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Juanita entered the room and looked from the girls on the floor to me on the bed. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z
The room they stood in was small but cozy, with a fire burning in a fireplace to their right. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z
I would be spending brief periods on a gallery but would also have a lot of time off, accompanying inmates to the mess hall and, later, to the commissary or package room or school building. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z
“Was this your bedroom, or did you have the small room?” A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z
Dorus reserved the biggest room in the front on the first floor for his duties as the pastor. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z
But later the expanse and room were easy excuses for not seeing one another. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z
Like right now, my face is still tingling where her lips touched it, and I haven’t taken my eyes off her even though she’s across the room. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z
Certainly when Slughorn, who had been busy with decanters and glasses, turned to face the room again, his eyes fell immediately upon Harry. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z
He just stood quietly over on one side of the living room, sipping, but you could see him casing the joint like crazy. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z
Major Major was elsewhere, and the enlisted men in the other room had made him the butt of an inhuman prank. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z
That her eyes are following someone else around the room? P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z
I stopped before I walked into the room and looked at him; he hadn't seen me yet. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z
I tried to listen for the sounds in the other rooms. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z
He hurried home and ran up the steps and went on tiptoe into the room. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z
They’re moving all the snowplows and road graders outside to make room for our new production. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z
Then she sort of sat down sideways on the chair that went with the desk in the room and started jiggling her foot up and down. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z
I move the dresser back to its place, go into Muhammad’s room, and put the blue board against the window. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z
When we asked him to lie down, he’d humor us, dropping first to his knees, then to his butt, then spreading himself out obligingly, faceup on the living room carpet. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z
I sit in Mrs. Robbins’s room in a daze, trying to get my feet to stand, to put up my chair, to walk downstairs where Mom will be waiting. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z
I was thousands of miles from my wife, sitting in a room that felt like a holding cell, waiting for a man I had seen murder two people that same day. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z
Gregor guessed it must be girls on one side, boys on the other, like locker rooms. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z
Behind the curtain on the living room window, a man’s head appeared. Lawn Boy 2007-06-12T00:00:00Z
In the locker rooms I’d been in, the white women always seemed embarrassed by their nakedness and wrapped towels around their waists before slipping off their underpants, but here most of the women were buck-naked. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z
“I’m going to look for Will,” Marigold said, shooting Zane a final glare as she left the room. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z
He had expected Susan’s reaction and prepared to apologize before she got to the living room, so that he could save a glass. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z
“I hadn’t realized I hadn’t been in here before. Wait, I take that back. I was definitely in here when it was your daddy’s room.” On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z
“Well, then,” Lockton said, pushing back from the table to give his belly some room. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z
I stood outside the room and closed the door loud enough that they could hear it downstairs. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z
“So where are our things, then? In your room?” Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z
The twins went to their room to change clothes. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z
When we get home the room is empty. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z
The plan of the rooms was not familiar to me. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z
The only light in the room had been filtering through the curtains. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z
Things started to fall apart at home when my brother, Jaja, did not go to communion and Papa flung his heavy missal across the room and broke the figurines on the etagere. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z
The unsaid words pushed roughly against the thoughts that we had no craft to verbalize, and crowded the room to uneasiness. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z
I lay in my bed and listened to the quiet voices of Alice and Jasper in the other room. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z
There are delicious smells in the room, cabbage, potatoes, and the pig’s head, but when Dad lifts the head from the pot to a plate Malachy says, Oh, the poor pig. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z
I thought I was the last one out of the locker room, but as I turned out of my aisle, I saw Greg sitting on a bench, leaning toward Freddie's locker with a key. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z
Liam slid down behind me, finding just enough room between my back and the old log. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z
After a minute of staring blindly into the dark, I began to make out shapes in the room. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z
The target was little more than a blur of color, so far back that its bull’s-eye was a grain of sand in the vastness of the room. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z
But there was also a party to plan, which meant the grand ballroom had to be refreshed and prepared as well, not to mention an extra cleaning for the other rooms of the first floor. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z
When Bobby embarrassedly showed her his room, she couldn’t believe the way he lived. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z
The door slides shut seconds later, leaving me in the room with only the glow of Earth’s spinning solar system in a cold mist. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z
“In the same room whar I put her maw to bed ev’y night of her life since she was big enough to sleep by herself.” The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z
Jean Louise went to her room, shut the door, unbuttoned her blouse, unzipped the fly of her slacks, and fell across her mother’s lacy wrought-iron bed. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z
I lay in bed crying, afraid to step into the room where I heard things breaking, but the next morning there were no mismatched pieces, no chips or fragments, nothing to sweep away. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z
She had no fear for Pantalaimon: the room was somber colored, and he could always creep under a chair. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z
The new place seemed to please Melquíades, because he was never seen any more, not even in the dining room. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z
When she felt she could not stop it, she would get up and leave the room, and go into her bedroom and close the door. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z
As soon as she left, Calder and Petra opened the supply room door. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z
As the light dimmed, the young falcon walked into her elaborate room with its curls and spindles and lay down. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z
The room was rank with fungus and disuse. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z
Quietly, listening to the creak of her limbs, the crinkle of the cloth that clothed her, Linda roused herself, left the room, turned into the bathroom to draw a tub. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z
I stretched out on the living room floor and it felt like I was swimming. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z
To complete the game, every treasure you collected had to be returned to the living room and placed inside the trophy case. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z
There was one from a girl he kind of liked, so he went into his room and called her back. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z
He said, “I’m going to paint the girls’ room white with pink trim!” Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z
For a moment, with the fear of my sister’s working me before my eyes, I had a desperate idea of starting round the room in the assumed character of Mr. Pumblechook’s chaise-cart. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z
After work, Fuchs walked back to his room in Bachelor Dormitory Number 102. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z
"Rogers went downstairs to clear up in the dining room and pantry. Anyone could have gone up to the woman's bedroom then without being seen." And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z
And Bess walks out of the room, pulling the door shut behind her. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z
It was all a single room, with a sleeping loft above reached by a pair of splintery ladders. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z
I was just getting to the fight with Ares when Gabe’s voice interrupted from the living room. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z
Then, standing there outside the visitors entrance, I see the sign pointing to the emergency room. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z
I am sure I was not the only one in the room who wanted to strangle her. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z
Mrs. Baker held her hand down on the horn at every intersection, fishtailed through most of her turns, and pretty much hit the entrance to the emergency room in one long sideways slide. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z
After he was gone, Tessie went inside and climbed the stairs to her room. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z
Traumas of the locker room were being released. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z
As soon as they were out of earshot of the President’s room, the Gallivespian sprang. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z
She blew out her candle and stepped out into the strange room, making no more noise than a mouse. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z
“Have you really read all those books in your room?” Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z
He still seemed to be peering intently toward the giant screen at the front of the room. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z
The moment I step into room 213, I fall in love. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z
Gradually the passageway began to widen, until it ended in a circular room with a large hole in the ceiling. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z
The horrible pare On a velvet dais at the back of the room lay a ten-foot-long golden casket. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z
It didn’t take much time for the Diamants to gather the things that had been left in my new room. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z
“Well, there’s a kid who has hardly left the waiting room since you got here,” she said. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z
We moved most of the furniture out onto the enclosed porch and took up the rug in the living room, so there was a great dance floor. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z
When I got home, the first thing I did was check Macy’s room. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z
He could make out the shapes of pilots sitting around the bar, large shoulders and barbered heads silhouetted in the pale light that spilled into the bar from the dining room. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z
Maybe Mr. Morrison was busy in his room, writing his book. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z
Business grew so prosperous that the waiting room was always packed with Eeople, and Nana began to suffer dizzy spells from being on er feet so many hours a day. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z
And they prayed on the living room floor. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z
His grandma burst into his mum’s hospital room ahead of him with a terrible question on her face. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z
“You were told to stay in your room.” Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z
The phone was in the living room and I got on the couch and picked up the receiver. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z
“If nobody’s using the room for anything, do you think it could be made into a new space for kids to hang out in? It has a bigger window, so that means it’s safe, right?” A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z
If he had laughed outright, I would have leaped across the room and punched him. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z
I could hear him talking to Jay Stringer in the back of the room, near Main Street. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z
Janice and I were standing at the chalkboard in the middle of the room. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z
The warmth I’d felt when I came into the room was turning out to be nothing more than the heat of the fire. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z
Big Head was on her side of the room building some lopsided wall. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z
There was nothing in the room, just a frayed rug, a few dishes, a pair of mattresses, and a lantern. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z
There was no sound from the room where his father slept. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z
She made a little joke about it—how she kept her mother in the middle of the living room because she didn’t want her to think she was missing anything when people came to visit. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z
My whole life I’d slept in a room with my mom or on the floor with my cousins. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z
The armory next to it hangs open, the room beyond, empty. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z
A dust-coated counter splits the room, backed by dozens of glass display cases and another, narrower door. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z
The light in the room was extremely gloomy on account of the rain, and so we moved two armchairs up close to the bay window. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z
“However, it’s a very charming room,” I said, “and I’m sure I shall be comfortable. I understand that it’s been done up for our return.” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z
When he was done and the kid ran off the floor to the locker room to change, I stood up and gave a nervous wave. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z
Light snores curl out from beneath her door as I let myself into Lucy’s room, careful to avoid any creaking floorboards, and begin to search through my mother’s piles. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z
It was after 6:00 P.M. when I wandered back to the house from the peach stand, having sold nothing, not one peach, and found Rosaleen in the living room. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z
Dad went into the living room and sat down and snapped open the Welch Daily News. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z
In the deep gray of a motel room dawn, with my imagination in overdrive, it was difficult not to confuse her with the dead girl in the dream. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z
“That was the first thing that happened today. Then I go into the locker room and all the guys are giving me the evil eye because I blew the game, right?” 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z
And so he made her eggs, and played with Buchi in the living room downstairs, and after Buchi fell asleep, he read the newspapers, all the time his head furred with that sadness. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z
Mr. Gunthrie tossed the class list back onto his desk and stood at the front of the room, hands clasped behind his back, square jaw high. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z
When Mother would stop leaving the room whenever Dad entered it. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z
In the room there was another deputy—a broad, jowly bear standing next to the door that led to the jail cells. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z
This room, set up to accommodate about twenty workers, was nearly full. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z
When the phone rang, I returned to the front room, a little ashamed of my behavior. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z
I perch on a red swivel stool at the counter, turning from time to time to see what’s going on around the room. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z
I went to my room, drenched in shame. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z
Walking toward the elevator, I freeze when I hear a familiar voice pouring out of a room nearby. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z
She tried not to think about what it would be like running across the airfield to the radio room an hour from now, under fire. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z
I go to my room and cry myself to sleep. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z
A sweetness gathered in his breast as he saw the room being turned into a shambles, a sweet moment of triumph that compensated for all the other lousy things, his terrible marks, the black box. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z
Mom was in her room ironing a white shirt for me. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z
Clayton stretched and opened his eyelids just as the violet of night turned pale blue and before white-yellow sun streams ran the pale blues out of the room. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z
Doha saw his friend Minki sitting in the waiting room with his older brother. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z
“I locked myself in my room when I got home, waited for a knock on the door and for her family to be on the other side.” Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z
Their grandmother stormed up from the table and out of the room. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z
It led to the metal staircase that would bring him to Block D. There was a telephone in his room. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z
Choosing the former, I climbed up to his small attic room at the top of the servants' wing early one morning and knocked gently. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z
I don’t mean in the same room, I mean at the same table. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z
She gave herself a little shake and, smiling again, said, “Have I seen all the rooms?” Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z
“I heard all about this rally some kids whipped up. I’m guessing that’s you and your friends. But what if I offered you atop-of-the-line Crock-pot or a new bedspread or a whole room makeover?” Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z
I’m not sure how old Jason is, maybe fourteen or fifteen, but even though he’s almost grown, his mother stays with him in the waiting room. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z
Sula stood in the middle of the little room and in her wonder forgot what she had come for until a sound at the door made her jump. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z
I go back in the living room, and Ma has my bed made up there on the sofa. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z
‘Perhaps a game...' he said tentatively, ‘perhaps the draughts board...I think they might go into the sitting room and play a quiet game, something of that sort.' I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z
The noise had come from across the room, by the window, like something falling to the floor. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z
I asked, waving at Phoebe to come into the room. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z
Ill ~ “This needle gonna hurt?” asked Ivory Christian as he lay on a table in the trainer’s room. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z
He found this very odd; the room had opened for him, after all, when he had wanted to hide the Half-Blood Prince’s book. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z
The crisp, female voice instructs us to lock the door to whatever room we are in from the inside, cover the windows, and sit quietly until the alarms no longer sound. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z
Well, that really got the lady from Student Services going and then, all of a sudden, the policeman in the room came out with Bunny’s wallet. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z
He pointed again, that time to another support column across the room. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z
Occasionally I glanced up to reassure myself that I was alone in the room. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z
"Eight more states by 1979," she reminds me before heading to our room to put her posters away. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z
Double doors stand open, welcoming us into the first room we encounter. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z
The room presses in hot and heavy the way it does when you wake up from a nap in the afternoon sun. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z
“Waking up and realizing what you’ve done ...” The room goes quiet, probably as all the Abnegation imagine themselves in the place of the Dauntless soldiers, and that’s when it occurs to me. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z
We each checked into a room, made ourselves comfortable, and then trudged back down the stairs to grab our gear and bring up the other candles. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z
There was no room for two rabbits to pass. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z
She waved the Mexican girl’s enrollment slip like a winning bingo card and trotted to the front of the room. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z
She nodded, looking relieved, and went over to sweep the other side of the room. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z
“Rejoice, friends,” puffed the weigher, bobbing his head to the room in general. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z
Ms. Ofrah is already in the conference room along with some people who work at the DA’s office. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z
Immediately, all the people in the waiting room got up and started pacing, agitated, lighting cigarettes, running hands through their hair, or checking their wristwatches. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z
It was as though I had suddenly found myself in a dark room filled with poisonous cottonmouths. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z
He clapped a hand on Harry’s shoulder, kissed his mother on the cheek, pulled on his cloak, and strode quickly from the room. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z
I backed out of the room, and had almost shut the door when my eyes fell again upon the engraving of the naked woman on the wall; and I saw that it was my mother. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z
The rooms seemed neat and spare, but not cold with tidiness. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z
Mrs. van D. sprang out of bed and went downstairs to Dussel’s room to seek the comfort she was unable to find with her spouse. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z
When she came inside she went across to open the window, which she always found closed; today she was halfway across the room before she heard Theodora’s door slam back, and Theodora’s smothered “Eleanor!” The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z
Maya’s room, as opposed to the rest of the house, looked like there had been an explosion at a color factory. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z
In the evening Levi leapt around the room catching insects attracted to the lights. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z
Then I took the books off to the library and found room for them on the shelves. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z
He rocked us back and forth as the room grew lighter. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z
The house is silent, except for a clock chiming in the living room. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z
After only two or three months in the reading room of the British Museum, it became clear that I had joined a lonely community. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z
Only last night, a guard shoved Mouse Girl into our room. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z
Papa already sat at the dining room table reading yesterday’s newspaper. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z
Small slivers of light come from between the floorboards in the rooms above me. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z
And a front room no one sits in. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z
So I sit in the waiting room, frustrated and angry. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z
She'd considered taking a shower in the locker room at school, but that might be even more dangerous, Tina et al. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z
As he closed the window in his room, Evan could hear the gurgle of the gutters choking on the downpour. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z
Across the hall, in the smoke-choked room where Hickock was undergoing his second interrogation, Church and Nye were methodically applying a more roundabout strategy. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z
After a while the room was steady again. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z
Nok got up from her bed and tiptoed out of her room and into the hallway. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z
Otis Amber parked his delivery bike in front of a rooming house and went inside. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z
I felt sure I could feel him in the room with me. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z
He had picked up a Lily Press from the grocery store on his way out, so he sat at the room’s small desk, flipped on the lamp, and began to read through it. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z
For a moment, an awkward silence filled the room. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z
The officer doing the “split” divides incoming inmates into two contingents that line up on either side of the room’s periphery and wait their turn on the serving line. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z
As Macon and Freddie approached the yard, the women from the rooming house were hollering answers to Porter’s plea. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z
“You want to go up to Mr. Henry’s room and look at his girlie magazines?” The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z
That night, in my room, I gorged myself. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z
He went first to the throne room, but the king was not there. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z
I brought him hot water to wash and shave with, and I washed in his room. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z
Working for another Ph.D. was nonsense, but only by using this dodge would I have the possibility of college rooms. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z
Amelia, Prudence, and Betsy worked in the spinning room on the third floor, so she supposed they did not know Diana. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z
I wished to do or say something further, but he simply blinked and looked ruefully about the room. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z
He placed the laptop into my open palms and left the room, whistling an upbeat tune. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z
He didn’t understand himself, now, looking at Hooper as he sat on the chair in the breakfast room. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z
Emily left her dad perplexed by her sudden interest in the editorial process and raced back to her room. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z
Others came because a relative or hometown buddy said, Man, you best see this place before you die; or, We got room now, so pack your suitcase and don’t bring no high-top shoes. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z
These questions went unanswered in the silence of the Museum reading room. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z
I also remembered that night when Dad had come back from Cleveland and we had argued in my room. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z
I nodded, and he looked at my uncle and said, “This child shows great promise. Our orphanage is full, but I will make room for her under one condition. You cannot return to claim her.” Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z
He would sweep into a room, working a cigarette in his fingers, and people would trail him like pilot fish. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z
Ceiling-high windows around her grandfather’s bed made the room feel like the crow’s nest on some urban pirate ship. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z
A chill went down my spine, and I examined the room as Chestnutt continued. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z
She was unmoved by the sudden appearance of the most livid and undernourished monsters in her room, or by the knock of devils and vampires at her bedroom window. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z
So he was sweating—and even shaky—when we got into the room with the petrels and the puffins and everyone else. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z
By the time the principal reached the supply room, Petra was alone. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z
Odysseus moved aside, yielding his couch, but from across the room Telemakhos checked him: “Friend, sit down; we’ll find another chair in our own hut. Here is the man to make one!” The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z
He holds each door open for her as he escorts her to the dining room. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z
The first night, there was no room for Reggie to have a bed. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z
Sweat trickled down Burn’s face, a combination of a hot day, a crowded room, and nerves. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z
We settled in the living room while Debbie prepared a casserole. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z
Then, without daring to venture another look into the shop window, I went upstairs to my room and lay down on my bed. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z
Bridge liked what she saw in the mirror more than she expected to and then was afraid that her own satisfaction would be obvious to everyone in the room. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z
She was instructed to stay instead in a rooming house in town—a place “for coloreds,” she was told. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z
He and Newt left the room and softly closed the door. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z
Klaus stood by the window, squinting as he read his smuggled book by the moonlight that trickled into the room. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z
More than once, the young lady called her mother in the middle of the night in pain, and the pair rushed to the emergency room. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z
I follow her into the dining room, thinking that she walks like Eleanor—hair swinging, shoulders back. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z
At that moment, Timmy, who had slipped out to the slave quarters again to look for his missing charm bracelet and, he hoped, more games with the chains, appeared in the living room. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z
The room was dimmed with curtains; it took some time for our eyes to report what lay therein. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z
One time, someone had thrown a brick through our bedroom window in the middle of the night, and the living room windows, too. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z
It was a large and beautiful circular room, full of funny little noises. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z
“Sissy! ” he would shout if I was in another room. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z
It was pitch black in the room when Chronicler woke with something soft pressing against his face. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z
“It’s the record room. They keep some of the Chicago experiment data in here.” Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z
I had to yank on it, then rattle the door, then kick it, until finally it flew open to reveal a doorway and a room filled with ice that rose to mid-chest height. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z
On duty in the sluice room Briony did the sums. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z
I got to work a few minutes early and I saw me a sight in the break room. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z
The room burst into whoops of excitement and applause. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z
Mariner, Viking, Spirit, Opportunity, and Curiosity, just to name a few, had all been born in this one room. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z
In the meantime I had to sit in the back of the room, and no kid was allowed to sit near me. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z
History, he kicked it to the far side of the room before I could pick it up. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z
The final afternoon bell has just sounded, and the room is beginning to fill up with students arriving to audition for the fall play. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z
“What did you do when you first got to the locker room?” Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z
It felt like a long time since Pong had been in a room with no orb light at all. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z
Carrying trays of this and glasses of that, I trailed after her and Harry as they circulated about the room. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z
Like the one that Frank gave Byrd at the dining room table, and like that hug by the muddy pond years ago. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z
I’m suddenly in an exhibit, and there’s a room full of people waiting for me to entertain them. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z
She stood up and walked one loop around the room. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z
After the first burst of energy, the moving in of the machines, the digging of tunnels and rooms—after that was done, a feeling of discontent settled upon us like some creeping disease. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z
“His wives eat it after, in a different room.” Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z
Another policeman takes the store man away, and our policeman takes us into a small room and asks us to sit down. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z
He paused, gazed blearily around the room, and continued. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z
“Here! We will sleep here,” Salvador announced, after he had scouted a small room for scorpions or tarantulas. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z
She said hello to the girls braiding their hair in the common room and darted upstairs to change before dinner. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z
I hung my coat on the rack and stowed my bicycle in a back room, amid ink pots and reams of blank paper. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z
They certainly weren't sniffing around for a child in the room. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z
I sat up, heart pounding, slapping at the blank wall for the light switch until the terrible realization dawned on me that I was not in my own room. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z
“Shoes off,” Lovey commanded, as we came into the front room. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z
A wiry, brown-skinned, conked fellow upstairs in the men’s room greeted me. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z
Filled with fear, with Brand pulling my arm, I rushed out of the room, raced across a rear areawav, into another room, then down a long corridor. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z
There was a kitchen, a room for sleeping, and a room in back to store cotton and weave cloth. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z
Abra tiptoed past her father’s door and went to her own room. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z
This room had several tables, skillfully made, carved and delicate. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z
She was really tall and easily commanded the attention of the room. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z
I left to scope out the living room, where I found Sean lying on the couch, snoring. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z
The low growl of ten guys in a room huffing and bouncing, packed in tight. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z
She’d noticed the hours I spent in my room with Tyler’s old boom box, listening to the Mormon Tabernacle Choir, so she began looking for a voice teacher. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z
Finally, to prove his bachelorhood as well as to indulge himself in a real bed, he invited her to his room. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z
Sometimes a gaggle of them came to the Store, filling the whole room, chasing out the air and even changing the well-known scents. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z
Ivy threw open the door to her family’s hotel room. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z
Barely a half hour later, my door opens, and I look up to see Hideo walk into my room, flanked by his bodyguards. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z
She walked into the dining room and set the big ball down on the table. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z
Ned crossed the room, took her by the arm, and pulled her to her feet. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z
What made Caroline think that April was going to be with her long enough for it to make any difference whether she had a room of her own or not? The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z
He wrote, “If you ever need me for anything, just throw pebbles at the guest room window. I’ll come down and meet you under the streetlamp.” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z
Presently, she was in a room with white walls where a woman sat reading a book by a window. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z
“I will go upstairs to the triple zero room, locate the appropriate encyclopedia volume, and check both ‘Savonarola’ and ‘Shrove Tuesday.’ Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z
“Out of a cupboard,” said I. “And I saw pistols in it,—and jam,—and pills. And there was no daylight in the room, but it was all lighted up with candles.” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z
His wife said to him, "This one'll have to go on the back seat. There's no more room in the boot." Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z
For the next fifteen minutes, I follow Mother and Missus Whitworth from one ostentatious room to the next. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z
She could not be bothered to send them to their own room. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z
“Yes. As a matter of fact, I’m just going to my room for a good long rest. But don’t you worry, before long I’ll make those rats pay dearly for hurting your father.” Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z
Was it only an hour ago, Clarisse McClellan in the street, and him coming in, and the dark room and his foot kicking the little crystal bottle? Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z
Turner offered this opinion after the warning that was issued in two thirds of classes at the Academy: “What’s said here doesn’t leave this room.” Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z
James decided that this was most certainly not a time to be disagreeable, so he crossed the room to where the Centipede was sitting and knelt down beside him. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z
We did, but we also cracked the door so we could listen a bit to the meeting going on in the living room. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z
Then I walked into a doctor’s waiting room, boring and bland, and spoke to a middle-aged receptionist, who took my details without really looking at me. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z
Rain was blowing through the screen and I walked across the room to shut the window. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z
“Where is the art room?” her mother asked. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z
I open them, and I see I’m in a bed that’s not my own, in a room of white walls and one single window with open curtains and a closed door. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z
He couldn’t risk Mr. Turner catching him hanging around the girls’ room as though he was some kind of pervert or something. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z
I just needed to get back to the practice room. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z
Of course Freak has probably already guessed I'm a learning disabled, because he's had a look around my room and it isn't exactly the public library. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z
Since there were so many kids and not much room, four students shared a desk meant for one. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z
The only sound was that of the turtle scratching somewhere in the room. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z
So many memories were made in this room. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z
“Brothers and sisters,” he began, “I prepared notes appropriate to a very depressed crowd. But I had a feeling from the moment I stepped into this room tonight that this is a celebration.” Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z
I stand in the doorway to the living room. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z
I remember when I was small enough to sneak past to whatever room Poe was in, my head still a good few inches from clearing the desk. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z
The sloppiness occasionally bothered me, but I had no room to complain. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z
In the living room they were talking about taking the train overnight to Kobe to get the butter and sugar in the next day or two. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z
Above it, on a deep ledge that ran from one side of the room to the other, my gaze fell upon a row of strange figures. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z
It was crazy to have my own room. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z
A tubby, mild-mannered recruit named Emminger, harshly flipped onto the mat, suffered torn ligaments in his shoulder and was sent off to the emergency room of a local hospital. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z
New beads of sweat slicked Ekon’s neck, and it wasn’t from the small room’s stifling heat. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z
Out of consideration for me and what I’d been through, I felt I should have been placed in a separate room. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z
I told him that it would take me ten seconds to break into that vault room. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z
The doors were golden guardians of the great room. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z
Fred took in a deep breath and stepped into the motel room. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z
She turned from the window, went to the wardrobe in the corner of the room, and flung the doors wide. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z
You can stand here in the girls’ room and practice saying that name ’til your tongue falls out, or the change bell rings, whichever comes first, and it still won’t ever be true. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z
“There is room for twenty-one more. Plenty of room. Ail the knights’ names are written on them in gold.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z
But that didn’t make things any less awkward when it was just him and me in the locker room. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z
Ash went about her work in silence as Ana upbraided her about her poor cooking skills, the invisible layer of dust on the dining room table, the unevenness of her stitching on their stockings. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z
The radio in the living room crackled with bad news. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z
I’ve been lost in thought, thinking about what these sessions with Kamal are actually supposed to achieve: am I really planning to rifle through his desk drawers if he happens to leave the room? The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z
A dining room, a kitchen, a living room, a family room—which, by the way, is where the puzzles are put together. Sunny 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z
As I study her dad’s pictures in the living room, Lorena starts rolling a joint at the kitchen table. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z
We went to a furnished room occupied by one of his friends, who understood the situation immediately and got his coat and left us alone. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z
Bookcases line the walls on either side of me, but they seem to be decorative more than anything, because computers occupy the tables in the center of the room, and no one is reading. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z
I wonder what he needs to hide, because there is enough here in his living room that should mortify him. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z
The dog, still yelping, was circling the girls, who huddled together in the middle of the room. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z
It was a bit like sleeping in the engine room of Ladderal Mill—noisy beyond belief but stupefyingly rhythmic. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z
Stuart glanced around the room to see what he could do to prove to Snowbell what good stomach muscles he had. Stuart Little 1945-10-17T00:00:00Z
As they made their way around the room, Tab signed up for Hindi Club and French Club, where Madame Lawrence pointed at Bridge and said, “Le chat! ” Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z
I walk into the waiting room, camera on. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z
She is lying on her back in a bed that’s not her own, in a room she doesn’t recognize. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z
An hour later, sweating and still panting from the swordplay practice, Celaena wiped her brow on her sleeve as they made their way back to her rooms. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z
Poring over her childhood memories, she remembered a dark-skinned boy, the library, the fireplace ablaze with enormous pine logs whose perfume filled the room, evening or night, and herself sitting on his knees. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z
I was supposed to put the right vases at the right beds in the right rooms. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z
A paper banner inscribed with get-well messages wrapped nearly all the way around the room, a souvenir from the march along the 57 bus route the previous month. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z
Finally, though, I came out and went in the men's room, staggering around like a moron, and filled one of the washbowls with cold water. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z
The four of them ate it with ice cream, and then Zorya Vechernyaya made everyone go out of the sitting room, and made up a very fine-looking bed on the sofa for Shadow. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z
A table stood in the middle of the room. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z
I hugged my sister, and ran into my parents’ room to show them what Adria had given me. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z
Sunny acted like she was about to ’splode if her “detective agency” didn’t expose why I’d been coming into the storage room after homework. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z
“Would there be room in the boat for me to ride to shore with you?” she begged. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z
Our living room was even smaller, with the kitchen set in the corner. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z
Finally Singer backed himself out of the room. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z
He had bred mice in his room—mostly undercover—to try to produce mice hybrids. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z
My mom rushed into Abuela’s room, still wearing her chefs coat. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z
Their own room was empty except for the rusted bed and its springs. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z
Being here was a kind of trespass, with the rooms future occupant just a few hundred yards away from the house. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z
I grab my plate and Momma’s and head for the den, the one room without exterior walls. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z
At Bethune, the colored high school he went to, all the tenth, eleventh, and twelfth graders—about twenty of them—were housed in the same little room near the entrance. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z
On Saturday, the second day of i960, both rooms were booked for 2:00 P.M.—the hour that four detectives from Kansas had selected for their first confrontation of Hickock and Smith. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z
Then he went into his room and didn’t come out for the rest of the evening. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z
Nan turned to go back to her room. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z
She swatted at the boys and they went rumbling to her room. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z
I’m doing a little jig in my room when Muhammad sticks his head in and says, “But what about this?” Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z
After two days of my lying on my mattress with no attempt to eat, drink, or even take a morphling tablet, the door to my room opens. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z
He was holding the lamp high up, so as to illumine the whole room, and in the warm dim light the place looked curiously inviting. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z
I just looked inside, and there, at the head of the room, writing stuff on the board, was Ms. Griegson. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z
When the bell finally rang, Edward rushed as swiftly and as gracefully from the room as he had last Monday. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z
She and her attendants ran from the room, chased by the pirates. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z
"I like to think that some of my vases are feminist. Have you seen them? They're on display in the art room. You know, where your club meets." You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z
After opening our toys, we kids were ushered into the next room to play with each other. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z
Jaimito called us over to where he was sitting at the dining room table, reading the papers he’d bought in the capital. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z
Hence the janitor who lives in one room but sports a robin’s-egg-blue Cadillac is not laughed at but admired, and the domestic who buys forty-dollar shoes is not criticized but is appreciated. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z
Inside the small house, a large cupboard dominated the single room. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z
Then, restoring her sanity, lights flickered in the doorway—candles—men hurrying into the room. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z
He lived in the room he’d once shared with his older brother Nick. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z
I decided that the miniature turret that I had built in the city room and since moved up here to my bedroom was better off on a higher shelf. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z
And soon there are people down the ladder and the room is full and he’s reminding everyone to be quiet for the millionth time, because we have an SS man living next door. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z
Neither Dr. Carey nor Stuart could see the little automobile, yet it was rushing all over the room under its own power, bumping into things. Stuart Little 1945-10-17T00:00:00Z
Then the queen would return the book to its place and wish me good night I would go to my room heavy with guilt yet consumed by curiosity. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z
"Esteemed lords, the king demands the immediate presence of his small council in the throne room." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z
The clatter of Uhmma in the kitchen finally draws me out of my room. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z
I mounted the stairs to a door that was lettered: The Chicago John Reed Club I opened it and stepped into the strangest room I had ever seen. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z
Inside, my parents call us into the living room and ask how our day was. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z
The four of them left Ron’s room and went back downstairs to find Mrs. Weasley alone in the kitchen, looking extremely bad-tempered. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z
I had tried concealing myself in the powder room, but it didn't work. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z
Surely, her parents would give Layla a room by herself or Layla would nobly volunteer to share a room with the twins and do the midnight feedings. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z
It was the room that was the farthest away from the office, and Dr. Barnes couldn’t bear the thought of Mr. Larson being one inch closer to him. The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z
He then calmly walked out of the room. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z
Bits of pottery were flung across the room. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z
The mood of depression both in the staff room and in this hall tell me that this grief is shared by all of us.” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z
He was already asleep by the time I entered his room. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z
He watched me a second, then saying, “Remember!—No conversation,” he left the room. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z
Isabella looks around the room like there might be a hidden camera or something. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z
The boys stood together on one side of the room and the girls were across from them. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z
Caroline disappears to her room and his father pulls out the newspaper. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z
A nurse arrives in my room with our evening meds. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z
While dusting and wiping and fluffing and sneezing, Ophie wondered what it would be like to have people spend weeks getting a room ready for her. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z
Not until Mom and Sam run into my room. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z
With only four of us left in the room, Bill returns and hands Mr. Shunk a note. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z
Just as Kendra returned her attention to the latest poem, Seth burst into the room, breathing hard. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z
Upstairs in Kenyon’s room, on a shelf above his bed, the lenses of the dead boy’s spectacles gleamed with reflected light. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z
Then right on to the room he had been sleeping in for two weeks all by himself waiting for her to come. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z
He had spent the previous eight weeks confined to his room close to twenty-four hours a day and had been denied mental health services despite his repeated requests. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z
It was now something faintly like a study, as were most of the rooms in his house. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z
We went into a room down the hall where paintings and photos covered the walls so completely, there was barely an inch of wallpaper exposed. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z
Mark ran his hands through his hair, looking around in anguish, as if some magical answer to all their problems might appear in a dark corner of the cargo room. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z
After scanning the room, I nudged Simmon with an elbow until he looked up from the game he and Wilem were playing with shims. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z
It isn’t his room calling this time, it is ROOM. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z
Quietly, in an outer room, she told him how bad it was. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z
I preferred reading in the total isolation of my own room. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z
Before the Hate had proceeded for thirty seconds, uncontrollable exclamations of rage were breaking out from half the people in the room. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z
“Don’t worry, we’ll find another sport for you,” he said and told me to go upstairs to my room. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z
The committee issued a public warning, telling recent arrivals to clean their homes thoroughly, burn gunpowder to purify the air, dump lime down their privies, and whitewash every room. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z
I was about to run from the room when I remembered another problem. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z
She thought maybe Mama was being too cautious, but sure enough, that night, they came back late to find their things misplaced, as if someone had gone searching through the room they shared. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z
Something to fill the time, at night, instead of sitting alone in my room. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z
“Is there some room you should be ready to run to? Isn’t there some clue or book you need to go find?” Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z
Her real room was in her real house in Atlanta. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z
It fades around me until I’m back in my hospital room. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z
The curtains were still open, and the only light in the room came from the moonlight filtered in through the window. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z
Edd and Emmett crossed the room, their footsteps ringing on the stone floor. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z
Antain peeked hopefully from room to room, on the off chance that he might catch sight of Ethyne, the girl from school. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z
I was left in the nurse’s room by myself, staring at the eye chart. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z
Across the room, Mad Sweeney was feeding quarters into the jukebox. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z
Sitting in the living room, Ben had shone brightly in the companionship of Colonel and Mrs. Matthews, overpowering them with the heavy artillery fire of impeccable manners. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z
She had a room and a mural and a crib to sleep in. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z
I looked past her shoulder and saw Henek coming into the room, a girl right behind him, and he was smiling. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z
The first thing I noticed about the room was something strange about the air. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z
As she started telling us the cafeteria rules, 1 looked around to see where Jack Will was sitting, but I didn’t see him on my side of the room. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z
A moment later he had scrambled underneath and into the room, which was, as he’d guessed, a scullery, with sinks for washing and racks for drying crockery. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z
I tilt my head toward the boxes in the corner of our living room. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z
“We prove that the world can be like this room. It can be a safe and equal space for everyone. We just need to dismantle the walls of privilege and oppression.” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z
“We can get his stuff from the locker room,” Joey said. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z
Park ran into his room, then stopped to catch his breath before he picked up the phone. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z
Mr. Milgrom pushed his pill cabinet and the table to one side of the room. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z
The redhead laughed, and the group at the door, they joined in now, making their way into the room, eyes flashing. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z
Music is powerful, and music has the power to change people emotionally or alter the mood of room with just a few simple notes or beats. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z
I feel my face flush—not because of the giant bamboo utensils and huge painting of Jesus’s Last Supper hanging in the dining room, but because Lola’s grinning at him. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z
I wandered around the room and touched everything to reassure myself that it was real and not some demonic illusion. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z
He released a seat of his own, nearly filling the room. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z
On the right side of the room sat the jury. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z
The smaller room across the hall was almost identical, except the quilt was faded blue instead of white. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z
I leaped across the room, throwing my body into the tower, thrashing my arms and legs until it was nothing but a cascade of blocks upon the floor. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z
Newcomers and visitors shared Cora’s room from time to time, but for the most part the other two beds were empty. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z
Meanwhile, your friend was convincing you to let him in that room. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z
“All right,” says Carlyle, leaning back against the green copper bulkhead of the map room. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z
Emily raised her voice over the sliding desks and chatter that filled the hallway outside their room. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z
On my way back to the living room, I feel a rush of fresh air envelop my skin. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z
But a nursing student has both her hands out to me, and Noelle is across the room. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z
Maybe that was why so many of the rooms were closed off. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z
There is only room for me to send my love, and some pressed pansies from the root I have been keeping safe in the house for Father to see. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z
My mom walks into my room and sits on the corner of the bed while I pack, sitting cross-legged on the floor. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z
I inventoried my missing duffel, mentally taking the clothes out and placing them on the broad soft rug of my dad’s living room. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z
The guard escorted me to a room where my lawyer was waiting. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z
Four guys from my neighborhood were chilling in the living room of an apartment; one of the guys had just bought a gun off the streets. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z
But there was another door on the side of the room that led to a pass-through closet, which opened to the hallway. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z
She had numerous suspicions about the accuracy of the African and ship scenes but was an authority in this room. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z
‘There are locked doors and closed windows in your mind, and dark rooms behind them,’ said Faramir. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z
“Here,” he said, and with a wave of his wand he sent twelve full glasses soaring through the room to each of them, holding the thirteenth aloft. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z
“I know, I know. Don’t worry. Had to go through that hatch room to get out and saw the boxes—still sealed and safe.” The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z
All over London, seances were being held in parlors and living rooms and at dining tables. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z
“Z, you’re not helping,” Diana said as he pulled his head back into the room. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z
My room looked safe and cozy, but I didn't feel all that secure. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z
There’s a picture window in the living room, though the view is of a large expanse of rippling mud. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z
“So when the drill starts, we’ll line up, walk to the back of the room, and crouch against the wall. Any questions?” Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z
They shared a rented room and took English classes at night at the Jewish Community Center. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z
She tucked me into the blankets and then burned more incense in the room. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z
“The remodeling was a true Ernest venture,” recalled his daughter Margaret, who turned ten that summer watching the builders tear off the front of the house and rebuild the structure room by room. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z
With Viola married and Gerry grown, I found myself sleeping on the couch in the living room. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z
The thing in the middle of the room was not exactly a table. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z
She was still a prisoner, for starters, with Minya’s army preventing her from leaving her room. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z
Inside the building were a single large laboratory and a smaller lab for the “professor,” a room for experimental equipment, and a lecture theater. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z
“Is he really my father? He said you made a wish—” “Go to your room!” her mother shouted. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z
He gave his sisters a couple of minutes to yell and cry and do whatever it was they did in the privacy of their room, and then he knocked on their door. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z
Silence settled over the room quickly, though he didn’t know if it was because people were actually asleep or just scared, quietly hoping against hope the Grievers didn’t come again. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z
I swung to my feet and balanced dizzily for a minute in the middle of the dark room. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z
Through the porch window where I was working, I could see Grandma, poking anxiously about the living room. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z
“Well, what are you waiting for?” said Miguel as he strode into the room. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z
I wanted to get away from her, away from the room. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z
Sharing our list with our parents sounded like a much better idea before we were actually standing in front of the three of them in my living room. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z
Then she went back into the living room and opened one of the albums. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z
She looked at her uncle for permission to leave the room. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z
Here’s what they told me when we got home, when Dad took my earbuds away from me and they forced me to sit in the living room. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z
I leaped out of bed and stumbled across the room. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z
If s like being in a room of ghosts. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z
I tried to sit and read but found myself pacing up and down the room. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z
He went with her back into the room, which was dark and smelled like pizza. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z
I sat with Jaja in our living room, staring at the space where the etagere had been, where the ballet-dancing figurines had been. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z
When she leaves the room a few minutes later, there’s a change in the air. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z
And I knew why my mother cried in her room so often. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z
I heard the radio in the kitchen as I opened the door, quickly put my books in my room, and joined them. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z
One night I had to get up and move it to the other side of the room. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z
He puts his hand over the wheelchair joystick and whirrs through the waiting room, down the corridor. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z
In the sitting room Lee was shriveled up like a leaf in the chair beside the lamp. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z
And I can just as easily sneak back in my room, where there’s peace and quiet. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z
I think the reason they took me is that their only child, Velma, was away teaching school most of the year, so they had plenty of room for me. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z
Then he turned and stalked out of the room—even more rattled than when he had entered. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z
Brave Orchid’s husband and children brought everything into the dining room, provisions for a lifetime move heaped all over the floor and furniture. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z
In the other room, I hear my grandmother crying. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z
"The Grand High Witch told them her room was number 454. Right?" The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z
He’d wave the toy furiously and then there’d be an awful, blinding, roaring flash that shook the room and deposited a fine ash all over us and the floor. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z
He's on his feet with this wild look in his eye, and Loretta Lee glides into the room. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z
No one notices as Gogol and his three friends make their way across the room to the keg. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z
A team of medical orderlies installed tan shades on each of the two windows and lowered them to douse the room in depressing shadows. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z
There was much betting and people went in and out of the room under the kerosene lights and he had looked at the arm and hand of the negro and at the negro’s face. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z
I ripped my way out of my room a while later and stepped onto the porch. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z
Then I looked in all the other open rooms of the house, with an ever-growing fear chilling my heart. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z
“Come forward, you two,” he said, moving to the side of the room. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z
She ran into the room next door to bring some spirits or other with which she could revive her mother from her fainting spell. The Metamorphosis 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z
The building still looks like a school: fine wallpaper, maps of far-off places, writing slates in most of the rooms. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z
I start to run, stumbling to his room. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z
“You can have the good sleeping bag if you want,” I told him while we were setting up in the living room. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z
So I take them into Stephen’s room and slide them in among his own old comic books, which are still there, stacked up under his bed. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z
I went into my room and returned with a box. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z
She seemed to know, though, just from reading my face as I crossed the room. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z
Chafing dishes melt medicinal pastilles, and steam vases release vapor into the room. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z
I run quietly, breathless when I reach the stairs, and stand at one end of the glass room while Four stands at the other. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z
I hear Mai heading out of the room, moving down the hallway. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z
My household work is done, so I shall take his foreign journal, and lock myself up in my room and read it.... Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z
When the room was empty, we stood up and left. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z
They made the room as bright as daylight. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z
I rise from the living room couch and inch past the doorway to the kitchen. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z
When they emerged from the women’s room, Dicey could not see James and Sammy. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z
The lightbulb over the sink in the back room had burned out, and Jimmy didn’t have any extras. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z
“Oh, I nearly forgot. Mrs. Gause wanted me to give you this. I checked it out of the nine hundreds room.” Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z
And in a way he had died in that room; at least something had happened and the bright little silversmith’s apprentice was no more. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z
“What the hell were you doing in my room?” We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z
She peeked into the back room and tapped on the wall to get Black's attention. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z
One day Charles walked into the drawing room and found Lenny sitting on the sofa—not jumping on it—and reading a copy of The Origin of Species. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z
In that instant, the spirit dissolved, and a moment later Albert Nightingale, wrapped in a long green dressing gown, came bursting into the room. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z
The pillow was in the middle of the room. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z
I sleep at the far end of the hall, in the tiny space still decorated like a guest room. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z
When she was finished, she beat it out of the room so fast I didn't even get a chance to invite her to join me for a drink, so I called the headwaiter over. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z
This, right here, standing at the edge of a room like a piece of furniture? Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z
On the other side of the room, Mama was baking. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z
He sat and bowed his head; the room was quiet, so quiet that Bigger heard the preacher and Jan breathing. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z
The room was warm and stuffy, so I walked out to cool off and to get a drink of water. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z
However, she laid her finger to her lips and then quickly and silently indicated to the lodgers that they could come into Gregor's room. The Metamorphosis 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z
The room they were standing in was long-shaped and softly lit. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z
Since it might be our last night together, Lucinda invites me to sleep in her room. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z
When they reached the bottom, they found themselves in a low stone room with a loud, stinking crowd of people clustered in the center. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z
Ivan yelled, scrambling out of the room before the door shut him inside. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z
I had plenty of room for all my stuff the Minotaur’s horn, one set of spare clothes, and a toiletry bag. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z
My room was so small I could’ve reached out and grabbed the leather book, but that would mean dealing with it, and who deals with their problems by choice? Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z
I walked down the hall to Cohn's room. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z
She longed only to get to the room, take off her boots, massage her abused feet, and lay down her aching head. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z
Raise and Raina stab the pillows, pull out the stuffing, and toss the feathers around the room. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z
I knew that I could not afford a room, but wandering through the city I saw signs tacked to some houses, advertising beds. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z
“When we get back to the common room tonight, we’ll both have partners — agreed?” Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z
She went back to her room and climbed into bed, rubbing her face in the pillow. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z
Only women and children were in this room—all the men and older boys were on another part of the ship. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z
He tore off out of the room, no doubt to the kitchen. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z
He got up and motioned for us to follow him into the living room. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z
I was traveling in Safina’s family’s car, so there wasn’t much room. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z
“I guess we have to do her obit,” I suggested, and headed into the living room to take my place at the desk. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z
I stay up past midnight reading in the family room in the hope that Cassie will get bored and go away. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z
If I was lucky a baby would wail in another room and she’d be off, hanging the belt on the doorknob as she went. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z
He keeps to the educational room, and the outside cages and paths. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z
He glanced swiftly around the room to see that all was well before going out again. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z
“Everyone in this room has value, and we will speak to each other in a way that shows we believe that.” Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z
The room had no windows, and only one exit—large double doors set into one of the four bare walls. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z
A girl, said a watery voice, echoing through the room. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z
We felt like canned fishes, and it was awkward to sleep and dress in a room with my sisters. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z
A group of boys are sitting at a table, all spread out and loud like they are eating at home in their dining room. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z
Mr. Banner was walking around the room, distributing one microscope and box of slides to each table. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z
I find myself standing in the middle of a room with a stunning view of Tokyo. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z
As my eyes grew accustomed to the dim room, I noticed with amazement that pinned onto the mud-brick walls was an endless array of butterflies and bugs. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z
The locker doors hanging open into the room and all the brasswork a dull green. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z
“Let us close the room to let them rest,” the Chancellor says, walking out. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z
The room must be reading her heartbeat, her sweat, her pupil dilation. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z
I went to my room so I could continue reading the letter from the Courters in private. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z
I climb gingerly into the stock car and push open the door of the little room. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z
The heavy steps of the nurse sounded in the living room. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z
Downstairs, the living room has been cleared and lit for the photo shoot. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z
But I no longer sleep in my childhood room with the vanilla-colored light fixture and the window curtains. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z
Maybe the sirens gave the girl shells that filled her underwater room. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z
When she came back to the waiting room after visiting the chapel, she found Mrs. Schein a total wreck. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z
The room buzzed with giggles, and the expert again spread his lips, took a breath, and continued his demonstration. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z
There were close to fifty in the common room by his rough count. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z
I inhaled deeply and trudged into the dining room. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z
Today, however, he veered and broke into our room instead. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z
She didn’t look like the same girl who had argued with the King’s Chancellor in the Council room, demanding that she be given a choice. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z
I wanted them back in their right rooms. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z
In the seven rooms the sound of a midnight clock brought everything to a halt. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z
Magazines and records were neatly stacked around the room. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z
They would have stayed longer, but Peeves turned up and, pretending to think that Harry wanted things thrown at him, started chucking chairs across the room. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z
Mr. Wopsle’s great-aunt, besides keeping this Educational Institution, kept in the same room—a little general shop. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z
Probably studying in his room or hunched over his cipher books or logic puzzles with Steve defying gravity, like a diving board of hair sticking off his head. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z
He and I exchange glances when Eric sticks Drew with the needle and sends him into the fear landscape room. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z
Then, as she’s closing the door to her room, Mom says something that makes me freeze. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z
I want to rent a hotel room with you. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z
“So remember today you were saying how there’s a different number of steps to your room and to the bathroom and all that?” As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z
The album playing low in the room is an old favorite Alex remembers from Denver: Muddy Waters. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z
Those looks could travel around a room as quick as the wind, replacing all conversation as soon as you entered. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z
“Let’s go. Artemis wants us upstairs in the situations room.” Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z
I'd make her calm down, and then I'd go over to the other side of the living room and take out this cigarette case and light a cigarette, cool as all hell. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z
But his jaw clenches; he turns and crosses the room to the one window. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z
I touch none of it, until I come to the map room with a desk. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z
Then the door of the bed room opened, and Mr. Samsa appeared in his uniform, with his wife on one arm and his daughter on the other. The Metamorphosis 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z
His room was now used to store flour and lentils. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z
I glanced round the room to see if there was anything I had forgotten. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z
A line of pilots began to form at the opposite end of the room, many of them removing their shoes and socks. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z
“You and I could go inside and see the very room she died in. Right now.” The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z
And being a Pepette, despite the restriction making candy off-limits to the locker room, still carried status. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z
“About that. When your dad took me down to Phoenix, and you were still up here, I kind of took over your room.” Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z
Abel was much bigger and stronger than me, but being in a confined space was to my advantage because he didn’t have the room to maneuver. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z
I want to go to my room, but I know she’ll follow me, and the lock on the door doesn’t work. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z
Little tables all round the room with candles on them that I made, lot of litde tables outside too, by the creek. The Color Purple 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z
I am so furious that there’s no room for being scared. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z
Scott's reason seemed selfish enough to be genuine, so George joined Scott in the living room and took a seat on the right side of the couch. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z
She drank two glasses of water and filled the glass again and carried it back to Faye’s room and closed the door. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z
Up in my room the rain was coming down heavily outside on the balcony, and the wind blew it against the glass doors. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z
“They also said they need money for the room.” Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z
When I go back to my room, I sit on my bed thinking about the dance and the kiss and my friends and just how horrible everything is. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z
Nathan takes me into his living room—this is where guests go, and even if I’ve been him for a day, I am still a guest. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z
Another half hour passed in good nights and farewells before Charles and his wife Annie escorted me to my room. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z
A few of the residents shuffled from their rooms, drawn by Nana’s annoyed tone. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z
He sat in the outer room and read the papers, and the Editor and Publisher and I worked hard for two hours. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z
I should have sensed him there—I’m supposed to be so good at reading a room. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z
Max raised his voice, and everyone calmed down a bit, though there was a new energy in the room, buzzing, thrilling, churning through each of them. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z
Mr. Donnelly sat down, and the rest of the room finally came to life. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z
When she got upstairs to her apartment, Cynthia dropped her bag on the couch and beelined to her grandfather's room. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z
He didn’t even stop by the dining room for a cup of coffee. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z
These were always happy occasions for Ann and her children because they were given the old—but still wholesome—meat when her employers cleaned out the freezer to make room for the new beef. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z
In the dining room, a grandly dressed woman sat at the head of the table and laughed until she began to wheeze. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z
I rolled till my feet touched the floor and then staggered to the living room. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z
She closed her left eye and looked at the room through the hole in the stone. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z
When my head comes into sight, a gasp ricochets through the living room. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z
The back room is small and lit by a single candle. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z
The room itself had no windows and its walls were thick. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z
“Get a room,” he said as he sat down. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z
From the room beyond, a little flickering light emerged. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z
After Atsbani wrote the real scores down, he told everyone to stay put, then left the room. Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z
When I sat up a bit, I saw that there was a soldier in the room. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z
In my room, though, I pause, suddenly shy. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z
For Dad, it was a matter of respect to give the better available room to his father. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z
Because now there was a sadness in the room like a thick gray ghost at my shoulder. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z
He was led out of the room, where he saw Todd. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z
Auditions for major orchestras were sometimes held in the conductor’s dressing room, or in his hotel room if he was passing through town. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z
He curled up with a blanket in the engine room and listened to the soothing hum of the generators. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z
The cop watches us for a while, then scans the room with narrowed eyes. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z
Most of the hands in the room went up. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z
It began to seem that the room smelled like cigarette smoke. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z
Alex has personally helped with exhibitions at the Smithsonian and sleeps in a room once occupied by Ulysses S. Grant’s father-in-law, but he still loses his breath when Henry pulls him through the marble pillars. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z
For some wacko reason, Ms. Jenna had started to let our after-school class come to the storage room after they had finished their homework. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z
She skips over to my side of the room, where I’m hunched over Sovereign Cities of the Supernatural World, and plops down on the end of my bed. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z
“Let’s drop our stuff in the room 1st. Then we can all change into swimsuits.” The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z
"We'll make sure to have imperial guards in any treatment room with him in it from now on," the Beauty Minister adds. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z
I turned back to the dining room, which was totally full. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z
The porch light shimmered, and the living room lights shone through the curtains. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z
That night, in the quiet? of his dark room, while a deep and clear cold frosted the starlight over the town, those words came back to Turner: “I will see to it myself.” Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z
For a moment she felt faint, her head swam, sounds receded, the room darkened, but almost at once her senses came back even more pitilessly than before, and nothing in the situation had changed. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z
So she sat there, wiping her tears with a Kleenex and watching her son shudder with grief in the middle of the waiting room floor. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z
“But,” he said, his voice reverberating strangely in the small room. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z
At night, I toss restlessly in the tiny box that is my room, the rope of my pallet digging into my back, the roof and walls so close that I can’t breathe. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z
Dray goes over to the far end of the room and pulls something out of the drawer of a filing cabinet. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z
Gradually, things began to resolve around her: There was the large empty room, the demon-painted wall, and Robbie standing nearby, looking shocked. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z
“When I came yesterday,” Lyra said helpfully, “Sister Clara put my other clothes in a cupboard in that first room where she looked at me. The one next door. I could wear them.” The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z
The slightest fluctuation in the weather outside my window, the smallest passing cloud, the changing position of the sun affected the mood of that room. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z
Only the boys remained in the bank conference room, and Felix sat frozen in his chair. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z
Old Ikwa wandered over curiously and, when he couldn’t find any room underneath, sat near us with his elephant- ear leaf held up. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z
It is the coldness of his eyes as they sweep across the room. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z
But he was fine with the spinning room. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z
She goes into a room with the princess and draws two onions out of her bag. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z
Lee left the room and shortly returned, carrying a small ebony box carved with twisting dragons. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z
Somewhere, from another room, he heard a clock ticking slowly and distinctly, as if the years, the centuries, were lost in that sound. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z
His body glided quietly across the room, noiselessly and smoothly. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z
I kicked off my shoes and felt the cool floorboards shift and groan beneath my feet as if the room was adjusting to sudden occupation after being long empty. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z
She goes running out of the room and runs back with the bedpan. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z
Sincerely, Mrs. Del S. Peabody III. It’s so silent in the room, I can hear the air go in and out of people’s noses. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z
Angela made room for me to perch on the side of her bed. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z
The other rats watched her from the corners of the rooms as she ran after it. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z
Clay found the overhead-light switch, flicked it on, then stepped across the puny, servant’s-size room and sat down on the edge of the bed, facing his host. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z
Yet she can sense, from an entirely different room, if my wardrobe is disappointing. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z
When the wind blew hard, smoke came down the chimney, into the room, in puffs, so that the walls were smoke-darkened. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z
After I had put down the tray, I had to squeeze past her once more to get to the protection of my room. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z
We open the door to the hostel and Tío Ermenio pops his head up from the sofa in the living room. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z
Even though she dreamed of a room that appeared to be the bedroom in Elinor's house, she knew that she was at home. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z
Pietro Crespi gave her some confused explanations about the poor quality of modern pitch lamps and he even helped her install a more secure system of illumination for the room. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z
I shake my head, pointing at my trombone as if there’s not enough room in the elevator for me and my case. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z
In the locker room, we all got ready in silence. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z
It’s only Tall Guy and me now in the room. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z
He took his room key out of his robe pocket. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z
A few women kept coming in and out of the room, apparently making preparations for dinner. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z
Kem, the ghost footman, said it had been the butchering room before, and the channel was for blood and the big hooks on the ceiling were for hanging meat. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z
She’s been caught up in pageant stuff, and I’ve been too wrapped up in myself, so Lucy’s room has sort of been sitting here. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z
They all steal glances into this room from the hallway. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z
Old filing cabinets divided the room into several small cubicles, in each of which was a desk painted with a peculiar orange varnish. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z
I looked about the room expansively for ideas, anything, anything. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z
“They’d get in a room and swap notes on flower arrangements and who married who.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z
Never before had her art room seen such enthusiasm. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z
He faced the Champions’ training room, and even though training was supposed to be over by now, there— Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z
We all screamed like maniacs as we ran out of the locker room and onto the basketball court, where two thousand maniac fans were also screaming. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z
He could say it was too hot in his room so he slept downstairs on the sofa. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z
My fingers gripped the book and I knew that every pupil in the room was watching. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z
With husband and children now far away, her living space shrunk from a spacious house to a single room, her suitcase now her closet, Dorothy’s daily existence was reduced to its simplest elements. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z
The next day after school when I came inside, he was waiting for me in the living room. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z
A window took up one whole wall, and the room was bright, the sun streaming through gauzy white curtains. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z
I expected him to arise any moment in the middle of the room and declare: “I tried to warn them! The Jews! They would not listen!” Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z
“I hope they’ve given you a good room, the place is half empty, so if you are uncomfortable mind you make a fuss. Your valet has unpacked for you, I suppose?” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z
I took them into my room and locked the door. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z
He had been thinking of the man ever since he had left his room. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z
My mouth filled up with the taste that I knew so well from Aaron’s room—a chemical taste, buzzy and light. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z
I zip to my room and slide the flute case under my bed. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z
I refuse to spend the night moping in my room or listening to my parents argue. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z
For the thirteen-day journey, they slept on straw mattresses on a deck above the engine room, hanging tight to their bunk beds as the ship pitched and rolled. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z
Then she turned around and walked out of the examination room. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z
“Me and Branch, we just be waiting here in this corridor then. Me and Branch, we don’t go in the room because of the wee buggies.” Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z
On a brisk spring evening not long ago, two dozen men and women gathered in the back room of a Manhattan bar to engage in a peculiar ritual known as speed-dating. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z
There was a black stone fireplace in the center of the room, a pair of chairs, and a small desk. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z
“A couple people in the waiting area have minor cuts from broken glass. Your mom was in a back exam room, so she’s unharmed.” Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z
When Mama and Grandma were in charge, there was a way to do things, of course, and yet there was room to make mistakes. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z
I filled the interval in walking softly about my room, and pondering the visitation which had given my plans their present bent. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z
By the time we get to the couch in the family room, I'm cured. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z
There is a recreation room with a bar, and a fifth bedroom. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z
“Look,” he continued, walking to the front of the room. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z
Rows of oil lamps made the room bright, and each of the men had his personal torch behind him, illuminating stacked and scattered papers that lay on the table. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z
“I’m going for a walk. I’ll see you back at your room later.” When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z
Then she made the coffee and toasted some stale bread, and they took it into the grand room at the front of the house, overlooking the city. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z
He read it from cover to cover, then reread his favorite parts, memorizing whole sections, practicing with whatever he could find around his room. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z
Rogers was standing by the dining room door. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z
They waited in the same room where Zeitoun’s friends had gathered two days earlier. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z
He leaned in the doorway between the kitchen and living room. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z
The most dramatic photograph in the museum spanned an entire side of the room. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z
Then I went back to the room, too. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z
Another voice, an older voice, spoke from the back of the room. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z
The chairs and tables had been removed a long time before, making room for dead leaves and spiderwebs. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z
After the meal—cold fish with avocado sauce, roast suckling pig in brandy, and chocolate mousse—they dismissed the waiters and bolted the doors to the dining room. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z
Grandpa Sorenson walked out of the room, closing the door behind him. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z
I was a jangling mass of excitement as I watched other students slowly trickle into the room. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z
He lies back down, blinking, staring into the darkest corner of the room. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z
She tipped the spout into each cage and poured a trail of gas through the room. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z
I didn’t even want to be in the same room with it. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z
The apartment wasn’t big, but he still ran across the living room, nearly killing himself when he didn’t see one of the boys’ scooters lying across the floor. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z
And as he looked past her he perceived a room in disorder. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z
My mind closed down and I came immediately back to my bed, my room coalescing around me, my desk and chair, my little chest of drawers, the books and model airplanes suddenly so terribly real. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z
“You saw that for yourself, didn’t you? You were fine for a little while and then you were almost dead in an emergency room. Immune systems are complicated.” Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z
One afternoon she is in the attic, looking at old photographs, when a woman in black appears in the room. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z
She went to her room, pulled out a cotton dress from the closet, and slung it over her arm. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z
I knock on the door to his room, but don’t get any answer. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z
With the new people in the room, Janina and I could no longer leave our smuggled food on the table. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z
“Exactly, Daniel. Can you imagine the six of us in this hotel room for that long? Layla and Ivy will kill each other.” Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z
The tongue poked around the room like a periscope, seeming to be testing the air. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z
“You never know,” she said, before walking into the living room. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z
There were more books in Spoon's living room than Alfred had ever seen in a home. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z
We walked through a corridor and followed the nurse into an examination room. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z
Once inside the little room, he looked frantically for some sign of the bundle, some place it could be hidden. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z
They set at the dining room table and work on the Benefit. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z
I can come down here when I need a break from my parents fighting, or when I miss having my own room. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z
“We need to find out what to call the rooms,” Theodora said. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z
Emptied out, it didn’t look like Robin’s room anymore. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z
“Sara, boys, everyone! Come into the family room, please. We have something to tell you.” A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z
Rufus kept her well supplied with candles, but at the moment, the only light in the room came from the window and from a low fire over which two pots simmered. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z
I dive across the room, but with one eye swelled shut I have no depth perception and come up short. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z
Howard challenged the anonymous writer to produce proof of his charges and angrily defied anyone in the room to give him a plausible argument for how the allegations could have been possible. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z
We came to the top of the stairs and I found myself in another large sitting room. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z
The wooden coffee table in her living room has a massive, cracked geode slice embedded in its center. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z
I go into my room and pull out clothes to sleep in, stash another pile to die in. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z
She yanked off her headlamp just as Dad crossed the tiny room in two strides and grabbed her by the arm. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z
There was a dress form in another corner of the room, a half-finished pattern still pinned to the body. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z
Then he’d gone down the hall to his parents’ room and gently pushed open the door. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z
He stepped into the room and closed the door behind him, preparing to dodge the next blunt object hurled his way. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z
Standing in the passage, he closed the door gently, and in the process shut off every glimmer of the moonlight, which was all coming from Gebu’s room. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z
He had nudged another body, a woman's headless body, and stepped over it, placed one leg down and then the other, although there was enough room to step to the side. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z
We had intensive sessions in my hotel room, where he read what he selected from the diary, and I took notes. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z
Tiara heard singing, and for a moment she thought she was in her room back home listening to Boyz Will B Boyz and waiting for her mom to wake her for her daily weigh-in. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z
“They’re kind of all the same. Same generic rooms. Same tile floors. Same sterile smell. I’ve been everywhere without actually seeing anything.” Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z
“Me? I don’t have any magics will get you out of a locked room, boy.” The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z
The Owlery was a circular stone room, rather cold and drafty, because none of the windows had glass in them. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z
I crawl out of my hidey-hole to go to my room and I see the woodworking books on the floor and read them instead. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z
He died without a face in a room I never saw without my kisses in the stained gauze or without my prayers entering the center of his pain. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z
We shove the bags on the dining room table, and we kiss beneath Uncle Milton’s horses. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z
Hazel jolted awake in her little bed, blanket heavy on top of her, the small room just as heavy with night. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z
There is a sound like a woman laughing nearby, or perhaps it is only the rustling of the trees as you push your way forward, searching for the next door, the next room. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z
Lourdes takes out scientific texts for him from the college library and he locks himself in his room to read for days at a time. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z
When she woke up, it was in a room that she didn’t recognize. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z
Phineas vaulted across the room to his cot, yanked back the spread and then groaned. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z
In the silence my hiccups ricocheted around the room. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z
“Turn it off!” she says in a fierce whisper as she pulls him deeper into the room and stands behind him. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z
Muttering about fresh air, he set down his glass and left the room. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z
She smiled at Thorn and turned back to the court just as the teams made their way out of the locker rooms. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z
I want to read them, am dying to read them, but I have to be careful with Carla in the room. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z
Joe looked back at the room and then stepped out, took the key from the inside, locked the door, and put the key in his pocket. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z
Wednesday evening, I gathered up the floor cushions in my room, piled them three high, and tried to sketch from memory Sister Irma’s picture of Christ’s burial. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z
We were hardly talking then, sitting down to our evening meal like boarders in a rooming house, reciting the usual, drawn- out exchanges of familiar news, bits of the day. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z
On a clear day of autumn the Master Herbal opened the shutters of the room where Ged lay. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z
Then the intercom in Mr.Watras’s room buzzed, and I got called to the office. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z
But our talk had no room for literary seduction. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z
The room is constantly moving, a new name and a new person choosing, a new knife and a new choice. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z
Gathering momentum, I run into the living room, swipe the photos off the table, rip the framed cross-stitched roses off the wall. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z
As I got closer to the babies’ room, I smelled something putrid. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z
I am alone in the room with Al. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z
Later, my room had all the cheeriness of a dungeon and the appeal of a tomb. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z
The other people in the room looked at one another and giggled. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z
He left us in the room and went outside, whistling a melody. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z
The laws are neither threatening nor friendly, just citing the facts: No person shall require any white female to nurse in wards or rooms in which negro men are placed. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z
If he had been home, I wouldn’t have been in her room at all. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z
It was the first time that morning anyone in the room had asked me anything. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z
The guards pulled the Gran up roughly, and the room descended into chaos once again. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z
I got up and ran to my room, burying myself under my covers while I sobbed. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z
There is an elevator and a glass room and a rush of cold air. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z
I was already half-way across the room and could not go back. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z
One moment, the room was still, the next, Mother flew off the pillows and was violently ill, vomiting blood all over the bed and floor. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z
When I got home, Mom and Dad were at the dining room table on their separate laptops, and the moment I walked in the door, Mom slammed her laptop shut. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z
At the far end of the room, the altar was elaborately carved with a frieze showing the man with the ice-cream-scoop hat holding a knife to the neck of a bull. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z
It only took Harry one trip upstairs to move everything he owned from the cupboard to this room. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z
Putting down the half-eaten bun, I walked to the mirror on the big wardrobe that divided the room and pressed my forehead against its cool surface. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z
We walked back to the large room with all the machines. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z
My mom sits at the dining room table. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z
“A rich lady from the town supports the house, and we pay a little for our room and board from our wages.” Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z
It showed a room that probably was in King Jerrold’s castle, because Char was there and the crest of Kyrria was painted on the wall above a tapestry. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z
Leaving her stool, Lupita came at once into the room and stood before her uncle. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z
Light from the hallway pours into my room as my mom opens the door. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z
“Oh, snaps,” came flying from their side of the room. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z
“I’m getting every single one of those dang canning jars out of your room.” Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z
Houseman found the young actor sitting in his dressing room, his costume and fake beard lying to the side. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z
He paused, and there was now utter stillness in the room. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z
A guy had been arguing with someone in a room near the stairs on this floor. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z
The room crackled with energy, and a deep fear twisted in Ophie’s middle, stealing her breath for a moment. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z
Same day, later.—I have made the effort, and God, helping me, have come safely back to this room. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z
Else what the hell good had it all been—the way she felt about music and the plans she had made in the inside room? The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z
I think about getting a crutch, but I’d have to hop clear back to the family room for that, so I grab the handrail with both hands instead. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z
Only his eyes were active, darting round and round the room, puzzled, alert with intelligence. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z
Laughing, they raced down the great staircase and found their way through the game room and into the dining room. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z
The dining room is very narrow and it’s hard to pull the folding chairs out so that you can sit down. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z
She simply asked the house help, Agnes, to leave some food in the pot for him and to clear away dirty plates from his room. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z
The family computer was in the old part of the house, what had been the front room before the renovation. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z
The rest rooms were locked, and there were square overhead lights. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z
He hesitated outside the crowded Great Hall, then ran up the marble staircase; whether Gryffindor had won or lost, the team usually celebrated or commiserated in their own common room. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z
They were in a large bare room, very bright and sunny; for the whole of the southern wall was a single window. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z
He was stooped, leaning against the doorway of the living room. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z
She goes in her room and closes the door. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z
The sound echoed queerly from the comers of the room and twisted like a worm inside their ears. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z
The only other items in the room were eight trunks, just like the one containing the knives in the weapons basement. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z
She told Shadow he had already been checked in by his friend, and gave him his rectangular plastic room key. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z
Silence hung over the room like steam, heavy and sticky. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z
I go to my room and try to do my homework, but instead my mind keeps drifting off to what Mom said. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z
The room was very still except for a boys’ choir singing “Hark the Herald Angels” very softly on the radio. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z
When she was gone he stepped into the room, sumptuous in his black velvet, with one cold diamond beaming in the rushlight from his scarlet badge. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z
She grabbed the yearbooks and her calculations, then ran to the living room. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z
The rooms were one square, one window, one sink, one toilet, one shower. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z
The sunroom is my favorite room in the house. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z
I found my room and went inside and undressed and got into bed. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z
He starts across the room, nearly kicking a can of food out of someone’s hand. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z
He went back to the room, but I stuck around in the can for a while, thinking about old Jane. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z
Krogh, Liddy, and David Young moved into room 16 on the ground floor of the Old Executive Office Building, across the street from the White House. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z
In my room, we screw together flute pieces: mouthpiece into body into tail. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z
Usually when she came into his room, he’d perk up and run to her. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z
My face was warm, and from under my eyelids, I could detect the reddish glow that meant bright morning sun streaming into my room. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z
“Next thing we have to do is start sorting through the boxes in here,” says Mr. Shephard when we head into the storage room. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z
I watch her run back toward the gene therapy room, and then I keep walking. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z
He was running through the living room when he saw someone he had never seen before. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z
I walked across the room on rubbery legs and found Perilee. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z
There was an opening big enough for the door and one person, but the rest of the room was nothing but cardboard. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z
His voice sounded strange as it echoed through the large room. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z
He exhaled as soon as he left the room, as soon as he found a small room where he could change into his new clothes. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z
Frantically, he exited and entered the chat room again, his hands shaking. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z
I feel wired and on edge, and my room feels even smaller than usual. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z
Naomi perched on the toilet, feet pressed against the stall door, in the girls’ room by the gym. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z
She refused to tell him Wednesday’s room number, and insisted on telephoning Wednesday on the house phone to let him know his guest was here. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z
The small room with the stove was our living- room. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z
“Amazing,” she called out to Liyana in her bare room, “that Mozart could write this when he was six and I have trouble playing it when I’m forty.” Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z
For the rest of the morning, proposals were made and hotly debated in the assembly room. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z
The two men and Cousin Eunice sat in all the chairs there were in the living room. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z
Georgie scanned the room, probably searching for the tech billionaire, who was nowhere in sight. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z
And while all of that was going on and the room was getting quiet, Mr. Mwila appeared at our group, looking down mostly at me. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z
After the room where we were tattooed, we were taken to another room with a huge pile of old, used prisoner uniforms, and told to find something that fit. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z
Bent ox er their instruments, three hundred Fertilizers were plunged, as the Director of Hatcheries and Conditioning entered the room, in the scarcely breathing silence, the absent- minded, soliloquizing hum or whistle, of absorbed concentration. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z
But if they do remember, I pray they don’t decide to share with someone outside this room. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z
It’s hard to come down off the feeling of being in that room. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z
Beyond the library the floors change from wood to white tile, and the walls glow like the ceiling of the aptitude test room. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z
There was a crash behind them and Uncle Vernon came skidding into the room. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z
He types something into the computer stationed in the corner of my room. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z
He had already reached the living room door when Dudley mumbled, “I don’t understand.” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z
Then he slammed the door and went into the living room to the telephone. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z
“How kind of you to make room for us.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z
In the living room, Mom and Sam are on the couch, cuddled up. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z
“Arthur, let’s go to my room. I can show you the cover I drew for my book.” What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z
The dining room and the kitchen both face the street, and as I sit at the dining room table, I see people walk past, rush past, and some wait for their dogs and move on. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z
His room must be emptied, every last scrap either taken back with him to New York or tossed. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z
Are we expected to walk into dark rooms? he wondered. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z
And when she really didn’t want to be disturbed, she worked in a windowless room in the basement. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z
The captain’s “ready room” is aft, at the very back of the ship. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z
Rogers came out of the dining room and slipped halfway up the stairs. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z
“In my room. While I was in the hospital.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z
A sigh of wonder passed around the room. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z
The shock sent her spinning across the room. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z
In this manner she raised the boy and ran a business in the storage room, and we did what we could to help. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z
The door cracked open, and she cautiously peeked her head into my room. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z
She was busy putting away the new supplies of bandages and medicines in the cabinets that hung on the walls of the room. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z
“Are you able to drag Duke out of this room?” Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z
Because there wouldn’t be any room now, for them to go to, wherever it is, if it is. Absalom, Absalom! 1936-01-01T00:00:00Z
This reminds me of my dad crawling around the living room on all fours, pretending to be the puppy I begged for. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z
I went upstairs and sat in my room and watched the water falling in the street. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z
All round the walls there were low sofas with rich cushions on them, and the room seemed to be full of people; very queer people some of them, thought Shasta. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z
Deeper and deeper into the labyrinth he went, looking for objects he recognized from his one previous trip into the room. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z
At the height of the festivities, Sourmelina caused a scandal when she returned from her room wearing a bright orange dress. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z
They were standing in the room of the biggest Carousel in the world, listening to “The Emperor Waltz.” American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z
I went to my room first to get a bottle and then headed over on the fire escape. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z
“They tossed these gas-spewing cylinders into the room, and everyone went unconscious. That is, everyone but Uriah and me and the other Divergent.” Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z
A well-executed suborbital flight would buy the United States a little breathing room; but orbital flight—the end game of Project Mercury— was infinitely more complex. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z
So I told myself I would not mess with things in his room. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z
Harry and Ron met up with Hermione in the common room, and they went down to breakfast together. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z
The room was entirely empty—not even a stick of furniture. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z
I followed Rosaleen as she carried her few things over to the pink house, intending to inspect her new room. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z
Which means the room where I’m serving my sentence is hot and sticky. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z
They opened the door and edged into the room. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z
Everyone still talks in hushed tones, as if being respectful of the other people waiting, even though it’s only my family in the waiting room. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z
After the confrontation, Mama had pulled Ophie into their room and locked the door. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z
There was no one in the kitchen or in the servants’ rooms, which were close at hand. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z
He walked dizzily across the bare room and stood leaning against the side of the doorway. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z
Father Quinel lived behind our stone church in an attached room without windows. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z
Matthew dribbled a rubber basketball in the hallway that led to the dining room and shot repeatedly at an imaginary goal above the door. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z
Mostly, though, books are for show, and real life—judging from the quantity of food stains and tossed items of clothing—goes on in the room that houses the large-screen TV. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z
The light in my room is blue-gray, and my heart is pounding from another night of restless dreams. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z
He stood watching her as she left the room, with her poster and her cigarette; a few ashes had fallen to the floor where she'd been standing. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z
Doctor Baker came back into the room with a large book and a file-case in his hands. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z
The Four’s kitchens were remarkable, and my room was actually a small suite: bedroom, dressing room, and sitting room. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z
Pa won’t pay for two rooms at the hotel and Love knows it. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z
The relatives would start saying good-bye in the living room, then spend another hour saying good-bye at the door. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z
And the more I thought about it as Pa drove us back home from church and I sat in my room piled under all my schoolwork, the more I never wanted to do anything. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z
Daddy’s already gone to his and Momma’s room. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z
There are so many of us now that Caroline and Michael had to move production from the art room into the gym, and parts of the chain are draped over everything. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z
The sounds I had heard from across the marsh came from here, but the old man was no longer in the room. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z
Grandma went directly to her room, where she took the shotgun she called Mr. Higgenbottom from its leather case in the back of her closet. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z
A grinning Agent Jones burst into the room wearing only a fig leaf. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z
I’m cold and shivering when I come into the waiting room. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z
Then he would go back from room to room, walking in reverse, going back over his trail, and he would find Prudencio Aguilar in the room of reality. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z
There was alight in the parley room window. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z
He had been quite convinced that the common room was empty; he had not been at all prepared for a hulking figure to rise suddenly out of a distant chair. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z
I dimly remember propping myself up, horselike on all fours, staring down at the swirling patterns in the cool wood of the living room floor. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z
She sat steadfast and unmovable in the living room, “just catching up on a bit of admin.” The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z
“The naturalist. Carried dead fish around in his suitcase and kept a jackal in his rooms.” Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z
Ben’s mumbles and footsteps shift back and forth in the room. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z
Reynie, alone in the room now, was trying to make sense of what had happened. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z
But even with all of this, as I stood on the lower deck outside our dark, cramped rooms in steerage, watching the oily water churn beneath the Agnes Pauline, I felt my spirits lift. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z
I nod at Voxy and continue walking until I reach the end of the room, then the hall, then their door. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z
The block tower's hulking presence across the room distracted me. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z
He was to have the birth and death room. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z
Most people park in the lots up the hill, nearer the big locker room in the Administration Building. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z
He gave the room one final, satisfactory sweep before lifting the hem of his agbada and making his way out of the study, a low hum on his lips. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z
But on the north wall of the room there was an old war shield hanging from a wooden peg set into the white clay wall. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z
“I’d have the room to myself, at least,” I pointed out. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z
I’ve been the only woman, the only African American, in all sorts of rooms. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z
Or the college kid who deals drugs out of his dorm room so that he’ll have cash to finance his spring break? The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z
He ran back down to the common room. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z
Ilse Wagner has a Ping-Pong set, and the Wagners let us play in their big dining room whenever we want. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z
I want to pace the family room, but I force myself to sit on the sofa. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z
Other than that, he went wherever there was room to go forward — along roads and alleys and railroad tracks, across fields and cemeteries and golf courses. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z
We had many rooms, each filled with big, heavy tables. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z
“I don’t see why—” Papa stormed into the room. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z
The house lights are still on, and people are hoisted up onto the backs of their chairs, yelling across the room to each other. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z
“Go knock on her door, why don’t you, and ask her if she’ll give you a pack. She looks like the sort who keeps cartons in her room.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z
They entered a central hall that divided the house into halves of three rooms each. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z
The only thing he ever did, though, was give these sex talks and all, late at night when there was a bunch of guys in his room. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z
I had just walked into the room, and apparently he heard me; his eyes opened, focused, and I could tell he saw me. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z
When she pulled open the door, my dad almost fell into the room. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z
He emerged from the bathroom long before Claudia and growing impatient, began wandering through rooms until he found Hortense and asked her the whereabouts of his sister. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z
Some of the monkeys rattled their cages, and the wave of noise swept up and down the room. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z
Hours later, when I finally finished the last exam, I was logged into a virtual chat room to meet with an indenturement counselor. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z
The noise was coming from the room with the black cumins. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z
Professor Binns, who taught it, was their only ghost teacher, and the most exciting thing that ever happened in his classes was his entering the room through the blackboard. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z
“You made a fried chicken comment to the only black girl in the room. What do you think?” The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z
He roared, looking about the room, rolling now, caught up in the rhythms of his own oratory, the fever and righteousness of his message. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z
When Aravis came to herself she found that she was lying on her face on a low bed of extraordinary softness in a cool, bare room with walls of undressed stone. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z
She pats my shoulder before slipping out of the room. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z
Every evening during the pre-Christmas season, we would bake cookies and sit at the dining room table to have cookies and milk while Grandma read to us and we made gifts for each other. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z
I felt an ache in my heart that rose like a lump to my throat as I caught myself searching for a less busy part of the room. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z
They didn’t have lunch, but headed for a free classroom, where Harry tried with all his might to make various objects fly across the room toward him. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z
I’m not sure if she’s talking to me or someone in the room beyond. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z
Now I don’t have to wait for somebody to move me across the room. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z
We follow directions to the Collective, a huge room that easily holds the thousands who show up. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z
From there, we went to the police station, where I was told to step into a small, stark room that had nothing but a table, a couple chairs, and a computer in it. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z
In the living room Daddy made a big fuss over my castle. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z
He does a round through the parlor and dining room, and then downstairs to the kitchens to make certain everything is in order. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z
Honestly, I was so caught up in her room that I'd forgotten all about the cookies. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z
“Are you trying to say that my room is a pigsty?” George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z
They found themselves in a warm, bright room that smelled heavily of newsprint and ink. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z
Why did you let her make you keep us in that hot, hot room with no potty, no water? March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z
The room was small and, although I knew it couldn't be true, it felt like it was getting smaller by the second. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z
“Let me introduce —” Now Janis, in the living room, was speaking English. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z
Maybe Satan had entered the room after all because everybody started talking very loudly. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z
Mary Alice followed wit h plenty of room, though she didn’t like to get burrs in her hair. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z
When I saw how crowded they were I realized that I was lucky not to have been raised on a farm: there was usually plenty of room in the tavern for me and Sam. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z
We sat in the living room; the carpet was the same crisp white from my childhood. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z
He did not want to go into the room. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z
The games were played in a small, high-ceilinged room at the end of the hallway, probably to limit the number of spectators, which had grown to several dozen while Bobby was playing the younger men. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z
I don’t miss toting water from the well in a bucket for Mama to cook or clean with, or washing up from a basin in the corner of the room. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z
The desk had probably been in the same room since the school was built; it might have been even older than Ms. Udell. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z
As soon as the principal walked away from the podium, the noise level in the room rose, like a boiling kettle that suddenly started to steam. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z
The living room sat empty, with a big ghost of furniture crowded in the middle, and whenever I passed by, I imagined the severed television huddled somewhere in the scrum. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z
I’m just about to try the next room when something on the little table by the front door catches my eye. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z
Founts of warm water leaped up, steaming; the chill vanished from the room. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z
But there was a reassuring stability to being with her, a certain safety in her whispering and her study room with the pencil sketches of Shakespeare on the walls. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z
We passed a few more rooms and I didn’t care if the Amish were doing card tricks or shaving their beards off. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z
“Welcome, Reynard,” said Mr. Curtain, and with this he turned and rocketed to the front of the room, where he spun once more to face the students, throwing his arms wide. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z
Most of these friends were half in love with Sofía anyway, and it was she they sought out in the crowded room. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z
Someone was walking around, she thought without interest; Luke was walking back and forth in the room, talking softly to himself; surely an odd way to play chess? The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z
In our consulting room downstairs, we often communicated through notes, which we would then burn and throw in the waste-basket. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z
Jaja did not come out of his room even though Papa asked him to. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z
Vera thinks I’m a self-help book and a room full of crystals. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z
The air in the room thickens like pudding now that she's gone. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z
Alone in her apartment, she cried and cried, crumpled on her living room rug that was so rarely used it still smelled of the store. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z
To the right of the foyer was a living room where the light from a TV flickered across the far wall. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z
He would be tucked into a crib at naptime, when the big rooms lights were dimmed. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z
That and the never-ending excitement and clapping and shouting that was going on in the room. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z
He walked across the room and leaned over to kiss his mother on the cheek. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z
Inside the house, everything was predictable, the high-ceilinged rooms, with heavy, sashed windows, the oak wall panelling and the oak doors, and the oak staircase, the massive furniture. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z
Kit looked around at the much mended clothing and the sparse furnishings of the little room. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z
She surveys me without feeling as two Dauntless soldiers pull me out of the room. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z
In the center of the thickly carpeted room, directly beneath an adjustable ceiling lamp, was a large round table covered with green baize. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z
It chased all sleep out of the room. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z
His eyes scan the room, not even bothering to land on our group in the far back. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z
We stood in the hallway, my parents half in and half out of the room. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z
And then some strange magnet was pulling our heads together, but just as our lips were about to touch, the quiet was shattered by terrified, bleating shrieks from the next room. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z
My form teacher led me down the gloomy passageway leading to the staff room. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z
Chafing dishes melt medicinal pastilles, and steam vases release vapor into the room. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z
It’s so quiet that, for a moment, I think maybe she’s not even in the room. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z
Shadow turned a corner, and knew himself to be in another room, even vaster than the first. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z
I was all geared up, bouncing around my room, trying to avoid contact with any heavy, haunting thoughts. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z
In a moment the aroma of the sauteing salmon filled the room. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z
I’m no decorator, but I know a pink rug doesn’t match a yellow room. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z
There was a big hall and many rooms, and many mothers with children passed in and out of the rooms. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z
Now his mother wrapped him in a towel, carried him into a rosy room that was filled with sunshine. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z
The house was smaller than the one we’d had, so I had to room with my brother still—and there wasn’t a bedroom for Lucas if he came home. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z
The more I move things around, the more I see how awesome the room will be. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z
Their room seemed small and tight around us. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z
She turned halfway around and left the room. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z
“There are lots and lots of rooms, and I got lost all the time my first week. Why, Mrs. Caruthers has rooms that she doesn’t even use, if’n you can believe that.” Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z
A cleaning woman answered the door and when I came into the room where he was sitting, he looked very pleased and not at all surprised. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z
But “dead,” mingling with the churning and bubbling noises in this room, strikes a blow like a hammer to my chest, and the monster of grief awakens, clawing at my eyes and throat. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z
People came and went from the waiting room. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z
“They’ll be staying for at least a couple of days. Start the coal heaters, and make sure their rooms are comfortable.” When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z
Bill was in his room at the back. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z
The day had been warm and the room was close and stuffy. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z
“You’re lucky,” one of the nurses said as she picked glass out of my curls in the emergency room. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z
There’s barely enough room for the three of us atop the chifforo. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z
She couldn't get over the fact that Park spent most of his time in this room horizontal. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z
Eagerly, I rush out of the men’s room, onto the landing over the stairs that lead down to the ballroom. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z
It took two days for Dad to march into my room and cut me down to size. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z
I reached Men's House in a sweat, registered, and went immediately to my room. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z
After hanging my coat downstairs and dragging myself up to my room, I open the door to find Courtney Cooper kicked back in the La-Z-Boy. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z
With Mrs. Fields’s permission, George headed to the back of the room. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z
And with that he took down the lamp and blew it out, and grasping a candle in either hand he led them out of the room. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z
“I don’t know how a room like this would be for waking up in the morning. But it’s really a splendid room.” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z
This time he was led into a reception room where dozens of other men and women were waiting to see the president. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z
The childish voice slowly gained strength and clarity till it reached every comer of the room. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z
The sitting room door is usually left ajar when she’s in there, and I don’t dare to go past it. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z
Buddy and I laughed, and then Buddy shook Will's hand and we all went into the room. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z
“We’ll discuss that in the morning,” Mama said in her nonnegotiable voice, herding us out of the room by flipping off the lights. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z
Listen until at last the killers, these defendants before you, entered her room, focused a flashlight in her eyes, and let the blast of a shotgun end the existence of an entire household.” In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z
The hold was in the very front of the ship, past the mail sorting room and the cabins where the stokers and firemen stayed. I Survived the Sinking of the Titanic, 1912 2010-06-01T00:00:00Z
In the unlit rooms, the night was as solid as lacquered wood. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z
By the time he’d gone through ten rooms in this way, Reynie had no idea where in the house he was. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z
The bucket made its way around the room at a snail’s pace as each man studied the contents and chose a small portion of discarded potato or bread or gristle. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z
Bull marched them through the bar, past the dining room, out past the barbecue pits, the tennis courts, and toward the swimming pool. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z
The headphones make me look like the generic alternative to an X-Wing fighter pilot, so I only wear them when I’m in my room. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z
He went to our room and put all his drawings into one pile. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z
I don’t even think everyone in this class is supposed to be in here, because there’s a white boy in the corner looking down at his schedule, hoping that he’s in the wrong room. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z
Miss Saunders is on the other side of the room now. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z
But I did stay in the room with her while she went through the rest of the baby clothes. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z
I was about to head back to my room when Dad said, “Let’s see what Trevor got you.” From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z
She made some of the children sleep on the floor and put Moon Orchid and her daughter in their room. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z
After Neala leaves, two men in green uniforms arrive and wheel me into the operating room. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z
“Her mom fell and hit her head, so she called me. My parents and I ended up at the emergency room with them.” Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z
Only the crackle of the fire fills the room for several moments as the guests look from one to the other, each waiting for someone to respond. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z
I change into shorts, and when I return to the waiting room, Chloe says, “Hank’s ready for you. Are you all coming in back, or just Jessica?” The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z
I run into my room and slam the door and lock it from the inside and lie on my bed. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z
It happened, sometimes, when it got really hot in here; one of the guys would wedge the door open to let the room breathe a little. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z
A quarrel began instantly, the arguments flying across the room. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z
We’d cross paths and he would make some offhand comment loud enough for everyone in the room to hear. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z
In the room next door, Dallas counted the wails of the train. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z
He makes me a cup of hot chocolate with little marshmallows, and then we go sit in the cozy living room. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z
She pictures her mother saying all this gently into the next-door neighbors’ phone, standing in the neighbors’ sitting room. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z
As I follow my brother into the main room, I’m puzzling over how Mr. Washburn could have gotten here all the way from Washington to deport us when the grocery store incident just happened? Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z
The band room was empty when I got there. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z
The most enormous bed I've ever seen sits in the middle of the room. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z
He’s clearly stolen the snake from my room. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z
In fact, the room looked like a cross between a magical antique shop and a conservatory. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z
Finally they entered a smaller cavern that looked like a combination loading zone and throne room. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z
I dreamed Assef was standing in the doorway of my hospital room, brass ball still in his eye socket. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z
She would keep it in the back room and play on it every night. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z
I follow her through the narrow, rocking corridor into a dining room with polished paneled walls. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z
Pet grunted and wandered off to a corner of the room, pulling open drawers and looking inside. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z
I watched the girl disappear into a room a few doors down carrying some sort of glass bottle. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z
He also mentioned how he often used to retreat to his room. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z
The chill in the throne room was palpable. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z
I laugh and look around the room, feeling lighter for the first time since lunch last week. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z
Later that night, as the rest of the family retreated to their rooms, Fadi sat in the darkened living room staring at the square of light glowing from the tiny television. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z
“Zuri. You’re also hardheaded. You have all these walls around you that it's like your heart is locked up in some room.” Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z
“It seems,” he continued, “it seems you are a troublemaker in the weaving room.” Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z
All the furniture is roped off from the center of the room, with little signs telling them not to touch. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z
So as I sat in the living room that night, I took on the full responsibility of finding my parents’ killer—even if it turned out that the killer shared my DNA. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z
Whatever the thing was, it was steadily working its way through Room F. By now, fully half the animals in the room had died. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z
She lived in her own room, learned to sneak around, learned how to carry small stuff between her arms and her rib cage. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z
The story of his number was one I’d lock away in a room and write on the door of that memory The End. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z
She brings me homemade pumpkin nut muffins and hot chocolate and nudges Boomer over so there’s room for her to sit next to me on the bed. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z
Right now it showed the living room in the Big House: a cozy fire on the hearth and Seymour, the stuffed leopard head, snoring contentedly above the mantel. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z
When they were gone Singer stood alone in the room, and as he did not understand the situation he wanted to forget it. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z
We’d run into the TV room in time to catch the commercials with colored people using deodorant, shaving cream, and wash powder. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z
And right now they need to get to their room and wash up before the general goes over to the War Department. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z
There are potted plants in every corner of the room, TV screens positioned on the walls, cushiony chairs and couches. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z
He worked at a desk in a room piled with cotton cloth at the back of the factory. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z
I didn’t want to go up to my room where the closed door, the quiet, and the privacy would force me to make a decision. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z
“He’s in the living room. She wouldn’t be there; no ones there except his friends.” Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z
Most of the boys were Neeley’s classmates and he had a great time hollering greetings across the room. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z
The refectory was a great, low-ceiled, gloomy room; on two long tables smoked basins of something hot, which, however, to my dismay, sent forth an odour far from inviting. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z
“Look at you. Are you in your room right now? No. You’re obviously not programmed. Let me explain!” The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z
All these people though, and none of them can go in the grand jury room with me. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z
There was no room for a second chair. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z
Out of that two pounds, I paid thirteen shillings and fourpence a month for my room at the Xhomas’. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z
It seemed that there was not room enough for him to pass without actually touching her. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z
They took us right into the Knicks’ locker room, which was really cool. The Million Dollar Shot 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z
Holly got up from the bed and started walking fast, back and forth, across the room. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z
Joon usually hides in his room until someone drags him out of bed. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z
She had not noticed the two mothers step into the room. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z
I sat up, blinking, staring into the shadows of the room, trying to see the expression on his face. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z
"I will permit him to keep them in his room as long as they are never allowed out of the cage. How's that?" The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z
His boss, the woman, had taken another chair and was sitting in the middle of the room. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z
“And too much time has passed as is. We need to go to the operating room now.” A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z
At times, I’d slip into a kind of trance, sitting with my eyes closed, oblivious to the passage of time, listening to the sounds of the world outside my room. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z
Upstairs they heard Jenny in her room getting dressed to come down to the kitchen; there was no sound from Jethro’s room. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z
The room was so crowded with filing cabinets and plants and her big desk, there was room only for two straight chairs for visitors. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z
The Littles had a grand piano in their living room, which was all right except that one of the keys was a sticky key and didn’t work properly. Stuart Little 1945-10-17T00:00:00Z
In the dining room, the big table is set with extra leaves to accommodate all the grown-ups. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z
He went to his room and wrote a list of the principal rivers of England for geography homework before drawing them on a map. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z
I huddle in the corner of the room. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z
We both turned away from the room at the same time. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z
Matt kept his back to it, but he still liked Celia’s room. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z
It’s almost dinnertime when I finally emerge from my room. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z
Of course I would rather take my breakfast in the dining room. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z
Now he’s arranging things around my living room: clothing, fabrics, and sketchbooks with designs he’s drawn. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z
Lupita slipped out into the other room and went over to where her brother slept on the floor. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z
There are no secrets in a jury room. Twelve Angry Men 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z
And instantly a silence fell in the stuffy little room, and everyone’s attention focused on the Skraeling, though no one looked at him directly. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z
The caretaker took me to his room and I was able to clean up a little. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z
The safe room was in a shambles, blown apart by some sort of fairy flatulence. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z
I wrap the doll in butcher paper and hide it in the rafters of the storage room next to the toilet block. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z
“Locked in the cupboard under the stairs, and I can’t get out of this room —” “No problem,” said George from the front passenger seat. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z
When we got home, there was a smog in the living room caused by Aunt Gloria’s cigarettes. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z
And of myself—older, too, sitting around with him in some smoky room, the two of us repeating this exchange for the thousandth time. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z
There was giggling on one side of the room. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z
My leaden thoughts were still plodding along when Lorren strode out of the room. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z
He had been in the rest room a full eight hours. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z
Pattie must have the same thought, because she moves out of the kitchen, through the clutter of the living room, back to the tight hallway. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z
Taran saw armorers’ shops, stables for the steeds of warriors, breweries, weaving rooms. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z
It was the kind of place where the poorest of students lived, where the differences in housekeeping between the halls and the rooms were as dramatic as the occupants could manage. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z
And I did stop in the living room to dig out our O Brother CD. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z
Then she sprang up and ran out of the room, crying: “Lord, don’t let them kill her!” Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z
With each loud blow, the entire room and everything in it shook and rattled. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z
The sunlight came into the room with the peacefulness one remembers from rooms in one’s early childhood—a sunlight encountered later only in one’s dreams. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z
He saw his mother, Mary Anne, Matthew, and Karen waiting for him in the living room. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z
I let myself back in and crossed the living room, slipped through the open pocket doors to the dining room, and grabbed the bottle of whiskey that lived on the built-in hutch. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z
Muhammad disappears into Mom’s room and comes back out holding car keys. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z
All the way to the dining room she had walked precisely, placing her feet in the very center of the cabbage roses that twined through the pattern of the carpet. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z
When I’m halfway across the room, a man with dreadlocks down to his belt jumps in front of me and says, “Come jam with us, little sister.” The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z
But she kept on figuring until Etta and Hazel came into the room and got into bed and said she had to turn the light off because it was eleven o’clock. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z
When the phone calls started again, though — again — he looked in the phone book, found out where Pinkus lived, and took a room as nearby as he could afford. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z
Inside the locker room, Parker accepted congratulation after congratulation. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z
Meggie thought of the house they had left in such a hurry, and her room there, and school, where her desk would have been empty today. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z
The castle itself had 120 rooms—including a ballroom and a piano room. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z
The other two bedrooms were Lydia’s wardrobe room—filled with wheeled clothing racks—and her sewing/project room. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z
There were maybe eighty chairs set up in the room, and it was two- thirds full but felt one-third empty. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z
Alex followed as Mac led them into the living room, where a tiny, stooped old lady sat on the sofa. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z
“I have to walk past it whenever I go to my room,” Alex says. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z
A narrow strip of light falls into the room. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z
My dad fixed me up with the electrical subcontractor on his construction project, and right away I found myself wiring hotel rooms. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z
Inside the room, there was a desk, and right in the center of the desk was A Bright and Shining Path: The Life of Florence Nightingale. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z
He snapped his fingers, and armed guards poured into the room. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z
It’s a decent-sized room, with a row of shelves along one wall holding different cleaning supplies. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z
Hands on her hips, she made sure that what belonged in the living room ended up in the living room, what belonged in the kitchen, in the kitchen. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z
Because if he had gone into the room and up to his desk, he probably would have glanced down into the wastebasket. The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z
There was a candle in his room; there was some ink and an old pen that Bill had sometimes used. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z
His father looked up to Clayton’s room, stood for a few seconds under the porch light, and waved back. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z
The alert, a distinctive and endless gong, like a church bell one block away, is blasting from my phone on the other side of the room. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z
Third bell struck, and the room was filled with sudden noise as students stood to leave. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z
When Mr. Dimming hurries in carrying a stack of papers sealed in plastic, he scans the room to see who’s here. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z
His coworkers in the drafting room look up from their desks as she passes by. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z
Before going to bed I went round to the patient’s room and looked in through the observation trap. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z
I pushed in my chair and went to my room. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z
After they returned from Virgil’s house, they’d collapsed on the floor of the Tanakas’ living room to discuss their next plan of action. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z
I was sitting in the little room again, the room like a waiting-room at the station. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z
He glared, and then turned his back and strode down the long room. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z
Gale must have been released from the hospital this morning as well, because I find him in one of the research rooms with Beetee. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z
The atmosphere in the room had changed quite suddenly. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z
Often the president ran a fever, and the room's high temperature increased his suffering. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z
Even though he had been gone from the house almost five years, I still missed him, most often at dinnertime and on those evenings when we gathered in the dining room for family games. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z
In ran Mrs. Bennet to her daughter’s room, in her dressing gown, and with her hair half finished, crying out: Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z
A woman who’s just gotten her clothes bagged walks away from the table, and as the next person comes up, the bearded man’s eyes roam the room and land on Courtney and me. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z
“I put the gift bags in your room,” she said. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z
I had my own room in the hotel and my grandmother never bothered with silly things like that. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z
Taking another crunchy bite, he followed Werfel into the sitting room. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z
I glance across the room at Brick and Noodle, holding court on the sofas, with crowds of people fawning around. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z
That may seem like plenty of room, but try being trapped in a van for eight days. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z
That night, after he had kissed his sisters, he thought proper to forget even to shake hands with me, but left the room in silence. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z
It's because no one took the time to really look at the room. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z
He doesn’t wander into the space that was once his living room, or to the puddle where Byrd sits that was once dry wood floor. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z
There was a big room full of round tables, each with two or three chairs, and some vending machines. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z
He came out of the hospital room from which he had barred me and said that she had passed and I should go in and look at her one last time. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z
In the drawing room, the air was thick with tobacco smoke. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z
But we can’t let this room sit here like a tomb. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z
With a resounding smack, Zahra slaps a stack of magazines down on the West Wing briefing room table. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z
And, I am such a loser, I couldn’t even speak when she asked, “Want to see my room?” Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z
The place did kind of resemble a locker room if locker rooms were gorgeous and smelled good. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z
Even if they didn’t know what book they were looking for, they knew it wasn’t in any of the Dewey decimal rooms now that the hover ladders had more or less been declared game pieces. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z
Calder nodded toward the walls in the room they were sitting in. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z
Then two of the men hoisted her up by knees and shoulders and carried her out of the room like a sack. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z
A group on the far side of the room kicked over a bench, yelling, "Throw him out! Throw him out!" Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z
Then she asks about Mom and where we moved from and all that, and I know they’re going to be a while, so I wander into the living room. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z
Samuel walked into the room and authority grew in him with each step. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z
My mother and Auntie Seema are sitting in visitor chairs inside the room. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z
There was even a yellowed human skeleton in one corner of the room: Mo did not know if it was real or not, but right now it was creeping her out. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z
One of the last men to speak came from the back of the room, but I recognized his thick gray beard instantly. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z
No sound came from the rubble or from anywhere else in the room. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z
I don’t remember if I’d been hassling him before she left the room or what. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z
Just pack it into one of Bertha’s canning jars to keep in my room. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z
All night—because feverish Mirabelle would not sleep except in motion—she cradled Mirabelle in her arms and paced the length of the room. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z
Our living room and all the other rooms were so full of stuff that I can't find the words to describe it. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z
But in the rooms food stood upon a table and in the kitchens fire burned. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z
I forced myself to wait—one Mississippi, two Mississippi—then dove aside as the fiery sphere demolished the locker room door. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z
In English I told Margie I had brought some tape I had shot and she found me at lunch and dragged me to the video room. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z
Not knowing what else to do, he walked to a cluttered pile of boxes in the corner of his room and moved them to the side, revealing a hiding place in the wall. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z
Tonight, she’s sitting on her living room floor in a glowing circle of screens like some kind of Capitol Hill séance. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z
Once in the house, I go straight to my room, open a sketchpad, and start drawing. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z
“Your mother ever say, ‘Oh, Suds, you’re such an angel, you don’t have to clean your room anymore’?” Fourth Grade Rats 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z
In my room I peel off my damp bathing suit and put on the first clothes I pull from my bureau, an old shirt and shorts that don’t match. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z
I accepted and she showed me my room. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z
We found ourselves in a thick white metal cage that opened into the Medical Records room —an empty, warehouse-sized room with no staff, no patients, no chairs, no visitors, and no medical records. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z
“In the old room they called the scullery?” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z
I get ready for bed, and like usual, my mom comes into my room to kiss me good night. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z
I run to my room to change and frantically reapply my makeup before heading off to the bookstore. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z
I stood at the mouth of the room and stared at it, fascinated and repulsed. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z
Rashid Uncle sat at the dining room table and carved some wood. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z
He was working in his room at Princeton University when in burst a young physics teacher named Bob Wilson. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z
Laila waited for her eyes to adjust before she crossed the room. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z
That night, my father and mother went into their room right after supper. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z
He plants a kiss in the middle of her brown and white head and crosses the little room. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z
He stands at the back of the room, a rifle in his hand. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z
His mind went back—it was this room, this bed. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z
We ran away quickly and squat ted in the farthest corner of the room as the board tore off the wall and fell. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z
Across the room on the kitchen island, under the glare of pendant lights, lay The Gold-Bug. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z
“He knows where he’s sleeping,” said Ron, “in my room, he slept there last —” “We can all go,” said Hermione pointedly. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z
In the labyrinthine Ministry the windowless, air-conditioned rooms kept their normal temperature, but outside the pavements scorched one’s feet and the stench of the Tubes at the rush hours was a horror. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z
She is sitting in the waiting room of this hospital, and as I try to imagine her there, I am almost certain she is crying. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z
“When I first came here, ” she said, “I had a little room in a building right about there where the firehouse is now.” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z
Early in the morning, Jinjoo heard a lot of hurried movement and banging from the other room. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z
I ran to my room and locked the door, fearing that Grandpa would rend me to pieces. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z
He went through the house room by room. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z
“Get on back in the room,” he said. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z
Dyed the color of the blood of Christ, more eggs fill a bowl on the dining room table. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z
Tobias searches every corner of the room, and then shoots at the camera attached to the ceiling on our right. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z
The room was a small basement one, and five rows of six desks already filled it more than comfortably. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z
She and Carole spent most of the next two weeks in John’s room, taking turns sleeping there on a cot. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z
Then I noticed that the room was chilly and settled back into my seat for warmth. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z
When everything was set in order, all the lights in the room were put out, except one lamp and a pair of candles at each end of the chimney-shelf. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z
Once inside, I go to my room, noting that Jude knocked over a water bucket on my floor in retaliation. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z
But I don’t know for sure because every time they hear me leave my room, they all get quiet. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z
Mrs. Walton grabs me by the hand and leads me to the dressing room. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z
We broke the table down and propped it up beside the front steps—I didn’t know where it belonged—and we bundled the pamphlets and brought them and everything else back to my room. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z
Once the tinkling of the last brick had stopped echoing in the room, I gazed around. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z
But I want it so much there's no room inside me for anything else. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z
I sat in the middle of the room, next to my sister’s empty crib, awaiting my fate. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z
He had gotten his reprieve and made it to the playoffs, but there was no room now for mistakes or sloppiness. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z
He points it at the room's blank wall. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z
My comments must have struck Farmer as a put-down, because when I looked across the room his pale blue eyes were fixed on me. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z
Ms. Fender was standing in the hallway outside the band room, chatting with Mr. Broadwater, the orchestra teacher. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z
I loved looking across the room during practices and seeing my sister doing her own routines. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z
Edna went up to her atelier —a bright room in the top of the house. The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z
She drew a room: long, rectangular, with a thinner, square section at the back. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z
I stare after her, open-mouthed, as she disappears down the hallway and into her room. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z
We kissed our parents good night and went back to our room. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z
Everyone filed out of the theater until the children were alone in their seats in the back of the room. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z
The room was silent except for the humming of fans. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z
The servants finally traced it to the judge's locked room. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z
“What does home mean? How do you show home? Feel about home? Discuss among yourselves, then we’ll share ideas with the entire room.” Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z
I said my farewells and exchanged hugs with practically everyone in the room before stepping out into the dark night. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z
Tiny little one-syllable explosions went off about the room like a string of Chinese firecrackers. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z
The actors trail back to the dressing rooms to change—they’re not allowed to have lunch in their costumes. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z
When it is fully dark, Marie-Laure follows her great-uncle up the stairs, through the sixth-floor room, and up the ladder into the attic. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z
"Jazz, could you excuse us for a second, sweetie? Go hang in your room just for a few minutes." When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z
After break, she went off to Arithmancy while Harry and Ron returned to the common room, where they grudgingly started Snape’s homework. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z
After the librarian faded to a flicker, Akimi said, “By the way, Kyle, before we leave, you need to check out that room I slept in last night.” Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z
The soccer team wheels in spinny chairs from the conference room. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z
The other room was loud and merry with the music of the fiddle and the noise of the dancing. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z
And it seemed crazy to her that, somewhere out there, there was a child who was half him and half her, when she suddenly couldn’t stand to be in the same room with him anymore. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z
We will not talk about how Cassie died, or why, or where, or who in this room could have done something to stop her or at least slow her down. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z
In the middle of our conversation the mistress of the boardinghouse nervously ushered a white man into my room. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z
The bugle music touched the room again, a different call. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z
He felt that all of the white people in the room were measuring every inch of his weakness. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z
If you made your way back to this throne room while I was off preparing for my duel... well, as I mentioned, Arion is a very fast horse. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z
I slipped on some shoes, snuck past Mom, who was watching TV in the living room while grading tests, and went outside. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z
If she stayed in that room—She stood up, hesitating. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z
We wanted to have a number of small rooms added to the house so more people could stay. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z
At home, I set the hamster cage on a newspaper-covered card table in my room. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z
Guenever was doing some petit point in the gloomy room, which she hated doing. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z
Theodora was wearing a vivid yellow shirt, and Eleanor laughed and said, “You bring more light into this room than the window.” The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z
“I’ll buy that. Keep quiet. And get that senile bag out of my rumpus room.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z
Returning to my own rented room seems too frightening, too lonely. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z
I would walk into the Moorland reading room and fill out three call slips for three different works. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z
And suddenly, Aziz was in a room with the man who took her first husband from her, and the one who took her second. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z
And then, as the room went black, I was suddenly hyperaware that Edward was sitting less than an inch from me. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z
And when he's done I want to say: "There is a qualitative difference in the visual effect of the room." Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z
Presently she hopped upstairs and into Stuart’s room where he was lying in bed. Stuart Little 1945-10-17T00:00:00Z
I want to go back to my room so that I can cry in peace. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z
In an instant he was across the room and scrabbling at the window catch. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z
I guess I’m calling it my room now. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z
He shuffled into Josh’s room and closed the door. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z
I thought about that look on his face, the one in the living room when we were both just happy kids still, playing around. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z
A few days later, when I had been at the hospital for about six weeks, Dad appeared alone in the doorway of my room. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z
She shooed him out of the room, and neither one of them returned. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z
Daddy’s office has become an examining room, and Momma tends to Mr. Lewis with Daddy’s help. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z
Bewildered, I followed him into the tank room, yearning to quit and tell him to go to hell. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z
And then we follow Boy21 up into his room, where the walls and ceiling are now entirely covered with glow-in-the-dark stars, which seem to pulse energy. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z
She won’t even set foot in this room, and these babies are in cages! As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z
Finally I came upon a pair of rooms missing entire walls, into which a little forest of underbrush and stunted trees had grown. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z
And a week or so later, I wasn’t actually eavesdropping or anything, I was just passing by, really, when I heard my parents talking in their room. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z
I leave the room and walk outside again, shaking my hands to get rid of the jitters. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z
She rose up to stand in the center of the quiet room. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z
It’s amazing how you know when a room has light in it, even when you have your eyes closed. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z
It ducked quickly into the dark recesses of the room and disappeared. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z
The rest of Ferula’s quarters seemed to Clara to fit precisely with the nightmare that had begun when her sister-in-law appeared in the dining room of the big house on the corner to say goodbye. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z
When Jones won the match, the older jockey flipped the board across the room and promptly tackled him. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z
They resided in the part of town called Sugar Hill, and the house was a narrow cottage with a porch and two rooms. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z
I have been in my room watching discs. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z
So much silence, I fought the urge to go out and make sure everyone was still breathing in the other room. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z
Once Peeves had vanished, there was silence in the corridors; with only fifteen minutes left until curfew, most people had already returned to their common rooms. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z
I remember fleeing upstairs to my room and getting undressed and into bed without so much as opening my diary, much less making an entry. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z
His anger extended to the locker room at halftime, when the score was only 21 — 7 in Permian’s favor. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z
But I couldn’t exactly go to Mr. Ferris’s class in a sopping wet T-shirt, and I had to change it before everyone else came back to the locker room because of you know why. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z
I stared out over my new digs: Six one-story buildings, each with sixteen dorm rooms, were arranged in a hexagram around a large circle of grass. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z
“I was locked in my room,” I tell her. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z
To her left waits her grandfather’s old room. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z
We were in JimmyTrotter’s room, pretending to love his model airplanes since there wasn’t anything new to do or see. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z
Her voice cut through the afternoon quiet of the tower room. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z
During the day, students of all ages sit together in the biggest room in the house, learning. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z
I guess he thought it was all right to do because it was only me that was in the room. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z
With family coming from Virginia, as well as friends coming from other places for the birthday party, all the rooms would need to be opened up, aired out, cleaned, and decorated. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z
We can still hear the giggling in the other room. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z
Around midnight, White left Burkhart in the custody of the other agents and returned to his hotel room. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z
The instant the discarded slab hit the floor of the room, the glass of the window exploded inward like a swarm of crystal wasps. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z
Red eggs fill bowls on the dining room table. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z
From between the musty folds of the cloaks, they watched the teachers filtering into the room. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z
Father, clad in overalls, gets down on his hands and knees and brushes the rug so vigorously that the room is enveloped in a cloud of dust. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z
Once they’d finished their run, they trained in a private room far from her competitors’ eyes. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z
The book toppled off the bed with a loud clunk and shuffled rapidly across the room. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z
His brightness swept around the room in a contagious cloud. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z
There was a phone with a dial in the room. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z
He looks beyond her garden to the nest out in the field, barely able to see its shape from this far away, but he imagines it already in the educational room at the sanctuary. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z
She swept from the room in a billow of silk and honeyed perfume, leaving a stunned Inej in her wake. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z
I can hear the others calling me from the sitting room, but I fly down the hall into my room, bolt the door, and fling myself onto my bed. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z
And so he tells the reader not about the dreams, which were too private an experience, but about the day he spent in the stove-heated room, when his life as a philosopher began. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z
She stomped back to her room and slammed the door. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z
They were both asleep, and by sheer chance there was no one hidden in the labyrinth of empty rooms in the back of the house. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z
I thought of my mother’s foreign eyes, staring at me from across the room: I thought of the cool, indifferent eyes of the others. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z
And we stayed in June’s room for another hour! P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z
There was a brown nicotine ring around that room that ended about a foot from the ceiling, like the tide-line in an old bathtub. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z
Running a mile in PE last year had been way worse than having to clean my room. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z
I folded the note just as the guys began coming in to the locker room. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z
Then his rage Seeped into the room, clouding the crystal and softening the starched tablecloth. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z
I guessed it was Ruth in there, so I let myself into her room, and was standing waiting for her, looking at the view from her window over all the rooftops. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z
It’s cold in the room and I’m shivering in my wet clothes. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z
She left her room, feeling a little like she was crossing a moat—except the alligators were all inside her, snapping away. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z
Her uncle burst into the room, emphatically waving a pen. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z
The kitchen on the landing outside the room was small, but I didn’t mind. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z
She sat in her aunt’s crowded living room and listened to Lucky and Salvador boast about their fine jobs and their trips to other desert towns in Lucky’s car. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z
We drift back into the dining room and finish dinner quickly and, for the most part, silently. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z
He had often come upon his wife gliding through the sitting rooms, in her white tunic, with her young girl’s laugh. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z
It feels as though the room is empty but for us. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z
That way, they’d have plenty of room to flap and flail their arms. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z
The main room is dark, except for the light coming in from the lampposts on the street, through the window. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z
“Let’s keep playing. This book will probably make more sense once we go into the other rooms and pick up more clues.” Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z
The waiter was at the other end of the room, nor had he seen. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z
Then, still not saying a word, he went out of the room. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z
A silence falls over us, the quiet, open air of the big room making my ears ring. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z
“When it rains at midnight, take your hat, turn it upside down on a floor in a dark room, and you’ll have God!” Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z
Looking over the room again, I realized I’d skipped right over those new kids from Greece. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z
Then he remembered the laundry room was in the basement. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z
Later, when Chandra was out of the room, I hunted until I found a loose mud brick in the wall. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z
The hopelessness in the room made Thomas feel as if he were walking through mud-thick water. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z
Piled on a table in the corner of the room were presents which I would have to open, several children told me, before, not after, their bedtime. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z
I feel like marching into my parents’ room and shaking my mom. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z
He leapt up on the ratty sofa in Big Tony’s basement TV room as if it was the raging river. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z
Bill rose from the couch and went into the living room, snapping on the television before sitting down. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z
The door opened again and Coach M came in, carrying my clothes from the locker room on a hanger he held over his shoulder. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z
He went back to the room and got his suitcase from under the side of the bed. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z
Flying down either side of the room are Augurey flags—with the bird emblazoned in a fascistic manner. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z
I darted between her legs into her room and Bruno followed me. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z
The room is dead quiet, except for Aibileen and my whispering. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z
As Tatterfell moves around the room, my eyes close, and I fall into a strange, fitful sleep. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z
Everybody laughs as Catherine rushes to find me a paper cup for the sodas that are sitting on ice in the waiting room for the contestants. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z
The wind howled as it never had before and a tree fell right on top of the roof of our house and crashed into my room, narrowly missing me. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z
Me and Dee-Dee slept in one room under our big quilt. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z
Suddenly he strikes out at a lamp that sits precariously on a crate and knocks it across the room, where it shatters against the floor. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z
“When I first got to the dorms, my roommate was already set up in our room. Guy looks up at me and goes ‘’Sup, homie? Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z
And for the first time ever, my parents decided to skip the eggnog and the Christmas tunes in the living room. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z
Principal Maldonado sat at a large desk in the center of the room and invited Mom and George to sit across from her in two brown cushioned chairs. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z
They waited nearly twenty minutes in the cold room and the silence was frightening. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z
Studying them, I felt the room turn very cold, and very suddenly. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z
Singer saw the room just as he had left it—with the large bed for Antonapoulos and the iron cot for himself, the big overstuffed sofa and the camp chair. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z
I tried to laugh about it, for here we were: man and swollen wife and no more room at the inn. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z
Figuring they’d have to argue a while, I got a book off the bureau and took it to the little room. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z
Alyah was hungry now, and as she sat in her walker in the next room, she was crying out for food. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z
There was great commerce and discussion between each dance, often beyond the scope of my understanding, the whole room a very Babel of rich tongues and alien conversation. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z
Now that she’d shown them the soundproof room, why didn’t she just go back upstairs with her mom? The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z
A few adventurous members of the gentler sex took to wearing ridiculous “windshield hats,” watermelon-sized fabric balloons, equipped with little glass windows, that fit over the entire head, leaving ample room for corpulent Victorian coiffures. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z
Nonetheless, she turned to the bar in the living room, reached up for a bottle of Scotch, and poured a glass half full. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z
Suddenly the room was awash with a big swath of sunlight. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z
All of a sudden then, I wanted to get the hell out of the room. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z
I know a fight is coming, and all the warmth in the room goes away. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z
He got up and found his overalls and searched for the legs, and then the clock in the other room struck two. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z
This bag they carried into the necropsy room. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z
I was supposed to be called to the pulpit at Temple Judea at 10:15, so that’s when I have to be dressed and ready in the living room. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z
Until I stood in that basement room looking at jellyfish on the other side of the glass. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z
Father worked at his desk in the living room, keeping his head down. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z
“Someone took some money out of my room too.” Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z
Callie turns the music up when the song changes to a hyper-techno beat and I take that as my cue to sneak into one of the fitting rooms. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z
In the living room, Mom was grading quizzes with her feet up on the coffee table. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z
Leper, luckless in his last year as all the others, had been moved to a room lost in an old building off somewhere in the trees toward the gym. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z
I go back to my room and erase every page of my diary. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z
The next morning, I woke up feeling uneasy about dropping my medical school plans, but I didn’t have time to dwell on it, because there was little room in my schedule for indecision. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z
But the cook was too busy moving the food from the fire to the long wooden table in the center of the room to pay her any mind. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z
The common room smelled of smoke and sweat and spilled beer. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z
As a Catholic, I noted which open doors, which front room windows disclosed a crucifix. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z
“Well, it’s hard to get close to her when all she does is yell at us or go to her room and cry,” Velia said defensively. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z
One of these latter drawings contained a detail he found in none of the others, either a truncated passage or a small room in a location which seemed either senseless or mistaken. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z
"My grandpa lives in the back and I live in the front. I think there are two rooms back there. Maybe three." We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z
I had a room to myself for the first time in my life. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z
My room, like Kitchen-Girl’s and Cook’s, is a dank hole with a low entrance and a ragged curtain that serves as a door. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z
Sansa did not know what had happened to Jeyne, who had disappeared from her rooms afterward, never to be mentioned again. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z
I thought Favell was going to say something but Doctor Baker had left the room before he had a chance. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z
That’s when it hits him: Doc just found me under the desk in my dorm room with my pants down. Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z
The air in the evening lamplight is coagulated, like a custard thickening; heavier sediments of light collect in the corners of the living room. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z
A bunch of kids were bouncing around, some were standing at the back of the room, but no one was sitting down. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z
“By God, you’re right,” he said, and then he chuckled and the tension went out of the room. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z
I stop to look around my old room. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z
A very old woman hobbled into the room and bumped into a row of filing cabinets. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z
I sigh and try to move past him, toward the dining room and kitchen. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z
So as soon as we saw the stuff getting displayed in the billiards room, we decided to take turns keeping look-out. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z
In two years, eighty migrants have shared the room with her family. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z
A game of darts which was going on at the other end of the room interrupted itself for perhaps as much as thirty seconds. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z
This opened up room for a new chair and foot spa. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z
They all moved quietly to the back of the small room. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z
Crawling on her hands and knees, Hannah made it back across the room to her sleeping shelf. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z
I spend the next hour helping the redheaded girl clean the room. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z
I mostly sat in my room and read comics. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z
He parked his car briskly at the door of the school, stalked boldly into the room, found a yardstick leaning against Miss Gunderson’s desk, and climbed hand-over-hand to the top. Stuart Little 1945-10-17T00:00:00Z
“Billiard room, billiard room,” Frankie muttered, glancing into the rooms that branched out from the main hall. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z
When the emergency room clerk asked Beatrice for her stepbrother’s name, address, and phone number, Roy impulsively had stepped forward and blurted his own. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z
He got up, left the room for a moment, and came back with two wooden rulers. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z
Perhaps with Seema in the room, Mamma might want to appear more magnanimous. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z
Coach O nodded along, and as the room began to settle down, he told the captains to take their teams off to the individual meetings. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z
But first I go back down to the basement to look at the room next to the elevator again. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z
They grew louder, closer—the other boys had shuffled across the room and as far away from the window as possible. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z
The bullets echoed around the room, surprisingly loud. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z
He was laughing with Adam, one of his friends, and when Grace walked into the room, his eyes got so big that he looked like a cartoon. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z
When he hears her key in the lock, he jumps away and walks quickly into the living room. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z
He moves quickly toward the aisle, and when I turn to look up at the projection room, I notice. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z
After supper, my sister came into my room. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z
Dear Diary, 5:00 a.m.—The sound of my alarm clock woke me to a dark room this morning. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z
When I entered the room, I saw all my school friends gathered round a cake, shouting, “Surprise!” Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z
I wake up, and my room is dark except for the shine of the streetlights and the planes and maybe the moon. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z
The coed dorms unsettled her, all the men in their skivvies, the girls in their robes, the knowledge that at any moment a boy might saunter into her room—or worse, the bathroom. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z
“In here,” said Bill, opening the door into his and Fleur’s room. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z
She drew away and laid the shoulder bag on her dressing table before following Mrs. Coulter back to the drawing room. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z
That morning the room was darker than ever because the blinds had been pulled almost all the way down. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z
He, Ron, and Hermione went to the library the next day and returned to the empty common room laden with books that might help prepare a defense for Buckbeak. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z
One day they got into it in the living room and things got out of hand, and he grabbed her and she shot him. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z
Stepping to my room, she knocked on the wall. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z
Abbot Mortimer appealed to the onlookers, “Give us room there! If you really want to help, then stand back, please. Someone give Cornflower a lantern. Good mouse, hold it up.” Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z
Everyone in the room, it seemed, joined in. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z
Stooped and half-blind, but still energetic, the old woman came and went between the kitchen and the dining room, bearing the enormous platters with the utmost solemnity. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z
“Cap, the boys’ locker room is a cesspool! Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z
But the chill in the room has penetrated my bones. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z
Piled in a windrow in one corner of the room was a great heap of clothing. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z
The room gasped, and all expected the emperor to call his guards to drag the king away. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z
It even had a limited choice of coffins, hidden away in a back room. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z
The basement was a meandering complex of rooms so lightless I may as well have explored them blindfolded. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z
The nurse was on that side of the room too, but with' her back to me. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z
She stood in the doorway, a few feet behind him, one hand on the doorknob—a portrait of spurious hesitancy about making another full entrance into the room. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z
When he walked into a room, members of the staff, including white principals of the training and secondary schools, together with the black principal of the industrial school, rose to their feet. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z
From here I can see right into the dining room and the majority of the sitting room while being blissfully ignored. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z
After lunch, Haymitch takes me into the sitting room, directs me to the couch, and then just frowns at me for a while. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z
He wanted to go inside, be with his family, in his house, his room, behind his window. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z
She was in front of her room with her son, his cloth-covered head bent over a steaming bowl. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z
I was able to take eight steps between the sides of the fence, which gave me all the room I would need to store the things I gathered and wished to protect. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z
They herded the others out of the throne room, leaving Annabeth and me with Hermes. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z
The man Jack looked back to where Bod had been, then stared around the room, puzzlement and rage competing on his face. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z
“So it’s hard to imagine her in some gross unlit dusty room.” Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z
When his brother Robb burst into the room, breathless from his dash up the tower steps, the direwolf was licking Bran's face. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z
We ran with it to the TV room, closed the blinds, locked the door, and watched the movie. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z
I scanned the room for the model of the town, but it was replaced with a Photoshopped image on the wall of Pipo Place. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z
In the center of the room, a few children of all ages sat on straw mats on the floor listening to a silver-haired teacher who sat cross-legged, reading aloud from a picture book. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z
I walk him through my room, down the steps, and out the door. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z
A camera goes down with you, though, videotaping your simulated death, so you can take it home and relive those 8.5 seconds in the comfort of your living room. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z
The delivery room had eight beds, on which women moaned and twisted, tended to by fully covered nurses. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z
Like running my hand along a wall to find my way from one room to the next. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z
He made a big production of catching his breath and calming down and then he stomped off to our room. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z
With a groan and then a clonk, the rising room halted; the sudden change jolted Thomas from his huddled position and threw him across the hard floor. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z
Instead of returning to the front of the room, Mr. Quisling hovered over Emily’s desk. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z
And the feeling that people are like houses with vast rooms and tiny windows. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z
At the end of the room, between two bronze braziers, was a dais. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z
Once I had the room to myself again, I rolled over, turning my back to the door, and pulled the covers over my head to avoid the commotion coming from the hallway. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z
Mr Tibbs swam out of the room muttering unspeakable words to himself and wiping his brow with a white handkerchief. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z
Occasionally, Angie joined us, but most of the time she remained sequestered in her pink room, listening to the music we were forbidden in the rest of the house. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z
Suddenly, there is a rush of activity in the room as stagehands come in to get us. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z
The room was hung with silver and gold garlands and heaps of white hothouse camellias. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z
“You in charge? Found these two in a storage room.” Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z
The four judges—who until now were anonymous—sit in a row at the front of the room behind a long buffet table. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z
“There’s nothing to be afraid of in the whole dormitory, including the ghost room. I checked there too. I went inside just now.” The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z
In the morning she woke early to nurse Pearl on the couch in the living room and Pauline came in. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z
“He went to a room down the hall to get water.” Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z
Gradually the noise in the room, which had revived when the three of them came in, subsided again. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z
Often I can see what someone is saying written out like it is being printed on a computer screen, especially if they are in another room. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z
The room was an empty cage until I walked into it. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z
Rain splashed across the floor of the verandah, even though the sun blazed and I had to narrow my eyes to look out the door of Aunty Ifeoma s living room. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z
This room looks more like an office than a classroom. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z
But Drake is the Republic’s best university, and seeing as how the best are always assigned to the military, our drill room is packed with students. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z
I know there are several pastels on duty and they have regular rounds, checking each room. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z
It was buzzing around the room when I woke up. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z
Abby must have fallen asleep in his bed, so he just switched rooms with her. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z
She’s not looking at it, but through it, at the hazy living room on the other side. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z
Her ears rang with the sound of Shae’s and Kaede’s breathing in that small room, and beneath it, the flutter of her heartbeat seemed as loud as a drum. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z
I walked through the living room and the dining room, then through the French doors, toward laughter coming from the side patio. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z
He put his headset on and glanced at the time readout on the giant center screen at the front of the room. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z
It seems like the right thing to do, even with his room and all his things waiting for him. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z
She sat there and enjoyed the smell and the dark greenness of it.Oh, the mystery of a great tree, a prisoner in a tin wash bucket in a tenement front room! A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z
“Well, I created the chat room, so I made it up,” Jen said. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z
As we walked into Kevin’s hospital room the next day, the foul smell of death was choking me. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z
Our hampers were in the hall by the bathroom and we took turns doing laundry, leaving neatly folded stacks on the dining room table for the other to take whenever the time was right. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z
The pressure that had been building in my chest left no room to breathe. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z
My parents kept it in the den, as my mother had read about predators posing as kids in chat rooms and wanted to monitor the websites Richie and I used. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z
“You know how the scent used to walk into the room before she did?” I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z
No one seemed to sleep in a room with more than three other people. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z
Uncle Jet gently snored on the couch in the living room. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z
I watched Jackie every week after that, and once she was asleep, I’d sit down with the others at the huge, dark oak table in the dining room to help with paperwork. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z
He jumped up, ran across the room, and stood gesticulating in front of the Controller. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z
Slowly but surely she transformed the empty rooms into a labyrinth of secret nooks where she hid those she took under her wing, sometimes whole families. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z
They have a nice little room waiting just for you, dear’—no, let me finish,” he said, when I started to laugh. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z
“Take your friends to your room. You know the courtyard is not a playground.” The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z
Lunchtime I hide in the locker room, the supply closet, or the bathroom. Ghost Boys 2018-04-17T00:00:00Z
The girls in our room want to know where I learned to sing like that and what I'm going to do when we get out of this nightmare. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z
When I ran out of room on my avatar’s body, I stored the additional gear in my Backpack of Holding. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z
She had no privacy—not in her hotel room, not even in her own thoughts. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z
Perhaps she herself was struggling with the temptation to flounce from the room. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z
When he walked back into his room, Cabot Searcy went straight for the book. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z
I nod, still vaguely aware of the pinching in the same way that I’m vaguely aware that I’m not alone in the room. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z
From across the room, Don the faun yelled, “Hazel!” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z
Waking up mornings in my dad’s old room to the smell of coffee and sausage. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z
“There might be a way,” said Hermione slowly, dropping her voice still further with a quick glance across the room at Percy. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z
The door slams, and we are left in this room of unspoken words, surrounded by the gray concrete walls. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z
I’ve knocked over the friendly Harry Potter cardboard cutout, but I can’t get myself to pick it up, mumble “Sorry,” and run from the room. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z
Everyone must be in the music room, packing up! Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z
I was now standing—naked, cold and trembling—in the middle of the room. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z
It blocked the sounds from the other room, but it couldn’t block the pain. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z
With a renewal of tenderness, however, they repaired to her room on leaving the dining-parlour, and sat with her till summoned to coffee. Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z
And the walls of our living room were plastered with white papers. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z
A glass chandelier shaped like a grapevine occupied most of the ceiling, spitting seeds of diamond fire onto the windows along the far side of the room. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z
They’re gathered in the sitting room on the other side of the stairway now, cheering on this Commander’s Wife, the Wife of Warren. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z
It was a handsome room, with a fine marble fireplace facing the long sash windows, firmly closed against the unseasonable chill. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z
The Slytherin common room was a long, low underground room with rough stone walls and ceiling from which round, greenish lamps were hanging on chains. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z
That evening I return to my room and slide my hand beneath my mattress to make sure the gun is still there. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z
The room is so much more alive with Olly in it. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z
The guy in the tweed jacket is back at the door of the room. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z
And then he finishes and bows slightly while the room bursts into thunderous applause. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z
My favorite thing in my room is my bulletin board, full of pictures of the United Nations—me, Julia, and Isabella in silly poses. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z
Madames voice is calling, “Mademoiselle,” and she is taken by the hand, led back into the room in which she woke, and seated on the edge of the bed. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z
He dodged and parried as the dolphin warriors backed up, guarding the other captives while giving their captain room to battle. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z
Here it was uncomfortably moist, and they left it quickly, to come through an arched doorway into the drawing room and stand, aghast and incredulous. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z
The next room contains a few chairs, spare tattoo needles, ink, pads of paper, and framed artwork. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z
Hanging out with Samira in the band room made me feel a whole lot better. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z
In a moment I built up an intense loathing for sleeping in the room where the boy had died. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z
Mr. Brook looked back at Mrs. Stroud, then walked over to Joseph and put his hand on Joseph’s back and shoved him a little toward the living room. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z
As quietly as he could, he pulled himself up into the room. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z
I head up the stairs to my room. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z
Lyra found Lord Asriel in a room whose wide windows overlooked the frozen sea far below. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z
In any case, I recall things reaching something of a climax one grey and drizzly afternoon when I was in the billiard room attending to Lord Darlington's sporting trophies. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z
“Of course I’m funny, buddy! I’m always funny! You just don’t leave your room. You want to play cards?” It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z
The room seemed larger, and our steps echoed. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z
He moved around the room, holding a bowl full of business cards. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z
I could go to her room in the west wing, stand by the window even as I had done this morning, and I should not be afraid. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z
LeAlan: When I first heard, 1 was in my room listening to tapes and my momma said someone just got thrown out the window. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z
“I took her home. She was standing in the middle of the room when I got there. So I just took her home. Pitiful. Really pitiful.” Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z
While the rolls were rising, Naomi cleaned the living room and did every chore she could without causing a racket. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z
On the way out, Werner looks back only once: Jutta’s forehead and palms are pressed against the glass of the living room window. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z
Now, if that receptionist had told me there were going to be nine people in that room, I'd have walked out on the spot. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z
Mrs. Trepid carried it to the fitting room, and once she had the dress on and zipped, she turned to look in the mirror. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z
They all felt it; Magdalys could tell from the focused hush that fell instantly over the room. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z
We’re getting that room and to make sure she’s going to the Labour Exchange on Thursday to stand in the queue to take the dole money the minute it’s handed to Dad. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z
The morning sun brightened the living room beyond. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z
They left the room with a stately, impressive walk. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z
In the front room there were three beds and a washstand. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z
Her cropped hair, a shade similar to her shorts, seemed too lank and sensible, and in that room where all things were so carefully covered, her shaved knees and thighs too exposed. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z
I whip around to face the room and find it empty. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z
The half-dozen oil lamps around the room sputtered back into life, filling the room with natural light. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z
From his place on the opposite side of the changing- room aisle, Bernard Marx overheard what they were saying and turned pale. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z
The person rose, and he stood out for one reason only: He was one of the few white men in the room. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z
The basement bathroom was the opposite of our locker room. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z
She left the room and returned a few moments later. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z
“And do you go to the resource room on Thursdays at your school?” Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z
Then I went to my room, stopping only to answer my mother’s inquiry as to whether or not I was hungry. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z
The only sound was the crackle and hiss of the log burning in the hearth at the end of the long, drafty common room. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z
We step into his room, and he’s asking “Lights on or off?” and I’m saying “On,” and his face is lighting up like he’s relieved. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z
As they came into the dining room and Joseph Ryan approached the table in the corner, Mia saw herself somehow already sitting at the table, in a neat navy dress, a cocktail in her hand. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z
Mai sat on her bed and appreciated that she had an actual room with walls and a door that belonged to her and to Willow. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z
The next morning, I come into the dining room bleary-eyed. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z
“And then come upstairs and watch your movie in the living room.” The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z
She found herself in a spacious room with black walls and thick black curtains on the windows, through which not even a feeble ray of sunlight filtered. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z
You’d think a boy that has been the president of the class and student representative on the PTA would know how to walk into a room. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z
He sent more painters to the house, and she continued to add rooms and jobs—including re-tiling and painting a bathroom—and Zeitoun’s men continued to execute the work quickly. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z
“But will there be good room for five couple?—I really do not think there will.” Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z
“I’m Joy, and this is Malia. My mom’s still at work, and my dad is downstairs in the laundry room. He’ll be back in a minute. Do you, um, want to come in?” A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z
She got up and walked around the room until she could calm down a little. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z
Without thinking, I yell to Shay across the room, “Hey! You tease one of us, you tease all of us!” Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z
She did not know they had renamed kwashiorkor after the British prime minister, but her amusement dissipated when she went to Adanna’s room. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z
His virtual self disappears from my room, leaving me alone again. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z
Winston was just taking his place in one of the middle rows when two people whom he knew by sight, but had never spoken to, came unexpectedly into the room. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z
In her eagerness to make a good impression Kit had selected this dress with care, but here in this plain room it seemed overelegant. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z
Mrs. Reynolds was waiting outside the boys' dressing room. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z
“My mom didn’t come out of her room today,” I said, blurting out the truth before I could talk myself out of it. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z
As they went down the stairs to the living room, Oliver remembered something. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z
The space was smaller than many American living rooms, and jammed with double-decker beds and a few clotheslines. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z
I sat alone in my narrow room, watching the sun sink slowly in the chilly May sky. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z
She pushed her way into the room just as I was putting Rufus’s pillow under his head. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z
There are more people in the foyer now, but Tats is not there, so we pass through to the den and connected dining room. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z
He made half a dozen calls, and in the middle of the morning he went to Mr. Singer’s room. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z
And then Billy traveled in time to when he was sixteen years old, in the waiting room of a doctor. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z
Dad was in the living room, shuffling through blueprints for the granaries and mumbling to himself. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z
He was halfway out of the locker room. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z
The next morning, Ash moved her belongings into the room next to the kitchen where Beatrice had once slept. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z
I could sympathize—there was barely room for two men to stand in there, with the extra locker—but there was nothing I could do. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z
I’ve opened the blue silk curtains to let the morning in and cheer up the room. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z
Curious faces peek from rooms, and whispered conversations follow us around corners. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z
It was getting late, so instead of doing more research, I went upstairs to my room to start writing. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z
"This room has not been touched this morning,” I said, "even the windows were shut. And the flowers are dead. Will you please take them away?” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z
I’m sitting on the sofa in his living room, a glass of wine in my hand. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z
I imagine flashing lights and people bumping into each other and drug trolleys zooming around like fast cars and that’s how it was in our living room now. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z
The support cables holding the room together hadn’t been disturbed. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z
Then he finds a little stone room all sealed up toight. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z
It’s resting at L, for lobby, just sitting there, so I step away and peek into the laundry room. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z
We have many more rooms than the other houses I’ve visited. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z
Her room isn’t big enough for this much emotion. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z
On Friday morning, the familiar sound of Asher ramming his wheelchair into my door stirs me out of my restless sleep in my dorm room. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z
The room was unstable unless I looked at some fixed point. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z
It takes me a minute to realize that the boy who had saved me is sitting in the corner of the room, dangling his legs over the balcony and looking out toward the water. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z
The newly married couple picked up an inexpensive painting at a yard sale—a blue-eyed, blond princess standing next to a dark, bearded prince—and hung it in their living room. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z
The crisp crease of the rented tux pants seemed stranger than the broken room. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z
There was no way to describe to his friends what he had experienced there in the Annex room. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z
Maxwell's were navy; Epiphany's were red and were as loud as things were permitted to get in that large, cold room. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z
He stood and walked around the narrow room, laughing. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z
But Monmouth was scarcely thirty feet away, and my own room, with its conspicuously lighted window, must have loomed in his path like a beacon. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z
“Well, something doesn’t add up,” he said, standing and pacing the room. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z
I think, Being a father is like being a stand-up comic in an empty room. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z
With that the man dashed out of the room and Mrs Wormwood, sighing deeply, went to the telephone to call the beauty parlour. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z
Climbing vines had grown up inside the room and had pressed against the glass of the windows, seeking warmth and light. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z
Harry Belafonte singing “Mary’s Boy Child” drifted in from the living room. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z
A large table dominates the room, and sitting at it are two faeries I’ve never met—both of them gazing at me unhappily. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z
“Everyone to the back of the room. Don’t push your chairs in—leave them.” Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z
He pushes Ray from his lap, jogs out of the living room and through the dining room. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z
Then I ran west, into the living room. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z
Beer bottles broke at intervals around the room. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z
I saw shapes huddled around the room, their silhouettes thrown on the walls by the dim light of a pair of kerosene lamps. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z
After breakfast, we run up to his room so he can grab his bike lock. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z
“The dining room is full too, but Theo’s not happy with the arrangement yet, and every Sunday morning is spent rehanging and arranging everything.” Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z
When we got to our room, we saw some real Indians sitting on the curb. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z
On the right side of the room, second panel from the door.” Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z
Most of the people milling around in the room were white and kind of dorky looking. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z
I watch her glide among the tables, making for the powder room. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z
In a room without a window, there burnt a fire guarded by a high and strong fender, and a lamp suspended from the ceiling by a chain. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z
It was dark in the room and the orderly, who had sat by the foot of the bed, got up and went out with him. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z
When he got to Albuquerque, Gold was told every hotel room in town was booked. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z
She looked through the pictures she took at the memorial room, hoping this new date was listed on one of the other photos. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z
“Will you help me with fixing up the room? You’re so good at interior design stuff.” A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z
Maybe when I get there, Ben will be waiting naked in the conference room. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z
He wished he did not have to walk past the dining room to get to the kitchen. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z
He crossed the room, pulling Javier’s beanie out of his back pocket. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z
“Once you’ve finished cleaning your room for the day,” Mom intervened, “then Dad will give you an hour or two on the family computer. Right?” Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z
What I need is a room number, but no one's going to give it to some kid wearing a hat and gloves and sunglasses. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z
I'm not scared at all until I actually go into his room and see how small he looks on the bed. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z
That seems like something Elsbeth would do, telling him to shove things aside, make room for himself anywhere. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z
My room is a large bedroom suite, typical for me. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z
Then he crossed the room to Hedwig’s cage and tipped the soggy vegetables at the bottom of the bowl into her empty food tray. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z
Three rooms had always seemed much to them, a house half empty since his mother died. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z
Quietly, we made our way through the spacious living room and past the formal dining room, guided by the bright light coming from the far end of the house. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z
The room was large and stifling, and, though it was already four o'clock, opening the windows admitted only a gust of hot shrubbery from the Park. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z
“I was assigned to help clean out the rooms for the new guests in the afternoons, since they’re going to be here next week, ma’am,” Ophie tried to explain. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z
Pretty soon Luce’s hand was escorting me down the hall into the examination room. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z
This ballot jar Joe then set on the kitchen table, and, snapping open a beer, he ordered Nancy, who was in the living room reading a book, to fix him some lunch. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z
“I’m telling you twice, you have the run of this room,” Grandpa said. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z
From the living room, they heard Travis’s father cackle at something. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z
“And anyway, you bug this room. People listen through the shutters to the kitchen. It’ll have to come out.” Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z
“Came down near the stadium,” a woman says from half a room two stories up. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z
“I’m Kelsey,” the woman announced as though to the whole room. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z
It so happened that a cloak exactly like the one Xenophilius had just described was in the room with them at that very moment. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z
Because with all the fireworks exploding in my head, there wasn’t room for a single extra spark. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z
They went into the house and lay down on the soft moss Mrs. Frisby had placed on the floor of their room under the roots. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z
She awoke when the students came tumbling into the room. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z
It said, “We have three rooms’ worth of furniture. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z
It records my preference, then rolls out of my room again. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z
She points to herself and then into the room, as if to ask if she should enter. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z
Then he took me into this tiny room, a walk-in pantry off the kitchen, and he closed the door behind us. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z
When I opened my eyes, the room was draped in shadows. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z
“Panic rooms are what rich people have in their houses, where they can go and be safe and lock themselves in if someone breaks in. Or if someone is trying to kidnap them.” The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z
And then we get to the room in the back, which was once shared by the three Hsu girls. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z
The fire eats away at the cold in the room. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z
I lie down on the family room floor at the Drinkers’ house. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z
I shuffle off to our room but am still with her through my ears. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z
Violet shuddered, and the bald man gave a high-pitched giggle and left the room. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z
Out of the corner of my eye I see Zack sneak out of the room, unnoticed by everyone except me. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z
And all that time, laughter kept coming from the open doorway of the billiards room, and voices yelling things like: “If you lose your temper, your elbow will definitely pop out!” Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z
I told my friends that there was going to be room for a couple of more students in Ms. Gruwell’s class. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z
Brother Louis, after trying two or three times to make conversation, gave up and led her in silence to the President’s rooms in the tower. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z
After a lunch of rice and beans, they pulled me into the dining room and shut the door tight. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z
Apart from a few angry murmurs in the back of the room, no one disagrees. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z
Feeling trapped indoors, I prowled from room to room. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z
Something had happened among the architects, and it became evident immediately, as though a new force had entered the room. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z
Together in this room, with all these people, I had never felt more alone. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z
Perhaps the house was stained to its very foundation and that smell of something long dead and dried would always cling to the rooms and the rustle of rats would always come from the ceiling. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z
The room became a blur of color splotches and spinning lights. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z
The dining room and the living room were converted into bedrooms and for the first time we were squeezed for living space. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z
She took a few steps into the room. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z
“Tell them to stay out of my room,” I say. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z
“Good work. He’s still in the same room, right?” Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z
Above were the research laboratories and the padded rooms in which the Sound-Track Writers and Synthetic Composers did their delicate work. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z
I sprang to my feet and followed her into the front room. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z
I ran to get the gift from my room. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z
He came home, ate dinner, and disappeared into his room with a lit candle and books and magazines. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z
I had never seen the dead before, not for real, not in somebody’s living room for people to kiss and bless themselves and light a candle for. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z
But I didn’t want my father to find out, which is what would happen if I ended up in some emergency room getting my head sewn shut. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z
She thought about earlier in the practice room. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z
I could wish that she would stay and go to a college close to home, that we could share our room until one of us got married. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z
A long room, with a dim anbaric light at each end. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z
He goes with me to help pack up my room when Mom is at work. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z
Jody’s mother put a platter of steaks on the table and boiled potatoes and boiled squash, which clouded the room with their steam. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z
When I went to sleep again, it was in another room. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z
“You know she smokes in the girls’ room. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z
When we get to my room—which she’s never been inside before—I turn on the light, and she makes a beeline for Coop’s chair. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z
The rooms upstairs felt as if they hadn’t been lived in for a very long time, and so Mrs. Buckminster set about bringing them alive again. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z
She moved the stacks of musty gazettes and books to make more room. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z
He launched into a jargon-packed technical presentation that was geared to his fellow molecular biologists, and it was immediately apparent to everyone in the room that none of them understood a word. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z
Zahra fixes him with a final glare, turns on her heel, and stalks out of the room, slamming the door behind her. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z
Tommy got in the car and Guitar dashed around the house to the side stairs that led to his room. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z
Neither of them speak as I walk into the living room, or when I stop right in front of them, dropping my backpack to the floor. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z
The dim room with its low secret lamps and the nervous waiting men concealed his presence. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z
“No, no, no,” she said in her best grating voice, all the while shining the coffee table in our sparkling living room, which sparkles because nobody’s allowed to live in it. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z
The room where the meeting had taken place was a shambles. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z
It was a hot day and there were many flies in the room. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z
I looked through the Gideon Bible in my motel room for tales of great destruction. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z
God bless the poor little child,’ I said to your sister, ‘there’s room for him at the forge!’ Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z
He wondered if Master had seen her walk past the living room. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z
Upstairs, we found other people in our room. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z
The bed was modern, but the room was old with beams running across the ceiling, a stone fireplace, and narrow windows in an ornate wooden frame. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z
I made my way through the security line and the winding halls of the UN compound, until I reached a corner room where the event would be held. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z
She herself swept her room and made her bed, as the nuns had taught her. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z
M. Yoshoto assigned me to my desk, which was on the far, isolated side of the room, and asked me to be seated. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z
His attention seemed to wander, his eyes carrying over to the other side of the room, toward his computer and TV. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z
The kitchen was a large, high-ceilinged room, the largest in the house, and it smelled of coffee and old newspapers. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z
I had to leave the room, but I know Carl didn’t notice. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z
In the second room a guy holding an orchestra baton is facing the wall opposite the door. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z
My father was coming across the room just as he lifted it. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z
At the end of the room, the Oompa-Loompas around the giant camera were already beating their tiny drums and beginning to jog up and down to the rhythm. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z
I remember running toward sky, some open space, some room to breathe. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z
You sit down at the table in the center of the room. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z
This room is so small, it feels like I’m being squeezed from all sides. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z
I am a piece of furniture, not a girl who will remember every word spoken in this room. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z
When they were stacked up on their rack, they made our room shine. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z
The Beauty Minister squeezes my shoulder before leaving the room. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z
I had continued to proceed swiftly out of the room, returning without undue delay bearing a satisfactory fork. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z
Mine was the front bedroom, overlooking the street, while Gramps occupied two rooms in the back of the house. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z
“It’s just that this room is so hot and that jacket looks heavy.” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z
As they entered the room, Matthias skipped about and sang his ditty. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z
It was probably the only room in town big enough for a dance. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z
The room suddenly feels much bigger, the “creative team” way on the other side, behind a large plastic fold-up table. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z
One wall of the rectangular room was lined with windows, but umber-colored curtains were pulled across them to block out the night. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z
The hefty ledger books waited on a huge wooden bookshelf that took up the far wall of the dim room. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z
Sleeping in the narrow room were the mother, another daughter with her husband and two children, and the woman, who may not have been there. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z
My name quivered into the room on a soft push of breath. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z
Sherm crossed it to a wooden door that stood open, revealing a bright room: a big bed, a desk, a tall dresser, and under the window, a trunk. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z
But I’m not looking at the room—I am feeling her, tasting her, pressing against her as she’s pressing against me. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z
In my room, there’s just a sleeping bag and some cardboard boxes for my clothes. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z
Before the coldest weeks set in, we had the shutters of the storage room repaired and attached a sheet of tin to the doorframe, so that she would at least have some privacy. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z
I circle through the living room again, sniffing the air, wondering at the strange odor that does not belong in this house. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z
After breakfast, Adèle and I withdrew to the library, which room, it appears, Mr. Rochester had directed should be used as the schoolroom. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z
Nailer pulled her out of the room, nearly dragging her. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z
From somewhere in the center of the room came a sharp sound: bang!—bang!—bang! The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z
“I wished to — ah — deposit certain — um — personal items in the room...” Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z
The room started to spin as she understood what they were saying. I Survived the Great Molasses Flood, 1919 2019-09-03T00:00:00Z
They were the only things in the room that looked as though they’d never been touched. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z
Aly and I each showered and then we did our hair and makeup together in the living room. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z
She looked at each person in the room, her eyes softening only when she saw Chacho. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z
Fresh air filtered around the room and light came in. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z
We had to hunt down flies that found their way into her room. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z
She attempts to step out of his line of sight but the room is too small. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z
The boys are going to be in one room and the three of us girls will share the other. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z
I close my eyes and picture our apartment and my room. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z
There had been no room in her for anything but the glorious sense of safety. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z
The Commander is behind her, the sitting room door is open. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z
He moved around the room like a shark, circling me. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z
The nearest schoolhouse—which had one room and a single teacher for eight grades—was three miles away, and to get there, Tom and his siblings had to walk. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z
We’d spend ages trying to get them to light, clicking away with no result, and we’d had to give up on more and more—and along with them, the rooms they were supposed to heat. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z
I did not see Brett and Bill, and some one said they were in the back room. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z
Only a sliver of sunlight cracked through the closed drapes, making the room feel dreary. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z
The sky was heavy, promising even more rain, and the room was so cold that, in spite of the fire in the hearth, he was wearing his overcoat. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z
“Emergency!” yelled the doctor.“Take him to the operating room! Move! Move! Move!” The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z
I noticed right away that the screws on the casket had been tightened and that there were four men wearing black in the room. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z
She got the woman to her feet and walked her around the room, stopping every now and then to pour some ale into her. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z
Dad came running down the hall from one direction, and I came running from the other. us When we entered Abbey’s room, my mother was standing there with tears in her eyes. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z
The room was full of moans and shouts. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z
In the farthest room, through a barred window, he saw Idunn, sitting and weeping, and he perched on the bars. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z
He looks around at the rest of the room. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z
He was sitting in the waiting room of his dentist, flipping through an issue of Reader's Digest. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z
He searched the room for another raised hand, but everyone kept their hands down, and Rukia knew better than to raise hers again. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z
At the living- room door I saw her wiping her eyes. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z
Everyone starts eating it, but the mood in the room is grim. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z
As I emerge from my bedroom, I find that the front door is open and Mom is ushering Mrs. Baransky into the living room, apologizing for the nonexistent mess. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z
Any notion that drug use among blacks is more severe or dangerous is belied by the data; white youth have about three times the number of drug-related emergency room visits as their African American counterparts. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z
But something about this room felt strangely familiar . Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z
In the corner of the room was a large fish tank that was only a quarter full, but the bottom was covered with rocks and dark mud that clouded the water. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z
Other than a hurried rush to Claire’s bathroom when I cut my knee, I have never spent any time in the rooms beyond the hallway. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z
I am back in the house, in my own room. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z
The room was silent for a long time. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z
He stood, yanked up his prayer rug, and took it into the dining room. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z
She left the city room, looking worried, rushing right past Mr. Ali, who had been standing in the doorway this whole time. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z
One afternoon during swimming hour, the tin door of the changing room clanged open and shut. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z
“With torches and a big purple curtain over the entrance . . . really mysterious. But inside, a totally decked-out pad with a game room and one of those home theater systems.” The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z
Mrs. Torrance was sitting on a desk in the back of the room, chatting with Carmela, a Puerto Rican girl whom Esperanza was deeply enamored with, but who had thus far not returned the feelings. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z
Susan, on this Sunday morning, stood at the window of this room watching the street. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z
When the day was over and he was upstairs taking off his boots and slicker, he saw the old man from the generator room and went to talk to him. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z
It had been a cold night, and in the adjacent room a baby screamed behind a quarter-inch wall of pine board. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z
There was an upright piano in the far corner of the room beyond the wooden tables and Bill went over and started to play. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z
Kelly took her best friend by the hand and escorted her back to her room. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z
Sometimes people get married just so he’ll buy them a house—not one with a bird room—a little one with cockroaches. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z
It looks like both a room that wasn’t always for this and a room that couldn’t be for anything else. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z
I fell back, supine on the scuffed floor of the dance room, and stared up at the recessed lighting. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z
She stomped into her room and fell down backward on her bed. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z
Drawing slips of paper from a beaker filled with names, Mrs. Dalton called out pairs, and I watched the desks slowly empty and partners migrate to lab tables stationed around the edge of the room. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z
Her soft snoring drifted through the air, reminding me of all those nights we’d shared in our room back home. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z
For the rest of the night, we were confined to our room. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z
"Actually, can we use one of the treatment rooms?" The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z
She went into an adjoining room for a minute; the sounds of rummaging reached where Anya and Ivan stood on the front step. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z
At six-thirty, Ben finished packing his uniform and was waiting in his room for the summons from his father to leave for the game. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z
The room was long with windows on the right-hand side and a door at the far end that went into the dressing room. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z
Howling, he picked me up and hurled me into the dining room, but I got right up and hit him with one of Mom’s prized cherry-wood chairs, breaking off one of its legs. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z
Behind me, I hear Jason cross the room to the window. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z
In the neighbouring room on the left a painful stillness descended. The Metamorphosis 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z
Uncle charged into in the room and pulled me off of her. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z
“Do you mind if I take a look at his room while I’m here?” All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z
Presently he rose, and, completely under the influence of his own thoughts and language, began to pace the room with short strides, speaking to himself in a low voice and with great emphasis. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z
“That dog better not have fleas,” the rabbi’s wife said as she returned to the front room. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z
But then Jiichan was coming into the room whistling in a sorry fashion—he could hardly whistle, and he couldn’t stay on tune at all! A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z
I keep my head buried in Dad’s shirt as the clicks of Javier’s pod being latched echo in the room. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z
It was only a matter of time before the Darwins would find themselves in one of those darkened rooms. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z
They stood in the hallway near the boys' locker rooms. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z
Finn wouldn’t mind if she went into his room to see the kittens, to give them water. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z
And then we fidget in the waiting room for almost an hour. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z
You could tell they were rich ’cause the car looked like it had room for eight or nine more people in it and ’cause they had movie star clothes on. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z
At the moment, not in the room itself but from somewhere very close, there came, first a rumbling, then a creaking, and then a roar of falling masonry, and the floor shook. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z
Then, pulling away from Eleanor, who tried to hold her from going farther into the room, she ran to the great wardrobe and threw open the door and, cruelly, began to cry. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z
This time, when Bridge had kicked her sheet and covers to the floor and taken her third deep breath, it was Jamie in the room with her, standing uncertainly near the door. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z
But at the moment there’s no room in my head for things like that. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z
Glowing panels like the one they’d seen in the hatch room were spaced about ten feet apart, providing the only light. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z
Abruptly the room took off on a rocket flight into the clouds, it plunged into a lime-green sea where blue fish ate red and yellow fish. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z
Still—all things considered, Molly knows she has it pretty good: her own room in a tidy house, employed and sober foster parents, a decent high school, a nice boyfriend. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z
He never liked to open his eyes in this room, at night, he could not stop himself thinking about Hooper's grandfather, lying dead. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z
“There are forty of you. But we only have room for twelve on the varsity and twelve on the junior varsity.” The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z
Bobby was guided into a strange round office, about the size of a small living room and positioned in the tower of the building, with windows on all sides. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z
I have never seen my mother in command of a room like she is right now. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z
Another Continental officer stood there, gazing around the room. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z
Hana would be the last one out of her room and the first to complain about cold hotcakes and picked-over fruit. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z
The gym smelled like rain and stale bread and what she imagined a boys locker room might smell like. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z
“Jolly spot to spend a carefree hour,” Luke said, standing in the doorway regarding the bleak room. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z
I nudge at the hidden door Bree uses to enter my room. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z
At that moment I would have given anything to be back in our bluebird room instead of sitting there with thirty kids staring at me. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z
She pushed from room to room, trying to distinguish faces without being distracted by those big pretty eyes, or overwhelmed by the feeling that she didn’t belong. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z
But Traft had a group of toughs lining the back of the room. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z
The tide lifted the canoe higher in the room, and as the water lapped against the walls it sounded like the soft music of a flute. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z
The tenderness between two people can turn the air tender, the room tender, time itself tender. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z
There was nothing in the room that could have been human remains. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z
No one who tried on clothes in the third dressing room to the right of a certain department store ever bought anything. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z
She paused in the entrance to the drawing room and observed that the chocolate-smeared cocktail glasses had yet to be cleared away, and that the doors into the garden still stood open. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z
We cross the room, but in the doorway, Haymitch’s voice stops us. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z
The wall of the waiting room was covered with burlap, and there were plants in wooden tubs. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z
When I woke up, the room was darker. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z
“You always want to do that,” Valley said as they found seats toward the back of the room. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z
The painting was a pool of moonlight in the center of the room. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z
I run to the living room to show it to Dad. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z
Kote stood with his back to the room, a stillness in his body and a terrible silence clenched between his teeth. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z
“Your room is such a mess,” my mom said, looking at the clothes, both clean and dirty, strewn across my floor. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z
Lost in my thoughts, I don't notice anything unusual about Skulls' quarters when I arrive at my room. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z
I exit the room and hurry down the hall. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z
The door, to a limited extent, opened; Pris, no lights on in the room behind her, peered out into the dim hall. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z
She took down her mother’s drapes from the dining room and packed them up with her grandmothers quilts from the bedrooms. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z
She was often chartered for special moonlight cruises, during which an elaborate loudspeaker system piped live music from the observation room throughout the ship. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z
Helmuth awaits his turn for interrogation in a room painted a brilliant, dazzling white and brightly lit with large lights. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z
A moment later, seeing the uneasiness in the room, Lincoln adds, “Don’t you see how it will all turn out? In this dream it was not me, but some other fellow that was killed.” Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z
“What is this ...” The girls edged past him into the room. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z
The actual writing of the book began with the scene in the pool room. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z
Charlie took the little silver coin, and slipped quickly out of the room. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z
She put her knife down and wiped her hands, and led him down the corridor to the room where they’d been before. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z
Liyana and Poppy pulled up an extra table so they would have enough room. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z
I made my way to my usual table on the left side of the room. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z
She didn’t want to tell him who, not yet, so she squeezed past him and into the larger room outside. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z
Everyone sits and stands around Malik’s living room, eating sandwiches and chips and drinking just about every soda Aunt ’Chelle has. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z
“I will deal with it,” Ida answered, and Lucia gruffly left the room. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z
I am on my own, in a dirty room, sprawled on a dirty mattress with a blanket that looks like it was stolen from a child. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z
I pick up the box and wind my way through the dark house again, up the back stairs and into my room. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z
Sí, the room was a bathroom for ladies. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z
Daddy didn’t even come from his room Christmas morning to see the presents. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z
Mr. Goldstein was not amused when he returned to see the typing room, including his desk, covered with spitballs. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z
Only the children in the room were really enjoying it. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z
“Hold your water,” Koontz snapped as he crossed the room and unlocked the door. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z
If I took my eyes from them, the walls of our room crept closer and closer to me until I thought I would suffocate. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z
“Pip,” said Estella, casting her glance over the room, “don’t be foolish about its effect on you. It may have its effect on others, and may be meant to have. It’s not worth discussing.” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z
The study was the darkest room in the apartment because it had no windows, and my father always worked with the desk lamp on, the yellow light bathing the desk and the floor around it. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z
“Madontfl” cried his girl in exasperation, and stamped out of the room. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z
“That’s why we had the light fixture removed. In your room.” The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z
The forest is being cleared away, the trees are being cut down for firewood or to make room for grazing land, and the elephants are vanishing. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z
At once he let go of the handles and again he stood in his own living room, beside his wife and the empathy box. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z
Mama said they went back and forth about my name, even in the delivery room before I was born. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z
It was like hiding behind the thing in the room he was most likely to hit. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z
Instead, I’m in a bed, and sun is streaming in through the windows, and Ollie sits across the room in an armchair. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z
He darted around the bend, past the door to the 500s room, the 400s. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z
“I’ll just be a minute,” she said to Milkman, and left the room. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z
“Next we’d like to thank those nonmembers in this room who have given their time and help, for it’s you who made our job that much easier.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z
June had gone upstairs to her room and locked the door, while the Daughters huddled in the kitchen. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z
I just sit in the back of the room with Catherine and hope the morning will pass quickly. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z
When he went to close it, he was staring across the hallway, straight into Jessie's room. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z
As the last bell rang, Miss K hurried into the room with a worried look on her face. Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z
I was just the third wheel in the room. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z
It was to be the room in which this boy was to spend most of his waking hours for the next three years. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z
Nancy, Margaret, Isobel, and I found each other and sat down on the floor, waiting for the captain to speak, which he was obviously going to do as soon as the room had quieted down. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z
I didn’t have a shotgun, so I grabbed a lacrosse stick that was leaning against the wall and ran from my room toward the noise. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z
The room was washed in unnatural brightness; they sat us in a cluster on the dirty cement floor, and pointed three floodlights toward us. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z
I’m still thinking about the man in his room and Mrs. Blair after we leave. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z
But when my grandmother shouted in Greek, “A boy!” the cry went around the room, and out into the hall, and across the hall into the living room where the men were arguing politics. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z
I met with the chiefs in a large room in the visiting area, and they explained their dilemma. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z
My mother ducks her head in the waiting room. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z
At no point was there room for a rabbit to squeeze through. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z
Dinner was ready a little later, and with an arm around my wife and an arm around my son, I advanced toward the dining room. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z
The room smells too, the air is close, they should open a window. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z
I suspect there is some wiggle room in this arrangement. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z
Shadows passed the frosted-glass window as teachers rushed to the staff room to smoke and drink coffee. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z
“Go over this room with a microscope,” he ordered the policemen clustered in the doorway. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z
“We have bread, tortillas . . .” She dashes to the front room. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z
But I was thinking about him when Mom came into my room a few minutes after I turned off my alarm clock. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z
Just then a chorus of voices rose from behind the door of Eiddileg’s throne room. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z
She responds with tales from her childhood spent in back rooms of theaters. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z
First, we went through security, and then a uniformed guard led us down an empty hallway to the visiting room. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z
Marigold jerked her eyes from the figure across the room just long enough to glance at the book in Zane s hands. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z
I stared at the precise rendering of my mother’s family room. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z
“I need to finish up in the room.” Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z
We walk into an old boiler room with machinery that emerges from the darkness so suddenly I hit it with my knees and elbows. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z
In the dining room on the other side of the door! Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z
Instead I moved away from them, near one of the stone columns set throughout the room. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z
Harry moved across the room, slid the mirror fragment off today’s Prophet, and unfolded the newspaper. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z
A tiny woman leaning on a cane slowly made her way into the room. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z
The neatest thing in the whole room is a locked suitcase. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z
At the opposite end of the room, Joan was wolfing her Spam and broiled tomato with great appetite. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z
The moonbeam was like a silver blade slicing through the room on to her face. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z
I took a grocery bag and went to my room, where I closed the door. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z
Blanca went into the living room and picked up the phone. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z
After the bathroom, I walk by the living room, where the Senator is pouring himself another drink. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z
Here, in the control room, three monitors on the wall can show what is happening in each of the rooms. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z
An agent sits at a desk at the front of the room, speaking in the most boring monotone I’ve ever heard. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z
In the evenings, after he had finished his supper of watery cabbage soup, Charlie always went into the room of his four grandparents to listen to their stories, and then afterwards to say good night. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z
Loud and aggressive, like some mighty intruder charging in and out of our living room. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z
Some children were seated in a ring at the front of the room with their chairs, and they had some of the same books Grandma had me reading at home. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z
You’re reading it because April Farrow told you to read it, he says, and laughs so loud, the person in the room behind you bangs on the wall. Booked 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z
As if Nick and I can’t be in a room together without it turning into frenzied wild sex. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z
In the room there were suits, pajamas, and gowns. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z
I guess that’s the problem right there, at home I never would have thought about how to walk into a stupid room. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z
I often visited him there during his lunch hour, and made a point of sitting in a Whites Only chair in the Whites Only waiting room. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z
Quietly, I stepped back into my room and shut the door. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z
The doubt sewn into the faith gave her room to think, to question. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z
She scurried across the drawing room and tugged repeatedly on the bellpull that hung by the door. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z
If I don’t escape before they come back, I’ll be trapped in this frigid room all night. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z
“I can’t even remember what your room looks like,” he says. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z
“Well, yes, but anything else? Did you...see a shadow in a room?” Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z
His rooms were in the city’s highest towers so he could see any attack long before it came to be a threat. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z
I’m sure it was made for a girl like Jenna, from the next dressing room. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z
He attempted an exploratory walk, leaning on his banner as he stumped gingerly around the room. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z
Naomi began to feel the room close in on her. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z
I went back to my room and fell soundly asleep for twenty minutes, and dreamed Julie was teaching me to foxtrot in the kitchen at Craig Castle. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z
“What are you doing in this musty old room, anyway?” he asked in his croak of a voice, walking over to where Klaus was sitting. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z
When Mom finished tidying up the living room, she came into the living room and planted herself in front of Dad, who had retreated to another chair and reopened his paper. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z
She figured that Charles and Andrew had probably missed something important in the foreign languages room because they’d spent too much time talking to “these awesome mannequins” that told them all about their “American heritage.” Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z
“A dancing room,” she said, “for ladies in full skirts, and room enough for a full country dance. Hugh Crain, will you take a turn with me?” and she curtsied to the statue. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z
I also told him that I’d reserved a hotel room for him in Montgomery and that it would probably be safest to spend the next few nights there. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z
But now the days that had once dragged rush all too quickly toward evening—those same hours are consumed with Gogol, pacing the three rooms of the apartment with him in her arms. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z
As Ben awaited his father’s call to dinner, he lay on his back, shooting a basketball toward the ceiling of his room over and over again. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z
And if the door wasn't open and I couldn't see straight down the hall to the living room, I might've freaked out. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z
We were told to wait for Karen Kelly in a very small room that was empty except for a square table. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z
No one is in this room at the moment, though I can hear two watery, echoing voices speaking rhythmically in the next. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z
She spent hours poring over them in her little corner of her family’s room, wondering who could’ve made those pencil strokes. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z
“You stole from me, Aisling. Did you think I would not search your room to see what else you might have taken?” Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z
She feels out the melody the way a blind man feels his way forward in an unfamiliar room. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z
Afterwards the girls ran upstairs to Diane's room, and Aunt Dorothy and Aunt Pearl cleared the table and went into the kitchen. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z
As they entered the room, he turned to Genie and gave him a look. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z
“Why don’t you take Callie up to her room? Show her around.” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z
From the far side of the room, his old man muttered, “You did good.” Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z
He stands in the middle of the small, spare room in his underwear. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z
Suddenly, we heard someone else coming into the room. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z
When the man is done transferring his clothes and turning on the dryer, he shoots us one more disapproving look before leaving the room again. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z
Sometimes, when no one was in the house, I would go in the room and try to imagine my father as a child in there. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z
The muffled talking is Mom and Ellis in Mom’s room. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z
Tatterfell comes into the room, bringing with her a tray with tea things. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z
Fatima and Prince Philip ate starfish on the shore, then vomited them up in the living room. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z
Right now nothing in here matches, since our old rooms had completely different styles. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z
But this time it’s like walking into a room and finding a bomb right in the middle of it. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z
I stare down the hallway, memorizing a path out, before we enter our own private room. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z
A massive desk—covered with documents, an inkpot and pen neatly placed in one corner—takes up most of the room. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z
That relatively small room appeared to be a forest of black dinner jackets, grey hair and cigar smoke. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z
It wasn’t perfect—it was garishly decorated—but it had the right number of rooms and a decent yard that they would be able to see when they sat in the back of the house. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z
She is sitting on the sill now, peering out from her lighted room into the galeria whose lights I’ve turned off against the mosquitoes. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z
The noise in the room and the thickness of the glass wouldn’t let us hear each other. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z
He walked into the room not looking at her. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z
At first when some of the guys went around to see him they said he didn’t talk much, but then after a while he wouldn’t even come out of his room. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z
In contrast, Holmes’s building was dead space, like the corner of a room where the gaslight could not reach. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z
"My name day will be here soon," Joffrey said as they slipped out the rear of the throne room. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z
I moved to a nearby table as I finished my second verse and led the room in the chorus again. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z
Eight library carts—three tiers of slanted shelves on wheels—were lined up in front of the door to the 000s room. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z
In Fulton’s room I became fully aware of why I had never dared to set foot into that house before. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z
What kind of room would Brother Jack select for me and why wasn't I left to select my own? Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z
It was afternoon by the time they got to the last round, and Mrs. Olinski sat shivering in a windowless room in a building big enough and official enough to have its own zip code. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z
I told Mom we should empty out each room, clean it thoroughly, and put back only the things that were essential. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z
I thought of him now—in his room—watching the sunrise; hoping I should soon come to say I would stay with him and be his. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z
He has me take off my jacket to show that I’m not carrying any weapons, and then he lets me into the room. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z
Scott would go into that room and regularly work out so hard that he threw up. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z
The fire snapped, making him blink and look around the room. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z
Travis came out of his room and trooped silently in to dinner with the rest of us. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z
Slavery was the unmentionable family secret, or the proverbial elephant in the middle of the room. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z
He’s so close, and the room light so bright, even I can see the tiny blood vessels spiderwebbing over his pale irises. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z
There was no room for bad luck or chance in their lives. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z
The sounds were coming from the living room. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z
She was pointing at an enormous, gray spiral horn, not unlike that of a unicorn, which had been mounted on the wall, protruding several feet into the room. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z
Wondering if there was any water left in his body that hadn’t been drawn into the starch of his shirt, he walked down the hall—quietly—past a dining room, and finally to the kitchen. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z
And Finn had said indignantly, “It’s our rec room. Don’t you think we’d wreck a TV if it was down here?” The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z
“Maybe you could let him fly around your room,” said Travis. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z
I was as tense as a cat in a room full of rockers. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z
Finally, at a quarter to five, Harry went back downstairs and into the living room. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z
“There’s no patient expected. I couldn’t put you in just any room.” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z
A few dozen people had collected in the living room, sitting on couches and folding chairs that had been brought in for the occasion, while others sat cross-legged on the floor. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z
He strides off to the men’s room and I wish I could disappear. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z
The rooms upstairs proved rather less than grand, however, particularly the cheap ones up on the fourth floor. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z
“The complete price is $10,500, for two bedrooms, a large living room, kitchen, bath, and dining space, and five closets.” Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z
“This is the one thing in the room I was doing. Why don’t you find something else?” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z
The space is a single room with a shelf and small love seat, and a pretty vase of flowers in the kitchen nook. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z
They thought Eleanor couldn't hear them, but their bedroom was right over the living room. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z
Across the room were some chemical-agent canisters in a special vest, next to a riot helmet and megaphone. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z
Light reaches the corner of my room again, and the room fills with yellow. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z
After a while, I was able to forget we were in a prison visiting room. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z
The day after Brian leaves for boarding school, I sneak into Jude’s room while she’s in the shower and see a chat on the computer. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z
Agent Jones had been summoned to the conference room. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z
Not hastily, as one would explore a hotel room, expecting no surprise, opening and shutting the desk drawers, the cupboard doors, unwrapping the tiny individually wrapped bar of soap, prodding the pillows. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z
They were in a drawer of the desk in the living room. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z
He put the drawing back on my desk and looked around my room, one of the first times I think he had ever done that. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z
A pack of students thundered into the room. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z
And when Miss Deaver left the room for a minute, Nick spread about ten cups of fine white sand all over the classroom floor. Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z
I didn’t have to eat in their dining room, but back in their kitchen would of been all right. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z
“Girls, where are you going?” asked Amy, coming into their room one Saturday afternoon, and finding them getting ready to go out with an air of secrecy which excited her curiosity. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z
They then entered the booths of the rest rooms. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z
This greenhouse is one of his rooms, perhaps his favorite; perhaps in better times he tended the plants himself. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z
The Mess is mostly dark except for the lights along the perimeter of the room that let off a faint electronic buzz. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z
I got to be in his house, in his room, sitting on his bed. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z
The kitchen is about half the size of the living room, and warmer. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z
I pry Heather out of Mom’s claws and we retreat to my room. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z
Then Jadis spoke; not very loud, but there was something in her voice that made the whole room quiver. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z
Racks of weights, stability balls, and resistance bands are stocked along the edges of the room. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z
He lay far across the room from her, on a winter island separated by an empty sea. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z
Though Professor McGonagall was head of Gryffindor House, Harry had seen her in the common room only once before, and that had been to make a very grave announcement. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z
When we finally got our own house, her boyfriend took the bedroom, and my mom, my sister, and I slept in the living room. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z
I want to turn the photo over so that I don’t have to look at him, but Auntie Idris crosses the room with a few limps and picks up the photo. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z
Maxim had returned then, while I had been upstairs, bringing his agent with him I supposed, for it sounded to me as if the room was full of people. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z
After about fifteen minutes, Dr. Guarino comes out to the waiting room to greet them. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z
Back in his room, he took a few minutes to catch his breath. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z
Soon there would be no shadows in the room at all, the walls and the ceiling and the floor would be white with the morning. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z
She had said she was going to sleep in that room, and so she did. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z
When he seemed angry, the entire room scowled and frowned. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z
The overnight lights cast a jaundiced glow over the room, and the whole place still smelled like sweaty socks and bile. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z
“Oh, she hid under my bed, then in the dining room, which is where I left her.” Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z
She pointed toward the other end of the room, into the darkness. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z
It seemed like forever ago that him and Newcharlie were sitting up in our room talking about who was the baddest. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z
Although the windows were rolled down, the smell of fried chicken and sweet potato pie lay unmoving, and there wasn’t enough room to stretch. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z
Dad shakes his head and leaves the living room. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z
We dined the traditional way, sitting on cushions around the room, tablecloth spread on the floor, eat­ing with our hands in groups of four or five from common platters. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z
Kyle plopped his feet on the floor, rubbed his eyes, and sleepily looked around his room. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z
“Don’t worry. Like you said, with a bit of courage, creativity and fifteen”—I eyed the pink and mauve striped drapes in the living room—“thirty-five yards of upholstery fabric, anything is possible.” Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z
Whatever the reason, she now walks briskly out of the room, heels clacking on parquet floors, and by the time I catch up to her, she's already pinning on a navy hat. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z
I wiped the lipstick away with the back of my hand and left the room. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z
The room this door leads to was once my mom’s bedroom too. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z
“Oh, yes! The attic used to be my room, if you can believe that. Of course, it was not in such a state when I was here,” she said with a high laugh. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z
The room had gone mostly quiet now, the political team's nervous updates having given way to an expectant, almost sober kind of calm. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z
Before she can answer, I run to my room and slam the door. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z
Her mother said comfortable with a faint shudder, and Olanna almost smiled because her mother had Odenigbo’s basic university house in mind, with its sturdy rooms and plain furniture and uncarpeted floors. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z
We were walking to class that day and had stopped to look at the glass display outside the art room. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z
The moth faded away, and they found themselves in an open-air room. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z
The bed, in an alcove at the far end of the room, was draped with a splendid cloth embroidered over its entire surface with intricate designs. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z
He does that himself about a minute later when he starts to cough and before I can say anything, the room is swarming with nurses and Dr. Spivak is telling me I have to leave. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z
The problem of what was delicately called “leaving the room” was a grim one. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z
And then they made me move across the room. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z
Valley asked, walking into the room with a handful of toads from the toad tank. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z
The girl and her companion obediently fell silent then, realizing they had been heard through the microphones embedded in the walls of the dining room. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z
At this question I saw Emma, who had been glowering in a corner, rise from her chair and stalk out of the room. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z
The filmmakers packed up their cameras and rushed to the editing room to see what kind of footage they had. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z
Mr. Townsend smiled big, leaning against the big desk that dominated the room. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z
Once I finally finished the lap, which may have taken fifteen minutes—pathetic—I returned to my room to find two women in it, one I recognized and one I didn’t. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z
The room quiets, and their soft breathing and Suma’s gel swooshing become the only noise. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z
Florida was in the hospital waiting room, wrapped in a blanket. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z
But the object that had frightened me half to death, standing right in the middle of the room, was the golden silhouette of a fetterling, poised to attack, with legends coiling around its chain body. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z
"And what I was wondering was, would you know of a house that might have a room?" Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z
They stand on opposite sides of a small, round room painted a rich blue and dotted with stars, on a ledge around a pool of jewel-toned cushions. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z
While I don’t know about the cleverness part, I do know that I am curious about the world—from worms and bugs to chicken fights and the bras Ma hangs in her room. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z
But how can a person live when she is afraid of a room in her own home? Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z
They walked very quietly across the grey carpets of the department store, towards School Outfitting, and the rooms smelled of perfume and new cloth. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z
They had three whole rooms—one for Phoebe and George, one for Aunt Daisy, and one for sitting around and doing nothing. I Survived the Sinking of the Titanic, 1912 2010-06-01T00:00:00Z
I’m not scared, though, ’cause I got my light on, and I got you in the next room. Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z
“Don’t let that young giant come near me, he worries me worse than mosquitoes,” whispered the old lady to Amy, as the rooms filled and Laurie’s black head towered above the rest. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z
They ran the rest of practice, until nearly everybody in the room had either puked or seriously considered the possibility. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z
It was just my luck that my mother was walking into the room as Dante’s sketch pad hit the wall. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z
Matt made his way to the music room, and for a long time he didn’t venture into the secret passage. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z
Cal closed the door quietly and went back through the living room. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z
A haint could sit in a theater seat, turning the room frigid even in the middle of summer, and simply watch. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z
She would leave now, but the two of them were right in the middle of the room, blocking access to the door. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z
Mindful of the time, Mom and I exchanged looks and then followed the woman into a room not far from the security hall. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z
“And yours is the smallest room,” she says. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z
Her smug expression convinces me to keep on walking out of the room and unleashes a barrage of worry that unsettles my stomach. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z
But I already know which one I’d paint my room if we could afford it: it’s the most beautiful yellow ever, like baby-chick fluff, and it’s called Sunflower Sky. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z
As usual, something about her presence brightened the room and lightened Ophie’s spirits a touch. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z
Somewhere above me, the Pastor boomed robust greetings and explanations, leaving little room for the doctor’s understated replies. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z
He lit Daisy's cigarette from a trembling match, and sat down with her on a couch far across the room where there was no light save what the gleaming floor bounced in from the hall. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z
“Betty, those items need to be stocked,” he tells me, and I know this is his way of getting me out of the front room and into the back storage area. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z
"I had a few minutes, so I ran through the aerobrake lockdown checklist for the reactor room. Everything's ready for acceleration and the compartment's sealed off." The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z
In a doorway at the opposite end of the room, a ghostly Roman legionnaire beckoned to them. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z
The next day Mrs. Byrne comes into the sewing room and says she needs me to go on an errand into the center of town, a mile’s walk. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z
There would be no one in the ladies’ room washing up. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z
She clicked a button on her remote control, and a photograph appeared on the screen at the front of the room. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z
Nobody moved stuff in Eva’s room except to clean and then they put everything right back. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z
Downstairs was the small bedroom, and the big room. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z
Mama had said Mrs. Caruthers was in failing health, but Ophie hadn’t understood what that meant until she had stepped into the room. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z
Next thing he knew, he was being wrenched inside the common room by about a dozen pairs of hands, and was facing the whole of Gryffindor House, all of whom were screaming, applauding, and whistling. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z
It was my fault that I’d barged in on Momma and her fine lady friends who were visiting from Frankfort, even though I’d been told to stay out of the sitting room. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z
She made her way to the Airlock 2 ready room. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z
Quickly she finished dressing, pulled the brush through her hair, and ran to Thomas’s room on the other side of the corridor. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z
I told Ma once the Howards had a room just for company, a room just for books, and a room just for plants, and she said that was three rooms too many. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z
His mother hoarded the little he earned, and after several months, she was able to rent a room for the three of them. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z
“Everyone, out of the band room. Mila, may I please speak to you in private?” Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z
Who would want to marry a woman that keeps her sick mother in a bed right in the middle of the living room? The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z
Frederick sits at a glass-topped table at the back of the room, both table and boy looking small amid the clutter. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z
“Of course I can. But I’ve decided I want her to sit in that room and see what a fool she’s made of herself.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z
Kate, the day I go around pinching your scrap bonnets is the day I dance a jig naked in the dining room. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z
When it was finished, it sat in the display room along with the projects of his classmates, including wooden plaques and a plain box that someone called a telephone base. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z
Richard made some eggnog from a German recipe his grandmother gave him, and they all ended up singing a lot while I wrapped presents in my room. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z
Besides, I’m not climbing out of my window, and I can’t sneak past the living room. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z
The sound from the living room was diminished now as if somebody had lowered the collective volume of the voices. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z
I paced the room, feeling like ants were crawling around inside my shirt. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z
They diffused and melted Janie, the room and the world into one comprehension. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z
On the ride home, I thought about how even our brains have rooms. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z
For one horrified instant, everyone in the room seemed turned to stone. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z
The entire ceiling glows with a soft yellow light allowing me to see that I'm in a room containing just my bed. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z
He rests his hand on my shoulder for just a moment, says, “Cancel it, OK?” and walks out of the room. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z
The break room was empty save for a computer technician sipping a cup of coffee. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z
Soon another white man, thin and gray, entered and went into the rear room. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z
I ran into my room and snapped a picture of the recipe on the back of his last letter before hiding it again. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z
She had Turner cleaning and painting, dragging rugs outside and beating them, opening windows for new air, and bringing light to rooms that hadn’t seen any since the century began. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z
My room felt hot and stuffy so I went over to crack open my window. Doing Time Online 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z
I spend a lot of time reading comic books in my brother’s room when he isn’t there. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z
The room looked as though it was being used as a temporary warehouse. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z
He took the packages up to his room and then wandered down to the lobby. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z
His room smelled of dust dampened and dried many times. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z
We weave in and out of tables and as we draw to the front, a silence sprinkles over the room, until the voices are nothing more than a low buzz of questions. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z
There were maps all over the room, unfolded, spread out on the bed, taped to the walls. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z
As befit his rank and station, Quentyn Martell had been given quarters within the Great Pyramid, two levels down—a handsome suite of rooms with its own privy and walled terrace. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z
"I'll meet you back at your room," she reassures me, then heads off in the direction of the servants' lifts. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z
Whispers follow me to the front of the room. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z
Robin barks at me, then races ahead to the family room and barks at Mom. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z
Thinking about it now, in the security of my room, I am shaken with the rawness that touched me. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z
He raced around the living room trying to find it. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z
That afternoon, Emma went down to the drawing room for tea as usual. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z
The man pulled the sheets off the long Empire table in the center of the room and shook them out and made a nest of them in front of the hearth. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z
Harry looked around the room for likely hiding places and approached the desk. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z
No one else was in the waiting room. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z
We walked through the tiny living room into the miniature kitchen and upstairs into my fathers pint-sized bedroom and on into my pocket-sized bedroom and into the wee bathroom. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z
Ma asked as she came into the room. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z
Inside the front room a couple of dudes were watching a talk show on television. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z
I followed him into the living room and took my seat. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z
She sighs, then announces to the room: “Craig can draw something from his childhood.” It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z
In short order they were given toothbrushes, pajamas, and warm slippers—it was drafty in the old house at night—and shown to their rooms. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z
“No, no; your room is full enough. I will call another day, and hear the pianoforte.” Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z
I know what kind of talk goes on among them as they horse around in the locker room, sneak cigarettes behind the field house. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z
She does the same, but I can see the doubt in her eyes as she turns away and heads to her own room. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z
The ambience is meant to encourage customers to feel comfortable and to spend money; it is not at all like the tiny house in Zundert, not even the fine front room. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z
I tried sitting up and answering but she wasn’t in the room. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z
Feathers waves her hand in my direction from across the room. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z
The bed creaks when I sit down in my parents’ dark room, but my dad doesn’t stir. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z
I have my whole life ahead of me—there isn't room in it for anger about things I don’t have the power to change. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z
They had stepped directly into a tiny sitting room, which had the feeling of a dark, padded cell. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z
“Come in, come in,” Abuelita said as we entered the house behind the men and followed them into a pink receiving room. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z
I watch as he picks up a decorative bowl from the dining room table and moves toward the front door. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z
He looked all around the room hopefully to see how the children liked that idea. Stuart Little 1945-10-17T00:00:00Z
I just went into my room, not saying a word. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z
“Deleted the memory—need room for facts,” I took the time to type. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z
I slipped out of my daddy's office and into my room just as Mrs. Baylor was calling me to dinner. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z
The blurring gears slowed, came to a smooth stop, returning the room to silence. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z
He saw an opportunity as the rest of the living room was consumed with chatter. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z
I assume that Kim and Adam are headed to the waiting room to join the vigil, but when I get there, my family is not there. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z
Several members of the team spent the next half hour in the staging room. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z
As I walked to my room, I tried to make sense of what had happened tonight. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z
My feeling was that if I called out, she would answer from the next room. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z
They have a lot of nerve to come into my room while I’m sleeping. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z
I came back to my room and found my father standing in the doorway that led to his study. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z
“These are autopsy reports,” he said, opening the first book as the scent of mildew filled the room. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z
They’re in June’s room, scarfing down breakfast before Zahra and June leave for a rally in Pittsburgh, and June drops her waffle on the bedspread. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z
“Gabriel,” I began as I walked into my brother’s room when I got home, “what do you think about the Lazarus Burger?” Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z
At the end of July, Mr. Bruce, the family therapist, invited the Merritts to Luke’s birthday party in the therapy conference room. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z
“Yes, good afternoon, madame. I am calling about the room for rent.” Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z
At last in pity the goddess laid him in a room and left him, shutting the door. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z
It’s more like a trophy room than an office. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z
Most of the women were gathered on one side of the room. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z
"To hear is to obey," cried Rabadash, and after kneeling for a moment to kiss his father's hands he rushed from the room. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z
She did not sneak Jaja’s food to his room, wrapped in cloth so it would appear that she had simply brought his laundry in. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z
Her room was much the same as before save that today it smelled of cinnamon, not lavender. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z
People around the room started mumbling, and the meeting broke up. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z
When my hair is done, I find Cinna downstairs in the living room, and just the sight of him makes me feel more hopeful. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z
On my way to the garage, I had to walk through the living room, where Mom and Dad were watching TV. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z
Zohra glances to her left again and nods her head at someone else in the room. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z
When you no longer need it, you pay a little something for its use; say, “Thank you, sir,” and when your business in that town is over, you go away from that room. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z
The way into the eighth-grade side of the locker room was blocked by stupid eighth graders standing like cows at a gate they can’t get through. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z
“Mom, I’ll do that. See, this is another reason why I refuse to share a room.” Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z
Therese leads us through the maze of metal to the back of the room, where several bulbs dangle from the ceiling over a table. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z
The Sea Queen room smelled of eggs and filter coffee. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z
I wasn’t yet completely distraught because there was just the chance I’d left it in the billiards room; otherwise my hope was that someone had borrowed it and would give it back in the morning. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z
And Max rushes across the room, grabs me by the waist, and picks me up. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z
I search his room for something that might help me put a name to this thing. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z
After a considerable amount of time spent trapped within the room, Bailey finds a key concealed in the seat of the swing in the middle of the cage. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z
His dad stood in the doorway leading to the dining room. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z
"This man came a guest into my house, and there conspired to murder my son, a boy of seven," she proclaimed to the room at large, pointing. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z
On the top floor, in what is perhaps the hotel’s nicest room, he stands in a hexagonal bathtub and wipes grime off a window with the heel of his palm. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z
The pair made their way quickly down the flight of stairs and to the door of the room where Jo slept. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z
After a little while, my mom came into the room. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z
To understand what a feat this is, imagine a standard dining room table covered in a black tablecloth and someone throwing a handful of salt across it. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z
We began in a room with a video about Jews in Holland and the Nazi invasion and the Frank family. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z
You know, I can’t even remember the last time he was in my room. Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z
The room falls silent, and we all instinctively scoot as far from the door as possible. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z
Mama stayed up to watch Doc, sitting in the chair in our room. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z
He flitted about the room like a tone-deaf songbird. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z
Years ago, in the darkness of Luke’s living room, Toby had cried after another beating from his father. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z
Ma pulls a chair out from the dining room table, sinks onto it, and covers her eyes with her hand. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z
Sketching in the air, I do the living room: a deep, sunken green, and a school of shad angles toward the landing. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z
I take down a handheld crossbow from the wall in the training room, along with a few bolts. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z
Harry shot out of his seat and ran to his room, bawling like a baby. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z
Then we would go inside, and there would be a living room full of black people waiting. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z
I rip the bedspread off, throwing the pillows across the room. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z
Something made him turn away from the window and look back into the room. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z
“Hullo, John,” she said, smiling, and walked past him into the room. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z
The spark from the gun flashed across the room by the door that leads to the Pit. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z
“Well, unless you have other options, I still think we have to go back to the memorial room,” he said. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z
“That’s how you answer me? When I say go to your room, you go.” The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z
I looked around the room overwhelmed by the sea of white before me. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z
Guests are speaking in Bengali, hollering, arguing, talking on top of one another, the sound of their laughter filling the already crowded rooms. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z
Bennie yelled at the phantoms, stepping out into the center of the room with a plastic sheet wound up like a whip. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z
I pace the living room when I should be watching TV. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z
I lean in closer as the shadowy shape of a woman emerges from the puddle, her glowing white eyes searching the room. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z
I was afraid that something serious was about to happen, and Austin had cleared the room because he wanted no witnesses. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z
Tool had convinced the gang who ran the place to let them crash in one of the rooms above. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z
It was sad to hear their plaintive voices in that candle-lit room. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z
A vague tension built in the room as they snuck glances at each other, waiting for the boy to leave. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z
When we got to the house, which we’d already seen a few times, we sat on the love seat in the quiet room because it was closest to the door. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z
“That’s great,” I say, and barely make it to my room before the tears come. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z
He and I didn’t say much at first, but as we moved around the room to different machines, we got into what was really on both our minds. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z
“I said, I’m going to die in this room.” Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z
The door to the waiting room pushed open and another doctor walked in. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z
I point to a set of photos of rooms I like. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z
Looking around for something that might do the job, I found a busted chair in one of the other rooms. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z
He is bad, as are some of the impassive viewers right in this room, who will soon be judged and exposed by their urine. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z
I sweep my eyes across the room, searching for the device that will release the memory serum virus. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z
A man in a dark suit and a gray tie stands at the entrance to my room. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z
‘Push the grand piano into the centre of the room,’ Mr Tibbs whispered. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z
Back upstairs, Mom is in the living room dragging the couch away from the wall. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z
We all clap as Mr. Jeffries, a pretty old dude, grins as he walks to the front of the room. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z
So that Bobby wouldn’t think he was being psychoanalyzed, Fine avoided bringing the boy into his analysis room at first, instead inviting him to the home wing of the apartment. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z
Two Secret Service agents shoved Reagan into the presidential limousine, which sped to a nearby emergency room where the president received immediate life-saving treatment. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z
Then he’d burst through the back door and stride into the house to where Tyler sat studying in his room. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z
Now she stretched, trying to make room for a large Pyrex casserole. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z
The room was a mess: the rocking chair where Miss Wren had sat all night with Miss Peregrine was toppled on its side, the table of vials and beakers pushed roughly against the wall. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z
They lived in one room and that was a garage and now they were letting someone view their situation and, even worse, be part of it? Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z
It was a Monday evening when Mother gathered us in the living room for a family conference. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z
It was during this period that she would wake in the night and get out of bed to go to her parents’ room, only to realize, standing in the hall, that she had no parents. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z
They stood in the middle of the room, guns in their hands, with looks of utter stupefaction on their faces. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z
As soon as we’ve left the map room and are out on deck, the navigator scolds me. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z
The room and the faces staring at me began to swim, as if I was the center of a dark, rushing whirlpool. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z
I went on in the room and started dressing for school. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z
She locked herself in a back room and her assistant delivered the baby. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z
He leads us to the conference room and points out two chairs for us to sit in. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z
To my surprise, no one yelled at me, but I did pull a few stitches, blow up my blood pressure, and get a couple more days in the hospital under strict confinement to my room. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z
One night I left all the X-rays on a light table in the examination room. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z
The buzzing in the room dies down as everyone waits for the machinery to come to a complete stop. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z
He could deny all the late-night phone calls, but everyone in the room would still hear what Tad said. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z
At first when I get in the bed, I stay to the right side, bundling and tucking my aching arms and legs in a cocoon like I always do to make room for Shirley. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z
Sometimes it bothered him having a camera in her room; it seemed almost like spying. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z
How I would catch her looking at me from across the room. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z
Her room opened into the end of the corridor nearest the hall, luckily, and most of the guests were in the two big rooms further along. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z
I went to the library and gathered half a dozen books, which I lugged to my room and arranged on my desk. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z
He felt a cold breeze blow through the room. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z
His father has never given him birthday presents apart from whatever his mother buys, but this year, his father says, walking across the room to where Gogol is sitting, he has something special. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z
“You don’t mind if I puke all over the room, do you?” she said. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z
The silence in the room is overwhelming, and even though I can’t hear my phone, I can feel it, can somehow tell that it’s still ringing. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z
Helmuth scrambles to his feet, out of the room, and down the hall. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z
She walked between fallen trees, and when there was no room between the trees, she climbed up and walked along their trunks. I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z
Soon another bunch of men come into the room, pushing Mami in her nightgown before them. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z
So right now, when I’m looking at these schoolgirl notes, it’s like the light in my messy room has been flicked on, just for a moment. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z
After lunch, she’d pass out these carpet squares and we’d pick our spots on the living room floor for nap time. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z
At night, Gigi would come into Dallas and Florida’s room and spit on them. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z
So I decide to go to the kitchen to grab the Kool-Aid, but as I pass Daddy’s room I swear I hear something. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z
The room filled with a warm golden glow, and huge shadows rose against the walls. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z
After leaving the high school, Candice spent the next few hours in her room looking through the Wallace yearbooks again, hoping to find anyone who could have been James Parker. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z
"Come, let's get a drink," he said, guiding me toward the end of the room. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z
Part of me is relieved: there are four rooms on this floor, and mine is at the opposite end of the hallway, across from Mama’s office. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z
The fourth was a living room with the exit, a pair of French windows, on the other side. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z
The jail has several holding cells, rooms with concrete benches and iron doors. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z
I just took the forks while Yonetta and Fern disappeared into our room. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z
A dim light flickered under the last door— Grandmother’s room. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z
For the moment, it still seemed possible that there was some place with room for the three of them. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z
It always bugged him that she got the best room. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z
In the old Korean tradition, my presence in the kitchen was unwelcome unless I was actually eating, or passing through the room. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z
He may tower over Clyde, but he still didn’t want to be alone in a dark alley—or a computer room—with the guy. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z
While I was sitting in the teaching room waiting for her I was wondering about how Miss Kinnian was a nice lady like my mother use to be. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z
She stared up at the ceiling, stared at the big black hook in the middle of the room. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z
Cagney was telling some detective that Lacey had “a black belt in karate-mouth” right as Aunt Ruth walked into the room. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z
Sander led me upstairs to a small dormer room. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z
And in the night, when my coughing was dry and tough, feet padded into the room, hands repinned the flannel, readjusted the quilt, and rested a moment on my forehead. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z
Then I heard you crying in the living room and remembered that there had been a third man. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z
Mr. Amos walked out of the room with my suitcase, and Mrs. Amos pulled me down the hall to Todd’s room. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z
When I got home, I went straight back to my room and held the biggest pity party of my life. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z
The humidity of the room and the breathing around me. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z
The baby had been moved into her room. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z
We went upstairs to my room and Kat took out a large card envelope that had been stuffed up her front. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z
In the dining room, there were two long tables; the men sat at one and the women at the other. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z
“I saw it once in our room,” he leans in, whispering. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z
We followed him into a large room dominated by a massive oval table, its wood polished to a mirror shine. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z
She watched their shadows as they walked out of the room and up the stairs. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z
He’s on the sofa in the living room. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z
The thing was, I couldn't think of a room or a house or anything to describe the way Stradlater said he had to have. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z
Sometimes I dream that the nurses are in the room with me, crawling up, up the walls, to listen at the ceiling. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z
Then the door opened and a man came into the room. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z
Ron’s younger sister slouched into the room, looking irritable. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z
When we return to the living room my father’s up. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z
He glanced back at me once more and then moved on to the rest of the people in the room, spreading himself among them wide but never thin. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z
So when I left the room, it still wasn’t clear to me what he wanted, or why, or whether I could fulfill any of it for him. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z
I read more in my room than in the library itself. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z
Will I ever be in a hotel room again? The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z
A matching brown chair with worn arms slumped at the opposite side of the room. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z
But it was in good repair, and there were plenty of rooms and bedrooms. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z
He met them in different chat rooms, or on card-playing Web sites. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z
People in the room grumbled, and tension grew. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z
She gives him a look that one trapped person gives another; then Fredericks mother swishes out of a side room wearing tennis clothes. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z
Paul Blofis came over, but that was okay because Chiron had manipulated the Mist to convince everyone at Goode High School that I had nothing to do with the band room explosion. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z
She explained that he was on a restricted floor and would need to use his room key in the elevator. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z
I'm never alone in the room I share with Dussel, though I long to be so much. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z
It’s like some kind of superhero has entered the room, using speed and strength to beat the hell out of the three intruders. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z
Ranee clears her throat, enters the room, and places the plate of pakoras on the coffee table. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z
I wish I could hide in Devon’s room but I’m not allowed in there now. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z
"Go to your room, you scamp you," Aunt Anne said, shaking him. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z
“What if we go back through the secret room and it spins again, and we end up somewhere else?” The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z
On her way, she passed a lot of doors leading off into rooms or other halls. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z
Instead, all the characters around me vanished, leaving me alone in the giant war room. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z
He clicked the flashlight to life and took a quick look around the room with the bright beam. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z
"And high above the putrid corpse a crystal chandelier is tinkling. It tinkles and twinkles, but not one breath of air stirs in that gloomy tomb of a room." The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z
"This room is almost certainly directly below yours." The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z
In the middle of the room stood a big square table littered with playing cards, and around it were grouped boxes for the players to sit on. Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z
As he ambled down his row toward the front of the room, smiling faces lifted and tilted toward him like the broad front faces of sunflowers as they follow the sun across heaven. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z
He'd searched the room to make sure it had happened everywhere. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z
We entered rooms littered with the signs of swift emptying. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z
In the room above the kitchen someone was moving furniture about. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z
There was only the hushed sound of their breathing, and, from somewhere in the room, the ticking of a clock, which must have been hidden by books. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z
Several hours later, the doctor finally came out of the emergency room to give us an update. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z
Sitti was back in the room by now, listening to them talk English and nodding her head. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z
The room had no character of its own, and so he thought that he might be able to take it over. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z
Her cheeks were pink from the warmth of the room; her eyes were shining. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z
Maria leaned against him in the blue shadows of the equipment room. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z
Show him every one of our four rooms, hold him in my lap on the porch swing, and laugh when he tries to stand up on the seat himself while the swing’s moving. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z
When it’s done, I shelter my “room” with the screens. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z
“What else am I going to do with all these rooms? Open a bed-and-breakfast?” Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z
They could all hear voices and doors as people came downstairs, and Jam felt the familiar vibrations of her parents’ footsteps, even through the rubber of the training room floor. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z
I don’t want to go into the men’s room, so I crack the door and call Ziggy’s name. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z
The corridor was dim and her startled eyes met Ugwu’s more startled eyes and she stopped for a moment before she hurried on to the guest room. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z
And then, as the cat gained on me, I broke into a mad run, scrambled up the back steps, slammed shut the back door that led through the laundry room to the house. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z
Another room, furnished with long tables and benches, was near a kitchen, where Ralph chewed into a bag of sugar and enjoyed a fine dessert. Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z
Twenty minutes later, I light the stub of a candle and make my way to the room with the cots. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z
Dupont is cuffed to a cheap dining chair in the center of the room. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z
He might have flinched altogether from speaking if at this moment he had not seen Ampleforth, the hairy-eared poet, wandering limply round the room with a tray, looking for a place to sit down. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z
I went into the living room, where he was sitting at the drafting table. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z
In a trance, Kendra roamed the lower rooms of the house. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z
The fire in the grate has burned low, and the air coming in through the open window in the front room bears a chill, the land getting cool as the sun sets. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z
I find my mom and dad in the family room, my dad listening to music on his headphones, my mom grading papers. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z
I sit, stand, sit, stand, sit in the front seat, which is harder to do in the car than in the living room. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z
In that small space, a little living room had been set up. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z
She was leaning apologetically into the room, and as soon as their eyes met she tapped the door gently with her knuckles. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z
The other girl, Daisy, made an attempt to rise--she leaned slightly forward with a conscientious expression--then she laughed, an absurd, charming little laugh, and I laughed too and came forward into the room. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z
In order to pack his clothes, he had to get to the dresser on the other side of the room. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z
It’s a tiny room, only seventy-five square feet, with a small bed, a chair, a little table, and a built-in corner cupboard. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z
He raised his hand to stop my words, looked at me with unforgettable reproach and opening the door cautiously went back into the other room. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z
When I'm all clean and back in the room, my uncle brings me rice and yellow lentils. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z
Fifteen minutes later, I'm slumped on the couch in the living room, my feet up on the coffee table. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z
Even though it was hot in my attic bedroom, I had my own room now that Asiya had moved downstairs to share a room with Faizah. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z
We were having this conversation on a fine summer evening, sitting out on the little balcony of her recovery room. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z
“I was taken to a room, and my backpack was dumped out. ‘Be careful!’ The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z
I’d no option but to go to my room to get ready. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z
She grabbed my hand and half dragged me to her room, passing several servants in the hall. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z
It putters to the middle of the room. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z
From the VIP observation room, Teddy watched the despondent Mission Control Center. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z
I could start my very own statue garden, right there in the living room. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z
To my surprise, everyone was awake and gathered in the living room. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z
I decided to go find a room for the night. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z
Or how Toby flew back, as if he’d been thrown across the room. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z
I hear her yelling from the other room. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z
She opened the door and showed Adam into the pleasant room where Liza lived. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z
Harry tore from the dining room before anyone could stop him, heading for the cupboard under the stairs. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z
“Just finish tidying up the room and you can have the rest of the time to yourself until I return.” Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z
I could see clearly a room with a sanded floor, clean scoured; a dresser of walnut, with pewter plates ranged in rows, reflecting the redness and radiance of a glowing peat-fire. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z
“Back to work,” Mr. Kennel shouted, and the room fell quiet. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z
The room had fallen vacuum-quiet, with me running my mouth a mile a minute, talking nothing but slang. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z
A couple of minutes later, she heard Noa walk past the window of the hotel room. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z
And Aphrodite a piled three stories hig tulle and dripping wit jpeared in the room, with her hair 1, barely covered by a few layers of 1 artificial grapes from her shoulders to her knees. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z
I pushed through the door at the end of the hallway and came out into the clinic’s waiting room. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z
One morning as Kira prepared to go to the dyer’s hut, Thomas came to her room. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z
And he stood in the doorway of the living room and he said, “Don’t scream, OK, Christopher. I’m not going to hurt you.” The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z
“Leaks in the walls and drafts in every room,” Constance grumbled. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z
So, cautioning myself to allow the rat scene to disclose only Bigger, his family, their little room, and their relationships, I let the rat walk in, and he did his stuff. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z
We pass the adjacent teen room, looking through the door where I saw the grumpy Lead Monitor hovering over the blond boy’s pod that first day. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z
Sheriff Edwards and Mama were in the front room, talking. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z
The room was bright and smelled like it had just been cleaned with the same oil soap my uncle used on our floors. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z
My mom was the only person in the room with hair long enough to comb. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z
Then I realized the room was lighter than it should have been. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z
In the great green room, there was a telephone, and a red balloon, and a picture of a cow jumping over the moon. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z
“Look in the next room! You’re talking to the wrong one!” he shouted, and then he and his cackles were swallowed by the mist. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z
“I came early to decorate Ruti’s room. This is Mark. He came to give me a hand.” Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z
They hadn’t turned the light on, so the room was dim—the only light came from beneath the blind over the window. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z
Each night I had to keep the window wide open; it was the only source of air in the stifling room, and the noise was intolerable. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z
At twenty-one, he was an emergency room tech on his way to medical school when their mother, Didi, took up with an orthodontist she’d met over the internet and announced she was moving to Oregon. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z
I drag my feet getting to Instrumental, but I grow an inch just walking into the room. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z
She enters the room and whips the dirty sheets off the bed. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z
Arms still folded, I gradually turned around and studied the large room I was standing in. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z
At that moment, Miss Goodacre burst into the room looking flushed and tense. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z
The only thought going through my head was how I knew they were gonna throw new dude in my room. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z
I would love to walk into the meeting room and breathe the smell of old wood, but we don’t have time. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z
The door creaked open and a tiny body wedged its way inside my room. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z
Rogers followed them into the room with the coffee tray. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z
Nick’s family did a lot of reading, so book-shelves covered three of the four walls in the family room. Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z
I follow her into another room, one that has even more birds. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z
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