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

It seemed a little rustic, with cars pulled up to the guest room doors and rooms only on the ground level. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

The second floor had thirty-five rooms that were harder to classify. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

The plan of the rooms was not familiar to me. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Back in my rooms I lit the coal fire, knowing there was no chance that the sight of my breath would disappear before I was ready for bed. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

A few months after they began to go out together, he began to smuggle her into his rooms, where he lived like a helpless, exiled prince. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a tidy bathroom decorated with peach seashells, a bedroom with a four-poster bed that I suspected belonged to Viviana, and two rooms at the end of the hall. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

As gold and silver slowly filled the rooms, all of Tawantinsuyu seemed frozen. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

He thought much the same must be going on in the other rooms of the Homestead. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

The larger houses had become impromptu apartment buildings, their porches converted into additional rooms. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

He held the students spellbound with tales of old Zimbabwe, and the teachers competed to lure him into their rooms. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

I peeked into some of the hospital rooms as we passed, and that’s when I realized what my mom meant. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

A narrow door divided the only two rooms of the house. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sneakers, books, and backpacks traveled through the rooms on unseen currents, and there was always food underfoot and an old frying pan or two on the steps outside the back door. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

The Big House's rooms were overflowing with wounded. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

As I round the corner, past a Vitamin Water dispenser and a series of small practice rooms, Jordan Rylance is sitting in a chair, a perfect binder of music placed perfectly on his perfect lap. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

Yossarian turned away and trudged through the apartment with a gloomy scowl, peering with pessimistic curiosity into all the rooms. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

The dank, dingy rooms housed an eclectic collection of students, both male and female. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

But if nice teachers and rooms filled with lots of windows made something “the best,” then I guess it was true. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

There are rooms on either side of the walkway. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

It appeared that he had two rooms, a sitting-room and another, the door to which was closed; he slept on a pallet, clearly, in the sitting-room, next to his spinet. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

The rooms were small, and there was little furniture. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Inside the house the rooms were tall and clear with shining floors and polished windows. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

In the gloom, she could barely make out anything in the two open rooms, but they were very plainly empty. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

There’s to be no talking between two rooms especially when it’s a boy and a girl. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

The collection was housed in a series of rooms. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

“I think the pattern of spread that we saw, and the fact that it spread to new rooms, suggest that Ebola aerosols were being generated and were present in the building,” he said. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The motel rooms were doubles, and to my profound relief, my roommate was mild-mannered Gary. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

These grand homes, with their high, cool rooms, their polished mahogany furniture, their servants flitting between the main house and the separate cooking building, were meant to command attention, to show power and wealth. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

Arranged along a hallway striped with peeling wallpaper, the rooms were in surprisingly good shape. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

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

I held my breath as he navigated around the outer ring of rooms, careful to avoid driving past the office. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Blogs and video-logs, and the online arguments in comment threads and chat rooms, have spawned new tropes and figures, and new uses for the old ones. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

‘Tm really sorry about forgetting to radio ahead for hotel rooms for you two. Game along to my office and I’ll speak to my deputy mayor about it right now.” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

“I know. We’ll have to get a suite. They have these cool rooms with sets of bunk beds. And each of them has a TV mounted over the bed.” The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

But in the rooms food stood upon a table and in the kitchens fire burned. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

And each of these simulated game rooms, bowling alleys, and pizza joints was lined with classic arcade games. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

As Lillian wandered about the empty rooms of the house carefully making mental notes about furniture placement and room arrangement, Colonel Meecham herded his children to the front porch for a morale check. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

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 found an identical save the planet card in each of my subsequent hotel rooms, and it got on my nerves in no time. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

Then we looked at all the empty rooms of the apartment, locked the bedroom door, and put a chair underneath that one, too. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Leaders organized parades through the neighborhoods and meetings at union halls and in smoking rooms. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Tall tan girls wearing white strapless dresses sat directly in front of me in lecture rooms. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bombed in the war—that would certainly explain those rooms with blown-out walls. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

When I turn, a guard has materialized from one of the rooms at the far end of the corridor. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

“Honey, isn’t it time for you to inspect the children’s rooms? Why don’t you go on up and Earline and I will chitchat about women’s things.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tyrion knew enough to understand that she was telling him to take the dwarf girl up to her rooms, give her wine, and find some clothes for her to wear. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Throughout Garfield's early years in Congress, the family lived in rented rooms in Washington, returning to their house in Hiram, Ohio, during Congressional holidays. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Khaled thinks we live in a very big house because their house has only two rooms. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

I began to wander aimlessly through the rooms of the apartment. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

All of the rooms are full of color. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

I felt I could reach out and touch it; it was so unlike home, where the high ceilings gave our rooms an airy stillness. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

Patients with yellow fever were isolated in rooms with screens on the windows so that mosquitoes couldn’t feed on their infected blood and then transmit the disease to healthy individuals. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

I go to the doorway, and see everyone sitting outside their rooms on the floor, looking at Ty. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

The Church and the gas stayshun back in town are still partly made outta metal hulls and holds and rooms and such. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

They had their shock treatments while we breakfasted in our rooms, and then they came into the lounge, quiet and extinguished, led like children by the nurses, and ate their breakfasts there. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

The pictures identified the rooms, and the pre-Raphaelite influence was overwhelming. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

He said 1 would have to pay in advance and that he didn’t allow men to take girls up to the rooms. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

All day at school, when Liyana described the scene of Sitti’s bathroom smashing, the chips of ceramic and waterlogged rooms, her classmates shrugged. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

I also found out that there are about 70,571 hotel rooms, and most rooms have a main lock, a bathroom lock, a closet lock, and a lock to the minibar. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

I ran down corridors littered with bones, past rooms foil of sheepskin rugs and life-size cement sheep that I recognized as the work of Medusa. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

Back inside, the rooms were getting too dark to see. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

We hear Mom moving around on her office chair two rooms away. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

Dining rooms are the vermiform appendix of American architecture. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

We parted for our rooms and agreed to rendezvous at seven. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

The rooms were one square, one window, one sink, one toilet, one shower. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

Abuela’s Miami windows were draped with white crocheted curtains, as was the glass-topped table, the sofa, the doors to all the rooms, and all the beds and dressers. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

It was barely furnished with odd things, which seemed to have never been used; the furniture was something the same style as that in the south rooms, and was covered with dust. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

The difficulty lay not in finding vacant rooms—for there were whole houses vacant—but rather vacant rooms in houses where owners were present still to let out their property. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

I have rooms there now—a vast sitting area, a bedroom behind latching double doors, and a dressing area with empty closets. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The faction she led in the Sub-Deb girls’ club had been admonished to stop wearing low-cut dresses, smoking in the rest rooms, and sneaking out of class to smooch with boys in the band-instrument storeroom. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

The plan of the house is simple, two immense rooms per floor, each of which, he is certain, is larger than his own apartment. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

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

Where the wall had fallen away, they could see right into the rooms, even into the privy. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“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

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

The air was so damp that fish could have come in through the doors and swum out the windows, floating through the atmosphere in the rooms. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

The four people had been coming to his rooms now for more than seven months. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

It has 775 rooms and is fifteen times the size of the White House. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Stannis kept her closely penned in rooms above his own, but he did allow her to walk the battlements for exercise. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Jon’s rooms behind the armory were quiet enough, if not especially warm. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

It had two rooms plus a tiny bathroom and kitchen. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

“Tomorrow you will see the other rooms,” the doctor told her. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

Moon Orchid would walk right into the children’s rooms while they were dressing. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a shower right between every two rooms in our wing, and about eighty-five times a day old Ackley barged in on me. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

We’ll rent a small bungalow on a side street several blocks from the Nielsens, four rooms downstairs and one up. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

The Farmer family residence was an apartment of three small rooms, borrowed from an old friend from Duke. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

“Yes, dead. I saw the bodies. Black, in the rooms, in the houses, dead. Thousands of them.” The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

Stories are told—sometimes the same exact story in different rooms. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

By this time, Gene Johnson had closed off the back rooms and sealed the main entry door with sticky tape. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Warm rooms and warm suppers beckoned them, and as they hurried away, leaving the cold square to the two gray cats, the miraculous autumn departed too; the year’s first snow began to fall. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

"I have been glancing into some of the rooms. Let's go to Coney Island, old sport. In my car." The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

The colored rest rooms, they didn’t bother with them, seemed like they hardly ever cleaned them for us. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The windows had been opened and the rooms aired out. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tattered but freshly swept carpets covered the highly polished hardwood floors, and the rooms were filled with antique velvet-covered chairs inherited from my great-grandma. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The government’s multiracial sports policy mandated that if blacks were accepted to any white clubs, separate showers, locker rooms, restaurants and bathrooms had to be created for them. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

One morning Circe climbed all the way to the third floor with a covered plate of scrapple and found two empty rooms. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

The water inside the bathrooms was not potable and was separate and sealed in the rooms by tight doors. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

The rooms had been redecorated, and the whole interior changed. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

‘Mister Singer lives with us. He rooms in our house.’ The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Reynie trotted through the rooms, glancing at the panels for guidance, and in a few short minutes had rung the bell again. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

As usual I was glancing into the empty rooms as I went past, and then suddenly I was looking into a classroom with Miss Emily in it. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

He paced the rooms with his arms crossed, bits of mud shaking off of his boots with each furious footfall. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

She had retired to her private rooms until further notice and would take supper alone due to a severe headache. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

And the girls rushed for their rooms and got out their pints. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

The rooms are airy and filled with dogs. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

She nodded, and, hand in hand, they walked to the dressing rooms in the back. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

In cross-examining the K.B.I. personnel, the defense attorneys, a beleaguered pair, argued that the admissions of guilt had been obtained by improper means—brutal interrogation in sweltering, brightly lighted, closet-like rooms. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

She hid him in one of the empty rooms. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Sure, Brother," Tarp said, limping before me into one of the dark rooms and snapping on a light. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Just then the housekeeper shuffled by us into her rooms on the other side of the pantry. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

The rooms and halls were bloodstained and strewn with medical packaging. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s time to open up all the rooms, don’t you think?” Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Ever since his attack, her father didn’t like sitting in brightly lit rooms. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

“Any time, when you have nothing to do, you have only to ask me, and I will show the rooms in the west wing,” she persisted, making me vaguely uncomfortable, I knew not why. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Three rooms had always seemed much to them, a house half empty since his mother died. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

I was scandalized by the filth of men’s rooms, the rank smells and pig sounds, the grunting and huffing from the stalls. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

We all waited while the deputy went through each one of our rooms in order: our front room, Doc’s bedroom, Mama’s room, the room I shared with Jay, the washroom, and the kitchen. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

What Gene did not realize was that there was another way into the back rooms. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Petersen House is now a national historical site, and the building and rooms are preserved and restored to the setting of President Lincolns final hours. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

The apartment is on the third floor, with three decent-sized rooms, a tiny study, and a small kitchen. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

I stalk out of rooms and storm down hallways and disappear into bathroom stalls. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

Behind it is a series of rooms off a long hall. Twelve Angry Men 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

But what remained in those rooms, what was left behind, made no sense to teenagers who weren’t supposed to be seeing any of it. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

He’s a leg shaker—you know, the bouncy kind that rattles entire rooms and makes you want to toss up your lunch? Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

There was no one in the kitchen or in the servants’ rooms, which were close at hand. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

I’ll tell you in a bit, Jam signed back to Redemption as Ube led them into one of the archive rooms. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

We grab chairs out of our rooms and sit in our respective doorways. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

He struggles but fails to recall her presence at Pemberton Road; still, he is secretly pleased that she has seen those rooms, tasted his mother’s cooking, washed her hands in the bathroom, however long ago. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

The living quarters and dining rooms of the tenured scholars would have been in the very same building, affording easy access to the collections. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

Later that night: the spotlight rises on two rooms in our new house on Middlesex. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

"Reporters from all over the world. Our press rooms just don't have enough space." The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

When July arrived, Neil, Buzz, and I moved from Houston to Cape Kennedy, where we stayed in special rooms prepared for us. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Gradually, he developed the startling habit of entering rooms with a leap. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

She walked through several rooms with low, slanting ceilings until she came to the final room. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

Card sharks lingered over green-felt tables in back rooms, smoking cigars, waiting for victims. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

There aren’t nearly enough bathrooms and the ones there are are hard to keep clean, get freezing in winter and are generally too far from the donors’ rooms. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You look pale. Some rest in one of the upper rooms will help.” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

These clerks, as far as she could tell, had an unfortunate habit of departing without warning, sometimes even leaving their personal belongings in their rooms on the second floor. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

By prison standards, this was palatial, but the rooms were damp and musty and received very little natural light. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

This part of Daffodil Manor was freezing cold, and Ophie had often heard her mother complain that the rooms seemed to keep a chill even with a fire roaring in the hearth. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

How many bathrooms, locker rooms, camp cabins, and dorm rooms had I been in and seen graffiti like this? Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

A poisoned silence floated through the rooms like a big fishnet that Violet alone slashed through with loud recriminations. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

The rooms seemed neat and spare, but not cold with tidiness. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

The Nazi officers and instructors ate in their own dining room and slept upstairs, where there were several more rooms. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

Somkit drew back the curtain of one of the cubby rooms. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

The Ren house was sturdier built than my cabin; from here, it appeared to have several rooms. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

Peeta and I walk together down the corridor to our rooms. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

“No. It's my house, and nobody is locking me out of the rooms I pay for.” Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Though larger than the rooms at Manzanar, this apartment was still cramped, forcing us kids outside. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were the only guests at the hostel that night, which meant that, for once, there were enough vacant rooms for each of them to sleep alone. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

“The bedrooms are never shown to the public,” she said, “only the hall and the gallery, and the rooms below.” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

But when she had mounted to her rooms again with her two handmaids, then she fell to weeping for Odysseus, her husband. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

A coldness passing through its root-beer-colored bricks, invading its rooms and blowing out the vigil light burning in the hall. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

On their way to the rooms containing Greek vases, they again observed the enormous crowd passing by the statue. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

We walked single file through several rooms to my office. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

A door shut somewhere inside her rooms, and Celaena jumped, the book flying from her hands. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

In those days almost all the rooms in the Trueba house were filled. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Imperial servants carry trays in and out of rooms. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

People had put all that down on paper in tiny rooms. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Soon Caroline got a job cleaning hotel rooms—twenty-eight to thirty rooms a day for $2-$3 a room, for a total of about $300 a week. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

In her preface, Maria declared that she offered her designs to all, “to copy and paint, and to sew in the women’s rooms, and for use and pleasure of all expert lovers of art.” The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

At a quarter to eleven, the Gryffindor team set off for the locker rooms. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

Nine people in three rooms and the lack of privacy. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

When I can find no more surfaces to wipe and have finally exhausted the supply of rooms, Maddy assigns me to do the kitchen floor. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Did you go into any of the rooms?” she asked me. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

They retreat to their three rooms, to their three separate beds, to their thick mattresses and pillows and fitted sheets. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

In the segregated South, Jim Crow laws required black train passengers to use separate coaches and waiting rooms. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

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

A man and a woman who were leaders in their respective dormitory rooms stood. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

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 follow her behind the curtain that separates the two rooms. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

I rented ye two rooms up here and one is gone. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

“Whatever. Two rooms. Or we’ll stay at the Embassy Suites. I don’t know.” Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Here, the small group of the Refined lived with all the luxuries of the day—lush, well-kept lawns and gardens, and a garage leading to ten to twelve gracefully decorated rooms. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Then he opened the doors of the four rooms and he called to the stormclouds: “My children,” he said I have found you! Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

I’m suspended, as in airports or dentists’ waiting rooms, expecting yet another interlude that will be textureless and without desire, like a painkiller or the interiors of planes. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

In the years before with Antonapoulos they had walked back and forth to work, but except for this they were always alone together in their rooms. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

She turned the two front rooms of the house into a studio and gallery, and she used two bedrooms in the back to warehouse her collected works. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Beneath the peninsular fort of La Cite, across the river from the old city, there are rooms of bandages, rooms of ammunition, even an underground hospital, or so it is believed. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

We sometimes kept our Wellingtons on the whole day, leaving trails of mud and damp through the rooms. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

The second floor had six corridors, thirty-five rooms, and fifty-one doors, the third another three dozen rooms. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

He got up from the table and walked back through the rooms. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

The first night in our rooms scared me because there were four girls—three being of different races. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

The guard towers are gone, and the mess halls and shower rooms, the hospital, the tea gardens, and the white buildings outside the compound. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Give me a solution for this, then: motel rooms have doors. We don’t have opposable thumbs. We have paws. We can’t grasp and turn a doorknob.” Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

The royal guards outside her rooms didn’t help; if this beast was capable of gouging marble, it could take down a few men. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

“None of my rooms are quiet today,” Goddard said. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Others were searching this ship as well, Knot and Vine and Cat, and all of them were increasingly nervous as they went through the rooms. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

I tell him I don’t know as the teacher blows the whistle for us to go to the locker rooms. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

Will left and looked in the other rooms: a little bathroom, a bedroom with a double bed. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Andrew stormed up the closest spiral staircase to the second floor and the Dewey decimal rooms. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

The chat rooms made her blog feel inconsequential, a comedy of manners, a mild satire about a world that was anything but mild. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

And anything is better than living in a maze of hallways and sterile rooms, not knowing if the person you care most for in the world is alive or dead or hurting. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

The rooms had a colored smell, and they were crowded with cut-out pictures on the walls and the lace table covers and lace pillows on the bed. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

More athletes poured from their rooms and into the stairwell. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

They relieved the tiresomeness of poverty, gave grandeur to the dead rooms. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

The four of us filled the narrow hallway between the two front rooms. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

When everything is properly organized, he locates a set of suitcases in his adjoining rooms and fills them near to bursting, the large leather-bound book cushioned between stacks of paper. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

It was a welcome change from the chilliness of the attic, although Ophie was beginning to wonder if it was the weather or the many ghosts of Daffodil Manor that made the rooms so cold. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

It had been hastily built and then rooms and floors and wings and decorations had been added on in every which manner, reflecting too many opinions. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Ten-hup,” he bellowed to his children as the first cataclysmic strains of the Marine Corps hymn reverberated through the upstairs rooms. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I walked into the pub and through the empty bar and up to our rooms. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

No one would ever suspect there were so many rooms behind that plain gray door. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

The Store and the rooms in back became a going- away factory. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a payphone set in the wall of the entryway, as you went in, below a notice board with rooms to rent, and puppies and kittens in need of good homes. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

He slips through a curtained door leading to the back-stage dressing rooms unnoticed. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

These doorways had no doors in them, and the rooms beyond were unlit, so that Reynie couldn’t see into them. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

So there were twelve of us at the hotel, in the same wing on the same floor in single rooms, one after the other, and it reminded me of my dormitory at college. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

She watched without a word or a smile, making sure the classes filed quietly into their rooms, where teachers sat with lesson plans on their cluttered desks and assignments on the whiteboards. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

He did look at it, and into it for half an hour, was pleased with the situation and the principal rooms, satisfied with what the owner said in its praise, and took it immediately. Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z

“I want you to go to your rooms and change into the clothes on your bed. Chucha’ll go with you.” Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

Three dwarves came out of different rooms where they had been busy. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

I remembered the countless meetings in living rooms where maybe seven would be a crowd; the gradually building, building—on up to renting folding chairs for dingy little storefronts which Muslims scrubbed to spotlessness. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Your library cards will grant you access to all the rooms and areas where we will be playing our twelve games,” she explained. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

Rumor had it that there were some rooms bricked off entirely, some with students still inside. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I continued to refer to the Zork notes in my grail diary, which reminded me exactly how to make my way through the game’s labyrinth of rooms, passageways, and puzzles. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

There was an unobtrusive charm about the bungalow, Richard conceded, as they walked through the empty, newly painted rooms. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

On the highest rampart of the fortress was a tower of adamant: just one flight of steps up to a set of rooms whose windows looked out north, south, east, and west. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Maybe it would shock her back to life, like those paddles they use in emergency rooms. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Pycelle’s chambers were beneath the rookery, a spacious suite of rooms cluttered with racks of herbs and salves and potions and shelves jammed full of books and scrolls. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

His place is to be a lover, with his secrecy and his almost-empty rooms, and his baleful memories and bad dreams. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

So he wandered around the apartment all day, in and out of rooms, talking to himself, just like a kid in diapers. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Thank the gods I gave you rooms in the stone castle. I’d hate for you to be uncomfortable.” Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Pa won’t pay for two rooms at the hotel and Love knows it. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

The suite known as AA-5 was a group of negative-pressure biocontainment rooms that had been set up as a research lab for Ebola_ virus by a civilian Army scientist named Eugene Johnson. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It took hours to clean that grimy theater, as there were several screening rooms, and we would generally finish around six in the morning. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

After we were fixed with beds in the high- ceilinged rooms of the partially restored Cistercian monastery, I began talking with some friends I had not seen since leaving the States. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

He got up, tried the light switches in three rooms. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

He murmurs to himself; he fetches thick booklets or electrical components from various rooms on the lower stories. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Perhaps it was something to do with a repair in one of the rooms. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

We are going to dine tonight in our rooms, with our family, sharing hamburgers, french fries, and apple pie a la mode. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

The building was split into fourteen rooms facing out toward the lake. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

Half an hour later they were back in his rooms. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Song Po-po told us our extended family used to occupy two whole buildings, ten rooms all together. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The TV had just gone dark, and most of the guys from O-Hall were sluggishly making their way to their rooms. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

They smell of stale bread, of stuffy living rooms crammed with dark titanic Breton furnishings. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

There's the sound of another door opening and closing, somewhere down the opposite end of the hall, in the direction of both our rooms. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“In that hospital they don’t bury the dead, they keep them in rooms and talk to them.” Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

He leads me through several rooms until we come to double doors. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

We gave some of our rooms to relatives who had been driven out of their homes. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Your apartment is upstairs. Two big rooms. And you don’t have to share a bathroom like we do.” When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Unlike the other rooms in the school, they are separated, not by glass, but by mirrors. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

Heavy metal doors open and lock behind us as the policeman leads me through a maze of rooms and out past a tall, spiky gate. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

I don’t think that any of us really believed that Leonid Brezhnev was sitting in the deep, dark rooms of the Kremlin, plotting to drop an atomic bomb on Camillo Junior High. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

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

My room is on the second floor—one of ten rooms on the upper level, along with an assortment of closets, bathrooms, nooks, and other small windowless rooms that seem to have no purpose. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

Her room felt alien, the warm wood tones, the tan furniture, the wall-to-wall burgundy carpeting that cushioned her feet, the reams of space that made Kainene call their rooms flats. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

A classmate of mine, whose mother had rooms for herself and her daughter in a ladies’ residence, had stayed out beyond closing time. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even on the road, living out of motel rooms, Enrique maintains one ritual. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

“It’s ninety percent cheaper to produce than an ordinary chip because the whole thing is sealed in so you don’t need clean rooms for production.” Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

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

All this time there had been just two rooms: male and female. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

It’s a huge place, the White House, with 132 rooms, 35 bathrooms, and 28 fireplaces spread out over six floors, all of it stuffed with more history than any single tour could begin to cover. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

The Archives was filled with little rooms like this, reading holes, designed to give members of the Arcanum a place to sit privately and study. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

For a while they met in the back rooms of the abandoned part of the house, where Alba handed out walnuts and served them herbal teas while they meditated in a cross-legged position. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sheehan and Smith worked in adjoining rooms, each reading documents and typing stories as fast as he could. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Windows and empty rooms, away from the river, away from the worst heat. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Up there. In one of those rooms. Where the trees are growing out of the roof.” Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

The attic of our home was partitioned into two small rooms. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Here, too, were boys of gold on pedestals holding aloft bright torches of pitch pine to light the great rooms, and the night-time feasting. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Whitby.—Lucy met me at the station, looking sweeter and lovelier than ever, and we drove up to the house at the Crescent in which they have rooms. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

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

In hospital waiting rooms, Rasheed said, the wounded were bleeding to death. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

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

I have never really properly explored the downstairs rooms. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

Once inside their rooms, Dallas and Florida each pried up a loose floorboard and deposited their takings from the kitchen: one nearly whole piece of bread and one raw potato each. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

For, of the three tenanted rooms upstairs, one must now be empty. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

Great towers topped with rooms of glass and mirrors, they sent beams of light across the dark water, guiding ships into the smooth harbor of the capital on the hill. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Had he been locked in one of those rooms behind the heavy doors? Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

For indeed, the notice outside advertises not only 'teas, snacks and cakes', but also 'clean, quiet, comfortable rooms'. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

Snow still chose to dwell behind the armory, in a pair of modest rooms previously occupied by the Watch’s late blacksmith. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Projection rooms were ransacked and reels of films set to fire. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

My family lived in a modest two-story house with a smaller house in the same compound, which was really just two side-by-side rooms for our cook, an everyday servant, and their families. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

He checked all the usual places—the private prayer rooms, the memorial hall, even the kitchens—and found no one. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

They sit together on the floor, combining rooms and halls and stairs. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

When he did manage to nod off, his sleep was haunted by “disturbing and frightful dreams. The scenes of them were derived altogether from sick rooms and grave-yards.” An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

They consisted of three godowns standing in a row, square rooms with brick walls and stone floors, each with a separate low doorway. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were extra rooms for travelers, who carried the proper letters of introduction, because inns and taverns offered uncertain lodging for the night. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

There are red velvet curtains in them, red velvet sofas, red velvet rooms. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

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

Gates compared the Internet to the gold rush, the idea being that more money was made selling Levi’s, picks, shovels, and hotel rooms to the gold diggers than from digging up gold from the earth. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

He met them in different chat rooms, or on card-playing Web sites. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

In distant rooms I heard laughter and the sound of running feet. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

I started to think of myself and my life and my whole lifetime worth of memories as all the dark, dusty rooms of Buckingham Palace. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

It seemed a long journey from my father’s quarters at the outskirts of the castle to Gertrude’s rooms at the heart of Elsinore. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

We walked down a soft pink hallway and popped into different bright-colored rooms. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

In a trance, Kendra roamed the lower rooms of the house. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

The task of emptying three rooms, practically empty to begin with, leaves him exhausted. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

The hands of all the four thousand electric clocks in all the Bloomsbury Centre’s four thousand rooms marked twenty- seven minutes past two. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sleep-ins are being held in two of the training rooms. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

Inside the center there are also operating rooms and veterinary spaces. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

He and Lyra had slept in servants’ rooms under the attic, not feeling welcomed by the stately four-poster beds in the grand rooms farther down, and it was a long unsteady walk. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Growing up in Texas, their rooms were arranged in the same configuration, on either side of the hallway. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

On the walls their children run through fields, play in pools, dance in teen-hlled rooms, all of them grown up and gone now— but wait! Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

Islands contain 20 to 200 private rooms; meals are communal; some are run as hotels, others as cooperative communes, others combine these types. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

After prayer, we say good night to each other and go to our rooms. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

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

We had to sell our house and move into a random apartment where the walls are too thin and there aren’t enough rooms. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

As in the two other rooms, there was a skylight framed in rough pine. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

“I can see why this might concern you. But you needn’t worry. My avatar has many unique powers, including the ability to enter private chat rooms uninvited.” Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Usually they unmade some hideous gown from their dressing rooms and turned it into something else. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

By now, Simon and the rest of the cast are holed up in the dressing rooms, so I say good-bye to Nora and follow Bram out through the atrium. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

The monkey workers had stopped cleaning the cages, because they did not want to go into the monkey rooms. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The rooms were big and anonymous, with wide-plank floors and no curtains on the windows and plaster walls painted white. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

“I told you already. We rented those rooms! Just ask Kev if you don’t believe me!” Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

A Catholic might have died in the rooms without the last absolution of the church. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

They let rooms in a tidy little boarding house not far from the Exchange and tried every new food they saw, stuffing themselves sick on quince candy. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

It was metal, of course, but like the relief on the walls of Sarai’s rooms—the songbirds and lilies so real they mocked the master carvers of Weep—it was utterly true to life. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Guillermo’s listening so intently and I’m thinking maybe he’s the kind of man who makes all the walls in people fall down too, not just rooms, because like yesterday, I want to tell him more. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

He could no longer stand the rooms where Antonapoulos had lived, and he rented a place in a shambling boardinghouse not far from the center of the town. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

The speaks also introduced fancy lavatories for women, which quickly became known as “powder rooms.” 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

Nina knew she was being incautious, but she couldn’t get the image of those white rooms out of her head. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

We enter a second-floor “salon” bar, basically a stand bar but one with private rooms as well. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

What those observers of dorm rooms were doing was simply a layperson’s version of John Gottman’s analysis. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

Mr. Trepid hurried down the corridors, past all the narrow rooms, to the back door. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

His face changes, reverting to the one she recalls in perfect detail from the evening they spent in the same rooms three years ago under much more intimate circumstances. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Besides, the rooms in the west wing were not shown to the public. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

If we could bribe servants not to tell, play our parts before relations, before Beatrice, and then when we were alone sit apart in our separate rooms, leading our separate lives. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

“What were you doing up in our rooms?” Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

His room is about as big as me and Seven’s rooms put together. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

Inside—I had never been allowed to enter, but I’d been told—was an arched hall with a long trestle table and benches, several sleeping rooms, and a chapel. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

Therefore, Giovanni in no way failed in his duty toward his nephew: he had him received in honourable fashion by the people of Fermo, and he gave him rooms in his own dwellings. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z

I can even see into the house, which has floor-to-ceiling windows in many of the ground-floor rooms. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

In the evenings, lacking anything better to do, I used to head east and stare into the windows of the handsome, single-family town houses, wondering what went on in those well-appointed rooms. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

Before long they met every day to talk, long, quietly, idly, a little apart from the serving-women who always accompanied Serret, by the fireplace or at the window of the high rooms of the tower. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

There were four rooms from front to back, one leading into the other: the living room facing Varet Street, then our bedroom, then Tata’s room, then the kitchen. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

But gradually, as the months and years went by, if they’d not been placed elsewhere, they were shunted farther and farther back, to the dark, low-ceilinged, airless rooms at the tail of the house. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

High rooms he saw ahead, airy and luminous as though with lusters of the sun and moon, bronze-paneled walls, at several distances, making a vista, with an azure molding of lapis lazuli. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

I am certain that over the course of your own life, you have noticed that people’s rooms reflect their personalities. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

When they reached the station, Harry led the way through a maze of pipes and deserted rooms and back halls down to the level where the trains were. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

In a situation like this, where I don’t even know how to name the various kinds of rooms, The Maids’ special system turns out to be a lifesaver. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

But she was familiar with some of the rooms, and she recognized a language teacher who leaned over a desk, packing things into a briefcase. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

“We walked the grounds a bit while you were upstairs, and toured the lower rooms. Was there something in particular you wanted to show us?” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

The six rooms in the house were always taken, but nobody ever paid the rent on time. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

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

The stairs reached a landing, turned left, then came upon a railed hallway leading to several rooms. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Then, there were the usual narrow clapboard houses on little handkerchief lawns, two stories high, two rooms wide. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Aye, I do. It is more pleasant, is it not? Than tombs, and rooms, and...” The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

The lamps had been lit now and there was a deceptive normality about the big stone rooms with their colorful murals, animal skin rugs, embroidered drapes, and comfortable gilded furniture. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

They will go home and sit in their living rooms and interact with their parents for the first time as adults. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

It was just a series of crumbling halls and rooms where ceilings were propped up with thick wooden support beams. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

When one of the rooms that had been listed as a stay-over turns out to be a checkout, she calls Millie to complain, but of course to no avail. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

All furniture had been cleared from the main rooms. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

“I didn’t know men were allowed in the rooms,” I say. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

“On nice nights, I’ll sleep out here. But when it gets chilly, which is most nights up this high, I have a bed in one of the storage rooms.” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Abby and I want to take our piles up to our rooms and start using them. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

He was in a maze of identical rooms. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

The de Vries family is even wealthier than I'd realized; the furnishings in the rooms we pass are ornate and expensive-looking, with paintings on the walls and a rich, textured wallpaper. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Others in the business keep clients in rented houses or hotel rooms. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Rooms that spin and rooms with glowing chessboard floors. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

“Where have you been?” demanded Ginny, as Harry sprinted into the changing rooms. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Frodo wandered round the familiar rooms, and saw the light of the sunset fade on the walls, and shadows creep out of the corners. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

To which I replied, in so many words, that I could hardly carve pegs in rooms too cold for me to take my gloves off. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

When I was taken to Dr. op-oi’s rooms upstairs for our lessons to be resumed, I dreaded the interview. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

It was all tall archways and gold foil wallpaper, too decadent to resemble the stark hospital rooms we knew from our checkups. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

And they’re off again, hustling through rooms of Chinese art and French sculptures. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Rubbing his neck, his face still burning, he walked from her rooms, wondering how, exactly, he’d explain this to Dorian tomorrow. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

The establishment had been expanded with a gallery of wooden rooms where single women who smelled of dead flowers lived. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

He felt immensely foolish, and for a moment considered running from her rooms. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

In the early 1970s, when Joy was learning about programming, computers were the size of rooms. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

Our house had a roof made of dried, thatched grasses and three rooms—a kitchen and two small rooms where we slept and, during the long rainy season, where we played. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now and then, I see a person inside one of the glass- paneled rooms, cuffed to a wall and screaming. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

Standing at the top of the stairs, the two men watched the women go into their respective rooms and shut the doors. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

I can hear other people yelling in other rooms of the house. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

I remember those first days so clearly, walking around, shoeless, feeling the warmth of wooden floorboards underfoot, relishing the space, the emptiness of all those rooms waiting to be filled. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

I heard a sound from one of the other rooms. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

It was like walking into a dark house with many rooms. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

They let their conversation lapse as they opened one of the many empty rooms on the second floor, undressed Chronicler, and tucked him snugly into bed. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

He had worked on ships before, in engine rooms, but this was louder than that, louder than anything he had ever known. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

They then entered the booths of the rest rooms. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

The villagers pushed through both wings, even your grandparents’ rooms, to find your aunt’s, which was also mine until the men returned. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

They seemed like people Farmer had seen in waiting rooms in the dreadful public clinics he’d visited throughout the country. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

Ress cleared his throat, and Celaena looked up to see Dorian standing outside her rooms, chatting with the guards. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

We didn’t have access to the dance rooms at school over winter break, and we were really sick of the cardboard boxes we’d used on weekends, so we splurged on an upgrade. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

I make a circuit through the other upstairs rooms. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Those rooms were still empty, and sometimes, when I listened close, I thought I could hear Yiddish in the hallway. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Henry, who led the way in, hasn’t even stopped to speak to him, and all Alex can do is follow him up the grand staircase toward his rooms. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Consider: the guests never leave their rooms; they expect not only lodging but full board; they receive a constant flow of visi­tors, some of whom are noisy and unruly. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Wang Lung, watching her move steadily and slowly about the rooms on her big feet, watching secretly the stolid, square face, the unexpressed, half-fearful look of her eyes, made nothing of her. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

The rooms themselves were recessed, buried in shadow. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a whole building dedicated to the arts, with special rooms for the choir to sing and bands to play, and other rooms that had been outfitted for photography and pottery. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Patients were then put in separate rooms, with the dying in one, the “very low” in another, and so on. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

Inside, the rooms were almost empty—a large, once elegant country house stripped of all but a few mats, an altar in one comer of the first room, a funeral urn. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

Since then, it had been gradually expanded until it had dozens of rooms for single miners or transient families. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Two are small prefab bunk rooms for officers and sergeants. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The master of ceremonies asked people to say what they thought the function of the novel might be in modern society, and one critic said, “To provide touches of color in rooms with all-white walls.” Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

"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

We were standing in front of the full-length mirror on the back of his rooms door. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

At the top of the winding stairs four doors opened upon rooms lit with sunshine. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then Amil hobbled slowly out of one of the hospital rooms on crutches. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Though the threading took skill, it did not take the physical strength demanded in the machine rooms, and the girls sat on high stools as they worked. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

He asked her what rooms she had finished, and then he unlocked their doors and went inside. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

“We should check out both rooms. We don’t want any surprises.” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

Streamers of colored paper are taped to the walls, with arrows of construction paper at intervals, along the halls and up and down the stairs and into the different rooms, to show the way. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Everything was done at last, even to Amy’s arranging different colored soaps to match the different colored rooms, and Beth’s setting the table for the first meal. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

I pictured Miss Lilian creeping about in the dark rooms the way she used to, her mind racing with crazy thoughts, her heart full of hatred for Georgie and me. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

Over Thanksgiving, five monkeys had died in Room H, two doors down the hall from Room F. So the virus was moving, and what was worse, it was skipping rooms as it moved. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I sold my watch and scouted for cheaper rooms; I found a rotting building and rented an apartment in it. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You don’t want first dibs on rooms? Suit yourself.” The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

Three men arrived by anbaric car and went into the Terrace Room, which was the smallest of all the dining rooms in the inn and overlooked the terrace and the river and the priory beyond. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

Both children were banished to their rooms for the rest of the day. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Somewhere I have a family who have rooms filled with nothing but books and who still grieve for their baby who was stolen. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

Still, it is with a heavy heart and leaden steps that I make my way to the royal rooms. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

I wrote about the Freedom Riders who rode buses through the South in 1961 challenging segregated seating, rest rooms, and drinking fountains. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He saw the engine rooms and the boiler rooms, and wound up on the third-class recreation deck. I Survived the Sinking of the Titanic, 1912 2010-06-01T00:00:00Z

There were only two rooms of any size, a livingroom and a bedroom. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

But when she had mounted to her rooms again with all her women, then she fell to weeping for Odysseus, her husband. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The dressing rooms are just generally a total free-for-all, and anyone who cares about privacy at all changes in the bathroom. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

Her family had been given rooms adjoining hers, but the palace was so large that she could hardly believe they were sleeping under the same roof. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

“I can’t forget them, walking through these dark rooms, trying to play dolls, maybe, in here or those bedrooms upstairs.” The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

“I hate levees and drawing rooms. I hate to speak to a thousand people to whom I have nothing to say.” Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

I knew the rooms; the rooms knew me. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

Children drift down into the basement, the older ones to rooms upstairs. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

They had winter gardens and salons, dining rooms that could seat 200, and porches like the promenade decks of ocean liners from which guests could drink in the wholesome air and survey nature’s craggy splendor. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

It’s a safe, clean place, she assures us, that doesn’t cost much money, and she has booked three single rooms. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Instead of limiting the number of animals, cities could make ordinances to keep people from hoarding chickens in living rooms. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

The walls and marble columns were hung with electric lamps that bathed the rooms in plentiful golden light. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

She told him she was worried that it could be spreading into other rooms through the air. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ginika looked around, to point at her helper, but both young women had disappeared into the fitting rooms at the back. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

I tried to listen for the sounds in the other rooms. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

Mrs. gave us each a new dress and a poster of the Jackson Five to hang in our rooms. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

She could hear signs of life in far-off rooms—the low mumble of a TV commercial, the beep of a microwave running down its count—but distantly, as if in a dream. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

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

He cried for an hour and nobody in the three rooms could sleep. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

The rooms were for studying or socializing only. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

But that left nearly twenty other rooms for Ophie to explore, and the more she looked, the more ghosts she found. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

We stayed there two hours in ecstasy, running through the huge rooms ... and trying to read the exterior inscriptions in the moonlight. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Perhaps the bad smell in the building had nauseated him, because the monkey rooms weren’t being cleaned as regularly as usual. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nevertheless, Susan Kidwell and her mother had managed to sugar the pill and install a cozy atmosphere in their apartment—three rooms on the ground floor. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

He asks if there are any rooms available for the night, but while he is on hold he hangs up. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Whatever made him get on that plane ... it was leading him to those rooms.” Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Then, looking behind him, he glimpsed two flashlight beams passing through one of the other rooms. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

Every night, when the married couple retired to their rooms, she was overwhelmed by a peculiar hatred she could not explain, which filled her soul with regret. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Eventually, in the wee hours, they returned to their rooms and slept—some peacefully, some fitfully. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

He never visited Heleen’s girls, though plenty would have been happy to take him up to their rooms. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

To the left and right, various formal-looking sitting rooms full of straight-backed chairs and all manner of couches. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the loneliness in those two rooms had not gone away. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

I point to a set of photos of rooms I like. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

So I make a list of everything in both rooms. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Without the distraction of human voices, Molly imagines she can hear sounds in other rooms: bedsprings groaning, faucets dripping, fluorescent lights humming, pull chains rattling. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

His presence reverberated through the cramped rooms and crooked hallways as every thug, thief, dealer, con man, and steerer came a little more awake. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

“Do Ford and I have our own rooms?” Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

I raced through a honeycomb of locker rooms and dead-end hallways. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He told me he occupied the two front rooms of the house where his daughter’s family lived. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Many of my friends live in crowded homes with only two or three rooms for a family of ten. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

As long as I’d been alive, I’d never encountered the kind of fortitude and loyalty that I found in those rooms. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Will searched his mother’s bedroom first, ashamed to be looking through the drawers where she kept her underclothes, and then he worked systematically through the rest of the rooms upstairs, even his own. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

When they move away, and nearly all Americans move away, or want to, they do not leave unused and therefore useless rooms. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

My friends and I stared in awe at its rooms and gardens. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

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

Lalo was sullen when anyone asked, and he said it was his wife who had rented her the rooms above the bar. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

“There ain’t any rooms to let around here, and the only one lives upstairs is me!” Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

One by one they made their way upstairs to their rooms to check their things for the next day. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

As soon as they stepped inside they could tell there was nobody in the two rooms. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

The room is small, one of the lesser conference rooms in the West Wing. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Our rooms had no phone lines, but my parents had requested I be placed in a room near one of Culver Creek’s five pay phones. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

“My dear prince,” she drawled, examining her nails, “you’re alone in my rooms. The hallway door is very far away. I can say whatever I wish.” Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

A creek wandered through the seven rooms of the masked ball. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

I even saw a few rooms with TVs on, the news playing, everyone peeking into my life as I was peeking into theirs. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

In the end Bernard had to slink back, diminished, to his rooms and inform the impatient assembly that the Savage would not be appearing that evening. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Huntsman might have warned them to stay in these rooms, but he could not prevent the air from carrying the scent of their celebrations up to them, a potent, alluring perfume. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Even though Cook had offered many more times for Ophie and Mama to stay in one of the rooms in the empty servants’ quarters, Mama continued to refuse. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

It was a small house, a lot like our apartment except for two extra rooms: a small dining room and a small alcove off the living room. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

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

I led him up to one of my stronghold’s rarely used “sitting rooms,” a re-creation of the living room set from Family Ties. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

I sat in the corner watching people filling up the rooms where Mama used to. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

I'm not too crazy about describing rooms and houses anyway. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

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

So all the rooms on the third floor where the seventh grade was had Coat Rooms. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

Then his uncle’s wife came forward to her other side and between them they led the girl into the court and into the new rooms that Wang Lung had built for her. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

Lustig went to the door, rang the bell, and called into the cool dim rooms: “What year is this?” The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every outlet was unplugged from every socket and the house stayed dark, except for the lit candle in a few rooms, including ours. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

They are talking about me in other rooms. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

On the second floor there were some offices and three empty lecture rooms, all with rows of wooden chairs, old oil paintings on the walls, and elaborate leaded glass windows. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

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

She’d seen Nehemia’s rooms; there were no signs of a demon beast lurking about, and nowhere in the castle where she could— Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

The main floor of the house was divided into five large rooms with high ceilings, all connected by tall double doors. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Some of the rooms were occupied by sleeping old men—he peeked carefully into each one—but most were empty, rooms that belonged to members of the order still enjoying the festivities. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

PIH brought in engineering teams to stabilize the capital’s badly damaged general hospital, restoring its water and electricity; when medical supplies were trucked in, twelve operating rooms were quickly up and running. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

“Might not they use both rooms, and dance across the passage?” Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z

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

“Why do you, a stranger coming into my rooms at this time of the night, ask that question?” said I. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

He picked Tisch Hospital, part of New York University Medical Center, an academic center with relatively affluent patients, and passed up Bellevue, a city-run hospital with one of the busiest emergency rooms in New York. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

I saw rooms as fancy as my mother’s. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had thought all the rooms at Thornfield beautifully clean and well arranged; but it appears I was mistaken. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

I sleep in hotel rooms that someone else has cleaned and shop in stores that others will tidy when I leave. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

She wanders through the empty rooms that they took such delight in decorating. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The chocolate dissolves on my tongue, and I think about the pounds of the stuff we devoured in the lesson rooms. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

Since the murders, Harry and Hugo had been spending most of their time in their rooms. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

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

Are we expected to walk into dark rooms? he wondered. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

Fires were no longer lit in the middle of the rooms, leaving the smoke to escape as best it could through lanterns. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

He carried around the blueprints for the Glass Castle wherever we went, and sometimes he’d pull them out and let us work on the design for our rooms. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

There were two rooms with boilers in them. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I think he made a point of visiting all the rooms near him the first day. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

In these boats were sometimes other chambermaids, the kind who went to illegal parties in people’s rooms to drink rye and ginger ale out of paper cups, and were rumored to go all the way. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

They led one into the other and were called railroad rooms. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

From their rooms, the boys watched Princeton alumni stroll around the golf course wearing their knickerbockers, high argyle socks, and tweed caps. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Chat rooms were stand-alone simulations—temporary virtual spaces that avatars could access from anywhere in OASIS. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

“But we don’t know where those rooms are?” Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Somehow I was glad my rooms were in the east wing. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

We go to my rooms and she puts me in a full-length gown and high-heeled shoes, not the ones I'll he wearing for the actual interview, and instructs me on walking. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

I’d read them in dentists’ offices, and sometimes on planes; I’d bought them to take to hotel rooms, a device to fill in empty time while I was waiting for Luke. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

In all the bright rooms of their house. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Provided there were no renovations, we basically have a map now and know exactly which two rooms to send the robot into. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

I wanted them back in their right rooms. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

We climbed a narrow gullet of stairs to a small pair of rooms. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Just by the patches in the air I can tell who has recently been in which rooms. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

“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

After what felt like forever, the houselights went down and an announcer’s voice boomed through the auditorium, introducing the two fighters, who entered the arena from the locker rooms on opposite sides. Lawn Boy Returns 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

He listened for movement in the upper rooms. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

“I will have the dust-sheets removed, and then you can see the rooms as they looked when they were used,” said Mrs. Danvers. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Finally, with slow steps, her head down, she wandered about the pillared rooms, laying her hand to things, her lips quivering, until finally she sat alone in the darkening wine room, waiting. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

While Katie was putting up the lace curtains, Mary Rommely came over and sprinkled the rooms with holy water to drive out any devils that might be lurking in the corners. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The room was small, not like all the times in movies when people went into huge, marble-covered rooms to retrieve their safe deposit boxes. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

The party occupies an entire hallway, the doors of the individual rooms all open. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

They comfort me; it looks as though there were little windows in dark village cottages saying that behind them are rooms full of peace. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

They worked their way past the supply rooms and the armory. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Our rooms are next to each other and are identical. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ron and Hermione came hurrying over to wish Harry good luck as he entered the locker rooms. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

Richard smelled the saltiness of the air as Kainene led him through wide rooms with tastefully mismatched furniture, wood carvings, muted paintings of landscapes, rounded sculptures. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

“One of the back rooms has a bed that folds out from the wall,” said Henry. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Thomas was looking around the room, which held many of the same pieces of furniture as the rooms above. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

A lot of the donors’ rooms you can’t get to with a wheelchair, or else they’re too stuffy or too draughty. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I only rent rooms to boys from Harvard or Tech!” Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

It was faint, almost drowned by the other noise, but I heard it the same way a mother can mark her child crying from a dozen rooms away. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

They must have taken her ’round the rooms they use for the orderlies—perhaps even planted a few as dummy prisoners. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

She tried to picture it, what happened up in those darkened rooms, imagined Trip’s body against hers, and a hot flush crept over her. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

And, at any rate, one of the few rules the Executives seemed willing to admit to was that students were not allowed in one another’s rooms. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

Unless one of those rooms leads down to the basement, I don’t know where else the entrance might be. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

One by one they had gone to their rooms, some of them carrying the readers that they were supposed to study in order to advance in their jobs. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

The dark rooms grow darker: the parlor needs a struck match to see the face. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

I feel like a shadow as I climb the spiral stairs, as I pass through all the rooms I grew up in. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

She shook her head, thinking of their house, its secret rooms, its isolated location on the top of the hill, the way they never had company. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Back then, it was two big white rooms just with paintings—beautifully displayed with plenty of spaces between them. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

If I could, I would inform them that the hospital has locker rooms, where the doctors and nurses can stow their street clothes and where they change into their scrubs or their lab coats. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Our days in Dubai were spent in the waiting rooms of the United Nations embassy, hoping they would see us, look through our mountains of paperwork, and help us find somewhere to go. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

Miles went ahead to the pool while I searched the storage rooms behind the gym for extra towels for the swimmers. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

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

The ceilings of some of the rooms in Montclair bore charred, black circles, in mute testimony to his intrepidity as an exploder. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

The main corridor was a narrow tunnel that led in a hard, clatter-footed stretch along a line of rooms of no interdistinguishing features. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

It was used by Claudius and formerly by King Hamlet to come and go secretly from Gertrude’s rooms. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

I’m nervous to visit the art rooms in case we get in trouble for interrupting a class, but it turns out I didn't need to be nervous at all. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

A solid block of buildings with rooms and rooms and a gymnasium and everything, with policemen to help all the children across the streets. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

The rooms contained double banks of monkey cages. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The perfect place, a little fortress where a soldier can get some R & R. I'm headed for one of those soundproof listening rooms. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

They purchased some new pants, shirts, underwear, socks, and shoes, leaving their dirty and sandy clothes behind in their dressing rooms. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

After hours of enjoying himself at the feast, Dorian entered Celaena’s rooms, not sure what, exactly, he was doing in the chambers of an assassin at two in the morning. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

He’d found it in one of the storage rooms in the back and secreted it out to his bags under the folds of his grey sweater. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

“You’re fortunate that one of our nicest rooms has come up free—here, in the house. We had a security man staying there. But he left us quite suddenly.” Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

Heavy draperies with brocade and tassels hang on the windows and separate the rooms; paintings in gilded frames hang close together on the walls. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

“It looks like the early sketch for a board game. See the circle in the center of the other circle? That’s probably where you place the spinner. You move your pieces around the ten rooms...” Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

The rooms are yellow and bare of anything except a single blue bunk, a steel sink and toilet, and a call box by the door. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

“A big house to play in. A yard. Two rooms full of toys. Her mom can’t give her that kind of life.” Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The whole thing is sealed off, except for a repair garage around the corner and a part of the first floor containing men’s and women’s locker rooms and rest rooms. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

All of the rooms downstairs seem to be for pottery. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

At restaurants I began to use the men’s rooms. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Life is hard enough without having to avoid entire rooms in my own head. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Between her murmurs of appreciation during Chaol’s brief tour of her rooms, she’d counted the windows—twelve—the exits—one—and the guards posted outside her door, windows, and balcony—nine. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

“Yeah—but I just tried to book a hotel in Vegas. A million hotel rooms, and not a single one available.” Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Benji spoke to the woman behind a marble counter about rooms. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

From our rooms we could hear the glasses clink and the radio turned up. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

But he said, “I want you to finish that food and go to your rooms and pray for forgiveness,” before turning to go back downstairs. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

Then we all retired to our rooms to rest for the long evening ahead, to say our prayers and to consider our resolutions. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

They had gotten a late start the first day, and by the time they reached the motel where they’d been planning to stay, the rooms they’d reserved were taken. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

He veers off toward the locker rooms outside of the stadium. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

For all his friendly talk, she thought he’d prefer to be home by himself, playing concerts in empty rooms. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Filling it with computer banks and meeting rooms, barracks and arsenals. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

The vast house was like a mausoleum—without a single sign of life inside its vaulted rooms. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

They open to rooms with even more elaborate designs. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

Aside from the stairwell, that was the only part of the building still accessible; the other floors were all frozen shut, walls of ice clogging their rooms and hallways. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

As I made my way down the short hallway, a boy in rags emerged from the inner rooms holding a small winter apple. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Consequendy their music is as deathly silent as the empty rooms of Pompeii. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

The house felt deserted, with all its dark and empty rooms. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

It’s kind of a dusty mess right now, but so are a lot of the “before” rooms on the home improvement shows Mom watches. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

A plasterer who had been in his rooms reported them furnished with statues, oil paintings, and white fur rugs. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

And a lot of people have volunteered their spare rooms, basements, and attics. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

“Goodbye, house. I shall miss all your rooms and gardens, but most of all I shall miss my bed.” Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

None of their personalities had been left in the rooms, except for the two paintings on the wardrobe doors, the lady cutouts, and the little picture of the boat. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Do you want me to comment on how you showed up in her rooms last night—the same night another Champion died?” Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Sometimes as much as forty feet long, they have two to five rooms, and are complete with air-conditioners, toilets, baths, and invariably television. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

These had five, six rooms; some had ten and if you could manage fifty, sixty dollars a month, you could have one. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“None of the rooms are ready. There isn’t any patient expected.” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

I sensed the conversation made little difference, that for a few moments we were safe from the world and we were loath to break the communication and go back to our rooms. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Despite the landlord’s disapproval, the sweltering heat, the gloomy rooms, and the cacophony of strange noises, so unfamiliar to my country ears, I felt another swell of hope. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

“He wants to go on south, but maybe you could put him up for a night in one of your many rooms?” Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

In January, Hilario and Vivian Ortega, who live down the street from Celia, will defend themselves against charges that they have been illegally renting by the hour two rooms of their beachfront home. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the house, he swept rooms no one had slept in for years, and cleaned bathrooms no one had bathed in. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

It only just now strikes me as odd that I have been like a houseguest, confining myself to my room and the shared rooms only, never feeling free to roam the rest of the house. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

At the farther edge of the town they came upon a solitary house in a field and they crossed and entered and walked through the rooms. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

But that’s because of the rooms, and he understands why I object. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

He’d read a story in one of the old books in the attic about a bunch of kids finding a deserted pirate ship, and then a skeleton in one of the rooms. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

Part of a suite of rooms that are Marco’s own, the better to keep him at the beck and call, though he is out for the evening. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

I must find Balekin’s private rooms, find his secrets, and then get out. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

I’d been adding more rooms on for her, trying to work around hints I got of things she liked. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

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

“The basement rooms are up to code, yes,” Carlos says. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

See, a trap is divided into two “rooms.” The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Alone in his flat, Marco constructs tiny rooms from scraps of paper. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

The rooms here are lit by regular old gas lamps; I suppose the mayor put the electric ones outside to show off to guests and passersby. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Somewhere they can be unlimited and fearless and safe, like in their own rooms. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

The large “store” area was partitioned into two rooms by beaverboard planks that did not reach to the ceiling. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

Our house here is mud and thatch, plenty large, with two rooms and a kitchen shed. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Kaira’s suite was bigger than his, with three rooms and a working fireplace. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

A peal of laughter came from one of the study rooms. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

The other rats watched her from the corners of the rooms as she ran after it. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

He said he lived back in the woods, but had six kids and only two rooms. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The moonlight came into the hallway through doorways of the empty rooms of Billy’s two children, children no more. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Someone must have gone to a good deal of effort to empty all the guest rooms of their wardrobes and beds and vanity tables and to bolt bars across the window shutters. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

He found the bedrooms—huge, elegant rooms with beautifully carved beds and long, mirrored closets. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

Instead of opening the door into rest rooms, they looked for alleys. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was pride in those rooms, a united spirit that went well past the color of anyone’s skin. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

A tall wooden shack housed the cage elevator, which carried miners one to two hundred feet underground, where they would disperse into various dugouts called rooms, each supported by a single wooden pillar. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

Madge’s bedroom is on the second floor along with several guest rooms and her father’s study. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

The rooms were tiny, and it had dirt floors, but in the kitchen we found shelves lined with rows of canned food. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

It’s a beehive of rooms full of computers, labs, research equipment, and testing ranges. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

He pauses at the doors to a series of whitewashed rooms with nothing but ladders in them. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

I had special permission to use the records, and the listening rooms too. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now the original home stood in the middle with various additions, rooms, and wings stacked and piled around it, like a merchant trying to carry too many bags at once. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

Then she added, “You’re sleeping in one of their rooms, you know. So I’ll bet they don’t like you much, either.” Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

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

“This place is the changing room. Here are the rooms for relief and cleansing. Can I get you anything, Gregor the Overlander?” Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

One of the housemaids began shutting windows in the rooms upstairs. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

My mother had always told me never under any circumstances to go with a man to a man's rooms after an evening out, it could mean only one thing. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

I could see at once that men’s rooms, unlike the ladies’, provided no comfort. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“I thought we’d be more . . . more together here—with nothing but the sea and moon. More together than in that crowd, or even in my rooms. Don’t you understand that?” Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

And so Grief and Shame abided in adjoining rooms with the door shut between them, holding their pain in their arms instead of each other. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

“Get the water from the pitchers in the rooms,” Robin said. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

The trainings take place in the basements of churches and the back rooms of stores, on long car trips and anywhere else where people can gather. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

“Have that young man bring extra blankets from one of the other rooms.” The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

After Colonel Meecham had conducted the inspections of the other rooms, Mary Anne walked into Ben’s room holding her stomach with melodramatic hyperbole. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

She insisted that they rent rooms above it. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The rats had even dug out a new pantry-hole in one corner, and carved out the small tunnel that would connect the two rooms of the house. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

“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

It’s nothing like on TV, where operating rooms are like pristine theaters that could accommodate an opera singer, and an audience. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

We were meeting in one of the dance rooms inside the schools gym, and my brother’s three new friends looked me up and down again, even though we’d already met. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

The Granger Gazette and the yearbook shared an office down in the basement near the music rooms. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

It was what I dreaded most because the girls’ rest rooms were so isolated. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had the disconcerting sense that if he looked through the glass he would see himself running drills in the training rooms, seated at the long table in the dining hall. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

He had been okay at Jessica’s house, sitting in the same rooms where his mother had eaten dinner, watched TV, gone to sleep. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

It was a time when happiness was allowed to spill over, to inundate all rooms, to rule all faces, and to reign unmolested in the turbulent kingdom of the fighter pilot. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Big fancy dwellings with rooms for everything—rooms for sleeping, rooms for eating, even a room to go to the toilet! Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

Tally shook away that last image and ran down the hall, ignoring the same jokes about her mask, risking glances into the rooms one by one. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

It was true, the hall rep confirmed the news, and they all sighed, contemplating this sudden unwanted break, and returned to their rooms to pack; the hostel would be closed the next day. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

On the second floor, they followed Ampai into one of the few rooms in the Mud House that still had a full set of walls and a door, which Yai shut behind them. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

Matt rejected several rooms because he’d seen people in them, but at a bend in the passage he remembered a warehouse with computers and other equipment. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

In addition to the refectory, on the second floor are two small rooms where up to ten women share four beds. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

The same scene played out all over the world, in parks, bars, civic centers, living rooms, classrooms, and offices. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

The walls of both rooms were lined with shelves, and on most of the shelves were hundreds of packets of pages. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

"Jory, take the girls back to their rooms and bring me Ice." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The restaurant was the size of two large living rooms. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

"To my rooms, then bring Dr. Bledsoe to me," he answered tersely. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were the heavy rooms for dropping acid or taking mushrooms. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

It's a dusty-pink color, subtle enough that it would work in their brightest rooms. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

She moldered in humid rooms with droning biology and composition professors. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

She thought of all the secret passageways, of the halls and closets, of the tiny, added-on rooms in the Spencer house, of all the spots a small, frightened little girl could hide. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Landlord calls it an apartment but it ain’t nothing but a room tucked in between and on top of a lot of other rooms. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

I walk through rooms, opening heavy wooden doors, opening cabinets, taking inventory of my supplies. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Each fresh arrival was briefed in this way; people—police, doctor, family members, servants—stood in knots that unraveled and reformed in corners of rooms, the hallway and the terrace outside the French windows. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Unlike the other rooms underground, this chamber was connected to only two tunnels: one leading down to a pool of water and another going up to the air. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

When he is finished, Ruth takes the book from him and looks at the drawing he’s made, trailing her finger through the rooms. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Taran saw armorers’ shops, stables for the steeds of warriors, breweries, weaving rooms. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

He's still helping people, still bouncing back and forth from the waiting room, to his patients' rooms, to his office, which is kind of like a tattoo shop. Sunny 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

Rollins lived above the Emerald Palace in a grand suite of rooms, every inch of them covered in gilt and green velvet. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

On the other end, she’s in one of the arena’s meeting rooms, a makeshift office with her core team. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

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

Jon nodded to the guards before making his way past the silent racks of spears to his rooms. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

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

Aunty Ifeoma muttered to us all to remain seated, not to say a word, before she followed the men into the rooms. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

Four to a room was in itself a luxury, as most of the rooms held six. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

The sixth floor consisted of dormitory rooms for the out-of-town students. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

In the hall between our rooms, he presses a button, and a door slides open to a small open room, four toilets lined side by side like a row of desks in a classroom. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

He sees no one, not even when his meals are delivered to his rooms, appearing by the door on covered trays and disappearing in the same manner. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Yesterday I discovered a new pastime: using a good pair of binoculars to peek into the lighted rooms of the neighbors. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

I thought back to the isolation rooms and the two pitiful husks that were my parents. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

“In that museum of a house? There’re rooms upstairs that...oh! Jamie, the statue is only two feet tall. She could have tucked it into any corner.” From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Eleven years ago, the orphanage’s upstairs rooms had been practically bursting with girls. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

“Sorry, man. I know you two have been scoring, but this stuff is all over the place. It’s not just in locker rooms.” Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

And then, with a drowning feeling, I realize: he has an extra set of keys to all the rooms of the house. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I did not speak to her, I went down the stairs blindly, and turned the corner and pushed through the door that led to my own rooms in the east wing. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

"She just really doesn't like sitting inside rooms." Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

The rest rooms was kind of like that too. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

"It'd have to lose weight ... a lot of weight. I can get rooms full of people working on these problems, if we decide to do this." The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

“In Lublin,” she began, thinking of New Rochelle, “I live in a house that has eight rooms and the toilets are inside the house. One upstairs and one downstairs.” The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

I walk slowly here, in and out through patches of sunlight like empty mansion rooms, methodically listening to each footstep press the grass. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“There are houses I’ve driven by for years, and I didn’t know they had panic rooms until the owners listed the house to sell.” The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Only a few of the rooms have light fixtures; the others have wires dangling out of the middle of the ceiling. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

It offered twenty-one guest rooms, commanding sea views, and a lobby fireplace as big as a truck. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

The children made it to their rooms almost exactly when the Executives were supposed to come for them. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

The Conners lived in a flat on the second floor of the building, near Dr. Holmes’s own suite of rooms. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

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

Grandma promised if we cleaned our rooms and picked up our toys, she would help us make gingerbread cookies to eat before we began playing games. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The last time I felt this way I was in the waiting rooms at Ellis Island. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

“I would have had to pay for these rooms anyway. Taking your money would make me feel like I was trying to get you to pay for half of my trip,” he says. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

I poke through the rooms looking for Sheila, the developmentally delayed girl I usually play with. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

I glanced into some of the frozen rooms as we hurried past them. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

All the rooms in the Hotel Magnificent had small private balconies. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

She saw rooms, tables, stoves, and daylight coming through windows. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

The apartment consists of three rooms all in a row without a corridor. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Theon was given a suite of chilly rooms with ceilings so high that they were lost in gloom. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Lots of other kids have a ton of stuff in their rooms. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

There were no cars in the parking lot, but a dozen or more men and women were hanging around outside of their rooms, smoking, talking, fighting. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Dorian walked slowly back to his rooms, his heart racing. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

After tipping the doorman to get access to the dressing rooms, he climbed the stairs to the third floor. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

Most of the Negroes hurried to the rest rooms. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

Among eleven occupied rooms, she counted thirteen sleepers, one of whom was not a faranji but a Tizerkane warrior, Tzara, wrapped in the slender arms of a slight young woman with very short, soft hair. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Even rooms like the living room and kitchen, which nobody but she went into, began to look as though they had been bombed. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

We hugged each other and then said good-bye and went off to opposite ends of the hall to lie down in our own rooms. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

Their mother shrieked, two rooms away, and they all five jumped together. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

Men ate in their rooms, which were a claustrophobic seven feet high, six feet seven inches deep, and three feet three inches wide. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then she went into the other rooms and awoke the children there. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

Such pleas, inevitably, were ignored, and members of Congress would gather in wood-paneled committee rooms and spend hours examining in minute detail the Osage’s expenditures, as if the country’s security were at stake. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Kira and Thomas parted in the upstairs corridor and made their way separately back to their own rooms. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Clutter pointed out the rooms where the boy and girl were supposed to be sleeping, then opened his wife’s door. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

One Army officer who later visited Riverbank thought the place was bugged—particularly the rooms where Elizebeth and William were working. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

August, May, June, and Rosaleen were supposedly over in the pink house in their rooms lying under the fans with the lights out. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

During those days I didn’t think much about the signs that hung above water fountains, toilets, bus station waiting rooms, restaurants, theaters, and other public places. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

And there was no flickering coming from either Miig’s or Chi-Boy’s rooms, which meant they were either asleep or on patrol, so I was safe from discovery. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

We can prevent the people fighting wars or staffing emergency rooms or policing the streets from making mistakes. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

There is a thrill to whittling down her possessions to little more than what she’d come with, to those three rooms in Cambridge in the middle of a winter’s night. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

She wondered if Louisiana and Beverly were sitting in their rooms filling out their applications. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

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

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

Though he spoke little, she was glad to be out of her rooms, and dressed in one of her new gowns—a lovely lilac silk dress with pale pink lace accents and pearl beading. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Her rooms were large and airy, though, and Moreo swore that her fish stew was the most savory in all the Seven Kingdoms. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Margaret quickly closed the door behind her, and there we all were, standing in the hallway between the two front rooms. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Rats scurried about in the corners of both rooms. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Oddly, there was little of the easy conversation one generally hears in public rest rooms, none of the laughter and “woofing.” Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

When she was safely back in her rooms after the Test, Celaena watched the snowflakes drift from the hills beyond Rifthold. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

After a solitary supper, over which she contemplated all of her planned escape routes and how she might make more weapons for herself, Celaena paced through her rooms. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Upon arriving in Englewood, she rented rooms in a boardinghouse near Holmes’s building. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

They made themselves pay polite attention to the older art, though they both agreed they were more interested in the odd contemporary rooms. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Strict controls would limit what visitors could be charged for everything—from rooms at luxury hotels like the Adlon to the bratwurst sold by street vendors all over town. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

In the upper rooms were little rows of hard beds, and on every wall there was a notice and a list of Rules. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

In the seven rooms the sound of a midnight clock brought everything to a halt. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

I felt almost as helpless as my parents lying in their isolation rooms and didn't know whether to punch someone or cry. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

I know that the hungry childrens are not hungry today, and at night they no longer sleep in the tower rooms, but instead they have beds in the other rooms of Casa Rosa. The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z

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

On Monday morning, September 16, my brothers and sister and I woke up, dressed in our rooms as always, and then met together in the kitchen to eat. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Her seven rooms were always crammed to the gills, with as many as twenty-one men boarding at a time and five to six new referrals every day. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

She could go into the houses of people she didn’t know and hidden alleyways and little rooms in the backs of stores. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Or when I work the rooms, bringing up the whiskey hidden so it looks like coffee. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Wood shouted, seizing his broomstick and leading the way out of the locker rooms. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

It staggered me how many rooms there were. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

But the glimpses those men’s rooms afforded were on the whole disappointing. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

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

Carrying the flashlight like a full glass of water, they walked carefully through the shadowy maze of halls and storage rooms. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

White curtains divided the cave into different rooms with comfy pillows and woven rugs and platters of fresh fruit. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

She’d love a cup of tea but there’s no way of boiling the water till Malachy pulls a loose board off the wall between the two upstairs rooms. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

It was a true two-floor house, not just a loft upstairs, but a full set of rooms. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Kathy woke to a thump upstairs, coming from one of the kids’ rooms. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Occasionally he threatened to make Mr. Larson change rooms—but there was really no other room he could move to. The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z

"Two rooms at the top of the stair, that's all there is," she said, chewing all the while. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Most of the people didn’t even pay for the rooms themselves. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

I have to wash them in the machine, but for that, I’d have to go downstairs and pass by the rooms where Chloe’s family lives. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The rooms are gathered around successive elliptical balconies that can be seen from the lobby, reminding Gogol of a parking garage. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

He had seen rooms like this in books when he was studying Shakespeare. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

It was peopled by letter carriers, firemen and those store owners who were affluent enough not to have to live in the rooms in back of the store. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The frugal Mrs. Platt, if she still inhabits her sallow rooms, will not be displeased. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

Inside the two-story manor house there were twelve rooms, some of which had been converted to better serve the school. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

Then with both sets of information firmly in hand, he considered returning the next day to Griffith’s rooms. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

“I was thinking, under the bed. I’ve been thinking for a while. You’ll have an income now. You could apply for more rooms.” The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Over the next few days, the two men moved as many crates of specimens as they could into one of the front attic rooms, and Charles dubbed it the Museum. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

There are ten rooms downstairs and one with a stuffed grizzly bear that looks like it ate up the last maid and is biding for the next one. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

How I wasted them, those rooms, that freedom from being seen. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

“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

“You know, there are rooms here set aside for a little fun. And you look like more than a little fun.” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Since Harriet had married and moved out, Cora, Molly, and Sybil were the only inhabitants of their cabin, sleeping in the two rooms off the main living area. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

They would enter proscribed areas without permits, use Whites Only facilities such as toilets, Whites Only railway compartments, waiting rooms, and post office entrances. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She felt an urge to vomit and run back to her rooms. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

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

Francie made up four tumbled beds and washed a few breakfast dishes and swept the rooms. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hair like a ball of tumbleweed, blowing through the rooms of Middlesex. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

And it’s thinking of that tinkling sound that makes me wonder if those boxes don’t have something to do with her sneaking up to those rooms every other day. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

And at the other end of this long, long room, I could see doors leading into more rooms, more furniture, then more doors. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

At that scale, with families of five and six people living off a farm the size of two hotel rooms, agriculture changes dramatically. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

The girls were obliged to wash themselves using only the wash basins in their rooms, to which Tim hauled a pitcher of cold water once a day. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

Smashing down the doors and using stun grenades to clear the rooms with deafening, multiple blasts, Wolf, Fox, Eagle, and Snake had successfully completed their mission both times. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

Closed into the two rooms, with only the soft light of two kerosene lamps, the atmosphere changed. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

She wanted everything—all seven rooms and their myriad tasks—done in five days. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

The houses are called two up, two down, two rooms on top, two on the bottom. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

We kissed in bookstores and record stores and dressing rooms. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Maybe they’d take a while to look through all the rooms.... The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He stepped past her and went through the rooms. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

And Ton-Ton knew all this, Matt now discovered, because he cleaned the Keepers’ rooms and washed their dishes. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You’re all confined to your rooms while we get respiratory cultures,” she says, spinning around to face Will. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

The rooms smelled of new wood, and when she walked the soles of her tennis shoes made a flopping sound that echoed through all the house. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

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

Though better equipped than the homes closer to downtown, many of these residences had few windows, so the rooms were dark and the air was stale. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

But Ophie was teamed up with Penelope, the other new girl, so they could clean and make ready the rooms more quickly. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

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

Becky had vanished, her rooms at the Oliver Street boardinghouse abandoned. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

The corners of Gore buildings tend to be conference rooms or free space, so that no one can be said to have a more prestigious office. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The tourists’ rooms that we clean and, beyond them, the far more expensively appointed interiors in the soaps begin after a while to merge. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

The house seemed to contain three tiny rooms. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Nhamo saw beds and tall chests with many handles in one of the rooms. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The idea was to drive to Usedom, an island in the Baltic, and stay in an old resort once favored by Wilhelm II. I made a point to emphasize that we would have separate rooms. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

In operating rooms, limbs were being amputated without anesthesia. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

I watch Ren in silence as we finish dinner and drift off to our rooms. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

So they nervously prowled the bars and card rooms and dance halls, drinking beer and taking occasional shots of whiskey and singing along with ragtag cowboy bands. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

“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

Inhabitants all along this street are crouched in their living rooms, silently watching us. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

By the time the old knight returned to the queen’s rooms atop the pyramid, Prince Quentyn’s corpse had been removed. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The other Vessels were all napping, the doors to their cubicle-like rooms closed. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

We turn down the hall and into one of the rooms. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

“But all these rooms are empty, Hassan jan. No one is going to live in them,” I said. 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

Shadow became aware that they were not following the path through the rooms intended for tourists, but seemed to be following a different route of Wednesday’s own devising. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

The last thing she needed was for whatever was down there to wind up in her rooms. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

“Now you come home right after you’re done,” Grandma said, pulling up in front of the blocky cement lifeguard shack and changing rooms that everybody called the bathhouse. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

Some of the rooms are full of students. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

My hand was released and we booked into two rooms. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

It was those rooms, low, dusty garrets at the top of a cramped narrow staircase. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“Maybe we’ll Find something valuable. I’ve always admired the plastic dishes people had in their living rooms. I never knew where they came from.” The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Relax,” Claire told me as we walked out of the locker rooms searching for the coach again. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

The house had sixteen rooms on two floors, was surrounded by “superb old trees,” and occupied a long rectangle of land that stretched to the lake. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

She had no way of knowing if this room was older than the shrine of Mithras, or if—like the labyrinth—the rooms were a hodgepodge from many eras thrown randomly together. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

It has two rooms: a cot in each, table, chair, fireplace, cookstove in one. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Into these rooms he and his family moved, and the laborers, with Ching at their head, lived in the old house in front. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

They scour the vending machines, emptying over half of the dwindling stock throughout the many break rooms and other common areas. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

The whole dollhouse was hinged, so you could close it and see it from all four sides, or open it and have access to each of the individual rooms, like a diorama. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

Maids were expected to clean fifteen to sixteen rooms a day by themselves, and though the shifts were supposed to be eight hours long, in reality it took much longer to clean so many rooms. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

There were luxuries in my rooms that I had not known existed on Winter—for instance, a shower. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

There are so many rooms and floors, they give you a map. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

They could hear footsteps several rooms away, and someone whistling. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

The rooms hidden behind the multitude of tents in Le Cirque des Rêves are a stark contrast to the black and white of the circus. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

They gave her a bottle of Martinelli’s sparkling cider and a gift certificate for dinner and two rooms at the Coeur d’Alene Casino Resort Hotel. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

He didn’t want to find out what was hidden in some of those rooms. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

And the rooms do not have rice paper doors but a big piece of wood like the stores in the village. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

The ground floor of the hotel was a maze of public rooms, all of them named in gold letters on the doors. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

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

“Marlee, I changed rooms because I wanted to be alone! Tonight, make sure you stay in your own bed.” The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was freedom of movement within the dorms except during the three daily counts; inmates washed their own clothes and could cook their own meals, and there were television rooms. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The ones who did, who accepted her invitations to tea and envied the doctor’s big dark house of twelve rooms and the green sedan, called him “peculiar.” Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

I walked the hallway on my floor, looking in at the empty rooms. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Ye can stay here for the time being. Pa and Auntie are long dead and there’s not too much call for their rooms these days.” The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

Leaving the lights out, they ran their hands along square wall panels in lecture rooms, tapping softly and looking for hidden compartments. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

“Thanks. My parents bought it as a rental, but I get to keep one of the rooms for when I’m back here visiting.” Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

We would sit in our rooms and look out at the raindrops glinting with sunlight, waiting for God to decide. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

Bram was right: people really are like houses with vast rooms and tiny windows. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

We weren’t even going to be awake to interact with the Monitors, or make a mess in our rooms. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

The center of this tight-knit community was Ismail’s apartment, flat 13, Kholvad House, four rooms in a residential building in the center of the city. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Formal dinners require a procession from the sitting rooms into the dining room, a process I find to be the height of silliness. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

It was like looking at monitors in one of those big security rooms: There was the third floor stairwell. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

In response to Clara’s imagination and the requirements of the moment, the noble, seignorial architecture began sprouting all sorts of extra little rooms, staircases, turrets, and terraces. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The rooms had all been converted into one-room efficiency apartments, and each unit had been modified to meet the very specific needs of a full-time gunter. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

The “executive” offices are small, plainly furnished rooms, along a narrow corridor. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Firelit rooms lined with books—these are the places in which important things happen. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Walking around the other way, I was startled to hear a hollow, tinny music coming from the common rooms. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

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

Plus, there were, like, six whole rooms filled with chairs. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

Tired of living in a piano studio, she scouted out a much better apartment, with five rooms, a fireplace, and a sheltered porch where William could tinker and experiment with radios. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

He goes from kitchen to bathroom to dining room to living room and all sorts of combinations of those four rooms over and over. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

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

Instead, I put my ear to the wall between our rooms to see if I can hear Noah. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Its twenty-odd rooms are separated into grace-and-favor apartments for those members of the faculty unable to find, or afford, other quarters. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

She unlatched the clasps and opened it, revealing two floors and several rooms full of miniature furniture. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

King wasn’t injured, and he and his party were assigned hotel rooms in compliance with the recently passed Civil Rights Act. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s weird to think that my mom’s and Lucy’s rooms are the same rooms they grew up in their whole lives. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Its haunted rooms were up to expectation, and there was nothing else to do. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Other rooms lay beyond the one where she stood, but Nhamo didn’t have the courage to explore them. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Here and there, in rooms all over the building, some of the animals stared from glazed eyes in masklike faces, and some of them had blood running from their orifices. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, I don’t think they took up guest rooms or anything.” Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

She had immediately stripped from her gown upon entering her rooms, and now sat in a rose-and-jade dressing robe that suited her well. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

All eleven rooms, plus the hallways and staircase landings, were quickly jammed full. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

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

All the different rooms, if you could just slice the walls away all of a sudden. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

He leads me down the stairwell, two flights down, until we enter the basement where execution rooms, electric grids, and storage chambers line the halls. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

They stayed pretty much in the rooms and avoided public places. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

He combs through his rooms, removing every personal belonging from the space. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

It’s the social hub of the place, where donors come out of their rooms for a bit of air and a chat. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

He could almost see her, waiting in one of the dark airless rooms in the little grim house’s impregnable solitude. Absalom, Absalom! 1936-01-01T00:00:00Z

Small slivers of light come from between the floorboards in the rooms above me. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

“You aren’t lost for something to do in dining rooms. It’s in the living room where people can’t figure out what to do with themselves. People get problems in living rooms.” A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

Two small rooms at ground level near the gatehouse served as our new quarters. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

And while my suite of rooms at the Horse and Four had been luxurious, my tiny room at Anker’s was comfortable. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I mean, how many grown kids spend all their free time building Lego cities in dusty old storage rooms? The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

The phone rings and rings in the cavernous house, several receivers in different rooms trilling in different keys. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

They sat where they could, in the different rooms of the house, half the people having finished before the other half began. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

A labyrinth of three hundred rooms housing, no, make that caging, the wives and concubines of the sultan. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

“How many rooms, if it’s downtown or not, if it has a good view or not.” Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

First thing in the morning, when the doors reopened, she needed to search through the Dewey decimal rooms to find a clue that would tell her exactly how and where the bandits had crawled in. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

I walk us along back rooms and even past the boys’ locker room, which smells like bleach and dirty socks. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

The actual training rooms are below ground level of our building. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

The architects arrived in Chicago late Friday night, January 9, and took carriages to the Wellington Hotel, where Burnham had arranged rooms for all. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Some of the rooms were brightened with artificial flowers, and gaudy scarves hung on the walls. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

I wished he’d stop calling it that—we weren’t bath­rooms. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

There was a man who distilled his own wine three rooms down—he used mess hall rice and canned apricot juice—they heard him weeping late on their third night while his wife threatened him. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

They'd booked four rooms at the most expensive hotel they could get on short notice. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

It was good there: no gangs, a movie every day, four-man rooms with the doors unlocked during the day, no COs per se. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was small, though, so they agreed to stay in a pair of rooms on the third floor that were used only for storage. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Two rooms near Briony’s had been dusted down, new curtains had been hung and furniture carried in from other rooms. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

They would routinely watch movies together in one of their hotel rooms but never invite me. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

“Take her to her rooms and clean her up.” Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Summer was the busiest time for the business, with so many people leaving, fleeing the swamp heat, wanting these rooms or that porch painted while they were away. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Without any fear I went inside and looked around the smoke-filled rooms. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

It would like a new family to run through its massive halls, children to climb on the grand staircase, mothers to chide them and fathers to play hide-and-seek through the many rooms. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

A few hours before my hosts are scheduled to return, I pack up and head down to Twin Lakes, where—no big surprise—I find out that all the second-story rooms have been taken. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Eventually all the children slept on the second floor, and a maid, and later a governess, Dorus and Anna putting up walls to divide already small rooms into smaller ones. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

“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

She gave herself a little shake and, smiling again, said, “Have I seen all the rooms?” Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

I prefer it here in the mostly unconsidered rooms of the basement, the stone walls rough-hewn, damp, ill lighted like any memory. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some collectors had special wooden cabinets made to display their treasures, while some filled entire rooms. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The hallway is echoing with songs from other people’s private rooms. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

There were only four real rooms in the Lapham house, the two bedrooms on the second floor, the kitchen and the workshop on the first. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Next to the reading room, near the center of the house, there were six rooms where the saboteurs slept. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

It was white, with two rooms and a swaybacked roof. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Rotting wooden doors hung off rusted hinges, and there were half-collapsed rooms filled with moldering tables and chairs. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

When they moved to their present home, with its ten rooms, her parents chose different bedrooms for the first time. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

She walked through the rooms, but encountered no hints to explain the fate of either Lena or Grandpa. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

I tried three rooms before I found the Object’s. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

One side of that entrance was stone — a large tan stone fireplace that was open to both rooms. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

She had a contractor paint the rooms the colors of sweet peas and corn on the cob. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

Inside were three rooms, each about ten feet by ten feet, facing onto the front porch. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Before he retires to his own rooms, a suite three times the size of his flat, Marco quietly returns to the library. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

They’d had to take rooms in an inn so Maester Kedry could tuck him into a feather bed and feed him broths and potions until some pink returned to his cheeks. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Inside, the white paint still smelled fresh in the common spaces, dining rooms, and bunk rooms. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

The festival holding cell was a mobile office with three rooms closed off from one another that ran the length of the trailer. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Now, I figured that the built-up gas in most boys’ locker rooms was enough to cause an explosion, so I wasn’t surprised when the flaming dodgeball ignited a huge WHOOOOOOOM! The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

There had been a bad flood in the town six months before, and the park’s staff was still busy mopping out, repainting, and carrying furnishings, artifacts, and displays down from upstairs storage rooms. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

He made himself baked beans on toast and sat at the kitchen table wondering about the best order to look through the downstairs rooms. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

We decided to get rooms at a hotel for about a month so we can figure things out, like how to buy stocks and invest wisely. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

They were more concerned with price—it should be affordable—and that it have the number of rooms they needed, including a study for Charles, as well as quarters for servants. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

I have a hunch there might be no actual rooms at all, that when you walk into the “audition studio,” it’s actually just a direct drop-off to the street below. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

There was an inexplicable amount of dust everywhere and the rooms were musty as though they hadn't been aired for many days. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

Then Johnny ran out and got the morning American and read the news to her, with running comments, while she cleaned up their rooms. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Somebody rented the two rooms in the yellow house,” she said, saliva flying out from between her front teeth. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

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

Stray snowflakes seem to drift through the rooms, blown through gaps in the walls. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

The woman, her head forward and bent, suddenly padded out from her back rooms in thickly socked feet and stood waiting for me, silent. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

The invocation, coupled with the slow journey through the dim rooms, aroused in him a sense of foreboding. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Hey, come on, Gloria. I just got into town—be nice to us. How about some rooms for us, a couple of lodgers with good jobs?” Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

They propped the door open as they left, and came out into the hall, which shone dully under the light from the open rooms. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Burgerton would come into their rooms while they were sleeping and flip them back over on their stomachs. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

As it was, she spent the night in one of the guest rooms, paying full price, although Mistress Cutler pretended for a moment that she couldn’t possibly take payment from an old and valued employee. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

The night before we left the house, that last time, I was walking through the rooms. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

Inside the closed rooms, the air was still. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

They were big comfortable rooms that reminded me a little of the rooms in the Weylin house. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

Thus I was only nominally depressed when I peered inside several damp houses known to contain student rooms. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

Between classes I drink cups of coffee with them and eat doughnuts, sitting in various common rooms and butteries and coffee shops. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Standing at the fitting rooms and facing toward the main store entrance, we are looking directly at the tentlike, utilitarian plus sizes, also known as “woman” sizes. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

In some of the rooms the red stone walls would seem to drip blood, and nowhere could she find a window. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Finn looked in his and Emma’s and Chess’s rooms, but Rocket was nowhere in sight. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Just as she had finished, she heard the sound of carriages outside, and she went downstairs to meet Lady Isobel and her daughters in their rooms. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Afternoon arrived: Mrs. Fairfax assumed her best black satin gown, her gloves, and her gold watch; for it was her part to receive the company,—to conduct the ladies to their rooms, &c. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

Fry’s rooms were in the west wing of the building, not very far from where the senators and representatives met. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

Hildy wins the bickering and Francia shows me and Viola to separate small rooms next to each other one floor up. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

Women received theirs in their own rooms and were kept separated from the men to protect their reputations. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Montoya was glad to see us, and shook hands and gave us good rooms looking out on the square, and then we washed and cleaned up and went down-stairs in the dining-room for lunch. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

The house has seven bedrooms, five bathrooms, three sitting rooms, and two kitchens. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

A compelling need for occasional privacy led them to spend some hours alone in their separate rooms, without disturbance. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

‘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

There I was an interloper, wandering in rooms that did not know me, sitting at a desk and in a chair that was not mine. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

They make a living selling their mushrooms to brokers who set up shop in motel rooms near the forests. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

She paced the rooms, the phone an extension of her arm. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

“It’s got the only rooms to let on the island.” Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

Deep in the heart of the Bell Institute is a maze of windowless rooms called, rather grandly, the Institute of Cereal Technology. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Matt was hurried down dingy hallways and past doorways that opened into rooms both cramped and gloomy. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

At first he could get nowhere, in rooms where the proprietress would enter during the best moments of love and make all sorts of comments about the intimate charms of the protagonists. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

But he’d looked for Dorian in his rooms, and he hadn’t been there, and he needed to tell him that things weren’t as they’d seemed when he walked in on them earlier. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Two bunches of teenagers, one group black and the other white, seem to share adjoining rooms. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

That first apartment was three rooms, for a hundred dollars a month, I think, in the front basement of a house on 147th Street between Convent and St. Nicholas Avenues. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

I sit where I can watch the nurses’ station and, beyond that, a couple of hospital rooms. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

The interior had high ceilings and many rooms. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

My dinner invitations were often turned down, as were my invitations for movie nights in our hotel rooms or sightseeing when we arrived in a new city. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Clara’s retinue was gradually pushed into the back rooms of the house, and an invisible border arose between the parts of the house occupied by Esteban Trueba and those occupied by his wife. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Erudite dormitory is one of the larger sleeping rooms in Amity headquarters. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

And won’t give you a smile, mope in their rooms, don’t wash their hair, the smell. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

She’s ready to read the last few verses when in comes the nurse from Kerry shouting at her, shouting at me, I told ye there was to be no talking between rooms. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Black men, women, and children suffering with everything from dementia and tuberculosis to “nervousness,” “lack of self-confidence,” and epilepsy were packed into every conceivable space, including windowless basement rooms and barred-in porches. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

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

The Nairobi Hilton, some suite of high-ceilinged rooms in Cairo or Khartoum: these are the places his people recall when gathered at a common table. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

Luke saw lights on in some of the rooms some of the time, in other rooms as the day wore on. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

He had bad memories of some of those rooms. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Though they cared enough to kick everyone out when the former employees tried to bunk down in the once-plush rooms and make use of the supplies and heat. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

“If we set foot in there, they’ll throw us in those cobwebby rooms and lock the doors.” Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

Her rooms were so silent that the music seemed obtrusive. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

There were only five rooms in the house, and the bathroom just barely counted. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

“We are now going underground! All the most important rooms in my factory are deep down below the surface!” Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z

Small fires burned in the charred shell of two rooms. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

“Yes, but how else are we going to open up and maintain all these extra rooms? We’ll need the space, we can’t go stacking family up three to a room like a tenement.” Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

After some time in his buddies' rooms sitting in clusters, guys and their dates, Rudy and I migrated to his room. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

“There’s business I can be getting on with while you say your goodbyes. I’ll get rooms for us at the Motel America. Meet me there when you’re done.” American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

I discovered several small stone rooms with heavy wooden doors and tables inside. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

She would lurch out of dark corners; houses with crazy girls have locked rooms and drawn curtains. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some are complete rooms, others are bits of exterior architecture or elaborate archways and halls. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

By two o’clock in the afternoon the fire had consumed the old drawing rooms that had been used since colonial times, and only a handful of men were left around the President. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the grey tea hour there were always rooms that throbbed incessantly with this low sweet fever, while fresh faces drifted here and there like rose petals blown by the sad horns around the floor. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

They were lost inside the dream, no awareness of the real—of rooms or beds or moths or brows. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Upstairs I showed her not only my room but all the rooms and each time she said, “Uh-huh.” Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

And we could put stuff in those rooms we don’t want to think about. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Even in chat rooms, where it was totally pointless. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Freddie let us in the back door that led straight to the locker rooms, dug out some practice equipment, and we were out on the ice in no time. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Judging from the empty corridors and rooms, even the crew had run. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

Not that at times he didn’t see some reason for her complaints— King’s had two combination rooms, one for men, the other for women, certainly a thing of the past. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

As we crossed the great hall on the way to our rooms I realised for the first time how the house lent itself to the occasion, and how beautiful the rooms were looking. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

From Sarai’s vantage point, she beheld two private pools of suffering so close together they were nearly adjacent—like the connecting rooms with the shut door between them. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

It was rumored that in some rooms nothing was left at all. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Even though they had to crowd the other rooms, none of the young women would sleep in it. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her mother also rummaged in the kitchen or walked like some midnight apparition through the empty rooms. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Water ran in forgotten bathtubs, poured out into living rooms, onto porches, and down through little garden plots to feed neglected flowers. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s still dim enough that these spotlights continue to follow us around, but a bit of light reaches us from all the great big rooms blocked off by dark red curtains. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

"All the rooms have gone by now," he said. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

She showed Amari how to walk with a limp and look with a vacant, stupid stare to make sure the soldiers would pass her by when they looked for women to come to their rooms. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fact: Many of the domiciles in Century Village do not have family rooms with desks. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

During the wake, the men wandered through the sitting rooms and hallways of the house, speaking softly of business. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Unexplored rooms hovered around them, promising rich histories and secrets. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

“Go and see Sister Caterina, Ernesto,” Ida instructed him, “and tell her from me to take the books back from the boys. She should also send them to their rooms as a punishment.” The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

There are two rooms in Kazi’s cottage, a front room with a small kitchen, and a little table with two chairs in the middle. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

They were delighted with the renovation and decorations of their rooms; with the new drapery, and fresh carpets, and rich tinted china vases: they expressed their gratification ungrudgingly. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

The vending machines were empty and unplugged, and to our dismay even the rest rooms were locked. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

“If you wish to open up the rooms I will have it done,” she said, “you have only to tell me. The rooms are all furnished, and can be used.” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

This new shack, like the old one, had two rooms and measured something like fifteen by fifteen feet, and overlooked the same unlit, unpaved, potholed street. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

The camp’s wash rooms—one for boys, one for girls—were about as glamorous as an outhouse. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

“This year’s summer program has already begun. The kids’ll already be assigned to rooms by now.” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

There were no private rooms, and patients were separated by flimsy plywood dividers. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

At the last few parties the excited gossip in the powder rooms has been that at present the house is vacant. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I went through all the upstairs rooms, then up to the attic. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Chess couldn’t keep the rooms straight—maybe Ms. Morales and Natalie had so many bedrooms that they could each use a different room every night of the week if they wanted. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

So when the TV went off at ten, we all went back to our rooms. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Bright yellow, hawking me in the cafeteria, the hallways, even the locker rooms. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

By midmorning I arrive at the infirmary, an abandoned concrete warehouse with moldy, crumbling walls and open spaces for rooms. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He told Sergeant Klages to explore the building, to make sure that there were no more live monkeys in any rooms. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

That afternoon, in New York City, Nixon joined his family in a suite of rooms on the thirty-fifth floor of a Manhattan hotel. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Then there had been the ride in the cab, the time in the waiting and examination rooms, and the ride up in the elevator. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

In two adjoining rooms, there are MRI machines. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

"Those who do not think it is of general interest may leave the table and go to their rooms,” Dad said coldly, "and I understand there is apple pie for dessert.” Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

Chuck had to drag Thomas out of his sleeping bag in the morning, drag him to the showers, and drag him to the dressing rooms. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

I've been in enough other dorm rooms to know what to do. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

We listen to the radio for twenty minutes, and then we drive back to his house and find his parents in separate rooms pretending as if nothing happened. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

The Wojtkiewicz house was a neatly built log cabin with four small rooms. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

My desk lamp, shining on a piece of scratch paper, is the only light on in all one hundred rooms of this building. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Jon’s apartment over the luggage store is long and narrow and smells of acrylic and used socks, and has only two rooms plus the bathroom. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

I was supposed to put the right vases at the right beds in the right rooms. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

Also, there are gun rooms and trophy rooms, a billiard room and a smoking room, two libraries, innumerable retiring and drawing rooms, etc. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

Massive hotels, with up to 250 rooms, sprang up in every glen. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Some broke from the mass and charged the double doors that led to the treatment rooms. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

Wang Lung stopped, struck by the thought of children running in and out of their three rooms. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

But even as the Captain of the Guard walked to his rooms, he couldn’t shake the feeling that Duke Perrington had been watching him, too. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

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

There is a target across the room, more sophisticated than the wooden-board target in the Dauntless training rooms. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

His two rooms were furnished only with an upright piano, a straight chair, a small table and an unmade double bed. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Chatlink sessions worked differently from chat rooms, and they were a lot more expensive to host. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

To hear his valet Prideful tell it, James confined his erotic energies to specialized rooms in a New Orleans establishment. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

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

Her rooms are modest in comparison to others hidden behind the circus tents, but they are filled with books and well-worn furniture. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

There’s no way I’m going to let him into our rooms. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

By closing off the rest of the house I kept those two rooms warm enough—really warm, except for a couple of very cold days. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

She saw right away what was happening and she took me to one of the visitation rooms, away from everybody. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

As Jillson had explained, the children were free to leave their lights and televisions on “all night long,” if they chose, provided their rooms were dark by ten o’clock. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

There were an infinite number of halls and rooms and stairways, and he needed to find the one that would get him to Koffi fastest—without being caught. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

She lived in an old three-story, rundown plantation house with morning rooms and sun rooms, and porches wrapped around every floor. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

But after learning about the fate of those rebels, the princess was spending most of her time in her rooms, and had declined Celaena’s repeated offers to go for walks. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

With the absence of Úrsula, with the invisible presence of Melquíades, who continued his stealthy shuffling through the rooms, the house seemed enormous and empty. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

I poke through the rooms looking for Sheila, the developmentally delayed girl I usually play with. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

We slept upstairs in small rooms with dormer ceilings. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

I needed something to do until people started to come out of their dorm rooms. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

She had an apartment over in town, and Gerald had one there too, besides his rooms in college. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

I think of the scrape I heard in the hallway after I left her rooms this morning. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

The fever of restoration finally brought her to the forgotten rooms. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Knowing that the children would be left alone locked in the rooms, she decided to keep them company. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Do you think we’d miss your birthday? We’re staying the night! We got a couple of rooms at the Sleepy Inn. We thought you’d like a real bed for once. A splurge.” A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

The corridor dumps them out into a cavernous atrium, rooms sprawling out in each direction. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

I could see part of that brochure from where I sat: fresh-faced girls playing lacrosse, or cuddled in thick wool cardigans sipping cocoa in rooms filled with leather-bound books. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

He turned down some rooms as too big and others as too small, before settling on the attic story of a crematorium—a cavernous space larger than others he’d rejected as too big. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

In our wing there is only one night sister, perhaps she has something to do in one of the other rooms. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

The guests entering through the grand archway were being shepherded into rooms off the rotunda in small groups to be searched for weapons. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

I wondered for a minute if it was a public day and she was showing the rooms. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

During the late 1930s she was heard in living rooms across America as a popular radio performer, appearing on such widely listened-to programs as The General Motors Hour and The Ford Hour. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

Blanca watched them piling up in the rooms and was astonished by their shapes. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Generally, it was late in the evening after I got back to my rooms that I tried to puzzle out the mystery of the bases. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

Turner went into all the rooms on the first floor, his hands held out in front of him to feel anything he couldn’t see. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

They will enter through the basement doorway and make their way up the back steps to the lower tower rooms. The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z

With all of those thousands upon thousands of “angry revolutionists,” so few stayed over that the next morning the Washington hotel association reported a costly loss in empty rooms. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

The guests sit facing them in folding metal chairs; the accordion wall between two windowless banquet rooms, with dropped ceilings, has been opened up to expand the space. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Also, there were two double-bedded rooms,—“such as they were,” the landlord said. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

“Nico, you can’t miss every meal. If you don’t want to stay with Hermes, maybe they can make an exception and put you in the Big House. There’ve got plenty of rooms.” The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

Interior rooms were now visible, like a broken dollhouse. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

In the other rooms of the house her parents and Rafik were wrapped in their deepest, dreamiest breaths by now. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

The walls and rooms might change, but what was on and in them didn’t. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

As I walked down the hall, I saw people sitting in rooms reading books and talking quietly together, doing math problems, or sitting in the library. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

But also many houses where nothing was cooking, where no one was laughing or even talking, dark rooms full of weary faces and scroungy dogs. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

He could see his own breath as he walked through the empty rooms to the kitchen. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

The judge’s was the one with the narrowest entrance passage and only two rooms beside the burial chamber. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

“Since we can’t learn everything about the Italian Renaissance today, let’s learn everything about the Egyptian rooms. That will be our lesson instead.” From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, behind my fearless facade, little brother, I am regularly scared witless by all manner of things. But how stupid of us. Why on earth didn't we just swap rooms?” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

Paul Singh was sitting on a windowsill by the changing rooms, his hands deep in his pockets, thinking dark thoughts. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

That was why none of them slept at the house when they visited the town and the four who had stayed lived in rented rooms at Úrsula’s insistence. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

There were twelve monkey rooms in the monkey house, and they were designated by the letters A through L. Two of the monkeys that arrived on October 4 were dead in their crates. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

But as soon as the data were checked he would drop by Griffith’s rooms to set him straight. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

Originally the two rooms had been the master bedroom, but when they’d moved in, Papi had built a dividing wall, so that the boys and the girls each got a small bedroom. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

They will knock down the wall between the living and dining rooms, put an island in the kitchen, track lights overhead. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

She took me through the dormitory, the laundry, the supply rooms, and the dining hall—now set and waiting for the food to be delivered from the central commissary. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

Anyone visiting the sheriff’s office, three underfurnished, overcrowded rooms on the third floor of the county courthouse, could detect an odd, almost sinister atmosphere. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

Father Jack had provided Farmer and other financially strapped students with small rooms in the rectory. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

“I thought we had the only rooms in town.” Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

Their homes are worth an average of $400,000, twice the national average, and they have nearly twice as many rooms as the average house. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

Skeleton frames of steel beds, most with no mattress, filled the rooms. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“In what order you keep these rooms, Mrs. Fairfax!” said I. “No dust, no canvas coverings: except that the air feels chilly, one would think they were inhabited daily.” Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

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

Aureliano Segundo had come across him by chance as he protested in broken Spanish because there were no rooms at the Hotel Jacob, and as he frequently did with strangers, he took him home. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

He shared a room with another man—there were four rooms per housing unit. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

At Cambridge she came to his rooms once with a New Zealand girl in glasses and someone from her school, when there was a friend of his from Downing there. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

The hostel itself was tiny, and all but two of its half-dozen rooms were taken. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

The Sixers gave gunters a common enemy, and Sixer bashing was a favorite pastime in our forums and chat rooms. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Hierarchies exist everywhere, but especially in locker rooms. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

He attempts to glance past me into the depths of the rooms and I move to block his view. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Her room was contaminated with blood, and there was also the question of the two nuns’ rooms, both of which were still locked and bloodstained. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Azareen lived in a set of rooms above a bakery in Windfall—the district so named for the plums that fell on it from the trees of the gods. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Celaena waited until the sounds of his fleeing footsteps faded, then hurried back to her own rooms. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

I got quotes on airline tickets, solicited local restaurants to donate gift certificates, and my hotel even offered two rooms if she accepted our invitation. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

I’ve been the only woman, the only African American, in all sorts of rooms. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

I hated things like swimming and changing in locker rooms because I hated being so bare in front of other people. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

The books in Mo and Meggie's house were stacked under tables, on chairs, in the corners of the rooms. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

My brothers and I were so scared we didn’t even come out of our rooms. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

“I would travel in and out of the rooms where big decisions are made,” he said very seriously. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Njemile didn’t say anything when she peeled off into one of the rooms. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

“It’s a loft. See? Up there—it’s kind of open to everything down below. I hope you don’t mind. All our kids slept up there together. I’m sorry we don’t have separate rooms for you.” Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

When morning came, he was almost sorry that he had nowhere to go, no houses to paint, no rooms to paper. Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z

I walked into rooms where people were laughing, their voices hitting the walls like stones, and I simply stood still—in the midst of the riot of sound. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

What if he came to her rooms and found her missing? Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

They went further in, down a red corridor, past rooms filled with empty chairs upon which rested violins and violas and cellos which played themselves, or seemed to, when fed a coin. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

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

The Obama administration directs the nation’s schools to provide students with access to bathrooms and locker rooms that match their chosen gender identity. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

I wished we lived in one of those houses, with their large rooms and lamps instead of bare bulbs hanging from the ceiling. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

It had three rooms and no rugs, and I’d look at the single photograph she had, of a white girl she told me she looked after for twenty years over in Port Gibson. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Even Ress, one of the handsomer guards posted outside her rooms, had said so. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

He lay on the floor in one of the upper rooms, on top of a thick blanket, several other Gladers crammed in there with him, almost body to body. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

I studied the map of the tomb and the descriptions of its many rooms. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

I’m sitting in the lobby of Chief Crowe’s office, watching a whole bunch of adults rush in and out of conference rooms in preparation for my meeting with Moreau. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

“Urn, they just said the book rooms are locked,” said Akimi. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

We went in for another round of interviews, and this time, we were all separated in different rooms, with officials asking us questions individually. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

He is in one of the other rooms, and the door is closed—not a good sign. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

The rooms are on either side of that large desk area. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

So my sister and I retreated to our rooms. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

It’s out past the gym and the locker rooms, past the basketball courts and the tennis courts and the baseball diamonds. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

“I need to inspect Xavier’s body again. I’ll see you in the hall for dinner tonight,” was all Chaol said before he headed to his rooms. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

He is three or four stories below, ransacking one of the rooms; she hears what sounds like a crate of ball bearings get dumped onto the floor. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

The door to the patient rooms clicks open. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Four poultice rooms line the wall, holding the promise of healing from red clay, oakwood charcoal, amethyst gem, and blue onyx. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

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

The apartment is made up of five hot rooms—two bedrooms, one bath, a living room, and a dining room/kitchen—that feel like the inside of a tandoori oven. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The lower floor has at least another ten rooms, and only half of those rooms are furnished. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

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

“In some of the old rooms,” she said finally. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

“What else am I going to do with all these rooms? Open a bed-and-breakfast?” Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Then we would have our own kitchen, our own rooms, and she would bring our furniture from Macún. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

One of my workers swears the head cook can turn himself into a monkey and steal things from the guest rooms. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The large front chambers I thought especially grand: and some of the third-storey rooms, though dark and low, were interesting from their air of antiquity. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

I remember this well, because that was the soap we were issued for laundry; later on, the smell of it would permeate these rooms. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

He wanted to find Chess or Emma, but when he passed their rooms, he could see that his brother and sister were still motionless lumps in their beds. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

It was in those motel rooms that I learned about my new body, its specific instructions and contraindications. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

The nursery was a suite of sunny rooms on the third floor of the house, where the children would be “safely out of the way,” as Mrs. Clarke put it. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

She smiled to herself, picking at her nails as they entered the hallway that led to her rooms. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

The “Mexican wing” of Crockett High School, which was really five dank and crowded basement rooms that no white student ever entered. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

I was told to vacate my rooms before nightfall. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Their argument had been carrying on for days, until the house was too preoccupied with the influx of new people into its rooms to pay attention. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

Helene heads for the largest of the empty training rooms, launching an attack the second I’m through the door. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Carpenter reported his competition’s clients to the police, broke into dissection rooms to mutilate their deliveries. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

He pushed her down, ran out the door that separated the rooms, and held it shut with his hands. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

“There are pieces in other rooms but this is the majority of the collection.” The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

He shut the drawing rooms and used only the library and his bedroom. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Most of the scholars didn’t even know it was there, but the librarians did, because they used it as a shortcut between the stacks and the reading rooms in the base of the tower. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Let’s see—I’ve got to visualize a museum . . . and rooms . . . and lovely paintings. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

We thought it best that he should stay in his own rooms; and we left him on the landing outside his door, holding a light over the stair-rail to light us downstairs. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

Early testing, including with the Mercury 7 men, had taken place in dark rooms with a chair and table for two to three hours. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z

Those big, empty rooms with no peoples and the lipsticked napkins and the leftover smell of perfume gave me chills. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

They wandered back to the rooms of fine French and English furniture. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Your rooms are up the staircase to the north wing; this is the southern staircase." The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

‘Now let me show you to your rooms,’ said Mr Joseph Hooper. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

Lords and councillors met in secret in the king’s state rooms until late at night and argued openly in the great hall. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

He could feel the cold, golden gaze of the trophy pigeon two rooms away. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

The jail has several holding cells, rooms with concrete benches and iron doors. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Everybody was headed to the second floor and the Dewey decimal rooms. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

Nothing much had changed in more than a year, although the rooms seemed smaller and more cluttered. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

It was as if all of Cange were one of those waiting rooms, he thought. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

How many other rooms by ourselves have we walked into since that day—even if they weren’t real rooms and we didn’t know that’s what we were doing? Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Every Friday and Saturday night our two tiny rooms were packed with migrant workers, menial labourers and garbage collectors, buying drinks till well past midnight. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

We all go off to our respective rooms, Poe winking at me and Will before ducking inside. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

He holds up the pink calendar they sent around to all the rooms with the daily specials down at the cafeteria. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

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

In the past week, he and Zachary had retired to other rooms to do something, anything, else. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Right now nothing in here matches, since our old rooms had completely different styles. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

Like our home in Narewka, it had only two rooms, a bedroom and a living room, but the living area in this apartment was much larger than in our previous home. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

They stood in the hallway near the boys' locker rooms. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

He carried his photographs down a long hallway, went downstairs and through a security door, swiping his id card across a sensor, and entered a warren of rooms. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The long strip of a building had nine rooms, side by side, with doors that led out onto a narrow veranda. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

His hair was damp and he smelled of the strong soap in the schoolhouse locker rooms. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Those she cannot manage to turn she covers with sheets so they sit like ghosts in empty rooms. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

And Eril-Fane, it was his fate to see his bride led down the sinister corridor—door after door of little rooms with nothing in them but beds—and finally, Isagol’s calculus failed. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

The rest rooms were locked, and there were square overhead lights. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some of the tidiest nurses on the ward lived in stews in their own rooms, and she would not have been surprised to see a new version of Cecilia’s old chaos. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

He would be tucked into a crib at naptime, when the big rooms lights were dimmed. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Charlie doesn’t say anything, but I know he’s scared by the way he keeps looking around the corners of the other rooms as we reach the top of each flight. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

A lot of the workers were from the States and one of the perks of the job was that they were given hotel rooms to live in. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

When people could not find or afford apartments, they sought rooms in private homes and boardinghouses, where typically the rent included meals. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

They invited Cade and me in to have supper and spend the night in one of their guest rooms. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

The rooms were acrawl with the small cleaning animals, all rubber and metal. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

One by one the lovers tried out all the abandoned rooms, and finally chose an improvised nest in the depths of the basement. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Ministry of Truth contained, it was said, three thousand rooms above ground level, and corresponding ramifications below. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

I mean Gryffindor rooms are all well and good but the trouble with red is—it is said to send you a little mad—not that I’m casting aspersions . Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z

Music playing from the different rooms mingles unpleasantly in Gogol’s ears. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

I continue down the hallway and find identical rooms, but no stasis pods. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Every faction is supposed to have holding rooms for those who make trouble, but I’ve never been in one before. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

On the ride home, I thought about how even our brains have rooms. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

His guest rooms began to fill with women, most quite young and apparently unused to living alone. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Home, home—a few small rooms, stiflingly over-inhabited by a man, by a periodically teeming woman, by a rabble of boys and girls of all ages. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

The other students were either in their rooms studying or watching television, but the moment class was dismissed Sticky had led his friends up here, just over the top of the hill beyond the gym. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

The subjects and the class times are exactly the same as in Lake Windsor Middle, but the rooms and the people are completely different. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

There are black-and-white pictures of my great-grandparents in several rooms of the house. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

“Why do we have to go rushing on past all these lovely rooms?” Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z

The house had four bedrooms—the master bedroom on the first floor and the kids’ rooms upstairs. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Folks would already be sniggering about those separate rooms. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

It was better they wait for the war to end, rather than have their wedding in this house with its sullen rooms and moldy kitchen. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

He built quarters within the park where they received three large meals a day and slept in clean beds and well-heated rooms. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

They spend a few weekends taking the shuttle bus to Ikea and filling up the rooms: imitation Noguchi lamps, a black sectional sofa, kilim and flokati carpets, a blond wood platform bed. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Dr. Isaacson said to the staff, “I won’t be of much use to you now,” and she got a bucket and mop and washed the rooms. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some of the rooms are barren except for the drawings and corkboards all over the walls. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Day after day she did one thing after another, until the three rooms seemed clean and almost prosperous. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

Dany had only meant their rooms in Illyrio's estate, no true home surely, though all they had, but her brother did not want to hear that. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Each Hasidic sect had its own house of worship—shtibblach, they were called—most of them badly lighted, musty rooms, with benches or chairs crowded together and with windows that seemed always to be closed. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

He got a flashlight and circled around through these dark rooms. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Around him the house seemed huge, with rooms above and beneath him that he had never entered. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

Their rooms were cozy and he moved happily about, making conversation with Carl. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Still, that night, and the night after, we slept in separate rooms. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Laughter always rang out in Aunty Ifeoma’s house, and no matter where the laughter came from, it bounced around all the walls, all the rooms. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

Waiting for us outside the cafeteria is a row of ten rooms. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

Instead she started walking all through the rooms, just shaking her head at the way Grandma and I kept things. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

A short tunnel through the earth behind the block connected the two rooms. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

And you could have one of the rooms, Mexico.” We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

“He sounds rich. And lonely. I bet he does these broadcasts from a huge mansion, big as this whole colony, a house with a thousand rooms and a thousand servants.” All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

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

They also had access to a living room, and they ate together at four tables in one of the dining rooms. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

The rooms were deserted, the curtains drawn, the furniture covered in white sheets so that each shadowy chamber they passed looked like some kind of forgotten seascape cluttered with icebergs. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

All the rooms in the house are ready. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Our dining room, like many dining rooms, is set up to represent a world where people dine together. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The whites frequently walk into colored rest rooms, Scotch-tape these notices to the wall. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Our two rooms were crowded, but at least it was all in the family. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

As she walks slowly through the rooms it irks her that there are dirty dishes stacked in the kitchen, that the bed has not been made. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Only the servants used this stair, for the fourth floor held only servants’ quarters, storage closets for linens and out-of-season clothes, sewing rooms, and so forth. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

I should be able to smuggle a good CD into one of those rooms somehow. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The roof a series of glass plates above the science and art rooms. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

A few calls confirm my impression that winter housing for the poor consists of motel rooms that the more affluent fill up in the summer. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

I perched on the side of the tub and thought how glad I was August and June were still in their rooms. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

This hard shot took the women’s breath away and drove them quaking to their rooms, as though knives were behind: they felt he spoke the truth. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Forty rooms with forty shelves and forty bulbs." The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“Speaking of locker rooms, I have to head down to practice.” Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

“We all have our secrets—though I’m curious why you’re so closely watched by that captain and locked in your rooms at night. If I were a fool, I’d say they’re afraid of you.” Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

And the barn, and all the rooms of the house. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

He gathered everything into his flat leather satchel and made his way upstairs to his rooms. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The tunnel ends with three separate entrances to rooms—all of them small and transparent like Mom’s greenhouse. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Those who were aficionados could always get rooms even when the hotel was full. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

He found peepholes in the wall but saw only empty rooms with chairs and tables beyond. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

To drive her up out of bed in the dark of midnight, to slip barefoot into the corridor between their rooms, and to deliver her, trembling, to Kaede. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

They open the doors to all the rooms, figure out right away which one is mine, and then go in. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He offered to fill a room twenty- two feet by seventeen feet full of gold objects—and two equivalent rooms with silver—in exchange for his freedom. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

The empty hall outside our room stretches to the other empty rooms of the empty apartment. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

The other female students and I ran from our rooms and into the hall. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

At the town's main inn, however, I was informed all the rooms were occupied on account of a local agricultural fair. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

From there, we passed through a series of rooms crowded with machinery and crates. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

She shows me a wide range of photos of rooms ranging from fancy to simple, elaborate to plain, ugly to beautiful. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

I had a sudden rather terrifying impulse to creep upstairs now to the west wing and go into those rooms and see for myself. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

With no place to work but their own rooms, it wasn’t long, of course, until their families knew the girls were making Egyptian costumes. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Newsome Park Community Center boasted a kitchen and banquet space, rooms for craft courses and club meetings, basketball and tennis courts, and a baseball diamond for the semipro Newsome Park Dodgers. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

He knew they were shining through the windows of rooms, that they were the red, blue, and yellow lights that twinkled from trees in places where families created and kept memories, where they celebrated love. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

During the first year, teachers had been volunteers; equipment had been makeshift; classes were scattered all over camp, in mess halls, recreation rooms, wherever we could be squeezed in. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

His “apartment” is a sprawling warren of twenty-two rooms on the northwest side of the palace closest to the Orangery. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

In the basements of these buildings, rooms were refitted into airtight chambers where victims were gassed to death with carbon monoxide. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

He opened the wooden door to his rooms, peeling off his clothing as he headed to the bathing room. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

We’re supposed to use the locker rooms inside to change into our pajamas. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

It sounded like that instrumental old-folks stuff played in doctor’s office waiting rooms. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

By the fourth floor, things are piled everywhere, in the rooms and corridors and along the staircase: baskets of what must be machine parts, shoe boxes loaded with screws, antique dollhouses built by her great-grandfather. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

In the following weeks, the infection entered Rooms I, F, E, and D, and the animals in these rooms virtually all died. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

A few rooms away, while his baby grandaunt snored, Estha awoke. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

This must have originally been several rooms, but the walls had been removed from most of the first floor to create one wide space. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

I went down the long halls, down the wide stairs, through the rooms to the bar. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

And since some of Crosby’s rooms abutted ours, he was an obvious person to interview. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

The Owner didn’t know it then, but in just one short week, all eight rooms would be filled. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

“You couldn’t just go sleep somewhere else? Aren’t there a thousand rooms in that house?” Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

I pick my way through what used to be the hotel—the kitchen, hallways, guest rooms. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

"I must check that your rooms are secure before you retire. New protocol after those dead roses were found in your bathing chamber." The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

The lodge was modern and very warm, with an open lobby dominated by a stone fireplace, and the sort of anonymously comfortable rooms you would find in a Holiday Inn. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

She and June took the meals that Rosaleen cooked to their rooms. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Riverbanks, hillsides, the cool sloped rooms under the pine trees—China provides her soldiers with meeting places enough. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

I spun about and tore back through the rooms I’d entered, into the garden. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

She told them about the Seattle rooms she had cleaned, the sheets on which white men had vomited blood, the toilets full of their excrement, the stench of their alcohol and sweat. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

It lay on its side in such a way that the solid parts of the block formed a roof and a floor, both waterproof, and the hollows made two spacious rooms. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

With all her moths divided among so few rooms, she was able to study each person from multiple vantage points and take in every detail of them. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

The whole place had a ghostly, unoccupied look; and some of the rooms had nothing in them at all. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

It was up three flights of stone steps to Lord Ramsay’s bedchamber, one of the rooms the fires had touched but lightly. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The big man was waiting in their rooms on the second floor. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Officers had laid claim to most of the rooms in likely inns; others were taken by the wealthier of Loyalists come in from the countryside. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

Uniformed maids entered rooms carrying tea services on silver trays. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

No one knew why Mr. Tomony lived in the rooms above the shop—a man with his money. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

They had clothes and blankets and pillows from the upstairs rooms and they fitted themselves out in new attire, the boy’s trousers cut to length with his knife. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

She had to get away before he came out into the corridor, perhaps to go to one of the locked rest rooms. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

He brought back chunks of driftwood, and he would pass long hours sitting on the steps carving myrtle limbs into benches, table legs, and lamps, filling our rooms with bits of gnarled, polished furniture. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

They traded words, their shouts echoing through the tiny rooms. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

There are two spacious rooms, flaking plaster walls, scuffed parquet floors, towering stacks of boxes he has not yet bothered to unpack. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

There were five bedrooms in the house, and two were “special rooms,” where you could go do bong hits or score an E tab. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

What remained were enormous rooms with high ceilings, and a chandelier that reflected the light like a thousand mirrors. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

After a long day in the city, we finally returned to our hotel rooms. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

“One hundred twenty-four thousand hotels rooms, actually. Sounds like a whole lot of people had the same idea.” Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

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

Our apartment is built like a train, narrow in the front with rooms extending out to the back. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She pointed at a sign up on the wall that listed the prices for rooms in red ink. Louisiana's Way Home 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

“I added some extra guards around her rooms.” Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

After the festivity the rooms had a bare, ruined look. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Still, there were not enough rooms to accommodate the waves of migrants that continued to flood in. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

And now that he wasn’t allowed in rooms with uncovered windows, he’d be a skeleton in the dark. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

Her entrances into rooms were usually verbal as well as physical. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

Right now there was far too much to do, especially given all the work that lay ahead to complete the hotel and furnish each of its rooms in time for the world’s fair. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

There was a gas ring in the fender, and a shelf where food was kept, and on the landing outside there was a brown earthenware sink, common to several rooms. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

And my absence would mean more sunlight in their living rooms and fewer acorns underfoot. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

But a warm spring wind was blowing across Boston Common, and at the hotel Mr. Popper had to have the ice brought up to his rooms in thousand-pound cakes. Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z

The minute the sun went down, the temperature in the stone rooms plummeted. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Students left their rooms unlocked, their bikes casually kickstanded outside buildings, their gold earrings unattended on the sink in the dorm bathrooms. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

"I have had rooms prepared, and you'll find no lack of hot water to wash off the dust of the road. I hope you will honor us at table tonight." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“You told me to stay in my rooms the other night. And those scars look like bite marks. They say Verin and Xavier were killed by animals.” Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

They threaded through wrecked cargo rooms, climbing over jumbled trash to reach the doors that were now upside down and above them. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

Nehemia had long since returned to her own rooms, tears dried and shoulders squared once more. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

“Not in his own rooms,” Bernard summed up. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nobody was certain how many rooms Major de Coverley had rented, not even the stout black-bodiced woman in corsets on the first floor from whom he had rented them. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

“Uncle and I are so sorry. But don’t worry, you girls will get your rooms back this afternoon.” Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

A few of the residents shuffled from their rooms, drawn by Nana’s annoyed tone. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

“Stairs and dark rooms. There were swords hung on the wall, and spears and shields, like a museum. And I saw the young man. He was...dancing.” The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

As the rooms, and the terraces, and the pool deck began to fill with partiers, Rowan began to rise from the funk he had been left in after his awful bout with Citra. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Down below, in the engineering rooms, where mechanical systems controlled the ship, they found more bodies. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

They watched the gaslights go dim in several rooms, indicating that the occupants were settling in for the night. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ebola had risen in these rooms, flashed its colors, fed, and subsided into the forest. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She pictured them together, in dark sepulchral rooms with heavy velvet drapes, discussing theology. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Go ahead, look in side. Search the rooms.” The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

I finished with the tables and was told to go down to several rooms at the end of the building for a physical. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

“During the first weeks she boarded at a distance, but later, from about the 1st of March until the 15th of May, 1893, she occupied rooms in the same building and adjoining my offices.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Jim and I spooned out what we wanted and we took it to our respective rooms. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

The blinds were closed and in the darkened rooms there was the smell of dust. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

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

Without another word, we returned to our rooms, Dad and I. We got dressed. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

There were only two rooms in the place altogether, and there was only one bed. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z

I went down the hallway, peeking into dark rooms. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

She studied the drawings they had made and noticed one of the sleeping rooms had a tall loft in it. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

Those rooms stayed the same from month to month and felt more like home to me than any of the places Nan and I’d actually lived. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

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

She led me up the stairs to a small set of rooms, dimly lit, but clean-smelling and orderly. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

If someone mentions the Cottages today, I think of easy-going days drifting in and out of each other’s rooms, the languid way the afternoon would fold into evening then into night. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some family with an immense house—one floor, thirty-four or -five rooms around a Spanish-style courtyard—had invited soldiers from Fort Bliss to come for a Christmas party and dinner. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

There was a full day’s work to be done before noon, when the deadly heat drove everyone back into our big shuttered house and we lay down in the dim high-ceilinged rooms like sweating victims. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

Some thirty people were left in the building, holding out in the drawing rooms on the second floor. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had had dreams as a child, dreams every child had, of the witch who chased him down dark alleys, between lawn trees, and finally into rooms from which he could not escape. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Unlike the rooms at the inn, this one was furnished with many chairs and tables instead of beds. Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z

The rooms don't look dirty to me, and I hate that Ma is making this assumption. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

He spotted Mr. Rizzo in his biology room, but as Rashid had suspected, most of the math and science rooms were clean, perfectly organized, and completely empty at the moment. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Then she came back to the phone and said that yesterday soldiers had gone to the small, nondescript rooms that served as the offices of the Standard. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

The first floor had two rooms and a kitchen. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t long before Paul’s staff had to expand its office from a basement room to ten rooms on two floors. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

This was a signal that they were “engaged,” meaning they were currently on phone calls, browsing the Web, or logged into chat rooms. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

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

The school’s policy, in order to discourage smoking, was to make these rooms as depressing as possible. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

She couldn’t remember which direction the rooms were in. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

Daniel chooses one of the smallest rooms, but it’s still big. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

I looked around a bit, and there were so many rooms that I wondered if the apartment’s inside was bigger than its outside. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

I was still wondering why I tried to be quiet when I walked past his rooms. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

There are several floors with rooms full of twenty-somethings—some twenty-five hundred in all—working the phones. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

Coven houses had luxurious guest rooms with showers and any kind of beauty treatment or ointment you could want for their members. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

Often, when perplexed, I longed to be like the smiling, lazy, forgetful black boys in the noisy hotel locker rooms, with no torrential conflicts to resolve. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The rooms have many windows that catch the wind. It’s clean, and they have French physicians.” Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Rows of benches and chairs lined the walls of the front rooms. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Even when Celia was asleep—and she fell asleep easily after long hours cooking at the Big House—the rooms felt full of her warm presence. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Only once the rooms were bare did they make their move. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

The castle itself had 120 rooms—including a ballroom and a piano room. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

It was still about three weeks ahead of the inauguration, which meant that we had to make temporary arrangements, renting rooms on the top floor of the Hay-Adams hotel in the center of the city. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

I was really fascinated as I prowled through the dark, partitioned rooms of the exhibits. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Yes, sir. I left him at his rooms and came to drive you down. He wishes to see you." Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her mother, drugged by Dr. Cuevas, was asleep, and her brothers and sisters and the servants were already in their rooms. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was expensive to have huge cakes of ice brought up to their hotel rooms, to cool the penguins. Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z

The rooms, piled above each other like roughhousing siblings, faced a trash heap. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

I could go on for days and days about everything I saw in his palace, but the meanest rooms there, which were assigned to the scrubdragons, were worthy of human emperors. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now, 60,000 Japanese Americans were returning to their former communities on the west coast and being put into trailer camps, Quonset huts, back rooms of private homes, church social halls, anywhere they could fit. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

“My father spent his boyhood here,” he went on, “before the new palace was built. He says there’s a secret passage somewhere. It’s rumored to start in one of the rooms on this story.” Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

Papa is trying to find us a bigger flat so we can have more rooms and furniture, but I kind of like it here now. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Every house-lantern has been lit—morning, dusk, and night ones—every chaise and chair fluffed, every door opened to expose the currant red and fuchsia and rich butter yellow of the rooms beyond. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

“I come to the rooms and dust them myself every day,” she said. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

I walked around and around the house, pausing here and there to picture my mother in the various rooms. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

It usually took half an hour to find all the books, then we would divide them up and go into separate rooms to “do school.” Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“People have got to get rid of dining rooms. Every one of us.” Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

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

They never knew about the two-room flats and sleeping rooms he rented, the weekly money orders sent home, the currency exchange. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was not locked in any rooms, nor were any daggers held to my throat. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

Green was everywhere, in different shades, like a huge, brilliant, gorgeous version of the overlapping carpets back in the rooms of Ember. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

My bedroom began to take on the appearance of all rooms when the owner goes away. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Most of the Institute students spent the hour before supper playing in the gym, or else watching television in their rooms, but the Mysterious Benedict Society had wanted a little time to themselves. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

“People have panic rooms all the time,” Ms. Morales said stiffly. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Then Wang Lung, remembering his anger against his son, said sharply, “Well, and what is it to you? I will not have him in these rooms at his age.” The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

We were dumb to think we could keep it going the way we did, even underground, even when we’d moved everything out of the office and into people’s cellars and back rooms. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

Meals were served in their rooms, and the clients were carefully screened. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

It was just one in a warren of such rooms that had been partitioned off in a converted coal storage basement. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Some were ordinary bedrooms; others had no windows and were fitted with doors that made the rooms airtight. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

And a nice man was in one of the rooms and he had some wite cards with ink spilld all over them. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

I spent half my time wandering the halls, asking people directions to rooms they’d never heard of. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

For me, the importance of all this was that I began to realize that the large chocolate companies actually did possess inventing rooms and they took their inventing very seriously. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

It has fourteen rooms, most of which are shuttered during the winter months. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

It was not: the rooms of the old house rang on winter nights with male cheer, and occasionally a shotgun would be let off, not in anger but in excessive high spirits. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Or it’s a commerce of imagined dreads, the Bethlehem housewives somehow convinced that a distant, black Communist devil will cost them some quarter in their color-matched living rooms. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I didn’t forget to cover the holders, and I wind the clock and air the rooms every day. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

Girls like Jenna step out of dressing rooms, and people gasp and applaud. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

Now everything in the house scares her: the creaking stairs, shuttered windows, empty rooms. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Kaede had the impression that additional wings had been added at random, creating a maze of connecting rooms that opened here and there into sky wells and broader courtyards. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

On the campus, students emerged from the mustiness of Suzzallo Library and the dankness of their rented rooms, blinked warily, and looked about for a place to stretch out on a patch of grass. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Even during my second Cambridge year, when I moved into rooms on the R staircase of Clare’s Memorial Court, my boycott of college food continued. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

To me, it seems like a lot of rooms for three people. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

He begins walking around the house, looking it over in a new light: the Stonehenge walls, the Klimt tilework, the open rooms. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

His rich voice rang out, a rippling stream of energy across the wire between their rooms. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Theodora went back into her own room and, with the sense of movement and sound in the two rooms, Eleanor felt more cheerful. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

They were both unhappy with their room-mates and decided to share rooms together, which they did in the friendliest way for the next 20 years. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

Max’s parents split up before he was bom and his mother cleans motel rooms for minimum wage. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

They put on white coats and surgical masks, and the two men walked down a long cinder-block corridor lined on both sides with steel doors leading to monkey rooms. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had, since the whipping, seemed in a perpetual irritation, glowering around the rooms, leaving company often, saying he wished to ascertain whether matter still subsisted in his chamber. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

His house had never seemed so enormous to me as it did that night when we hunted through the great rooms for cigarettes. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

His apartment was three rooms: a front room, a middle room with a kitchenette, and a back room. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Mother had gone back in the house, where we could hear her strange, tireless industry moving upon the empty rooms. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was exactly the same lamp that was in all the rooms at the ranch when I was a child. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

One, two, three rooms—she counted them as if delighted. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“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

You could see it all from both rooms. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

We stand outside one of the rooms I'd noticed earlier, the ones with clear glass windows. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

I wrote to Winnie in Brandfort that I hoped the voting might have for a moment turned her humble shack into a castle, making its tiny rooms as grand as the ballroom at Windsor. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He must be in Carhart’s rooms if he hasn’t gone back home.” A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

The wide passages made our house feel like a hotel, as did the impersonal smell of doors kept locked most of the year, of unused bathrooms and kitchens and toilets, of uninhabited rooms. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

“The house was big,” he said, “but I only lived in two rooms.” Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

But not even the living people who crowded his rooms could have prevented what came next. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

A world so different from our square rooms, with iron bars on every window, and lines of barbed wire that pierce our sky. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

The front rooms were filled with piles of blankets and bedding, a few stacked mattresses, and a number of unidentifiable gray plastic tubs. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

When we were little and we wanted to sneak out of our rooms late at night, we'd leave each other notes with that word etched into them, and Du Barry's exact location. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

“We need those stupid rooms to solve your stupid puzzle! Clunker Cards stink. This game stinks. Fourteen-hour penalties stink.” Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

The two suspects were placed in separate rooms and left to stir. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

He waved for me to follow him into one of the three rooms, where he set down my stuff. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

They stopped at the hallway crossroads where they would part ways to their separate rooms. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

The neat living room at 432 Proudfoot Avenue was much like all the other living rooms in Stillwater, except that the walls were hung with pictures from the National Geographic Magazine. Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z

In the four thousand rooms of the Centre the four thousand electric clocks simultaneously struck four. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was nothing in any of the rooms to show that they had ever been lived in by anyone. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then all three climbed the stairs to one of the hotel rooms. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Then, two weeks after the incident with the bloody glove, something frightening happened in the Ebola rooms. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The red-haired boy laughed and led me into one of the rooms. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The farthest rooms in the house were allocated to Jean’s mania for photography. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

One of the smaller sitting rooms had been cleared for him and his wife and four assistants, one of whom was fanning him with a gilded fan although the air conditioner was on. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

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

There was a door that led to the back monkey rooms. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She begged her mom to let her do her room over, so we all ended up with new rooms. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

By this time, the rooms were vastly different from what I had found them, and I enjoyed the honour of occupying a few prominent pages in the books of a neighbouring upholsterer. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

Like all the King’s House this room was high, red, old, bare, with a musty chill on the air as if the drafts blew in not from other rooms but from other centuries. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

Papa and Mama were in one of the small living rooms that led off the main living room downstairs. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

She tensed as she stepped down, waiting for a single sound that would send her springing back to her rooms. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

I was a child of the South Side, now raising daughters who slept in rooms designed by a high-end interior decorator and who could custom order their breakfast from a chef. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

She tried not to look at him as she paced the rooms, but the parrot saw her and squawked a weak “Love you” through the pane. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nights when relatives visited and the front rooms were warmed by Spanish sounds, I slipped quietly out of the house. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Over the last three and a half weeks she’d been in nineteen different hotel suites, each with no fewer than three rooms, and one with six. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

It’s small With two rooms Of books, a globe That I once Dropped, some maps Of the United States and Mexico, And a fish tank with A blue fish that Is always making jeta. Neighborhood Odes 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Or else he would simply run in the opposite direction, dodging down corridors, go into other rooms and hide, putting Hooper off the scent, waiting. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

Others came as work crews from Coxsackie to vacuum and dust the lounges or clean up the filthy rest rooms. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The surrounding building had commercial offices, an immense banquet hall, and a hotel with four hundred luxurious rooms. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

“We’ve got more rooms than we know what to do with.” Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

It was a small apartment, only four rooms, but there was enough stuff in it to fill twenty. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

What Stella really wanted to know was what the rooms looked like—the books, the desks, even the pictures the Mountain View teachers posted on their walls. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Above it, a hundred to each floor, were the seven thousand rooms used by Solidarity Groups for their fortnight services. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Inside, the rooms were sumptuous, as befitted the first foreign delegation ever welcomed beyond the Cusp. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Then I retired to my rooms where I slept like a dead man, lost in the vastness of my new feather bed. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Joseph was sure he heard voices in other rooms again and footsteps above him, and then the sound of bells returned. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Safer tells me that even though it looks like a messy bunch of sticks, the nest has three different areas, almost like little rooms. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

In its many rooms, the men read their odes, or played the violin, or performed their philosophical exercises. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

We can break into the rooms with crowbars and lockpicks and get everyone out. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

With feet that entered rooms before she did. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

I have to work in the laundry rooms tomorrow. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

The facade had been torn down, revealing the inner rooms like a dollhouse. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

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

He’ll paint landscapes, still lifes, scenes of cafes at night, furniture, rooms, flowering trees, flowers—he is about to begin painting his favorite again, sunflowers. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

He was not in any of the lower rooms; he was not in the yard, the stables, or the grounds. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

She thought of her small chamber in that great stony Academy, and her parents’ luxurious Cathair home, where she had entire assortments of rooms to herself, but she did not miss them. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Later, the doctors designed gas chambers camouflaged as shower rooms that held from fifteen to twenty victims at a time. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

There are waiting rooms on almost every floor. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

He discovered a number of workers from the editorial and composing rooms still in the building. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

Finally, she couldn’t stand it any more, and sneaked into the sick rooms to visit us. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

It's possible that some of the rooms were occupied by regular people, down on their luck, but my wing was full of the broken, and I was at home among them. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Some roamed the rooms, reading comments aloud over people’s shoulders, calling to others. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The ball took place in the fair’s Natatorium, a large building on the Midway devoted to swimming and bathing and equipped with a ballroom and banquet rooms. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

The outside rooms had not been improved or upgraded. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The front rooms and hallway of the house were full of furniture, chairs and desks stacked on tables and couches. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

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

“What do I know about adding on rooms, Ma?” our grandmother said innocently. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

Our home has two rooms, one for cooking, one for sleeping. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

Charles watched as in drawing rooms and scientific clubs all over the British Empire, in newspapers and journals around the English-speaking world, people argued about the book. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the summer of 1838, in his rented rooms on Great Marlborough Street, London, Charles Darwin drew a line down the middle of a piece of scrap paper. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were talking about rooms and everything, but nobody said where Mama’s gonna sleep. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

After the first time, washing up in the bathroom, she’d been horrified by what she’d done, at the sight of her clothes scattered throughout the two rooms. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

We just needed to help get them into those rooms. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

They sat Anna and me in separate rooms and asked yet more questions that I don’t remember. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

The closer we got to the locker rooms, the louder his humming grew. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

They would find rooms in some village where no one would ask questions. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

The bunk rooms and showers become icy; for lighting, the caretaker resorts to torches and candles. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Twice he had to duck into rooms and hide when he spotted Underlanders. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

The hotels are all in competition to see who can get their guests from their rooms to the casino faster. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

In the half hour before lights-out, after cocoa, the girls would be in and out of each other’s rooms, sitting on their beds writing letters home, or to sweethearts. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

“Yes, plainly: I often hear her: she sews in one of these rooms. Sometimes Leah is with her; they are frequently noisy together.” Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

The detective division of the Las Vegas City Jail contains two interrogation rooms—fluorescent- lighted chambers measuring ten by twelve, with walls and ceilings of celotex. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

I could imagine her tramping through the rooms, perhaps paying sixpence for admission, ripping the quietude with her sharp, staccato laugh. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

As she and the other types were about to get dressed, Isis asked if she could switch rooms with Cora. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Fearfully, she felt her way through the unfamiliar rooms in her nightgown and bare feet. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

It reminded me of how it used to be, back when we slept in our rooms and there was family pictures on the wall. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

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

The bookstore was now a hodgepodge of rooms that spanned nearly a whole block. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

There would be the interest of seeing to their rooms, having flowers and books put, arranging the food. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

“He had the former servants’ quarters renovated to keep as his private rooms because he enjoys the view. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

“My dad and I have the upstairs rooms,” I said. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

I am reluctant to leave, but I am supposed to work in the laundry rooms, and I don’t want the Amity to say I’m not fulfilling my part of the deal they offered us. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

The first time, almost everything rotted, and the stench issued forth from the locked rooms, spreading through the house and seeping out into the neighborhood. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

A time when her parents did not sleep in separate rooms. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

In Block 28 we doubled our living space—four rooms for the twelve of us. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Kids, let me show you to your rooms.” Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

In the new house, the woman lived in the two small rooms behind the kitchen pantry. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Was it his imagination or did he hear whispering in other rooms, footsteps walking back and forth, and the clip-clop of horses on the street outside? The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

The air, mingled with that of other rooms, was not fresh. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

All of their rooms were on the dexter side of the citadel. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

He glanced into the rooms on either side. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

More effective, although unpremeditated, were the obstacles erected by the four little boys, Fred, Dan, Jack, and Bob, who kept running in and out of the rooms where the older girls were entertaining their callers. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It looks very nice. Clean linen in all the rooms. A bit spartan.” Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

And she kept getting calls from top govern- ment and military officials in Washington asking about hotel rooms in the area. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

I hurry back into the rooms, pushing past Katherine and grabbing the cavalry sword and my sickles. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

The cabin had three small rooms with an outhouse in back. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The rooms of the main castle—which he could see from the windows—were mostly small, because people can’t afford to build for luxury when they are making a fortification. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

So we try to be discreet and go out one by one, so it doesn’t look like we know each other but are just separate people staying in the hotel rooms on the lower floors. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

Curious faces peek from rooms, and whispered conversations follow us around corners. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

It encompassed not only the vast archives, but the university, too, together with laboratories and glasshouses, medical theaters and music rooms, and even a celestial observatory. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

They've reserved two rooms for the week at the Saint James Paris, an exclusive château hotel. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The other families retreated to their rooms to see what had been taken and what was left. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

Instructions—everything they wanted—if they would like to go to their rooms?...dinner would be at eight o'clock... And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

All the Insomnia Con students had been given rooms in the same dorm, so it wasn't hard to figure out where she would be. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

When I had completed my tasks, Mr. 13-04 and I set out for his rooms. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

So I went down to Quincey and took him into the breakfast-room, where the blinds were not drawn down, and which was a little more cheerful, or rather less cheerless, than the other rooms. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

And inside her, that rich house with all its doors open and all its rooms lit stood waiting, quiet, expectant. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

I’ve walked into many rooms and stood on stages where it was clear people didn’t know what to make of me. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Maybe that was why so many of the rooms were closed off. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

I want to go with him, but I can’t because it’s sort of illegal that we’re staying in their rooms with them, as they would have to pay more. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

Nervous, feeling as if I’d stumbled on the scene of a crime, I searched the rooms quickly, my footsteps ringing loud in the silence. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

“I hear there’s a bunch of snakes in the cellar,” the first policeman said.“And the floorboards are rotten in some of the rooms.” The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

The boys’ rooms were deserted, drawers opened, rifled through. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

And what am I supposed to do with these old thighs now, just walk up and down these rooms? Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Sedulously, he had once avoided the clusters of boys who haunted the locker rooms with their salient, knowledgeable talk in which his finely honed sense of morality denied him participation. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“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

I'd imagine I was James Bond meeting beautiful older women at the roulette tables and walking arm in arm up to their rooms where something dangerously exotic might happen. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

Bail out, dress the dead, pay the rent, find new rooms, start a school, storm an office, take up collections, rout the block and keep their eyes on all the children. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was when Big Ma lifted herself up and out of her comfy chair that we knew she wasn’t just fussing with us, and we scooted back to our rooms. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

They return to the Parker House with a multitude of packages in tow, stopping by their rooms for hardly enough time to sit before Elizabeth comes to take them down to dinner. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Housework was not enough; there were only two rooms, and no yard to keep or move about in. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

In these rooms, she played the part her clients wanted to see—the powerful Grisha, serene in her knowledge. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

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

They added more rooms as the family grew to include twelve children: nine girls and three boys. Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal 2001-01-17T00:00:00Z

There was a quiet sort of desperation in his voice as he addressed his six fellow team members in the chilly locker rooms on the edge of the darkening Quidditch field. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

Damp with condensation, the brick walls appeared to palpitate in the lantern light, thrumming with the resounding force of the steam-powered engines and machinery in the rooms above. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

We went in: two rooms, one a sort of storehouse for grain, the other for everything else. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

She responds with tales from her childhood spent in back rooms of theaters. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

The owner of the inn kept three rooms on his top floor for transients, which he rented to girls for two-week periods. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

The bricks are stacked into pyramids inside ovens as big as rooms. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

With nearly eight hundred rooms and a vast, monolithic façade overlooking the Thames, the Cecil was Europe’s largest, if not grandest, hotel—a site typically reserved for diplomatic or national events. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

She held her arms around herself, and when Turner looked back at her, her eyes were large as she looked into the rooms off the hallway. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

She moved her mouth from the phone and said to my father, “Indians stay in the back rooms.” Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

“If you’d been willing to spend the money, sir, we could have had separate rooms. Weren’t you lucky there were two berths on the boat!” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

One night as Kathy and I lay upstairs pretending to be asleep—we sometimes snuck over to each other’s rooms— we heard a tremendous boom! followed by cursing and swearing. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Celaena raised an eyebrow, and then, despite herself, smiled as he left the room as quickly as his feet could go without running, tripping slightly in the doorway as he staggered into the rooms beyond. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

They splurge on their children’s sports and tutoring and piano lessons and deny them computers and televisions in their rooms and cellphones. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

Compared to our airy house that rose above the village streets, the castle rooms felt close, dark, and damp. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

There are balconies, gabled roofs, a large kitchen, four bathrooms, two sitting rooms. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Yes, we were packed like sardines into too few rooms, but those rooms were in normal apartment buildings. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

Living rooms glowed with new television sets, and home telephones—from the phone company, not the mine—appeared on little tables. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

In their rooms at the great Tower Hotel, overlooking Central Park, the penguins were feeling the heat badly. Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z

I was given three rooms, and a separate toilet, with one room to be used for sleeping, one across the hall for studying, and another for exercise. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Actually, can we use one of the treatment rooms?" The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

So we were not in one of the private rooms. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

They could just go right to their rooms. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

Coaches loved silent, frowning boys in the nervous air of locker rooms before games. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z