Outside our village the elephant grass grows so tall it meets above the road to make a shady tunnel. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Unfortunately, the road ahead is full of trials and tribulations. You have angered the witch and now you must pay for your transgressions.” Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

While Scythe Faraday always reviewed his notes on his chosen subject and used public transportation, Scythe Curie had an old-school sports car that required substantial skill to drive—especially on a winding mountain road. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

She crossed the bridge, passed through the village, and followed a little dirt road east along the river until she reached the Mihaylov house. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

The gravel road was getting narrower as we approached the bottom of the hill. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

From our condo, Jeremy’s house is about five minutes away: walk down one straight, main road, turn left and then right, onto a quiet, leafy street. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

They were too close to the road, he said, but had made good time. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

“I hope the roads will be okay,” he says. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Then the road would round a corner and there would be a small, perfect field of golden wheat tucked among the trees, or nestled into a valley surrounded by dark stone bluffs. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Now there were only two roads he could take, or that God would allow him to take. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

“The roads will open in a day or two. We will leave early so we can stop in Abba and then get to Nsukka before dark.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Mama’s told them they can have this house as she wants to build a more convenient “modem” one on the main road. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

They came out of the woods onto the road north of town. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

Twice in the first two hours we had to duck off the side of the road when we saw a black-and-white moving toward us in the distance. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

He took the road for Cambridge, crossing desolate Charlestown Common with its salt marshes, clay pits, gallows, and gibbet. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was no other road marked DETOUR, so obviously the only thing to do was to turn around and go back about five miles to the last town and take the regular highway. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

In pain, half starved, with a tapeworm and an eye infection, he collapsed on the road to town and was taken to the infirmary by a kindly widow. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

To get to it, one took a rutted, uphill dirt track that branched off the main road between Herat and Gul Daman. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

I’m almost at the station, just passing the Crown, when I feel a hand on my arm and I wheel around, slipping off the pavement and into the road. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

A short way on either side of our village the road falls into a frenzy of hard dirt ruts that look like ocean waves frozen solid in the middle of a tempest. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

"That's for the Old Bear to say, the one you call the Lord Crow. I'm only his squire. I do not choose the road I ride." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

We walked on the pebbled road as the sun set behind the mountains. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

They watch with cameras and agents in white sport-utility vehicles who patrol back and forth along a dirt road on top of a steep embankment along the far side. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Moreover, the fact that Kang was on the road so early meant that he wished to reach the kiln before anyone else. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

As his canoe tapped against the overpass, he could see that there were ten or more animals, the same ones he’d seen before and a few others, in various positions on the road. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

But I knew it wasn’t cowardice that sent Travis flying down the road. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

He came upon a large iron fence that stretched along the road. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

There wasn’t much traffic on that road at night. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Wide Lancelot was riding along a straight road which seemed to lead nowhere, he saw two people galloping towards him from the other end. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was all Arya could do to get out of the road before they ran her down, four guardsmen on huge horses, pounding past at a gallop. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The road left the green valley at once, and we were up in the hills again. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

Wagons had gouged chasms across paths, roads, and would-be lawns. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

“But, Bear,” I said, “the steward tried to kill me. Twice. And when I was hiding in the woods, he came along the road. I’m sure he was searching for me.” Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes Master went with them to the Rising Sun Bar down the road. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

The church rose up from the dust of the road, huge brown granite blocks rose skyward to hold the bell tower and the cross of Christ. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

He raised both hands from the wheel and waved them at me, demonstrating just how “here” he was, before remembering the rules of the road and grabbing the wheel. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

She did a quick maneuver to avoid a squirrel on the winding road. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Outside the city, there are houses for a while, but then it turns into wide flat land on either side of a road that goes into infinity. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

When she reached this spot in the road? Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

Beyond, the road flattened out and I saw woods and steep hills in the mist. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

Eva dodged a man on a bicycle and pointed across the road. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

The crematorium “In-charge” had gone down the road for a cup of tea and didn’t come back for twenty minutes. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

But Poppy acted as if their modern apartment on the Ramallah road was still surrounded by shepherds. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

He glanced down the road in the direction of the store. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

‘But do not wander from your road. What of the third turning?’ The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

East is the ranch driveway, which gradually becomes a winding road, descending, leading to town, thirty miles away. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

They wheeled the cart through the back streets and across the railroad tracks and came into the main road again at the far edge of the town. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

Maybe she’s planning a road trip, using the map to imagine routes. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

The road seemed endless and the few people they saw would not stop to speak to them. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

When taxpayers understand that the bill for spraying the town roads should come due only once a generation instead of once a year, they will surely rise up and demand a change of method. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

She pointed out the open window to the little green stalks growing on either side of the road. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

“I drove a bit farther into the wood, off the road. There was no one around. I had to dig . . .” His breathing is shallower still, quickening. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I saw a whole family, a father and mother and three children, lying on the road to the motor park. Just lying there.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

It sprayed a blinding sheet of rainwater that washed over Cade’s windshield and nearly swept us from the road. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

Now the road passing about the skirts of Mindolluin turned southward. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

I slid over the stone wall and began to run crouched over toward the stone wall at the other side of the field which bordered the road. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’s three years older than me and great-looking, tall with wavy blond hair, finishing LSU law school, protected by a hundred and seventy miles of badly paved roads. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

As he spoke, I pictured the dusty gravel road by his house. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

The village’s single dirt road skirts our yard and runs past us into the village to the south; on the north it disappears into the woods. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The truck rolls away from the waiting area and onto a bumpy narrow road crossing the mountains. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then the old man, who had been sleeping, awoke, and they gave him a bowl and the four of them went out on the road to beg. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

They stood at the western end of the valley, where the high road crested the last pass and began its winding descent to the bottomlands two miles below. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

She stares at a bus lurching across the road. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

“You heard them. This will go like it has gone before. We will hope no one tries to enter our homes. And the roads are where you die.” Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

Behind her she heard a horse on the road. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

He loaded them into a crate and onto a handcart and trundled them out of the library, through the front gates, and down the long road that spiraled around Zosimos Ridge. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

But unlike the roads in Robert Frost’s familiar poem, they are not equally fair. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

And so they feasted to their heart’s content, until the prince of charioteers commanded: “Sons, harness the blood mares for Telemakhos; hitch up the car, and let him take the road.” The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Rabbi,” I exclaim, “the roads are all closed! I can’t get there!” Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

Ocean was trying to be nice, sure, but I knew that his sudden sympathetic heart was born only of awkward guilt, and that this was a road that would lead to nowhere. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Twice on the road we see men with horse-drawn carts. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

Voices echoed up the road from the village. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

As he raced across the yard, however, their tires caught and, jolting clear of the gooey rut, the car plunged down the road. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

She knew that she might be found asleep by the side of the road, and brought back immediately. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Diego sat on the rusted hood and traced lines in the dirt, while I kicked at the gravel on the side of the road. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

You could drive a sled over the snow anywhere you wanted without paying attention to where the roads were. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybeth and Dicey crossed the dirt road from the playground and found the path to the small campground. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was little sign of the level going down, but the banks weren’t giving way and the roads were dry, so people thought the worst was over. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

As a result the community lost the blue and golden beauty of its autumn roads, where asters and goldenrod would have made a display worth traveling far to see. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

“Go ahead. I wish I had a road atlas for you. The roads in it wouldn’t exist in those days but it might show you the easiest way through the country.” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

We made it to the petrol station out at the road, ran through there, and hooked left up the main road. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Since my return, I seen there was more cars and even more paved roads. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I would stop beside the road and let him wander, and turn my back on him in kindness. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

The line was so long that it wound all around the big, grassy courtyard, all around the tall barbed-wire fence and snaked all the way down the wide, tarred road. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Many of their tanks and trucks were parked along our quiet little road. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

Finally he got them to the side of the road, where they sat and shivered and spit up mud clods. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

On the shoulder of the road stood a man in khaki shorts and a purple camp shirt. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Now this narrow road looks like the black tongue of a great beast of fire about to swallow us. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

A chain of Israeli military tanks lumbered up the road. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

He waves his flashlight forward and says quickly, “Be careful on the roads, we have a lot of end-of-the-school-year and graduation parties going on.” A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

There are thousands of cars speeding along the roads and the sun turns everything to gold. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t speak to him now, here, on the road. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

Somehow, in our excitement, our two cars lost each other on the road. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

After an hour, the bus went from the highway to the Thruway, then—an hour later—off a sharp exit to a two-lane road, then to a gravel road, and then to a dirt road. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

The car was just where they’d left it, and in a moment they were on their way again as the road turned away from the sea and began its long climb into the mountains. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

Several letter writers complained that Orson Welles and his cohorts intentionally misled the public by naming actual towns, roads, and government agencies. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

They sped along at a pace that frightened her, but the thunder of their wheels on the hard road and the beat of their scudding feet made her exhilarated enough to ignore the discomfort. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Teams of woodland carpenters, Abbey smiths and laborers, plus any creatures that felt the need to help were lowered down to the road in large wickerwork baskets. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

A signpost that I was on the right road. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The road was already going to dust and the dust was rising, and there was nothing to see ahead but troops in the dust toiling upward toward the crest of a divide. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“How long you been on the road, chile?” she asked. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ms. Rosalie gives me a Freeze Cup for the road, red syrup glistening on the top. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

When I came back up the road, Mr. Dubonnet and Tom were inspecting the rocket with the other boys clustered around him. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

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

But the Navy Yard Bridge will take him into the quiet backcountry of Maryland, home to smugglers and back roads. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

The slightest breach in decorum would find the perpetrator kicked off on the side of the road, no matter where we were. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

The directions I had simply said to head down the Interstate, take a particular exit, find a certain road, and turn left. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Cold moved over him when the headlights turned, bigger now, visibly weaving down the road; he could hear the hum of the engine now. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

When she scoots down the road, not a one of them falls out. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The only sign of civilization is a small log cabin and a long dirt road that curves out of sight. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

Eventually the road takes you to London, but London is a whole night's drive from Wall. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

All about them now, as if there had been a sudden flood, wide pools of water lay beside the road, filling the hollows, and rills went trickling down among the stones. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

My mom looks at my dad, his eyes fixed on the road, and then she joins in. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

A single van passed me, and then the road was empty. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

She was out taking down the wash from the line when she saw Wash come ambling up the road. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Eventually, there were deserts and more forests and mountain ranges and even an ocean, all accessible by large networks of roads that unwound this way and that, like great spools of yarn. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

At midday, the children stopped when they caught sight of farmhouses a small distance from the main road. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

On the side of the road, a field stretched out like green bed linen, dotted by mango trees with faded leaves struggling to retain their color against the drying wind. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

When we reached the first of Grampa’s fields, I steered the truck onto a dirt road and let it roll to a stop alongside the edge of the cotton rows. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

I watched it turn off to take the road to Spain. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

They were at the very bottom of the hill, across the narrow road that led to the entrance of his grandparents’ property. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

It had a good gravel bottom, so I drove through the water till I got around the wreck, then went up the slanted red-clay bank and got back to the road. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

We haven’t gone a mile when we see a dirt road on our left with no street sign to tell us its name. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

We did not know, as yet, which was the better side, right or left, which road led to prison and which to the crematoria. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Parts of the road have blind curves that scare her. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Instead they complained that the roads were bad and getting worse. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

He held P. T. and waved as the dusty little Italian car turned into the main road. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

He’s not the best driver, but he’s competent, and keeps his eyes glued to the road. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

And so you agree—you walk with the stranger along the hot, dusty roads, picking up other recruits, who hear the same story. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

The next time they stopped, he told them that he had to go find the county road. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

It took about ten or fifteen real, decent jumps for one to make it to the other shoulder, where they disappeared into the thicket of tall grass edging the road. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

She reached down to help him stand, but he remained in the dirt of the road. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

But would she be just as understanding when he asked her to pull off the side of the road? We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

There the path joined up with a larger road going west, overland, toward the capital. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

He picked the mast up and put it on his shoulder and started up the road. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Their roads took them around the town rather than through its center. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

After a while, without saying anything, I went to the side of the road and lay down on a pile of damp leaves between the tall, buttressed roots of a kapok tree. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Far away a figure came slowly down the road, faint and small at first, but growing larger and clearer as it approached. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Only when the road went uphill did the country on both sides turn green again. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Unlike southern Sudan, it seemed that here in America every road was paved. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

“They have hairless wings, and they fly low and fast. They do not visit this world, but they fly the red skies above the road to Ghulheim.” The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

All day long, using only axes and chains, they pulled out tree stumps to make way for a road. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

She made her entrance the day after my parents’ car crashed through a guard rail on the skinny road that climbed the ravine over Quake Lake. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

All day she prayed, “Lord, I’m going to hold steady on to You—” There was always danger on the road, always the unexpected, but the Lord had never failed her. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

There's only one road down the mountain, and it won't be long before I catch up to him. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

In all bold, Terryl wrote: Please be aware that rain is falling and the roads are slick and wet. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

A truck horn beeps and we move off the road. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

They lay their machetes down on the side of the road, out of the way. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

On the way back I picked some flowers, some wild roses that grow beside the road, and at home I put them in a vase and took them to his room. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

The road on this side of the valley is wider and we’re doing our best to keep to the darker side of it as it twists and turns up the hill. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

Now, the roads were more like flat fern and moss-choked paths. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

I see us yet, chasing the setting sun down the ribbon of road between the bean rows, in the ’!• A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

He seemed to know the way and never hesitated when the road branched or passed any turning. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

The Chevy rolled smoothly across a viaduct and up the narrow tar road. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

I didn’t remember the road being so long. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

“One of those hotels one passes on the road.” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

I closed the gate behind me and walked out onto the pavement and down the road. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

She’s wondering if the hope at the end of our road is just as false as the one that was at the end of my ma’s. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

They turned off the road into the bush at the side, and walked slowly through a clearing in the trees, pushing their way through the tangled undergrowth at the far end. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then he called to the men walking up the road, "Get the hell out of the General's road. General Pershing's coming through. Make way for General Pershing!" Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were barricades on the main roads leading into the ruins. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Liam smiled at the dark road, keeping the minivan’s headlights off. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

And then across the road, the strawberry door on the sunlight-shuttered house opened, and a tiny, frail bird of a woman stepped out. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

Seventy years a worry done put so many lines in his face, he like a road map. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

If I wanted to know anything about Henrietta, he told me, I’d need to go up the road and talk to her cousin Cliff, who’d grown up with her like a brother. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

The roads were always bad, of course, in the same way that winter was always cold. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The children were enthralled by the colorful blooms and left the road to walk in the field. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

"It would seem he has met some trouble on the road. My lord father is quite vexed. You would not perchance have any notion of who might have wished my brother ill, would you?" A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Ms. Griegson’s orange pickup was parked on the old dirt road at the base of the fir tree. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

Pedaling down Maxwell Street, I took care to stay away from the hansom cabs and wagons that rushed through the road as though they were racing to see who could mow down the most pedestrians. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

But the effort stirs the black, wet road to a mire, and when he starts up the car again, it won’t move. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mike Carmichael and his wife are expecting me because I called them from the road. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

As darkness fell around us, the road twisted through dense forest for several miles until it came to a short, narrow bridge with room for only one car to pass. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

So the put on one of her bought dresses and went up the new-cut road all dressed in wine-colored red. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

In the silver chill of the Maine afternoon, as I bucketed and lumbered over the pitted surface of a wood road, I saw four lady mooses moving with stately heaviness across my bow. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

We take a bumpy dirt road through the woods and I get a little nervous, because if we break down out here, there’s nothing around for miles. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

My entire world had shrunk down to the frayed margins of the sodden road. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

The road was crowded with carriages pulled by wildeyed horses that crashed into each other as everyone fought to escape. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

As we drove deeper south, down dark highways and even darker back roads, I felt like Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Milo got in and, with one last look, started down the road, with everyone waving him on. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

When they got to the curve in the road the man was still standing there. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

When he saw them he veered to the side of the road and turned and stood warily. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

“We’ll be all right. There are travelers on the road—just not many. And we’re such a small group that we shouldn’t attract too much attention.” Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Then beyond where the road was not protected by the hills it was screened by matting on the sides and over the top. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

In a blink, he was across the dark yard and flying toward the main road. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

For the most part the road lay low among the hills, winding in and out, following the river. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

We approached a mound on the side of the road. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

At the age of ten, he entered his first running competition, a ten-kilometer road race. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

If you are standing down the road, the cart is traveling at right angles to your line of sight. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were trucks and motor vehicles carving tracks in the road, which froze overnight and then turned to mud again during the day. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Almost no one passed on the road in winter except to buy flour at the store far down the road or to go to the town of a Saturday. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

He sorted out two he thought questionable and packed away the rest and packed the cart and they set out upon the road again. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

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

The back door of the truck was left open so we could breathe, but people had to hang on for their lives and be careful not to tumble out onto the road. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Then all at once the road came out of the woods and Laura saw the lake. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

There are several gardens with gigantic palm trees lined up along the whole road. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

On the silent road Caesar and Cora nestled among Fletcher’s crates. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Dedd worries this woman will never find her way back to the main road in the dark. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I looked up the road toward the tipple and saw the people coming back. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

The sound was faint at first, but after a short time they could hear plainly the beat of hooves on the hard-packed road. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

We followed our map to Abomey, and luckily the road to it was still there. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

We turn down another road and head into an area dense with trees. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

One road seemed to go off toward the west, the other road continued north. Stuart Little 1945-10-17T00:00:00Z

“It certainly couldn’t be a nicer day,” agreed Milo, who was too busy looking at the road to see that the others had gone. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

Where three roads meet, there she is standing. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

The only dry road through the Neck was the causeway, and the towers of Moat Cailin plugged its northern end like a cork in a bottle. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“We swam in the Roman swimming pool, we bicycled over country roads, we drove occasionally in the Stutz Bearcat belonging to a young bachelor engineer,” she remembered. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

The rush south, the endless forced marches, the bodies left beside the road ... all for naught. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Thinking that I must run away from him, I flung myself across a row of thornbushes by the road. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

The three of us got in her car, and she began driving down a narrow, dusty road. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

When we break out of the woods onto our road, he spins around. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

My tiny entourage’s cheers faded as I continued down the main road toward my next stop and one of my favorite hangouts, the public library. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

When she and Lou divorced, they sold their home and each of them moved into a town house—in the same development, across a road and about a three-minute walk from each other. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

I looked round in search of another road. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

I asked him hopefully, viewing the tall grass and underbrush between the road and the mounds. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

It was the silence from the speakers that unnerved me, more than the deserted roads or the empty shells of repossessed houses. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

They were just beginning to scramble out, when suddenly they heard what they had all been dreading: hoofs on the road ahead. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

There was no sign of the Devil on the manor road or in the woods on either side. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

I take the .22 rifle Dad had given me in March on my eleventh birthday and set out up the road to see what I can shoot. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

The town up the road was overcome by yellow fever, he said. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

The dog dashed along the road, leaving three-pointed clouds of red dust to settle back to earth behind him. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Against the wan walls and the luminous pavement of the road Frodo could see them, small black figures in rank upon rank, marching swiftly and silently, passing outwards in an endless stream. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Evidently some spray had drifted across the road into the pasture, for the sheep began to show symptoms of intoxication almost at once . Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Smears of trees and undergrowth lined a road that was completely dark, save for the small car’s weak yellow headlights. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

As Princesse crossed the dusty road, she could hear the men shouting. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

The narrow upper way on which Sam stood leapt swiftly down by stair and steep path to meet the main road under the frowning walls close to the Tower-gate. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

Suddenly and incomprehensibly to us in our carefree state—just around a curve, a car was parked across the road. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sun was just past noon as she sat by the road to take a drink of water. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

A tank blocks the width of the road. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

So without looking back they rode the mountain-fields, until they came to a bridge over the growing torrent and found a road that went down into the land. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

It looks like the little white girl I saw along the side of the road a few days back. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

One day Marly was on the way home from school and saw Mother coming to meet her down the road. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

Ruth had asked some passer-by where Pilate lived and was directed to a lean brown house set back from the unpaved road. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Having negotiated the ditch, they charged across the road. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Then they went down the drive and set out upon the road again. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

I learned that Americans drove on the right side of the road, not the left, and that they called a lift an elevator and an engaged phone busy. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

They hiked out along the dirt road and along a hill where a house had once stood. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

My eyes were on the road, so I wasn’t sure if he’d addressed me or Ruth. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was coastal flooding, which meant that the low lying highways and many side roads and ramps would be closed. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

He sat behind the wheel, glaring at the road as if it had wronged him. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Several hours later, they were out of the city walking on dirt roads with thousands of other people. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

We kept to the paths that serve as roads in Southern Sudan. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had to get permits, fill out dozens of forms, and organize plane flights and car transport in a region where there were no airports or roads. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

The road winds up the rugged mountains, and as the sun rose my mood lifted. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

From Mama’s house on the main road, her sisters must have seen Jaimito’s pickup drive away without her and hurried to come over and pay Dede this surprise visit. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He walked down to the end of the loft and looked out the high gable window at the country below, the pieced land dead and gray, the fence, the road. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

Masvita would cry because her spirit might be wandering along the dark roads. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

He unshackled her, tossed her body to the side of the road, and spat upon it. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Will’s father would often be on the road for days, sometimes weeks. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

Like a brainless terrier, Finn chased the car down the road until it vanished in the darkness. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

Some story people he wouldn’t be afraid of if he met them on the road. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

He stood in the middle of the road, looked one way, then the other. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

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

Derrick—with a braid almost as long as mine hanging over his neck and dangling like a vine—was in a pine straight across the road from where I was perched in sticky balsam. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

What time I didn’t spend studying or in the Archives I spent on the road to Imre, braving the coming winter wind, if not looking for its name. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Finally they just sat by the side of the road and stared at what was before them. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

On the other was a dirt and gravel road that led through an open field, treeless, with high yellow grass. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

At noon they stopped by the side of the road to eat steamed bread stuffed with salty pork. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Granny Smith pulled onto the road and cruised slowly away from the green Chevy. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Pulling off the main road, we glide through a tall wall of neatly trimmed evergreens, then crunch our way up a pebbled driveway. Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

He heard the first cannon: Calef’s Battery opening up down the road, grinned again. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’d dropped his backpack and picked up a stone from the side of the road. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z

‘For there may be more roads than one that could bear that name. But I did not say that I would bid you ride with me on any road. Good night!’ The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

I asked when we got on the road. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Ahead, a snarl of pushcarts and wagons clogged the road. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

There being two of us had slowed them down, but we was heading down the same road. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

We pass a military truck heading in the opposite direction from us, but other than that there are very few cars on the road. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

We tore through the night along dark country roads. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

“We’ll start the runway at the cornfield and that leads to the dirt road out to the long pasture so we’ll get about enough distance to take off.” Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

When the moon came out again we could see white villas on the shore on the slopes of the mountain and the white road where it showed through the trees. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

“Are you saying you want to road trip to Athens?” Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

Grandpa pulls up behind a road grader, and the five of us get out and approach the garage. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

The boughs in the fir trees hung heavy with it, the fence rails and mailboxes wore mantles of it, the road before him lay filled with it, and there was no sign, anywhere, of people. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Finally, all movement and motion in town broke down; the roads became blocked by stuck vehicles. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Up here the land was harsh and wild, and the high road little more than a stony track. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Not until we got back to the road. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

We were all down on the road around the car. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

They could hear the noise of it as they came around the curve in the road. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

The main road turned inland, away from the river. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

The truck bounces from highway to country road to dirt lane. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Two days after leaving Ento, the road narrowed and became packed dirt instead of paving stones. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

A warm soft drizzle was falling over the parched meadows and dry woodland, bringing relief after the hot dry day, damping down the dust from the road. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

They went through the woods, along an old road, called a rolling road, though she did not know it. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’d call it a road, but there are no cars in the camp—at least none that we’re allowed to drive. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

Instead of scrambling back through the brush, we decided we’d take the narrow path behind Horn Rock down to the main boathouse road. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

They would be driving down a two-lane road, some back highway, the kind Mia favored: the kind that wove its way through small towns composed of a store and a cafe and a gas pump. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

But it was too difficult and he sat there with the mast on his shoulder and looked at the road. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Between roads the woods and plains moved too; the land was peopled—the Han people, the People of One Hundred Surnames, marching with one heart, our tatters flying. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Cate’s eyes were focused only on the road in front of us. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

She reached them just in time: her friend Atal was waiting, and as Mary scrambled on her back, Atal beat the road with her feet, speeding away up the slope after her companions. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

We could see the glow from the U-Haul’s taillights and the road we’d come down, stretching back through the silvery desert. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

But I managed to keep running after the bus for a long way and I crossed 6 side roads before it turned down another street and I couldn’t see it anymore. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

If the sign is in the wrong place, you end up on the road to nowhere. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I imagined the proud man going into exile step by step, a small trudging figure on the long road west to the Gulf. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

For six hours we rode on and on along the dusty road, passing several villages on the way to ours, which was a good distance away. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

I think I know—we see it around us every day—the spiritual wasteland to which that road leads. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

The classroom quieted, and several of the boys lowered their gazes to the floor in a quiet signal that they understood: if you keep getting beat up on the same road, take a different road. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

The car swerved off the road and slammed into the side of an overpass. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

The trees edged in and threatened to claim the very road. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

You’d go a good long road before you’d find a man, and he very old, who wished to bring back a golden past. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

We have been on the road for eighteen days now and our food ration is getting smaller with each passing day. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The roads were passable if you were patient and paid attention. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

I had thought of making the trip to Anilin and tracking her down, of meeting her by chance on the road again, of her coming to find me at the University. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I decided to take the road less traveled because I knew it would be better in the long run. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Lee knew if he didn’t defend Petersburg, the road to the Confederate capital of Richmond would be wide open. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

They galloped across a wooden bridge, a dark creek, then up a narrow farm road. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

We went, the three of us, to the quarry, joining the bedraggled groups of workers toiling along the winding, muddy road. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

The nightmare city of Ghulheim sat on a high rocky outcrop ahead of them, and the creatures loped down the road towards it. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

And he was going to ask his father where Sounder came to him along the road when he wasn’t more’n a pup. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

And she let go of the boy’s arm and headed toward the black road. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

The Suggs, who lived two hundred yards down the road, brought her a warm bowl of peas, as soon as they found out, and a plate of cold bread. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Saturday morning I meet The Red Hearts of Limerick and we wander out the road looking for a football challenge. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

And on the third day of wandering, somebody shot at the four from far away—shot four times as they crossed a narrow brick road. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

I held my own bag close, ran out of the school gates, and jogged across the road toward the tree. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

He takes an exit off the highway, and I tense up because he's going a little too fast when he makes a sharp turn onto another road. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

As he stepped out onto the road to his house, he could hear the loud engine noise of approaching vehicles. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

Ahead of the radiator's gleaming curve they looked like a chain gang on its way to make a road. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

How can it matter if I leave one little tap running, one little light burning, one little piece of litter on the road? My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

Mom drove slowly up the dirt road, away from the marina. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

Ihe sylvan fields, forests, and shores had been mowed down, paved over, and built up with roads, bridges, hospitals, boatyards, jails, and military bases, cities in and of themselves. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Since its last paving, the ten- or fifteen-mile-long road in question seemed to have been at the epicenter of an earthquake. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

When we finally found a road heading west, we took it. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

He pointed to the roads that left gaps between the grey buildings. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The town roads have been plowed, so we have no trouble crossing Chokecherry. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

I stayed in the right lane, letting people pass me, and focused on keeping the car steady even though I was practically shaking with the thrill of being out on the road like we were. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

Shirley thanked the man with a low bow, then hurried across the road, blushing. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

Then the road was clean-packed snow and led through the woods, and twice coming home in the evening, we saw foxes. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

No homes can be seen from the road; tall scrubby bushes obscure the view. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

I think that must be a hallucination, because when I look into the furnace of the road up ahead, all I see is smoke and flames. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

It is not a road on which I can picture Allys walking. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

When the road grew quiet, she tore open the lining of her dress, and stuffed jewelry under the shirt of one baby and money under the other. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then the four remaining soldiers ushered every single one of the prisoners out of the bus and made them lie down side by side on their faces in the middle of the road. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

The green ninja slid off the road and disappeared in the dark grass. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

“Looks creepy,” Fina murmurs, staring down the narrow, gravel road with piles of dead leaves strewn across it. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

Snow fell on us most days, and the dirt road we walked on was frozen when we were lucky, freezing slush when we were not. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

Then they turned south again, following a dirt road through open woods and into a marshy area fringing Lake Washington. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

“A group of children were seen along the road this morning,” the wight said, his voice clipped, accent obscure—not quite English, not quite German. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

The Constitution contained no provision that committed the newly created federal government to a policy of gradual emancipation, or in any clear sense placed slavery on the road to ultimate extinction. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

Astonished, he sat down in the flooded road and watched while I plunged into the swirling, muddy water. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

It was a lovely day and we drove out through the park and out along the tramway and out of town where the road was dusty. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

I broke into a run down the road. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

As on the riverbank, Blackberry had moved away and was already down on the road on his own account, sniffing out toward the middle, halfway between Hazel and the bend. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nothing but a flat road and dry grass. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Behind them the road dropped down the gray shale hill to the clay flats of the valley. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

The road to the stars was a rough one, and the Apollo team needed no reminder of the risk. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

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

The road ran straight and broad until it came to the water. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

After the bus bounced back onto the road, Maribel just stood in the middle of the parking lot in the drizzling rain. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

His house, which the slaves called the Big House, stood near a country road. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

And a brownwebbed mesh of hairline cracks, like the road map of some great, intricate city. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

It would take many days, over unfamiliar mountains where there might not even be a path to follow, much less a road. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

I can see Grace and Carol and Cordelia, along the road towards Grace’s house. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

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

No, Pax would be waiting at the side of the road, right where they’d left him. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Sometimes just one man would be standing by the side of the road selling one girl. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

After driving for about five miles, the contratista pulled over to the side of the road and motioned us to park behind him. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

They drove home, talking about it, traveling north on the road that led to Thurmont along the foot of Catoctin Mountain. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then there is a rutted dirt road, followed by a narrow mud and clay trail that zigzags upward. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Cesar, a Doberman pinscher guard dog that had a soft spot for me, started barking and tugging at my diapers, trying to drag me off the road. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

We drove on along the straight main road. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Down that road lay fear, but the deal was that we went anyway, together. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

All he wanted now as they followed the path away from the road was to forget about the leg. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

The countryside was lush and well cared for, but what surprised me was how many white families were standing beside the road to get a glimpse of our motorcade. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We could have walked here,” I said when Diego parked on the side of the beach road. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

So I went on, and when I came to where the wagon road turned off I could see the tire tracks. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

There are several of the places we went on our road trip across the countryside. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

And then just like she used to, my mom slams down on the accelerator, and we shoot down the road. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

One weathered old hobo told the preacher that if he wanted more pilgrims on that road to heaven, they should pave it with pork and beans instead of onion soup. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

Outside Lewiston, we found our first bit of hope in a little Baptist church set back from the road in a bunch of tall pines. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z

And this was the shape of the roads between Willesden Junction and Chapter Road. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

And when he did, I stood on the road and shouted up at him, “Kirkwood?” The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

She isn’t there, swinging her legs or grinning with her too-big teeth, so I keep walking the road until it takes me up the hill and back down again. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

I had sense enough not to take no shortcuts and stuck to the road so’s I could at least see the hoop snake hunting party if I ran up on it. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

We passed some lovely gardens and had a good look back at the town, and then we were out in the country, green and rolling, and the road climbing all the time. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

I was glad to avoid the road, though. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

We had been on the road for a little over an hour, and so far so good. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

As she said that I looked straight over the top of her head and down the road. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

The Christmas decorations are on the roofs and all over the wide and tall trees that tower over the curving roads. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

She said, "If you don't like the road you're walking, start paving another one." The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

‘They may suffer me to pass,’ said Aragorn; ‘but at the least I will adventure it. No other road will serve.’ The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

It had been dry too long for even an all-night rain to leave the dirt of Parker Head muddy, and Turner ran down the road and up into the woods. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

The roads would be covered with debris, impassable for days. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

They dropped the bicycles and sat by a ditch beside the road. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

While Honeyman was selling meat to the British and Hessians, he was gathering information—the location of camps, the number of troops, the roads without sentries. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Along the way, sharecropping families came down to the road to wave and offer food. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then we saw a horse ambulance stopped by the road. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

He walked to the road and turned left, headed for the south end of the valley. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

Two dirt roads ending in cul-de-sacs had been cut into the dusty ground, although the roads had eroded so much I could barely see their outlines. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

I pushed some tall weeds aside and jumped over the shallow ditch that ran along the edge of the road. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

“But maybe not one of those big road maps, though,” said Aru. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

The shoe poet stopped and thumped his stick against the icy road. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Then at the top of the hill, the road forks. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

She would die on the road, on that old slave road that ran straight on down into the deep South. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then Nathaniel, coming back down the road on a run, slipped the rope from the mooring and as they pulled away from the wharf leaped nimbly to his place with the crew. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

A carriage trundled by on the road and Lentaren stepped out of the way, incidentally brushing up against Denna as he moved. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

When the servants finished their work and the silk lay smoothly on the road, an old man came walking down it, leaning on a stick. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

He waved, took off his hat to wipe his head and face on the sleeve of his homespun shirt, replaced his hat, and made his way across the field to the road. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

There’s not a lot of good news on the road. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

“Jesus! This road is a mess,” he fumed, turning the radio off so he could concentrate. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

I see the road that leads to the laundromat and the park where I broke my arm on the monkey bars. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

There is one road from Wall, a winding track rising sharply up from the forest, where it is lined with rocks and small stones. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

Down the road came twenty or thirty tired and ragged men. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Each time they approached the grove of pine trees where the asphalt loop met the main road, she leaned forward, pinning all her weight against the brake as cars hurtled past. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

Soon’s I led him out of the stable he started off on the road that runs through the main part of the Settlement. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

Water beside the road was frozen solid, and people moved about with shawls and sweaters wrapped around their ears. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were posters nailed to the trees all along the road. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

On both sides of the road the trees were changing color. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

He straightens, returning his full attention to the road, but continues to rub my shoulder. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

By 1955, Paramount would be desperate to exit the field; Ernest, feeling duty-bound to help his financial partner reduce its exposure to losses, went on the road to help Paramount find a buyer. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

It was like we were at a fork in the road, and she was letting me decide which path to take. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

She glances back toward the house and the car and the road, then smiles up at me. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

One day in the trading center, more than three hundred Gule Wamkulu appeared on the road carrying empty coffins, promising to fill them with anyone who didn’t support the Life President. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

Gogol goes for runs around the lake with Gerald, arduous laps along steep hilly dirt roads, so infrequently traveled that they can occupy the dead center. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

It took me and Grandpa both to push the car onto the road, after which we just stood there looking at it. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

I was five or six at the time, I could barely read, but regardless, my dad gave me this impromptu geography lesson in preparation for an upcoming road trip or something. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

She turned the truck off the pavement, and they were back on the bumpy dirt road. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Just as we were rounding the curve—on that stretch where the house shows the most from the road, I glanced up. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I have but a field or two to traverse, and then I shall cross the road and reach the gates. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

So, you see, finally we know the kind of problems we have to solve, which is the first step on the road to finding solutions. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

Between me and Lewiston was the treacherous road with its hairpin turns that twisted back and forth down the mountain. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

Milkman stepped off the porch, scattering the hens, and walked down the road toward a clump of trees near a building that looked like a church or clubhouse of some sort. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

The tenant had to pay the taxes and build and maintain the roads. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Seldom had he remembered it on the road, until they came to Morgul Vale, and never had he used it for fear of its revealing light. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Between Shin and the houses, there were two men on the road. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

At the bottom of the field they crashed through a stand of dead cane and out into the road and crossed into the woods on the far side. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

Did the shotgun blast a hole in the road? Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

That long road, her life, which she had followed for sixty groaning years, had led her at last to her mother’s starting-place, the altar of the Lord. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

And then the camera shows the flatbed drivers parking alongside the road and getting out and going home, and the news switches to a fire in the city. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

It roared to life and we swerved backward, spinning around to face the winding road. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

No sign of Haven ahead neither but we’re at the flattest point of the valley and can’t see much past the twists in the road either before us or back. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

They had to climb up a set of steps, through the roads of this small town. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Scuttling off down the road in the wrong direction, he had kept on going in a state of funk. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

There’s a small dock and a really low bridge connecting the wide path that comes from the center of Carbonel Downs to the river road that goes along on the other side. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

By the time I struggled through the midday crowd and caught up with him, we were on the northern edge of the University, following a wide dirt road that led into the forest. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

They came upon him shuffling along the road before them, dragging one leg slightly and stopping from time to time to stand stooped and uncertain before setting out again. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

He stood up then, silently; and crouched low, he threaded his way through the brush toward the road. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every jolt in the road dropped my Adam’s apple another notch in my neck. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

In a cloud of dust, an old jeep clattered down the road. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

We lurch forward, narrowly avoiding a gaping hole in the road. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

I grin like it’s not a big deal, but while I walk down the dusty dirt road, I can’t think about anything else. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

The wagon road had twisted down into a shallow coulee. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

We went up the street, on the shady side, where the shadow of the broken facade blotted slowly across the road. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

And then he began to drive very quickly, and after that there was the dirt road and the woods and we jumped out of the car and began to run. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

“UNDEFEATED!” blared a sign on the plywood road- runner. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

And there, standing on the road, was the man from the night before, the man in the yellow suit, his black hat on his head. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Organization was necessary, because the “road to Socialism” quickly became a battlefield. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was light at the end of the road, and they pulled into a bulldozed clearing. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

The telephone poles stood firm, but the pines, both narrow and thick, had fallen, like soldiers in ugly army green had been shot up in the road. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

Théoden King of the Mark had reached the road from the Gate to the River, and he turned towards the City that was now less than a mile distant. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

So I slung the keg of rum over my shoulder and followed Mr. Heron up the road to his house, which was only a couple of hundred yards away from the tavern. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

We had embarked on different roads that put us in conflict with one another. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The road has some patches of snow, but mostly it’s just wet. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

With a quick clasp of Kit’s hand she was gone and Nat, shouldering her trunk in one easy motion, followed her along the narrow dirt road. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

I looked up the road past several curves, and the sun sparkled off parked cars as far as I could see. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

I need to concentrate on the road right now. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

I came to the road and walked north. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

Milkman paced the shoulder of the road, making plans. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

The moonlight showed a scant trail branching away from the road. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

I keep my eyes on what I remember as the road, because when I first landed in the Meadow, I wasn’t careful and I walked right into a rock. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Soon’s he disappeared on the road north, we made a sharp turn east through the woods, toward where I’m thinking the river was. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

“Mathematics is not only about getting the correct answer. It’s about being on the road to the correct answer. Knowing the path can be just as important as knowing the solution.” The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

And I had never been anywhere apart from the shop at the end of the road on my own. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

A hundred thousand people on the road, all going north and east, fleeing winds and water. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

They set off on a steep road going up into the Umvukwe Mountains. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

After many hours, we are finally out of the city and on the road, though still moving very slowly. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Without another word Cluny marched off with his selected rodents, first to the upturned hay cart in the ditch down the road, then a quick circle around into Mossflower Wood. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Three are burning far to the east—one completely blocking the road to Big Bear Lake. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

“His carer’s actually been to see it. He says it’s not far from the road, so anyone can get to it without much bother. This boat, it’s just sitting there, stranded in the marshes.” Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

"With the war in the riverlands and Lord Renly raising rebels in High- garden, the roads are closed to south and west." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

In the summer when the trees are in full leaf, they make a canopy over the road—which, these days, is only wide enough for one-way traffic. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I looked at the ordinary mailbox and steered my bike back onto the road. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

The boy’s eyes grew wide and began to water, and he let his knapsack slide off his shoulder and fall to the road. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

She looked at the teeming sky, looked at the endless dripping apple orchard, and looked at the empty road. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

The bus rumbled to a stop in a gravel parking lot just off the road. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

It’s a cliche, all right, but it’s better than spinning your wheels. get the show on the road. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then it clattered on down the hilly road. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

If we could get across, there was a road on the other side. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

On one side of the road, thickets and small trees rose steeply, while on the other I could now glimpse through the foliage the distant countryside. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

For a time the roads were endangered by a fantastic creature, half man and half ape, that a traveller to the West had captured and brought back to China in a cage. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I was driving my truck and it was raining. I didn’t see him standing in the middle of the road. I couldn’t stop. I couldn’t.” Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

But a few minutes later the road turned a corner and began to run along an old pasture dotted with gnarled fruit trees in ragged bloom. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

The other road led north into the city, a miniature version of Ancient Rome. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Just before he flew over the road to Roxbury, a crew of men in orange vests loaded equipment onto a yellow tractor- trailer. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

Across the road was a girl, the hammering girl. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

She had dismounted when they left the road, and she walked steadily at their pace over the brow of the hill and down into the gully. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Shrugging, Doha kicked a stone hard, watching it raise clouds of dust where it hit the road. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

Mother had asked the women, Did they ever take the road to Léopoldville? The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

But what if the main road never led him to the sea at all? A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

“Your business with the tsar is to explain to him why you’re trespassing on a forbidden road.” Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

Then the road was just a road, the other cars merely part of the scenery. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

After it had bumped back onto the table, the air around it shimmered, almost like the wobble of sun on a hot road. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

By lunchtime, the blazing summer sun overhead left pockets of melted asphalt in the road and trickles of sweat down our backs. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

They trotted down the road and around a corner. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Samuel walked silently in the sandy wheel rut of the road. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

I had never before driven on roads between Port Elizabeth and Cape Town, and I was looking forward to many miles of entrancing scenery. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

We drove our Jeep to the main road and then parked it a few meters in. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

Had Reggie not had his complete focus on the road, had he been lost for a millisecond, we’d certainly have crashed. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

“I feel like a tourist in my own country,” I said, taking in a goatherd leading a half-dozen emaciated goats along the side of the road. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

The road wound up and up, narrowly, between high ferny banks, and the trees arched together overhead. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

I hit the top of Half-Blood Hill in time to see the camp’s van disappearing down the farm road, probably Argus taking the quest group into the city. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

He squatted on one knee and swung the shotgun up from under his arm and stood it in the road and leaned on the forestock. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

In the last of the evening light the man across the road was washing his car, but he took no notice of Will, and Will didn’t look at him. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

We were in the foot-hills on the near side of the river and as the road mounted there were the high mountains off to the north with snow still on the tops. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

The wandering boy suddenly appeared on the road in front of us. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

The next shot shows mobs of people flowing like a human river down a winding mountain road, and disappearing beneath a forest canopy. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

He was in a very good mood until lunchtime, when he thought he’d stretch his legs and walk across the road to buy himself a bun from the bakery. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

A wide dusty road ran past the house and on each side of the road wild flowers grew. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

The next day, hundreds of black and white protesters met on the road where Meredith had fallen. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

The woman will never find the old house behind the hedge of towering hibiscus at the bend of the dirt road. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then Father said we had to get home before the roads got busy. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

He walked back down the road to the tree, looking at the rod. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

He tells me the buck run in front of him on the road and he accidentally run over it, but I saw the bullet hole myself. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

They walked along the paved road together, and after a time Salvador pointed out the Todos Santos Islands offshore. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

He wants to be Like his shoes, A little dirty From the road, A little worn From racing to the drinking fountain A hundred times in one day. Neighborhood Odes 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

He ran along the edge of the road beside the bus for a minute or two, his long ears flapping in the breeze. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

Now I began to watch ahead for tracks leading off to the sides of the road where cow-boys might try to ambush me. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The long stay in the hospital had left him weak—too weak to walk steadily on the gravel shoulders of the road. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Abuja had far-flung horizons, wide roads, order; to come from Lagos was to be stunned here by sequence and space. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

They drove very slow out the Atlanta road. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

A soldier stood in the middle of the road, swinging his gun as they approached, motioning that they go back. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Pax shook the night’s rain off his back and headed for the road without even stretching his stiff muscles, straining for his boy’s scent. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Finally, a sharp right down the service road into the main thoroughfare, where by heart she boarded the bus. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

The road slopes upward, climbing the flank of a hill. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

She eases out onto the pavement and makes her way slowly down the road. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Makes you do what it wants, go where the laid-out roads say to. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

He ate a stick of cheese and a couple of crackers, slugged a long drink of water, then laced his boots and climbed up to the road. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Both roads were heading north; however, one was in an easterly direction while the other one veered sharply to the west. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

A road paralleled the fence, and the shrimp harvester was able to move much faster. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the end of the road we came to an isolated, whitewashed one-story cottage set behind a concrete wall and shaded by tall fir trees. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Our milkman, who lives in Halfweg, saw four Canadians sitting along the side of the road, and one of them spoke fluent Dutch. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Gradually the distances between communities widened, with longer stretches of empty road. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

Our honeymoon was meant to be restful, a low-key road trip in Northern California, involving wine, sleep, mud baths, and good food. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“But I don’t think you will. Fritz cleared the road this morning.” Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

He’d jumped on the road immediately after talking with her mother. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

She simply walked to the refugee camp down the road and found another carpenter, a sallow-skinned man who wanted to be paid in food. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

I have listened to accounts by such travelers in which every road number was remembered, every mileage recalled, and every little countryside discovered. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

If you looked straight ahead, you saw the courthouse, the jailhouse, the county clerk’s office, and the road to Norfolk. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

And he had; while Skeeter was streaking down a road with his master astride him, his heart failed, and he stumbled and was dead. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe we'd run into him for a day or a meal out on the road? The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

Wednesday paid and they left, walked back across the road to the motel parking lot. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

Still, he couldn’t stop himself from watching the road. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

I started spreading my fingers to count it off again but afore I could even get to forty, Pa and the new-free folks turned up the road heading toward the schoolhouse. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

They followed the sounds around a lazy bend of the road and saw them; a column of armed men noisily fording a swollen stream. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

I go through the town and by the drovers’ road and across the ford beyond.” The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

A minute later, I heard his bike on the road. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

“The university is over there—” Ben pointed down the road. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

I started walking, glancing over my shoulder every few seconds to see if perhaps another car was coming down the road behind me. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

I’m just here waiting to see where the road of life takes me, and hopefully I’ll make the best out of it. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Suddenly I was sorry that I had blundered down this road. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

She followed the prints until the road forked, and then they went west. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

He smiled a ghostly smile, drew himself up, saluted, waved toward a brick house just off the road. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Over the first hill, they saw an amazing sight: Abandoned motorcycles, trucks, and even guns littered the road, as though the Germans had dropped everything and started running. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

But I can’t find the beach anymore—there’s too much road between us. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Then a dog began to howl somewhere in a farmhouse far down the road—a long, agonised wailing, as if from fear. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

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

I remember staring straight in front of me at the windscreen, seeing nothing of the flying road, my ears still tingling with that spoken word. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

And even if we do not believe, then still we cannot travel in any other way than the road our senses show us; and we must walk that road to the end. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

After another couple of hours, they stumbled across a tiny village between the railroad tracks and a two-lane road. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Children kicked soccer balls back and forth on the dirt-covered road, with large rocks serving as goalposts. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Its grey- white metal shone against the dark road behind it. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

A small rock shrine sat on the left side of the road. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

This little weirdness will be a small hiccup on our road to greatness, to epic coupledom. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

A midwife named Fannie delivered her into a small shack on a dead-end road overlooking a train depot, where hundreds of freight cars came and went each day. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

In any case he can’t whisper back, because he has to look straight ahead at the horizon, or at the white lines of the road that washes toward us, wave after slowly undulating wave. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

They passed Buck Hill and Brandy Hall on their left, and on the outskirts of Bucklebury struck the main road of Buckland that ran south from the Bridge. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

He sat down right in the middle of the road and made a shooing motion with his hand. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

When they crossed the road, they would begin to take canister fire and thousands of balls of shrapnel wiping huge holes in the lines. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Still, I weigh it up for close to a minute and eventually decide to cross the road and sit against an old oak tree to wait. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

She shifted into D, and turned the wheel so it would head straight down the road to the barn. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

She has been too frightened to carry out any strategy, but now a road is opening before her. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

They rounded a bend in the road and Nico’s fists clenched. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

A war leaves holes in so much more than the dams and roads that can be rebuilt. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

We walked down the long drive and just before we reached the road, the giant started in about the Polish girl. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

The route out of the city is bumpy and winding, especially as the driver takes sudden turns to avoid broken buildings or unknown groups clustered on the road. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

After the battle was fought atop Bunker Hill, I saw a Negro man upon the road from Charlestown. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Just make the most epic road trip playlist of all time.” Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

There was a parking lot beside the road and a factory a hundred yards or so beyond. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

The huge stone columns lining the road that lead up to the hotel look like they belong in a fairy-tale palace. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

When court was over, they would take his father to a road camp or a quarry or a state farm. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

The water was so low by the time we got to the edge of the road that we hardly needed the boat. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

The soldiers, stunned, and very frightened, moved back several steps as Aycliffe rolled back on the stone road, twitched, kicked, and became very still in his own pooling blood. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

“This lane don’t lead anywhere, and wherever you may be going, your quickest way will be back to the road.” The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

On its own, it would not serve as the dictionary he needed, but it was filled with cues and gave him an incomplete road map to the minds of the Soviet cryptographers. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

It was flat, not many trees, the same dusty red-clay dirt and grass as Soweto but with proper houses and paved roads and a sense of suburbia to it. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Soon we started seeing more and more people on the road, traveling with their meager belongings on their heads. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

I jerked myself back on the road just long enough to push her off…if only for a moment. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

Now and again we passed a leiter-wagon—the ordinary peasant’s cart—with its long, snake-like vertebra, calculated to suit the inequalities of the road. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

At this time and place, she become all on fire with zeal; some new guiding power be in her manifested, for she point to a road and say:— Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

I keep a fast pace in the semidarkness, my breath coming out in a cloud, and when I find the turn off the main road, the sun is only just beginning to thaw the air. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

The road quickly came to a dead end. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

But when Mama ran down the road with me I saw everybody was going to die. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The feeling of desolation persisted when they turned off the road at the squadron. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

“There are only three real roads in Bone Gap,” said Finn. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

And then, some hundred yards farther on, the road ends. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

The old man preferred to travel by road. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Snowflakes flick against the windshield like tiny insects, a few at first, then so many the road disappears. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Xan tore down the road, her old bones groaning, undoing spell after spell, before she caught up to the wayward girl. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

The Otsubos had driven by at eight o’clock and seen at least forty cars and pickup trucks parked along the road near the Masons’. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

They bivouacked in the woods much nearer to the road than he would have liked. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

A little shaggier, a little older, still energetically mad, he looked at the woman hurrying along the road with the sunset in her face. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

On the day of the parade they drew crowds faster than a dogfight on a country road. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

He brushed the loose dirt from his shirt and walked up the side road until he got to the oil-top road that led to the church. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

“How could they do that? There’s no roads.” Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

Soon, they were creeping down an infrequently traveled dirt road lined with palmettos and mossy live oaks. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

They went only a few yards up the road together, perhaps fifty. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

They slowed, stumbling, holding on to one another as they broke through the wall of plants and spilled onto a familiar road. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

It’s a perfecdy round blue lake with a border of grass between the water and the road. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dorothy, who knew the call of the open road so well, could certainly understand some of the appeal of Howard’s unusual and itinerant career, and she supported it as best she could. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

We were ten minutes in, me holding a two-by-four’s end while he sawed perfect thirty-inch segments on a pair of carpenter’s horses, when a car stopped in the gravel shoulder of the road. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

The field dropped into a shallow ravine, where a country road wound north and south. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

“And a storm flooded the road, flipping the bus and allowing you to escape?” The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

The road was slick, and they went cautiously, standing on their brakes. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

I’m twenty paces along when I see the shooter in the middle of the road, rifling through our luggage. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

I skidded to a stop at the edge of the road and swallowed. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Although the road was full of mud, the fields were drying and the birds were singing. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Horton had a network of support crews waiting at road crossings and other strategic points and so needed to carry nothing but a bottle of water. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

A group of three wild horses with sweetly shaggy coats stood in the middle of the road. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

There were no houses, no animals, no major roads. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

“There’s a nice lady up the road a ways. She’d be proud to take you in.” Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were close to the road with fading yellow bricks when Seven stopped cold. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

Two and a half weeks before she left for San Francisco, Jule sat next to Imogen in the back of a jeep taxi, bumping over the road from the Culebra airport. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

The corner post leaned toward the road, and large black ants covered its surface. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

It was that kind of a crazy afternoon, terrifically cold, and no sun out or anything, and you felt like you were disappearing every time you crossed a road. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

As soon as we started out on the road outside of town it was cool. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

Then he saw troops on the road, a long way off. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I knew every house, every tree and shrub, every pothole in the road. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

In the midst of them was a cart, a long leiter-wagon which swept from side to side, like a dog’s tail wagging, with each stern inequality of the road. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

The roads on the map twined and twisted round each other, hesitating, then they rose up off the paper, no longer roads, but thick eels with amber eyes. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then he mounted and rode alone back to his camp to begin the turning of the army, all the wagons and all the guns, down the narrow mountain road that led to Gettysburg. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s like he’s still on the side of the road watching Aurora about to get flattened. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

Ash and birch trees clustered on either side of the road, and birds flitted on the branches and twittered at Anya as she passed. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

If he kept walking in a new direction, he also might come across a dirt road. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Kaede awoke very early, eager to get back on the road. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

“WELCOME TO EXPECTATIONS,” said a carefully lettered sign on a small house at the side of the road. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

Three massive forms lay ahead of us, one in the road and two more in the field adjacent, just the other side of a shallow ditch. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

He stripped slowly and piled his vile rags in the road. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

We stood against walls of houses and inspected the tiny gravel roads between houses before crossing to another house. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Holding tight to the truck’s side, he leaned over, looking worriedly at the road in front. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

They left the coats and the blanket in the floor of the back seat and went up the road to search through more of the houses. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

The road from the Victor’s Village to the square gets little use. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

As I round the corner back to the main camp road, I pass a group walking by in street clothes. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The other rabbits were beginning to reach the hedge as Bigwig hopped down the bank and crouched on the verge of the road. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

Of all the reasons that kept me plodding along the long and hard road of Bantu Education, the most important was that my mother and Granny were proud of me. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

As Wash walked slowly back up the road, his heart pounding, the pickup inched along behind him. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

“The pub down the road from our dorm,” answered Mom. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

It was the only car on the road. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

He didn’t seem to be paying any attention to the road. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

"Well, it’s hardly to be wondered at in this fog, Madam. That’s what I said to Robert just now. It’s difficult to find your way on the road, let alone on the water." Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

They turn down a long dirt road in the middle of a forest, dense with hemlock and birch. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

During a road repair assignment, he noticed that Shin had loaded far too many stones in a handcart. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

And so, out the gate, up the road, and to the left. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m traveling with my family, and I got turned around in the woods. Can one of you help me find the road?” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

When he reached the end of the dirt road, Mr. Trepid got out of the car and retrieved his shovel, trowel, and sack from the trunk. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

She and the kids ordered cheeseburgers and fries and got back onto the road. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

There was a procession coming up the long, winding road: not just the carriage but files of mounted soldiers both ahead and behind, the sun glittering on their armor. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

It was a thriving thoroughfare, but if white strangers doing business came along the road during daylight, we were warned not to speak to them. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The car rattled considerably as it raced along the dusty road, causing them all to pop up from their seats every now and then, but Mrs. Das continued to polish her nails. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

We dashed across the road, to the path to the lake in the woods. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

Four miles up the road they found the creek. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Unlike the steady stream of the highway, here rickshaws, motorcycles, trucks, and cars shared the narrow roads alongside bicycles and throngs of people. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

I turn to stare unfocused out the window, the side of the road becoming a sand-colored smear. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Pietro Crespi returned on Sunday midnight to sweep up the ashes of the party, after having worn out five horses on the road in an attempt to be in time for his wedding. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

By afternoon the slush had melted off the road and by evening it was dry. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

After crossing the railroad tracks, we followed right behind Henry when he turned off on another road. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The road back to Welch was dark and empty. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

“What we’ve found even more on then those two is your mind on the road,” he explained. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

I was standing on a deserted road in the rain. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

On the way, they passed some goat-legged guys hanging out on the side of the road. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

The first day, the forced-labor crew’s job was to remove heavy snow from a road. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

They didn’t find another gully, but Salvador did see an old, abandoned car off the road. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

The first step along that road was to leave his new bride and his homeland to attend Lincoln University, a historically black college in Pennsylvania. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

They were all sincerely amazed at this stretch of road, this stretch that I took for granted. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is the largest road system in the world in the control of a single body. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

He actually voted to stay, even though his throat wobbled in the middle, and he went outside right after and disappeared down the road. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

All the rest of that morning gray Rebel troops came pouring down that narrow road. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The shiny automobile rolled down the dirt road, hitting every gaping pothole. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

Everything was so crazy, he must have thought it was just some debris someone had left in the road. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

Pa would walk ’em slow along the road, talking to ’em gentle and starting to get ’em use to the way we do things in Buxton. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

Ma starts walking down the road, and I trail after her. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

They began to walk down the middle of the road, keeping Jonathan in their midst. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

The magistrate shot Anya a dark look before turning away and heading up the hill to the road. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

The Forest Service has the second highest number of road engineers of any government institution on the planet. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

The little town behind me was quiet, and there were no other cars on the road. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

I wanted to take a shortcut through the orchard to the road leading down to the town, but then my foot caught in a root. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

He knew from watching through the vent the past few days that the caravan of vehicles came up the road like a parade. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

We were just coming back from the front line, and at a turning of the road near our billets, marvellous in the morning twilight, stood this cherry tree before us. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

The road was narrow, the ruins so positioned that any enemy coming up from the south must pass beneath and between them. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I looked at the road and saw a lot of cars, and I knew they were all going to their grandparents’ house. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, but not like that. Not like spring break road trip besties,” Anna says, pursing her lips. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

“Just a local troublemaker. Un alborotador. He’s always hanging around by the Shell station. The 7-Eleven, too. He lives in Capitol Oaks down the road.” The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

“Let’s get the show on the road,” he muttered. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

I had seen the tire tracks leading to the road before the wind came and scattered the last trace of Vonetta. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

Generous funds have been allotted to level die stripped and faded buildings that clutter the road from Medallion up to the golf course. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

But some figures stood alone, isolated by blank space like tents pitched on winter slopes or lampposts on white roads. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Tree took account of road, which was aware of air, which was mindful of sea, which shared things with sun. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

I stood on top of the last hill before Peiping and saw the roads below me flow like living rivers. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Clumps of children stonethrowing outflowing rush upon terrified small goats, scattering them across the road so that the goats may tiptoe back and be chased again. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

He thought they might stop soon and he wished he’d found a place further from the road. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

The car drives on a dirt road through a desert in the middle of Iran. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

He hadn’t asked his father where Sounder had come to him on the road when he wasn’t more’n a pup. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Suddenly a sharp yelp came from the road. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Let’s go on a road trip somewhere. Where do you wanna go? Nashville? Atlanta? Let’s go to Memphis and go see Graceland.” The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

The sound of rubber slippers echoed on the silent road. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

And, of course, in many practical ways, the Romans were much more advanced than the Elizabethans—better roads, central heating, proper baths. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Around noon, he saw a police checkpoint in the distance, left the road, found another house, and knocked on the door. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

Blackberry ran slowly along the road toward a pair of gates that stood opposite each other further down. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Presently a whole squad of the ruffians came down the road. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

I want to take a road trip, in a convertible, with the top down. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

The setting sun behind us cast long shadows, which raced up and up ahead of us along the road. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

One MIA driver told the story of having come upon an elderly woman hobbling along the road. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

He climbed the bank through the cane to check the road. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

The roads were insanely narrow, winding through forests and up the sides of hills and around the edges of steep ravines. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

I stared; and then a different group of riders came charging up the road from the other direction. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Through the upside down V between his legs, I saw the truck idling on the side of the road, the other refugees climbing down the rear ladder. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

I sat by the window and watched the road. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

It would be quicker to take a road that followed the third side of the triangle formed by Easton, Cambridge and Salisbury. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

They hurried, leaving a maze of tracks and then they set out back north through the woods keeping the road in view. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

But out on the drive, after loading the terrified Mate in the wagon, he gave a signal and the driver roared away, leaving Mama standing on the road. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He stopped, finally, at a clump of trees where the road made a slight bend. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

I run out, picking up the gun along the way When I cross the road, I lock eyes with the gunman. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

It was so strong that it overcame his fear: he could almost have run out there and then down the road without his hat, as Bilbo had done on a similar morning long ago. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Looking around I saw a large boulder by the side of the road. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

As he said this a mottled-green, 1953 Chevy pickup with a three-legged German shepherd riding atop the cab rattled down the road, coasting to a stop behind the police car. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

After Arkansas, I knew, we would drive down through Texas, past the hundreds of strip malls and armadillos baking on the side of the road. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

But, since it was not permissible to ignore, those eight minutes pointed the road to a complete reformation in astronomy. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

But no one chased me, even though I saw some of the boys that don’t like Amil on the other side of the road. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

The first blue brigade had stopped on the road below, by a red bam. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ahead the road turned off to the left and there was a little hill and, beyond a stone wall, an apple orchard. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

A little below him to the left the road ran down steeply into a hollow and disappeared. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

It was no small effort to get me started on the road to the dentist. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had struggled for Brotherhood on a hundred street corners and he thought it would make him more human, but he died like any dog in a road. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Forest Service roads are often not included, and, if included, they’re inconsistently identified. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

They passed the Door and walked on down the steep winding road. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

Kaan itself dug out a series of reservoirs, established neighborhoods around each one, and linked the ensemble with roads and waterways. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Shin crossed a bridge over the Taedong and headed east on a road parallel to the river. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

The piece of tapestry lay upon the road. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

I started to realize, as I crossed another road, that I was going the wrong direction. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

She pulled onto a side road, not far from the wreck site, that led to a gun range. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

I ducked back behind the bush with my bike, and just in time, because the orange pickup came right back down the road. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

The wound was so serious that only doctors with skill and dedication, like Garfield’s, could have kept him alive and put him on the road to recovery. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

The roads were good this time of year, so we made excellent time traveling north through the Commonwealth: fifteen, twenty miles a day as we searched out new towns to play. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Almost before Min had finished speaking, he was flying down the road with the cart careering crazily before him. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

Looking around, he could see a track leading down from the road that twisted up over the cliffs that surrounded them. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

Chuckling at his own foolishness, he straightened his clothes and made his way back to the road through the sumac, brushing away invisible strands of spiderweb that clung tickling to his face. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“Not likely. But winter is coming,” Stella said, kicking up some of the crisp leaves along the road’s edge. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

“But how do we find the road we need?” Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

“As you command. Though ... Your Grace, if I may be so bold, there is another road ...” “The Domish road?” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

A man with one leg and a barrel-organ began playing Roses in Picardy, at the end of the road. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

He saw her stop at the gate and look down the road. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

‘But he shall not turn us back! Halt we must once more; for, see! even the Moon is falling into gathering cloud. But north lies our road between down and fen when day returns.’ The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

He’s going to the Dublin road to see if he can get a lift. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

And she gasped as the car cracked against a rock and reeled back across the road with an ominous scraping somewhere beneath, but then gathered itself together valiantly and resumed its dogged climb. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

Once, where the road was narrow, a group of peasants suddenly came out of the mist and stopped to ask their way. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

And then, in the first light, he heard the creak of a wagon, and he crouched beside the road and watched a heavy two-wheeled cart go by, drawn by slouching oxen. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

The chained ones had a hard time getting down to the road, tripping each other up as they climbed off the bus. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

They were in an isolated place; fields on either side of the road were dotted with thickets of trees here and there. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

Near Ettumanoor they passed a dead temple elephant, electrocuted by a high tension wire that had fallen on the road. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I hear you,” she called softly back, as she ran towards the empty road and the patch of woods beyond. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

On February 23, 1927, weeks after Paul Peace vowed to disinherit and divorce the wife he suspected of poisoning him, he was injured in a hit-and-run and left to bleed out on the road. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

As they walked, the road they were on turned sharply to the left, and the children suddenly found themselves alongside a large field of bright orange cosmos flowers. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

Across the road, a security company SUV zipped up to the photographer’s car, and the photographer sped out of there. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

Was this just another chance to get thrown off the road? Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

The girls were up the road about forty yards sitting on a stone wall. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

Her face was illuminated by the lights in the dashboard, and it appeared ghostly white set against the utter blackness of country roads. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

It provides no trees to hide behind, no side roads to sneak down. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Another vital early development in women’s long road to the ballot took place in 1851, when Elizabeth Cady Stanton met antislavery and women’s rights activist Susan B. Anthony. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

The shadows on the road were as still as if they had been put there with a stencil, with slanting pencils of sunlight. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know how to dance. Besides, I plan to make an early start in the morning. I’ll probably be on the road at daybreak.” Stuart Little 1945-10-17T00:00:00Z

The silence of the night completely destroyed, they all stood there on the road like actors in a play, each waiting for the other’s next move. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

A breeze tussled through the trees, sending poplar leaves spinning like golden coins down onto the rutted dirt road. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Sheriff Clark tried to herd them back onto the road, but they refused to move. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ten minutes later we come to the wash, and I breathe a secret sigh of relief, because it means this was the right dirt road after all. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

I leaned my head against the warm window and looked at the road stretched out before us and at the land rolling away endlessly on either side. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

She was concentrating on the road and on what had really landed us in the car together. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Just after sunset, they left the road to rest in an overgrown yard beside an old stone well. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

We kept walking until I saw a deserted two-lane road through the trees. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

I had forgot about the river curving along the road. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Life came down to one thing only now—keeping her feet moving on the road that led to Indio. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

“I think your friend being sick is going to get you some leeway. But the tsar closed off this road for a reason. For safety.” Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

Will gathered his cloak and the rucksack, and tried to walk straight as he left the priest’s house and took the road out of the village. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

The lane went through the village and out again, towards the Mildon road. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

I turned the team into the road, T.R. riding high on the seat between me and Pink. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

In the morning they would see if there were tracks in the road or not. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

There were these huge trucks, like road tanks, blocking us at either end, locking us into a seven- or eight-block rectangle. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

‘I hope you’ve made inquiries about inns along the road? Or have you forgotten about food and drink?’ The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

At the last streetlight on the road out of town, I take out the map with the Helderberg Escarpment on it. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

We said good-bye to everybody, hitched up the oxen and pulled out of the yard onto the road. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

We saw a dead chicken in the road, and Lynn and I screamed. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

In Milford, Delaware, a Philadelphia woman and her black servant were stopped on the road outside of town. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

As we came to a side road I saw a team of oxen hitched to a broken-down wagon, the ragged driver dozing on the seat beneath the shade of a clump of trees. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

The road that led to Treegap had been trod out long before by a herd of cows who were, to say the least, relaxed. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

It seemed to shout their location as it managed to hit every bump and hollow in the road. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

A few yards away, at the end of the road, several Sons of the Six had cordoned off the area and stood lined up to keep anyone from advancing. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

“My mom runs the bonobo sanctuary up the road,” I said. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

Ugwu watched him disappear down the road and wished he could leap across and clutch his hand and be propelled along to freedom. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

They had sat so for ten minutes or more when the sound of wheels far down the road attracted their attention. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the distance, down the hill and across the road, lay Lake St. Clair, where my grandfather Jimmy Zizmo had faked his death. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

They had been on the road since five in the morning. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

The road signs become too repetitive, so I expand to other things. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

I am an early riser anyway, and at 3 A.M. the roads are empty and quiet, and one can be alone with one’s thoughts. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The other archers mounted their horses, and the princess set off down the road. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

Soon a reservoir came into view, a mountain lake far below the road—tranquil blue waters set among steep, arid mountainsides. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

The car spilled crazily off the road into a ditch, flinging Teece against the glass. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

But finally I told myself that I had to stop being scared, I had to stop just standing there in the middle of the road. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Professor had evidently noted the road we were to go, for he went on unhesitatingly; but, as for me, I was in quite a mixup as to locality. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

We follow winding roads through ancient green groves, woodlands filled with secrets and murmurs and mist. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Now she went straight through the town and turned left at its farthest end, along a tree-lined walk that turned into a country road farther on and passed the cemetery, Beechnut Park. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

She recognized every creek and cove and inlet, every neck of land, every hiding place, every curve in the roads, every potential source of danger, every potential source of safety. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

The village was half a mile away, and the people were coming toward them, close together in the middle of the road. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

She poked out her lip and looked up toward the road, making me wonder if she was about to walk back the way we came. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Cumberland Plateau is a wild and mountainous region of flat-topped ridges, mountain walls five hundred to a thousand feet high, and narrow valleys, some wide enough only for a one-lane road and a creek. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

The sun came up later on and melted it, making the roads muddy, especially after the cattle had churned it up. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I stop across the road from the Sanders house. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

He looked back and watched it bounce into the tall grass and tumbleweeds beside the road. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Units of infantry, cavalry, and artillery begin trudging down the road. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

Did people undress as they drove down the road? Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z

Then a huge pig was standing in the middle of the road. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even in free Illinois, the road was not without danger. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Others hastening back had reported that the road was held in force against them. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

“A freebie from the road gods—a car like this will make a great undercover vehicle for drug interdiction.” Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I knew that when Oliver and the National Executive read my memo, their fears that I had gone off the road would be allayed. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The farmhouses sat next to the road, quiet and clean, secretive. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

To the north was the main road where we had seen the cyclists; to the south there was a small branch-road across the fields with thick trees on each side. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

“Hasn’t had an easy road, you know. His father dead in the war, his wife dead in childbirth. And now this?” All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

The road is flat and well maintained, and beyond the town is the flattest land I've ever seen. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

For the rest of the day we made our way without the benefit of roads. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

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

Hie boy waved and moved closer to the edge of the road. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The service was at night and there were little bonfires all along both sides of the road on the way to the church. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Monet and his friend drove in a Land Rover up the long, straight red-dirt road that leads to Endebess Bluff, a prominent cliff on the eastern side of the volcano. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were seventy-sevens and came with a whishing rush of air, a hard bright burst and flash and then gray smoke that blew across the road. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

Just when he’d narrowed the gap between them, Naomi darted off the road and into a clearing. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

I always stretched them on the side facing the road, never on the back side. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The boy got up, but he darted along the path like a little insect, picking up bugs and rocks along the road and tossing sticks for Hushpuppy to chase. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

From the finished tree house, we could see both our houses and the road. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

The road was blocked by a line of slow-moving carts, each pushed by a man with a rag tied over his face, each holding a corpse. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

"I got to West Egg by a side road," he went on, "and left the car in my garage. I don't think anybody saw us but of course I can't be sure." The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

While the decor was nothing to write home about, it was cool to be on the road for a game. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

“Shinálí, what did you mean that a water monster told you to tell me ‘Enemy Way’?” she asked, driving the truck on the undulating dirt road. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

He looked at the road as a car slowed, the driver taking in who had dropped in on the Mirabal family. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Whispers filtered that the Allies had cut off access roads and train routes. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

It was not a large road, nor well traveled. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Mrs Phelps was concerned about the child's safety on the walk through the fairly busy village High Street and the crossing of the road, but she decided not to interfere. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

Then the crack of the reins and the cart surged forward, rumbling over the road. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Westerberg had replied that he could take McCandless only ten miles down the road, at which point he would be turning north toward Sunburst, where he kept a trailer near the fields he Was cutting. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

They walked down the westerly road, Jinjoo stubbornly holding Junsoo until her arms felt like wet noodles and she abruptly put him down. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

“So why did she abandon those babies on the road?” The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

At once the road turned left and plunged steeply down. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

Late in the day they came to a place where the fire had crossed the road and the macadam was still warm and further on it began to soften underfoot. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

During his second sentence on the roads of Florida, Adam reduced his personality to a minus. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

We were walking to school together the first time we ever got close to a skunk, right out in the middle of the road. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

They had been on the road for almost five weeks now, but it felt like years. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

And she took off down the road, leaving Herbie behind the wheel of his accordion, moaning into his hands. the ten o’clock nightly news was ending, Kyril Montana’s phone rang. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

His grandma was running from the direction of the church, and he could see her car parked on the road beyond, its lights on, its engine running. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

It was a sharp drop down, with only a thin cable strung between occasional posts to mark the edge of the road. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

Then the army boys will come a-marching down the road saying a song in French. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sun was low in the sky when he finished at last and wheeled the cart cautiously down the path to the foothills road. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

I drive along the road through Mount Pitts for five minutes with the stereo up, and Dad is trying his best to maintain a laid-back Zen appearance about not knowing where we’re going. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

Weeds grew on either side of the road in summer, and a thin strip of green clung to life between the dusty tracks. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were no paved roads, minimal electricity, inadequate sewerage. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Kinshasa has ten million people but only two paved roads and no traffic lights, so the routes are too crowded to get anywhere fast. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

At noon we were stuck in a muddy road about, as nearly as we could figure, ten kilometres from Udine. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

Chattana was a city built on water, with canals serving the place of roads. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

As he inspected the fabrics, a blue silk pleased him so much he decided not only to have a robe made of it, but also to use it to line the road to his house. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

“But we should hit the road as soon as the sun comes up. This whole thing has gotten too complicated for my peace of mind.” Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

Then Jody’s eyes followed the wagon road down from the ridge where he stood, and lost it behind a hill, and picked it up again on the other side. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

Eventually, the slightly frazzled volunteer calmed it down and filled it up with cool, fresh water, and he was able to hit the road again. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

So he stretched long side of the road to rest. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

After about ten miles, he could probably join the road. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

Now it was so close—“only a little piece down the road from Chris’s” as Mother always said—and they still couldn’t see it. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

Everyone who hadn’t shut down to attend the funeral lined the road, waving small American flags. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

The world they were passing outside already looked unfamiliar—unfamiliar houses, unfamiliar roads, unfamiliar fields, even the trees and the sky looked unfamiliar—but Meggie was used to that. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

There were not only many roads to choose from, there were also in many places holes and pitfalls, and dark wells beside the path in which their passing feet echoed. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

No one would ever find me there, either, behind all those roses, and just to make sure I would plant oleanders by the road. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

They stretch for a couple of blocks in either direction, then turn into dirt roads, then into wavy fields that rise into mountains. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was trying to decide whether to ask or be patient, when he turned abruptly onto an unpaved road. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Then, with the van creaking under us once again, we pull onto the road. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

In the rainy season, the roads were a muddy mess. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

I think about this: My mom died along this road. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

Then suddenly they came pouring around the bend of the road into sight. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Laughter came to her from the big road. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

The rain had stopped by the time school let out, but the road was a muddy mess. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

“Tradition mostly. But some people say they marked old roads—” My father’s voice changed and became Ben’s voice, “—safe roads. Sometimes roads to safe places, sometimes safe roads leading into danger.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Mr. Dubonnet, Jake, Tom, and Basil threw themselves to the ground while the rocket hissed overhead and then slammed into the road behind, skittering along until it plowed into a muddy ditch. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Eight kilometers outside Przemyśl and far off the road in an old house in the forest. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Not exactly a forest, just a single line of maples that created a barrier between the school and the road. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

We walked so many times on the same gravel road that I could close my eyes and still avoid all the big rocks on the road. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

She caught Ivan’s eye, looked pointedly at the other side of the road, and walked a few paces away to stand there. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

We stop on a dead-end road for Pi to do his business, and I tell Nana about the birthday party and about math class. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

“He had to go run into the road this week of all weeks. The anniversary.” A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

I looked down and saw the damp dirt road leaving the farm, hard-packed in the middle of all of that moist dark soil. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

“I’m not going to run into the road,” he says, because he knows that she thinks she knows what he’ll do next. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

I lay on the side of the dirt road next to a rocky trench, looked up to the gray morning sky, thankful for air, thankful for light, thank­ful to be alive. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Up ahead, at Middletown, we saw a crowd near the road. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

A herd of elk had walked down the mountain road onto the main street in the village, meandering past stores as if they were souvenir shopping. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

In sudden petulance, Corporal Nettle sat down in the road, took off his boots and flung them into a field. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

At one stage I found myself on a road I’d never been on, and for about half an hour I didn’t know where I was and didn’t care. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

You’d have thought I was rushing to report a fire the way I sped down the road. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

Two hours later, around eight o’clock, I stood by the side of the road waiting for school bus number twenty. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Strikers picketed on public roads near the mine. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z

It sat far back from the road in a clump of pine trees and to a child might have been the house where Goldilocks met the three bears. Missing May 1992-03-01T00:00:00Z

A call like Otto had made back when he was being sold on that dusty road. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

A shredded tire lay in the middle of the road near Clayton Avenue. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Eventually we emerged from the forest, and the road became a path leading up a vast lawn to a huge manor house. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

She came to the edge of the porch and pointed down the road, speaking. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Another twenty minutes and the road began to level out. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Bumpy roads and no signs, no stores, no gas stations. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

White seemed appropriately horrified by Farmer’s stories and by the poverty around him, not to mention the condition of the road, yet he didn’t talk much. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

He danced an elephantine jig, stomping snow on the carpet, flung a long woolen scarf from his neck, and yelled, "Otis Amber is here, the roads are clear!" The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

Big Tony’s truck rumbled up a two-lane country road. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

He can’t do anything about that, but at least with the fires threatening the road to Arrowhead, he can make a difference. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Top-down attention is what we use to direct our focus, say, on a work project, or listening to Lord Jim through headphones, or when driving on the road. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

He doesn’t say anything until we get on the big road. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

Billboards advertising the event rimmed every major road on Long Island. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Stella looked away from him and stared at the thick forest of pines that framed the road like whispering dark-green walls. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

The shells fell all down the line, all over the crest, down in the road and back in the woods and on the hospital and in the artillery park. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

What he was hearing, and beginning to comprehend, was that it was possible for him to have his hands on the wheel and eyes on the road, and still be lost somewhere else. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Felix hadn’t seen the dog run into the road, but he spotted him in a Waffle House parking lot now. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

The roads didn’t have shoulders like they did back home. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

The sheep heard the crickets, and they felt so uneasy they broke a hole in the pasture fence and wandered up into the field across the road. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

He talked about learning of the dangers of distracted driving, vowing to “take this terrible situation and help make the roads a safer place for us and our families.” A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

“Listen to me very carefully,” she said, and it didn’t seem to matter to her that at any moment a car or a PSF could come charging up the road. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

The bay, roads, buildings, houses, and bushes that were really trees. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

Ann gave herself up to the pious delight that hymn singing had always stirred in her ever since she was a child in the small wooden church down the road from her father’s house. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

A little after nine in the morning we were walking together down a logging road cut into a steep hillside. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

“Let us know if you see anything, anything at all. Either from the settlement or the road.” The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

When darkness came, I found a dry spot off from the road and unwrapped the biscuits my mother had made for me. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

All hell would break loose and then no more worrying and fretting and fuming; he’d hit straight up that road with everything he had. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lunch hours, she often walked a ways down the road to the shopping mall. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

It was a narrow, winding road, without traffic. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

We were in the backwoods of New Jersey, on a crumbling road lined with run-down businesses and tattered billboard signs. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

We were not allowed to “congregate” in the prison yard, but down the road we stopped both cars. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

This was a needed service in the Colonies, where land was usually a wilderness without roads. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Along the road, kicking stones in front of them, two young boys were hiking with knapsacks and toy rifles and canteens. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

But judging from Lauren’s silence on the floor, she had sent the conversation down the wrong road entirely. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

After that, they’d have to switch to a road that followed the coastline, because Route 1 turned into the Turnpike for a long while. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

All the dogs in the neighborhood went wild as Nhamo fled back down the road, skirted around the houses, and disappeared into the forest. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The road was just wide enough for two carts to pass abreast, so whenever a wagon headed west passed one going east, both had to slow to a crawl. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Then the road suddenly started winding as it entered the river gorge. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

If I stand in the middle of the road, they’ll have to see me. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

Rivers, lakes, and seas were the only highways; there were no roads. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hazel imagined a mushroom cloud billowing up from the road, char-broiled fauns tossed in every direction. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

The flakes blow across the road, as light as powdered sugar. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

There are only five houses in total along a little strip of the road, one with what looks like a small general store tacked onto the front. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

They had ridden for some four hours from the branching of the roads when they drew near to the Fords. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

He had been down this road before, and Longstreet was immovable, and there was no point in argument when you did not even know where the enemy was. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

When we came to the next traffic light, the driver eased off the gas a bit to look around and check the road. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

I greeted her and she returned it, peering at me until she eased along up the road, leaning on her dark wood cane. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Closest by is poor lame Mama Mwanza, who scurries down the road on her hands. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

A two-lane road led up to a tiny stone building just in front of the entrance and exit gates. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

The roads and mail system here are like our country, broken. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

“Some instinct is drawing them down the road.” The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

As they started along the road he added, “Why did you think I would change my mind?” The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

Five years ago, volunteer construction workers from Abnegation repaved some of the roads. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

The road out of town led past the coal mine, and Jack blew the bus horn at the tipple. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

When he came to the side road that led into the home draw of the Trask place Will pulled up on the side of the road. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

In wet weather the road became one big sea of mud which, according to my mother, would be “worth your life to drive through.” Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

At one point, as soon as we had crossed the road, we heard footsteps. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

I want to ask: Will there always be a road? Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

The Sixteenth New York Cavalry raced up the dirt road toward the farmhouse. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

A hundred feet ahead, a dog trotted along the side of the road. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

In other words, an old city that was razed, burned to cinders, and crushed into the ground, even the roads disappearing, the earth left to run wild over the wreckage. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

They walked down the dark road, accidentally bumping into each other on the uneven road. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

For the first fifteen miles the road climbs through a desert landscape almost devoid of settlement and prone to fog. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

She saw him only for an instant, then the road took a sharp turn and he was gone from sight. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

We were supposed to be on the road to Shadbush Crossing almost twenty minutes ago. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

There were jars everywhere, scattered across the road. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

And then, treasure or no treasure, they'd head up the dirt road. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

‘And that we shall not find on the roads to the Sea,’ said Galdor. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

“Then we’ll test it out while we charge one up for you. Maybe a spare for the road.” The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

She saw Aggo point across the road to where she sat upon her silver. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The roads are packed with Dauntless soldiers, all marching at the same rhythm except the officers, who stand every few hundred yards, watching us walk by, or gathering in clusters to discuss something. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

In the road, he could not climb the bank and had to limp along the verge until he could crawl under a gate. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

On a lonely road fourteen miles outside Cheyenne, a tire blew. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

That one walk down the road when Byrd told him about Frank being reckless. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Lining the road were old Civil War cannons and bronze statues of historical figures, which made Annabeth shudder. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

They were passing more bodies in the road, in the gutters and on the pavement, dozens of them, soldiers and civilians. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Look at the number of motor-cars now that followed the riders from town to town in a road race. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

She ran as she had not in a long time, sticking to the side of the road and darting into the woods at the sound of a traveler. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

But for the most part the people followed the road around the wood because that was the way it led. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even on the road, living out of motel rooms, Enrique maintains one ritual. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

The road was well trafficked, and at night for their comfort there were rude inns to be found. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The last time he had seen his boy, there had been vibrations like this along this very road. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

When the road swung away from the stream course heading back toward the north-south highway, the ruins tailed away to the west. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

We ran forward to the downed animal, a very large grayish sow sprawled on her side across the dirt road. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Glancing back up at the road to make sure she wasn’t going to drive off, Dimple smoothed out the piece of paper. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Guns ready, faces rigid, the men were staring down the road. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

I climbed the main road, toward the big palace at the peak. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

Now that I’m alone on the road and the world outside seems so much bigger than it ever has before. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

They saw it again just at dark pushing the heavy cart up a long hill and they stopped to rest and he turned the cart sideways in the road against it rolling. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

But as I rose to my feet, a car came bouncing down the dirt road toward Dusty’s dock—a police car, with its headlights off. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

The small plans were: Keep the car on the road. Louisiana's Way Home 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

After hours of waiting impatiently, we heard the clunking of an engine down the road. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

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

Then he settled himself on the fallen trunk, ears trained for any sound on the road. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

The men dashed to the side of the road at the last moment, and the tanker cut through them like a comb parting hair. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

“South Carolina is hundreds of miles from here-over bad roads. Lady Seymour would be dead by Philadelphia.” Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

It rested on its side in the middle of the road, unharmed. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

Under some road maps in the glove compartment, Ben retrieved a rusty can of cordovan polish and a thin silken handkerchief spotted with dried circles of polish. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Along the road the houses were all low-slung and split-level and modern, with big porches and picture windows facing the water. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

She stopped in the middle of the road, her whole body alight with the thrill of it. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

We all shower and change first, just to freshen up after a long day on the road. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

As she lay moaning in her bed, Harry set off for Bonners Ferry, Idaho, eighteen miles away on twisting mountain roads, to fetch a doctor. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

I hugged the side of the road, trying to suppress my nervousness and praying to go home. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

He ran across the road and up the drive. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

Humming over the road, I began to look ahead. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

When we got there Mr. Leroy tied Jingle Boy out front and told me, “If they’s any trouble you light on out for this horse and go home. Just follow that road south.” Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

She found out about this place somehow, came here to gather her supplies, spent a night or two, and then hit the road. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

He heard a flare of bugles, looked down the road toward Union Mills. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

And that’s exactly what it was—parked at the side of the road, painted bright red, and looking quite deserted. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

It’s a road I have not yet traveled on. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

The three butterflies, two of them too skittish to sit next to the windows facing the steep drop just inches from the slippery road. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The line of huts ran along the bottom, with the muddy road alongside of them, and here and there a cannon or wagon standing. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Besides, his own house down the road was large and painted a dazzling white. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

But as soon as the tires hit the gravel road, his dad jumped. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

By midday, however, people began to join us on the narrow road. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

A heavy metal crash barrier stood across the old road and a new highway curved off down a hillside away from the town. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

“Which way exactly are these Thirty-ninth and Eighth roads?” Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

He too was gazing eastward along the road, as if he had never seen it before. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

In places, the road on one side of the gash had subsided a foot or more, or slumped into a shallow, bowl-shaped depression. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

She always tries to get out of going driving with Mustafa even though he says she’s easier to be on the road with than our father. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

My mom takes the road that leads up to Route 14. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

I ran back to the road and our group. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Well, we left school together, but she and I separated at the top of the road that led to our house. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

We stopped on the side of the road and waited for a while and then continued on our way. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

“The main road crosses a gorge. We blow the bridge, no one can follow.” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Along the main thoroughfare, the houses were built right at the edge of the road, as if huddling for warmth during the cold Polish winters, and hoping for company in summer. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

There are many strange men on the roads. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

I dropped my milk can and ran for my life; the can hit the road with a clang and rolled away. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

On the other side is the wide, free road. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

When I came down the sidewalk, the sky was clearing and two trucks were blocking the road in front of my building, furniture piled in the backs like a house had been turned upside down. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

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

He was trying to watch both the road and me. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

And this particular afternoon, I’m about halfway up the road along the river when I see something out of the corner of my eye. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Laughing madly and yelling strange curses, he swayed to and fro skillfully as horse and wagon clattered off down the road into the night. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

When I thought Aaron had shot her on the road. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

Those who cannot move any farther sit at the side of the road, some curl up in a fetal position and sleep. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nothing was truer; as it turned out, Milkman’s feet could hardly make it over the stony road covered with second growth. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were no phone lines out where the old house was—another reason Mama had moved up to the main road. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

We weren’t sure if it was the bus, so we gathered our bags and hid in the bushes near the road. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

They taught metrics and agriculture: how to count potatoes, how to pave roads, chop wood, till the soil. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Finally the boy just went over to the edge of the road and sat in the ashes. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

Outside, the country men called to each other on the road that went by the house, and I heard, too, the daily round of the servants and family. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

A sea surge of laughter from the road. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

I stand on the corner of the road. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

At times by night, as they cowered or drowsed uneasily in some hiding beside the road, they heard cries and the noise of many feet or the swift passing of some cruelly ridden steed. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

The edge of the highway isn’t very wide, you know, and people get in a hurry sometimes, and I didn’t want to fall down into the grassy ditch next to the road. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

The chaplain did not dare raise his eyes until the closed car had lurched from the area and the speeding wheels were whining on the bumpy blacktop road. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

They went up the road calling out in the empty dusk, their voices lost over the darkening shorelands. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

She clutched up her apron in one hand, and ran down across the yard and into the road. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

It stood by the side of the dirt road grazing with a small mountain of gear piled beside it. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

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

When we got to the tree line beside the baseball field, they glanced around, then leapt over the metal gate in front of the access road and bolted down the dirt road. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Nervous that someone might come down the road, I kept scanning the horizon ahead and behind. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

Jason peered both ways down the deserted road. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

I looked at the road just as two normal-looking cop cars pulled up next to the guy and cut their engines. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

Before I could fully imagine the tragic end of my life I heard an ambulance wailing up the Norvelt road. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

All that day they kept their harness shaking, side by side, until at sundown when the roads grew dim they made a halt at Pherai. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Keep moving, keep moving,” ordered a police officer, stepping into the road and waving the car on. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

We went by O’Dell’s house, picked up two shovels and a pick, and kept going down past Cape Coalwood to where the road turned back up into the mountains. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

I can hear the traffic on Route 733—the road that links this small town to the next, and the next, until it meets with a road that might lead somewhere bigger. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

While the little boys ran around pretending to shoot each other and fall dead in the road, it appeared that little girls were running the country. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The cobblestones are a nice change from the hard-packed dirt roads of the country. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

When we got to a long stretch of newly graded road, I shut off the engine, and the sudden silence sounded like noise. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

As I walked down the road, I kept pretending I was going to the library; but it was Sunday, and I knew the library was closed. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

We camped out in the woods, a hundred yards from the main road, in a marshy clearing that local kids had obviously been using for parties. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

The horses shook their heads and pranced, making the sleigh bells ring merrily, and away they went on the road through the Big Woods to Grandpa’s. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

She’d seen a tree on the side of the road that had caught her fancy. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Great Lord Ra burst over the eastern horizon just as Ranofer turned into the broad road that edged the fields of the flower growers. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

Others traveled down the road, but none close enough to overhear them. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

Several jeeps came down the road toward him at one point, headlights blazing, and he ducked well back into the trees until they had passed. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

I had breathed fresh air, walked on paved roads, mingled freely with white people, rested upon green grass and eaten free hot dogs given to me by whites. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tom steered him down one of the rutted work roads, his hand a sweating brick on Henry’s shoulder. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Sky darkened by thunderclouds, hundred-foot pines close to the road, heavy evergreen. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

So I walked without thinking about which roads to take. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

George hiked to Kelly’s house, her short afternoon shadow leading the way down the main road. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

Jethro ran out to the road to take it, to report his father’s improvement and the state of the farm work in general. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

It flipped the chassis, bouncing it across the road and ripped the engine apart as if it were no stronger than a spiderweb. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was past two o’clock and we sat underneath a large walnut tree that was on the side of the road. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t know how long I stayed at the gate, shivering in the wind, staring at the empty road and the moon high up in the sky as bright as a new dime. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

Sometimes the snow got so deep here, Mr. Chris said, that the fences disappeared entirely, and there weren’t any roads at all. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

They were on the road, and I was several feet off it. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

She would stay on the road and in hiding, a balloon floating through the sky, eating up hundreds of miles a day with the help of a perpetual tailwind. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

Across the road some troops stood in the church doorway smoking pipes. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

A lot of those secrets ended up floating down the Nansemond River just down the road from us. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

She ran down the road just as fast as she could. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

With the binocs, I follow the river road back from it and I see what’s probably a roadblock with what might be a fortified fence running away from it and to either side. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

A red sports car zooms by on the road, puddle- spraying our fence. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

I walked faster, moving into the woods alongside the road as soon as I passed Weylin’s fields. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

We need to get out of the road. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

The roads were safer in those days, but cautious folk would still travel with our troupe for safety’s sake. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

She had not forgotten the slave children the Great Masters had nailed up along the road from Yunkai. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

But he remounted his horse and continued along the road he had chosen, in the faint hope of finding some cottage where he might ask for shelter and a meal. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

At the road he halted, briefly apprehensive about the backhoe, but he recommenced his hasty retreat with a jump as the old man bleated, “Get going! Beat it! Go home!” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

When they’d finished their work, they set off marching along the road through fields of corn to the train station, singing as they went. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

The onion fields on the other side of the road were the most in need of harvest. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

Frank looked straight in front of him along the hard white road. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

My brother and one sister landed on the bonnet of the car, someone else was catapulted out on to the road and at least one small sister landed in the middle of the hawthorn hedge. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

The first was a road movie from the early seventies, about a man who leaves his wife to drive cross-country. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

I saw through my bedroom window that everything was white—the yard, the road, the filling station, and the mountains. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

By the early years of World War II, Turner Station had a few paved roads, a doctor, a general store, and an ice man. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Once in front of her, he suddenly swerved the moped, tacking from one side of the road to the other. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

No tracks in the road, nothing living anywhere. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

Besides, roads change, increase, are widened or abandoned so often in our country that one must buy road maps like daily newspapers. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Levy's Lodge—that was what the sign at the coast road said—was a Xanadu of the senses; within its insulated walls there was something that could gratify anything. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Most days Olmsted was driven by carriage through the countryside, “every day more or less on a different road,” to view gardens, churchyards, private parks, and the natural landscape. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

It was the rainy season, and the “road” was a string of mudholes cut by running streams. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

When it was light enough to see he pulled on his shoes and rose and wrapped one of the blankets around him and walked out and stood looking at the road below. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

A few miles down the road I blurted, “I can’t believe I ate raw fish!” Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Sitting back to back and watching the road. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

People had been drinking out in the hills on wood-hauling roads and sheep-camp roads since they first bootlegged liquor to Indians. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Half a mile south of Rocktown the road reached its highest point. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

I say again, running down the road, fast as my feet will carry me. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

Our footpath crossed over four single-track paved roads but except for a cow grazing by one of the roads we hadn’t seen another creature bigger than a hedgehog. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

A low earthen wall four feet high closed off the road, and a dozen crossbowmen manned the heights. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

It is a completely normal place, out of sight of the barn and house, close enough to the road that I can hear cars passing. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

The road widened ahead, but the murky twilight made it difficult to see. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

There aren’t any roads in the forest, but only a few jeep trails used by rangers, and airplanes are not permitted to fly over it. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

The sight of boys of so many ethnicities in one place began to open Luma’s eyes to what was happening in Clarkston, just down the road from her own home. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

Other patrols had been sent out at once, but all that they had established was that the rabbits from the north had crossed the iron road and disappeared southward. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instead I slapped the oxen on their rumps as if I hadn’t any worries about who was standing in the middle of the road. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Silas kicks a chunk of ice, and it skids along the road. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

I told Junior, “I just did what I thought would be the best thing for my family. With the city of Dallas, I worked on a road crew. We filled potholes and fixed roads.” Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

There I was shivering in the rain, surrounded on every side by mud huts, mud roads, mud everything. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

He heard horses’ hoofs plodding on the road and far-off pounding on wood where a neighbor was shingling a barn. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

There must be some feature of the mineral content of these stone roads that made them run in ribbon-like lines over the vast savanna, and be so resistant to weathering or cracking. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Grandma closed all her windows because the dust from the road never settled. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

The compound was empty and only one or two people walked past the road now. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

The roads were deserted except for an occasional hunting party in red hats and yellow jackets, and sometimes with a deer or an elk draped over the hood of the car. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

So we take the effing road, as fast as our tiredness will let us. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

“I’m sure George or Emmett could drive you, as long as the roads are okay,” Byrd says. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

The houses on this road were crowded together and shared common walls, with small, walled yards in front buffering them from the street. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

And he keeps his eyes on the road. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

If you are pregnant, you could lose the child on the road, Karla says. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Not until I saw an American or Russian tank rolling down the road. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

On the road, it snowed and snowed, it snowed endlessly. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once every month, a big white van would come down that long road and you’d feel the excitement all through the house and grounds. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

The road was scarcely wide enough for two riders to pass abreast, its surface cut by tiny streams and littered with stone. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

In the middle of the road was a flattened, bloody mass of brown prickles and white fur, with small black feet and snout crushed round the edges. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

She couldn’t read the signs along the road. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But you can’t get there through the church; it’s falling down. The cave across the road leads into it.” On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The gateway was no more than a pair of ruined stone pillars, with a road leading away between them into empty fields. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

She’d seen them on the road at seven in the morning coming home with their strings of fish or with mushrooms, with fern tendrils, butter clams, sea-run trout if they got lucky. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

It was cut by fences and the white of the road showed through the trunks of a double line of trees that crossed the plain toward the north. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

On either side of the road are enormous, stately trees that look like their roots are growing into the sky instead of underground. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

The wind skips behind me, nudging me forward down the walk and then away from the main road, toward the older homes, his neighborhood, right beside the lake. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

I followed Uncle Abdullah down the winding road of orange dirt that ran past our home. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

As I back out of the driveway onto the road, I see Dad looking at me through the front bay window. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

Now that noon was past, there were few people on the road, but soon they fell in with a peasant with a shepherd’s crook over his shoulder. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

Reciting mostly from memory, his voice would roll down the road for a quarter mile. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

We stared out atSnapfinger Cemetery, and the blacktopped Rural Route 2 that stretched out to bigger roads across all of Mississippi and beyond. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Yolanda climbs out as well and walks down a pace, until the boy has disappeared in one of the turnings of the road. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

We don’t dare cross the road and with the river at our backs, a fallen log is the best we’re gonna get. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

A long flutter, the ball passed over, exploded on the far side of the road, along the edge of the hospitals there. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

As she walked along the rising road that bordered the sea, Lupita’s eyes smarted from the sharp brightness of the blue water and the white surf curling onto the beach many feet below. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

The horses picked their way around a hole in the road. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

They were hers, the Latvian who had lost her life to winter and war on the side of a road. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

They moved back up the side street and onto the main road again, where a group of men on the opposite side was singing and weaving across the pavement. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

That shack was the beginning of Lacks Town, a single road about a mile long and lined with dozens of houses —some painted bright yellows or greens, others unpainted, half caved-in or nearly burnt- down. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

And in just a few minutes, he found one: a dirt road running perpendicular to the highway. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

By now the people upon the road had swollen to such great numbers, the press became intense. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

‘In Minas Tirith they endure the East Wind, but they do not ask it for tidings. But now Boromir has taken his road, and we must make haste to choose our own.’ The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

With his eyes focused on the road, Apa says in a weary voice, Read those forms carefully. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

If we were that close to the border I did not want to be hailed by a sentry along the road. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

Maman Thibaut just keeps making me more coffee and the girls are keeping a good watch on the road and the back lane. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

I’d get up early some Saturday mornings and drive south on Highway 17, push the Ford up the winding road through the mountains to Santa Cruz. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Along all the roads troops were moving; for the Captains of the West were advancing and the Dark Lord was speeding his forces north. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

When they got to the fire station down the road, medics pulled Deborah from the car, gave her oxygen and injections, ran an IV to her arm, and loaded her into an ambulance. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Without saying anything to one another, the Hessians began to move in the direction of the sound, crossing the road and entering the dark, soaking woods. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

In the summer, there were always divers hanging around half dressed by the side of the road. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

We were now flying through clouds and mists and in desperation the pilot descended and followed a twisting road through the mountains. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I was told the village was in a valley completely surrounded by mountains, the nearest hospital a two-hour drive over terrible roads, I was delighted. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

He pulled the car off onto a logging road and turned to me. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lena’s hut was gone, replaced by an unfamiliar road with trees on all sides; half the trees had decided to put on their fall colors, but the other half stubbornly clung to summer green. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

“It says so on your gatepost. On the main road.” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

‘The air is filled with storm spirits and gryphons. All roads to the Acropolis are patrolled by the Earthborn.’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

I climbed down the embankment looking for it, but the hill was too steep and Angelo called me back up to the road. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

As the Tillermans, breathing in gasps, were passing the playground, a dusty green pickup swung into the road that circled before the school entrance. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

He pointed east, where the road led into the highroad and to the town gate. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

He found one at the end of a small road. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

He may walk along old familiar streets and roads, but he is a stranger in a strange land. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

The trees along the road were thick and tall. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was only fifty yards from the road, when suddenly a rabbit exploded from underneath my feet and I leaped backward in surprise and fear. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

Nearby was a heavy, wandering black line, which I presumed to be the Forest Service road we stood beside, though there was no actual telling. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Planted along the grass at the road’s edge were two lines of hornbeam trees, odd-looking things with perfectly symmetrical close-leafed crowns, more like children’s drawings than like real trees. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He woke toward the morning with the fire down to coals and walked out to the road. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

Then we came to an old oak tree grow ing close to the road. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

Outside the window, the fields of tall sugarcane gave way to lined rows of papaya orchards, and then to forest, as the carriage rumbled slowly up the mountain road. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

He weaves across the road in figure eights, then around me in circles, then rides beside me again. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

She had taken her time on the way home, avoiding major roads, and had spent the night in a tiny place in the mountains, the name of which she had already forgotten. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

It is well known that our roads are dangerous. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

The bus jolts over the broken, unfunded roads. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“I’ll take the left side of the road. You two take the right. Tell them we gotta meet. Our house. A half hour. Shake a leg, now.” Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

‘See! Some of the Southrons have broken from the trap and are flying from the road. There they go! Our men after them, and the Captain leading.’ The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

The wagon bumped along the road, swaying from side to side. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

We spent the next fifteen minutes looking for Chas around the gas station, even walking both directions away from it along the road, but we couldn’t find any trace of him. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Then I explain about seeing him at the edge of the road on that perfectly good Sunday morning. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

She’d had to stay awake and read maps, to find roads without tolls. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

The road to Zach went straight through the new hippie kid. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

That tenderness in her voice when she called him back from his memories, from Dunkirk, or from the roads that led to it. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Through pollinated air she saw a glorious being coming up the road. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

As they sailed, Frank kept her spirits up by telling her silly jokes— Why did the Minotaur cross the road? The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

“He told me, ‘I just took my eyes off the road for a second because I was looking at my computer.’ A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

“He was looking for our description. I was wrong to use the road in the first place.” We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

Joe and Victory walked the road along with the others for a while, then took off. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

The road surface tore viciously at my tires and made Rocinante’s overloaded springs cry with anguish. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a big school, near the top of a hill looking down on the town, with a steep road leading up. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

At first sight it seemed that an enormous horizontal door was flying up the road toward them. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

The road was rutted in sticky red mud, and Robert had to put the truck in low gear and gun it to cross the flats by Prairie Dog hill. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

He walked all morning, following back roads he hoped led away from the border. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

They rode together, Johnston following, across a road crossing from east to west. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Open country with the ash blowing over the road. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

There was no guard posted on the bridge, nor at the rusty barrier across the road cutting off the way to the village. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

There was a little path beside the rocky road, and Mrs. Flowers walked in front swinging her arms and picking her way over the stones. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

I ran outside and threw up what little was in my stomach on the side of the road. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The burbs ended suddenly, a last band of parks fading into the transport ring, where underground factories stuck their heads aboveground and cargo trucks drove concrete roads all day and night. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

I turned to see a small open- topped cart bumping slowly up the road. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Trees became more numerous, and the forests beside the road were dark and thick with mystery. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Out the gate, up the road, on your left,” he said, looking at Rahel. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You a white gal. You the only one that be allowed on the road after dark.” Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

They don’t compare to this empty, sparsely lit road called American Street where only a dog barks and an old man sings before the break of dawn. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

They drove past the capitol dome of Madison, another perfect snowglobe scene in the falling snow, and then they were off the interstate, and driving down country roads. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

Aaron’s scent moves closer to the road but I’m feeling so poor I don’t even look up when I hear distant Noise now and then. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

And next, a large brown dog, with easy gait and dangling tongue, came loping down the road toward them. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

It forced me to fill my gas tank and compelled me to stop and offer a ride to an old Negro who trudged with heavy heels in the grass- grown verge beside the concrete road. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

The truck people had camped in the road itself. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

“THE WATCHDOG,” shouted another, fainting from fright, for racing down the road barking furiously and kicking up a great cloud of dust was the very dog of whom they had been speaking. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

The dark night appeared even darker as they pushed down a long asphalt road. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Z swerved off the main road and down a narrower one. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

Pinmei marveled at how he did not slip; his hooves burned into the waves of ice, and he ran as easily as if he were on a dirt road. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

Pastor Ambrose ran out to the road and began to pray. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

It seemed every single colored man, woman, and child in town was walking up the road and convening in her front yard. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Each time they came to a road, the BFG was over it and away, and no motorist could possibly have seen anything except a quick black shadow flashing overhead. The BFG 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

She goes right on, talking about their firstborn son, and how they never made it to the hospital—they had Khalid right there in the car, in the middle of the road. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

It was about a half mile away, just off Carrollton, a nearby road lined with warehouses, chain stores, and gas stations. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

All the foliage was neatly trimmed, in bright, beautiful colors, the roads devoid of even one small weed and paved in fancy yellow brick that began down by the waterfront. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

That’s all I can think to say, over and over again, as I walk away, keep walking under the hot sun, kicking up dust on the dirt road. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

The tires squealed as we turned onto the Norvelt road and about thirty seconds later I hit the brakes and we swerved crazily into the parking lot at the Huffer Funeral Parlor. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Within an hour they were far out of town on a red clay road. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

You let them go wanting, sit on road shoulders, crying next to their dead mothers. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was almost asleep himself when he saw a figure appear at the top of the road and stand there. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

They could run into the parlor, sing fast, pray quick, and be on the road before the rest of Cold Sassy got out its Sunday clothes. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

We walked on the road between the thick trunks of the old beeches and the sunlight came through the leaves in light patches on the grass. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

How long before this old truck swerved off the road or head-on into a bus? Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

He had lost sight of Sammy as soon as they left the main road. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Standing by the road in a coat and hat, he’d looked like one of us—a teenager heading out of town Friday night, away from parents and school. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

“Whether he’s imprisoned or goes back home, it’s the same result. The road is safe.” Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

‘As is, night liable to catch us on the road.’ The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

She walked calmly onto the edge of the road and put her arm in the air. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

A drawing of a low road between high grasses. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

When I came up to the front yard, I stopped, staying in the road, and waited. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

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

She hiked her backpack up over her shoulder and took off down the access road toward the elementary school. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

“There’s just red dirt roads and hillbilly kids there.” Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

His fears lest his burst dream of road building discourage her were never realized. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

But I’ve got one eye on the road, and every time a car approaches, my heart starts pounding. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

Then they set off, beating the road with their lateral limbs, and urging themselves forward down the slope until they were moving at a terrific pace. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Joey asked, paying attention to the road but flickering his eyes to the mirror once in a while to watch Chas and the girls. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

My legs burn, but I force them to pedal, harder, until I pass Ollie and head back down the gravel road toward the ferry. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Spread across the road was a metal bar, which we skirted. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

The only navigational aid in his possession was a tattered state road map he’d scrounged at a gas station. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

She's taken her eating disorder on the road, conditioning her hair with whipped topping and rolling her bangs in finger-size breakfast sausages. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

On the western edge of Evreux, the road empties and the countryside levels out. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

And apparently twenty more yards down the road is far enough away, because he eases on the brake, and pulls over to the side of the road. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

"How about putting the wine in that spring up the road?" The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

When he raised up to look he could just see the top of the truck moving along the road. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

‘But let us speak no more of these things upon the open road!’ The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

Without him I would most likely have ended up along one of those dead-end roads many black youngsters found themselves on. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had parked well away from the road and from any traffic for my time of rest and recount. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

They climbed on to the causeway and trudged along, down the hard cruel road that led to the Dark Tower itself. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

Guapo—a name meaning “handsome”—hunkered by the side of the road and gave Matt a big, almost toothless grin. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I pushed a couple of them to the side of the narrow road as I walked over to Mr. Patterson’s porch to wait for Fred. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

Above this hillside, the forest rose to the north and west, back to the road. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Each time he passes a restaurant he considers turning off the road, but then he finds himself in a residential section, blocks of Victorian mansions on snow-covered lawns, sidewalks covered with lacy patches of ice. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

As we walked past the frozen corpses, I wondered who else used this road. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

Not by butterflies with wings as clear as little cats-eye glasses; not by the longest or shortest or greenest snake in the road. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

He then tossed the infant into the bush on the side of the road. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

The wealthy people of Fairfield did not live near a train station and very few of their houses could even be seen from the road. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ob kept running the car off the road as he tried to drive and look at the same time. Missing May 1992-03-01T00:00:00Z

Someone bumped into her back as she abruptly stopped short in the middle of the road, but she didn’t care. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Once more they took to the road, walking north toward the United States border. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

A woman, holding a baby in her arms, smiled at me from a doorway, while a man clanked across a road to a well, carrying a pail. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

The road curved alongside rivers that rolled and gabbled hurry, hurry, hurry. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

Winged seeds lay beneath the tulip trees, and all along the roads milkweed pods began to spill white silky threads. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

I drift along, and just before the turnoff to my parents’ house, I spot Papito at the edge of a field, by the road, fixing the fence. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

If something had happened and we were survivors and we met on the road then we’d have something to talk about. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

Grandma looked up—far out to the west, down where the road and the Wabash tracks seemed to meet. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

As we continued down the road, I became increasingly conscious of the curious looks white people gave us, as if we were a pair of escaped monkeys. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

But before either of us had a chance to answer, a Volkswagen roared in the distance and all the people walking on the road ran into the nearby bushes. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Slowly I emerge from the open doorway, checking up and down the empty road. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

The damage wasn’t discovered until late July, when a wildlife biologist named Paul Atkinson made the grueling ten-mile bush-whack over the Outer Range, from the road into Denali National Park to the Park Service shelter. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

But I look at all the dark and twisted roads ahead and this is the easy one, the obvious one. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

The light was dimming, the road was straight, with neither house nor human being in view—nothing but land winter-stripped and as somber as sheet iron. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

Almost as though we were the first car to drive the road in quite some time. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Other times we ran into storms or into road construction and we were lucky if we made 200 miles. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

When you lifted the seat of the bench there were travel guides, road maps, and well-worn paperbacks under it. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

I just stay there, watch while she roll real slow down the road. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

‘Never yet. Do not then stumble at the end of the road,’ answered Gandalf. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Men still tucking their nightshirts into hastily pulled-on overalls hurried down the road, a couple of them carrying shotguns. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

In our village there are very few boys of an age to climb trees for birds’ nests, or girls stomping self-importantly down the road with a sibling clutched sideways like an oversized rag doll. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

They walked side by side, and I walked with them through the winding roads of the forests. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

I keep the campsite behind me and head off in the direkshun of the road. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

Seven divers stood between the road and the shore. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

Mr. Ray jerked the car over the side of the road, pulling up in front of a bodega. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Zooey glanced at me again, and the entire car swerved to the right, barely remaining on the road. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

All of this is seen by two teens up on some ledge, on a road called Lovers’ Lane. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

‘If you were in a hurry, the road would have served you better,’ said the farmer. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Ghost trucks drive the same roads at night, coming on fast with their bright lights flashing and engines revving loud. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

She might fall asleep in plain view along the road. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

At a moment when the opening was clear, the men were glad enough to rush out of the yard and make a bolt for the main road. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

Then my dad said, ‘This country is going a little bit crazy. I know it’s just a glitch in the road, but I want you to know there’re things you can’t do anymore.’ Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

With the first gray light he rose and left the boy sleeping and walked out to the road and squatted and studied the country to the south. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

I knew there was something dead on the road to Tucumcari. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

I hope that he's watching the traffic and the rules of the road. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

She stops where the alley intersects with the road. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

On the road again, beyond the town’s last streetlight, he sipped the coffee and quit thinking about the various ramifications for a while. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

We accelerate again, then reach a wide, open road suspended across the railroad tracks I once walked down to reach the compound. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

He steers our SUV into the road and starts across the neighborhood toward the middle school. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

He and his team cut roads, built bridges and telegraph stations, installed telegraph poles, and strung thousands of miles of telegraph lines. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

Kit would remember many times the picture she carried with her along the darkening road. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

He made his end of the rope fast about another tree, and then ran lightly along it, over the river and back again, as if he were on a road. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

He made a nod of his head as if to suggest what was coming up the road. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

This road of endless ruts and missing stretches of pavement had been built during the first American occupation of Haiti, in the early twentieth century. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

I hurry out of her house and walk quickly back down the road, suddenly eager to get home. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

Too much rain would muck up the roads. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I go that way, too, but it’s too small a road for me to be following ’em. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

Even the Alliance was frozen white, and maybe that’s why Joseph dropped his backpack on the road, clambered into the high snow, and headed down to the river. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z

Millard removed his greatcoat and threw it into the weeds by the side of the road, making himself invisible. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

“That’s enough out of you, girl. Time for us to be on the road to Newport.” Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

There is no road for me to take. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

It woke him up and got him off the road. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now the squirrels seemed to be interested in what was happening in the road. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

“I wanted to make sure you were okay, though. And then I saw you running on the road, so I followed.” Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

“But here we are, speeding down the road. And we are speeding, aren’t we, Great-Aunt Tootie? Surely we are exceeding the posted speed limit?” Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z

Anything to get away from the road itself. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

At length they came to Weathertop; and it was then drawing towards evening and the shadow of the hill lay dark on the road. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

The truck bumped along the roads toward the elementary school, swerving around debris from the storm. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Ugwu watched her too, until they turned into the dirt road. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

There’s a park bench across the road and we sit there, eating the chips. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

He didn’t say anything else for a minute, just looked down the road, as if he were hoping this dog of his would suddenly appear. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

He pushed through the plants until he stepped out onto a road. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

Then Pa always said, “To keep an eye on the road,” as if I was really doing something when all I did was keep Pa company. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

She stopped at the intersection of the lane and the main road, waiting for a truck to pass before she turned. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

As I walk out, I notice a group of boys hanging around across the road. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

Once well out of Hampden, we turned off the main highway and onto a stretch of gravel road that I had never seen. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Little scraps of my life blowing away from me, blowing down the road, into the sand, across the street. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

Ma Charles perked up like I knew she would, which told me I had to try harder to get Miss Trotter to cross over the creek or go around on the road. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

Suddenly, while Jody watched, the black dog stiffened, and backed out of the hole and looked up the hill toward the cleft in the ridge where the road came through. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

They found only “would-be rescuers and thrill-seekers” crowding the local roads. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

But instead, when her father’s time with the navy was over, he went on the road with two of his flashy electric guitars. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

He couldn’t see anything moving on the road or in the fields, but still, the skin on the back of his neck prickled. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

I had no idea what I was walking into, but I knew one thing for sure: It was preferable to falling into that soldier’s hands on a lonely road. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

The main pack of infected were farther down the road, but there were enough people nearby for the two to be wary. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

Up here, up near the end of the road, up near the top of the mountain, the wind was a living thing that shook the truck and snuck through the gaps in the door. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Then he asked, “But how come you’re sitting in the middle of the road like this?” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Seems as if I know, but I can’t remember learning it. Seems as if it’s along the road. We’ll know it when we get there.” The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

In the pitch-black night, there was nothing to look at but the road ahead, lit by the car’s headlights. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

People were lined up along the road, shouting and waving at us, and one young man, perhaps twelve years old, ran along behind us for several miles. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Scoob’s got his window down, and the fresh air gusting into his face as they gobble miles and miles of Texas open road clears his head in a way he doesn’t expect. Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z

“She doesn’t need to. Everyone just slides around in their shoes. Let’s go on Sunday, after church. The roads will be clear by then, but the marsh should still be frozen.” The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

It is the back road to the Sierras and the main route from southern California to Reno and Lake Tahoe. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

I handed him the pistol and he walked down to where the sergeant of engineers lay face down across the road. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

That was the mission of John Blackburn, Virginia’s easygoing admissions dean, when he rented a car and took to the road in the spring of 2005. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

Only the beams from the headlights illuminated the dusty road. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

I’d have to turn around and look for the fork in the road again. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

About twenty yards from me, it slows to a stop with a great screeching of brakes, and I have to run back along the road to get on. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Only after we were three or four miles out of Imre and we came to a good, straight stretch of flat road did I nudge him up to a gallop. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

They turned the common man into a sultan of the open road. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

The road ran through thick dark woods that were probably full of good places to hide. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

After a minute, he pulled something—a paperback book—out of his back pocket, and sat down at the edge of the road. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Leah and I tried to explain to her how in Africa the roads are here today, gone tomorrow. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

He dismounted and led his horse as quickly as he could along the right-hand road. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

The truckers left their vehicles along the roads. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

Soon I would see him emerge from the curtain of evening shadows on the long gravel road that led to our home. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

Here, the sand was fine, gray, and sun-seared, nothing like the clumpy red earth back home; the trees were tame, unlike the bursting greenness that sprang up and cast shadows on the road to Umunnachi. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Though her husbands work kept him on the road, Dorothy exchanged her traveling shoes for Farmville life and the routines of family, the stability of regular work, and community. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

“I never got him. He came to me along the road when he wasn’t more’n a pup.” Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her skills and determination would see them through this setback and get them back on the road to victory. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

Nor did they notice that he was following now, beside the road far behind, his mouth, above the thin, gray beard, turned ever so slightly toward a smile. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

She pointed down at a giant road-train passing below, the only light coming from it a dim red flicker from underneath, the navigation laser reading the bar codes painted onto the road. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

He doesn’t bother to honk, maybe because everyone else on the roads already is. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

The single-track dirt road had deep wagon ruts, and it like to jolted us to pieces. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

The road bent its way along the coast, dead sheaves of saltgrass overhanging the pavement. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

She gave a hard violent jerk at the string on the chickens’ legs, and with a squawk and a wild fluttering of wings, the chickens ran back down the road. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Actually, when we did reach the sea, we found we were standing on a road carved into a cliff edge. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Chris took off down the road, and I pedaled hard to keep up. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

It struck me as very sad, this old man all alone on the road with no one to talk to but his donkeys. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

About this time, my mother began to be visited by some Seventh Day Adventists who had moved into a house not too far down the road from us. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

The host turned away now from the road to the Fords of Isen and bent their course southward. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Hedgerows along country roads and bordering fields provide food, cover, and nesting areas for birds and homes for many small animals. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Tonight she moved faster than usual as she headed down the road toward her home. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

Between Coalwood and Big Creek High School were eight miles of twisting, potholed roads. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

The wind shifted so that the heat and smell bore down on the road. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

Sometimes we were so close we could see a row of trees and the road along the shore with the mountains behind. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

Plus, there’s only one road to town, so if they got worried, all they’d have to do is drive in and find me. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

With each sound she heard—a lorry rumbling past, a chirping bird, a child’s cry—she ran from the veranda bench to peer down the road. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

The ash trees lining the lonely one-lane back road were just coming into their lovely young skin, but in the afternoon light their shadows couldn’t have been longer. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

The family said their good-byes and watched as the taxi disappeared down the road, its broken taillight fading into the gloom. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

The tan-and-black car made its way up the road as far as it could before reaching the trees blocking its path. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

We stopped to wait for a herd of cattle crossing the road, driven by Kikuyu boys holding switches. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

We have some new friends who live at the refugee camp down the little road behind our house. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

The path crossed the stream on another foot-log below the ford, and joined the road, and we went into the woods. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

After many hours of jolting and bumping along the roads in the j eep—after nearly a week of exhausting travel— Salva entered the shanty that served as a recovery room at the makeshift hospital. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had thought, as soon as he got as old as Matthew and Mark, he could play in the front yard and kick the ball out into the road if he wanted. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

At one point, we went over a section of the road that had just been repaved. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

We had just got on the road again when a little two-seater black Ford pulled into the highway just ahead of us. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

By two o’clock on the first afternoon of the trial, snow had covered all the island roads. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

“But we returned it. Most of it, anyway,” I said, keeping my eyes on the road. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

“See where the road goes over that rise?” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

There are boys whose mothers stagger through town roads when the juke joint slams its door. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

We just had to follow an unpaved road beyond El Sacrificio, travel about twenty minutes, watch for the crooked fork in the road, and turn into it. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

On both sides of the road we were surrounded by miles and miles of cotton plants. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Yes, my love, of course, but you must go. I don’t want you to be stopped on the road.” In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Their arrows landed in a row across the road, making a flaming barrier. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

He stared at the line of pines across the oil-top road. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Another was the use of so much wood in the construction of homes, offices, sidewalks, and roads. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

As Easter Sunday dawns, Herold and Booth are camped in a grove of pine trees a quarter mile off the main road. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

He looked on the road for his son, and he went to the inn to look for him, but Charles was gone. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

The trail had eventually forked and then intersected the road they were currently following. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

On the road, I find myself crowded among thousands of people walking amid deserted towns and villages. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then Argus honked his horn down at the road, and I lost my chance. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

Milo looked around and, for the first time, noticed dozens of them—sitting on the car, standing in the road, and lying all over the trees and bushes. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

Watching the neighborhood go by—the sagging row homes, potholed roads, trash blowing around, tree bark tagged with graffiti—I wonder if Boy21 will really visit me tonight. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Rachel stood in the doorway peering anxiously up the road. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

“First of all,” Mrs. Asher began, glancing at a flitting motion on the side of the road before continuing, “I didn’t steal it. No one but me even knows the thing really exists.” A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

They were raking the lawns and burning leaves in the road, and I stopped for a long time and watched. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

But then there was another little road, going into the trees. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

The fire has already leaped to the other side of the road. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Outside it was a lovely warm evening and I could hear the waves breaking on the beach just across the road from the hotel. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

“Spring break. Any day. I can borrow my mom’s car and drive us up there, and we can stay with my cousin’s friend. It could be like a whole road trip.” Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

She raised her hammer even higher when Ernie jumped a small ditch and walked across the road into her yard, Genie following, slapping grass and dirt off almost every part of his body. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

The roads were still crowded, a new surge of cars leaving, but Zeitoun didn’t consider it. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

As she swung along the village road, Alyce, with good feelings tumbling about inside her, hummed and then tra-la-ed and then sang, as loud and clear as a swan. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

He heard the iron tires of the cart grinding on the road. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

One short bit of road running thru the center, paved back in the day, never upkept since, goes to gravel real quick. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

The little boy turned to me and saluted, as he had on the road. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Finally, the road came out on the top of the hills. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

He walks outside to stand in the road. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

From there, the car motored down a long, straight road with plowed furrows and rows of trees on the left, brown grass on the right. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

I hadn’t the faintest idea how the night sky might serve as a road map. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

I look over my left shoulder and see the headlights burning gold against the gray buildings and roads. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

Anyway, this study in the Times showed that state police are more likely to pull drivers over to the side of the road if they have dark skin. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

The road up through the foothills is just wide enough for two small cars, and so at each curve, as she has been instructed, Yolanda slows and taps her horn. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

They drove quickly, and once again she could see nothing more than a black square outside the window, but this time she could feel the road beneath them. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

I point out the window, to a bench along the road. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

They didn’t speak as they rushed down the road under the bright sky. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

They had been chasing our cars down the dirt road. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

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

Your childhood friend didn’t stomp one to death on the road to Baedn-Bryt. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The dirt road curved, and trees blocked the sight of the University’s buildings behind us. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

They watched silently as the undertaker inched through the field between the road and the house, his tires sinking into puddles of red mud. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Mr. Clutter seldom encountered trespassers on his property; a mile and a half from the highway, and arrived at by obscure roads, it was not a place that strangers came upon by chance. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

I counted two on the east side of the dam road, blocking the way to Arizona. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

“He would cry over the strangest things,” she said, “like a dead dog on the side of the road or a smell that reminded him of his grandmother.” Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

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

Similarly, a church member, a taxi driver, gave five migrants a ride up the road. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Pen 63 is about the size of a hockey rink, with a concrete feed bunk along the road, and a fresh water trough out back. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Frear and Wood hurried away as quickly as possible, weaving around the piles of personal property abandoned in the road. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

Behind them rode Elladan, last of the Company, but not the last of those that took the downward road. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

"Almost there," Baba says as we pull off the main road. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Because the other kids were coming in on that same road to go to school. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Where the road turned to enter Sassinoth he left it, skiing out across the unfenced fields. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

Bursting into tears like that, on the side of the road? Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

The footpaths we followed spent a lot of time in the woods but also emerged at obliging intervals to take us along sunny back roads and over stiles and through farm fields and hamlets. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Me and Howard rode our bikes up and down that mountain road all morning long. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

“We should be there by early afternoon. We’ll take the quiet road and meet up with main traffic routes closer to the border.” Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

‘We think you had best come now with us. It is not our custom, but for this time we will take you on our road, and you shall lodge with us tonight, if you will.’ The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

The three made their way down a series of hidden paths and public roads, Booth riding, the others on foot. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The road is uneven, not quite paved, a mixture of heavy gravel pressed into dirt. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

As his mother was about to try to drag a firmer commitment from him, a bestickered Toyota Prius zoomed up his road and screeched to a stop in front of his house with a honk. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

Her feet skimmed the snow as she ran down the hill and across the road, where the children were hitching a dog to a sled. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

As the ambulance climbed along the road, it was slow in the traffic, sometimes it stopped, sometimes it backed on a turn, then finally it climbed quite fast. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

As he was rolling toward the road, Toby turned up the radio. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

“Oh my god—” Nicole hit the brakes and the car fishtailed as a deer flew across the road. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

He dismounted and led Bayard to the edge of the road where he could examine the lay of the land. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

The road above the town affords a panoramic view as far as the eye can'see. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Getting to the Potomac undetected means traveling down well-used public roads. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

To him it made no difference how long the road, or how rough or rocky. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The van parked in such a way that no one on the road or at the gas station could see what went on between the two vehicles. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mama swears she can get us to the address on time as long as she sticks to her side roads and backstreets. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

The Ivanov house came into sight just as the dull thud of horse hooves and the sharp crunch of wooden wheels over the dirt of the road rose behind them. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

I turned around and began a clumsy run across the field in a line which avoided his house and aimed toward the road leading back into the town. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the end of our street in Eden Park, right in a bend at the top of the road, stood a giant mulberry tree growing out of someone’s front yard. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

I grabbed Delsa by one arm while Doña Zena took the other, and we struggled with her and Norma up the road. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

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

The sun was climbing, and he could hear warbling meadow birds and mourning doves calling from the tall grass beside the road. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Past Portland and the first exits for Freeport, Dad helpedSookie navigate a series of country roads overgrown with bushes and trees that blocked my view to the water. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

But what most surprised me in Namibia was a street sign: one of downtown Windhoek’s main roads was called Goering Street! Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

I stood before it for several seconds wondering whether the road wouldn’t be a better idea after all. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

Twenty minutes later, I’ve managed to get them out the door and to the corner of our road in the trailer park where the Head Start bus picks them up. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

They were pursuing the sow along a road on the edge of the resort where bungalows were fronted by small patches of gardens surrounded by fences. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

He emptied the box and picked up a handful of dirt from the middle of the unpaved road. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

The morning shimmers with fallen rain, but despite the mud on the road, we make good time. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

She came running across the railroad ditch to the road and, like a wilted pot plant that just got watered, smiled up at me with the purest pleasure on her face. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

By nightfall, the little family found themselves still on the open road. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

Heading west on I-10, she felt some measure of relief in knowing that at the very least, on the open road she would have some time to think. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Feeling an urgent call of nature, Chronicler pushed his way through the bloodred sumac at the side of the road. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The road curved through red clay and junipers uphill to the northeast. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Now he would have to use his climbing rope to descend quickly to the road. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Other than a cottage or two, thick woods edged up against both sides of the road. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

“Things have been really hard for you—for all of us,” he said, his eyes returning to the road. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“Okay. Let’s get this show on the road. Guess I can’t stall any longer.” Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

The narrow road curved back and forth and round and round. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

Finn stood there, frozen, staring down the road, until a voice behind him said, “That fool horse is headed right for the highway.” Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

A small figure distant on the road, bent and shuffling. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

He called for road guards and skirmishers and the Twentieth Maine began to move toward Gettysburg. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He sighs, and eases on the brakes so the car slips to a stop by the side of the road. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Now there’s a trail to it from the road and a bench by it that overlooks the ocean, but when the artist carved it, there was none of that. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

I put on the brake and pulled Rocinante off the road. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

He loved to press his foot against a pedal and sail along, watching others stand still, seeing the asphalt road unwind under him. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

The road was little trafficked, and I was too happy about my escape to feel much fear. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

But the humming and the smell followed him all the way back down the tunnel to the macadam road. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her dress was too small for her, and she was barefoot on a dirt road, standing in front of a little hut. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

We made the two miles, but it was an awful drive on a narrow, rutted wagon road. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

The road was wide, as far as he could judge, but now the company came suddenly into a great empty space, and there were no longer any walls upon either side. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

Dad pulled over to the side of the road to readjust himself mentally to the idea of driving without being able to instantly see behind him. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

But the multiple-vehicle wrecks tended to happen during the day, which stood to reason, given that there are more cars on the road at that time. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

A wide red plank of dirt—the so-called road—flat-out in front of us, continuous in theory from here to somewhere distant. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The banks at the sides of the road spouted little jets of muddy water. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I guess. I think he lives over off Eighth Street on the gravel road,” Neil said nonchalantly. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

A little farther along, the road sloped up into darkness. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

There were more hoofprints in the hemlock grove; and then going on up the road away from me the tracks of three or four horses. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Over the next twenty days we sometimes followed roads, sometimes only paths. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

Before Toby could say anything else, Luke ran out of the bar and down the road as fast he could. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

They walked in silence through the darkness of the evening, boots crunching on the road. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

Salva had been in Rochester for nearly a month and still had not seen a single dirt road. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

We passed other camions on the road and I looked at the country. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

Men with bald heads, twenty feet tall, are said to appear on the roads outside of Ntchisi, a few at first, then dozens all around. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

I was on a dangerous road and I thought of Clifton and tried to get off of it. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

But humans being what they are, and I being human, I turned off the highway on a shaley road and headed in among the buttes, but with a shyness as though I crashed a party. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Enveloped by the heat they’d left a few minutes earlier, they walked swiftly away from the house and out onto the road. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

She searched the road, tensing, until she found where it was coming from. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Every other time she’d moved, she’d been able to think of the destination as a brief stop along the way, but this one was the end of the road. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

One dip in the road before the old Perkins place, he said, “Just let me out at the road, Miss Edmunds. Don’t try to turn in. You might get stuck in the mud.” Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

Waking up is a rude shock because I’m no longer on the open road. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

Now I went up there only when I wanted to see farther than the road just outside our compound walls. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

On our side of that sentence is empty land, grass and stretches of road. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

It is true that the state imposes a license fee, but that fee does not come to the counties or the towns except for road maintenance and extension. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Long lines of army trucks were seen driving up the narrow road to Los Alamos. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Down that road is a town, and in that town—in your time, anyway—is a train station. Your medium of inter-loop travel is when—1940?” Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

The Gypsies had met them along the road after leaving us at the edge of town. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

"Some kind of road, or a level clearing?" Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

Tess moaned, crossing the road, hopping over the ditch, and running to the house. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

I can’t take it anymore, so I turn on my heel and race up the white road to my house. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Presents paved roads in China too; this was a type of construction he knew. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

The world had shrunk to a tiny patch of road, where he struggled to stay alive. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then it was time to take the show on the road. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Those trees, I had heard, concealed every unsavory brigand and every ravenous beast of prey in the shire—until nightfall, when they ventured out upon roads such as this, in search of victims. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

However, the road outside the house was not in good condition, and the delicate silk wrinkled over the many cracks and holes in the street. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

The city was chaotic, thousands of cars on the road. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

"We have to follow this road along the ridge, cross these hills, go through the woods on the far hills, and come down to the Irati valley," I pointed out to Bill. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

Down in the deepest curve of the road in the deepest part of the valley, in farthest shadow against the rising sun, there they are. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

On February 3, according to his journal, McCandless went to Los Angeles "to get a ID and a job but feels extremely uncomfortable in society now and must return to road immediately." Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

We keep driving, and the road begins to wind. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

As I started back up the road toward the house, I looked at my watch. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

Pong started to protest that he certainly hadn't taught his teacher that lesson, but the old man was off and walking down the road again. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

Ash moving over the road and the sagging hands of blind wire strung from the blackened lightpoles whining thinly in the wind. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

She smelled like road dust, and honey, and the smell the air holds seconds before a heavy summer rain. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Knowing I would be on the road again, I wasn’t too keen to throw two bits down just like that. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I feel the rain on our backs as you crouch on the road, trying to save worms. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Oh, God, how I wish I’d grabbed a pencil right there in the supermarket and not trusted the roads home. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

In fifth grade, he claimed that Rihanna was his cousin and that his mom was on the road with her, working as her hairstylist. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

The nature of the road describes the nature of the travel. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

The road curved, and before us, on the left, were two high iron gates beside a lodge, open wide to the long drive beyond. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

They wouldn’t have a road or name the place or make it a dot on the map unless there were people there. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

“Bull, there’s nothing in this road, not even a pig. Are you sure we’re going the right way?” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The plan was to have people line both sides of the road along the route my van would take. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We paid one to mend a cracked axle on the road once.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Her aunt, who wore a man’s straw hat, shone the flashlight on the road, and an old, battered brown truck drew up to the mailbox and stopped. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

A mile down this road the mule veered off toward the river, shuffling down a heavily tracked dirt road that ran parallel to a large, plowed-under tomato field. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Dust? I guess you mean it in some other sense than the dust on the roads. No, I never did. But look! There’s a troop of angels now....” The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘If we were real orcs, we ought to be dashing back to the Tower, not running away. The first enemy we meet will know us. We must get off this road somehow.’ The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

What had begun as an initiative to put slavery on the road to extinction had been transformed into a decision to extinguish all federal plans for emancipation. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

We lugged it all across the road and up to the Wabash Railroad right-of-way and planted the card table in the gravel. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

“We can work this out on the road,” she said. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

I stared straight in front of me down the road. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Turner thought he might start bawling right there in the middle of the road, in the middle of Phippsburg, in the middle of Maine. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

They slid downhill toward a road running along the top of the gorge. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

I took her arm, waving my other hand toward the road. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Still, it must have been fate that made me grab my jean jacket—untouched since the Detroit road trip—on my way out the door that morning. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

We trailed her on the road into the center of the town, into the village of Ardsley. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes I feel that I’m quite near to her and that she’s just around the turn of the road. Stuart Little 1945-10-17T00:00:00Z

A new thought had occurred to her, inspired by the irregular hedge looming off to the side of the road. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

Maybe I’d meet someone along the road, possibly even Mother, who would take me home. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

They rest on the bus, recharging for the road ahead. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

The first path they traveled was the long road that led from their village to the big river several miles away. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

The road to the left, which I was not to take, led to the Fens, where the ogres lived. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z