosaur growls and occasional musket shots in a rising tide of terror that seemed to seep from the streets all around them. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

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

Lydia said, a rising alarm in her voice. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

It must be my honesty rising in revolt against all this sneaking around. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

He saw a pair of small, pink, turkeylike legs rising to a gray, feathery plumpness. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

They didn’t say anything after that, the cafeteria like a wave of sound rising and falling every few seconds. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Werfel sat on a flat stone, looking at the rising sun. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

The rider gazed at him, expressionless, and Con felt perspiration rising on his forehead. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

We got to Saint Augustine’s School for Girls as the sun was rising. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

There was smoke rising from Seal Rock as well, where once there had been only ruins. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I feel the plan moving inside me like thaw-time waters rising between cliffs. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

He was relendessly cheerful, even in the face of Mom’s rising anger. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

And as if in sympathy with him, a wind was rising. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Alex could see his shoulders rising and falling as he tried to summon up the courage to go. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

"Are you sure?" her friend says, her voice rising with excitement. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Cooper saw the anger rising in Johnson’s face. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

It was a small rebellion, but an unmistakable one, and Lord Raiden felt a familiar frustration rising in him. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

With the rising sea levels and the superstorms and the wildfires. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

They walked in silence for a long time through dense, flat brush with thin trees rising straight and high all around them. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

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

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

The sun is rising through a window at the end of the room. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

He leveled his chin, anger rising in his gaze. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

It occurs to me with rising concern that a blow-in can also blow away. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

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

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

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

I could almost see the steam rising from his shoulders. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

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

It felt good to grab him, to anticipate the warm pressure of his rising and falling chest. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

I turned my back, face burning, goose bumps rising. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

And then at last over the miles between there came a rumble, rising to a deafening crash and roar; the earth shook, the plain heaved and cracked, and Orodruin reeled. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

Coyote, who became curious and envious, watched the water monsters and their influence over the rising and falling of waves. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

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

You can at least try to, if you want to—there’s nothing wrong in rising.” Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

He sang with his whole body, phrasing each verse as naturally as he walked, his voice rising above all the others, blending with that of the lucid horn. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

He looked up with those sad eyes and then came the deep laugh out of nowhere that didn’t sound like a laugh at all, rising over the scratchy rattle of “Ghostbusters” on the television screen. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

The mist was rising all around us from the fields. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

This was our bid for permanence: a rising generation that understood what was possible—and that even more was possible for them. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

To maintain power in the face of the country’s rising and restless black majority, the government realized they needed a newer and more robust set of tools. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

First there’s guitar music strumming fast and passionate, then flute music trilling and waving and rising and falling like the moun- tains and rivers. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

And the strange new sun rising in the west. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’ll get bowls and spoons,” Esperanza said, rising from the table and then making a silent count of those at the table. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

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

He opened his eyes and seized it, took it in, comprehended it all at once, and found that it came accompanied by a fierce determination, a sense of rising resolution. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

The stars above twinkled through the rising smoke, and Koffi used them as her guide. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Not quite mountains, but rising fast, full of gorges and deep brush and places you could die. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

Another, wilder and more tangled landscape rising up, from beneath the surface of this one. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

But instead of words, all I feel are the heat of tears rising up my throat. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

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

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

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

Her stomach rising in her throat, she rushed to her nightstand and grabbed the pitcher of water atop it. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

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

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

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

His voice is rising, spots of colour appear on his cheeks. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sun was hot now although the breeze was rising gently. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

The same mountain range rising in the distance beyond the Golden Crescent. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

The creature was up, rising like a Strigoi from a crypt. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

The bright sun glittered on the gold eye, rising on the coach door, on the black sheen of the strong horses. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

To his right a war galley stroked serene against the rising sun; to his left, a battered old cog raced before a storm, her sails in rags. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

‘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

The Picketts lived on the side with the stone-gabled walls that forced the rising water in our direction.“He probably wouldn’t even remember me.” Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

The confession hovered in the air a moment, before floating away with the smoke rising from her cigarette. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

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

Then she quickly bailed out the boat, loaded it, and cast off, paddling away from the rising sun. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The rising sun nudged above the horizon and colored the eastern sky, flooding the Garrett farm with light, which shone on Booth’s face. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

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 sun was rising over the trees behind the brook, rising in waves of molten pink. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Most of those people lived in shoreline communities, where rising numbers were beginning to change agriculture from an option to a necessity. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

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

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

The sun was rising by the time he emerged from the stacks clutching the book, and he might have been tired from staying up all night, but energy thrummed through him. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

The wind swirled around him, gravel crunched beneath his boots, while ahead the white ribbon followed the lines of the hills, rising higher and higher, until it was lost beyond the western horizon. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

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

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

Soft colors of rusted tin and old boards, twists of smoke rising from cook fires. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

The full moon is rising over the chimneys and gabled rooftops of the little town as I walk up the steps to the Ruffed Grouse Hotel and enter the lobby. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The heat rising from the oil burner chimneys across the highway distorted and magnified it. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

Time came and went, mountains rising and falling, vines creeping over the slumbering city, concealing it with layers of thorns and leaves. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

So now, three hundred feet in the night and rising higher, while he should have been trembling, he was not. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

They have gone through this cycle at least twice, possibly more—rising to awesome heights, eroding away to nothingness, rising again, each time recycling their component materials in a dazzlingly confused and complex geology. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

I hope the darkness hides the rising color in my cheeks. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

“If you will excuse me,” she said, rising, “I will call my woman.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

We watch for a minute or two as the dust trail keeps rising, heading toward Haven at the slow speed of a distant cloud. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

Four immense two-story buildings were rising in various stages of construction. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Then he heard it again, rising from a pile of waste papers and soot that had blown against the concrete wall. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then he climbed away from the rising water. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

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

His only response is to pop open another beer and attack the thirty-five pounds of meat with his tongs like it’s in danger of rising up and devouring us all. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

"Forget the clues," she said aloud, rising from her desk to putter about the room. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

Elizabeth’s spirits soon rising to playfulness again, she wanted Mr. Darcy to account for his having ever fallen in love with her. Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z

Up wells a wail from inside Rosemary, cracking her jaw open, wider and louder than any human cry I've ever heard ever, rising like a police siren, but much slower and so much sadder. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

Ranofer sat straight up, the goose flesh rising on his arms and little trickles running down his spine. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

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

His voice was accelerating with emotion and rising again. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

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

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

Seen from this perspective, with the stone tower rising up just beyond the dormitory, the buildings gave the impression of a fortress rather than a school. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

As she stepped out into the brightness, the rising scent of warmed stone was like a friendly embrace. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Jon Snow remembered the wight rising, its eyes shining blue in the pale dead face. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

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

Before I knew it, Jilly was rising from the bench and bowing to applause. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

Finally, I hear him whisper that the sun is rising. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

But if you’re surrounded by people who say ‘I want mine now,’ you end up with a few people with everything and a military to keep the poor ones from rising up and stealing it.” Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

The light came grey and pale, and they did not see the rising of the sun. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Together they plummeted like a stone, down, down, down toward the rising ground. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

A light mist was rising off the water, and through it, Inej saw Kaz and the others waiting near the pier. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Not just with objective wonder at the rising of a truth, fragmentary or not, up through what often seemed to be an impenetrable mass of prejudices, clichés, and bromides. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

Sobered by the force of the rising tempest, I realized that I’d gotten down the trickiest ground just in the nick of time. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

Too hot meant propellant-tank pressures rising dangerously high; too cold meant radiators freezing. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Numerous inmates shouted back their disagreement at me, but rising over them all was the roar of Grandma. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

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

Moreover, despite the rising global tensions with the USSR, the United States was enjoying one of the most prosperous decades in its history. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Harry noticed a dull red flush rising up out of Hagrid’s wild black beard, and his heart sank. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

When the sky began to lighten, Ellsberg looked to his left and watched a massive red sun rising, it seemed, straight out of the water. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

His benign smile is less sure now, and people in the audience are beginning to speak amongst themselves, concern rising like the tide. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Then I leave his room and walk to the doors of the barracks and out into the rising sun. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

The hundreds of small, unavenged humiliations which had been rising in me for months. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

I can feel the now familiar hysteria rising up in me, and I point at the ground. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

They cried and wailed, for fear and great wonder had come upon them with the rising of the day. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

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

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

Even though it’s hot as sin and steam’s already rising off the blacktop, kids are throwing balls, kicking cans, skipping rope. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

The mist was rising around her as Adela began to think. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Nok looked behind them, at the Gold lights of the western shore winking off with the rising sun. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

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

He liked being near enough to hear the approach of death in the rising panic of his victims. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Day in and day out Kinjari eyes me, staring like he sees the sun rising in my eyes. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

“Yes, my husband,” Lady Constance said obediently, rising and gathering the children to her, while her ladies hastily collected embroidery frames, cloaks, and fripperies. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

Water kept rising and rising until the entire pond bed was filled with a thin layer of water. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

“I have made covenants that will place me in a position of unfathomable power. After biding my time for long years, I feel my hour of triumph at hand. The evening star is rising.” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

The magic was already faded, icy brightness turning back to common dew in the light of the rising sun. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The elevator ceased rising; its doors slid back, and there, spread out ahead of them, deserted except for empty parked vehicles, lay the police station’s roof field. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

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

Birds swooped just below me, playfully dipping and then rising on the air currents. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

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

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

It was growing colder, unseasonably cold for the middle of May, and the fog, though not heavy, was rising off the water, thickening imperceptibly, and obscuring the lowcountry in its passage across the land. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

She saw such behavior as a troubling sign of the rising shiftlessness of the age. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Looking out, she saw the bright shout of a red hat, a child in a purple jacket pressed against the window, a bald head just rising over a stiff rectangle of newspaper. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

A sand shark passed over Mom’s head, swimming through the bubbles rising from her regulator. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

There was no rising smoke, no people, sheep, or cows. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

And that lie that success was a rising upward. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

For centuries it stood on equal ground with its neighbors, the rising Maya states to the east and Teotihuacan to the north. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

“I will feel no hesitation about sending you away,” he said, rising, “if it seems to be necessary. Luke?” he said. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

Neither could she see that around them there were islands rising high above the sea, many islands. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dauntless shuddered and leaped onto her hydrofoils, rising above the waves. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

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

As though he were serenading the rising sun, Jack went on blowing till the shelters were astir and the hunters crept to the platform and the littluns whimpered as now they so frequently did. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

The sun was rising behind her now; she could feel the heat on her back, and it gave her courage. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Unless it was when he put wood on the fire and sat down and talked while it burned, and the steam began rising in white clouds once more under the little roof. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

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

“You’ve got a boy! Easy,” he said, for Adam had seen the mess in the bed and a green was rising in his face. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

The very plants were unknown to them—pink lousewort with its sprays of hooked flowers, bog asphodel and the thin-stemmed blooms of the sundews, rising above their hairy, fly-catching mouths, all shut fast by night. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

He admired the sycamores, rising like important ideas from pedestrian plots of short grass. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Others are romantic comedies, a meet-cute ruined by mishaps and bad timing, finally leading to a kiss atop a tall building—the metropolis glimmering in the background, moon rising, love song playing over the credits. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

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

“Hey!” called Ben from the other end of the table, rising slightly so he could see better. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

She drove all night and reached the Upper West Side as the sun was rising. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

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

“Mad, am I?” said Moody, his voice rising uncontrollably. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

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

On and on, the clouds passing sometimes without me noticing, the moons rising, stars peeping. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

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

But I didn’t pay any mind to the rising tensions. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

She could feel the summer heat surrounding her as if it were rising from her body, and she reached up and squeezed the last droplets of water from her hair. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

He can feel heat and humidity rising from the loamy earth. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Fortunately, the sun has a wonderfully glorious habit of rising every morning. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

Matthias started pacing, his voice rising, as if the memories were getting the better of him. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Steam would be rising from the starch, the air cool at last. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Incense rising with the pungency of irrational hope. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

His foot and his head hurt, and he felt a lump rising on the side of his head. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Panic was rising up from my toes, through my guts, into my throat. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

In 1938, Nazi Germany was a rising threat, and so was Imperial Japan. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

But the happiness of having a job did not keep another worry from rising to plague me. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

My Lord, I do not say this out of concern for the boy!” said Wormtail, his voice rising squeakily. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

"Yes," she said, rising clumsily, "Send him in." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

He swallowed hard, drew a breath and made another attempt, producing this time a roll call on a rising chromatic scale. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

She flipped the notebook open, irritation rising with every whipped-over page. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Cultures that believe that the route to success lies in rising before dawn 360 days a year are scarcely going to give their children three straight months off in the summer. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Bennet, with great civility, begged her ladyship to take some refreshment; but Lady Catherine very resolutely, and not very politely, declined eating anything; and then, rising up, said to Elizabeth, Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z

The setting sun on one side and rising moon on the other. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

The road curved and we saw the three cars looking quite small, the dust rising from the wheels and going off through the trees. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

“Hi, Dr. Rivers,” Justyce says, rising to give her a hug. Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

The door to the house is standing open, and I can hear voices inside, rising and falling. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

“No, no, you forget it,” he shot back, his voice rising. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was becoming more argumentative, and his voice was rising. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

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

He points to a cluster of ruins on the flank of the hill rising from the road. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

At the center stood a clock tower, the tallest of the interior structures, rising to a height of 120 feet. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

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

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

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

I was savoring the sound of Muthu’s snores rising and falling in concert with yours, after telling you our bedtime tale, when I heard Arul sneaking out of his tent. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Rashid ran back inside and looked at Kaitlin, expecting to see that she had stopped breathing, but her chest was still rising and falling. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

With a feeling of panic rising in her, Ash began to run toward the courtyard, realizing that she would need to overtake them in order to arrive home before they did. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The mare had taken him past the Corderos’ and into the graveyard, and he had seen the mists rising and pooling, coalescing into vaguely human shapes. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

I feel heat rising in my cheeks as I imagine Gram trapped in Morning Glory Cottage, forced to live behind her curtains. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

His voice got higher and slower, as if he expected it to be rising into the church rafters. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

“It forgot,” Resch said, rising to his feet, “that this is my job. I can almost foretell what an android is going to do, I suppose you can, too.” Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

And talking about shaking a stick—when the bubbles started rising high, Daddy let Joe do the magic trick. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

It was almost as if the sound sprang up at the rising of his hand, just as the music of a great orchestra seems to leap under the bâton of the conductor. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

I want to keep cool and collected, but the blood is rising to my face. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t understand how you can be so calm about this,” I say, my frustration rising. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

My heart feels as if it's a cricket ball, rising up one minute only to head straight to the ground a minute later. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

Sometimes his breath came between his chattering teeth in gusts, rising above the rain and the winds that swished down the corridors; at other times I had to bend to listen. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

Koffi's chest was rising and falling more rapidly, and her lips were darkening. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

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

He said, “John Kwang. The rising star of the east. Prince of Northern Boulevard. What goes on?” Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s strong and beautiful, with the sun rising behind it. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

He turned quickly, rising, remained off balance, and she lunged toward him. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

All he could see was a big house rising gloomily between the trees. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

You might not notice the water rising as one wave follows another, but if you wait half an hour, the dry patch you were sitting on is in danger of being overtaken by water. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

‘Hm, hoom, now we can talk easier. You can sit on the floor, and I will lie down; that will prevent this drink from rising to my head and sending me to sleep.’ The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

“Let me have clear thoughts, clear speech, and a good path to walk this day,” I prayed as I watched the rising sun. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was still an echo as of following feet in the cutting behind them; a rushing noise as if a wind were rising and pouring through the branches of the pines. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

It’s an old song she snitched from her mother—British alternative, rising good energy, from the time of shoulder pads and big hair. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

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

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

Ah, how his tears ran down, how they blessed his soul!—as he felt himself, out of the darkness, and the fire, and the terrors of death, rising upward to meet the saints. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

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

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

Soon the sun is above the horizon and the orange of flames gives way to the black of smoke, rising along the western walls and blowing like a caul across the citadel. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

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

Just as they felt their feet slowing down to a standstill, they noticed that the ground was gently rising. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

It flowed into the yard, under the house, rising quickly. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

They both stretched their arms to the rising sun. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

“Perhaps,” said Bernard, half rising, “we ought to think of going.” Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

“I’ve been waiting for ages,” she said, lifting her hand to her mouth and fake-yawning—but her cheeks were flushed and her chest was rising and falling. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

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

Gentlemen were rising now, drifting in a cloud of cigar smoke toward the same threshold where I stood. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Yossarian demanded, rising up slowly on one elbow with bridling hostility. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

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

Whether discussing Herod slaughtering infants or Christ rising from the dead, her voice registered the same faint level of disapproval. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

As you can imagine, the chaos was rising. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

Long pauses dragged between Fig’s deep breaths, our bellies rising and falling in sync. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

But now rising and sailing up from the South the great clouds advanced, sending out dark outriders into the starry fields. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

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

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

I start rising out of my bed, but my father places a gentle hand on my shoulder. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

‘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

If there’s a fight you hear the voices rising and catching each other up. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

I’m cold and wet and winded, but my escape attempt has done nothing to subdue the hysteria rising up inside me. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Men who seemed to rise up out of the sidewalks were rushing into the store fronts above me, their voices rising excitedly. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

"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

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

“He has some nephews but he hates them. Look at this, would you,” he said suddenly, half rising from his chair. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

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

By the time their bellies were full, the stars had come out and a half-moon was rising over the mountains. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Behind her she could hear the murmur of their voices, edged sometimes with malice, sometimes rising in mockery, sometimes touched with a laughter almost of kinship, and she walked on dreamily, hearing them come behind. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

As Milton and Tessie prepared to see Dr. Luce, a hot foam was rising in their stomachs. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

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

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

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

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

We hadn’t been walking long when Bronwyn noticed a cloud of dust rising on the road behind us, way in the distance. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

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

When I followed their gaze, I saw a thick cloud of grey smoke rising from the thatch, to become lost in the darker grey of the sky. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

There’s a little trail of dust rising from the top of the far hills. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

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

I’d seen the picture before: Earth rising above the surface of the moon. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

A wail escaped from his mouth, inhuman and piercingly loud, rising in pitch and volume. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

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

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

A hundred paces away, the rest of the family huddles in the dirt in a tight little knot, half hidden by rising dust. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

A chill air seemed to strike his face, rising from invisible depths. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

David pointed at dark shapes rising up from the sand, a row of them receding into the distance. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Percy felt the water rising with his anger, spinning faster around him. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

I imagined all the bubbles in the sea—always churning, rising. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

But they are there; I feel them rising. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

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

But among the hundreds of odors rising on the early morning breeze, he found something that reminded him of his boy: acorns. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

There was a commotion behind him, a rising chaos of voices and scuffling. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

I imagined a great anvil-shaped cloud forming over southeast London and hot air rising in convection currents. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

They both looked so happy, huge smiles on their faces, holding hands, some mountain rising up behind them. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Smoke rose into the frigid air from eighteen conical lodges, thin undulating columns rising upward. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

"Stark!" they called as Bran trotted past, rising to their feet. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The Berg was rising toward the sky and Mark caught a quick glance of Alec looking at him through the window, his eyes wide in shock. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

There are bloodstains rising up from her burning Achilles. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

He shuddered at the thought of their former occupants, the hairs rising on the nape of his neck as he swiftly abandoned the repulsive scene and hurried along the passage. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

The rising sun had not yet cleared the walls of Winterfell, but the men were already hard at it in the yard below. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“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 sun’s dying red glow vanished, replaced with the rising full moon’s pale light through the skeletal trees. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

And she went to the end of the alley and pointed up at a giant domed roof rising in the distance. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

The moon was rising above the last mesa he had crossed from the east. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

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

The first day of rugby, a possible reason for rising from the grave of lunch. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Celia can feel the heat rising up her neck and manages to control it enough that the flush is not noticeable in the candlelight. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

He’s a rising star on the basketball team. Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

The east had its own charm or fine deep blue, and its own modest gem, a rising and solitary star: soon it would boast the moon; but she was yet beneath the horizon. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

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

Now was the time of hard drinking, rising volubility, and the games of pilots. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

Shortly it became two lights, then three: a ragged row of beacons rising from the water. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

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

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

In rising panic, he looked around for his pack. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

As he pushed her by the shoulder toward the gate, the rising howl commenced. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Could it be that the trees of Fangorn were awake, and the forest rising, marching over the hills to war? The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

“Please,” Ben said, his voice rising in desperation. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

In the distance, black against the rising sun, a silent procession of battleships punctuated the horizon. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

Some essential information was rising from the depths of my being. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

I did not know what to say, but Lucy turned the conversation as she said, rising up:— Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

A great radioactive cloud was deposited on the tiny atoll of Rongalap, 150 kilometers away, where the inhabitants likened the explosion to the Sun rising in the West. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

One of rising gas prices, another of a shooting in East Oakland, and then a piece on the upcoming city council election. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

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

An oracle told him, however, that he would be able to see again if he went to the east and let the rays of the rising sun fall on his eyes. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

I felt tears rising in the back of my throat. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Water so everywhere and all around, you can’t tell it from the sky, or the sky from the water, or whether you’re rising or falling. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

Robin looked up in amazement, for there, rising high against the racing clouds, stood a town with a church tower and castle complete. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

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

“Foolish mortal!” he bellowed, rising to his feet. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

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

He could see a long way down across open fields to a road, a farmhouse, a long sweep of wheat rising up to green woods on the far ridge, at least a mile off. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

She operated on automatic mode, rising each morning and chasing us off to school as if things were as they always were, but she could make no decisions. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

And to the east of us, behind the river, a rising rumple of dark green hills folded on each other like a great old tablecloth, receding to pale hazy blue. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

It keeps rising until I can taste it. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

“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

Arliss was screaming his head off, and here came the big dog with his wet fur rising along the ridge of his backbone, baying me like I was a panther. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

Smoke was rising here and there among the creepers that festooned the dead or dying trees. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

She went rigid with fear, goose bumps rising all over her body. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Claire tried hard to make the face back to him, but it was difficult; she was breathing hard and could feel tears rising hotly behind her eyes. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

But standing in the shower, the water temperature rising faster and faster, he knew the darkness was here to stay for a while. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Madge, so pleasant, and the smell of Ma’s good bread rising. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

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

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

‘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

He’d tell his mother he was sick, but there was noise rising up into his room, noise that had nothing to do with his grandfather’s roaming spirit. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

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

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

He remembered how the water kept rising, how a terrible stink began to swell up out of the earth. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

Her eyes dropped down to Beau in my lap, his ribs rising and falling in his sleep. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

These rising renewable energy employment figures, along with accomplishments such as those in Australia, are truly encouraging. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

The weight of the doll in her hands brought memory rising up in Naomi. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

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

Across the Colorado River from Needles, the dark and jagged ramparts of Arizona stood up against the sky, and behind them the huge tilted plain rising toward the backbone of the continent again. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

Billows of smoke poured out, rising and rising, like a black tower building itself into the sky. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

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

Then he noticed a thin spiral of blue-grey smoke, plain to see as it caught the sunlight, rising from a thicket above him. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

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

All I see are the amphitheater benches, rising high above the floor. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

Shouts, far away, downstairs in Commons; doors slamming, a growing confusion, voices shouting down voices and then one hoarse voice, rising above the others: “Is he living?” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

She had the top down, of course, and we made wind snakes off the sides, our arms rising and dipping with the rush of air. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

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

I tried to fool myself into thinking that smoking was actually doing something, as if the smoke rising from my mouth was evidence of a churning industry that thrived inside me. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

As the sun was rising, I removed Rhetoric and Logic from its hiding place underneath a rafter. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The road winds through farmland that looks like a rough quilt in the glow of the rising moon. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

He saw them outlined in lightning, black ragged figures rising around him. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

With his finger, he made a rising spiral in the night air. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

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

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

She answered with rising concern in her voice: “I will tell you all—I will tell you everything, but where is Niran? Where is my brother? Why isn’t he with you?” Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

I recall, in the orchard behind the house, orbs of flames rising through the black boughs and branches; they climbed, spirit- ous, and flickered out; my mother squeezed my hand with delight. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Agony takes over and he’s crying out in pain and I want to stop, to find a better way, but the blackness is rising above the buildings, swelling, rolling at us like a wave. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

The sun was just rising, and through the window Matty could see that the gardens were bathed in amber light. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

Fear seemed to stretch out a vast hand, like a dark cloud rising in the East and looming up to engulf him. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

In the woods the sun was rising in the sky, but the iron hands pronounced the time as 5:43—probably about the time it was back in the real world. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

“No, no, no,” he said, soft at first, then rising in volume. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

“There,” said Pong, rising up on his knees and arching his back. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

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

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

“Oh, come on,” I reply, my voice rising now in frustration. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

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

Before them, but some distance off, there stood a green hill-top, treeless, rising like a bald head out of the encircling wood. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Strange, the water seems like it’s rising faster. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

They’d already lost a lot of time, and Percy didn’t like how fast the sun was rising. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

In the weak starlight, as their small barge moved back and forth on the rising ocean swells, they’d have to leap for the cargo net. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

He recognized Fremantle, popeyed and grinning, rising awkwardly to his feet, tin cup raised for a toast. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

By the time of the epidemic, a rising proportion of the shipping traffic along the New England coast was of indigenous origin. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

‘No, no. My mother said it is a rising eye. But I was to keep whist and mum about it—unless even God has turned away His face. And Cilia ... you promised.’ Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

I lunged for a yellow coin lying on the blue design of the carpet, touching it and sending a surprised shriek to join those rising around me. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

I can feel panic rising in my chest. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

The door opens a split second later and there is the warden rising to fill the doorway. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

The smoke was thickest there, rising not from shimmering flames but two small black canisters—the kind PSFs kept hooked on their belts, waiting to be thrown into a crowd of unruly kids. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

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

Beside her, the Assassin glowered at the trackers, the darkness of the jungle rising behind her like two black wings. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

And he could feel his temperature rising as with her eyes, but never again with her voice, she urged him to back out while the backing was good. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Yesterday had been worse: an entire meadow withering, skeletons rising from the earth. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

I notice for the first time in the morning, with the spring mists rising up from the hills around Przemyśl, the sun coming up earlier and earlier in a watery sky. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Noah looked to build a boat to float on the rising waters; I was looking for a stone boat to “float” on the rolling prairie land. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

Some were envious of his position with Goddard, others were just curious, and others were clearly hoping to attach themselves to his rising star. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

I know where trout are rising, and where the salmon leap. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

“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

A mound of dough sat off to the side, rising in the warm kitchen. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

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

His building was on the gloomy side, the construction obviously below the standards of structures rising elsewhere on Sixty-third, but it was well located in a community that clearly was booming. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

I could hear the sound from the TV rising up the stairs. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Florida could hear Lucy’s voice now, below, rising as if she were annoyed. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

Egypt’s rising industrialization was one of the reasons why the Western powers were so anti-Egypt, it was showing other African countries what they should do, the scientist said. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were three tall columns of black smoke rising from the south. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

The first two hold me up with the rising of the sun. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

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

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

Only a few seconds later the balloon passed out of the cloud altogether and, still rising rapidly, soared on into the heavens. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

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

Except for the rooster, who was insane, crowing again and again to the rising moon rather than the sun. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

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

The voices receded down the pathway, rising again in the darkness beyond. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

Whenever they saw a hilltop or a roof rising above the water, Malcolm stopped, tied up, built a fire, and one or the other of them attended to Lyra. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

When the rising howl of a diving Stuka sounded again, he struggled to place the sound. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

I observe a small crab rising out of his shirt pocket. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

As I walked, the ridiculous words drummed themselves into my head over and over again, rising to the rhythm of a buzzing noise: Three blind mice... three blind mice, See how they run! Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

In the stillest hour of the night, the children finally slept, their thin chests barely rising and falling. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

My own humanity was awakened, rising up to greet me with a handshake as I watched the first glimmers of sunlight peek over the horizon. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m your father,” he told her, his voice harsh, rising like the crack of a lash. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Never have tampon strings seemed so beautiful as they rolled up and down with the wind, landing on the ground and then twirling and floating up again, falling and rising and falling and rising. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

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

"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

Then the towers by the sea, crumbling as the dark tide came sweeping over them, rising from the depths. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Tally felt the heat still rising from the bed, the straw mattress and thick quilts fuel for the conflagration. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

The rising river could have forced them inland, or disease may have wiped them out, or another Indian tribe could have attacked and killed them all. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

I clench up, dread rising in my throat. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

And there in the distance, like a snow-covered mountain erupting from the sea, she saw the fortress of ice, its windows glinting in the light of the rising sun. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Ellis Island, rising like a Doge’s Palace on the water. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

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

“Mister Devine,” the governor said, abruptly rising from the stool and commencing to pace deliberately up and down the center of the room. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Two little hammerlike contraptions came down and trailed along the edges of the notched disks, rising and falling as the disks steadily turned. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

The car juddered to a full stop and tilted off to the right, a cloud of dust rising beyond the window. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

She pictured him riding through the morning mists, his golden armor bright in the light of the rising sun. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

It was like watching a maiden rising naked from her bath. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

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

Frightful spreads her tapered wings and catches a rising thermal of spiralling air. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dimple felt tears rising, pressing hot and furious against her eyelids. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Our bodies turned to each other as inevitable as sunflowers following the rising sun. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

The rising mist of the river swirled in the beams of spotlights. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

Now there was a stripe of white hair rising from her forehead, as wide as her hand. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

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

The Daughters stayed with their arms reaching into the air, giving off the feeling they were rising with Mary. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

He lifts into the sky, silently rising higher and higher into the darkness. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

"Pets are a different matter, to be sure. But the little creature must be old enough to survive without its mother," he concluded, rising. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Antisemitism was rising in Russia, making it harder for Jews to get education, jobs, and housing. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Aloft, floating free beneath the moist, gleaming membrane of bright blue sky, is the rising earth, the only exuberant thing in this part of the cosmos. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I ripped out the notebook paper and stuffed the procedure in my pajama pocket, and felt a giddy thrill rising inside me. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

The six demigods gathered on the quarterdeck and gazed at the distant column of dust still rising from the site of the implosion. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

I could feel my bad temper rising and taking control. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

She lowered the bowl, only to behold — rising above its rim like the morning sun — Grover. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Down the road in the distance, a long column of dust was rising. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

He could feel the grief rising again and he wanted her body against his, any bit of comfort. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Deepwood’s mossy walls enclosed a wide, rounded hill with a flattened top, crowned by a cavernous longhall with a watch- tower at one end, rising fifty feet above the hill. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

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

The mallows filtered green light down on him and the first rays of the rising sun shone into his hole and warmed it so that he lay there content and very comfortable. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her eyes were shining as a twist of her wrist sent the glider dipping and then rising. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

She closed the book and pulled out another, and another, motivated by a rising compulsion she did not understand. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

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

By that time, the average person in England ate ninety pounds of sugar a year—and in the early twentieth century, that number kept rising. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

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

He hid inside, watching through the crack as Mr. Grin appeared, rising out of the ground like a vampire on a bad day. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

The sun was rising on the last day of the world . Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

The fog was lifting, it was rising in little clouds to the sky above. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

I tried to imagine a situation in which I might find myself dangerously imperiled by a rising dew point and could not. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

He walks over to a slim, blackened stone with a pleasing shape, rounded at the top before rising into a cross. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

The fierce July sunlight streamed in over a gray cloud bank and lit up the New York Harbor like a fire was rising from its depths. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

"Get out!" the innkeeper says, rising to his feet. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

I focus on one foot rising, the other falling, propelling me forward. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

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

The Purebom heard her pleas from the great wooden seats of their ancestors, rising in curved tiers from a marble floor to a high-domed ceiling painted with scenes of Qarth's vanished glory. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The dark was coming on hard now, and off to the west I could see the mountains rising in silhouette, all the mysteries and unknowns. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

"On September first we moved into Sunset Towers. Two months later, on Halloween, smoke was seen rising from the chimney of the deserted Westing house." The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ben asks, his voice rising with the horror of it all. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

“This is a time to take things easy?” my father asked, his hoarse voice rising. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

It waits around for their return, trying to quell the panic rising in it. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

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

The rate of childhood obesity was rising all around the country. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

I give chase, the battle rage rising, blinding me to anything else. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Miranda watched him sleep, the comforter rising and falling as he breathed. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

She felt herself respond to it, a flush of heat rising inside her. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

I think of my own city, how I have a job as a bounty hunter because the police can no longer keep up with the rising crime in New York. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

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

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

Longstreet mounted, rising up into the moonlight, looking out across the pale tents at the small fires, the black silence. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The trees were pressing in, tendrils of white mist curling at their roots and rising. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

The strings of yarn flew free, rising on the breeze. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

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

She runs a hand along the iron cauldron and most of the rainwater within it turns to steam, rising in a soft cloud that dissipates into the fog. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Steam rising from an open belly, rich with the smells of blood and meat. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

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

I feel new words rising in my throat, prompted by the truth serum. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

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

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

But I can’t believe it; hope is rising in me, like sap in a tree. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

As we neared the mouth of New Bedford Harbor, a schooner flying a long green streamer off its mainmast, its sails plump, its bow rising and dipping, came out through the channel toward us. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

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 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

The shock of first seeing a birch tree at night, rising up in the dark as cool and slim as a ghost. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

“How do you do, Arobin?” said Robert, rising from the obscurity. The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z

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 slowly rising but had already begun casting shadows on the huts and houses. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

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

“And look!” said Olive, pointing at a rocky bluff rising in the distance. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

The trance was supposed to be caused by a vapor rising from a deep cleft in the rock over which her seat was placed, a three-legged stool, the tripod. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

The rising sun makes a pinhole on the horizon. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

“But why have they let us?” asked Harry, who could not shake off the vision of tentacles rising out of the dark water the moment they were out of sight of the bank. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

When he saw the narrow stony road, the foothills rising high and wild all around them, and the jagged snowcapped peaks on the distant horizon, all the hope went out of him in a rush. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“No, my lady, I have received no word,” I replied, rising. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

The sky was impossibly blue, and white industrial smoke rising from factory chimneys was frozen in the sky, like a photograph. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

Something more awful than all our African ancestors is rising with the seas. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

About this time we hear the sound of clicks rising from the sector adjacent to us. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

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

Besides, it’s way more important to find a group to huddle with to help body-block the rising winds, and some afternoons anyone will do. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

Their blood began to fill the room, its tide quickly rising. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Yep, if I believed in magic, in ghosts, then I think maybe I was rising on the shoulders of my dead grandmother and Eugene, my dad’s best friend. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

She was focused on something rising up behind the raft. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

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

Of course, her gaze went straight to that ugly molasses tank rising up in the distance. I Survived the Great Molasses Flood, 1919 2019-09-03T00:00:00Z

She found the path to the Holy Grove, for the moon was rising and it glowed a ghostly white. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

She could smell the fragrant orange scent rising from his hands. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

I watched it puddle in the dirt, the smell of it rising into the night. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

The cage he had just been hanging from was now rising toward a hatch in the ceiling. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Who will be the kings, the rooks, and bishops rising up to strike at a distance? The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

He held the boat, it rising and falling against the stone wall and I helped Catherine in. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

Behind the details flashing through my mind emerges a black, rising hatred. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

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

“Up it went,” reported William Laurence, “a great ball of fire about a mile in diameter, changing colors as it kept shooting upward, from deep purple to orange, expanding, growing bigger, rising as it expanded.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

The northern girl had a wild beauty, as he recalled, though however bright a torch might bum it could never match the rising sun. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

She could see smoke rising from its wind-carved summit, miles away. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Fun forever, and no grubbing!” cried Jo, rising, glass in hand, as the lemonade went round. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

And then Kino’s brain cleared from its red concentration and he knew the sound—the keening, moaning, rising hysterical cry from the little cave in the side of the stone mountain, the cry of death. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was rising out of myself, like I had at the marsh. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Erwin’s beneficence, however, did not silence the rising critics of a system that traded informal “favors” for complete submission to the owner’s authority. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

A thick smoke started rising from the village. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

When the shadows moved, it looked for an instant as if the dead were rising as well. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

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

Everything in my stomach was rising up, but I forbade that too. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

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

‘That will not be far to seek,’ said Gandalf, rising from his seat. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

In the distance, lit by the rising sun, was the skyline of New York. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

But in fact, economic mobility—moving from one income group to another over a lifetime—has actually stopped rising in the United States, researchers say. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

I tried to gulp back the revulsion rising in me. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

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

In the lining of my pocket, I find a stray morphling tablet and swallow it dry, heading off my rising hysteria. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Harry sat down, feeling goosebumps rising up his arms despite the glow of the fire. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

I slammed the window shut against the noise and heard more explosions in the distance, a billow of smoke rising up over the city. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

The sheets were rising and falling around me with Anna’s breathing. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Lady Meng turned around and slowly lifted her head—her neck rising to a proud, defiant arch. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

A hurtful silence would fill the room, and Laila could almost see the wordless hostility radiating from Mariam like waves of heat rising from asphalt. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

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

Slowly, as if a tide were rising around us, the rest of the class laughed while Sra. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

The sellsword kept the night watch by himself, rising as the rest of his band sought their beds and retiring when the sun came up. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Ms. Morales asked, her voice rising with incredulity. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

The guests would “oh” and “ah,” for it was a masterpiece: a pagoda molded out of butter, curved roofs rising tier upon tier, but my mother could only think how unsanitary it was. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

As it did, I saw images in the mist all around us: black marble walls rising, the ruins becoming whole, a terrible and beautiful palace rising around us, made of fear and shadow. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

“And they took?” he said, his voice rising, a terrible fear gripping him. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

I feel the heat rising in my cheeks. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The pain in me swells, and when I blink, I’m sinking in water, blue and clear, turning gray and brown the deeper I go, bubbles rising and tickling my skin like the fluttering of wings. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

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

The sun is rising; we have to get into position. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Long, cool perspectives of modern architecture, rising phosphorescent and eerie from the rubble. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

At first it was just a shimmer against the craggy mountainside; a quivering spot in the air like heat waves rising from a hot car. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

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

Grains of golden sand and dust bounced on the floor before rising and swirling in the air. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

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

Now the rising moon had limned them in white and silver. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

I leaned down as best I could with the waters rising, and he clambered atop me, clawing at my head and neck for purchase. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

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

The branches of the trees swayed in a rising breeze. 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

In the mists rising from the water, he could have been a woeful little bush planted between the willow and the pine. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

She stepped back into the street and saw smoke rising from the schoolhouse. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

Between the curtain of trees at every side, the ever-receding contour of rising slope before you, and your own plodding weariness, you gradually lose track of how far you have come. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Thorn and Valley must’ve done the same, because the next thing Seven knew, the three Witchlings were side by side, smoke rising from them as they sat up. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

“While Ellen gets the water,” said Edna, rising, “I will say good-by and let you go. I must get rid of this grime, and I have a million things to do and think of.” The Awakening 1899-04-22T00:00:00Z

Living there among his worn things, rising early every morning from dreamless sleeps, he counseled those who sought his advice. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

“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

She remembered the green smudge and the creature, whatever it was, with its terrible fin, rising above her. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Claire sat up straight, making Maya think of a cobra rising up to strike. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

"These are bad times to dwell alone in the wild. The cold winds are rising." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

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

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

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

The rate of paid admissions, though rising steadily, had to be increased still more, and soon. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

The moon was rising behind one mountain and the sun sinking behind another as Jon struck sparks from flint and dagger, until finally a wisp of smoke appeared. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Lying beside his sleeping brother, he’d listen to the broad, low sound: faint, then rising, faint again, then a high, beckoning whistle, then gone. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

Someone standing at the window started rambling about a dark mushroom of smoke rising from across the river, and the bell, without any awareness of what was going on, rang for first period. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

The messages were rising in number, and they were getting harder to crack. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

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

Tyrion saw ruins rising along the eastern bank: crooked walls and fallen towers, broken domes and rows of rotted wooden pillars, streets choked by mud and overgrown with purple moss. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“God bless Grant,” people shouted over and over in a rising chant the day Jethro went to Newton with his father after the news of Fort Henry. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Come in!” my father retorted, with impatience rising in his craw. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

They pulled into the Walmart parking lot as the moon was rising bright and silver in the sapphire sky. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

“I’m now going to go cry,” I said with my voice rising as I headed out the back door to continue digging the bomb shelter. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

“I’m not going to demean myself and, what...make myself over to appease your insecurities,” she hissed, her voice rising to a yell before she regained her composure. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

“Nothing wrong?” said the Keeper, his voice rising. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Prickles rising on the nape of my neck, I bent to scrutinize the tree trunk more closely: silvery bark, cool to the touch, ants marching out of a fissure in a glittering black thread. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

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

From the floor, it was probably eight feet deep and rising fast. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

One day she simply could not stand the rising tension as night drew near, and she decided to tell Jean about the mummies. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

And his thinking and feeling in this way made the choking tightness rising from the pit of his stomach to his throat slacken a little. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

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

George looked up, half expecting to see a mummy rising out of the crate, her arms reaching for George’s throat. I Survived the Sinking of the Titanic, 1912 2010-06-01T00:00:00Z

“What’s that, then, his sentence?” said Gaunt, his voice rising angrily. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Lillian said, rising and going over to kiss her son on the cheek. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

So even though he was a rising political star as a young state assemblyman, he packed up and moved to the Wild West, where he had bought a ranch. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

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

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

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

When, however, she rode a rising thermal and passed near, he rolled and danced for her. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

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

There’s screaming, rising up and echoing between the buildings, between the chugging trains. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

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

‘But rest, if you must. Yet do not cast all hope away. Tomorrow is unknown. Rede oft is found at the rising of the Sun.’ The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Twice she disappeared in the fogged billows, then gradually reemerged like a dream rising up from the bottom of the night. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“There, there,” Mrs. Nielsen says, her voice rising in alarm. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

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

Will looked along the shore, past the lighthouse, and saw the coast rising in a great series of cliffs that disappeared into the haze of the distance. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then he glanced up at the great cliff rising up, away on their left. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

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

When glaciers break up due to rising world temperatures, it’s called calving. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

The Sun God was battling the large clouds that now filled the sky world, and I didn’t take it as a good omen when the first faint flickers of his rising body were abruptly covered. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

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

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

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

Then he stared upward over the anthills, to the open down rising above. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

All these feelings are rising inside my chest like the foam on the top of a shaken-up soda can. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

A thousand red eyes floated in the rising flames. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

An early winter moon was rising in front of them, and a chill wind came with it, penetrating feet and hands. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

The smoke was rising from a chimney somewhere at the back. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

He tried to contain his rising temper; the court of the Sparra King was no place to have tantrums. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

But even as he looked it seemed to his eyes that the gloom was growing and gathering, very slowly, slowly rising to smother the regions of the sun. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

“It’s Astelle’s,” she said again, her voice rising as a blast of frigid air whipped up the street. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

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

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

She sings “La, la, la,” her voice rising up steps like a ladder. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

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

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

Erishkigal spread out her hands, and the sand around us became animated, showing a storm-racked sea with a pinnacle of rock rising out of it. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

"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

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

The woods were quiet, no gunshots, the morning air cool, the rising hills misty, and the only people we saw were a few more refugees going the opposite way. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

As they got closer, he could see a thin column of smoke rising from one of the many chimneys, before being blown away. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

There's a bowl with some steam rising from it on the dresser next to the bed and a small loaf of bread balanced on the bowl's edge. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

He rubbed his eyes, and then he saw that it was the moon rising above the eastern shadows, now almost at the full. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

The sky tumbled overhead, unspooling into a reflection of fireworks on water and rising white buildings that appeared as distant and inaccessible as the medieval Neamt Citadel. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

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

“All right. Let’s stop at my house to pick up my guitar,” he replied, already rising from his chair. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Out of the corner of her eye, Aru saw a giant wave of rising poison liquid. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

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

To Burnham and the others the new Chicago, as symbolized by the White City rising in Jackson Park, required new leadership—certainly not Harrison. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

In the distance, beyond another long row of barracks, Hannah could see a single strand of smoke rising against the bright spring sky, curling endlessly out of a tall chimney stack. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

They walked on the road under the rising moon. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

Heat’s rising off his skin and an overpowering man smell too. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

He pauses for a moment, pressing his forehead to her massive stone one, before rising above her. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

I hugged the pillow against my chest, feeling some of the hair rising in clouds of dark dust into my nostrils. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

A rising sense that I was on a fool’s errand. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

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

Pong and Somkit hurried for the Mud House, using the rising sun to guide them east. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

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

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

In the distance, Los Angeles was on fire, plumes of smoke rising from neighborhoods all over the city. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

I feel myself rising from my chair, my voice full and resonant. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

First, disappointment and despair, then a rising bitterness. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

On one side of her, a torch-juggler has amassed a large crowd, and on the other, a Tribal Kehanni spins her tales, her voice rising and swooping like a bird in flight. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

A humiliating event in the church, and rising contentions in the village. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Indeed, following the street further along to where it runs over the little round-backed bridge, I could see the mist rising from the river, obscuring almost entirely one of the bridge-posts. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

I didn’t know it would be superpowers rising up out of tragedies, and perfect moments in a nearly empty classroom. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

The fish, sardines, would begin gathering soon after, a slow mass of silver rising from below. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

She kicked him upside the head one more time for good measure, and that last effort made the haint topple backward into the water rising around our feet. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

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

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

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

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

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

By the late 1980s, hip-hop had graduated from being the underground art of the Bronx to a rising global culture. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

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

“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

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

There was a great roar from the motorbike, and Harry felt the sidecar give a nasty lurch: He was rising through the air fast, his eyes watering slightly, hair whipped back off his face. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

During the night I had drifted south of the place I wished to go, so I changed my direction and paddled along the path made by the rising sun. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

From a distance, they could see smoke rising high into the sky. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

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

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

Now and then she takes a puff of her Sweet Afton, wisps of smoke rising above her head. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

All round her flew the birds, circling and leaping and swooping and rising. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

“This is it,” I said, my voice rising. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

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

It was hard to see much in the dawn light—the sun was rising behind the house—but with the curtained windows glowing, it looked warm and cozy. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

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

It climbed like a rising girdle from the west and wound snakelike about the Mountain, until before it went round out of view it reached the foot of the cone upon its eastern side. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

Dorian spun Celaena with speed and dexterity, and she snapped into his arms, her shoulders rising with exhilaration. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

As she leaned against the door in the darkness, she felt her dream, her Afternoon-mare, move inside her like a rib of water rising from the ocean, gathering into a wave. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m sorry my family is so nosy,” he said, a blush rising in his cheeks. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

The village sat on top of a sharply rising hill preceded by many smaller ones. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

Again, the auctioneer calls out the rapidly rising bids. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Its square base stretched maybe fifty feet wide and ten feet tall, with an intact facade of Corinthian columns rising another twenty-five feet. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

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

From small clearings, now, they could see in the distance the rocky peaks rising above the Little Baldy Bear Lakes; some saddles between peaks still carried slim patches of snow. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

A bee lifted off a flower in slow motion, like an airplane rising. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Up and up and up he’d borne her, high above the pyramids and pits, his wings outstretched to catch the warm air rising from the city’s sunbaked bricks. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“No more talk about Gaea rising, Nico being held hostage, the world ending, the giants—” “Shut up, Seaweed Brain,” she ordered. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Forty years it had taken, rising like a great shadow on the shore of the lake while Harren's armies plundered his neighbors for stone, lumber, gold, and workers. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

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

I looked to the water, then to the rising sun, then to the water again. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

All Tyrion could see was something massive rising from the river, humped and ominous. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I pictured them all down there in the bay, and the little dark hull of the boat rising slowly to the surface, sodden, dripping, the grass-green seaweed and the shells clinging to her sides. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

There, outside, beyond the slowly rising mist, and farther off than her eyes could see, her life awaited her. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

Krum, his red robes shining with blood from his nose, was rising gently into the air, his fist held high, a glint of gold in his hand. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Justice is, indeed, a product of the Appalachian coalmining country where lush mountains flank rust-colored creeks, the hollows rising so steeply that there is barely room for a house on either side of the creeks. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

The blistering flames rising above the house were just waving goodbye to everyone who was watching. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

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 ahead were the naked granite mountains, rising out of erosion nibble and standing monolithic against the sky. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

People were piled on the deck, eating, drinking, the sound of their laughter rising above the weary sigh of the waves. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

The sun had finished rising and its full radiance was dissolving La Llorona’s form. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

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

Nicolas felt a rising desire to protect her and take care of her, to make up for everything. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Everyone quieted, and for the first time, Thomas noted the grinds and rattles of the rising lift, reminding him of his own nightmarish trip the day before. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

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 sun persists in rising, so I make myself stand. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Beyond his tree, as he slept, the first blood light of dawn was rising up the sky. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Rob Hall was there, too, waiting impatiently for Doug Hansen to appear as a rising tide of cloud lapped ominously at the summit ridge. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

Like a fisherman in a rising storm taking the massive waves rolling all around him. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

A church came into view on my right, its tower rising up past a bridge heavy with traffic. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m a-going,” said he, bringing his fist down upon the table with a heavy blow, and rising as the blow fell to give it greater force,—“I’m a-going to have your life!” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

I turn around and start walking, trying to ignore the lump rising in my throat. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

Pull as he might, it remained a luminous rising in the twilit air, like a stairway to nowhere, or the headless incarnation of a jack-in- the-box. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her spine had straightened, her own pride rising to her defense. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

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

She felt a tightness rising in her throat as her future unrolled before her. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

They would hiss and spit at each bloody morsel of horsemeat, steam rising from their nostrils, yet they would not take the food . . . until Dany recalled something Viserys had told her when they were children. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Starting in the 1930s, during the Great Depression, the gov-ernment began a policy to keep prices from rising or falling too much. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Stella bit her lip to quell her rising panic. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

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

The heat and radiation and rising waters were too much. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

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

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

Wisps of cloud hang low over the summits, like smoke rising from the trees. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“The killers are rising to power,” Scythe Curie said. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

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

“Please take a seat,” he says, rising from his chair and patting its seat. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

I was accustomed to rising early to care for my favorite mare that had a young filly. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Maya was still holding the joint, its smoke rising up in a long, smooth line before curling up at the top, and when Grace moved, her arm cut through the smoke, sending it scattering. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

A bitter steam was rising from it, and Will heard the liquid bubbling fiercely. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

She watched the buses growling idly at the curb, with peacocks, lions, rising suns, and glittery swords painted on their sides. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

Already I felt the heat rising from the concrete floor. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

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

Three hundred years afterward the rising Toltec styled themselves its heirs. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

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

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

He had spent five years with the company, rising from the ranks to a place of honor at Toyne’s right hand. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Backdrop to the Kilanga pageant, rising up behind the houses, a tall wall of elephant grass obscures our view of anything but the distance. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Beyond and above spread an expanse of sky, dark blue as at twilight: rising into the sky was a woman’s shape to the bust, portrayed in tints as dusk and soft as I could combine. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

I can measure the rate of water rising over time. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

She could feel the color rising in her cheeks. The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z

“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

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

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 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

Their blended voices rolled across the square like a rising and falling wind. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

When he took his lips away he looked at her with eyes full of reproach and at the same time he felt his teeth clamping and his lips tingling slightly with rising passion. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

In all parts of the world where adequate evidence is available, archaeologists find evidence of rising densities associated with the appearance of food production. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

With a rising shriek, a shape dropped from the trees and knocked the hunter to the ground. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

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

Soon shouts and battle calls broke out, rising in volume, filling the air like thunder. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

We promised: in three days, when we would see the smoke rising from the chimney, we would think of him. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

Looking back we saw Burguete, white houses and red roofs, and the white road with a truck going along it and the dust rising. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

“What correspondence?” asked the chaplain plaintively in rising exasperation. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

I see the northern granite rock rising straight up out of the ground with the road cut through it. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

Sweet is the breath of morn, her rising sweet, New Word-Analysis 1871-01-01T00:00:00Z

He walked half the length of Long Wharf until he saw carved over a door the familiar rising eye. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

Lying on a mattress gave him a weird feeling of slowly rising on a scoop of mashed potatoes. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

On that morning, satisfying one of his urges to participate in nature, Leper Lepellier was the first thing the rising sun struck in the United States. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Frightful discovered what skilled flyers they were, she led them onto a rising thermal. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

A bald eagle riding up the mountain on a rising thermal saw Blue Bill move and circled to strike. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

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

He fought down the anger rising in him. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

She stood in a large wooden bin; starting at her feet and rising in a slope to the wall of the cave was a small mountain of grain. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

Looking ahead one sees it broaden, rising and curving slowly, dwarfing the dark ridges of earth, meeting the ice-wall far above under veils of cloud and smoke and snow. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

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

“I don’t know,” Bigger said; he was feeling the rum rising to his head. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

There had been heat rising between the two women for days. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instead, I spotted a figure rising from the front row and slowly levitating in my direction. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Tayo felt the old nausea rising up in his stomach, along with a vague feeling that he knew something which he could not remember. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

My old, familiar panic is rising up again, the terror of seeing the wall go up between the problem and the solution. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

He was out again in five seconds, steam rising off his clothes. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Cautiously, his stick trailing behind him, Ralph wormed between the rising stems. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

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

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

An ill wind, blowing no good, was rising. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

Scraps of burnt uniform flutter in the rising heat. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

But he felt the sea breeze rolling beside him, arid he heard the rising of the gulls, and he felt the fire in his hands again. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

He could look directly down on the gray crest of Little Round Top, saw the gunners there rising and stretching and heating coffee near black cannon. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

The darkness disguised the rising structures’ true form, but I could tell they were slotted and made of wood. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

The rebel passed the first few cottages, so snug and inviting to his comfort-loving soul—smoke rising in the still evening air, and the reassuring smell and sounds of humans everywhere. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

He picked up his guitar and shuffled out without giving Esteban time to think of anything to say, even though anger had reached his lips and his tension was rising. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

“That is a really foolish question,” she said with her voice rising sky high. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Her blond ponytail was swinging with each step, rising above the shoulders of the PSFs escorting her out. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

The few problems that did arise, it was asserted, were caused by “certain types,” namely the rising numbers of poor Irish, German, and Scandinavian immigrants. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

Then they went round a hairpin bend to their right and continued rising. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

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

Luxa was rising up along the web spinning and twisting at a dizzying rate. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“The Mysterious Benedict Society,” Constance said, rising as she spoke. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

“She is like a rising storm. She must be stopped soon.” Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Down streets, through alleys, my palm pressed over my nose to block out the nauseating odors rising from trash heaps. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

It felt like everything was rising up in me, like I was drowning in this weirdly painful joy, but I couldn’t say it back. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

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

The eagle abruptly turns, heads westward, flaps its wings, rising higher; then it dives. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

With rising fear, Nailer realized that it was one thing to speculate idly about jumping a train, another to watch freight cars hurtle past. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

As he shuffled back, those freckles got lost in the red rising in his cheeks. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

In certain periods my mother seemed to live from her bed, rising only to clean the tub or cook dinner for my father and me, which she would do in any condition. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

The path bent around the base of a hill rising in the woods. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

He’s silent again, and I feel his lungs rising and falling underneath my head, a sigh escaping his lips. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

Abraham and I ran toward the east and the rising sun. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now I could see a fine shading of dust in the air out behind the church, rising slowly and drifting away. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ekon tried to swallow the hard lump rising in his throat, the renewed pain. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Then I heard myself say, "Do you know him?" my voice rising. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

I could see smoke rising from the homes there. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

It was a fine morning for hunting, with the air still and the rising sun shining bright on the tall green grass and the greener leaves of the timber. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some people were rising from the floor of the car, and others were lying down. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Too terrified of crevasses to wander far from camp, I spent most of my time recumbent in the tent—the ceiling was too low to allow my sitting upright— fighting a rising chorus of doubts. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Beneath it was a space, perhaps a foot high, though it was pierced everywhere by parallel and rising stems. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

His words are like froth in my head, boiling, rising, and falling. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

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

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

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

Dicey nodded her head and watched the mists rising almost in straight lines, like rain going backwards. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Flynn wanted to identify the source of the rising IQ scores more definitively. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

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

The ground was rising steeply still, and it was becoming increasingly stony. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

She flipped the notebook open, irritation rising with every whipped-over page. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Up on the green, green hill rising to the west I could see a small herd of cattle grazing. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

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 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

I 200 — was still blocks away from the pub when I heard a strange sound rising above the hum of generators—someone calling my name. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

Nat felt his temper rising, but he shrugged off his anger. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

This time the words were on a pathetic rising note. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

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

A rising heat puffed at her face, soft and sudden as a lover's breath, but in seconds it had grown too hot to bear. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Over and over, he saw himself doing what he should have: rising from his sleeping bag, finding a rock, and hurling it. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Miss Garcia speaks slow, her voice rising like a question, “New York is one of our—” “Oh, oh, I know. Fifty states,” says Sabeen. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

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

It gurgled under the walls, and was rising slowly but surely. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

I see the paranoia rising in Mother’s eyes. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

And rising up from the shards of each broken jar—Zane blinked when he saw it—was a fine sort of mist. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

To Taran’s ear, the melody had its own words, weaving a supple thread among the rising notes. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

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

Hanging there, a long way off, about thirty feet above the road, warped by the rising heat, was what looked like a plank of wood, suspended horizontally, with a bulge in its center. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

He dreamed of burning castles and dead men rising unquiet from their graves. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

"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

I paid attention to the small hairs rising on my nape. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Closer to, the temple had a sorrier look: moisture rising through a damaged damp course had caused chunks of stucco to fall away. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

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

They held each other for a few minutes, their breaths rising and falling as one, their bodies rocking gently to the rhythm of whatever silent music the night was playing for them. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

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

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

By the time I passed the old courthouse, with its large front steps rising to meet the columns near the front doors, I realized I’d been walking down Central Avenue. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

Sheer rock buttresses seamed with ice pressed in from both edges of the glacier, rising like the shoulders of a malevolent god. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

Daddy not picking me up from a Tuesday practice is like the sun not rising. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

Spearpoints shone in the light of the rising sun, and all along die verges the grass glistened with the morning frost. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

On its third rising only a portion of the drawing-room was disclosed; the rest being concealed by a screen, hung with some sort of dark and coarse drapery. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

By that time it was well after dark and the moon was rising, yellow in hazy air, huge in the trees, gazing like one single vacant eye, and Vincent rode up. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

For the first time, I feel a flicker of hope rising up in me. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

The stronger winds, the ones people remembered the best, were probably caused by rising convective heat. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

He watched how slowly the moon was rising, and hunched his shoulders against the cold. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

“You must know,” said my sister, rising, “it’s a pie; a savory pork pie.” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, your grades obviously aren’t bad because you can’t pick this stuff up or because you are stupid, you are just not working hard enough,” my mother said, her voice rising into the epiphany. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Moving slowly but steadily, I made a rising leftward traverse across the top of the Lhotse Face, then ascended a prow of shattered black schist called the Geneva Spur. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

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

I’m tireder than I have ever been, he thought, and now the trade wind is rising. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sun is rising at the end of the valley. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

“I am—adjusted,” I say, warmth rising to my cheeks. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

The creek was rising fast, and any traces of their trek would be underwater soon. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

Her truth has risen and keeps rising like lava from a once-dormant volcano. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Sitting in his designer chair, with tomes and journals rising behind him, Dr. Luce appeared serious, full of expertise, as was his speech. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“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

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

There are moments when von Rumpel feels impatience rising in him like bile, but he forces himself to swallow it back. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

We drank them more slowly, looking at the rising bubbles and making them last. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

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

Occasionally men passed along the narrow street very close to him, talking in monotones to each other, a cloud of dust rising around their feet with each step. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

“A rising young man, aren’t you? Why didn’t you tell me you were Man of the Year?” Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

A field of elephant grass weighted with wind, bowing under the stir of a helicopter’s blades, the grass dark and servile, bending low, but then rising straight again when the chopper went away. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Wolf packs, starving bears just rising from their hibernation. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

“And that is all, ”said Dr. Calvin, rising. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

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

They come to Indiana, and right next door is a black nation rising. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Outside the window palm fronds rattle in a rising wind. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

To the east, the sun was rising behind a long row of gray clouds. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Frankie stepped back, his chiseled chest rising and falling in steady breaths. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Now a wind was rising, the kind of biting, steady wind that could bring an ocean of sand into camp at any moment with almost no warning. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

Pong clamped down on the guilty feeling rising in his stomach. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

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 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

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

The poor people of Milton had had enough of that rising eye. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

He fought a rising hysteria that was not merely anxiety to free his aching feet; his very life depended on the release of the knots. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

There was just a little bit of wine left, and they passed it around, trying to get the nighttime glow started in the dirty glare of rising daylight. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Everyone hoped attendance would continue rising and that the number of people drawn to the closing ceremony of October 30 would break the record set on Chicago Day. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Her voice is still rising from where it has been under her surface for so long. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

She became aware of the other feeling gradually, for it was swimming against the current within her: Sidhean’s pain and sorrow, rising up like a beast, and it pushed itself between the two of them. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Against Mr. O’Hanlon’s humming harangue, a memory was rising to dispute him: the courtroom shifted imperceptibly, in it she looked down on the same heads. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

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

The Martian desert lay broiling like a prehistoric mud pot, waves of heat rising and shimmering. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

From the bluff, I could see our place, a field of corn torn up, the hay rising up, fields of corn growing green in the sun. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

Any second I expected to see Richard Parker rising up and coming for me. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

“This is too much!” he said, angrily rising again. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

On the beach the hungry dogs and the hungry pigs of the town searched endlessly for any dead fish or sea bird that might have floated in on a rising tide. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

“We have to get out of here,” I said, panic rising in my throat. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

Jam turned and looked at his house rising behind her. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

The running track stretched out ahead of me, rising, falling, and occasionally spiraling into a helix. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

“Let me show you what I know,” he whispered, his other hand rising to brush the hair off my cheek. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

And then, to a rising drum roll, she starts shuffling her feet, rolling the ball forward. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know. Will you get the shawl?* “Of course I will,” he said, rising. The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z

She glanced at the rising sun— Time was running out. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

The sun was rising, shedding gray light over the golden forest, and in the shadows she thought she saw something moving in the distance. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

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

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

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

The land is flat, and the views are awesomely extensive; horses, herds of cattle, a white cluster of grain elevators rising as gracefully as Greek temples are visible long before a traveler reaches them. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

Buckbeak slowed down and they found themselves at a stop, unless you counted the fact that they kept rising up and down several feet as the hippogriff beat his wings to remain airborne. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

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

A shrub was growing at the gate of their compound and he parked near it, his chest rising and falling, his breathing loud. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

I realize I’m staring and glance away, heat rising in my cheeks. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

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

Outside, the world was a place of gently unfolding mountains rising higher and higher. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

The resistance to Aristarchus and Copernicus, a kind of geocentrism in everyday life, remains with us; we still talk about the Sun “rising” and the Sun “setting.” Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Oppenheimer had received his doctorate only two years earlier under Max Born at Gottingen, where he had communed with such rising stars of quantum mechanics as Werner Heisenberg and Paul Ehrenfest. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Its base spanned a mile, its dark form swelling out of the earth and rising into a flawless spire. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

"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

Because for a second, just one, all I could think about was the sight of fire and smoke rising from the sharp lines of her shoulders, and the door she couldn’t open. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

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

A big, prosperous city rising up on its own in the stifling Amazon forest? 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

No lips were rising and falling, no teeth were showing, no growling or snarling was coming from him. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

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

Birds, some snakes, any beast that could find higher ground ahead of the rising tide. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

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

‘The Moon is rising: it must be getting late.’ The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

“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

Outside she fastened her coat against the rising wind. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

It was hard to breathe in the rocky heat rising from the ground. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

Hailsham stood in a smooth hollow with fields rising on all sides. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

A flush of red is rising from her neck to her cheeks. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

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

And rising through it in ones and twos and larger groups as well came small black shadows, those ragged figures of such elegance, witches on their branches of cloud-pine. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

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

The orphans called to Circe from the vegetable garden early in the morning as soon as they saw the smoke from the cook stove rising. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then the boys had stopped kicking the ball about, and were standing in a pack in the mud, their chests gently rising and falling as they waited for the team picking to start. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I should get back downstairs,” I said, rising quickly from my seat. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I tried to swallow whatever was rising from my stomach, which tasted like lemonade, something fruity and sour. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

To our right, a huge cathedral was silhouetted against the rising moon. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

There was a small sea rising with the wind coming up from the east and at noon the old man’s left hand was uncramped. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

“Look. The water is rising slowly. I think we’ll be fine.” Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

I paint a glass jar, with a bouquet of nightshade rising out of it like smoke, like the darkness from a genie’s bottle. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

The old man turns his blind head, rising from confusion to listen. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

The floor was very wet here, with pools of water rising up to his ankles. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

Conor felt the anger rising in the pit of his stomach— A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

The ones that had sun dried were stiff with salt, but I whipped them against the rocks, salt rising from them in clouds, and put them on. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

The sun, rising against black pines and leafless trees, filled the grove with a baleful light. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

Suddenly a song began: a cold murmur, rising and falling. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

That’s God, I think, the rising sun, and the light is too bright and her eyes are losing but they aren’t lost. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

He generally liked me, tended to treat me, I thought, as he might some rising young VP in his Boston-based holding company, alternatingly coddling and browbeating me. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

This was actually a converted balcony, but instead of tiers of seats, there were rising ranks of tables that looked onto the lower level. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“It was my pleasure,” Celia says, rising from the table as she replaces her gloves. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

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

It was as though freezing water were rising in his chest, cutting at his insides. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

“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

He sounded a little like Mouse while he ate, purring and blinking as he bent low over the steam rising from his bowl. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

She saw the nightmarish images she had seen before: the human-headed bull rising from the water, then the dark well-shaped room filling with black water as Jason, Percy, and she struggled to stay afloat. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Exactly the same planets were rising at their births. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

Like the bile that kept burning her throat these days, a deep, paralyzing grief would come rising up Laila’s chest. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

It became roughly her height, other than the dark red horns rising in the shine of the streetlight, and smoke wafted out of its mouth, smelling like ash. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

He could hear wind rising; it was a blizzard all right. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

The rising sun played across the Bed-Stuy rooftops, glinted against windowpanes, and cast stark shadows down the avenues and walkways. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

I have seen preachers at revival meetings speak like that, with voices rising in such a way that heaven and anger get mingled together. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

As they worked, the voice grew louder, rising over the sound of the heaving, creaking wreckage. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

She was ringed by thick walls of silence which hissed in her ears, rising and falling in volume to some pattern of its own. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

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

This was an eye rising up from the sea. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

The steer ran awkwardly and the bull caught him, hooked him lightly in the flank, and then turned away and looked up at the crowd on the walls, his crest of muscle rising. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

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

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

A flush of excitement was rising up his neck into his hollow cheeks; he looked fevered. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

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

There suddenly upon a ridge appeared a rider, clad in white, shining in the rising sun. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Yet there was Roy, and a hundred feet across the glade were three serious bears—snorting, huffing, rising on their hind legs to scope him out. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

If a chain reaction began, the rising temperature would be the first clue. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

He walked out through the entrance of the tent, the panic rising into a crescendo inside him. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

And just before the heat wave, a rising young British writer had published a scalding essay on Chicago. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

When she emerged from the Wood, she looked toward the grave and knew with a sense of rising dread that something was wrong. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

“Yes,” he answered, rising, and turning away, “Satan tempted me and I fell. I ain’t the first man been made to fall on account of a wicked woman.” Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

And rising as she thus spoke, she would have quitted the room, had Mr. Collins not thus addressed her: Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z

The rising sun sent fingers of light through the pale white mists of dawn. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

It sat there until the steam stopped rising, until the normally scrumptious smell of it disappeared. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

No boats were tied to the pier, but she could see thin tendrils of smoke rising from some of the chimneys, and part of a wagon jutting out behind a stable. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Then the pianist let loose a sequence of rising and falling syncopations and a man’s crooning voice stretched over it all. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

On the contrary, he had at least three legitimate ways of rising, the greatest of which was the Catholic Church. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

He taps his snout with one claw before rising up on his haunches to sniff the air. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

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

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

Because rising sea levels continually flooded the shore, marshy Cape Cod did not fully lock into its contemporary configuration until about 1000 B.C. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

As I trail off, I hear them making one another laugh—not the words exactly, but the cadence, the rising and falling pitches of banter. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

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

The medical community believed the illness was caused by foul air, called miasma, rising from wet areas. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Then I hear a rising cadence of joy that makes the benches, walls, and windows seem to tremble. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

It is the memory of waiting before he was rescued, and the persistent fear, rising up in his throat, that he might not have been rescued at all. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

They formed one undulating mass of red, the head of a dragon rising from their midst. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

My cheeks turn the color of the big red glob rising to the top of Joe’s Lava lamp. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

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

Taisin turned away with studied casualness, trying to hide the rising color on her cheeks. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

I feel like I’m rising from a deep mine, am having trouble placing myself. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

He pointed to the rising sun, and he winked at the gods. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

A line of knights, helms reflecting the sun rising in the east, crest the hill in a clattering silver wave. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

I laugh and look away, willing the flush rising in my cheeks to vanish. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

After, I started to ask him if he’d liked the story, a giggle rising in my throat, when Hassan began to clap. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

As she said that, as she took charge, part of her felt a little stream of pleasure rising upward in her breast like the bubbles in champagne. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

“Come here, boy. I want to show you something,” he said, rising and catching hold of Bigger’s arm. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

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

She patted my leg before rising to leave. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

The men saw a purple-gray mushroom cloud rising above Hiroshima, its top reaching three miles above their plane. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“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

The moon was rising over the wooden walls of Barrowton when they stepped outside. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

She gnawed on her bottom lip, unease rising as she watched its crimson folds flutter in the breeze, noting the violating way its central pole impaled the maiden night sky like a gilded spear. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Sumac perched erect on my shoulder as if he were standing guard, awaiting the rising of the Sun God. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

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

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

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

Two little hammerlike contraptions came down and trailed along the edges of the notched disks, rising and falling as the disks steadily turned. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

They had a perfect view of St. Helens rising up over the ridge. I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z

Below, she could see Geels’ chest rising and falling with panicked breaths. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Muqtada takes one look at him and curls his face into a laugh, his glasses rising above his nose. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

About its feet there flowed, as a thread of silver, the stream that issued from the dale; upon its brow they caught, still far away, a glint in the rising sun, a glimmer of gold. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

The hall rang with music and laughter, though the cold winds were rising outside. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

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

Difficulties over segregation and discrimination exist in every city, in every State of the Union, producing in many cities a rising tide of discontent that threatens the public safety. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

"No matter," Judge Ford said, rising to leave. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

It started rising and falling in a manner that made my heart sink I took in the solar stills and the net. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Morales slept almost the entire shift, rising near the end only to ask for a cigarette. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

With the color in the officer’s cheeks rising, he looked like I had insulted him personally. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

The infiltration of soldiers from North to South was steadily rising. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

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

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

“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

“You had only to ask, my friend,” declared Mr. Benedict, rising to shake Sticky’s hand. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

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

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

Knowing by the way it feels like my insides are rising into the air even before I sit up. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

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

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

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

Peris took a step back, his eyebrows rising. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

She sat naked on her bed and looked at her life, in this tiny room with the moldy carpet, the hundred dollar bill on the table, her body rising with loathing. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Her voice was getting whinier by the second, the pitch rising higher and higher like a teakettle on the cusp of whistling. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

The Woman’s Building was nearly finished, all its scaffolding gone; the giant Manufactures and Liberal Arts Building had begun rising above its foundation. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

He felt an updraft rising from below him. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

With the moon already rising on the surface, there was no time for a proper breakfast. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

She tumbled and fell off the rising ledge, her head smacking the other pilot’s knee. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

I asked one morning when the entire yard looked like a sea of yellow, rising and falling in bulbous waves. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

The floodwaters were rising in the parking lot, inching closer and closer to the stoops outside the motel room doors. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

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

In the darkness there was that flipped-out tribal music, which seemed to come from the earth itself, from the deep rain forest, and a woman’s voice rising up in a language beyond translation. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

The crown of golden roses girded his temples, jade stag's head rising over his forehead, long black hair spilling out beneath. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Miss Trotter watched us gobble down the pie, her own cheeks rising in little, hard apples. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

Noodles started, his voice rising to another level each time he said it. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

Suddenly the door flew open and there stood the midwife, steam rising from her skin in the heat of the room. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

One can certainly explain the lifting of the boats by the tide, even if the lifting of the boats is itself the best evidence that the tide is rising. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

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

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 was moving toward the rising sun, which meant the current was flowing east. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

“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

Their voices blended as one beneath the rising moon, while Ghost listened and the mountains themselves bore witness. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

At times hurt and anger radiated from them like heat rising from Idaho blacktop in the sun. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

And here were the great-great- grand squabs cooing in the morning and rising to fly like a whirling white scarf around the wagon shed. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Lowering and rising, Cole wandered off away from the fire, then pretended the fire was the goal of his long migration. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

A girl, pixie haired and smiling, was floating above the ocean, rays arrowing out from behind her, where a brilliant red-orange sun was rising. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I’m breathing deeply, trying to slow my heart rate, to quell the panic rising in my chest. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

“Good morning to you,”—said he, rising and walking off abruptly. Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z

A failing TB control system had led to many uncompleted therapies; rising crime had led to overcrowded prisons. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

Fists and the flashing tip of the blade, clouds of dust rising beneath their feet. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Black smoke and orange flames were already rising from two other huts. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Dimly through the mists they could descry the long arm of the mountains rising on their left. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

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

They ripped out of the backstretch and leaned together into the final turn, their strides still rising and falling together. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

As they flew over the Crematorium, the plane shot upwards on the column of hot air rising from the chimneys, only to fell as suddenly when it passed into the descending chill beyond. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a fire in the house, rising and falling, with Roskus sitting black against it. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

It felt like the ocean was rising from her tummy, shoving its way through her chest, and trying to explode out of her face. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

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

It became more difficult to see, as if there were a fog rising, and just when the horses seemed to be nearly upon her, her lantern went out, leaving her momentarily blind. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The captain saw the hills rising in the daylight. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Mirror seemed to be growing hot and curls of steam were rising from the water. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Biddy’s face look like—I don’t know—a full moon rising over a corn patch. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

I could see the insult rising to her lips. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

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

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

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

She found Jaqen soaking in a tub, steam rising around him as a serving girl sluiced hot water over his head. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The oakwood fire roared up past an open damper to heat the oven for the bread, which lay white and rising in the pans. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Ifemelu said, her voice rising, and then she was sobbing, apologizing to Aunty Uju, her own guilt spreading and sullying her. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

His large, blond head rising out of the stripy collar of his pajamas looked oddly disembodied, his mouth gaping in astonishment and fear. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

She spoke in an impassive tone, and everything she said was delivered evenly, never rising or falling. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

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

Then rising an octave like “The Star-Spangled Banner”: “God stirred up the holy spirit of a man named Daniel!” The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Moments before she had felt the chill of death on the Queen’s skin, but now there was a rising heat. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

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

For a full minute, the class practiced rising and sitting in unison as she pressed the lever of her cricket and appraised the harmony of ebb and augmentation of her new charges. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

At a visit with Winnie a few months before, she had managed to tell me through our coded conversation that there was a rising class of discontented youth who were militant and Africanist in orientation. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

His father could sense the rising wind, and besides, it would shake the loose windowpanes. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

I would toss and turn all night and all morning, my heart racing, finally falling into a headachy sleep in the late afternoon, when the rest of Faerie was just rising. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

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

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

Again I met the Irish chap and we discussed world happenings, the vast armies of unemployed, the rising tide of radical action. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

Ben just walked and with all his powers of concentration rising to the surface of consciousness, of being alive, and of being son, Ben tried not to cry. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

These, he argued, were shadows and highlights such as you would find on a mountain range as it caught the rising sun. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

There was a rising murmur of voices and he sensed that it was caused by his movements. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

She places her palms together, curls of smoke from her cigarette rising over her fingers. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

The rising sun and chirping birds woke Booth and Herold early in the morning. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wave very slightly, my hand not even rising above my head. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

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

Koffi swallowed the sour bile rising in her throat, tried to still her buckling knees. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

They were said to have been seen at night rising from the ground like birds on fire. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

This one was lean, strong, powerful—and taller when he stood up, as he now did, rising to his feet with slow, feline grace as Julius drew near. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

“Hell, I ain’t stopping now. I just got here,” die woman answered, rising rhythmically. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the distance, I see a funnel of smoke rising into the air. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

Jackson Park was one square mile of desolation, mostly treeless, save for pockets of various kinds of oak—burr, pin, black, and scarlet—rising from a tangled undergrowth of elder, wild plum, and willow. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

They were the most foreign-looking people she had ever seen, and she didn’t feel fear so much as curiosity and a rising excitement. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

And now I can recall the picture of the grey old house of God rising calm before me, of a rook wheeling round the steeple, of a ruddy morning sky beyond. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

For exactly three seconds, he was keenly aware of their chests rising and falling against each other. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Overhead the swallows dipped down to catch bugs rising from the ground. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

We are breathing at the same pace, our chests rising and falling in unison. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

Perrington’s face shifted for a moment, toward something pained and ugly—but it was so fast she barely noticed it above the pounding rising in her head. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

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

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

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

Soheil turns and kicks a rock, then watches it sail toward the Midway and roll to a stop, dust rising and settling in its wake. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

Winnie clutched the little bottle in her hands and tried to control the rising excitement that made her breath catch. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

The southron knights rode out in plate and mail, dinted and scarred by the battles they had fought, but still bright enough to glitter when they caught the rising sun. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Through the murk ahead, he could just see four huge chimneys on the southern bank, rising from each corner of a great clifflike building. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

The density of threads rising from the assembled army was almost overwhelming, and Anya gaped at them. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

As he watched, they grew faint, shrouded in the rising morning mist. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

We reach the end of the path and stand at the bottom of the chasm, where the rocks form unsteady ground, rising up at harsh angles from the rushing water. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

The Boston Temple’s outstanding young Minister Louis X, previously a well-known and rising popular singer called ‘ ‘The Charmer, ’ ’ had written our Nation’s popular first song, titled “White Man’s Heaven is Black Man’s Hell.” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

It bedded itself down in sleepy pink-grey cinders and a smoke plume blew over it, rising and waving slowly back and forth in the sky. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

She stared at the phone, and then at the bills on her table, a tight, suffocating pressure rising inside her chest. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

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

Mama kisses and kisses and kisses me as I offer her a smile as bright as Inti rising in the morning. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

Again Gandalf approached the wall, and lifting up his arms he spoke in tones of command and rising wrath. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

“I am sorry I cannot hoist the sail and take you in with the small breeze that is rising. But I am with a friend.” The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

He could feel the press of his rising anger. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

Slowly, it starts rising—the vinegar reacting with the baking soda and making carbon dioxide—and now bloodred lava is bubbling over the sides of the volcano, spilling down the slopes. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

I dared not go far over the hilltops, lest I lose my backtrack; it was wild country, steep, full of creeks and ravines, rising fast to the cloud-haunted mountains eastward. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

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

Jinny looked at the pile of shoes, the tree, the island rising behind the beach. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

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

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

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

Nor would she punish slaves for rising up against their masters. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

We heard news — which word could not but quicken the blood—of common men rising in the thousands to empty the rural law courts of corruption and expel the un-elected favorites of government. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

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

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

It looks pretty effortless, and if I learned anything from Instagram rising star Harriett, everything that looks effortless requires too much effort. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

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

"I haven't seen any dragons rising over the city, so it would seem it didn't work this time either." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The liquid there heated and changed state, rising as vapor through the fractionating column to catch in the condenser and trickle in droplets into the collection flask. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

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

Beyond the narrow tunnel, the earthen walls opened into a long field with gently rising slopes on either side, like seating for spectators. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

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

Frankie raked a hand through his hair, his voice rising in agitation. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

It continued to float, rising above every wave, but there was no freeboard and the surf of every breaking wave rode clear across it, washing around me like a river washing around a boulder. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

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 could hear the hum of a disgruntled crowd rising from the street below. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“What evening will you come? Say Thursday. Will you come Thursday?” he asked, rising to take his leave. The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

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

In every single American slave state, the population of enslaved people kept rising even after the slave trade was abolished. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

Emma squeezed her eyes shut, her chest rising and falling fast. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

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

The farmer let his hand drop to the knife handle rising up from his boot. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Matthias felt the fur on the back of his neck rising. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

And I could sense her anger rising to its breaking point. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

A livid bruise was rising around Black’s left eye and his nose was bleeding. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

The building was a twelve-story showcase of modern architecture, all glass and concrete, rising like a mirage from the site of Benjamin Duke’s old estate, Four Acres. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

"Don't be a fool," Catelyn said, the anger rising in her. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

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

Penelope could imagine how a flock of mallards rising into the air would make that exact sound. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

The threads push through the cell wall and grow out of the cell, like grass rising from seeded loam. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The road was already going to dust and the dust was rising, and there was nothing to see ahead but troops in the dust toiling upward toward the crest of a divide. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

A flash of lightning revealed the mountains, rising steeply up on either side of them. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

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

Two people jumped onto the rising ramp and started climbing aboard. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

Too much panic and fear, spilling into the streets and rising up into the sky. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

Its sides—clad in weather-beaten shingles and inset with a series of large windows—slanted obliquely inward, rising toward a gambrel roof. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

A mushroom of smoke is rising in the air over Farbranch. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

When she checked again after supper, as the sun was setting and the mist rising, he was gone and the cheese with him. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

Despite the costume, she was the same old Aileen, with the same spray of freckles rising up her cheeks when she smiled. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Perhaps because of rising standards of living, children are being treated better worldwide. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“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

You might as well ask the sun to stop rising in the morning! P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

He could see the stands rising above him, the shapes of people moving in them, the stars above. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

A thin stem of smoke was rising out of the woods ahead. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

I hiss in his ear, my rising laughter clear to him. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know what America’s thinking was,” said Jerrod as the pickup edged its way to a little butte rising out of the stubble and the rock. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I have enough stress at work,” Dina says, her voice rising. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

On the rising cage were two members of the rescue team, identified by the green crosses taped to their helmets. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

A low rising sun floods the kitchen with soft pink light. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

“Anya,” he whispered, the rising panic in his voice unmistakable, “don’t let them take me.” Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

Late in the evening we will sometimes pull into the dirt parking lot of a clapboard praise house and listen to old, dark Gullah hymns rising out the windows. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, it’s not true,” I said, my voice rising like something had seized it from below and was shoving it up into my throat. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Its second rising displayed a more elaborately prepared scene than the last. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

Hideo’s hand stops near my elbow, on an elaborate, geometric sculpture rising out of the waves. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

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

‘Tripped in the end!’ said Sam bitterly, his anger rising again above weariness and despair. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

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 hate to be the bearer of bad news,” I said, pointing off to a faint smudge of smoke rising from the trees. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

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

It was around eight in the evening, I was coming down the main staircase, and heard a burst of laughter rising up the stairwell from the ground floor. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh, come on, Moss,” said Esperanza, rising to grab his arm. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Slowly the downs drew near; It was still an hour before noon when they reached them: green slopes rising to bare ridges that ran in a line straight towards the North. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

The wind was rising, and they could hear the old wooden buildings creaking around them, and in the distance a heavy shutter banging, over and over, forgotten. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

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

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

Movement everywhere: a myriad arms, rising and falling, hands flailing, backs bending and straightening in a relentless rhythm. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

“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

There was in his stomach a slow, cold, vast rising movement, as though he held within the embrace of his bowels the swing of planets through space. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

I saw feet fly toward me and a man grabbed the jug, dust and dirt rising up. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Suddenly Frodo laughed: from the covered basket he held, the scent of mushrooms was rising. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

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 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

An elderly Italian peddler on his way home for the evening, unaware of the rising emotions, wandered into the swirling mob. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

We were rising fast and it seemed like the hollow would miss us, but just as it reached the apex of its jump, one of its tongues shot out and lassoed Emma around the ankle. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

A few moments later, Hymir felt the boat rising into the air. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

I keep the rising panic off my face. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

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

I see the congregation, teary-eyed, suddenly distracted by the rising smoke seeping through the seams. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

As Soheil talks, I feel bile rising in my throat, but I also begin to remember more of the White Rose story from history class. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

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

And then the bus was nothing but rising exhaust down the road. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z

The day I see smoke rising over the treetops, I know something has gone terribly wrong. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

"The cold winds are rising. The Wall must be held." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

A current of warm air, rising from the woods, was carrying them along. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

It twisted and turned for another twenty feet before opening up into a tiny box canyon with steep walls rising away on every side. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

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

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

It may be surprising to some that drug crime was declining, not rising, when a drug war was declared. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

The buttery fumes still rising from the tub, I think that is what pulls me from bed. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

Marial tilted his head up and put his hand on his brow to shade his eyes from the rising sun. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

There was pride in his mother’s breast when she saw him walking, sitting down and rising: Siddhartha —strong, handsome, supple-limbed, greeting her with complete grace. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

In spite of the dark red dawn the sun was mounting the horizon clouds and sparkled upon the dew on the rising wheat and barley. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

With its rising towers, limestone columns, and jutting gables, it resembled a small fortress, as inaccessible as it was foreboding. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

We watch the TV in silence, our knees touching, and the humidity rising, sucking the about of the room. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

August gazed at the sky where the moon was rising, large and ghostly silver. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The outer layer of plaster had peeled and flaked away from most of the building, showing ancient red-brick walls that were absolutely straight, rising up higher than twenty feet from the yard. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

He claimed that he had started out of the city late so that the rising moon would light his way. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

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

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

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

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

It was his manner—the warmth of him, like steam rising from tea. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

He spoke in Farsi, but Sohrab argued back, his voice rising in pitch and volume until it started cracking. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

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

I start standing, feeling TaShon rising with me, wobbling a bit. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

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

“Don’t become the next cautionary tale,” Ms. Ramos had said, giving a strong warning to us rising ninth-graders in the room. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

I doze off, and, when I wake up, I see the sun rising in a but­termilk sky through the window next to the nurses’ station. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

There is one road from Wall, a winding track rising sharply up from the forest, where it is lined with rocks and small stones. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

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

She likes walking through the streets so early, had liked rising by herself in semidarkness, liked the sense of promise it lent the day. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

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

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

And that’s when I felt myself rising like a balloon above a fair. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

“Well, since obviously no one’s going back to dreamland, we may as well make tracks for your father,” said Ripred, rising to his feet. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

The flames are visible in the gaps between and rising slightly above. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

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

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

The lake began to overflow and pour out through the old tunnel, and the water was rapidly rising up the steps. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

The only thing moving was smoke rising from the chimney. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

As morning came the wind began to stir again, but now it came from the North, and soon it freshened to a rising breeze. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

And rising up from these royal, liquid, silken bedsheets of a holy bay is a mountain, right in the middle. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

Then he saw the other forms rising out of the dark around them. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Roosevelt figured that the rising river caused the leaky canoe to sink, pulling the canoe it was tied to under as well. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

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

And then I hear a voice rising above all the rest. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Presently the rising and falling of their breasts slowed to normal speed, and in a sort of pleasant helplessness they fell apart. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

He came about and let the Frog sail closer, came up into the wind and stopped about thirty yards away, rising and settling on the waves and swells. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

In front of them was a field of waving sea grasses dotted with chrysanthemum flower anemones, but beyond that there was a silver glow in the darkening sky, as if the moon were rising. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

Upon rising, the athletes sipped cocoa and grazed from plates of pastries. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

And then it came to me, like the first shocking glimpse of the sun’s disk rising over the horizon, what it was I did want to do. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

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

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

Black bass rising in flat black water: ah. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He grabbed onto my legs in an effort to keep me from rising. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

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

The ocean is still and calm, with a sparkle where the rising sun catches it. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

I asked, feeling the boiling anger rising up in me again. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

Seabiscuit slept for most of the trip to Belmont, rising only when reporters tramped aboard the train at the stops between San Francisco and New York. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t rising with grace so much as jerkily trying to extricate itself from the work, and its head was still buried in the canvas. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

Already he could see the water level rising. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

Huge orange gouts of fire unfurled their banners in that hellish wind, the logs hissing and cracking, glowing cinders rising on the smoke to float away into the dark like so many newborn fireflies. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

And as the train stopped, this time we saw flames rising from a tall chimney into a black sky. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

The old man was gazing silently ahead into the rising dust. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mercer indicated with a sweep of his hand the barren, rising hillside, the familiar place. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

They are led into a room that smells of herbs and rising dough: a kitchen. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

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

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

I feel a rush of air rising up from the stairwell, and the ground vibrates beneath my feet. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Suppose they had seen it, too—the thin figure rising among the cars and quickly ducking down again. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Then he had the sensation of rising and he knew he was on Ares’s back. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

So was I. Like a soda bottle with bubbles rising up through the body, up the neck. Sunny 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

She sat on one side of the little Formica table, steam from her mug of tea rising up to her face as she stared out the window to the Barrows’ house next door. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

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

I peek at the tag, heat rising in my cheeks. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

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

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

The light of rising or setting stars bouncing off the ocean? Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Forced to face her, forced to talk, I felt my gumption rising. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

The sun was just rising, and the reeds and the marsh plants were all tipped with gold. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Oh, the effects of it were real—the rising prices, the shortage of everything, the news that so-and-so had been killed in some faraway battle. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

It looks like a castle, gray brick rising high in the sky and left and right too. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Then the air was cut by a high-pitched keening, rising until my ears ached. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

The storm had ended; a moon rose, and they saw the whitewashed houses rising on steep hills, gleaming in the moonlight. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

“What did you just say?” he asked, his voice rising. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

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

“Off with thy jerkin,” he said, at the same time rising and taking off his own habit. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

Boots said, her voice rising in pitch and intensity. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

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

There was menace in their hate and fear, and when Lazlo saw it, the feeling inside him was like the blast of fire rising up a dragon's throat. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

He drew in a silent breath to quell the small nudge of anxiety that was rising within him; so far he had not been forced to lie. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

In the center blazed a bonfire made of pitch and bone; yet the smoke was white and odorless, rising through the hole in the middle of the ceiling. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Sierra squinted into the shifting luminescence of the moon’s reflection, trying to adjust her eyes, and then she was sure of it: A glow was rising beneath her. 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

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

And with every blink, the molasses was rising higher. I Survived the Great Molasses Flood, 1919 2019-09-03T00:00:00Z

The blade of blackbirds rising out of nowhere, brandishing and then gone? Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

Fire rising from a pan on the stove, licking the ceiling and walls. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

She pointed at a distant temple tower rising above the forest of buildings. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

The bell for rising rang, Kira awoke with a sense that something had changed: she had an awareness of a difference, but had forgotten what the difference was. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Rice telegraphed Ferris, who had been waiting all day for word of the test, his anxiety rising with each hour. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

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

Mysteriously and over millions of years, it appears that Denver has been rising, like baking bread. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

Lucinda would have hated for me to evade my obedience by rising above it. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

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

It may have meant “stone upon stone,” which describes the rocky slope rising from the bank of the Hudson that the prison is built upon. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now it was almost dawn, time to rise, though rising hardly seemed worth the trouble. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

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

Julius felt a great heat rising in him as he looked at the two tigers huddled together, cowering, gazing in fear at the gladiators standing ready to inflict death at the order of Caesar. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

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 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

Sometimes during the day, there were several plumes of smoke rising from houses that had been set on fire by gunmen. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

There was no noise at all except for the quiet hum of the engines, rising up from the bottom of the ship. I Survived the Sinking of the Titanic, 1912 2010-06-01T00:00:00Z

Four winged creatures were rising to meet the fairies. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

Carthage, South Dakota, population 274, is a sleepy little cluster of clapboard houses; tidy yards, and weathered brick storefronts rising humbly from the immensity of the northern plains, set adrift in time. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some of the women were crying loudly, and the men were standing in angry groups, with all their daemons agitated and rising in nervous flight or snarling at shadows. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

Henry accelerated; the humming of the propeller shrilled from hornet to wasp, from wasp to mosquito; the speedometer showed that they were rising at the best part of two kilo-metres a minute. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

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 moon is just rising, but it is so dark a daytime bird can’t see. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

Before the sun rose, Nok walked up the road to the village, the fresh smell of green herbs and steamed fish rising up from the dish. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

Jumping out of bed, Martin pulled the curtains apart and was startled to see that the house was surrounded by dark liquid that kept rising. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

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

I felt him inhale, his chest rising with the movement. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

“You leave my sister alone!” he howled, rising, teetering to his feet. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

The waves rush back in, the water swishing and rising to my ankles. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Behind us, the scrap mountain was boiling, rising up. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

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

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

They seemed to be rising out of the ground. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some were already exhausted, clouds of smoke still rising from the blackened wood and swirling through the camp. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

The wooden watchtower was the tallest thing this side of the mountains, rising twenty feet above the biggest sentinels and soldier pines in the surrounding woods. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

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

God, going north, and rising on the wings of power, had become white, and Allah, out of power, and on the dark side of Heaven, had become—for all practical purposes, anyway—black. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

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

“I shall take care of this,” the Duchess says, rising and plucking the jar of salve out of Mr. Gideon’s hand. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

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

As I stared at the three horseless hooves, I felt my own anger rising. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

Hamilton rising up as Ben-Jamin rides into battle on a one-winged dragon. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

Soon the Argo II was rising into the sky. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

“Okay,” I said, and felt my pulse rising. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

The girl looks off, down the block, her thumb slowly rising to her mouth. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

There we chanted together, voices rising and falling, loud and soft, some boys shouting, everybody reading together, reciting together and not alone with one voice. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Madam’s lips are moving. The Prayer is rising.” Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

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

“Go on,” Chess urged, because he couldn’t care about canned food and dollar bills when he felt such dread rising inside him. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

You could almost see the stink fumes rising out of it. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

My voice was now rising in exactly the way I wanted to avoid, but I was provoked by his attitude. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“Here, sir,” Brannon said, rising out of his seat, egged on by the cheers of his squadron. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

She felt dizzy, and it wasn’t only the swaying and rising and falling of the branches she was wedged among. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

“Say, I don’t like that,” Havermeyer exclaimed, rising resentfully with his hands clenched on his hips. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

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

The rising volume of noise threatened to push his panic over the edge, but he knew he was treading on fragile ground with Trina. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

Should we sell the rising stock option and risk losing out on its further ascent, or hold on to it and risk its decline and the loss of our premium? Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

But in the hereness of dusk I am moving toward the doomlike bells through the flowered air, beneath the rising moon. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I wish everyone thought that,” I murmur, feeling the lump rising in my throat again. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

The crowd begins to chant, voices rising louder and louder in unison until the sound takes over everything. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

The sun was rising in the sky, turning the snow on the ground to slush. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

With water to the chin and the tide rising. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

As I say, this moment has remained firmly embedded in my mind, as has the memory of the peculiar sensation I felt rising within me as I stood there like that. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

Welling up, building up, rising, filling her—something in her that should not have been there, and every night that passed it was harder to resist its compulsions. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

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

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

The greyhound yawned, her tongue rising like a hill in her mouth, then shook herself, sat down, and looked at Jeanne as if she, too, wanted to hear the story. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

“Bigger, for God’s sake!” the mother sobbed, rising and bending over Vera. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

There was silence except for the sound of the rising wind. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Light shines everywhere: the lanterns and blimp screens and sky candles and a bright rising moon. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

The rising sun painted the khaki hills red and pink as we hiked the dusty trail. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

I throw the ball back to Quickfire and give the same signal as before: rising curve. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

Tall and beautifully proportioned, rising from its base to flare gracefully and then round to the mouth, a prunus vase was designed for one purpose—to display a single branch of flowering plum. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

There is a familiar desperation in me, a rising panic that beats loudly in my chest, pounding out each thing I owe. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Nearly everywhere there was the hiss of little campstoves, threads of rising food smoke, and the movements of lanky young people. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

“Either that,” said Dozer, his hackles rising, “or they’re just using the storm as an excuse to dump their dogs!” Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Suddenly rising, he crossed the cell and picked up a broom. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

The fire flared for an instant and then dropped, smoke and steam rising and disappearing in the air above the river, and the boys quieted, scrambling off the rocks toward the beach. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

She worked at a fast-food restaurant, rising to assistant manager but never making much more than minimum wage. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

“She was not rising to the oncoming seas. The weight of the ice was having its effect, and she was becoming more like a log than a boat.” Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

“I’m going to get you some tea,” she announced, rising from the couch, letting him go. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Now, he felt the fight rising up in his throat whenever he thought of people making fun of her. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

Its heavy bulbous shape billowed out as rising air currents added to its mass. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Death is not a pastime,” she says, her voice rising unsteadily, “not a place to make paintings.” The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Kino’s lips were thin and his jaws tight, and the people say that he carried fear with him, that he was as dangerous as a rising storm. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

And then rising from within me is a single thought: I don’t want to die. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

When there was no movement other than the chest slowly rising and falling, he came stiffly to his feet and knelt at Chronicler’s side. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Disguising my rising panic, I thanked him for getting me to the top of Everest. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

Away to the east where the night was rising, the perimeter line was under heavy artillery fire. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

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

At that moment the rising sun’s rays reach the rose window above the altar, bathing the sanctuary in blue, red, and gold light. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

She looked into your eyes, her color rising fast behind the dark freckles that sprinkled her nose and cheeks, even in October. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

I could make out through the mist a church steeple, and around about it, clusters of dark-slated roofs; here and there, wisps of white smoke were rising from chimneys. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

There was sand beach a little aside of the rocks, he glimpsed this a couple of times as he tried to swim free of the rising of the next breaker. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

The room was warm with the nine of them around the table and heat still rising from the turkey, the sweet potatoes, the small mountains of stuffing and green beans. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

At sea, sailors would mistake the rising smoke for a gigantic mountain range. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“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

Max breathes those two faint words, her shoulders rising and falling. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

She heard the laughter over all, coming thin and lunatic, rising in its little crazy tune, and thought, No; it is over for me. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

Then he saw Dumbledore rising out of the water ahead, his silver hair and dark robes gleaming. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Even with the water no longer rising, he knew he could do nothing at home. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

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

Harry, Ron, and Hermione, however, were not alone in rising much earlier than they usually did on weekends. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

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

“Twig,” I said, trying to keep the disappointment and anger from rising in my voice. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

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

“Haughty girls don’t get far,” she said, rising from the chair. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

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

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

The moonlight kept rising; it covered his neck, it reached his eyes until he understood: Desdemona was wearing a corset. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

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

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

In the distance she saw smoke rising from a farmhouse chimney, and two figures moved slowly in the empty field as if cataloguing their losses. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Rather, what seemed to appeal was the idea of the individual rising to a higher plateau. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

The two men were parts of the same system, serving a nation rising to its destiny. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

At last, the train jolted and began to move, and I woke for good to a pale yellow sun rising above the trees in the distance. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

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

From it rose a flight of stairs, taking their time in their rising, taking all the space they needed. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The light of the rising sun shimmered on the water, broken by the shadow of the persimmon tree. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I let them drive ahead, watching their tail- lights, fighting a hotness rising in my throat. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

The knife sliced the water, and grew, and kept rising, until it was a great wall, a jagged cliff, a triangle of what looked like stone above her head. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

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

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

The ruins continued under her feet Out here they were almost completely submerged, only a few shapeless masses rising through the grasp of vegetation. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z