Here, as Uncle had said, the river formed a big lake. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

We were tucked between two banks of a long-ago river. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

When the police arrive at the river, they ask Enrique for identification papers. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

On and on they flew, over countryside parceled out in patches of green and brown, over roads and rivers winding through the landscape like strips of matte and glossy ribbon. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

The river had shrunk to a trickle, the well was as dry as a bone. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

The bridge lifts them gently above the river and sets them back down on the other side. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

The words spill out of me, a tumbling river I've dammed up for too long. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Beyond this the river is occupied only by hamlets on the bluffs at the water’s edge. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

She knew the fishermen used water magic to pull the edges of their nets wider as soon as they hit the river’s surface. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

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

“Rifthold smells terrible. Too many people. At least in Banjali, the sun burns up everything. And my father’s river palace smells like lotus blossoms.” Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Coconut trees bent into the river and watched him float by. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wondered if Grams snake bite had anything to do with her stroke, and if Gramps felt guilty for whizzing off the highway and stopping at that river. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

He was standing not far from the house, looking out toward the river, his face half turned from her. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

From the bergschrund at 23,000 feet that marked its upper end, this great river of ice flowed two and a half miles down a relatively gentle valley called the Western Cwm. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

They gathered inedible reeds when they camped along rivers and dried them in the sun. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

We stopped under a railroad bridge and got out of the car to admire the river that ran through the town. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

It was a sudden torrential rain, overfilling the river, and Toby couldn’t stop the water from coming over the banks. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

On the far side of the river valley the road passed through a stark black burn. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

As winter set in, ice formed on the river, and travel between James Town and Point Comfort became impossible. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

Beyond this new river a delightful country rose gently in low hills, ridge beyond ridge, to the Northern Mountains themselves. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

Swat was known for its beauty, and tourists came from all over to see its tall mountains, lush green hills, and crystal-clear rivers. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Hanging from the branches of trees growing out of the rocky gorge face, the men slid and tumbled down toward the river. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Oceanids, the nymphs of this great river, were their daughters. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had not seen the Bainsizza before and it was strange to go up the slope where the Austrians had been, beyond the place on the river where I had been wounded. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

My eyes raced over the ceiling of the subway car, and I imagined the icy river water that was running way up above us. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

People were busy visiting, cooking, hauling water, and taking horses to the river to drink. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

During the run Brian lost twelve pounds, mostly in fluids, though he drank river water constantly to make up for it, and his hands became infected from bacteria in the water. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

“Carry me to camp —across the highway, through the tunnel, across the river.” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

I scooped it up quickly from the river’s edge, but as I stood up the pieces slid apart and fell like knives into the mud. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

"He only said better, because you got to a river this way. If the oasis is due North of Tashbaan, then I'm afraid this may be longer." The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

Oxygen, fresh, pure, green, cold oxygen turning the valley into a river delta. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

I went north on clear ground under the trees, or through the water when there was no clear ground; the river, a hasty little tributary of the Esagel, was still unfrozen. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

She started back, but thought again of the peace of the river. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

A group of young women got permission from Aleksandr Gridnev to swim in a nearby river—and the following day their legs and backs were covered with strange burns. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

The dirt road followed the high cliff of the river on this side. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

No map has ever yet shown the river...I can direct any man where to find this river...rivers stay put, so that the discovery we have made may be verified.” Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

“I just left the baskets on the doorstep and ran. I ran all the way to the river and rented a sampan to take me across. Then I walked from the Bund.” Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The city had not developed along this part of the shore, but had grown northward along the inland river, leaving a few acres of woods untouched. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

Shay leaned forward and eased her board out onto the river, wrapping her dorm jacket around her shoulders against the spray of the rapids. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Big Creek High School sat on the outskirts of War beside the river that gave the district its name. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

“No,” said Lyra, “except that it was by a river.” The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Like the village road and the river, nothing here really continues to its end. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

And below, just yonder, a river called Treason to rely on. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mary Anne walked to the window and stared out at the river. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

After Roosevelt clearly pointed to the exact location of the formerly unknown river, the audience listened in rapt attention to his stories of hardship and survival. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

Because the river turns, and there’s a lot of world to see. Booked 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Something about the river had made Daisy and me quiet, almost unaware of each other, and we wandered in different directions. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

Jasón’s house was farther away from the river than our house. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Only Al Ulbrickson remained motionless and silent, still riveted to his seat, his eyes cold gray stones locked on the white blades out in the river. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

We picked our way across the wild field to the river. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

Twelve hours a day, seven days a week, the mill noisily turns America’s river of corn into cattle feed. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

It huddled on the edge of a dead, dirty lake, fed by a river best known for burning; it was built on a river whose very name meant sadness: Chagrin. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Pop’s new doctors gave him the right medicine and, at night, we walk to the river, sit on a bench and talk. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

I left the river and ran across the llano; I felt light, like the wind, as my even strides carried me homeward. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Although only the river separated us, it was a ten-minute, winding drive back to my house because there’s only one bridge in my neighborhood. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

On the other side of the town a drawbridge crossed the river, connecting Ravenel with the three sea islands that separated the town from the Atlantic Ocean. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I saw the dark shore of a river. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

That night, they bought rats on a stick from a boat seller, and watched the street river traffic. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

Into this narrow triangle of greenery between a road and a river, surrounded by starving people. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

All of them got in a rowboat at the edge of the river. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

I thought maybe it might be more than a crush, what with that afternoon by the river. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

The brachy leaned his massive neck forward into the darkness, and then Magdalys heard a splashing and gurgling from the river. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

It was the only bridge that spanned the entire river, one of the last remaining structures from Chattana's wondrous past. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

"They all attacked me, and she threw Lion's Tooth in the river!" A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“I wasn’t afraid of getting lost ’cause I know the river pretty well. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

To the north the ground fell straight away down to the river more than a hundred feet below. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

Most importantly, alongside seas and rivers rich in seafood and waterfowl, humans set up permanent fishing villages—the first permanent settlements in history, long predating the Agricultural Revolution. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes the river flooded and the water rose as high as the treetops. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

I won’t go through the tearful good-byes, or the boat ride on the river to Canton, the port city, or the first few days on the demon boat. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

I saw them mostly in the summer, down by the river, fishing or swimming naked, but I didn’t really know any of them. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bënduka is the bent-sideways girl who walks slowly, but bënduka is also the name of a fast-flying bird, the swallow with curved wings who darts crookedly quick through trees near the river. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“How about that time he fell in the river when y’all were fishing and your brother jumped in after him and flipped the boat over?” she said. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

We went down the river in a long curve. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

There was the river where we went to wash the clothes and the kingfisher that watched us from a tree. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

It was a hand’s width below now, even when the river was at its fullest. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

After a little while he turned suddenly, and choosing a place where the banks were lower, he waded the river, and then led them away due south into a flat land, treeless and wide. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

At five o’clock in the morning, the girls got up and splashed cold river water on their faces. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

But somehow the first little Caleb had wandered away unnoticed, and had fallen into the river. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

We would go so high the plants would change, and the river that flows past the village would become a waterfall. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

In Montana, ospreys lived in the cottonwoods all along the big rivers, where they dived on trout and whitefish. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He sang along softly with the faraway singers: “Making the light for the lamps of Ember, Older than anyone can remember, Faster than anything anyone knows, The river comes and the river goes.” The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

They beat their wings at her face and hair, the stream of them parting around her like a river around a rock. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

The advisor in Three Kingdoms, for instance, who, needing arrows, floated barges of hay down an enemy-held river. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Don’t know where you’d end up if you followed the river all the way. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Having so arrayed ourselves, we made our way along the pier, where others of our Regiment and the 14th were clambering up from the river. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

Soil and rock and river and turf blew up in a furious roar, then fell back to the cratered earth like harsh black rain. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

There was soft grass on both sides of the river, and beyond the grass, trees and bushes sloped up to the bases of the cliffs. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

I lay on my back and watched a pair of swallows racing up and down the river, tumbling like acrobats in pursuit of invisible bugs. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

He slept outdoors, on the banks of the river. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had the names of towns and rivers by heart and he measured their progress daily. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

The onions must be harvested, packed into the rough sacks that Mercy had sewn, and stacked ready to be hauled into Hartford or bartered for goods when a sailing ship came up the river. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

Only on a night with an exceptional moon can the river rightfully claim its light or any other subtlety. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

He called the love song over cliff and river. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

Guards also allowed workers—about five thousand adult prisoners and a couple of hundred students from the camp’s secondary school—to catch fish and frogs from the river. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

It is nearly the last significant undammed river in the United States. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Jesus’ possession of only a few research students appeared related to its formidable reputation on the river. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

They retreat to the river before the police can catch them, with only enough to buy more crackers. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Mounted on high-stepping horses, a pair of soldiers were advancing along the river road. The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z

A lovely river flowed into the sea there which had excellent washing pools with an abundance of clear bubbling water. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Go to the settlement down the river and across the bridge,” she reads. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

Hamburg is beautiful nonetheless, with its rivers and canals, craggy spires and turrets. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

They cut through to the river’s bank and stood looking up at the soaring metal that arched overhead to cross the river. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ride straight to the river and right into the water. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then he left the highway and started walking south through the desert, following the river- bank. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was hard to dislike Masvita—she was so good-natured—but Nhamo felt a little serpent tongue of envy wriggle inside because her cousin had crossed the river into womanhood first. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Los Osos, once a group of neighborhood children who played along the river, became a band of forty men who move drugs and people across the Rio Grande. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

He raised his sword, and the dark clouds thickened over the river. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

“Hide in the brush by the river, down in the brush by the river.” Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

They crossed the Nimrodel — curse their foul feet in its clean water! — and went on down the old road beside the river. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

“I’m not going to fight you. It’s your river.” The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

Why would Shay call the two rivers “sides,” anyway? Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Now that the man was sitting upright, the blood ran freely from his head like a freaking river, covering his face in a red mask. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

As she walked across the sandbank at the edge of the river, though, she felt the weight of the calabash getting greater and greater. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

They were eating granola bars and drinking water from a nearby river. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

One day, tired and hot from the chase, she came upon a crystal-clear river deeply shaded by silvery willows. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was men coming and going but they all stepped around us as Henry drove the wagon over toward the river. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Because extensive fields of maize, beans, and squash surrounded every home, these settlements sprawled along the Connecticut, Charles, and other river valleys for miles, one town bumping up against the other. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

The doves came to drink in the still pools of the river and their cry was mournful in the darkness of my dream. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The terrain and river looked too fierce and treacherous to cross. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

He saw three river runners too, long lean boats built tough to brave the swift currents and rocky shoots of the White Knife. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Naomi was sitting on a broad, flat rock at the edge of the river. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

And under the ice there's this dark river. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I suppose it was mutual tolerance because the Austrians still kept a bridgehead further down the river. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

And just as I began to smile thinking about Laura Fish running naked into the river, a truck came speeding up beside me and stopped. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

A hippo complained loudly from somewhere near the middle of the river. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was drafty, rickety, perched on thin stilts over the river, with showers that pumped foul-smelling water directly from the Hudson over the boys’ heads. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

I walked up toward the river, trying to pick out specific landmarks, but all 1 recognized was a small rise where Jimmy Cross had set up his command post that night. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tugs pushed the bow of the Manhattan until she pointed down the river, and the ship began to power majestically down the west side of Manhattan. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

At the start of another winter, however, a woman who was washing clothes in the river during the hottest time of the day ran screaming down the main street in an alarming state of commotion. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

They were arrayed on three sides of the city, all but the river side, surrounded by piles of broken stone and casks of pitch and resin just waiting for a torch. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

A dark form was outlined in river lights before her. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

On the outside, its walls are made of the strongest river stones, but inside, they are woven from threads of soft cloud. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

Inns on the route had upped their rates; ferrymen were charging extra to transport people and carriages across rivers. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

The river god was talking about something that had happened thousands of years ago, when this area was nothing but marshes and maybe some shacks. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

A log barn stood back from it, and a steam-bath house at the side nearer the river. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

British ships continued to sail up the river all the day and all the night. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

When we get to the edge of the river, he points across it, and at first I can’t see what he’s showing me. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

The river with its spring tide racing seaward reflected the color with dashes of green and gray. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Other wheeled creatures were working: some repairing a roof, others hauling a net out of the river, others bringing brushwood for a fire. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

They wandered along the river until they came to the wide beach, bright under the moon, where the low tide was turning. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

In their place were depictions of African history: a prince and princess strolling beside a crystal river; a conclave of black scholars debating in an outdoor forum. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Tiller still thought that Sairy—and not the kid—should come with him on the river trip, but he hadn’t been able to find a way to suggest that yet. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

“If you are headed for the river, a bike won’t help you,” said another man. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

At the next clearing I saw someone almost in the middle of the river; flailing in the water. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

When the moon emerged from behind thunderhead darkness the river gleamed. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And was it the same on the other river?” Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

The setting sun had turned the river a muddy gray. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

As he had the realization, a cloud slid beyond the moon and pale light illuminated the river. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Except for the few blacks still huddled by the river bend, and some undemolished houses on Carpenter’s Road, only rich white folks were building homes in the hills. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

I saw her run towards the highway, and I was glad that she did not wander towards the river where the grass was stained— Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The countryside was striking from here, a deep green sweep of playing fields and bordering shrubbery, with the school stadium white and miniature-looking across the river. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

But Van Ness refused to comply and headed Burr into his barge and back across the river to New York. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

There were green meadows on either side of the valley, and along the bottom of it there flowed a great brown river. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z

When he thought that the river was navigable, José Arcadio Segundo gave his brother a detailed account of his plans and the latter gave him the money he needed for the enterprise. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

The dragon was half out of the river, peering around a tree at her. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

However, the famous explorer didn’t think that Roosevelt’s current plans, to travel down an already well-known river, “could offer anything new to an Expedition whose object was to unravel unknown aspects of our wilds.” Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

America is not like Limerick, a gray place with a river that kills. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

It began with my swimming in a river at Mattru Jong with my brother Junior. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

According to law, the trashman had to dump his baskets outside the city limits, where the river made a wide bend. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

He bought several tanks of fuel and some stores, and set off up the swollen river. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Water cascaded off roofs, splashed loudly onto the sidewalks, and ran in burbling rivers through the streets. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

In an unused room somewhere on the second floor, or far from the house, beneath the trees by the river. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Shortly afterwards, Goat returned from the other side of the river, bearing a fine new dress which she had bought for Leopard. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

The countryside was no different from Minnesota over the river. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

And outside of his home’s ravine, he stayed in the river as much as possible. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

There, at last, was the river, full of reflected moonlight, and a little landing stage and a few pleasure boats. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

The driver lost control, and drove off the side of the road, slamming into a tree before coming to rest in a river. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

The bad news was that the river destroyed many of the boundary markers, erasing all of the landmarks that told farmers which land was theirs to cultivate. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

The sun was going down red and cold over the dark hills across the river. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Down in the river the water, bushes, trees, everything was covered with ice. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

I peered into the dark, seeing no one but praying that Father Quinel would be waiting for me across the river. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

These wheels were turned by river water delivered by a run. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

She was terrified that Poppy would slam into the metal bench, or be torn from her arms and tossed into the river. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

He smelled the waxy dark green leaves, and remembered climbing the big cottonwood trees along the river and plucking heavy hanging bunches of cottonwood berries that grew on the female trees late in the summer. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

A giant copper kettle—often about four feet across and three feet deep—waited for the pale river. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

They had reached the river on her way, but the boy soon became tired; he wanted to go home, he wanted to rest, he wanted to eat. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

After a while they came to an opening in the wall, and they turned into it and left the river behind. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

I walk over to the sink and try the faucets, and after some fiddling, they spit out some yellowish water—probably straight from the river. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

She’d spent the last four years looking out at New Pretty Town, wanting nothing more than to cross the river and not come back. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Suppose you wanted to scale the walls of a fortress which was on the other side of a river. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

They would pick their way along the shore of the river and cut through the meadows back to her uncle’s house. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

One day Mars Bar would lead Maniac down the river, down the tracks, past the railroad gondolas, each with its mountain of coal, to the rolling mill at the steel plant where his father worked. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The day was warm, and the breeze which blew from the river was very pleasant She removed her hat and laid it on the piano. The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z

They say that he spent most of his day inside the pump house by the river, as if it pleased him to watch and listen to machines doing their work. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He shouted to Eilonwy, who led the horses away from the river. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

Suddenly the boy with red hair lost his footing on the slippery bank and tumbled into the churning river. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Florida spotted the boat, stuck in the mud upstream, on the same side of the river. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

Each week, he gives police officers who patrol the river a 10 percent cut of his earnings as a smuggler. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

“Near the bridge, in the willow thicket on the river bank, lay the broken-up machine with a black spider of a swastika on its tail unit,” said Nina. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

With that the company said farewell to the island and the mound, and passed over the river, and climbed the further bank. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

“I may just park down by the river to watch those underwater submarine races,” Art said. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I look, the river getting smaller into the far distance, back and back and back. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

“This is the river reed that your ancestors used in their ascent. We are at the entrance of the Third World.” Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

The next village down the river, only two days’ walk on the road that goes through there. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Of course, there was hundreds and hundreds of men working along the river too. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

We have more rain, and the river water is good to drink. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

I think of the pastness of the past: how the moment I am alive in, prisoned in, moves like a slowly tumbling form through darkness, the underground river. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘They’ve found someone. Not far from the London Eye. Near the river. A young Asian boy.’ The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

From under the lowest rail they looked out, upstream, and now, for the first time, saw the whole river plainly. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Across the river in Manhattan, on Wall Street and Park Avenue, Delancey Street and Broadway, people danced under showers of computer cards and ticker tape. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

When they were as high as they could go, Sula pointed to the far side of the river. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

The village was on the bank of a great river where lush fruits and vegetables grew, but no one was allowed to eat anything because it all belonged to the crocodile. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

To reach the river, people had to leave in the early morning and they would be back only at midday. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

‘Our peril will be greatest just ere we reach the river,’ said Glorfindel; ‘for my heart warns me that the pursuit is now swift behind us, and other danger may be waiting by the Ford.’ The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

“The networks are down, and she is somewhere on the river with the bonobos.” Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

Days before, Tree-ear had mapped out the best places along the river for colored clay, and now he went directly to the first spot. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

A tear fell—a minute addition to the rushing river. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

Each day the friar took Robin down the long path to the river to swim. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

It was so quiet; the bees hummed and the river water played the pebbles, the rocks, and the hollows. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

She looked away; she looked at the river that had almost taken Taisin away from them. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Since no one knew how long the river was, where it would lead, or what they would find, Rondon named it the Rio da Dúvida, or the River of Doubt. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

From across the river, he saw a beautiful scene: a looming moon, high over Washington, with the great dome glowing in the moonlight. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

She clenched her teeth and faced the river. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

I ducked down one street after another, trying to find a way to the river, but the army had erected barricades at the ends of most of the roads to keep out the British. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Eliza lived close to the river, where the disease had started. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I steam the fish and vegetables in violet leaves, and we eat by the river, admiring the kingfishers who dive into the water and come up with fish every time. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The river clenched me in its fist, gritty and brown, much colder than I thought it would be. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

“Even if she does find the right river, she might not be able to get to the gate.” Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

It was smaller than the ones they’d seen by the river, and it had no signs of injury anywhere. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

I walk down to the river with the Doorman and head upstream to where the names are in the rock. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

While Rondon and Lyra checked out the area, Kermit decided to find out if it would be easier to travel down the other side of the river, hoping to save them some time. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

At last he felt something—a metal rod attached to the river wall, like the rungs of the ladder they had climbed down. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Her steps slowed as she neared the river. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Down the mountainside, past a dry river and across the road, runs a coil of silver. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

He pointed to a high point west of and above the river. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

But I do see what I wanna see: this bridge is the only place where you can cross the river, from back where we’ve run to miles farther ahead as you look. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

“Come on. I’ll show you the spot on the river where I saw the dragon.” Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

“You know this river is the only reason Indianapolis even exists?” Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

But British gunboats fired on the barge that was carrying Arnold across the river, and he was forced to return to West Point. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Drenched to the skin by torrential rain, they unloaded the shells from a baggage car, lifted them over their heads, and hustled down to the river to stow the boats and inspect their new quarters. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Boys and dogs drive the horses and oxen to the river and break through the ice to let them drink. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

The latrines had been placed beside the river, so the current would wash away the wastes. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

There was some cursing and scuffling, and then most of the Northerners broke away and dashed off, over a hundred of them, running wildly along the river towards the mountains. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

One by one, we wade into the water as they grow even closer, the hum even louder than the river’s roar. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

If only I could go with Nat, she realized suddenly, it wouldn’t matter where we went, to Barbados or just up and down this river. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

Well maybe we could find some other place on the river. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

It was such a gray and misty day that I could not see the other side of the river, where there was a small stadium. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

The visitors poured through the castle gates in a river of gold and silver and polished steel, three hundred strong, a pride of bannermen and knights, of sworn swords and freeriders. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

He enjoyed the game of chasing turtles and other small river creatures, but I’d never seen him actually catch anything aquatic. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

‘You don’t just fall in the river, Kat. There are walls all around. You’d have to throw yourself in deliberately.’ The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

Very little of the Sanchez, now Trask, place was under cultivation, but Adam in his mind could see the wheat growing tall and squares of green alfalfa near the river. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

It all started one day while I was hoeing com down in our field close to the river. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“All right, never mind that. As long as you recognize me as the one who pulled you out of the river...” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

Cari and Beto glanced up at the bright blue sky whisked with feathery clouds, but they stayed down by the river. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

The river by this time had changed color, because it was meeting the remains of the first floodwaters that had swept down out of the Arctic. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

The river was no more than fifty or sixty yards across, and it wasn’t long before Dicey saw the opposite bank rise over her head, capped by a tangle of undergrowth and trees. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

I could bleed the engine tonight, set my alarm for 4 A.M., and be on the river before the sun was up over the tree line. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

We turned south, following a road that went along the river. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Its shell was more like a landmass—hills of bone, shiny pearl valleys, kelp and moss forests, rivers of seawater trickling down the grooves of its carapace. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

South Congress Avenue hardly resembled the street north of the river. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

“The rest of you, bring me three large flat stones from the river. And scrub them clean! And bring back two pots of water, too. Who’s been cleaning these?” The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

Sometime in these bedlam hours I must have crossed the river again because I had got back on U.S. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

He turned his face away from the river gate. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

She wasn’t sure of her direction, except that she wanted to go south, away from the river. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

The carriage clattered along cobblestoned streets, beneath lampposts, and past statues of dragons along the edge of the river. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

One for the unknown man at the river crossing. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

Take me to the river, and I will do the rest. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

And the D train ran in a tunnel from Manhattan to the Bronx, but I had never really thought too much about all that river water above my head. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

Near the river, workers had erected a wooden platform for the Autumn Faire. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

Across the river was Jersey and I remembered my entry into Harlem. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

The river, it seemed, had carried away her shoes. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

And one of them, Mrs. Clara Teece, came to stand in the dust by the hardware porch, blinking up at her stiff and angry husband as the black river flowed full behind her. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

The river of pus continued to ooze out the drainage tubes. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Only a giant would have had the strength to sink the massive pillars there, in the deepest, swiftest section of the river. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

Ben breathed deeply, catching the scent of gardenias, and the river, half honey, half wine. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The rowboat had come ashore in a tangle of bushes that overhung a small bank at the side of the river. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

She could hear their laughter and wondered if he was telling that girl the same jokes he’d told down by the river. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Anatole and I rode along as far as the river to see them off. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then she thought of the plantation and how the land rolled gently down toward the river, thought of Ben and Old Rit, and that Old Rit would be inconsolable because her favorite daughter was missing. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t want to float down this new river. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

Moments later, a series of well-placed shells slammed into the trees across the river. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

They came out along the rim of a deep gorge and far down in the darkness a river. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

The young man, her son, inquired again of us, who we were; to which we answered shortly that we were traveling down the river. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

“When I flew over that night the river was burning with oil, and everything on the ground was burning,” she said. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

“Did you really think that I was going to drive this buggy into the middle of the river?” he asked. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

It would be foolish to tromp much farther through the river’s edge in the dark, with the risk of snakes and crocodiles. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

Throwing caution to the winds, he dashed along the river bank. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

You can see down the road for a piece and there’s a view of the river, too, rushing by us on the left now. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

It’s as if everything has been poured out into a flowing river. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

He walked past the old mangosteen tree and up to the edge of a laterite spur that jutted out into the river. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s the river—we go on the river! The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

I lay flat on the bank and heard the river and the rain. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

“If you are not Aunt Jin,” the fish said to the dragon, interrupting Minli’s thoughts, “why are you swimming across the river? Why don’t you just fly?” Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t really want to learn about the polluted river. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

The river was sparkling under a cloudless sky, and Tally allowed herself to be swept away by the beauty of New Pretty Town. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

He arrived at the river and asked the old man to take him across. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

A thousand miles up from the Atlantic, the river is still so broad that at high water the other side is only a faint dark line on the horizon. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

During the night he slept among the boats on the river, and early in the morning, before the first customers arrived in the shop, he had his beard shaved off by the barber’s assistant. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

He stood watching the river where it swung loping into a pool and curled and eddied. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

The first line was in the river now, but die enemy galleys were backing water. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

I was leaning out the window of my sister's new apartment, on the far side of the river San, waiting for her to come and have lunch with me. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

It sat beside the river next to the mill, but the coolness of the Sogozha’s waters couldn’t make a dent in the stifling heat the forges inside breathed out. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

After discovering the room full of boats, Lina had come home to Mrs. Murdo’s with the sound of the river still in her ears. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

The strip twixt the road and the river ain’t getting any thicker and we can see each other as we go. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

He'd point out the symmetric perfection of a butterfly, the sunlight shimmering on the river, and the delicate aroma of a yellow rose. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

She sipped the last of the river from the hollow of his navel. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Father told us to jump into the river.’ A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Soon she stood on a great stone bridge that spanned the river, which was in spate. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

He didn’t have time to reach the river or the mountains. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Janet’s were hard because sometimes she had essay questions, but JR’s were harder because he liked to press his pencil into the paper so hard that it made mountains and rivers on the pages. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

And I know that Kate stole aboard a boxcar in Chicago, while Sticky stowed away on a river barge. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

The mountains of North Korea are crisscrossed with swift rivers, large and small. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

But Siddhartha went outside and sat in front of the hut all night, listening to the river, sunk in the past, simultaneously affected and encompassed by all the periods of his life. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

Richard, James, and I spend the afternoon bringing buckets of water from the river to dump on the tiny new shoots. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

Early Sunday I ran down to the river and one of the lines was just a-jiggling! Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

In the pickup, on the way home from school, Dad had told me to check the smaller creeks off the river. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

The sun was rising from wherever it rose, behind the distant factories maybe, or over the blind river. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

But mostly it contributes to streams and so to rivers. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

He looked at Amari one last time before Clay picked him up and abruptly tossed him into the river. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

She’d come over to New Pretty Town on her own expedition, and had been hiding here by the river for an hour. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

I thought of the flowers plumping out my pockets and was glad they couldn’t speak, but I didn’t imagine they would sell me down the river even if they could. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

We followed the river until the shadows grew long and then we arced through the scrub and made for home. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

A little river of blood poured down her arm, over her dress, and onto her leg. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

Were those two eyes glowing—or just reflections of starlight on the river? A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

As punishment, he ordered all 160 boys to march into an ice-cold river. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

The springs turned into steam; the rivers shrank. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

One hot pool, surrounded by large boulders, was about thirty yards from the river’s edge, a shallow puddle twenty feet wide. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

As soon as I was finished with breakfast, I called my pups and lit out for the river. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

She told Octavian everything that had happened since they met at the tunnel—the gorgons, the fight at the river, the appearance of Juno, their conversation with Reyna. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

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

The scene was of a river and lots of trees. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

After the departing villagers passed the river, at a spot where the water ran swift and deep, Alyce stepped out of the woods. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

For three days the second girl fetched water from the river, and each day it became harder and harder. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

On May 8 a diesel truck, pulling a flatbed of lumber and roadblocks, crossed the Delhi Bridge and parked on the town side of the river. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

A low range of mountains made a bowl of a valley cut through by a beautiful river. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

On the way to the river are the old dormitories, used for something else now, with their fairy-tale turrets, painted white and gold and blue. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

I roll the dirty clothes and sheets into a wicker basket and walk down to the river. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Here was their favorite meeting place, whether they wanted to dance or bathe their fair bodies at the river mouth or gather flowers. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

I will wade across the river of the blackfish, the otter, the beaver. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

She put him in a reed basket and cast him away in a river. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sun had already slipped behind the palisades, on the west side of the river. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Croy stuck the boards together and headed back up the river. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Roosevelt ended up sending a couple of men from his team home before they reached the river. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

Scattered along the river bank were docks and wharves with skiffs and rowboats tied up to them. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Housewives were exhausted from sweeping away so many dead birds, especially at siesta time, and the men dumped them into the river by the cartload. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

In southern Indiana, for example, a group of farmers went together in the summer of 1959 to engage a spray plane to treat an area of river bottomland with parathion. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Cole couldn’t believe he was getting up this early to go sit in a freezing river. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

The routes along those waterways led to others that followed rivers from the Southeast and connected with roads that turned southward toward the Valley of Mexico. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

The river roars and I feel its spray on my ankles. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

This man, Sibanda, had found a tree which grew by the dusty bed of an empty river. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

In the nineteenth century, the technology became available to construct a suspension bridge across the river. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were trees along both sides of the road and through the right line of trees I saw the river, the water clear, fast and shallow. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

All shipping on the Great Continent is by these electric-powered trucks, which go on barges on the rivers and canals where possible. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

Some made their homes in the river world of the Amazon basin, others struck roots in Andean mountain valleys or the open pampas of Argentina. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Seven ran to the edge of the river. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

Frank was halfway across the river when the gorgons caught him. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Just as he says this, Bad Leg’s voice reaches my bones—it’s as smooth as a river, and it ebbs and flows and ripples at just the right moments. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Because he lacked a good map, the cable spanning the river also remained incognito. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had been afraid of the awful presence of the river, which was the soul of the river, but through her I learned that my spirit shared in the spirit of all things. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a green door and it was set into the wall of the tunnel just above the level of the river. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z

He bribed ship captains and constables, rowed shivering pregnant women across rivers in leaky skiffs, and delivered judges’ release orders to frowning deputies. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

At first we had loved swimming and splashing in the river. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

“This river runs through Regalia as well. Our cattle live off the plants, but they are unfit for humans to eat,” said Solovet. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

The town bustled with Italian, Polish, and Slavic immigrant families who raised flocks of ducks and geese on the river much as they had in the Old Country. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z

When once Shasta had reached the far end of the bridge he found the crowd melting away; everyone seemed to be going either to the left or right along the river bank. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

The Death House, 15-Building, was an old brick structure down by the river. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

It would be difficult to spot a small rowboat floating in the river. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Good. I would not have wanted to lose you to the other side of the river. Music is a fine thing, but metal lasts.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

He shuffled down to the river to look upstream. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

The memories of driving past trees, ponds, lakes, creeks, and rivers flooded back to me from the last time we had driven down three years ago. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

On the east wall of our compound was the river, which my father said liked to swallow little children. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

If rivers had tides, and Alex had to admit he didn’t know if they did, they didn’t seem too bad. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

They had come to the river's edge and the road ahead of them ran along a many-arched bridge. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

The reactions may be between two or more chemicals, or between chemicals and the radioactive wastes that are being discharged into our rivers in ever-increasing volume. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Jason lunged toward him, summoning the winds to lift him out of the river, but Achelous was quicker and more powerful. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

We crossed to the left bank of the Seine by the wooden foot-bridge from the Quai de Bethune, and stopped on the bridge and looked down the river at Notre Dame. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

The dwarf had been busy building some sort of boom to close off the mouth of the river, though the fishermen differed as to whether the work had been completed or not. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

A long time ago, back in the days when people still got pressed to death, a witch lived on this side of the river. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

“Well, anyway,” he said, “be careful. There’ll be no moon tonight and you’re going to see some fog next to the river.” Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The gate was up, and I sat on one of the squared timbers and watched the smooth apron of water before the river tumbled into the falls. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

Jam could see a whole river of things in his face, currents shifting and swelling, vacillating from grief to fury. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

One day, when the wound was smarting terribly, Siddhartha rowed across the river, consumed by longing, and got out of the boat with the purpose of going to the town to seek his son. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

Strange wailing sounds filled her ears—millions of heartbroken voices, as if the river were made of distilled sadness. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

In London, where the river Thames arches away from the city near Belgravia, one might begin a walk at Vincent Square, the trapezoid-shaped park that abuts the office of the Royal Horticultural Society. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

We tie string in knots to make nets and put the nets in the river to catch fish. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

Along the dirt roads, the gutters were filled with small rivers of filth and debris that smelled of rotting food and rank liquids. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

“Thirty minutes,” Naomi called softly when she found Wash by the river. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

The only offering in front of Sima was the drain and the threat of a little river of blood winding its way across the floor toward it. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

“Perhaps they will attack now. They say they are to attack but I can’t believe it. It is too late. You saw the river?” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

“Now we’ll go to the end of the river,” she said. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

When Stuart arrived at his camp site by the river, he was tired and hot. Stuart Little 1945-10-17T00:00:00Z

The river was the place where it had all begun. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

The cable was erected in 1970 to chart the Teklanika’s seasonal fluctuations; hydrologists traveled back and forth above the river by means of an aluminum basket that is suspended from the cable with pulleys. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

That morning, he took most of his clothes and shoes off to cross the river. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

“Iffen you don’t get him, I’m leaving you here in the land of river rats...” The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

Percy winced as cinders sprayed from the river, curling around his face. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

They had cut down the bush around the village except for the entrance from the river through which we arrived. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

We link arms too; a lot of people are linked, and there's strength in that, there's a river of hope in that. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

And a muddy river is a muddy river, whether it's in Bengal or in Baton Rouge. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Around the earth flowed the great river, Ocean, never troubled by wind or storm. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

“What about her message to you; ‘Remember the rivers’? The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

Lyra thought of waking him up, but if she was on her own, she could swim in the river. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Now, through the memories, he had seen oceans and mountain lakes and streams that gurgled through woods; and now he saw the familiar wide river beside the path differently. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

Going a bit further back, Enoch Powell’s “rivers of blood” speech, as it became known, was based on a classical allusion: “Like the Roman, I seem to see the River Tiber foaming with much blood.” Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

We reach the river, and the air is heavenly. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

A great white cow was fording through the river of traffic, vehicles parting to let it through. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

The Milky Way, a vast celestial river in Andean cosmology, crosses the Peruvian sky at an angle of about twenty-eight degrees to the earth’s orbit. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

He has partners in three safe houses on the U.S. side of the river, people who will hide migrants if Border Patrol agents are in pursuit. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

We reached the station and crossed the tracks, where the river was. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Situated, as we were, on the bank of a huge river, the metaphor suggested the prison was a big body of water and we were all in it together. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the middle of a respectable river, or the Other Side, was no place for children to Linger, Loll or Learn Things. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The dragon coiled before her had pulled her out of the river and had brought her to his home to have her wounds bound. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

We spent the first night of our trek in the hamlet of Phakding, a collection of a half dozen homes and lodges crowded onto a shelf of level ground on a slope above the river. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

But when Mr. Axelroot found out we had to go to Stanleyville he turned around and took right off again up the river or something, nobody knew, and he’d be back tomorrow. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Hide till I come for you. Don’t let nobody see you. Hide in the brush by the river. Say that over.” Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

Al Ulbrickson had arranged for them to move into Cornell’s former house, a much more substantial structure on the east side of the river, right next door to the California house. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Someone from our house had to go to the river a few times a day to collect water. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

“My name is Jacqueline. I have been to the river with you.” Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

She used to imagine the river running southward to pour into the Gulf of Mexico she'd never visited. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Guards patrolled on top of the wall, peering over at the archers, and more stood on the stone bridge over the river. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

I was a river cloud, turning gently in the eddies. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

She had no way to move but with the river. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

He turned to gaze out over the rivers, his red-and-blue cloak stirring in the breeze. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

His knowledge of the river enabled him to calculate the best time to begin a trip across. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

In some places, it’s not even a river. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

Indeed, there was an entire seam of rock, curving into the damp and deeply green forest, glowing like a river of embers. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

The lights stayed on solidly as she climbed the rapids, and Tally hoped that Shay was right about metal deposits being found in every river. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

On down the river I went, making my traps. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“All I know is, the river makes it go.” The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

He followed the call to the river’s edge. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

A man uses a long cane to push against the river bottom or ties himself to the front of the raft with a long rope and swims. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

He wondered whether it was far to the river of which Kehaar had spoken. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s a place where the river is deep close to shore so it will be easy to moor our ships to trees. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

Fishing with Kapugen was murky-tan in her memory, for they would wade out into the river mouth where the stone weirs were built and drive the fish into nets between the walls. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

You didn’t see the river, so you didn’t think about it. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

The boys were faster, but they were drunk, and Beetle reached the river before they did. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Those are his rivers, and soon he will return to them for his last voyage. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

I run outside and around back, but he isn’t sitting at the river, patiently waiting for a fish to tug the end of his line. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

A cloud of light mist drifted over the river. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

A ghat, a long, wide flight of steps, led down to the river. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

“I guess you’d better go down past the station and walk past them houses by the river. Somebody there’ll know her.” The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dad’s work is here, on the river, in the workshop. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

Without Kehaar they would certainly have lost all touch with each other and perhaps never reached the river. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The message had something to do with the river, a door, and the Pipeworks. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

They became outnumbered and were replaced northeast of the Fish River by black African farmers, whose southward spread halted at that river. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s a long way back to the river, and about the same distance to the mountains,” I said. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was sketching rapidly, first the outline of a block of states, then lines to represent rivers and railroads and small squares for towns. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

When an Osage chief was asked why he didn’t adopt the white man’s ways, he replied, “I am perfectly content with my condition. The forests and rivers supply all the calls of nature in plenty.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Days have a way of slipping past like raindrops in a river. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

She grabbed for it, pulling herself across it, hanging on as it careened wildly down the river. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

We roamed the entire countryside and up and down the river. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

He agreed to ferry Booth and Herold across the river as soon as he set his fishing nets. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The moonlit river fell from his swimming arms like sleeves of silver. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

So he moved her to the winter house below the mountains, in the southwest, where the yellow sandrock foothills look over on the river. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Across the river, the Border Patrol shines lights on the water, looking for migrants trying to cross. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

In the midst of the still morning, with only the sound of the river gurgling by, I heard a bird. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

They walk to the museum, and her father remarks distractedly to the warder who meets them at the door, “They say we are holding the river.” All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

That was Edmure's battle out there on the river; hers was here inside the castle. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

On the river, you might see a stately junk, tottering its way upstream, slatted sails rising to meet the wind. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

The snaggle-peaked mountains, the braided green rivers, the sky so blue it seemed like a painting—Roy had never imagined anywhere so beautiful. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I must lift the muddy waters of the river in blessing to our new home! Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The lands of the Lamb Men south of the river were likewise closed to them. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“It is far from here. Through the darkest Wood and across the three rivers; beyond the red hills and within the trees of gold.” Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

It was lonely, uninhabited country, so that there were no bridges, and the river if anything became wider as they trotted along the banks. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The horsemen, following the trail, had turned from the river, and were drawing near the downs. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Small, but it would lead her to a larger stream, and that stream would flow into some little river, and all the rivers in this part of the world were vassals of the Skahazadhan. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I got to my feet and ran on and on, down through our fields of shocked com, until I fell face down on the river’s bank. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The same went for traveling members of our tribe: Whenever they hiked down from the mountains and crossed the river to get to the city, our house was the first one they saw. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

The river was more dangerous than any army they could assemble. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

He said he was just coming over the river and minutes later he arrived. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

As one, sixty oars lifted from the river, then reversed and backed water. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The thought washed over me like a river, sweeping away the dead bees that had filled my brainpan with confusion. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had run out on the drift, leaped into the water, and crossed the river. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Highway 76, an asphalt river through the woods, pleased to note that the road was wide and reasonably important looking. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

The orange Kool-Aid we drank was muddy, because the rain had stirred up the river before we filled our jugs. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

I held my breath and listened to the scratch of river against my ears, sinking as far as I could into that shimmering, dark world. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Wooden houses and small brick buildings lined the river and rose in uneven stacks on both hillsides. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

He held a staff and forded a rushing river. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

While the East Computers had flowed out of their office and into the larger operations of the laboratory like a river, segregation kept the outmigration of West Computing to a trickle. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

The river water was very still here at the shallow edge. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

"We shall not be going to the castle. Perhaps.you can suggest an inn, someplace clean and comfortable and not too far from the river." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

I brought my squadron in to the river bank with one turn of the sweeps. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

People avoided the shops by the river and came up to our end of High Street, where the air smelled cleaner. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

We were deep into mosquito season, so a lot of what I did by the river was swat at them. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Probably by the river,” Marina said, motioning vaguely in the direction of the water. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

Down at the river, Naomi sat on her rock and tried to ignore the twins. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Russian soldiers patrolled the main roads and the train station, and the Jews of German-held West Przemyśl were expelled across the river. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

All the way down the river with the rain lashing my face and blurring my eyes until I saw a whirring ambulance light at the landing in the distance. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

None of the crucial developments preceding political centralization in those same parts of the world were associated with river valleys or with complex irrigation systems. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

And no one knew how many more miles the river ran. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

As April turns into May and May into June, the leaves shrivel, the trees turn brown, and the river streams dry up. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I lost my clothes in the river,” I explained. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

One fishes in the river or cuts grass with a machete, like a fieldworker, and whisdes to the others to set a trap. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

“To make the try and see what would happen down the river.” Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

While he spoke he lifted Robin down and helped him to undress and go into the river. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

He healed rapidly—his hands became amazingly tough—and strangely suffered no real long-range difficulties from the run down the river, probably because his earlier time—the Time—had taught him so well. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

There were days at the river when I did not pick up my book but only daydreamed like Chandra. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

He was three hundred yards downstream when the Hound reached the river. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

That night they made camp on the southern edge of the bogs, halfway between the kingsroad and the river. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

They didn't get the pickup out of the river for two days. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z

They got to their feet then, and when Benny disappeared over the hill, they ran to the hiding place, where the river flowed into a quiet pool. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

The entire school was there, including those who took classes in the tin shacks by the river. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was floating on a river of light. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

She knew how to swim, and she was a strong enough swimmer to make it to the other side of the river. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

“Dog Squad!” shouted a weeping mother dog on the far shore of the river. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Polly gritted her teeth, slowly repeated everything Teenie had said to Amari, even though she figured the girl had already understood most of it, and headed out of the kitchen and down to the river. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Rough voices, thin as an insect’s whine, were cast across the black river, the dark town, the shapes of ships on the water. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

By late afternoon the Main Street wharf was crowded with people waiting for ferries to get them across the river to the observation train. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

I return to the river, fill my bucket again. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

Migrants prefer to pay to cross in a raft than risk the river alone. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

An image of the red kayak, lying on the bottom of the river, flashed through my mind. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

“Shall we go up the river a little way and have a look at it? Perhaps there’s somewhere we could use for a hiding place. Can you manage that, with your leg?” Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some minutes later, his corpse was lowered, trussed, and thrown into the river. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

No chemicals means no toxic runoff into rivers and oceans. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Giants as tall as palm trees waded in the river while singing fish schooled around their ankles. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

They were getting dangerously close to a cliff at the edge of the river. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

“Yeah,” I reply, imagining Gram sitting by the river, a paintbrush in her hand. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

They made the river seem like a soft, green tunnel. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

I was at the river, and I heard someone calling my name. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

He felt like he was in the middle of a raging river without a raft. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

For a moment, the wound is just a blotch against her skin, and then blood pours out, a river of red. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Once, so they say, he had to get home by swimming across a river in which there was a large and hungry pike. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Devon School was astride these two rivers. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

A buck pranced out of the vegetation, tossed his antlers, then splashed into the river. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

By the time he reached the little county seat, the bunting was spread out by the yard, flags flew from almost every house, a long unused cannon boomed from the cliffs above the river. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

A broad, slow-moving river wound through rich grassland in the middle distance, and at the foot of the long slope, among copses of small trees and rows of vegetables, stood a village of thatched houses. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

A little boy in too big knickers was coming up from the lower bank of the river. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Some time that night, I crossed the river on a riffle somewhere in the Dripping Springs country. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Other times it felt like an anvil, as if the river god Achelous was sending out bad thoughts, trying to punish her for taking his horn. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

And if Thomas Jones abandoned them, how would they find a way to cross the river? Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

On a sunny day Lady flew far down the river valley. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

“It seems a little shallower down that way,” said Eilonwy, pointing to a spot where the river curved around a sedge-covered bank. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

The river is called the Rio Bravo, meaning the “angry river,” because its huge waves are very strong. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

O Bull of the Ancestor, I am going to jump into the river. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Viola stops and there’s only the river and my Noise. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

The king and his company slept no more that night; but they saw and heard no other strange thing, save one: the voice of the river beside them suddenly awoke. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Then we walked out to the Alliance bridge and threw snowballs into the river through the broken slats. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z

We ease out, turn right when we hit the street, and head toward the river. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

I can see each twisted vein in her hands as if light flowed through them, rivers of light. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

One day when I was riding with him he said: “Richard, would you like to see this horse drink water out of the middle of the river?” Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

The river was beginning to turn black, and the fishing boats were coming into the wharf. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Later on, developers realized how valuable the land was, sitting right on the river, with easy access to the city. Monday's Not Coming 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Dad pointed to the toilet paper up in the branches along the river’s banks. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

“I can’t tell you how happy I was that night,” he tells me, his voice even smaller now, hard to hear over all the cicadas and the river and the breeze rustling through the trees. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

Presently Will came up from the river, and then Mary came out of her house and offered them breakfast; and soon Atal came along, too, and the village came to life around them. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

They headed for the park by the river, hushing their voices. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Would you know which way to the river?" The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z

Peering over anxiously into the street, he saw Gebu walking eastward in the direction of the river. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

The quiet waters of the river washed gently southward. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

To the north the fog still hung over the heavy river, but it was the first time for days that there seemed to be a promise of clearing it. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Here, by the river, he was just a boy. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

June and August, sopping wet, stooped on either side of her, while mosquitoes sang in our ears and the river went on about its business, coiling off into the darkness. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Anyway,” Frank continued, “the sturgeons pulled us for a long time. Hazel and I took turns sleeping. Then we hit this river—” “The Willamette,” Hazel offered. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

‘Stone marked with E by the river’s edge.’ The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Far away to the left the river Entwash wound, a silver thread in a green floor. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

The quiet river started flowing loudly through rocks and palm kernels. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Given their low food supplies, traveling down the river in a timely and efficient manner was crucial to their survival. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

Sometimes a warm rain would soak the fields and the flowers would give off their deep red color—rivers of red, like the yolk of sunset burst over everything. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

Just try to imagine how difficult it would have been to create states, or churches, or legal systems if we could speak only about things that really exist, such as rivers, trees and lions. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The sailboats are so beautiful. It looks like the river is full of white butterflies, Bull. They’re having a race.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Thorn screamed as the river swelled and shot her downstream. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

They slew the gentle musician, tearing him limb from limb, and flung the severed head into the swift river Hebrus. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Of the sixteen shells on the river that day, George Pocock had built fifteen. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

She quickly realized that though the river had appeared to be unobstructed here, the boulders were merely underwater, and the river itself was deeper than it seemed. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

In their back pockets, they had the arteries of the state, the rivers and streams, the creeks, and the ponds and the reservoirs that created its valleys of life. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was staring at the river god so intently Percy started to feel jealous. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Then suddenly, people who went down to the river started to disappear, and we were sure crocodiles were lurking in the river and taking them. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

She turned onto the main stretch of road and walked to the northwest, away from the river, with the central plaza spread out on her left. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

A haze of dust hovered over the city and, across the river, a single plume of smoke rose to the sky. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

For permission to stay in the relative safety of the river encampment, the leader, El Tirindaro, who is addicted to heroin, usually wants drugs or beer. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

His words can almost make you smell jasmine, hear the river splash against the side of a boat, feel a tropical breeze on your skin. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Back and forth the boat went, crossing the river as the trashman made his way south to all his stops. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

And in the summer the river didn’t run at all above ground. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

So I began working my way through the rest of the inns this side of the river. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“Did you ever see an Indian paddling along some quiet unspoiled river with a great big piece of rope dragging astern?” he asked. Stuart Little 1945-10-17T00:00:00Z

The wind blew fast on Pong's face, wicking the last tears out of the corners of his eyes and flinging them into the dark river. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

For a moment, all was still, but then the river began to churn, bubbling with a foul odor. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

Zeus was madly in love with her and told her that anything she asked of him he would do; he swore it by the river Styx, the oath which not even he himself could break. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Further away, not far from the river, where it came streaming out from the edge of the wood, there was a mound. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

We went swimming in the river, and we helped Yar with easy chores, such as sweeping our compound or collecting fire for cooking from a neighbor. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Those mountains are in proximity to gentle lowlands with rivers, flood plains, and deserts suitable for irrigation agriculture. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Others nestle under trees fringing a river or a lake. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then he narrowed the search to towns with populations under ten thousand that were also on the banks of rivers. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Across the river were the broken walls of old houses that were being torn down. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

The inshore waters —the bays, the sounds, the river estuaries, the tidal marshes — form an ecological unit of the utmost importance. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

The huge dinosaur couldn’t cross the river with them—it would be too conspicuous to ride around Brooklyn—and there was no way to go back into that nightmare. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Seas of people, forests of buildings, roads wide as rivers. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The next morning we came very early to the first of several rivers we would have to ford. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

In the meantime, he and Lyra surveyed the newly discovered river. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

He’s right there, scurrying out of the river. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

It is a wide cement building that overlooks what was once the river. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

We know not what river, what bay, what shore awaits us, and we little care, so it is a place where we may rally and fight. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

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

In the morning the sun rose warm and bright and Stuart slipped into the river again for an early dip. Stuart Little 1945-10-17T00:00:00Z

A neighbor gave her clothes to wash in the river twice a week. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

At the edge of the foothills it turned and came back toward the river. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘I wish the river was closer,’ Percy muttered. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

The last set was so rough that it took six hours to empty the canoes, lug their cargo, and run the canoes down the river using ropes. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

La Belle Sauvage sped like a dart over the mad river, down towards Port Meadow, towards the wild waste of water that was sweeping through Oxford, towards whatever lay beyond. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

“I’ll get you to the river,” Ben says as we hurry across our fields for the second time this morning. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

The ships were too far away to be hit, and the cannonballs fell into the river. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Other side of the river,” Viola says and takes off across the bridge, feet smacking against the wood. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

Staying on the left of the river, I followed its course past several campgrounds, but didn’t stop until I came to the one where I had found the magazine. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Red sprinted toward the river slapping at the first wave of bees that stung his arms and face. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

He could hear many different notes in the rustle of the leaves overhead, the river murmuring away on his right, and the thin clear voices of birds in the sky. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

As near as Sansa could tell, their chief accomplishment had been surviving the battle on the river, a feat that few enough could boast. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Half a dozen of its tributaries would be world-famous rivers anywhere else. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

“Well now, which is the longest river in Africa?” Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘But I hope to get across the river without their seeing us.’ The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

But those five Great Lakes which the St. Lawrence feeds with memories of the sea are themselves landlocked, in spite of the wandering river that connects them to the Atlantic. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Wall would be flowing off to the south, the melting ice mingling with warm rain to wash down in sheets and rivers. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“When you are out alone, fishing along the river, if you see this man Antonio, you are to keep away from him. Do you understand?” Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Minutes passed; a waterbird on the river beside them stirred and called; the occasional car moved over Magdalen Bridge. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

That night, alone in the small bedroom she'd been assigned, Claire looked down from her window to the darkened, surging river below. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

The river was wide and pleasant, bordered with trees and edged with a pleasant meadow. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

We were still calmly, numbly reading Virgil and playing tag in the river farther downstream. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

Each time he crosses, as the rainy season approaches, the river is higher and higher. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

I thought about the scene in Jaws when Hooper and Chief Brody slice open the shark, releasing a river of foul, grayish fluids. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

Anya spotted Mama’s cart wedged between two fish stalls by the river. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

He thought of how he used to imagine that he’d been floating in a river like Moses and his mother just happened to find him. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

Together, Ivy and Shilling made a place for Gran to lie in her favorite glade, where the ground was soft and covered in clover, and nearby ran a gentle river. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

In fifth-grade history we had spent a lot of time worrying about the flooded river deltas of the ancient world. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“If the weather didn’t look so bad, I’d say come on over this afternoon. We could take a little spin down the river.” Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

When he’d first crossed the river, sixty-seven, days earlier in the freezing temperatures of April, it had been an icy but gentle knee- deep creek, and he’d simply strolled across it. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

He told her to follow the river, to keep following it to reach the next place where people would take her in and feed her. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I used my water magic like I did when Sigurd threw us in the river.” Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

“Is this some sort of trick? Are you going to dump my body into the river, Cullen?” he joked. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

The river of corn would flow from the farms to buyers anywhere in the world. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

“Our rules say that the quarry across the river is not in shrew territory, mouse. Therefore, we cannot go with you!” Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Her mind went again to the spiny red thing in the river. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

They weren’t sure who was shouting “Lieutenant” until they saw someone clinging to a tree branch that hung over the left bank of the river. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

A yacht knifed through the early morning water in a long, green V. Sea gulls, balsa-light, hovered on invisible currents above the river. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

La Llorona stepped away from me and turned to the river. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

When they reached the river’s entrance and paddled toward the rice camp, Grandma noted with disappointment the thinness of the rice stalks. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

Two men in coveralls stretched a thick steel cable with a hook from the back of the wrecker down toward the brush at the edge of the river. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

So, here’s lesson number one, which has nothing to do with rivers. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Late in the night he heard the hounds go by, covering both sides of the river. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

The river was full of big, brown carp. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

By the time I had reached the river, every nerve in my body was drawn up as tight as a fiddlestring. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

They marked in rivers, maybe a crossroads or made a picture of a general store. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The dust and smoke moved like a river among islands of debris—pieces of wall and roof, even an iron stove standing upright, as though it had been delivered by wagon. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

In the winter, the river was blue-green in the narrow fast-moving spots. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

I hoped that whatever rock Vega had been carrying in him had just sunk to the bottom of the river along with his gun. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

“Do you think we’ll ever be friends again?” she asked as they hiked toward the river, lugging their boards for the first time the entire trip. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Maybe he had started his own revolution and led Curzon and the other slaves over the river Jordan to freedom. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

They reached the port at the river’s mouth to find every hotel, every lodging house, every private room commandeered by soldiers. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I told them it was a bad idea to plant there. Blue willows crave water. Ponds, rivers, lakes.” Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

Even if the family doesn’t love us, they do feed us a sufficient amount of rice, fish that the boys catch in the river, and vegetables from the garden. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the north side of the river, tidy neighborhoods of small frame houses now perched on neat squares of lawn. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

How would I ever wash away the stain of blood from the sweet waters of my river! Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The river was swollen and wide from recent rain. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

His sword sheared off limbs, cracked heads, broke shields asunder—though few enough of the enemy had made it across the river with shields intact. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

My clothes on fire, poison coursing through my veins, I plummeted toward the river. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

There were eels, gar, carp, river carpsuckers, gizzard shad, and buffalo. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

When she saw the dwarf standing at the end of the gangplank, Ysilla stopped so suddenly that Yandry blundered into her, and the pike almost slid off her back into the river. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“My father says that one day we may be glad to have those gunboats in the river to protect us.” Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Wash held the fishing rods and tackle box loose in his hand as he walked down the path to the river. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

I heard the voice of the drill instructor as I walked to the river with Alhaji to fetch water. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Going underground, through the rock, with die filthy river bottom above us, and fish swimming in the black water on the other side of die curving tiles. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Never in his life had he seen a river before—this sleek, sinuous, full-bodied animal.... Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“This is not a game, son. It is a sacred river to be treated with respect.” Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

They crossed a river by a concrete bridge where skeins of ash and slurry moved slowly in the current. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

When we saw a river, we had to stop so they could stand by it and think about it for a while. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

The river was noisy with the barking of dogs, the bleating of sheep, the calling and cursing of men, and the furious bawling of those lambs separated from their mothers. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Chains rattle, rivers roll, animals startle and bolt, forests inspire and expand, babies stretch open-mouthed from the womb, new seedlings arch their necks and creep forward into the light. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Eating breakfast by the river, Tally took time to appreciate her SwedeBalls. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

I move them around, back and forth across the river. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

One of the few advantages West Coast crews were supposed to have over East Coast crews was that the easterners could not train out of doors during the winter when their home rivers were frozen. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

The wooden bridge was nearly three-quarters of a mile across, and the river, that usually ran in narrow channels in the wide stony bed far below the bridge, was close under the wooden planking. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

Turns out, the other side of the river was in Mexico and that side of town had a different name. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The air over and above the vast concrete river trembled with the warmth of Montag's body alone; it was incredible how he felt his temperature could cause the whole immediate world to vibrate. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

A throng of bodies carried him out of the tent and toward the river. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

On Saturday morning Briony left the hospital at eight without eating breakfast and walked with the river on her right, upstream. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

The stench of sulfur made it hard to concentrate, but she focused on the ground directly below them and saw a ribbon of glittering black liquid—a river. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

“We don’t have the river Jordan, here, Grandfather,” the bald man said as he retied the wet cloth around his neck. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

I grabbed the lunch sack, picked up my fishing gear, and worked my way down to the river’s edge. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

They were dead in the middle of the river and Brian knew he had to get to shore, had to stop, but there was no time. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

The dense tropical trees along the river’s edge towered overhead, providing shade along the banks, while big-beaked toucans called out with their harsh sounds and flocks of parakeets flashed their green, blue, and red feathers. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

It was terrifying at first, but at least there was hardly any traffic on the river to worry about. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

But David knew the rivers, the spurs of the railroad, and the other metal paths the Rusties had left behind, so they made good time toward their goal. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

I can see in my mind’s eye his black arms thrown back behind his head, the muscles like great big peach stones sanded down, with veins running like little swollen rivers down his arms. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

He and Jimmy were near a marker overlooking the river, which was below them and to the west. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

The heron pounded the air with its wings, jacked itself clear of the water and flew off down river. Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

Curled around the handle, his hands were as smooth and hard as river stones. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

They cross the quay and climb to a matching headland across the mouth of a river from the old city. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

You waved as it drifted above the river. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

On the one hand, the objective reality of rivers, trees and lions; and on the other hand, the imagined reality of gods, nations and corporations. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s the spear he’s been using to catch fish in the river. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

They did not talk but we could not have heard them because of the noise from the river. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

What I liked best, though, was the river. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

They were strolling along the banks of a river, laughing. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

It was a rainbow arcing across a gurgling river. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

I pedaled down our soft dirt path through the woods, all the way down to the river’s edge, where I hoped I might find her. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

Except now all George could see was water, green water swirling halfway up the stairs, foaming and churning like a stormy river. I Survived the Sinking of the Titanic, 1912 2010-06-01T00:00:00Z

She raced from the church, following the edge of the river. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

I walk home in moonlight, feeling absolutely incredible, like I’m standing in a clearing, in a river, in the most awesome shoes, high-heeled even. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

They were separated by rolling green fields, rivers, mountain ranges, and forests. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

We drink on and the river rushes by It’s been a good hour now. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

A thin bank of clouds below the ridge mirrored the heavier layer overhead, but forests, grasslands, and the shimmering arcs of rivers were visible through the misty veil. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

The terrain’s getting rougher and steeper as the river starts making canyons again. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

The trees around them began to change as they left the river behind. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Sometimes even the fishermen’s huts were washed away, knocked right off their long-legged stilts and swept down the river. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her mother, Jeer, had been born in Africa and loved to tell her daughter and her friends stories of her childhood in a small village by a river and all the animals who lived nearby. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

It isn’t very long but in its course it has everything a river should have. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

To warm up and get away from the river, he climbed a hill and followed a road through fields blanketed in snow. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

The comment left me adrift in a river of teen angst. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

Kehaar came flying up the river through the rain and alighted on the narrow side of the punt. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The places we’ve always used to position ourselves are suddenly unfamiliar—cities, villages, even rivers. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

She peered at the two rivers in the light from the moon, which was almost full now. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Despite everything, I still marvel at how all those tiny ripples in the water can catch the sunlight and make the river shimmer like a million jewels were strewn on the surface. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

“I am going to collect specimens at the river. Order Odonata today, I think. Dragonflies and damselflies. Would you like to accompany me?” The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

Still, coal miners in the Allegheny and Kiskiminetas river valleys, a region rich with natural resources, seemed stuck in poverty. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z

Deep in them we can hear subterranean rivers rushing off through the netherworld, and our voices echo and reecho through the halls. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

We hurried through the deserted streets and headed north along the river, Raji always a bit ahead of me and looking back to be sure I was following. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

At times the road cut into the cliffs made by the mesas that rose from the river valley, then the river was far below. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was thrown into the crushing river of bodies, all headed in the same direction—the direction of the smoke. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

After a few minutes we came to a river and I was happy, because at the edge of most villages there was a river, so I thought we should be there any minute now. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

The boat was gone, already at home on the river, I supposed, but my little friend was there. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

As they pushed off down the river again, Tiller said, “Florida? Aside from that scary toothless lunatic’s place, did you and Dallas ever get sent anywhere else?” Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

As the day began, Siddhartha asked his host, the ferryman, to take him across the river. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Huxley went to the window to admire the view of the river. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

The summer came and burned me brown with its energy, and the llano and the river filled me with their beauty. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The underground river...there’s a boy trapped in there.” Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

The naiads had left with a lot of grumbling—not in words I could understand, but it was obvious they hated this dam blocking up their nice river. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

They were not using the rickety old shack on the Highland side of the river this year. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Among his many exploits, he paddled his canoe up a river to the Fijian village of Kasavu, halted less than a pistol shot’s length from the village fence, and fired away at the undefended inhabitants. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

On the computer, I saw the extended map, where the stream becomes a river, bypassing a town. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

The men pulled their dugout canoes onto the river’s sandy bank and started chopping through the thick vegetation with machetes and knives to make their way around the main rapids. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

“I told you our rabbits were more cunning than the Council. I don’t think you’d really understand this part, however carefully I explained. Have you ever seen a river?” Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

It's amazing; this valley wasn't made by a river slowly carving it away. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Anger was washed away in the river along with any obligation. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

The endless convolutions and frustrations of my previous dealings with the Erhenrang Government were melted away like an ice-pack in a flooding river. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

His legs were cramped from squatting on that stool, and he felt so light-headed that he was lucky not to fall into the river. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“Wash!” she called as she scrambled down to the edge of the river. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

He tells me he’s waiting outside, near the river. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Panting, she gazed at the river until she was calm. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

As if the river agreed with him, it surged over him, dunking him and loosening his grasp on the boat. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

The water was cold and in flood and many things passed that had been floated off the banks when the river rose. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

Coming out of the river bottoms, I scatted up a long hogback ridge, and broke out on top in the flats. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

I walk along the river a little way, then sit down on a jumble of tree roots and look out across the dark water. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

California had drawn the most favorable lane— lane number one, nearest the western bank of the river, where the current was least likely to affect a boat. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Down on the ground the prairies unscroll, vast and mundane and plausible as hallucinations, dusted already with snow and scrawled with sinuous rivers. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Grandpa Nyles pointed at the river in the valley below them. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

No one dared, not openly, though he heard mutterings mingled with the creak of wood and rope and the rush of the river around the pilings. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“I went to the river this morning,” Samuel said softly. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“About a rock and a river, and a guy trying to make up his mind.” The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

She closed her eyes tight and thought of her tree, thought of Wash, thought of the river. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

—Some of us children, due to a chronic shortage of buildings, desks, blackboards and benches, would have to be relocated in shacks down by the river. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a river nearby, where she could draw water, and the family’s cattle enjoyed the sweet grass which grew by the riverside. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

Emmett nods, then him and Wheeler lift Simeon, dumping him in the river. Ghost Boys 2018-04-17T00:00:00Z

They walked out along the rocks to where the river seemed to end in space and he held the boy while he ventured out to the last ledge of rock. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

The main challenge was hauling them out of the river and lugging them home without touching the poisonous spines on their fins. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

The river road was thick with traffic, almost all of it flowing south. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The men knew the direction they were heading—due north—but the river and the surrounding rain forest could still hold plenty of surprises. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

But then a loud and clear “Todd?” comes calling from across the river. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

Happy is a huge river right now and I’ve forgotten how to swim. The Crossover 2014-03-18T00:00:00Z

The mysterious river Eridanus, which no mortal eyes have ever seen, received him and put out the flames and cooled the body. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Soon, from the river’s sunbaked hollows, it was possible to buy Titanic carpets, and Titanic cloth, from bolts arranged in wheelbarrows. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

The Wise Masters had established their slave pens and auction block just south of the Skahazadhan, where the wide brown river flowed into Slaver’s Bay. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

A tugboat made its way down the river, causing the water to crash into the rocks along the shorelines. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

One morning, the youngest boy, Sipho, went from the huts to fetch water at the river to water the pumpkins. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

I’d have to hold it in the air above the river. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

“Dunno. It’s about sixty miles, maybe more, ’cause the river twists and turns. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

We get out and join the river of people heading into the building. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

In its absence it left an aura, a palpable shimmering that was as plain to see as the water in a river or the sun in the sky. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jule felt as if the river underneath her were running through her veins. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Through the twin whirlwinds she could see the sun and the river, the river twisting in circles, the trees upside down. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Baby Kochamma and Mammachi thought that they might have gone down to the river for a swim, which was worrying because it had rained heavily the previous day and a good part of the night. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Far, far below he could see the real world: the sunlight pricking out every tiny tree, turning every winding river into a thin silver snail-trail glistening and looping across the landscape of Faerie. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

The path went along the river to the bridge. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

He kept his pants on—they were not so heavy—and entered the river, pushed away from the bank until he was far enough out to start floating a bit. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

To the east was the Rio Puerco Valley, where the river had cut a deep narrow arroyo that now carried the water too low to benefit the valley land. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

She took something from under her skirt, threw it into the river, and followed the crowd home. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Look, it’s just a little piece of river; once we take that, it’s like Shad told me—the Confederacy will be cut in two.” Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is noisy all night with the sound of migrants coming and going as they try to cross the river. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

A few seconds later, she knew it had spotted her, its screaming turn echoing through the forest as it cut back to the river. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Along the river bank there was nothing and no one but the wet brush and muddy ground. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

"Even if you bought one, you couldn't park it, just have to keep goin' up and down the river. They don't get you one way, they get you another. Right, Alfred?" The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

“See the confluence of those two rivers? We land right in between.” Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

His eyes rained rivers, and long ribbons of snot dangled from his wheezing nostrils. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

I bought a pair of heels, went to the cinema, and sat with Izio at night, breathing his smoke while German lights twinkled on the other side of the river. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

There was probably nowhere, he thought, where anyone could learn so much about the world as this little bend of the river, with the inn on one side and the priory on the other. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

The river itself had turned a rich and lustrous shade of violet, reflecting the sky overhead. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

The source was a magnificent waterfall that poured out of a stone arch and fell a hundred feet to the river below. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

He had seen the Crawling Backwards Days and his gratitude to Mammachi and her family for all that they had done for him was as wide and deep as a river in spate. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dr. van Heerden drank seven or eight, and the sweat poured off him like a river. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The hunter, whose name was Richard Parker, picked it up with his bare hands and, remembering how it had rushed to drink in the river, baptized it Thirsty. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes, I’d even see little rivers of ice forming in parts of his mustache and beard, or I’d see him reach down to make sure his dog was covered by the blanket. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

They watched it clear the further hedge and disappear into the wood beyond the river. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

At sunset time he hypnotised me, and he says that I answered as usual “darkness, lapping water and creaking wood”; so our enemy is still on the river. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

The soil was made of gold, the rivers made of crystals. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

"You might like this one. At least, I hope so. I've booked the car for the whole day. After you're done in the river, Masjid is going to drive us to Poshora." You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Forest still covers both sides of the river and you’d be tempted to think that all of New World had closed up and everyone left, leaving just this road behind ’em. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

Suddenly I understood Athena’s advice: Remember the rivers. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

The rains that had doused the travelers repeatedly on their journey had fed into the rivers, making them particularly treacherous to cross. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

The water could be the Bloomington Empire Quarry or the Seven Pillars or the river that runs in front of the high school or about a hundred other places. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

But here in all the hubbub we would have lost track of each other, with how we were just getting swept along on a big dark river of people. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

We could see the muddy cradle of the banks through which the river ran. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

When you get just past the middle of this you can see it all, the river, the house, the barn, the trees, pasture, everything. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

The Union armies usually chose the landmark nearest to their own lines, like a river or a stream. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

I thought that if I only knew the right words or spoke them in the right language, then he would cross the river. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

He rinsed it in the river and dampened Derek’s mouth with fresh, clean water. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

They augmented their diet with fish caught from the river, and Tally roasted a rabbit on a fire she’d built herself. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

I heard her saying to me, in the candlelit darkness of my bedchamber, “‘By the rivers of Babylon, we sat down and wept....On the willows there, we hung up our harps…. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

He could imagine Lakota, Cheyenne, and Arapaho women and children crossing the river and walking onto the battlefield. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

She pointed towards the river, northwest, past the railroad tracks to the dark hills. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

They ran until they could run no farther, till a river of green was a river of blue, blue water that crashed and swept them in a wild torrent. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

“Farther east, miles away, the stream becomes a river and creates a waterfall.” Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

Then Joe cut the water back into the river and sat for a moment longer while the sun rose higher and water seeped into the ground around his bean plants. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

A river, so quick and cold it would sweep you away in mere moments if you fell in, ran through the center of the valley. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

Bram, he said, had been driving and had swerved to avoid an animal in the road, and the car had plunged into a river. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had noticed this alley before, when coming along the river towards the university—a quick glance, an almost automatic registering of possibility—and he’d seen that it was open at the other end. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

This part near the river was called the Mud Flats. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Soon she was out in the middle of the river, and it was there that she sank, with nobody to see her or to hear her last cry. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

For many years it had been the task of the first girl to go to the river for water. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

Strings of glittering white lights defined the contours of the suspension bridges across the river. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

The hallway was a surging river of arms and legs and terrified faces, all pressed together, straining toward the front of the house. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

Mist caught in the branches of the trees across the river. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

We went with Ira to the river and, when she was freshly bathed, put on her the red sari I had worn at my own wedding. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

The city of Kiev stretched in front of her, climbing up a gradual slope to a plateau that overlooked the lower city and the river beyond. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

She dreaded going on the river, but she was ready for it, too. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Lourdes imagines these pieces, broken and bruised in unspeakable places, on piers and in alleyways, drifting down the river to the sea. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were saying he’d come up the river in some kind of old boat and was down there unloading his family and what not. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

None of the American cannonballs hit the ships; each splashed down harmlessly in the river. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z

Who pulled me out of freezing rivers and away from crevasses I didn’t see. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Down here, halfway to the river, Tally could barely tell there was a full-scale fire alert in the middle of town. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

They straightened the trail out and headed down river. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the river of surplus corn is waiting and so the cows must be forced to consume it and turn it into beef you and I can buy. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Almost nobody even noticed the Washington shell apparently limping along out in the middle of the river, so far back one could barely see it in the gathering darkness. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

The boat, it seemed, had run aground in that shallow channel of the river that boats were always wary of. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’s not looking at us, just rowing like an engine to get the boat to the side of the river and the road. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

First of all it went just south of the fisherman's cottage to the little river which there ran into the sea, and took care to leave in the mud some very plain hoof-marks pointing south. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

The blue steel flashed in the sun as the sword spun out over the river. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The Gold lights of Chattana’s West Side twinkled across the river. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

The river where I washed the clothes and studied my books was a friend. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

I was terrified that the river would swallow me alive. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

He didn’t want to see shabby or derelict boats with his name on them out on the river. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

We dove to the bottom of the river and brought out oysters. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

But this is the truth: When I leaned over to peer into the river, the water was not brown and full of sediment, but perfectly clear. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

He was still treading water in the river. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

In this dry season only a trickle of muddy water remained in the river. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

“We need some magic, like that lump of wood you shoved into the river.” Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

But she fought her way up, remembering the grip of the freezing river Kell, and when she came to the surface, just as before, Kaede had her arms around her. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

But as they sailed down the river, heading home, they were met by a messenger carrying a letter. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

Enrique has seen smugglers ask migrants to grab hold of a long rope to cross the river. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

The rivers in the area were small, almost drying out in the dry season, and swelling in the rainy season. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Water tore out of the river in balls, splashing as they slammed into Sigurd on the other side of the tree. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

Sure eneuch, we had a fair way and deep water all the time; and two days ago, when the mornin’ sun came through the fog, we found ourselves just in the river opposite Galatz. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

From the basket they would drop a weighted plumb line to measure the river’s depth. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

We have caught it in buckets and barrels to drink, and the river is no longer so salty. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

The Americans had built ten big forts on Manhattan Island, and six more across the river in Brooklyn. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t go to the river anymore, or over bridges. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

Siddhartha looked into the river and saw many pictures in the flowing water. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

If he had understood rightly, it seemed to follow that the iron road and the river could be ignored for their purposes. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I remember at first I would pull fish after fish from the river. But you know what, Leader?” Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

He heads away from the road, keeping to this side of the river and following it. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

The sun is low in the sky and she searches the silvery river for clues. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Down the river was Notre Dame squatting against the night sky. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

Kermit’s boots had been rotting off his feet from all the time he spent wading in the river trying to manhandle the canoes. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

“It’s my fault for wanting to go to the river,” Akira pointed out. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

There was no time to explain about Hazel and the river. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

They are paths followed by fish; although unseen and intangible, they are linked with the outflow of waters from the coastal rivers. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

The sound grew louder and she poked her head into the night to see a man on the river running beside his sled and team of dogs. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

I still have to hike out of the mountains, get a boat from the river guardhouse, and row to Serra. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

He hurtled himself into the air, bulleted down the river valley, made a two-circle loop, climbed, and sped back to the bridge. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

His fingers moved to the river scar on my cheek, and I was surprised to find that my hand was no longer covering it. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

It’s like the way you don’t notice the sounds toady-frogs make down by the river till they shut up. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

"My son and his lords bannermen are most anxious to cross the river and be on their way." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

On the other side of the river I dried him off with my blanket and resaddled him. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“That ole man lunatic, he’s so proud of our boat, and he’ll have to go all by himself all the way down a bunch of winding rivers.” Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

I followed her, settled into the rear seat, and then used the paddle to push us out into the river. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

Her blood mixed in with the water, and all you could see was a red river flowing down the street. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

The river gorge stretched away, with no easy way down in sight. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Having lured the unwary on to its back, it will dive straight to the bottom of its river or lake and devour the rider, letting the entrails float to the surface. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

The following day the travelers came down from the hills to find themselves on the banks of a river running north and south. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We are going to go see the Old Man of the Moon to ask him how to change that. But we have to cross the river to get to the City of Bright Moonlight first.” Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

By late afternoon the snow was falling steadily, but the river of wildlings had dwindled to a stream. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Tally crept along the river until she reached a pleasure garden, and slipped into the darkness beneath a row of weeping willows. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

But the most remarkable feature of the land was the green stretches of marsh fringing the rivers and inlets that spilled and intersected through the whole landscape. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Down to the river and out to the harbor, where the lighthouse stands on a hunk of bare rock, tall as a giant with a head of light. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

They were in a country of thick forests and rushing rivers. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

As we stepped into the little boat, the river looked big with a rough current, and the people on the other side looked small and far away. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Although he could see the camp directly above him, he chose his old route—up the gorge and across the ridge—because the guards on the wall were facing the river. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

The little collection of fruit- bearers growing by the river was his attempt to contrive, rain or no, a patch of the paradise, the green, apple-scented Eden, he envisioned. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The seasons don’t stop. This river doesn’t stop. Vultures will keep flying in circles. The lives of the people we love won’t stop. Time keeps unspooling. Stories keep getting written.” The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

Part of the river had been dammed to form a washing pool. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

An electronic river of true pain had sprung up in that period of national soul-searching, far deeper than I’d imagined, and it was wrenching to have so much of it run literally through my fingers. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

My mom is like, ‘Oh my God, Ashton, please tell me you can’t see this wrinkle by my chin.’And of course I can see it—it’s, like, the size of a river. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

One day, while Captain Smith is away on an exploration trip up the river, President Ratcliffe makes a decision that costs him his presidency. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

Pursuing it, he surveyed the town, wandered about in the maze of streets, stood still in places, and rested on the stone steps to the river. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

Day followed day; the river rose steadily toward its banks, growing broader, fuller, swifter. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

Florida stared ahead at the river, a long sparkly slithery thing disappearing around a bend in the distance. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

Then a wide river flowing through a populous city. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

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

We crossed the river together, mother and daughter, facing each other, low in the boat’s quiet center. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I rolled onto my side so the kid was on top of me, and scissored my legs in an attempt to have the river push us toward the opposite bank. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

He watched Frightful during the day from the big sycamore tree on the river- bank and at night from the top of the bridge. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

The frog on the bank croaked in response and leapt into the moon-dappled river. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

Ivy marked the spot with a pile of river rocks, smooth and gray and solemn looking. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

Instead he swung his pole, slamming it into the stone man’s chest and knocking him off the boat into the river, where he sank at once without a sound. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

To escape detection I cut to the right and was swallowed up by the dark brush of the river. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not far from where the railroad crossed the river lay the town of Tahlequah. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“There is a river captain. Of course I do not know if he has anything to do with this.” The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

He stood—his legs were a bit wobbly, but they held—and looked down the river. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

She felt her blood spill out, gushing into the swirling river that was carrying her away. I Survived the Great Molasses Flood, 1919 2019-09-03T00:00:00Z

They trudged along, following the river as it cut through the harsh landscape. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Tucking his head down as far as it would go between his hunched-up shoulders, he darted down the black street in the direction of the river. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

The guard led Shin through a forest to the river, where he said the crossing would be safe. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

With the river below and the bluff above, they had no place to hide. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

For more than two years the canal inadvertently diverted virtually all of the river's prodigious flow into the Salton sink. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

He screamed a blood curdling cry that echoed down the river. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Can you track de paths of the fishes as they swim? Every fish? In every river and ocean?" The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

He looked for an area along the shoreline that gave an unobstructed view up and down the river, which was usually at one of the many twists and turns. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

The sound of the tires changed to a high-pitched hum as the bus crossed a tall bridge that soared over a rail yard and a narrow river. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

Fortunately, they were able to unload the cargo, carry it, and run the canoes empty down the river without a problem. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

They had reached the fork in the path that meant they would separate, he heading back along the river to his boat. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

“Well, everyone thinks that it’ll go down, now it’s stopped raining, but the rain’s going to come back and the river’s going to flood more than it’s done for years.” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

It stood in the hills above the valley town of Medallion and spread all the way to the river. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

“I can’t help it. I used to watch them on the river where my mother washed clothes.” The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

In December 1998, Shin was ordered to wade into the river’s shallows to pick up boulders. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

So the river had widened into a lake, but he had moved along the west bank. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

The sky was dark now, the river a mass of bobbing lights. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

Prisoners who wanted to bathe sometimes sneaked down to the river in the summer. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

As he swung his trident, the river responded, making a funnel cloud around the monster. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

Jn her crazy lady clothes of reds and greens, she greeted the animals and the moving branches as she carried her porcelain cup to the river. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

We went to the river many times as I was growing up. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

I had been hunting the river bottoms hard for about three weeks. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Before daylight we reached the bank of the Tagliamento and followed down along the flooded river to the bridge where all the traffic was crossing. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

On both sides of the river it rolled towards them, going northward. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

A small river snaked around one side and curled toward the center like a capital letter G, emptying into a sparkling blue lake. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Now muddy boulders clogged the river, and the pool was a dull brown ring. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

“I feel somewhat incredulous as to Colonel Roosevelt having actually discovered a new river nearly one thousand miles long,” Markham said. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

At twelve o’clock the work crew put down their tools and ambled to the river’s edge to eat their brown-bag lunches. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

No lakes where I grew up neither, just the river and the swamp. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

The river track was no kingsroad, yet it was not half bad for what it was, and for once the wagons rolled along smartly. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

He said, “You love me, so you threw yourself in the river.” Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Was it not this which had finally died today in the wood by this delightful river? Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

Closer to the bank the river bottom turned stony. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

He drove over the levee and down the long slope of cobblestones to the river’s edge and the horse plunged wildly in. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

With unthinking sureness I moved out on the limb and jumped into the river, every trace of my fear of this forgotten. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

The road wound along the edge of the river. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

At dawn she hastily took down her tent, hoisted her pack to her back, and stepped onto the frozen river where walking was easier. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“About three miles out past the river; he’s circling around to meet up with the female.” Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

It may seem odd that I was constantly buying materials for my artificing over the river, but the truth was merchants near the University frequently took advantage of the students’ laziness and raised their prices. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

But most of all, I have learned from this river and from my predecessor, Vasudeva. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

If she crossed the intersecting road here, she would continue along the river path and pass the large barn that housed official vehicles. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

“Do you remember how thick the river ice was New Year’s Day?” Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

A painted river snaked its way along one wall, and carved condors soared toward the roof. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

One time it had pulled loose from the tree, and both she and Peris had swung downward, then up and out over the middle of the river before falling off, tumbling into the cold water. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

He was born in a house, a pretty ordinary house, right across the river from here, in Bridgeport. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

On its way to the Mississippi, the combined river then wanders, quite conveniently, within two hundred yards of the central plaza. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Out in his boat at dawn, at the mouth of the river he has known all his life. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You said there weren’t houses north of the river.” Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

It’s still the same dusty, twisty, sometimes muddy river road that it was all those miles and miles ago and the same leafy, tree-filled New World all around us. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

This park, or promenade, is right along the river separating Brooklyn from Manhattan. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

He could see beyond the cornfield to where two young boys named Matty and Ramon were dangling lines into the river. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

With the narrowing of the river the fresh sea breeze dropped behind, and by sunset it died away altogether. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

By the time we got there, the street was a river of people—an enormous group already!—winding back from the corner store. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

If he made the run, took Derek down the river, at least there was a chance. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

They crept back to the greenbelt and reached the river before the sky had even shown a sliver of pink. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

The knights fell among'the archers like wolves among chickens, driving them back toward the ships and into the river before most could notch an arrow. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

When rocket propellant burned, it first produced a river of gas that flowed into the convergent section of the nozzle. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

It crashes forward with white water before it pools and calms down and becomes a river again. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

Percy didn’t know what river she meant, but it didn’t sound easy. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

The summer wore on, and I found respite in the coolness of the river and the dimness of Granddaddy’s laboratory. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

If the river continued through the throat at less than sonic speed—that is to say, less than the speed of sound—it became compacted in the divergent section, bound in turmoil, and inefficient. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

She didn’t expect to meet elephants—although they migrated to the river at certain times of the year. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was her custom to bathe in the river every morning. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

We’d avoid the park rangers and find a cave somewhere along the river. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

He stood on the edge of the sandrock shelf that underlay Laguna and looked east across the river before dawn. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

A hundred rivers were summoned to pour their waters upon him. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s not safe enough for us to travel on the river until the unrest has died down, 50 our only choice is to continue to the release site. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

“The colossus lay like a medieval castle, built in the most inaccessible place, protected by precipices and rivers.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Meanwhile, in the valleys of the Euphrates, Indus and Yellow rivers, other peasants monitored, with no less trepidation, the height of the water. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yer lucky if I ever let ye in the river again,” Kin said. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

A river is not a wall, but a gate through which we might pass to freedom. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

Wisps of pale fog drifted through the night, long white fingers off the river. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Shallow-draft Mississippi river boats with their stubby sails were being loaded with luxuries from across the oceans. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

I dropped like a stone back into my body as a river poured out of my mouth. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Just swamp is all I see, the tops of swamp trees, little clearings of swampy bits of water, the river eventually starting to form itself again. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

The Germans, it turned out, had poisoned the river shore with an yperite mixture—more commonly known as mustard gas. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

“I know. He was totally right about how to cross the river. I think he’s a Boy Scout or something in real life.” Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

The river here was bordered with clumps of wrinkled rock that seemed to grow out of the ground like fungus. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

And since this is not the story of two young lovers meeting by the river, it has no particular place here, and I will keep it to myself. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

He shows us where to darken the path of the river on our maps. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

That voice, fair and terrible as burning silver, like moonlight on river stones, like a feather against your lips. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

We crossed into Levittown from New Jersey, and on the bridge over the Delaware, I slowed down and pointed out the manufacturing plants up and down the river where the jobs used to be. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

“Alas, it does us no good, my friend,” Taran said, “unless we could turn north again and cross where the river is less wide.” The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

He was not at the river collecting without me. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

Oh, that river of wishes, the slippery crocodile dream of it, how it might have carried my body down through all the glittering sandbars to the sea. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had thought maybe he would never find out it was his arrest that sent May to the river. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

A music came down the river as it drew nearer; and suddenly they perceived that it was a ship, wrought and carved with elven-skill in the likeness of a bird. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

With two temperamental rivers at its feet and a natural funnel of bluffs before and behind, it is forever being inundated. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

"I'm sorry to have heaved up in the river." The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

“But first... about those vials I found at the river.” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

While Tree-ear cleaned his wound, Crane-man took the strip of cloth and washed it thoroughly with water from the gourd bowl, scrubbing it against a flat stone at the river’s edge. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

Wouldn’t be proper, leaving Pluto’s daughter on the wrong side of the river.” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

She inhales the scents of the village, the river, the forest, the blue willows. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

Good decision, he told himself as he huffed up and up the track, as it wound around the mountain, as the river got farther and farther below the gray cliffs. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

Some riders went past along the river road as Arya was washing her clothes, but if they saw the scrawny naked girl scrubbing her rags in the moonlight, they took no notice. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The first level was built of river rocks held together by straw-filled mud. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

And he looked past the Wall, past endless forests cloaked in snow, past the frozen shore and the great blue-white rivers of ice and the dead plains where nothing grew or lived. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“No river in the Seven Kingdoms is half so wide as this.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

From talking with the patients I’ve gotten passably fluent in Lingala, which is spoken throughout northern Congo, in Léopoldville, and along most of the navigable rivers. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

And in the dream she had seen this river. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even from there, I could see that in a rainy spring, that old river would really choose its own direction. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

It splashed into the river and wound its way down through the rapids only to roll harmlessly past the robot. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

“You know what, Joseph? I’m ready for a fight. One o’clock, down by the river.” Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was easy to grow food when there was a whole river to water the crops! A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

But all the long speeches, all the interminable days and hours that people had spent talking about my soul, had left me with the impression of a colorless swirling river that was making me dizzy. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

“I wanted to enjoy our time the way it has always been for as long as possible. What’s coming is coming, mi cielo. Why think about drowning before we reach the river?” Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Siddhartha had wanted to drown himself in this river; the old, tired, despairing Siddhartha was today drowned in it. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

The river and the road have straightened out as the valley gets steeper and closer on both sides. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

To the right, if you could walk along, there’s a street that would take you down towards the river. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

I thought about throwing my body into this river that had destroyed my family’s happiness. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Only the seven racing lanes in the middle of the river remained clear and open water. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Instead she asked the question that ran below all the other questions like a deep underground river. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The following day they crossed the river by a narrow iron bridge and entered an old mill town. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

Lay Ter. He stood before her with the river dripping from him. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nearby, across the river, a lark had begun to twitter and climb. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

As I rested I felt the gloom of night settle on the river. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

We would turn south there and go down the river about five miles, to Verplancks Point. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

At the end, when walking was work, we sat on a bench looking down at the river, which was running low, and she told me that beauty was mostly a matter of attention. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

Dense collections of villages thronged the bluffs that line the shore, with their people fishing in the river and farming the floodplains and sections of the uplands. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

I would have liked to have a good, maudlin drunk, but I couldn’t afford it, so I made my slow, limping way back across the river as the sun was setting. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Project number one: we’ll be making a relief map of the Tigris and Euphrates river basin. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Arya watched them for a bit, then began to make her way along the river. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“This river of ours—she isn’t always what she pretends to be.” The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

They drifted past my domain like logs on a lazy river. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

“One day Useless’s mother went to the river to get water. She found a beautiful girl sitting on a rock. ‘Cut your hair and put on your finest clothes,’ the girl told the astonished woman. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Unable to swim, not certain how deep the river was at this spot, I hugged the bank, too timid to pass over. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

A wide river filled the foreground, crossed by a bridge covered with structures that looked like tiny cathedrals. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

We stood watching them while the sunset painted the river with broad streaks of pink and orange. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The river was at its flood stage and swollen with muddy waters and debris, and so as I crossed the narrow, wooden bridge my attention was drawn to the raging waters. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

He just mostly stared out at the river, where no one was fixing to get dunked that day, whatsoever. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

They would also find a cheerful note from Jonas on his bed, telling them that he was going for an early-morning ride along the river; that he would be back for the Ceremony. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

The turn you would take, if you obeyed the sign, led down a rock-strewn road that transformed into an angry river during desert flash floods. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

As if the thought must be made real, a body bumps into Mark’s knee, then whips past in the river—a woman. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

Then she tipped the barrel and the fish plunked into the river. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

There had been a rare afternoon when Judith had invited Kit to go with some other girls of the town to pick flowers and picnic along the shore of the river. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

Windmills were a great power Painted around 1490 by the French artist RobinetTestard, this picture shows people collecting aloe wood as it floats down a river from the Garden of Eden. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

We sit up and watch them fall and fall and fall into the river below, way too far to ever live thru it. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

In the wind there was the smell of the river and also the fresher smell of fields beyond the town. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Almost every afternoon now, Joyce got off the school bus on Silberhorn, down by the river, rather than at her home in Happy Valley. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

You do not know how long you are in a river when the current moves swiftly. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

We descend the stairs next to one of the stone pillars and creep with silent feet at river level. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

When the rivers receded, they exposed a wide strip of bottomland. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

The sun was pushing against the gray horizon hills, sending yellow light across the clouds, and the yellow river sand was speckled with the broken shadows of tamaric and river willow. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

I took a long moment to catch my breath, wiped a river of sweat from my brow, and felt profoundly discouraged. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Torrents of water rushed down over them, filling the wood-cutting trails of the forest with their own muddy rivers. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

But then he talks more, a slow river flowing itself along. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

Tree-ear made his way around the base of the cliff to the river. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

“Didn’t you hear what the man said? Come away from that river at once!” Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z

Alongside the neat gray wharf sheds that lined the river and canal across the railroad tracks, Lew Pants huddled, a silent and smoky plea for urban renewal. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The human heart is a deep, dark river with hidden currents,” Flora said to her father. Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z

“What’s wrong with you all? A man is dead in the river and all you can do is fight? We should be pulling him out and going to get help.” Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

Oh, God makes the water, and the water makes the river, And the river turns the mill wheel and the wheel goes on forever. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z

“This one shows main highways. Shows a lot of rivers too, and in eighteen fifteen there were probably not many bridges.” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

He would make the solemn announcement that Jonas had been lost in the river. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

The landscape’s moving in a way that turns my stomach but I can definitely see a bridge down there, taking the road to the other side so there’s nothing now twixt me and the river. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

More hovercars were in the air than usual, and the river seemed to be lit up extra bright. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

He would double back on his path and attempt to lose them in the river, and then the second relay of hounds would scent him out and once again plunge into the chase. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The muddy waters of the river lapped and gurgled savagely around him. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Right after lunch, when it isn’t raining yet and all the women with their buckets and things have gone down to the river and the fields and the men are home sleeping. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Somehow Gabe had anticipated that he would arrive on the rivers far side, catch his breath, get his bearings—he had never crossed the river before—and then begin to search. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

When the road curved close to the river, she turned Maila toward the water, leaning back in the saddle as they went downhill the short distance. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

We spent two days on the Amtrak train, heading west through hills, over rivers, past amber waves of grain. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

Then when the late spring came, the river drew in from its edges and the sand banks appeared. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

She said, “If I fell in the river, would you save me?” Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

"You'd put a river between the two parts of your army." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The river itself wasn’t very big, maybe fifty yards across, green water with a few rapids, but it carved a huge scar out of the desert. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

She lugged the view camera downtown to photograph a rusty bridge stretching over the spot where the three rivers collided. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The river swerved and suddenly he could see a little better. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“The fireflies would flicker rapidly for their last few minutes of life. If it was timed right, the river shimmered as the jumper crossed it.” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

After the fountain ran dry, we took turns hauling water from the river. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

The last betrayal that sent Velutha across the river, swimming against the current, in the dark and rain, well in time for his blind date with history. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I told Mr. Leroy and took Jingle Boy right on into the river. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

She could not go far, for the river was still very high from the melting snows. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

They had started the lessons the year before, in late summer when the river was lower and the current sluggish. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

The farms of the rich little valley back up to the river and take its water for the orchards and the vegetables. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Another little boy had sworn that he'd seen the missing kid climbing the mango tree onto a branch out over the river. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

I’d dropped into the millrace, the ditch where the river water ran to turn the mill’s wheels. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

I had been on the other side of the river buying a dram of quicksilver and a pouch of sea salt. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

This time, he ran to the river’s edge and washed both feet thoroughly. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

The noise had come from out in the river. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The rain was falling harder and heavier; it pattered on the leaf-strewn bank all around them and into the river chattering through the dark. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

There’s only my Noise and the river rushing by. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

Glancing out her window as she dressed, Petra thought that the branches could be rivers on a map, or cracks on a blue plate. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

The river that had seemed so narrow from a distance now stretched wide as a sea, but the city had grown gigantic as well. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Then the flames parted and I saw the blood of Narciso flow into the river and mix with the blood of Lupito. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The willows that grow in the river bed were well leafed, and the wild blackberry vines were thrusting their spiky new shoots along the ground. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Slowly the river shrank as the grain sprouted, grew, and covered the black with emerald; continued to shrink under the ever more powerful sun as the emerald ripened into gold. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

“Where were you yesterday, in the river again?” Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Crossing that river as she closed in on Hampton made her feel like anything was possible. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

The woman named Narcissa gained the top of the bank, where a line of old railings separated the river from a narrow, cobbled street. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

I had waded across that river many times, but I never felt an urgency like today. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

One evening, flocks of terns came to the river marshes. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

They could see the river through the ironwork. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

I turned back toward the river, moved a few more steps along the limb, sprang far out and fell into the deep water. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Come on, Lyddie. Just a short walk by the river before supper. It will do you good.” Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

It was a scream, to carry above the noise of the river. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

He had hopes of hitching it to one of the gas-powered barges that usually traveled up and down the river, but none ever passed, yet more evidence that fuel was nowhere to be found. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

Dizzy with relief, he pegged down to the river and waded in. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

The river beneath the palace was their way out. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

We came upon a river where the soldiers’ aluminum boats, with motors, gently floated. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

I walked down to the river to keep Charley company, returned, even shaved and took a sponge bath in a bucket. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

The team trotted briskly out of town, across the bridge spanning the river, and on up the road between meadows that seemed to have grown a little brighter since morning. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He drowned in the river, and he was eighteen, Colonel,” Hobie corrected. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the distance she saw the river where the stream ended: a flat brightness at the edge of the forest. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were flying over a wild country of steep hills and dark forests, still following the course of the river. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

The houses beside her and across the river from her slept. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

They made their way west, stopping every once in a while to ask directions to the river. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

The tall stone wall rose up on the other side of a brown river about half as wide as the Sogozha River was at home. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

Kehaar had evidently found a big warren some way off to the south: and whatever the iron road was, the warren was on this side both of it and of a river. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Off toward the river he again noticed the young soldier standing alone at the center of the field. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

So I always go as far as the ford, where the river spills across the path, and then I head back. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were going to put over another bridge when the bombardment started and some troops were to cross at the shallows up above at the bend of the river. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

The canoes had traveled only three miles down the river when they were faced with rapids. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

Then she would drift along the corridor to a stairwell where a window gave a view of the river. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Across the river, beyond the place where the trout and the bass were plentiful but before the river went underground heading for the mill, the bank turned around an incline. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

The river will have me and I will feel some relief. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

When he and Somkit were little boys, lying on the concrete of Namwon’s courtyard and gazing across the river, they had dreamed of this very thing: walking under the glow of a million lights. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

Hazel suspected that if Fiver felt they ought to cross the river, it might be dangerous not to. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

We have found no freshwater springs nearby, and so we are still dependent on the river for water. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

I could wade into this river, let my sins drown to the bottom, let the waters carry me someplace far. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Where it emptied into the river, he swam to the middle. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The king and the mason kneel, high between the river and the sun, on their bit of planking. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

She went to the river every day and waited. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

He raced down the road at breakneck speed, careening around the hairpin turns, whooping at the top of his lungs all the way to the river and across the bridge. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

One evening, bone-weary and dragging through the red-clay mud of still another shallow river they had to cross, they paused to search for crayfish or clams. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

She led the little frog to the clearest part of the river. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

They crept through the trees and found themselves on the bank of a river. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Just then a heron flew over us and drifted down to the river’s edge. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

The hotel had been built on the side of a hill, so even though they went down, the cafe was still on ground level, with an outdoor patio overlooking the river. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

Both rivers were swollen with rainfall and thick with boulders that created dozens of small, swift waterfalls. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

On Saturday, Naomi woke up hungry for the river before the sun was even up. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

The sheriff parked the car and led me up a path toward the river, and there, on a little hill overlooking the river and the valley, was my mothers grave. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

At last he took to wandering near the wooded copse by the river, hoping to hear Grace’s flute. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

I needed to get to the southern edge of the city, where I could locate the river and trace along it until I reached the village of Ikwa. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

Soon they reached a place where the river curved round in a bend from the east, and here they came upon the broad, shallow fall. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Only some timid monkeys in a tree by the edge of the river saw the first girl disappear. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

When I look over strips of green grass lining the river, at church steeples and into the cream-and-copper halls of apartment buildings, I’m strong. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

The river had curved around to the boundary of this neighborhood. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was only the sound of the river now. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

The channel wound between precipitous banks, and slanting from one wall to the other across the valley ran a streak of green—the river and its fields. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

However, the ship went out on the ebb tide; and was doubtless by morning far down the river mouth. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

Every year Earth’s rivers carried massive volumes of eroded material–500 million tons of calcium, for instance–to the seas. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

It was the Mississippi, the same river that I had worked on down south of Memphis. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

All I heard was the river slapping against the bank endlessly. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

They soon found a narrow path alongside the river. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

He could happily spend an afternoon tracking a flying squirrel across forests or a rainbow trout down rivers. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

At the end of the day, the humans I lived with gathered like those across the river. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

By the end of April the air was full of summer and the small wind that lifted off the river was heavy and uninvigorating. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

A few minutes later, guided by Kehaar, he was running up the open pasture north of the river, straight for the brick arch in the overgrown railway embankment and the fields that lay beyond. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Freedom lay on the distant sandy bank of this river. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like a slow-moving river that doesn’t need to show its strength because it’s a known fact. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

They descended the long stone stairway, and when they came out into the main tunnel, Lina stood still, staring at the river. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

As I had to do whenever I glimpsed this river, I thought of Phineas. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

I could not undress to swim in a river or even wash my shirt without fearing that my true sex would be discovered. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

If she climbed down, her only possible path would be to follow the river upstream. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Across the river the great houses of great gentlemen lined the embankment. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

She was still alive and the air hunters were over the river. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Men were crawling from the river, men burned and bleeding, coughing up water, staggering, most dying. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

People started coming toward the boats, coming down the paths, through the meadows, for on each side of the river there were rice fields and slaves working in them. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the river the freighters gliding through the lifting mist bellowed at one another, the sound of their deep foghorns echoing among the rusting file cabinets in the office. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The park extended into flume rides, wave pools, and a lazy river. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

Blood in a river, the river running red with it, the earth drowning in blood. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

The vegetation closed in as I neared the river, making it impossible to avoid clomping through bushes and thickets. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

Where she saw a lonesome chair left like an orphan in a park strip facing the river that other Violet saw how the ice skim gave the railing’s black poles a weapony glint. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even the great river of Troy, which the gods call Xanthus and men Scamander, took part and strove to drown Achilles as he crossed its waters. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

We leaned on the wooden rail of the bridge and looked up the river to the lights of the big bridges. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

He pointed to a branch that stuck out over the river. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Run, boy. Run like the river. Fly you high, Gregor the Overlander!” said Ripred as he took off down the road. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

With one glance, they knew it would be impossible to paddle the canoes down the river. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

But minus the gloom of setting suns and lonely river banks. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

That river, his infernal need, rose, flooded, sweeping him forward as though he were a long-drowned corpse. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

Miles back when the stream wasn’t a river. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

The people had been taught to despise themselves because they were left with barren land and dry rivers. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

The road here was below the level of the river bank and all along the side of the sunken road there were holes dug in the bank with infantry in them. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

The bridge was narrow but sturdy over the river. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

The Helderbergs are made up of layers of limestone and shale, through which underground streams and rivers have carved miles of caverns. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her ungainly iron ram, fashioned after the likeness of the fish from which she took her name, parted the surface of the river before her. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

We walked along the river with the words streaming behind us like ribbons in the night. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

To her, the darkness across the river was a cloud of endless unknowing. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

Past the edges of the buildings, the gray-green river snaked north to south, dotted with boats zipping up and down the invisible lanes of traffic. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

Syl’s ma and pa walked up the river’s bank and disappeared into Canada. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

Tree-ear swept the shavings into his palm, then threw them into the river. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

Other horns answered it, and lights shone out across the river. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

The names of the towns or the rivers. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

He had to be helped from the river. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

The trashman used his oar to turn the boat down a canal that led away from the main flow of the river. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

It was only a short distance now to the river, but among the sodden patches of rushes, the bushes and sedge and deep puddles, they found it next to impossible to tell their direction. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hazel had picked a fresh bay leaf from a tree by the river and he had dropped it in. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

As we walk down the street to the river we hear the women laughing, tinkling and bright in the night air. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Bodies on the ground, and bodies floating in the river. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

They straddled the river and tucked into the foothills on both sides, for at this point the valley narrows and then opens out again. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

The flowers were gone; the birds flocked in great clouds, and among them were eider and old squaw ducks that kept to the rivers and beaches except when they migrated south. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The encampment filled the river bottom for two miles along the meandering river. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

We used to fish at the river, upstream, and we’d race to see who could get there first. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

“And I’m going to replace this zipper, too, Inés. It’s sewn in crooked; didn’t you notice? There are more curves in it than a river.” Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

He selected the upstream, or north, side, a poor choice because the morning sun and its reflection off the river would be in his face. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

Ransdorp is a village on the other side of the river, with farmhouses and a few little shops lining wide gravel streets. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

I was determined to try every single inn on this side of the river before I resorted to paying for a bunk and a meal chit again. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Still a third type of answer to Yali invokes the supposed importance of lowland river valleys in dry climates, where highly productive agriculture depended on large-scale irrigation systems that in turn required centralized bureaucracies. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

There's a rack of greetings cards showing men dressed like Prince Philip fishing in rivers saying “On Father’s Day” or foxgloves in a cottage garden saying “For My Dearest Grandmother.” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

“You can trust me now. You’ll either go into the river or be torn to pieces here—the whole lot of you. There’s nowhere left to run.” Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a beautiful sight to behold, the struggle of the carp to regain his abode before the river dried to a trickle and trapped him in strange pools of water. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lord Hoster was too weak to attend, asleep on his balcony, dreaming of the sun on the rivers of his youth. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Breezes from the sluggish river seem to inscribe her skin with metal tips. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Perhaps he was thinking that we might carry it the rest of the way to the river and throw it in; perhaps he was just interested in looking at it, as he was in everything. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘What is that other river we can see far away there?’ asked Merry. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Because the river has so much agricultural runoff, there were crops, too: Little tomato and soybean plants sprang up everywhere, well fertilized by all the sewage. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

“But remember those soldiers on the hill, back there above the river?” In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

So they came to a wide green land, and beyond it was a broad river in a silver haze, out of which rose a long wooded isle, and many ships lay by its shores. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

There are two rivers at Devon, divided by a small dam. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

Things are going backwards with you, he said to himself and laughed, and as he said it, his glance lighted on the river, and he saw the river also flowing continually backwards, singing merrily. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Germans had launched new attacks in France, between the Somme and Arve rivers and were now claiming to have taken ninety thousand prisoners. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

But there was only the normal autumn wind high up, going by like another river. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

Without noticing the transition, the pair of them were standing, knee-deep in the river, watching the mahalath swallow the farthest houses of the village. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

The factory soon came in view and, just beyond it, the river that powered the machines. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

It was around noon when the wagon turned onto a new road, this one wide as a river and paved with cobbles. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Not one word did he say all the way to the river. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

“I think we just crossed the river Jordan.” Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

They met at the dam, where the river split in two to encircle New Pretty Town. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Once I would have wanted to know the river’s name. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

He reached down and, picking up a handful of pebbles, began to pitch them into the river. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

I move my hands by day, and by night, when my fever dreams come back and the river is miles below me, I stretch out over the water, making that endless crossing, reaching for balance. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I panicked and jumped in the water, flopping into the mud and reeds at the river’s edge. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Children and parents alike rushed down to the edge of the river to get a closer look. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z

They, too, checked and stared at the sight of the river. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

But every evening after work he had looked across the river to these barren, empty hills, and finally he had bought a couple of acres and began building our house. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Yet when I got down to the river they were not yet on my trail. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

“That’s the third group of people that’ve gone past the house. They say there’s a trading ship coming up the river. If we finish the washing we can watch it come in.” The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

Water made sound and he realized it was the river gurgling as it left the lake to his right. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

I'd choose something simple—a shade of red to match Maman's hair, a high waist with a cream waist-sash, and a sweeping skirt that flows out like a silk river behind me. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

He left only to soothe his burned lip in the cool river mud and make a meal of the small fish he found lying on the bank. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

A few paces from the rivers bank, on the village side, stood one of the stone crosses that marked Stromford’s western limit. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

He seems to remember a little boat— a more seaworthy one—gliding down a river. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

“We saw an accident where a van drove into a river. Cade and I pulled the people out of the water. That’s what happened yesterday, and now we’re here, in Normal.” 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

Needless to say, I hadn’t noticed the view, but out before us lie mountains, villages, and rivers. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

He looks up into the sky and to the sematary around us and the river and road below. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

One night she counted fifty drums on a spit in the river, and there she made camp. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

As the water trickles out of the rusty tap, I imagine I'm standing near a wide river, like in a poem my teacher read to us about rivers singing. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

He watched the cracks along the Wall go from red to grey to black, from streaks of fire to rivers of black ice. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The floor drops off at a sharp angle, and several stories below us is a river. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

Until he galloped out from the woods and saw ahead of him a wide river. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

“Not that way! Down the path to the river!” The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

And he also told them that later their son acted aggressively and threatened him and then drove away—naked—before he or the sheriff’s office could figure out what had happened at the river. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

And he had trouble breathing, which was why he couldn't hold his own night fishing with the others on the better section of the river. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

He shut his eyes and saw all the days of his life winding back through time, like a river, leading to the one place he had never wanted to think about again. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

Sam led him along several passages and down many steps and out into a high garden above the steep bank of the river. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Looking out toward the river, he knew for a fact that he had made a mistake setting up here. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were sounds of splashings down the river in the direction Lennie had taken. Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t believe it—it was the biggest river I’d ever seen. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

His mama and father and brothers and baby sister are all dead on the bottom of the river. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

They came as the river had its moment of deepest gold. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

He rambled through the dense neighborhoods along the river that were more squalid than ever since the mills had been slack this winter. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

She said, “You can feel the river already.” Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

So much rainwater was falling that rushing rivers of runoff started springing up everywhere. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

St. Louis air smelled of tar and doughnuts, old boards washed up out of the muddy river, red bricks, and licorice. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

The island forced us into a narrow channel on the east side of the river, and we floated underneath sycamore trees leaning out over the water in search of more sunlight. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

Over time beyond measure, these poisoned rivers, in the region between fire and mist, slowly solidified into huge glaciers. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

She sees me watching, feels my Noise watching her, and she turns away to face the river. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

A little house by the river, right down the road from where we grew up. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

In an ecological version of therapeutic nihilism, they want to leave the river basin to its own devices. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

The ship was tied up at a long dock, one of many that jutted into the river. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

They walked back through the door and set the boxes down a few feet from the river’s edge. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Whenever he had visitors, he gave orders that she was to be hitched to a boat loaded with stone and was to drag it behind her as she walked along the edge of the river. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

He must, indeed, have been that Voivode Dracula who won his name against the Turk, over the great river on the very frontier of Turkey-land. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

She found herself walking to their spot at the river. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Matty was not qualified to go by river; the man called Boater was always the one who took messages and trading goods by that route. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

It really is nice to have a classroom where you can see the sky above, the river below. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

The river’s brown waters would be stained with blood, forever and ever and ever... Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

They looked across the river with Old Boat eyes. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jeanne and Jacob go tumbling, heels over head, into the river. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

But it was still there, clearly outlined by the rippling fights of the river. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Besides, she might have saved enough money to hire a coyote who can take him across the river. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

The Count in his box, then, was on a river in an open boat—propelled probably either by oars or poles, for the banks are near and it is working against stream. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

But Tanu was a city girl, and all the open space around the river made her nervous, so we soon returned to our little room. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

Before breakfast she had a minute or two to herself along the walkway by the river. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

The tow truck ran out of gas at the edge of a river canyon. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

And then he dives into the river, so neady that he barely disturbs the crane. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

My feet hit the bottom, bumping boulders and scraping rocks, and I realized the river wasn’t deep but it was fast and my feet couldn’t stop me from being swept away. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

All around our fire was darkness and wind and the mad, roaring river. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

She stared at the two rivers in the darkness, one big and one small, and remembered Shay saying that pretty symmetry was silly, because she’d rather have a face with two different sides. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

My inkpot shatters on the rocks, turning the river vermilion. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

From there we will be able to protect James Town from a Spanish invasion—we’ll stop the Spanish ships before they even enter the river. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

“We could go up the river,” he suggested. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

It was a chance to be a true explorer—mapping an unknown river and discovering new wildlife species in a land never before seen by any naturalist, or any non-native person for that matter. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

The river was agitated, but that could have been from the heavy rains on Thursday. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

Since the start of the journey, they had zigzagged down the curvy river, traveling about sixty miles, which averaged to seven and a half miles a day so far. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

“We were...on our way...but without much hope of getting far ahead. With what dread we watched each turn in the river to see what it held in store,” Cherrie wrote. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

Many people were bathing in the river, and Ellsberg decided to try it. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

The Colonel let out with a scream that was heard the length and breadth of Eliot Street, across the Lawn, and by a trout fisherman anchored in the river near the house. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

He strode to the dock, leaped into the boat with Neel, untied it, and slowly, easily, began rowing across the river. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

A thin mist began to creep up from the river, and it grew, and grew; till soon a dense fog enveloped the ship and all around her. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

Some of the adult caretakers from Pinyudu had managed to string a rope across the river, and boys who couldn’t swim were pulling themselves across. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now, in the nymphaeum in Rome, as the dark water rose to her waist, Piper wondered why the river god Achelous had mentioned that story. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

In that instant, every orb on the East Side of the river went dark. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

Fill your bottles with water from the river. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Sula cupped her face for an instant, then turned and ran up to the little plank bridge that crossed the river to Shadrack’s house. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

The low clouds caught the color of the burning river and roofed the sky in shades of shifting green, eerily beautiful. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Elegant white stags roamed the streets like citizens, and reptiles big as men drifted in the river. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Pong, who'd lived his whole life inches from the river, didn’t know how to swim. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

The fog clung to the river Nir all morning, making the trail difficult to see, and it did not burn off until afternoon. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

“Stop. It’s too late tonight. We’ll have to go tomorrow. Sit down and calm yourself. Think back. You said we were coming back from the river,” he prompted. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

In the spring when the dragon awakes, I watched its turnings in the rivers. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the air there is always the heavy, cloying odor of the alcohol distillery on the river, an odor that becomes suffocating on hot summer afternoons when the breeze blows in from the river. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Would the memories curve into themselves into a perfect round river? Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

Then, over the rush and gush of the dark river beside them, he heard voices again. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

There was a mighty silence, in which both sides awaited attack from the other, the protests of the cattle heard down by the river. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

When they reached the stem, the lad tied up their blades and slammed a shoulder into Duck, and the big man went into the river. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The attack would cross the river up above the narrow gorge and spread up the hillside. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

She had been reading an old fairy tale that afternoon, and when she finished the story, she looked up through the leaves across the river and saw a woman there. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Over bare rock they rode, through gloomy pine forests and drifts of old snow, over icy ridges and across shallow rivers that had no names. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The land of the llano was not good for farming, the good land was along the river. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’d built his own house, hauling river stone, milling lumber, a man prominently and wondrously strong far into his forties. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

On the far right was a large house that looked straight to the most oblique curve in the river. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The bus strolls over a bridge where a river flows beneath us. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

The river was narrow enough to swim easily. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

They ran down the field, splashed across the river, and spread out over the smoking bank. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

The island’s central river had crested its banks and spilled into the nearby fields and forests. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Sam walked down the mountain, crossed the river on rocks, and took the long trail to his hemlock tree. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

Folly Bridge had been swept away altogether, and the Thames was no longer a river but a swollen sea of gray turbulence sweeping from right to left and threatening to overwhelm La Belle Sauvage entirely. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

They would lie out on sandbanks or float just below the surface of the water, carefully watching the animals that came to the river to drink. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

She hung her head and wished she could disappear into the waters of that river. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

The questions rush into my head like a raging river. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

From far out in the river he told her. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

We arrive to find an inch-thick steel cable spanning the gorge, stretched between a fifteen-foot tower on our side of the river and an outcrop on the far shore, four hundred feet away. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the machine reached the river, it banked into a turn. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Not golden like the knights in story, and his eyes were dark as rivers. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z

Seven gathered all the strength she had left and jumped back across the river to Valley’s side. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

Looking down and to his left, he saw Ravenel shimmering across the river, the white yachts gleaming under marina lights, and shrimp boats ghostly below their nets. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Others were crossing in the small boats belonging to the Anyuak tribesmen, who used them to fish on the river. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

She turns her head, staring across the river at the new skyline. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

She raced David halfway around the greenbelt, until the lights of the big hospital sat directly across the river from them. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

‘All I have is a single black bull and the friendship of the njuzu who lives in the river.’ A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The river moves, but it follows a path. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

Later, as Florida lay in bed listening to the wail of the freight train passing through Boxton, she thought about the old lunatics and about going down a river in a boat. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

The Commandant hesitates, and the Augur waits like a rock in a river, patient, unmovable. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

They sang about gathering by rivers, beautiful, beautiful rivers, with bright angels and crystal tides. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

Alaska finished her cigarette and flicked it into the river. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

The highest population densities of Aborigines were in Australia’s wettest and most productive regions: the Murray-Darling river system of the Southeast, the eastern and northern coasts, and the southwestern corner. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

In the winter it becomes a torrent, a mean little fierce rivers and in the summer it is a place for children to wade in and for fishermen to wander in. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

But to reach the bus, I, too, need to cross the river, and the aluminum tram is still chained to the far shore. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now he stared at the tiny moon floating high over the ice-choked river. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

"If we do reach the river, what will you do then?" the sellsword asked as he cut. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Eventually, by evening, the river would rouse itself to accept the day’s offerings and sludge off to the sea, leaving wavy lines of thick white scum in its wake. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Twenty rats, the leader still holding Tick in its teeth, plunged into the river below. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

He would be across the river now, Jonas realized, checking the time. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

“Tell you what. I’ll give you ha’penny and one of my old shirts for your slot. That way, you’ll have something to wear when you’re washing that one in the river.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

He moved the rocks on the hillside and turned the course of the rivers. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

My mother crawled into bed with me and snuggled close and said, “Let’s build a raft and float away down a river.” Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

TheoHarper dropped worms on my head from the hill over the river when I went fishing. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

I was supposed to report to the Crew House, down on the banks of the lower river. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

He probably thought if I hadn’t blanked out, I would have eaten the little kid I pulled from the river. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

Across the river I could see the twinkling lights of the town. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

He and Cherrie hurriedly climbed out of their own canoe and ran down along the bank of the river, making their way toward the waterfall. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

At a place that had been hidden from our view was a small plank bridge spanning a river. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

When we reached the river, we stood there a moment. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Thirty feet from the edge of the highway, we caught sight of the roof of a dark green van through the tangles of buttonbush along the river’s shore. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

Some mention was made of the understaffed fire department, aged equipment, the need for fireboats to patrol the river, and the fact that hydrants were placed far apart. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

I want to climb every last mountain, row down every last river, explore every last cave, cross every last bridge, run across every last beach, visit every last town, city, country. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Going even farther, they could reach the large population center at the river’s mouth and connect with the Pacific Coast road. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

I dropped down out of the mountains into the bottoms far above the place I had crossed the river on my way to town. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

A cuco appeared then, on their side of the river, with something draped in its arms. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

But we desert the coaches of Little League, Ben thought, leaving the river’s edge and returning to the sidewalk beneath the huge water oaks of River Street. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I tried to tell her and Aunt Gloria about our trip to the London Eye but Kat started coughing and Dad said we had had a very pleasant walk by the river. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

We were, over the course of some two hours, herded onto boats and rowed out to ships that sat at anchor in the river. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

Ruined though the bridge was, there was something magical about living above the shining river. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

“Same song, different verse,” I tell Mateo before going on about the screeching tires, the way we busted through the road’s safety rail and tumbled into the river.... They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

I touched the river skin by my lip. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

The river mouth at Moss Landing was centuries ago the entrance to this long inland water. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Already I could see in the setting sun the peaceful adobe houses on the other side of the river. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

He stared at the river, and the breeze stirred his hair like white smoke. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Turning off the entire river like it’s a spigot! Can they do that?” Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Jule thought of the beautiful Westminster Bridge with its stone arches and its green railings, and of the heavy, cold river flowing underneath it. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

A plush red carpet cuts through the middle of the Receiving Hall like a thick river of blood. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

A scroll shot from the river like a miniature rocket and landed in front of him. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

They would have to go into the force of life, like a drop falling into a river. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

They waited ceremoniously for the captain and then they said, “Over the river,” and tossed it back. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the opposite, northern side of the river are a series of sandstone ridges that reach down from the Guiana Shield in the north, halting close to the water’s edge. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

On the silver pool, which was part of a river, some sailboats floated. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes, there’s just no way to hold back the river. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The river then whisked the canoes under some braided vines that reached across the banks. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

Today the water looks considerably lower than it looks in the photographs McCandless took twelve months ago, but to try to ford the river here, in thundering midsummer flood, is nevertheless unthinkable. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

There on the wide flats beside the noisy river were marshalled in many companies well nigh five and fifty hundreds of Riders fully armed, and many hundreds of other men with spare horses lightly burdened. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

Was this not the river in which he had once wished to drown himself—hundreds of years ago—or had he dreamt it? Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

Those who did not die grew up by the river, watching their mothers leave at sundown. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

“You are not saying anything. I think,” said the eagle, “I will drag you over some more rocks and mountaintops. Perhaps I will also drag you through some deep rivers this time.” Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

After they’d been flying for sixteen hours and just before it got dark, Marina caught a brief glimpse of the river near Omsk, which was enough to tell her they were still on course. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

They sailed through the mile-wide mouth of the river, and then saw the Tagus spread into a great bay. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

That was the origin of Buckland, a thickly inhabited strip between the river and the Old Forest, a sort of colony from the Shire. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

And the Amazon basin, essentially an astoundingly large river valley made of deposited mud, has almost no stone, so archaeologists wouldn’t even find that. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

There was a river, and on one side the forest burst with shades of green. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

The shelters were scattered along the banks of the river. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

“All of them lead to rivers, and all the rivers to the sea.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

There's a river the bodies were finally thrown into that supposedly still runs red to this day, fifty years later. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

It eroded the rocky crest the way a river cuts through a mountain range. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

I seethed my way to the river and got there at darkfall. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

I would run out to the little river. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

Lourdes turns her flashlight on the river, penetrating its rippled surface, then hoists herself over the fence. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Do you not see the crops are dead? There has been no rain and the river is dry.” Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

The song of the river suddenly grew louder, the torches burned a little brighter than before, and the air was full of strange smells. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Beyond the emerald fields he could glimpse the surface of the river, jeweled with sunlight. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

We went to this place on the river where Lucas first told me about his brother and where I had, some time after that, experienced an R-rated moment with Laura Fish. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

When Rondon arrived, he ordered Kermit to wait there while he and Lyra scouted from the river’s shoreline to determine if the rapids were passable or if a portage would need to be built. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

Because of the wading in the cold water of the river, she developed bronchitis. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

He wasn’t sure what he’d expected, but the force of the river was terrifying, flowing fast and hard as an avalanche. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

The families who lived along the river were an enormous help, selling the expedition two new canoes and setting them up with a knowledgeable guide. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

They were on the canal now, which was high itself, but stiller than the river, of course. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

The gods of all the rivers on earth were their sons. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Captains of riverboats had heard about the virus by this time, and they refused to stop their boats anywhere along the length of the river in Bumba, even though people beseeched them from the banks. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

When night fell, we proceeded up the river, there being a reasonable moon. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

He cried out as he flung them into the river, not even noticing that one of them had cut his palm. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

So Death crossed to an elder tree on the banks of the river, fashioned a wand from a branch that hung there, and gave it to the oldest brother. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

The river was drawing him outward, away from the bank. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Several days later, some boys fishing in the river saw the body and called the police. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Dreams and restless thoughts came flowing to him from the river, from the twinkling stars at night, from the sun’s melting rays. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

This house, a large, ram bling gray stucco with a picket fence surrounding the weedy grounds, stood away from the street, perched on a ledge that dropped fifty feet down into the river below. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I made her by hollowing out an enormous boiled sweet! Isn’t she beautiful! See how she comes cutting through the river!” Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z

And with that she turned to liquid and melted into the river. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

“You said that only American citizens could fish in the rivers. And Natives weren’t considered citizens yet.” The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

“To jump into the river and ruin those clothes!” The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

At that moment a large Bulldog, who had been sniffing and staring very hard, said: “Look. Isn’t there another of these queer creatures—over there, beside the river, under the trees?” The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

By the river, a chorus of whistling frogs joined the clamor of insects. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

The great body was held back, but rivers spouted through fissures in the rolling wall and broke like day. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

I once visited Santarem, in the central Amazon, during the river’s annual flood, when it wells over its banks and creeps inland for miles. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

He knew he would have to leave this wedged protection and enter the river s surge again. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

“You heard what Prince Cardan said by the river—he just wants you to give up. It’s a blow to his pride, and it hurts his status, you acting like you’re not afraid of him.” The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

When one of Enrique’s meal cards is stolen, El Tirindaro gives him the unexpired card of a migrant who has crossed the river successfully. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

She made good time that night The track zoomed along beneath her, tracing slow arcs around hills, crossing rivers on crumbling bridges, always headed toward the sea. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Despite all this, I made my limping way the long miles across the river to Imre, hoping against hope that I might still find Denna waiting. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

She would ride on the river— she could hardly believe it—and it might take her to the shining city she had dreamed of, or it might drown her. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

As soon as I found it, I activated my jet boots and flew over the foaming river below the falls, then passed through the waterfall itself. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

A jet passed over the river near the Meecham house, its thunder shivering every pane of glass. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The policeman and a partner had seen Enrique and four other migrants drying off after bathing in a river five miles to the south. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

There, choosing a gap between the watchers, he passed like an evil shadow out into the night, down the slope and away westward towards the river that flowed out of the forest. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

“I go to river to find food maybe. You be here when I get back?” Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Just when she thought she had lost it and Jason would tell her so, the river spoke: Forgive me. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Constantin's room had a balcony, and the balcony overlooked the river, and we could hear the hooing of the tugs down in the darkness. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

It would make pushing my stick off the river bottom harder, but I knew it would be impossible for Otto to sit still on the rocking boat without holding on to me. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

High above Sam they opened their wings and flew in tandem down the mountain over the river, up into the clouds and back to Sam. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

The ice on the river broke into great floating blocks, and gradually thinned and disappeared. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

An owl, off by the river hunting mice, uttered its muffled cry. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Slowly, stealthily, she slid her hand into the river and wiggled a finger very slowly. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

We splashed around in that cold, clear water like river nymphs, born to swim and bathe till the end of days. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

“Remember how we used to skip school and go swimming in the river?” tío Cayetano asks as he pours himself another shot. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

At the very least, the border patrol would keep an eye on that particular area of the river in case anyone else tried sneaking through that gap in the fence. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

When at last the water calmed, a bright red stain floated to the surface—growing larger until the entire river was red. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

My way ran parallel to a rapid, shallow river—the Battenkill—spanned by covered bridges here and there along its course. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Tell my family they should go and see the river without me? The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

I turned, as I always did, and looked down the slope of our hill to the green of the river, and I raised my eyes and saw the town of Guadalupe. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The river and the canoe lake dried up. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

I ran out of there and did my best to forget the conversation, but it nagged at me all the way to the river like a tooth beginning to go bad. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

I flew to the end of the drive and veered off into the dense brush on the deer path that led to the river across the crescent parcel. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

Sparkling stars flowed down the narrow river of sky the mountains allowed. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

I ask Ben, when we stop by the river to refill the bottles. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

It had been raining hard all afternoon, and the river was rushing along. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

Glittering clouds of gorgon essence struggled to re-form, but •the river pulled them apart like a blender. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Finally, in a blatant attempt to dispel my foul mood they invited me to go see Three Pennies for Wishing across the river tomorrow evening. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“Just cut from E.T. on Broadway. Life sucks, but at least I’m still named after a river, ” and we titter. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

She was no longer quite as afraid of the river. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

They pick apples and have lunch in the old apple orchard, where there’s a little cafe now, or they take picnics down to the meadow beside the river. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

Had you gotten some river water on your hand? Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

He ordered men to go out in canoes and pitch dynamite in the river, stupefying everything within earshot. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

He spent the rest of the afternoon spitting into the river, and they had to keep laughing because he kept saying, “Ugh! Awful! It tastes like poison!” Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

It was when he had thrown the shard from the first batch of ruined vases into the river in Ch’ulp’o. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

Old Dan would jump as far out as he could and practically knock the river dry. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

No, sweetheart, there won’t be a river there to fish in. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

It creaks under my feet and once I nearly pitch over into the river but I do finally make it to the boat still tied there. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

I take a good look at the surface of the river. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

“The river is messing with your mind. It’s the Cocytus—the River of Lamentation. It’s made of pure misery!” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Like the waters of the river, like the motorists on the highway, and like the yellow trains streaking down the Santa Fe tracks, drama, in the shape of exceptional happenings, had never stopped there. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

He sang like a river of fire flowed in him, like music was the only beautiful thing he owned. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

From Niflheim twelve rivers poured which flowed into the chasm and freezing there filled it slowly up with ice. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Astrea shuddered, stood still, and then began to swing sideways in the current pouring like a mighty river through the strait. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every mother on both sides of the border warns her children that La Llorona will get them if they wander too close to the river. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

When it passed, he spoke quietly, looking at the river. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

She forgot until, for a moment, she remembered only Wash’s laughter and the late-summer light through the trees by the river. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

I decided the river was my only hope. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

With the basket balanced on my hip, I wade into the river until the water reaches my knees. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

“He said, aye. He said he would take us to this three-eyed crow too. That river we crossed this morning is the same one we crossed four days ago, I swear. We’re going in circles.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

They were almost at the river, with no sign of pursuit behind them. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

“We must be close to the river,” he said. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The longest river in the world, the Nile flows through the length of Sudan, then through Egypt to the Mediterranean Sea. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like the river’s flow has swept away his every burden and worry. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

Crowded together we moved down the road like a rushing stream, ran till we reached the river, and there we stopped. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The river was accurately drawn—or seemed to be—and as near as he could figure it they’d come about eight miles. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

From this vantage point he could see through the ridgeline trees to the encampment and the river in the distance. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Ulbrickson had swapped a senior, Wink Winslow, for George Morry, as coxswain, to capitalize on Winslow’s greater experience with river rowing. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

To see his top hat floating away in a red river. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

Had they come over the common, among the shining wires, through the thunderstorm, the culverts on the great river, to die at the claws of General Woundwort? Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

On this side of the river there were only three houses. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Kanei swam to the other side of the river as fast as he could. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

I am the tears that the rivers cry! A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

Her longing was so great, she might throw herself into the river. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the river, he dropped the ham and gulped down a meal of the salty meat. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

They could see the movements of an ant walking as far away as the distant river. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

As if a great river of machinery is steaming slowly, irrevocably, toward her. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

He started down stone steps to the river, but the prince stopped him with a sudden, urgent yelp. The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z

The edge of the river was thickly forested. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Although he was certain no humans had followed him, he took off east, snaking a loose loop for half an hour before doubling back to drop down to the river. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

When Malcolm woke up to it, though, it had already become like a separate river inside the larger one. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

Soon it was following me to the river where I washed the clothes. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

The river wound into the dark forest, cutting its serpentine route into the unknown. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

North of here the kingsroad ran along the Green Fork of the Trident, through fertile valleys and green woodlands, past thriving towns and stout holdfasts and the castles of the river lords. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The family lined up near the river gate, in the shade of the big mango tree. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

When we went to the river for water, we often saw the Anyuak people, and they fascinated us. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the intense, strange light, the plants and leaves seemed magnified and the fields beyond the river very near. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

But evidence of the deadly presence of the chemicals was obtained by placing test goldfish in cages in the river; they were dead within a day. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

“Or maybe you only fight when there’s a river to dive into, so your daddy can protect you.” The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

The roads on it were marked with velvet black ink, rivers a pearly blue, mountains a speckled green. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He shouldn’t be going out there today. When he gets down by the point—he’ll fly down the river.” Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

He’d wondered where the water that fed the Ice Court’s moat and fountains came from, why the river gorge was so very deep and wide. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

The tiny men—they were no larger than medium-sized dolls—had stopped what they were doing, and now they were staring back across the river at the visitors. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z

They’ve named the river the James, in honor of King James of England, and our settlement will be called James Town. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

Many carry small Bibles, wrapped in plastic bags to keep them dry when they ford rivers or when it rains. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

The ferry sauropod let out a low, bone-chilling moan into the misty morning sky and then set off across the river. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

“Don’t want to go swimming in the river, do you?” Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

He spent hours walking up and down the river, hoping to find him. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

Swift rivers of it run along the curbs. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

The new wife found the place in the river where water was to be drawn. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

A gray heat haze hung over the river. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

The river which they had been following here joined a broader river, wide and turbulent, which flowed from their left to their right, towards the east. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

Behind it, at its broad stern, foam burst; then the river closed around the interruption and resumed its own form again, as if the boat had never been there. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

The path’s clearly been cut so men would have a place to travel down the river. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

They tell how they will get there, and they discuss the state of the river. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

We had moved to Tyhalarha by the river a few days before the actual circumcision ceremony. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even as Mark looks, Baxter’s face comes up and out of the river and the boy is breathing, spitting, screaming. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

She flew up and down the river, saw nothing moving, and returned to the one hemlock. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

The plantation that belonged to Edward Brodas, in Dorchester County, was typical of this section of Mary land, for one of its land boundaries was a river—the Big Buckwater River. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was trapped on this side of the road, away from my uncles, and the river was too flooded to swim across to the village and the safety of my grandfather’s home. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The following morning, on April 6, the four canoes were back on the river. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

The last straw that busted the wagon’s axle was when something the cap’n had said in the moonlight in the river finally made itself clear to me. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

A cement and brick pillbox had been built down by the river, right on the bend, among the sedges, destroying the nests of the teal and the gray wagtails. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

He crossed the river, found his way to the Hessian encampment at Trenton, and told the commander, Colonel Johann Rall, that he had no reason to fear an attack from the Americans. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

A flight of flickering orange birds took wing from the castle, twenty or thirty of them,- pots of burning pitch, arcing out over the river trailing threads of flame. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Depth, he decided; as if one were looking into the clear water of the river, down to the bottom, where things might lurk which hadn’t been discovered yet. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

Russell’s part was to wait on the trolley trestle that spanned the river, and when Piper passed underneath, bomb away from a bucketful of rocks. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And hast fallen into the river? Come, then, lad, and warm tha’self by the fire. Be not frighted. We’ll not hurt thee.” The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

To the south, a pall of smoke mutes the shine of the river. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Deciding to use the millrace as a path, I waded forward against the water flow, knowing it would take me to the river. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

Beau was lapping up some river water to wash down his beef jerky breakfast. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Major Reno ordered a withdrawal, into the trees along the river. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

He parked his car in a side street and walked to the embankment at the edge of a river, unsure whether he was gazing at the Ohio or the Mississippi. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

Then both of them disappeared beneath the river’s surface. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

Tally leaned forward, skimming the river low and fast, trying to leave the cold feeling in her stomach behind. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

These spirits inhabited natural objects, like rivers and mountains, including celestial bodies, like the sun and moon. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

By this time it was clear that a wave of some poisonous substance was moving down in the river water. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

“And you tried to take a picture but the camera fell in the river?” Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Traffic up and down the river, and such.” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

Once, Junior taught me how to skip a stone on a river. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

He stopped at this river and stood hesitatingly on the bank. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

I throw a stray stone into the river. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

All he could see were the distant lights of Ravenel strung like a bracelet down the river shore. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

We clean up the plate and spoon, and Sandy throws out the rest of the fish and its insides and all back into the river, the way I’d asked him to in the first place. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

The town was ringed by the river, the creek, the lakes, and numerous other springs. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Actually, it doesn’t smell like human sewage; it smells of human sewage, because whenever it rains, the sewers overflow and the collective waste of Central Indiana dumps directly into the river. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

The S-curve in the Mississippi here would give me three crossings of the river. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

He walked out in the morning and took the river path downstream. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

She flew up and down the river, looping and spiraling; finally she turned and flew to Sam’s mountain. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

After bathing in the river and eating breakfast, the men of the Roosevelt-Rondon Expedition lined up and stood at attention. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

And without remembering the steps in between or the light in the woods or the sound of the river, Naomi found herself at the back steps of Henry’s house. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

He wanted to get ready for the journey down the river. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

The only river I knew the name of around here was the Wabash, but I’d like to see a river called Styx. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

She saw him one evening walking along the river, alone, deep in thought. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

How can I tell the difference when the two rivers have run together so? The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

He looks around us again, peering thru the leaves and over the river to Doctor Snow’s house. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

After crossing the river, I hopped aboard a streetcar in passing, clinging onto the rear bars for several blocks, until it slowed at a corner. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

“But what if it’s a huge river,” I asked him once—“like the Congo, which is much broader than the reach of any vine?” The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

How he followed a river until he couldn’t go any further. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

The fool took his opportunity to escape from the cliff’s edge, heading away from Håkon and yelling as he pulled more watery missiles out of the river. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

Soon he entered one of the mill districts bordering the river. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

“Mary Webster called at the crack of dawn. Said you two were seen stark in the middle of the river last night at one o’clock!” Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

So that was where Opium’s water came from, Matt realized— a river so polluted that it could kill a whale. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

"The camp between the rivers was overrun as well," the messenger was saying. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Even though the Congo is the second longest river in the world, its breadth is almost more impressive. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

“But don’t the bridges report everyone who crosses the river?” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

“There’s no telling where they are. They may have crossed the river.” Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

If only a river could go uncrossed, and whatever lay on the other side could live as it pleased, unwitnessed and unchanged. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

To his right was a small downtown area—an almost cozy-looking cluster of towers between the banks of the river and a line of misty forested hills. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

There they asked someone how to get to the president’s house and were directed to a cove a mile back down the river. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

I glanced up and down, but there was no one in the river. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know how I did that at the river. I’m not sure I can control the cannons from this far away.” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

He felt that the Company was too naked, afloat in little open boats in the midst of shelterless lands, and on a river that was the frontier of war. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

He ran very fast away from the house, down toward the river. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

It had been at Edmure's insistence that Robb had given the river lords leave to depart after his crowning, each to defend his own lands. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“That means expanding the fields by the river. We’ll need fresh Africans for that—they know rice so well.” Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

And at the moment the sun came over the edge of the horizon, they suddenly appeared on the riverbank, the Ka’t’sina approaching the river crossing. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

I had felt warm river sand on my bare feet and had smelled crocodiles. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It shows the river rolling lazily between meadowy fields dotted with trees and farms, against a distant backdrop of sere hills, notched with a V where the river passes through. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

A few months prior, Kermit had been standing on a steel beam that was being hoisted over the river gorge when the crane slipped. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

As the pilgrims reached the greenish-brown river, they walked right into the water. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

He started counting, measuring the river as it turned through each five-kilometer square, marking each ten kilometers in the dirt with a line through it, then the next set of ten. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z