She’s a tall, slender woman with light hair and dark roots, and she always makes me feel welcome. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

“One time Mrs. Moss pulled me off my top bunk by the hair, and a bunch of it was yanked out by the roots! Then she kicked me while I was on the floor.” Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

I emptied my root beer can into a plastic cup and watched the foam threaten to spill over. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

Or maybe root just didn’t work like that. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

The walls were ten feet high and made of supplies from his root cellar—sacks of grain, cases of ammunition, drums of honey. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

As they came onto the hillside they thought of how the roots of it were deep, deeper than the sea, reaching down even to the old, blind, secret fires at the world’s core. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

I look at the bushes, the clods of dirt hanging from their roots, and catch my breath as the word rose registers. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

“I can’t believe that guy bought us the root beer,” Irene said, chewing hard, attempting a bubble; but it was too early, and she barely made one the size of a quarter. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

Their sheep killed hedges, snipped valleys bare, and their pigs nosed up the very roots of what might have grown. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

In that place, where they tore the nightshade and black* berry patches from their roots to make room for die Medallion City Golf Course, there was once a neighborhood. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Over the centuries it had spread like the roots of a tree under the entire surface of the world. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

And once again they headed through the woods toward the strange yellow house, swiping limbs from their path and jumping over thick roots bursting through the earth. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

I rooted again, but there was hardly anything in the pack—a map, a light sweater, a water bottle, and a packed lunch. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

A shudder ran through the tree from root to tip, and complete silence fell. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

“We were just talking about getting something rooted and growing in the front yard.” Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

Or maybe you know that it has other roots in the Rastafari religion. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

The Party Ponies tried to form ranks, but they staggered and giggled and they all smelled like root beer. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

It was taken down and the roots chopped up, and I think everybody in town took some home to boil for sassafras tea. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

She wrapped her arms around Bo and gently stroked his hair, which was already growing blonde at the roots. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

Listen: you’ve got to root it out, laugh last, push past, pursue. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Darkness hung from the canopy like black curtains, and as Tanin’s eyes adjusted, she picked her way among sprawling roots and rotting logs until she reached a clearing. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Genie wondered how “concerned” Grandpop really was, hiking through the trees like that, occasionally tripping over ground roots that Crab couldn’t kick away. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

She poked the soil with her knife until she found the dirty, thick root of the plant. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

Carefully, I ease its roots out of the plastic cup it came in. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

We work side by side, using flat-bottomed trowels and occasionally shears to cut the vines and roots that weave through the blanket of dirt. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

And this is by no means all they do: their burrows aerate the soil, keep it well drained, and aid the penetration of plant roots. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

So every day I filled an old coffee can two or three times and watered around the roots of the bush, moistening the earth until it became spongy. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

They will send roots down as far as six feet into the soil. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

The firemen take the root cellar door off the hinges. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

It was an admission of her desire, a revealing of it, and it surprised her to the root of her being. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Others stretch wide and deep into the ground, their roots seeming like legs and feet. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

The roots of this flower are very good if you boil them long enough to remove the peppery taste. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

I uncovered the thick, whitish root, forked like a man’s legs. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

I wanted to run away so I didn't have to watch, but I felt like my feet were rooted in concrete. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

Still others had fallen against nearby trees, or crashed to the ground, popping up root systems. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

It was being tom up by the roots. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

He took Big Ma’s hand from her mouth and said, “Ophelia, go down in the root cellar.” Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

I turned around and stood there rooted in my spot. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

I remembered the feel of her mouth that day in the hayloft, the taste of her gum and the root beer we’d been drinking. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

When I go to visit I always find her out in her walled garden with her hands sunk into the mulch, kneading the roots of her camellias. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Maybe the roots are edible. The flowers, though. The flowers are poisonous.” The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

I seemed rooted to the spot by a terrifying fear of the unknown. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

We turn the buckets upside down inside the root cellar. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

At its psychological nub, Washington’s inveterate realism was rooted in his commitment to control, over himself and over any and all events with the power to determine his fate. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

Standing on a cluster of roots is Johanna Reyes, her hair falling over the scarred half of her face. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Still, it seems safest to guard the secret of my roots. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

They are coiled around with a lattice of roots, which sometimes form the shapes of cages, sometimes balconies, and sometimes what appear more like tightropes. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

She yanks another weed free, its thin roots wilting in her grasp. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Below her feet was a tangle of vines and roots, and she had to be careful where she stepped if she wanted to avoid a turned ankle or wrenched knee. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

Presently, I hear the leather hinges on the door of the root cellar squeak as Alice goes in. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

They collected an additional four thousand crates of pond lily roots, which Olmsted’s men quickly planted, only to watch most of the roots succumb to the ever-changing levels of the lake. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

But Calvin will want to be in the root cellar. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

On the way back to town we stopped off at a drive-in burger joint and had a root beer. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

He walked out of the compound, to the street, and looked through the plants on the roadside until he saw the rumpled leaves close to the root of a whistling pine. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Her ghost hearts beat like real ones, and her cheeks flushed—all the habits of her living body taking root in her phantom one. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

The Space Needle looks like a flying saucer with ivory legs rooted in the ground. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Her hair is dyed an orangey color, with gray-brown roots showing. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lee said softly, “Couldn’t a world be built around accepted truth? Couldn’t some pains and insanities be rooted out if the causes were known?” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Yes, but nice rotten apples. Taste it back along your tongue toward the roots.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Father kind of sat there blinking, what with all the roots and shoots. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instead, tree roots crossed the path, half-hidden by the mossy undergrowth. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Elnora and I ministered to her with the juice of bitter roots and crushed flowers to purge her foul humors and ease the pains in her head. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Trees and sun and bushes and roots, squirrels and bugs and snakes. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

Trying to find his way out, Bilbo went on down to the roots of the mountains, until he could go no further. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

As much as I was ready to leave, and no matter what some folks thought of me, I knew my roots were in Texas. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is at the root of a good deal of prejudice and discrimination. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

He stood rooted, pressed against the cool side of the mossy mausoleum, afraid even to move. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Avoiding the gigantic coils, he walked quickly and quietly over to where the sword hung from the tree roots on the cave wall. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

She had not stirred once, even with her body draped awkwardly over the roots of an old oak. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

He questioned Strawberry about the great burrow and learned that its ceiling, as well as being vaulted with a tangle of fibers, was strengthened by roots going vertically down into the floor. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ultima and I continued to search for plants and roots in the hills. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

He grabbed a fistful of my hair, a large clump, his grip fixed near the root to give him greater leverage, and dragged me into the bathroom. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The last root of the world-tree goes to a spring in the home of the gods, to Asgard, where the Aesir make their home. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

Two huge pigs are asleep in their pen, and two sheep are rooting around in the weeds by the tree where they’re tied. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

In spite of himself, he felt an undeniable sense of relief as she slowly made her way to him, stepping over brambles and tree roots. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

From the inside walls of the house, she lifted down her careful bundles of roots, her bags of berries and dried, crumbled leaves, and long curls of inner bark of certain trees. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

So old a boat that it had taken root. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The ground was uneven, with roots protruding from the forest floor, and when she reached out to steady herself on a nearby tree trunk she felt something move beneath her fingers. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Just look at them. They both have roots and a head.” The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

He poked around for a beet root and squeezed out the juice with his bare hand. The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z

He could not react in any other way to the chin pat, for the roots of this signal lay deep in wolf history. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

I found the crack again, wiggling my first finger inside to see if it would hold the root bag. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

And we know we can use it to draw the great aurochs and the dead man on the root cellar walls. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

Now, there was only the thick, greenish-brown carpet of foliage, the sticks and twigs and sinewy roots of the trees, like ropes coming up out of the ground. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

In that long minute, a small fear rooted inside him, and had stayed with him ever since. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

In my neighborhood alone, hundreds upon hundreds of us are weaving our roots into the soil like knitters on a mission. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

The boys who had made it this far were rugged and optimistic in a way that seemed emblematic of their western roots. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Now it stored cookies, cases of wine, potato chips, root vegetables, seltzer. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

Here the roots of the trees seemed to claw at the sandy soil like the brown knuckles of clenched fists. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

We eat the tuna fish sandwiches Mrs. Allen packed for us and drink root beer as the sunset shoots fire across the treetops. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

The breeze catches her hair as she roots for her car keys. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

Perhaps we have overrated roots as a psychic need. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

I made a note to bring in some ashtrays and then I rooted through the wastepaper basket for a few empty cans. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

You have to save every piece of flesh and give it a name and bury it near the roots of a tree so that the world won’t fall apart around you. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

Tiny roots crept up between the cracks of the marble stones. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

Like all good shooters, the pattern of Bull’s shooting did not deviate; in fact it was unconscious, buried in instinct, and rooted in long hours of boyhood practice. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was still rattled from seeing Mom, the unexpectedness of coming across her, the sight of her rooting happily through the Dumpster. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

"I think I'll get a pepperoni pizza and a large root beer," said Stanley. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

Let me spell out precisely what I mean by that, for the heart of the matter is here, and the root of my dispute with my country. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

My adoration of Mr. Muhammad grew, in the sense of the Latin root word adorare. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“While you gaze at the sea,” I said, “I dig roots. And it is I who will eat them and you who will not.” Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

On our side of the pond there’s a strip of sandy beach, but the far side has a steep, scooped-out bank, tangled with bushes and the roots of trees. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Do not think my brains are squeezed shut, like the ram’s, by the roots of horns. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And tea. Make sure you drink plenty of dandelion root tea,” she says. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“These roots seem to like demigods,” Frank noted. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

As they watched, a flash of fire appeared at the root of one wisp, and then the smoke thickened. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

I hadn't realized how deeply rooted and wide-ranging it was. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Harry tipped the powdered beetles into his cauldron and started cutting up his ginger roots. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

I wanted to stretch my roots just a tiny bit farther before the night was through. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

He sailed down the path, dodging roots, whooping and laughing. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Now, run and get our lunches from the fridge. And don’t forget our favorite root beers.” Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

Out here in the forests, in the mountains, in the villages, they are supposed to be pulling up disorder by the root. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

"If we knew that, then she could be rooted out and destroyed. Witchophiles all over the world have spent their lives trying to discover the secret Headquarters of The Grand High Witch." The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

In no time, I find the pack, a neat pile of roots beside it. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

She handed me a plant, which had a clump of dirt and roots at the base. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

“For your information, I happen to know that that little book she carried all around the whole house with her yesterday is at the whole root of this whole business.” Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

It all happened so fast that we just stood there, rooted to the ground. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

So I jerked the fearsome root from the earth. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

I know a thing or two about roots. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

But I knew that with time they would put down roots, just like so many other families from so many other places. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Both he and Wanda had roots in Nigeria, and many of Moss’s mother’s friends joked that Reverend Okonjo could have been her father in another life. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

“This,” Mr. Lyford whispered, “is a rooting. And you, HASS-in, have found a fresh one. Yes, a hog has been here recently. Now, we track it.” An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

Doc slammed his fist down on his worktable, making the roots and herbs inside the jars rattle. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

“If we could find a strong heather root,” said Agravaine, “we could tie her pigtails together, round the other side of it.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

The roof’s all tree roots, you know, and of course the tree outside keeps the rain from coming through. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Neither he nor his mother realizes it, but this kernel of an idea will take root. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Finally and most important, I told those gathered in the church that Walter had taught me that mercy is just when it is rooted in hopefulness and freely given. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Five minutes later roots and fruits were abolished; the flower of the present rosily blossomed. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some children’s singing games have their roots in circle dances, while others reflect social traditions of courtship and marriage, friendship, overcoming childhood fears, or just expressing the fun and merriment of childhood. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

I mince groosling until it's practically mush and mash some of Rue's roots. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

When the fish hit he jerked them out quickly so they wouldn’t get tangled up in roots and dead branches. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

She handed it over to him and he unshackled his wrists as she rooted around in a box she’d brought over. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

But the roots seem to suddenly be springing up everywhere. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

We had gone to gather roots that grow there in the spring. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Spellbound, his visitors remained rooted to the floor. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

A fisherman had about a tenth of a second, before the trout shot into sunken branches, logs, weeds, and roots, to horse it out of the stream. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

As was customary in their nineteen years of marriage, he left the grits on his plate untouched, an unexpressed but articulate declaration, rooted in geography, that the society he married into had not assimilated him. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I use a brush to paint the roots of Sophia's hair with the golden color. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

Sometimes it felt like Mom and Jess were as rooted here as the old trees. I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z

“I agree with Elihu. A Loyal New York cuts off New England from the other colonies. The rebellion will wither like a vine cut off at the roots.” Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was cleanshaven, sunburned, nervous, gnarled like the roots of the trees; but gnarled and mature with weather and poetry rather than with age, for he was scarcely thirty years old. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

We have eaten everything that is edible, from rotten leaves on the ground to the roots we dig up. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

When she wasn’t packing water, she was out digging prickly-pear roots and hammering them to mush in a sack, then binding the mush to my leg for a poultice. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

The prince also had blood covering his own hands, and he saw a bloodied knife on the grass beside them, resting against the roots of the tree. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

“First things first. Y’all two need to look out for each other when you’re working roots. Don’t let Jezebel go off by herself, Jay.” Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Yet I have not forgotten where my roots started. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

She was good for nothing, and should have been left to take root. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

“You know, the strongest part of a tree is the root, and if you expose the root, the tree dies. Why, we have many ‘invisible’ members, of all types. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

I spied a door, its bottom half covered in thick roots and thorny vines, and my spirits sank. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

From there, Tenskwatawa and others traveled throughout Shawnee country, calling on Shawnees to return to their traditional religions and cultural roots. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

I lower a baby orange tree into a hole, and my partner shovels the dirt back over the root ball. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

As the papacy lost its hold on its flock, the Catholic Church tried to reject zero and the void more strongly than ever, yet zero had already taken root. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Right now her sister, Angeline, was digging at the ground near spruce trees and cutting lengths of the roots, used to secure the house better and to finish baskets. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

By hoarding this small stock of food, she could make it last a long time, and with the berries and edible roots she could find in the woods, she wouldn’t starve. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Used to be a notion that witches killed folks with the blood from this root,” Mr. Chris said. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

I think as I roast the birds and Rue's roots. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Wild garlic grew around the exposed tree roots, giving off a thick stench. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

“The workers trap rats when they don’t satisfy me enough to get fed. Some of the grass roots are said to be tasty. I wouldn’t know.” The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Great trees passed by like ghosts, thrusting their twisted thirsty roots through the mist down into the water. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

The rush of energy buzzed through me and settled in the roots of my teeth. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

“That all you two are getting?” he asked, and lifted his chin toward the sweating bottle of root beer tight in my hand. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

Dayi Jamsheed parked the SUV under the shade of a gigantic walnut tree that hung over the street and thrust its roots beneath the cracking sidewalk. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

It had a scarlet root, as bright as blood, so that was where it got its name. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

My parents stared at him, both of them rooted to the spot and completely silent. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

The root word, whole, loses an e but gains a second I. Daryl ordered the wholly vegetarian refried beans. yield. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even if I had known this at that time, it would have done me no good, for they were but roots in the earth. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

The buildings seemed to have been situated to make room for giant trunks and root systems, and in the wavering torchlight, they looked almost as if they had grown out of the trees themselves. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Harry felt as if Devil’s Snare was rooting him to the spot. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

With one enormous push, she made it to the other side and ran to Thorn, who was quickly losing her grip on the root. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

I hear the latch on the root cellar door thump and close my journal. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Epidemics are, at their root, about this very process of transformation. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“If I send it back, could you send me another one? I only need fourteen hundred. For a root canal.” Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The stone is strong, Bran told himself, the roots of the trees go deep, and under the ground the Kings of Winter sit their thrones. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

After he’d said the prayer once through, he pulled the yarrow root from my head. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

And in the meeting with the starter and Langston’s coach I explain that I was just rooting for my team like everyone else does. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

“Better get up, Grandpa! Man from Athens might be here early. Boy howdy, I slept like a log! Hope I didn’t root you, sir.” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

It nibbled and licked at a crack between the stones until it dislodged some sort of greenish root. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

What are roots and how long have we had them? Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

They had to scramble up the sides of the bank here, and hold on to roots and trunks to keep balance, standing sideways and edging along. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

He knew where there were good sassafras roots in the woods; maybe he would bum some brush in the fencerows and heat a little water for sassafras tea. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

Kingshaw watched, kicking at a tree root, not knowing what to say. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

Writing in an abjectly apologetic tone, Griffith seemed genuinely sorry that he had shaken genetics by its roots. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

As the tree went over it pulled earth, balled in its roots, with it, and made a large hole back in, under the shelf of rocks. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

Victor III was far more enlightened, but his liberalism was paternalistic, rooted in noblesse oblige. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

I am grateful for the clouds that prevent the sun from wilting their leaves before they take root again and resume their growing. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Out into the moonlight where the ground boiled and there stood Mother like a tree rooted motionless in the middle of a storm. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The roots of the ceiling begin to worm, lengthening like vines and crawling across the underside of the hill. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Out in back is a homely garden that, even now, in mid-April, has root vegetables waiting to be dug—blighted potatoes and yams and tough-skinned carrots and turnips. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

They hauled up thick, juicy grass roots, knocked them against their arms to dislodge dirt, and proceeded to feed. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I believe in knowing where your roots lie. That kind of thing shapes your identity so much. I was born right here in Shaker, did you know that?” Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“You’re both going to have to remember that when we start learning root magic.” Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

As the sounds of the chase grew fainter, Jemmy crawled out of the hollow root. The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Would you care to inspect all of our clothing, James? Perhaps you’d send a man to root through the potatoes and parsnips in the cellar.” Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even Mama knew that, and she didn’t work root. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

I hang by the twisted roots of an oak, looking down into immensity. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

Here huge silver poplars towered above the cabin, their roots extending like giant claws, making the ground rough and robbing it of grass. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Today is not a day to talk back. There will be no root lessons today, but you’ll learn something all the same.” Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

“Ma don’t need any Indian roots and berries,” Big Ma said. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

I thought he felt it too, a connection, the possibility of deep friendship rooted in common experience: being afraid of the next attack, not knowing when it's coming. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

“The strongest trees are rooted in the dark places of the earth. Darkness will be your cloak, your shield, your mother’s milk. Darkness will make you strong.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Frank hadn’t been sure the roots would still smell when he changed form. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

As I sipped sweet tea and fidgeted, his Holiness rooted around in an adjacent cabinet, brought out a large, ornately decorated book, and handed it to me. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

But the differences between the number systems in the East and the West suggest something very different—that being good at math may also be rooted in a group’s culture. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

My legs were scraped from falling on the roots, and my bottom burned. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Neel kept kneeing and elbowing his way forward, steadying the flashlight as he pushed away branches and roots. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

With a start I realized that the bedposts and the legs of the chair were growing out of the floor, thick at the base like roots, and coiling together. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

We helped her pick flowers and roots that she would mix with water and rum to make perfume. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

“I didn’t think learning root was going to be so boring.” Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Write the minor chord for each root given. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

There, gently patting earth around the moist roots, she planted the woad. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

These tensions are rooted in the very same depths as those from which love springs, or murder. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

The roots were everywhere, twisting through earth and stone, closing off some passages and holding up the roofs of others. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

They collected around the Sphinx’s paws, grew roots and branches, and began wrapping around the monster’s legs. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

This also served to dye the nasty brown hairs that kept growing from the roots underneath. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

The trail was cobbled with rocks and threaded with wandering tree roots against which we constantly stubbed and stumbled, and veneered everywhere with polished ice under a thin layer of powdery snow. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

A mere ten days ago, after rooting around on the Internet for a little while, Molly located a cache of adoption registry services, narrowing her search to the one rated highest among users. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Nanny’s head and face looked like the standing roots of some old tree that had been torn away by storm. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

I had expected us to root out the exorcist within the shuls and tenements of Maxwell Street, but Frankie surprised me by hailing a carriage that took us to Chicago’s outskirts. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

It has a waterfall without water and flowers without scent and trees without roots. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

In the woods around the convent must be all manner of roots and wild berries and plants unknown in Denmark. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

She tried brewing drinks of roasted grain or roots, but her nervous system was not deceived by a beverage that resembled coffee only in appearance. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was rooted in practice and widely implemented, but it did not apply without exception to every situation. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Thunder sank his teeth into a piece of broken root and pulled it out. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

I looked around at the crowd, a smear of people rooting for their friend or son or brother or teammate. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

Their roots are deep, their stalks are firm, and only the top blossom nods in the wind. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

Our job was to dig out this tree, roots and everything, in front of a huge house that’s still under construction. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

A wind buoyed me up over the roots, the rocks, the little hills. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

After three laps I stumbled; on the fourth, I tripped over a root. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Over the North Sea in Britain’s Victorian empire, artists, writers and composers were dredging Albion’s Arthurian roots, too. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

But when its teeth met the gnarled roots and twisted branches of the scrub trees, it was a different story. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

I was now a tennis player cut off from his roots. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Don’t be modest. You’ve got ancient roots. Greek as well as Roman. It’s no wonder Juno—” He tilted his head, as if listening to a voice from above. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

His scalp was a riot of springy red hair just like Tom’s, and he kept patting it as though it might fall out if he didn’t push the roots back in. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

A thousand eyes, a hundred skins, wisdom deep as the roots of ancient trees. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Little rabbit heart leaps out of my chest and scampers across the paper, leaving bloody footprints on my roots. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

Gnarled roots laced the ground, making a kind of bed. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

He ground his teeth in frustration, grabbed a root, and pulled himself back to a sitting position. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

I want to jump up and down and root for them like I used to do at Teddy’s T-ball games when he’d be rounding third and heading for home. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

These confessions were numerous, since I had become convinced there was some sin embedded in me, a sin I was desperate to root out. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

And don’t you know, it is even darker in the root cellar. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

A mycorrhizal fungus has cells that surround or even go into the roots of a plant. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

In the kitchen, Gregor filled a glass with icy root beer and made Boots a bottle of milk. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

They slipped through the narrow paths and alleys, over jutting roots and hard-packed dirt, turning left and then right and then left again. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

I iced it for days, but it was super-stubborn, with roots so deep, they felt like they reached my skull. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

They mashed their tender pink snouts down into the slop, and rooted and grunted their satisfaction. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

And though I didn’t want to admit it, secretly I was rooting for Bodega. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

Lockton dumped a folio of papers on his desk and rooted through the mess. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

She rooted for a moment in a box and brought out a paperback called Eight Bullets, which she passed to me for examination. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Using a rake made from a stick of red willow pulled up by the roots, the two girls took turns turning the rice over and over, smoking and toasting the grains. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

There were hundreds of coquitos, weeds that had a small brown nut at the end of their roots. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

But then reflect that the vast majority of wild plants are unsuitable for obvious reasons: they are woody, they produce no edible fruit, and their leaves and roots are also inedible. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

I felt I would be visiting my own genesis, unearthing the roots of what made me an African. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The other bonobos were grooming me, probably trying to get to the root of this bizarre and virtually hairless female who’d invaded their enclosure. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

Working as lab partners, we had to separate the slides of onion root tip cells into the phases of mitosis they represented and label them accordingly. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

“To be honest, Mr. Rollins, I never planned on leaving,” I say, my legs not even shaking, rooted again on the centered x. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

"Indeed! With my plague! Half of Europe was decimated by the Black Death, forcing society to evolve! If not for that, you would still be digging for roots, a serf forever bound to your master." City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

I said, “One of our most treasured feelings concerns roots, growing up rooted in some soil or some community.” Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

Theresa explained how the Yankees had lost the Series to the Dodgers the year before; they rooted for a comeback. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maria Isabel must use the roots of a large rubber tree to step up to her mother’s tiny wooden hut, which clings to the hillside. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

The elephant tears up living trees, dragging their precious roots from the dirt they love. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

But I will not give up the root cellar. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

Opposite the bench was a statue that appeared to have been shaped out of the oak stump rooted there in the ground: a deer’s head. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

And when a seed is dropped in, it can easily germinate and take root and push its tender new leaves toward the sun and begin the marvelous process of photosynthesis. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Especially when you know the root cause of the heat is radiation. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Squirrel had stripped down to her smallclothes, and was rooting through a carved cedar chest in search of something warmer. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Once he had swallowed a good portion of the English vocabulary, he began to taste the familiar ingredients, the Greek seasoning in the roots, prefixes, and suffixes. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

I fidgeted and scribbled a drawing in my notebook, a circle of vines and roots that looked like my bracelet from Doc. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

I stumble again and with my one weak arm I cling to the huge twisted roots of an oak. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The little groups that hitherto had stood rooted to the earth like desert plants broke into dance.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Alex doesn’t speak, doesn’t move, doesn’t breathe, his feet rooted to the spot. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

On one side, Taran noticed, an alcove had been hollowed out; it was filled with roots, lichens, and mushrooms—the food stock, he guessed, of the melancholy inhabitant. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

To my left, thick roots were layered on top of one another, going up and back like stadium seating, which, I realized while looking around, was exactly what it was. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

He said the root cellar was a condemnable hazard is what. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

With the roots intact, it looked as if it had simply been felled by disease. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Now when Ekon looked into the jungle’s snarl of trees, roots, and vines, he remembered no legends. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

I even told them about the root cellar full of supplies in the wheat field, and the gasoline buried near the old barn. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

But Thomas Volpe may have believed that rooting for the Yankees made him even more American. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

He’s already worked his way through a bag of popcorn, a box of gummy bears, nachos, a root beer, and a milk shake. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z

“This should be enough,” Sticky said, grinding up the last bit of root. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

That would have been frightening enough in its own right, but the animal’s teeth weren’t what rooted Ekon to the dirt; it was the thing’s eyes. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

He swished the roots back and forth in the pond to wash off some dirt, then chomped and chewed. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

I followed the fence, and kept going, half-running, stumbling over twisted roots. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

These roots survive through the winter and then start growing new leaves in the spring. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

“Somewhere right along here,” Justin remarked, “we’re entering the woods. You’ll notice the tunnel runs a bit crooked. We had to bend it to go around tap roots—some as thick as fence posts.” Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

My teeth are so sore, I can feel their aching roots deep in my jaw. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Particularly since the civil rights legislation of the mid-1960s, the telltale signs of societal progress had finally taken root among black Americans. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

Their great roots spread from the wall to the water. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

The tangled thornbushes growing among its gnarled roots were just tall enough to hide them. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

By the time Sefia returned with a bundle of clothing, the boy had curled up between the roots of a banyan tree to wait. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Were they cold underneath all of that, chilled to the roots? Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

The scent of the oils and the roots stuck to my hands, so I smelled like the earth. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

The orange root bag I’d placed under the house hadn’t worked. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Beyond, half-seen, were other shapes: shattered spires, headless statues, trees with roots bigger than their boat. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Barrels of slimy stuff stood on the floor; jars of herbs, dried roots, and bright powders lined the walls; bundles of feathers, strings of fangs, and snarled claws hung from the ceiling. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

Winged archers take aim at the cluster of roots where the Ghost was hiding. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The thickly knotted roots and the dull shovel blade conspired against him. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

“That is, if you think you can keep up with your schoolwork and learn to work root.” Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

At other times it was as hard as a root. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

The fire had been so fierce in places that it had eaten trees down to the roots. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

The tree stopped fighting, and Lupin, too, disappeared into the gap in its roots. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

The fungus cells reach far underground and so act as a second root system for the plant. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Concepts: As a genre, we believe opera to be a classical form, complicated, and with a long tradition and heritage rooted in the European classical tradition. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

The pizza arrived shortly after he got out of the bath, and Shadow ate it, washing it down with a can of root beer. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

Everything that had infuriated her about Izzy, even before she’d taken her first breath, had been rooted in that one fear, that she might lose her. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The blue silk shawl was spread open by her feet, and she had filled it with freshly dug roots and leaves from many different plants. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

But the roots of their hate and fear were too deep, and Lazlo saw hints of revulsion as their confusion smeared one feeling into the next. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

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

That demographic shift of the last 500 years—the most massive shift on any continent except Australia—has its ultimate roots in developments between about 11,000 B.C. and A.D. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

I pull out my root beer and pop it open. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

A conviction that never came into dispute was the universally held belief that the saloon was at the root of the nation’s serious drinking problem. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

The big Chevy curved past Centennial Beach and the A&W root beer stand. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know what kind of magic created it. Burial will only allow it to take root and spring up again.” Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

The pig stopped its rooting and looked up at them. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

Money seems to be the root of all of our problems. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

Such snobbery was rooted in the fact that by the early 1980s, Everest’s easiest line—via South Col and the Southeast Ridge— had been climbed more than a hundred times. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

“You two learning from your uncle how to work the roots?” Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

His fingers dug in the leather bag and closed around the root beer can. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Calvin is making a plan about the root cellar. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

He stayed frozen, rooted to the spot as all grew silent, except for the whistling song of a few birds in the distance. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

“With all the roots and flowers and herbs around, why do you still have to use animals in some of these spells?” Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

It took him less than five seconds to eat an entire stem, and then he’d root around for more. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

Did he bring home nutritive roots and brew homeopathic teas? Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“No, no—tree roots. But, after all, you were underground all night.” Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

You ate from the ground and bought root beer and licorice in little country stores. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

As I close the root cellar door, I find a piece of paper tucked in one of the leather hinges I made from my brother Jake’s old belt. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We must kill the structures all the way to their roots,” the angels had said, “and only then will Lucille be safe.” Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

Under the thin crust of snow, the ground was damp and muddy, slick footing, with rocks and hidden roots to trip you up. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The girl—I can’t remember her name—went to a root shop in East Harlem, bought a number of herbs and roots, cooked them up, and dropped his picture into the boiling mess. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

He stumbled over one of the bulging roots, and out of habit, instinct, I reached for him and caught him. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

The jagged roots, acting as a drag, had stopped it from falling all the way into the stream. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

His evident distress at these Quaker petitions was rooted in his belief that the current debate represented a violation of that understanding. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

O’Brien had wrenched the loose tooth out by the roots. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

And then my gramps and his friend came over and put their hands on the tree and laughed to each other and my gramps’s friend said: “Told you about these roots. Look at ’em.” We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

With its purification rituals and its imperial roots, sumo is sacrosanct in a way that American sports will never be. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

Goes over branches and roots to what was the open field. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

The eighteenth century saw something of a shift of emphasis to delivery, with “elocutionism” taking root as a formal discipline on its own. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

J. G. Crowther has neatly summed up the real root of the problem, which Oldenburg fanned into flame: ‘Hooke could not understand what tact had to do with science...Newton regarded discoveries as private property’. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

A thousand eyes, a hundred skins, wisdom deep as the roots of ancient trees. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

All I have left are Rue's roots and nuts, the boy's dried fruit, and one strip of beef. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

She was certain she could check it if she could find the same roots and herbs here on the island that had grown in Maryland. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

But her legs seemed to have grown roots into the forest floor. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

In the center of the room is a tree in a giant water tank, lifted high above the floor so I can see the tangle of roots beneath it, strangely human, like nerves. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Dad’s snoring so loudly that the house is rattling and he doesn’t hear me rooting around the kitchen pantry for scented candles. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

‘Proof’ thus covers both necessary truths and practical tests, and it has the same etymological root as ‘probe’ and ‘probability’. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

My thirsty roots feel planted in the ground for the first time. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

A rabbit was on the exposed root of a tree, almost at his feet. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

Wishbone trotted beside me, stopping every now and then to sniff at a tree or root around in a pile of rotten leaves. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

“Get the champagne Richard hid in the root cellar, Mr. Henry. He said he has an important announcement to make. And everyone gets champagne!” Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

A trap: a dark trap under the roots of the silent mountain, and he was in the trap. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

He gives me a new piece of chalk and tells me to draw roots. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

As Bob tended the stew, Damasen perused his drying racks, plucking various leaves and roots. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

I ran my fingers through his hair, trying to stand it up at the roots. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Here thick black trunks crowded close together while twisted branches wove a dense canopy overhead and misshapen roots wrestled beneath the soil. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

I was in my room after lunch, reading James chapter five because I would talk about the biblical roots of the anointing of the sick during family time, when I heard the sounds. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

To the contrary, these attitudes and arguments have their roots in the struggles to end slavery and Jim Crow. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

I press myself down against a thick cluster of roots, camouflaging myself as I’ve been taught. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

So terrible was it that Frodo stood rooted, unable to cry out or to withdraw his gaze. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

But already, the horseradish lady was sitting in front of Hassler’s grinding away at her pungent roots. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Salatin reached down deep where his pigs were happily rooting and brought a handful of fresh compost right up to my nose. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

This will take us to a room hidden in the roots of the Whomping Willow. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z

In his view, it was a flawed public consensus—not merely flawed policy—that was at the root of racial oppression. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

He tripped on roots and twice ran into a tree. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

She wasn’t sure why, but something kept her rooted to the floor as the white-clad women towered over her, watching. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Maybe so, but right then Joe felt like a lint-headed fool, crazier than she and just as wild as he slipped into mud, tripped over black roots, scuffed through patches of dirt crawling with termites. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

So she picked up another one and read in English: “Money is the root of all evil. Look around you and dig deep.” The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Seeds that fall in autumn take root in spring underwater, and then the shoot grows above the surface. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

He did see, at George Freeman’s place, a Douglas fir that had toppled over so that its root wad now stood twelve feet high beside George’s mailbox. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

They bore this treasure off the beach, and piled it close around the roots of the olive tree, that no one passing should steal Odysseus’ gear before he woke. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Howard attended every game, playfully rooting for the opposition. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was the last thing he said to me before he walked away, leaving me rooted, astonished, beside that grand chapel. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

I spot some water plants with edible roots and make a small meal with my last piece of rabbit. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

The hills were replanted at great expense, but in another year the new roots, too, were found to be dead. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

The moustache hung over his mouth like the roots of some plant. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

Sanskrit and Latin words could be traced back to mutations and variations in an ancient Indo-European language, and English and Flemish had arisen from a common root. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

“Do the boys at school tease you about root?” Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

She recognized a few of them—milk vetch, aralia root, sage. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

By the time I broke free of the mangroves, my shoes were soaking wet and my shins were scraped from the barnacle- covered roots. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

Before they returned to the village, the old man went to a number of secret places which he knew and collected roots and other substances that he would need for his work. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

I can’t let this seed of a thing between those two take root, sprout, and become some sort of full-blown love affair. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Perhaps he should have crushed some leaves of oleander, or chopped up nightshade root, and somehow found a way to sneak the poison into Trademaster’s food. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

While two soldiers with rifles covered us, a third went from peculiar to peculiar, rooting through our pockets. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

“In here are the blackened bones of the lion and leopard, along with other powerful roots and herbs.” The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

The alternative was even worse—that it was proof Yakov was growing more and more powerful, laying down his roots. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

The ravine was tangled with brush, which was hard to walk through, but in the ravine grew seeds and roots. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dimple smiled to herself, an evil thought taking root as the boy brought out the tray of lemonade and set it down on a table near where she and Rishi were standing. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

The top of a nodding snowball had snagged her sun- bonnet, but Miz Eubanks herself was down among the roots, beginning to crawl out from under the bushes that had broken her fall. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

There the root borer is a serious pest of the banana, so weakening its roots that the trees are easily toppled by wind. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

I'm not rooting for bad things to happen to people I know. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

His mother used the witch-woman cures, the poultices and root potions, and sang to him every night, crooning in their cabin. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

All other intervals are given by irrational numbers based on the twelfth root of two, not nice numbers that can be written as a ratio of two small whole numbers. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

He knows which knotty roots to leap over, where to turn, and where to pick up speed. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

He watched her, supposing that he ought to go and comfort her, but something kept him rooted to the spot. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Doc looked up from his bag of roots and leaves. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Down either side of his thighs he felt the sweet gum’s surface roots cradling him like the rough but maternal hands of a grandfather. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

She said the plant had damaged its roots and no water could get to it. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

And humans had the cassava roots all to themselves, since pigs, porcupines, and other animals wouldn’t touch them. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Only the strongest wizards in the district could administer this potion—a kind of paste made from the burned and ground bones of leopards and lions, and mixed with roots and herbs. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

With shaking fingers, I pressed the last drop of liquid from the root and poured it back into the wine. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

“A root beer? What is it, my birthday?” Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

The spider raced along and we were keeping up, but then we spotted a tunnel off to the side that was dug from raw earth, and wrapped in thick roots. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

Later that night, after a scanty meal of sweet roots, they told her why they had been so anxious about the wheels. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Everyone in the Pythagorean brotherhood was already tight-lipped—nobody was allowed even to take written notes—and the incommensurability of the square root of two became the deepest, darkest secret of the Pythagorean order. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

It perpetuates the myth that the primary function of the system is to keep our streets safe and our homes secure by rooting out dangerous criminals and punishing them. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

"I did not steal your bird. Its chain was snagged upon a root, and I had just freed it." Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

He sees the hair that grows on her legs between waxings, the black roots that emerge between appointments at the salon, and in these moments, these glimpses, he believes he has known no greater intimacy. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

The chanterelle lives on the roots of oak trees, usually very old ones. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

My tabs hang off the cart like a tangle of roots as it rolls away. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

After we did, Doc gave us a little cologne to drizzle on the root bags. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

She stood, rooted to the spot like the mammoth trees that surrounded her. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

“If you take each problem a step at a time,” he continues, “you’ll grow the answer organically. The process will take root in your brain. This is true learning.” The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Finally Johanna and the others who emerged as discussion leaders stand in a line on the tree roots. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

The bunny was busy rooting around in a corner behind a ficus plant and paid Mr. Jeet no attention. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

“That’s one of my friends I used to play cards with. He loved root beer.” Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Next to the letters is a picture of clouds, rain, sun, plants, roots, and soil, with red arrows pointing from one thing to another, like symbols on a treasure map. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

They came out upon a small open place where a giant spruce had crashed to the ground and left a hollow where the roots had been, filled now with drifted dry leaves and spruce needles. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

She opened it and rooted through the contents with all the delicacy of a dog digging up a flower bed. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The ’tween deck reminds me of the root cellar at the orphanage, with its close walls and ceiling. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

But there are also stones down there, beetles and small roots, because this is the underside of the ground. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

The vast trunk, supported in the grove by its torn-up roots and out on the grass by the mass of branches, was high above their heads. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Everything was pressure-cooked, sealed, labeled, and stored away in a root cellar Dad had dug out in the field. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

I opened my pack, rooted through the contents, and then looked up with that confounded expression that comes with the discovery of a reversal. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

I root inside the mesh bag for a ball. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Then he bent down and dug up another flower, this time pulling up the entire plant, including the root. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

This is best experienced by looking them up, preferably in one of the dictionaries that provide all the roots back to the original, hypothetical fossil language of proto-Indo-European, and observing their behavior. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Eventually he found an area beside the roots of a cypress tree that wasn’t so bad. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

And stalls out at the root cellar door. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

Chiron galloped up and down their ranks, shouting encouragement to stand tough and think about victory and root beer, but I figured any second they would panic and run. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

We find a beetle, many small yellow and white roots, a toad. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Rousing them from the horror that seemed to have rooted all but Sam to the ground where they stood, he drove them forward. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Tialys took off again, and then Lyra reached the tree and sat down on one of the thick roots. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

I don’t remember digging a foxhole, but I found myself inside one, my shovel stuck in the moist dark sand and tree roots at the bottom of the four-foot-deep hole. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

He spent his money on herbs and plant roots and oils to make things like ointments for burns and cuts. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

The second root goes to the realm of the frost giants, to the well that belongs to Mimir. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

His concern for the rural poor came from his childhood in Sabalele, for his roots were deep and true, and he never lost them. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Back in prison, Low Key Lyesmith had once referred to the little prison cemetery out behind the infirmary as the Bone Orchard, and the image had taken root in Shadow’s mind. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

Though you murder the world, turn plains to stone, transmogrify life into I and it, strong searching roots will cracky your cave and rain will cleanse it: The world will burn green, sperm build again. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Hawthorn root,” she said, scooping out the remainder and rubbing it onto her leg. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

The door behind him was still covered in roots. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

I was relieved that I hadn’t disappointed the people who’d been rooting for me, but in an odd way, this win felt like it belonged more to them than it did to me. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

I’m rooted to the spot, with him looking down at me. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

As the two of them walked up and down the beach in painful silence, Ess periodically stopped to root in the sand with a dirty foot, but it did no good. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Rue contributes a big handful of some sort of starchy root to the meal. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

She contemplated a few pulpy grains of crushed root clinging to her fingertips and resisted—for the twentieth time—the temptation to see what they tasted like. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

Me and Jay watch her rooting for Kelvin as Blaze trots around the pen. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

Pearl Bassette, one of several Hampton natives, was the daughter of a well-known black lawyer, her family tracing its roots back to the early days of the city. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

I don’t know what Adah rooted for as we lay out there with our needlework, watching him waddle up and down the branches. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

She still held on to Ivan’s arm, praying the underground river wasn’t full of debris and roots to catch and hold them until they drowned. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

Were it buried beneath the roots of Mindolluin, still it would burn your mind away, as the darkness grows, and the yet worse things follow that soon shall come upon us.’ The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

The fire was nothing more than a few coals smouldering in the bottom of the hole where the roots had been. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Nhamo climbed down the fig roots and spent the night in the boat. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

She exasperates him, as she does everyone who roots for her success, but he loves her mind and courage. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

“For two hundred and sixteen rings, I’ve sat on my roots and listened to people hope for things. And a lot of times, those wishes never happened, I’m guessing.” Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

She pulled on her rope to get close to the willow roots. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

Sam returned to his mountainside camp and ate a breakfast of nuts and dried apples from his root cellar on the mountaintop. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

The two old people led me in exercises that began at dawn and ended at sunset so that I could watch our shadows grow and shrink and grow again, rooted to the earth. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even if it does manage to sprout, it can be choked by weeds, rooted up by a dog, mashed by a soccer ball, or asphyxiated by car exhaust. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

When he was finished, Constance swept the powder into a small bag and handed him another root. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

Fascism, which we associate so strongly with the Nazi Party, is a form of government rooted in nationalism, in which democracy gives way to a dictator. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

It spreads sinewy tentacles rather than roots into the ground to search for its preferred food of earthworms. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the side of the house, she grabs one of the chickens rooting around in the tom paper wrappers and cracked plastic bottles and dirty diapers strewn in the weeds. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

It jabbed at a place near the roots, and at once, the writhing tree became still. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

With a long hooked blade, he sliced me root and stem, chanting all the while. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Write the diminished triad for each root given. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

I guess I came on a little strong in my last letter, but it was only because your paranoid fantasy disturbed me, rooted as it possibly was in your unhealthy attitude toward sex. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The roots snaked out in his direction, trying to follow. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

In my innocence, I suspected that the obscene jazz issuing forth from the loudspeakers on the walls of the factory was at the root of the apathy which I was witnessing among the workers. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

But you can’t do that until your life has grown roots. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

The llano had come alive with spring, and it was comforting to walk in the hills and see the new birth take root and come-alive-green. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The trees themselves, turning and bending in the half light, looked as though they had gone mad and were dancing their roots out of the ground. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

When the tip reappeared, he pulled the root from his chin. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

That means they don’t put down a deep root system. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

But the mare stumbled and threw him hard against the saddle horn, and he realized how deceptive the moonlight was; exposed root tips and dark rocks waited in deep shadows cast by the moon. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

The rules kept us where we were, as much a part of the farm now as the trees, more firmly rooted to its earth than the deer and foxes. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

The walls and floor were a mishmash of plastic bags, dirt, grass roots and stones. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

I’ve been sitting here for an hour with roots and rocks digging into my knees. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

“Even if it means I have to deal with those snotty new girls at school. Lettie’s never going to quit when she finds out I’m learning to work root.” Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

One was at the north end of the Honeycomb, above the place where the tree roots formed a kind of cloister in the burrow. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

They carry loads of clapboard and sassafras root, and barrels of shiny rocks that we hope contain gold. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

When they figured it was about midnight, they stopped to rest for a few minutes and to eat the last of their gorgonbladder roots. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

I nosed the dinghy into some mangroves, cut the engine, and hopped out, balancing in my skateboard shoes on the slick rubbery roots. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

In the spaces between the roots, I see not dirt but water, and metal rods holding the roots in place. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

He zeroed in on my scalp and pinched a group of hairs at the root, sliding mysterious debris to the end and setting off a ripple of chills from my shoulders to my face. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

There was a moment of uncertainty, and he worried he might destroy the engine, but then the root popped out of the ground. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

I stopped in the living room and fed canned clams to Hugo’s sharks, then had a breakfast of cold leftover spaghetti and root beer. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

Then like a field of thorns springing up from one root and spreading here and there, there was yet more to trouble Wang Lung. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

But the Swift family had deep roots in Cape Cod going back 250 years, and G.F.’s father did not want him to leave the family home. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

I also check out a moist pocket by the stream for groundnuts and am rewarded with a string of three- inch nuts on the roots of one plant. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The National Labor Relations Act of 1935 makes it illegal to punish people for revealing their wages to one another, but the practice is likely to persist until rooted out by lawsuits, company by company. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Harry stood rooted to the spot as Filch and Snape came around the corner ahead. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

Did feelings of patriotism surge within him and was he rooting hard for his country to win? Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

He had Theresa by the arm, and he was bellowing some nonsense about new laws about rooting out heresy and pagan sorcery and some other fancy phrases he had just learned that week, I reckoned. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

Frank watched as the god picked leaves and roots and crushed them in a mortar. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

The roots of the meeting had been planted more than two years earlier by the discovery of nuclear fission. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

His tunes were firmly rooted in an easy-to-grasp, enchanting-to-sing Italian vocal style, so that ordinary folk really could leave the theatre humming. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

While Mrs. Hall tells them both to cool off and points out to Max that it’s foolish to root for a fight, Mrs. Silver waves me toward the door. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

For a moment it looked like nothing would happen, then the roots loosed themselves from the soil, curling and withering. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

She knew what grass smelled like, a rich brew of dirt and green roots, right after rain. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

The barn was twice the size of the house, built on top of a natural cave that served as a root cellar and cold storage. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

And each man had made brutally harsh assessments of the other, rooted in their quite different convictions about the proper course the American Revolution should take. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

Then I look at the root cellar floor. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

Calvin and I skip the root cellar today. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

For this reason and because I wanted him to help me gather roots and not go running off, I said nothing about the shell I saw or the gull with folded wings. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

I felt ’round to see if maybe I could get ahold of a chunking stone and go down fighting, but my fingers waren’t running over nothing but more roots and twigs. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

Second, dig a perfect circle hole all the way down to the wooden ceiling here on the inside of the root cellar. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

He had said root worked with intent, and you had to have what you wanted to accomplish in mind. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Now that I’m an adult with my own home, I decided to get in touch with my roots by purchasing my own watering can for my bathroom. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

A few little roots smacked Anya as she went, and she scraped her legs and feet on the bottom of the river a few times, but she mostly continued unobstructed. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

The question that had taken root in him and would not let him rest. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Then she sent Matthew to search for birthwort root, put out the fire, and opened all the windows. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

The boar buried his snout in Barsena’s belly and began rooting out her entrails. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

He wants to know why I did not tell about Calvin and me and the root cellar. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

As they approached the brook, toward the big tree in the hollow of whose roots they would make their summer home, the children ran ahead, shouting and laughing. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

Originally, it came from the Indo-European root word kailo, which meant whole, also intact and uninjured. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He stood rooted in front of a shopwindow. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

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

He was shaved close to the blue roots of his beard, and his hands were clean and his nails polished. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

Taking a cue from Kari’s book, McCandless started to dig and eat wild potato roots on June 24, apparently without ill effect. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

A curious but beneficial relation between fungi and the roots of higher plants is seriously disrupted. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

It hung from the fork of a tree root at the back of the viper’s den. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

After I ate, I took out my root notebook to study what I had written. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

I let him drift off to sleep then and attend to my own needs, wolfing down a supper of groosling and roots while I watch the daily report in the sky. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

By the 1930s, however, utility holding companies came to symbolize the corporate corruption and greed that the average American saw as the root cause of the Great Depression. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

“You know Mama don’t really want us learning root. If she thinks something bad happened, or that you’re scared, she’ll make both of us stop.” Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

She added little round seeds and the scrapings of a gnarled, flesh-colored root; furry, blue-gray leaves and pale orange blossoms. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Manioc was common throughout Congo, and its starchy root kept millions from starvation. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

Gwin was sleeping close to it, curled up between the roots of a tree. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Like we are standing on the outside roof of this root cellar. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

It was such a welcome relief to have someone who not only rooted for me, but also believed in me as well. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Mabel had given the girl her own supper portion and spooned potlikker and roots into her trembling lips until she opened her eyes again. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

From what root is "democracy" derived?—What adjective is formed from "democracy"?—Is Russia at present a democracy?—Can you mention any ancient governments that for a time were democracies? New Word-Analysis 1871-01-01T00:00:00Z

They scrounged for termites, picked berries, dug for roots, stalked rabbits and hunted bison and mammoth. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was flat on her back with no more strength in her body than a damp tunnel root. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

The word’s root means to “come upon” something: to find what’s available to be said. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

I remembered my root bag, still hidden under the house, full of my own breath that brought it to life. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Doubt and hesitation are completely unnecessary, as Easy French is rooted in the premise that, if properly packed, the rest of the world could fit within the confines of Reno, Nevada. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

A thriving commercial center had taken root on the south side of the river, replete with stately brick hotels, sturdy limestone banks, and a wide variety of fine emporiums and reputable mercantile establishments. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Oh, that I could be like it, rooted to the ground but with my every hand raised up to God in praise! Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Down below among the roots there was the sound of creatures crawling and snuffling. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

It had fallen into a little ditch, full of weeds and tree roots and ferns. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was just like a plant when its roots have gone completely dry. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

He extracted cube roots and integrated functions of varying complexity. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

This time, when he fell, he rooted his nose into the ground and just lay there, moaning, too weak even to try to get up again. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

Yet as we have seen in chapter 2, the drug war has not been aimed at rooting out the most violent drug traffickers, or so-called kingpins. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

They jumped over fallen branches and holes in the ground, over roots and rocks. I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z

The dirt beneath was rich and marbled with the white roots of those plants which grow in darkness. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

"Your exhibition was so clever. I rooted for you because it was markedly different from the others. And because you made my sister so mad." The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

For any one war seemed so rooted in its antecedents. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

To Jesse, the constant in his life was his geekhood; that was the root, the constant, the identity he toted with him no matter where he went. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Last of all, she used the muzeze roots to sprinkle water all around the outer walls. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

He sprang back, tripped over a root, and the battle closed on top. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

The ground was filled with rocks and roots. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

The countless years had filled them with pride and rooted wisdom, and with malice. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

He was so fat from feasting on berries and roots and grubs all summer that he was nearly as large as two bears. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Barely avoid downed logs, boulders, and tree roots. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

All spring the bombers come, every single night, their only goal seemingly to burn the city to its roots. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Hybrids have been bred for thicker stalks and stronger root systems, the better to stand upright in a crowd. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

I grabbed some roots on the bottom of the river and pulled myself slowly down until only my lips and nose were above water. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

The matter was solved when Matthias tripped upon a tree root and went sprawling flat. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

I’m just rooting for Theseus . . . ... as my grandmother, in 1923, prepares to meet the creature hidden in her womb. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

So many people in and out the small root cellar. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

A deeply rooted fear of my father and those stone-black eyes. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

I closed my eyes and put all my effort into thinking about that root bag. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

But when the girl child stopped to let them catch her, die torchlight steadied, and Bran realized that the snakes were only white roots like the one he’d hit his head on. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

A wee little voice called out from inside the labyrinth of roots, a tangle that had, Stella now saw, a hidey-hole in its center. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Sam gripped him by the jacket, and dragged him from under the root; and then with difficulty hauled him on to the bank. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Perhaps for that reason his accomplishment took root in my mind and grew rapidly in the darkness where I was forced to hide it. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

Five miles of treacherous roots and loose stones, trying to twist my ankles or otherwise incapacitate me. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Maman asks without turning around but instead ventures deeper into the forest, dodging massive roots poking out of the dark soil. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

I knew then that this was exactly why we needed to learn more root. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

That night, we feasted on fish and katniss roots until we were all, for the first time in months, full. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

In no time, I have the rabbits and squirrel roasting, the roots, wrapped in leaves, baking in the coals. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

The immigrants, under Woundwort’s direction, dug their holes between the roots of the trees, in the undergrowth and along the ditches. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

My knees buckled and I slid down the tree trunk to its roots. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

I’ll always be attached to it, like a branch that’s growing farther and farther away but it doesn’t matter because its roots are a part of the tree’s roots. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

The system that kept the black race at the bottom of American society was so deeply rooted in the nation’s history that it was impervious to the country’s ideals of equality. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Instead she finished the root beer in one swallow and set the bottle on its side, then gently pushed it, sending it rolling away from us. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

Besides cotton, the new land went to potatoes and root crops for us and some more corn to feed livestock and ourselves. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Do you suppose the man, whoever he is, puts the roots out there because he has a kind heart? What’s he up to?” Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

They met at the seventh of their appointed meeting places, among the roots of a plane tree in a shabby little square, and exchanged their news. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Because logos shares a root with logic, it would be easy enough to assume that the two were roughly the same thing. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

Those seeds would just wither up and blow away, never taking root. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

Lazlo stood rooted, experiencing the full meaning of useless as a wave of enemies hurtled toward them, moving with uncanny fluidity, flying at them as though launched. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

However tall it grows, a tree is just a few pounds of living cells thinly spread between roots and leaves. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

And he fell against the tree, sinking to the ground and clutching the roots of the tree. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

So off she went, leaving me filling the root cellar with bushel baskets of vegetables, pruning the fruit trees, spreading the compost—getting ready for winter. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

Thomas asked as he yanked out a huge weed, clumps of dirt swaying on the roots. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Gnarled roots wove their way through pine needles and fallen leaves. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

You know the scent of pine and the many ways root bark can heal. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

She looked intrigued, which was new, because Katie usually walks around with this distracted expression on her face, like she’s busy figuring the square root of the prime number closest to the gross national product. Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

His face was leathery and wrinkled, his hands gnarled as old roots. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

I leaned my head into the mess, limbs dangling with no effort, just another set of roots protruding out of the fallen tree. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

Her hair was mostly as black as mine, with an inch of white roots. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Some of its methods have ancient roots, based on the knowledge that, like ourselves, insects are subject to disease. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

The Thunderhead is the root, and I am the shears, pruning the limbs into fine form, keeping the tree vital. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

He said Doc told him that if he revealed what was in it, it would make the root bag worthless. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

The crowd cheered, rooting for their favorite fliers. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

I loved him because he made it plain, never mystical or esoteric, because his science was not rooted in the actions of spooks and mystery gods but in the work of the physical world. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Their twisted trunks, roots, and vines wrapped themselves around the ruins like gigantic boa constrictors, crushing and swallowing the overturned stones. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Asking me about root, instead of joking about something they didn’t understand. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

The bard wrapped himself in his own tattered garment and set his harp carefully on a gnarled root. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

“You two grew up around me working root—laying tricks, mixing up potions and powders, picking out plants and such. But now you know there’s more to it.” Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

It was okay to be eager and excited, but the negative emotions like fear and anger were not good when working root. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

I have ridged, reddish-gray bark; leathery leaves with pointed lobes; stubborn, searching roots; and, if I do say so myself, the best fall color on the street. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

He said he crawled back into the cave and sat with his back against the uptorn roots, and thought. Absalom, Absalom! 1936-01-01T00:00:00Z

The tracks resemble endless ladders that stretch ahead rather than upward, rooted to the ground. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

The first root, and the deepest, goes into the underworld, to Niflheim, the place that existed before other places. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

I can almost imagine a happiness without her, the ability to let her go, to feel our roots are connected even if I never see that leaf of grass again. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

As I grabbed the root beer, the door beeped and this guy my parents knew came in. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

And what if they do go into the roots of the peach tree? James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

And her mother: well, her mother had been at the root of it all. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I could see distinctly the limbs of these vermin with my naked eye, much better than those of a European louse through a microscope, and their snouts with which they rooted like swine. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

And when I explained that she had found it while digging for cinquefoil root—which we used on open sores—he seemed quite interested. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

The mountains still loomed up ominously on their left, but near at hand they could see the southward road, now bearing away from the black roots of the hills and slanting westwards. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

The real entrance was by a giant tree, where a root lifted and revealed a staircase and down you went until you arrived at the fifth level. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Her black hair seems filleted with the band of white at its roots. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

So I root around in my desk until I find a clipboard and put the list on it. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

This was not boasting—it was a declaration of equality rooted not in better angels or the intangible spirit but in the sanctity of the black body. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

How was a one- day “integrated” picnic going to counter-influence these representatives of prejudice rooted deep in the psyche of the American white man for four hundred years? The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

My father was Lithuanian but my mother’s family had German roots. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

It’s disturbing how fast weeds take root in my garden of worthiness. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

The roots of my hair screamed as I tugged on them. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

A few moments before, the pig had been crouched at the roots of a tree. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

The quadratic formula has been known for centuries; the ninth-century mathematician al-Khowarizmi knew how to solve almost every quadratic equation, though he didn’t seem to consider negative numbers as roots. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

“Fiver, why not do as I say? Have a meal on those roots and then go underground and sleep. You’ll feel all the better for it.” Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

And then another thought took root, one that was even stranger than the fact that a god was her dad. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Hurrying forward again, Sam tripped, catching his foot in some old root or tussock. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

He says, “Let’s never give up the root cellar, Mason. Not for anything. Tell no one.” The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

A chilling thought flashed my mind and took root before I could suppress it: Did she know who the attacker was, and she was protecting him? Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

It is so large that the roots of the ash are in three worlds, and it is fed by three wells. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

We leaned up against the crates and passed the now-warm root beer back and forth. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

We all waited for her to do something, but Maribel simply squatted with her feet rooted to the ground, staring back at us through her sunglasses. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

I looked around for anywhere I could hide my root bag so no one would see it. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

There is only room for me to send my love, and some pressed pansies from the root I have been keeping safe in the house for Father to see. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

I noticed how, nearby, the roots to a big sweet gum tree, exposed by erosion in the riverbank, suddenly looked like a swarm of snakes slithering into the water. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

Instead of roots, a small, muddy, and extremely ugly baby popped out of the earth. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

He taught them to rise above their brutish roots. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

He tipped his ginger roots into the cauldron too, and wondered whether he ought to take a leaf out of Moody’s book and start drinking only from a private hip flask. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

“Ah! here I reach the root of the matter. He wanted you to marry him?” Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

Badgers are one of the few creatures which can munch up hedgehogs unconcernedly, just as they can munch up everything else from wasps’ nests and roots to baby rabbits. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

I stared at a tree on the opposite bank, where the roots were exposed and twisted, and felt a metallic-dry taste rise from the back of my throat and slide over my tongue. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

What is more, he had now become very conscious of his audience and of how they were all silently rooting for him. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

Now the root cellar stands with its mouth wide open. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

Exceptions.—X final, being equivalent to ks, is never doubled; and when the derivative does not retain the accent of the root, the final consonant is not always doubled: as, prefer' + ence = pref'erence. New Word-Analysis 1871-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the close darkness of the Honeycomb, Hazel pushed past three or four of his rabbits crouching among the tree roots and reached the higher shelf where Speedwell lay listening for sounds from above. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Mum Olga had me clean out the root cellar, and I found a tabby with her litter of kittens, Char learned of my delight. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

Carefully, Tristran unwound the silver chain, unhooking it from the root, while stroking the bird's ruffled plumage with his left hand. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

They headed off along the bank, clambering over roots and rocks, weaving through thickets. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

Some insecticides affect sensitive plants such as beans, wheat, barley, or rye, retarding root development or depressing growth of seedlings. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

I sped toward the sound, tripping over ruts and roots but always scrambling ahead, sometimes on all fours, pushing against the ground with my knuckles. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

Teenie went back to digging for roots and plucking tomatoes then, not willing to discuss it any further. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

I needed to root out anything that would have a problem with losing atmospheric pressure. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

There wasn’t room for more than two of them, because of the roots and bushes and the creek bank. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

The whole hill seemed to be infected, dying from the poison that had sunk into the tree’s roots. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Yes. Yes, I do. Yes. I always want to be the winner. That’s what I do. I root for us to win. That’s what we all do.” Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

There’s a balcony on the second floor that seems to have a rail of thick roots in place of iron. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

He hurried to the root cellar and packed his rucksack with enough nuts, venison jerky, and big potatolike Jerusalem artichoke roots to feed himself for three or four days. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

A tree across the street had been ripped from its roots and lay across the road, branches spread over his driveway. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Lyddie snapped it off, but the roots were deep and beyond her reach. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

He paid for the root beer and stood up. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

But she was still angry at Pa for having been gone so long, and angrier at Cecile—who she called the “root of all evil.” Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

He buried his snout in the pack and rooted out a blue glass bottle. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

She’s watching my every move, rooting for me with her eyes and fighting an urge to wave. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m so glad. I’m always rooting for you.” The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

So the simplest way to write a triad is as a stack of thirds, in root position. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

He roots among his supplies and offers me a fine piece of saveloy. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

On July 14, he began consuming the pealike seedpods of the plant as well, probably because the roots were becoming too tough to eat. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Since there was thus no inherited shared root meaning “gun,” each Indo-European language had to invent or borrow its own word when guns were finally invented. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

“There is no more. I gather the last of the hawthorn root near the cemetery last night. But I am sure there is more to be found elsewhere.” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

The moose watched all this play out on my face, a dirty boy tangled in the roots of an upended tree, hiding from the world, hiding from memories of a family and days without pursuit. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

The blight was spreading thick and fast; the greenery was withering, and trees fell as their roots died. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

The formula for finding the roots of a quadratic equation ax2 + bx + c = 0 is… The + sign gives us one root, while the – sign gives us the other. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

I root for her, and I feel like that must help because someone pops on a Wagner CD, although I don’t know that the rousing “Ride of the Valkyries” is what I had in mind. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her twisted fingers looked like the rough old roots of a tree that had grown around a clay brick. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

NOTE.—A hyphen is generally, though not always, placed between non- and the root. New Word-Analysis 1871-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Botanically, Chimaphila umbellata. It stays green all winter, and makes a very useful spring tonic. Most people use only the leaves, but I have found the roots even more effective.” Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

The conservative revolution that took root within the Republican Party in the 1960s did not reach its full development until the election of President Ronald Reagan in 1980. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Furthermore, I had a good supply of cattail roots I had dug in the marsh. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

You need five Shiny ones For a snow cone: Strawberry and root beer, Grape that stains The mouth with laughter, Orange that’s a tennis ball Of snow You could stab With a red-striped straw. Neighborhood Odes 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

She bought tiger root from Jamaica to scrape, a cluster of indigo, translucent crimson seeds, and lastly, a tiny burlap pouch of herbs. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the castle, roots were regarded as peasant food. The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z

To decide what position a chord is in, move the notes to make a stack of thirds and identify the root. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

That’s the root of my dread—the hope for something else. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Eating part of the root will only make me younger, he thought. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

After the half hour is up, Mrs. Walton rinses out the conditioner and combs some jojoba oil into my hair from the root to the tip. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

The head bounced off a thick root and rolled. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

No wonder the roots of organized crime and criminal organizations such as the American Mafia were tied directly to Prohibition. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

Like some outlandish sporting event: everybody screaming from the sidelines, rooting me on — a loud stadium roar. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her small fingers pulled an old honey tin out from near the roots of the tree, and she sat back with a tremendous grin. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

The roots of Opium are watered with blood, and anyone who buys its foul weed is no better than a flesh-eating cannibal. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I have to tug hard to open the fridge door, and the only thing inside is a head of wilting cabbage and a six-pack—of root beer. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

But he crawls into a burrow beneath the roots, and disappears. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Underneath was a scabbed spot about the size of a quarter where someone had, apparently, pulled a handful of hair out by the roots. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

The haze moves off, and I see my pond, my millhouse, and the root cellar. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

She’d fashioned a needle from a fish bone and stripped plant roots down to a stiff, thin thread. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

When it finally died, I removed the roots from the soil, washed them, and buried them in a corner of the garden. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I write: “I am rooted, but I flow.” All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

I saw it in my mother’s stubborn belief in our neighborhood, her decision to stay rooted even as fear led many of her neighbors to pack up and move. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

She has enough food in the root cellar to last a long time, and if she doesn’t want to eat smoked fish or venison, she can catch a fresh fish in the millpond. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The significance of this cannot be overstated, for the failure to acknowledge the humanity and dignity of all persons has lurked at the root of every racial caste system. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

The Intercollegiate Rowing Association’s regatta at Poughkeepsie was a storied institution, with roots deep in the history of American rowing. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

His face flushed with discomfort, and he was rooted to the spot in disbelief as the rain clouds gathered above him again. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

I’d need fire to roast the roots, but until then the leaves could be eaten like lettuce. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

I stand rooted to the ground at the side of the house. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Felicia imagines the mixture melting through Graciela’s frail scalp, penetrating the roots and bones of her skull until it eats her vicious brain like acid. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instead, it seemed like root had only stirred a bunch of bad things up. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

If my roots stretched past the property line that separated them, well, that’s never been my concern. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Murmuring Om, he laid his head on the tree roots and sank into a deep sleep. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

I kiss him while I root in my pocket for my keys, and I kiss him in the doorway, and I kiss him in our foyer. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

It was just after dawn and the air was heavy with dew and Olanna wandered around in the damp coolness, under the green foliage of the forest, sidestepping thick roots. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

I liked that freedom on the rails, but for the first time, it didn’t feel right to have no roots, to have no family. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Moments later they came to a stout old woman with hands as gnarled as tree roots. The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z

Like him, I’d seen screechers digging near blue willow roots now and then. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

This giant ate no meat at all, though he was a holy terror when served a basket of roots, crunching onions and turnips and even raw hard neeps between his big square teeth. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

One was full of singers, enthroned like Brynden in nests of weirwood roots that wove under and through and around their bodies. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I check every inch of that root cellar. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

‘What a hobbit needs with coney,’ he said to himself, ‘is some herbs and roots, especially taters — not to mention bread. Herbs we can manage, seemingly.’ The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

“I’ve got potatoes and root vegetables in the oven,” he said in a low voice, “for those principled ones among us who don’t particularly feel like eating dead meat.” Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

He rooted himself into the carpet and stared at his mother, hoping she’d make the right decision. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

The rest of the rabbits, roots, greens, the rolls spread with the last bit of cheese. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

The ground was uneven, treacherous with roots, but the pine needles were soft underfoot. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Maybe you’ve traveled to Jamaica and know that it has some roots in the Jamaican dialect, patois. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

This is the root of the calendar problem. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

You have to grow' around them, like tree roots around concrete; you mould yourself through the gaps. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

My father was never there to teach me about my roots. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

He was looking at the root ball she cradled, at the garden all around her. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

But my relationship with him was still rooted in the mid-1970s, and we didn’t have those discussions. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

It attracted human beings who killed each other around the roots and made very good fertilizer. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Gaia had promised to pull up the gods by their roots. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

She wrestled it into the tangle of fig roots. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You look nice today,” he said, as if he were noticing her for the first time, and Pearl turned a deep pink, right down to the roots of her hair. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

He wondered if he would ever see the star again, and he stumbled over roots as the way led him between old trees into the deep woods. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m helping it to gather plants with healing abilities. And it wants me to find some yucca root. It says you’re the one that’s been healing the water monster.” Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

I looked back at the roots and thought how I had to show my gramps I had heart. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

When Father Alphonse sees me, he reddens to the very roots of his sparse tonsure. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

The word genocide shares its root with gene—and for good reason: the Nazis used the vocabulary of genes and genetics to launch, justify, and sustain their agenda. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

The Bund fully supported the Nazis' principles that were rooted in anti-Semitism, anti-communist sentiments, and the demand that the United States remain neutral in the war. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

I had a trunk, but it was rooted to the earth. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

"Just come stomping in and jerk your life up by the roots! But this here's the last straw. They ain't going to bother with my Bible!" Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

The trees had thrown out low branches, making an impediment to progress; the gnarled roots looked like skeleton claws. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Celia knows that good charms and bad are hidden in the stirred earth near its sacred roots. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

I seasoned it with wild garlic and jack-in-the-pulpit roots. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sniffing near the skeleton-white roots of an upturned hollow tree stood a wild beast. The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z

His right foot caught on a root and he fell. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

The man tore a clump of my hair out by the roots and threw it in my face. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

If I succumbed to it, the hatred’s roots would choke me; its thorns would embed in my soul, until it truly became mine. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Maybe it was out of pride, or some deep- rooted disdain for authority—or, I thought with a cringe, maybe the Gypsies just wanted the satisfaction of killing us themselves. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

Lettie went on, “And one of those evil root people. Look at that ugly bracelet. It looks like it has bugs living in it.” Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

“Yessir, and he sent me down here with a dime. Have you got any cold root beer?” Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

Since the wind was very cold and I was no longer afraid that the Aleuts would find me, I made a fire in the cave and cooked a supper of shellfish and roots. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Half in a dream he wandered forward to the riverward side of the tree, where great winding roots grew out into the stream, like gnarled dragonets straining down to drink. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Clutching the backpack by the strap, Hazel took off in a run, darting through the trees, leaping over roots and clumps. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

We have to stop to let some root men pass, for fear they might step on us if we didn’t keep out of their way. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t see what was outside but I felt it pounding on the root cellar door. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

Nor did the girl come near the cave, though I found her footsteps far down the ravine where she had been to dig roots. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

She stored the roots in a carrying basket. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Thorns and roots clawed at him from the sides and above his head, tearing at his hair, skin, and the decoy mask still attached to the back of his head. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

I kept on gathering roots, but my hands trembled as I dug in the earth, for I was more excited than my brother. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

The tunnel-like space was narrowed by many more roots and branches than the last time he’d been here, but it was still visible. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

But for some reason, the story had taken root in Granny’s mind. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

I thought about everything underground, like worms, and roots, and clay, and buried treasure. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

He was moving on four good legs, strong and swift, and he could feel the ground underfoot, the soft crackling of fallen leaves, thick roots and hard stones, the deep layers of humus. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

I walk into the eucalyptus grove to where the pond is dammed with earth and a weave of gnarled tree roots. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

Peering through the mists, he glimpsed a broken spire, a headless hero, an ancient tree tom from the ground and upended, its huge roots twisting through the roof and windows of a broken dome. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Her head drooped forward into the puddle, the wisps of her blonde hair dabbling in it like tree roots in a bog, and I realized she was asleep. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

Holding on to Rani, who's as firm as a tree rooted in the ground, I feel safer, because the waves feel plenty rough. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

I had no idea how Lettie found out that my family worked root—probably that local girl who whispered in Lettie’s ear told her my uncle was a witch doctor. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

I stumble on a root, then catch myself. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

I didn’t get far ’cause a root seemed like it reached up and tripped me back to the ground. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

It would have been a lot easier than reaching through the tangle of roots and branches, trying to bring the vibrasaw to bear against a precise spot. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

“I don’t want to hurt you I” the chaplain insisted with a rising hint of exasperation, even though he was still rooted to the spot. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

His face was in the pine needles where he could smell all the tree, from roots deep in the damp earth to the moonlight blue branches, the highest tips swaying in the wind. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

“In that case,” I say, digging into my satchel once again until I root out two of the double chocolate chip cookies Mom got me yesterday, “want a cookie?” How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

It threaded between boulders and past baobab trees with their roots firmly tapped into pockets of water in the soil. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nico poured root beer and tossed barbecue into the pit, then began chanting in Ancient Greek. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

Many white spectators, however, did root for Arthur Ashe. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

The horse followed, turning onto a rutted path lumpy with roots, and it was as if they had slipped in under a giant colander. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

To the left, the tunnel was dirt and tree roots. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

But month after month, the money would disappear before the next paycheck arrived, and once more I’d find myself rooting in the garbage at school for food. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

In the secret parts of his peculiar brain, those unhappy and inextricable tangles which he felt at the roots, the boy was disabled by something which we cannot explain. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, that’s what happens when you have school, homework, and root lessons.” Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

There were only a few calls for R. C. Colas, Dr Peppers, and Hires root beer. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Its gnarled roots twisted in and out of the earth like a nest of slow brown serpents, and hundreds of old copper pennies had been nailed to its huge trunk. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Invention, as I mentioned above, has as its etymological root the idea of “coming upon” the available grounds for argument. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, me too. I guess I didn’t figure we’d be painting the house as a root lesson.” Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

They shake instead, remaining fixed in place like deep roots. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

Its roots stretch back to the dawn of mathematics, in the time thousands of years before the first civilization, long before humans could read and write. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

For decades, baseball fans in Seattle had to choose an eastern team to root for if they wanted a stake in the big leagues. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

The roots, you suspect, are accurate measures of how long she’s been here. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

Brian pulled and the man just lay still, and Brian looked to see if his shoe had caught on a root by the fire or in the brush, but it had not. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

“He was going to have it come out his way if he had to tear the world up by the roots.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

"You don't recognize your little friend, do you? That is because we caught him when he was completely helpless! On the night when he must turn into a root!" When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

The water was shot through with what looked like white roots; briefly, a great celestial tree stood in the ocean. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Although many collateral sanctions were repealed by the late 1970s, arguably the drug war simply revived and expanded a tradition that has ancient roots, a tradition independent of the legacy of American slavery. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

I learned about it over the years from my parents, who told stories of our roots when I asked about various conflicts and wars. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

The entertainment for the night is a British indie rocker who looks like a root vegetable and is popular with people in Alex’s demographic for reasons he can’t even begin to understand. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

So, I root for him when he comes to bat. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He stumbled over a root and the cry that pursued him rose even higher. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

It was covered with scraggly, long ropes, like vines or tree roots. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

In the hole was a large root shaped like a child. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

I discovered this one day when I ate so much algae at the base of a small tree that I exposed its roots. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

And George and Axel, Dr. Martin, and now the baby, move swiftly through the field over fallen branches, past roots and leaves. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

The Iroquois Indians used the leaves and roots of this plant to stop bleeding and purify cuts. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

I felt like one of the oak trees that grew along the highway overlooking the Shenandoah Valley, with deep roots and a strong core. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

This bond is rooted within the inseparable relationship between lyrics and music that has existed for thousands of years. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

Nothing except the roots of the old peach tree...and a whole lot of earthworms and centipedes and insects living in the soil. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

This syncopation is now so common in all popular music that it has quite forgotten its Cuban roots. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Pulling them out hurt more than anything, like yanking myself up by the roots. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jacob strolled to a nearby driftwood tree that had its roots sticking out like the attenuated legs of a huge, pale spider. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Engulfing fields in dense mats of root and vine, kudzu swarmed over entire farms, clambered for miles along telephone lines, wrapped up trees, barns, and houses like a green Christo. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

She could see how it had taken root, calcified, inflamed by his own guilt and shame. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

All the grass had gone brown, long ago, but he was looking at the roots. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he took out his knife and cut into the lotus root, he offered Ranofer a wedge of it. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

I cut the mandrake root to pieces and put them in a flask of sweet wine to steep. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

“Depression isn’t like root beer. It’s not as if you either like it or you don’t.” Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

“Tomorrow I will tend to your aching bones. I have a notion for a new medicine, made from mallow roots that grow in the marshes,” I said. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

“Then you don’t care if his life is spoiled and his poor body rooted up and—oh, my God almighty!” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

I wanted my roots to journey farther, my branches to reach higher. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

It was from these seeds and others, and from the flowers and roots beneath them, that Mr. Ages made the draughts and powders that could sometimes save the sick from dying. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

Flowering vines sent up creepers from every crack in the wall or pavement, and young trees had taken root in the Walls of abandoned shops and roofless temples. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The motive for his hatred is uncertain, though it may have been rooted in the invasion from Teotihuacan. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Younger fishermen like Dale Middleton were apt to spend considerable time each day—at the San Piedro Cafe or the Amity Harbor Restaurant—rooting for information. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

On the Randall plantation, the doctor was only called when the slave remedies, the roots and salves, had failed and a valued hand was near death. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

“Well then he’s changed them,” I said, and stumbled and fell on the root of a tree. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

The brown color is dull and ashen at the roots. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

Or it is a type of tiny potato that turns up in the market now and then, always sold in bunches that clump along the roots like knots on a string. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

My own interest in history had early roots and was encouraged by my father. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the way back to my room, while Buzz was still on her laptop, I quietly rooted though her purse and grabbed her checkbook. Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Harry wriggled into the earthy passage hidden in the tree’s roots. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Every man is aware of the heavy shells tearing down the parapet, rooting up the embankment and demolishing the upper layers of concrete. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

The dozen rich families have intermarried so many times that family trees are tangles of roots. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

She nodded, blushing to the roots of her flaming hair, and put her elbow in the butter dish. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

As Jean Louise handed them over, a sudden thought rooted her to the spot. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

I kept my hands firmly rooted in my pockets as if I were taking a walk on a chilly day. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I asked, choking back the tears of relief and something else, something deeply rooted, something wounded and mad. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

Rewrite them in root position first if that helps. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

Note—ex- is used before a root beginning with a vowel. New Word-Analysis 1871-01-01T00:00:00Z

I explain that verbs in Arabic form roots that create trees of nouns and word structures. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

The pines threw their roots around the shore’s boulders, grappling with the living rocks and wrestling them into position. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

“I could buy us ten root beers,” I said, missing the point. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

I stood rooted to the spot, paralyzed, in thrall to the action before my eyes. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

I just sit down and open my own bottle of root beer. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

Some attempt had been made to smooth the sides of the wall itself, but here and there the twisting fingers of roots poked through. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

There’s a collection of root beer bottle caps. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

She found an overhanging rock next to the roots of a spruce tree that clung to the side of the gorge, and settled herself beneath it to look around. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

It was choked with a succulent weed, whose furred brown roots waved like thin tentacles underwater. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

When it was finally over—that first emergence, five or ten seconds that felt like an eternity—she’d fallen to her knees and lost her supper between the roots of a plum tree. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

I took a misstep and stumbled over a root, my rifle sliding to my side. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

The chaplain’s face reddened to the roots of his sandy hair as he waited. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Every fiber in the trunk, the bark, the roots seemed to cry out separately against this murder. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

The sense that black men have disappeared is rooted in reality. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

I saw it as an early test, a trial run that could help me determine what I might be able to accomplish as First Lady, a literal way to root myself in this new job. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

He was staring at a shrub of silver-veined leaves clustered near the roots of a nearby tree. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

The nephew, or was it the cousin, of the woman who worked roots. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

He stood there perfectly still, rooted to the spot and staring down at the ground in front of his feet. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

She sat between the roots of the lime tree, clad in a one- piece smock of green girded with a quiver of arrows, and her feet and arms were bare. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

The dragon Nidhogg lives in these waters, and it is always gnawing at the root from below. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

“Maybe that’s what Mama was talking about, with woman trouble. I get bullied every day for working root, but you’re my brother, and no one gives you a hard time.” Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

The gangly white kid with rural roots was affable and intelligent, and it wasn’t long before he was voted vice president of the Corps. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

The great shape of the dog had bounded out from the roots of the Willow. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

She was blushing right to the roots of her hair. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

In the old days, people had carried around these little chunks of wild parsnip root to protect themselves from poisonous snakes, and so what if rattlesnakes had always been as rare as money in Milagro? The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

She clung to a knob of root as the world broke into pieces and spun. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

You would have to plant roots and make the place that held this chair your home. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

And don’t you know it, he is heading for the root cellar door. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

The tattlers say she leaves it there to pay homage to the roots of Orléans, the Gris. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

Those who admired Goddard despised Rowan, and any who had given Rowan the benefit of the doubt were already rooting for Citra. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

“You literally named me after the Greek root of the word rock,” I say. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

But they are much faster, flying through the underbrush so gracefully as my boots catch on roots and fallen tree limbs, that there's no way I can keep apace with them. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

The robot sank her fingers into the ground and felt the spongy layer of roots below the grass. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Bored, it lowered its head and began to root around among the shrubbery below the pines. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

He was scared to think about it, to even entertain the notion, but he found that once he’d acknowledged it, its roots dug into him, refusing to let go. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

I’m too stunned to even react, my feet rooted to the stage. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

We so rarely have anyone to root for at this point in the Games. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

“There’s only one more I need,” she said, pointing her chin in the direction of the gunny sacks full of roots and plants. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

For a few seconds it seemed as if it would tear itself out by its roots, but after a while it calmed down and began to shed food for the hungry family. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

“Get that root out. No, that one, you fool.” Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

I fell into a deep, black abyss lined with tree roots and rocks, and they struck me as I fell. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

David Braman’s ethnographic research shows that mass incarceration, far from reducing the stigma associated with criminality, actually creates a deep silence in communities of color, one rooted in shame. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Alicia nods, and I can tell from her face that she's into the spirit of the hunt, tilting her head to listen as Dad starts rooting through the kitchen junk drawer. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

They picked a way among the trees, and their ponies plodded along, carefully avoiding the many writhing and interlacing roots. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

A long rope of root formed an almost-bench above the mossy ground, and after testing its solidity, she sat on it to think. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

They don’t have much top, but lots of knotty roots, shaped sort of like sweet potatoes. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

His hands were in fists and the veins in his arms bulged like tree roots. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

In root position, the root, which is the note that names the chord, is the lowest note. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

There is little in the way of small-town ties or big-city amenities—grandparents and cousins, longtime neighbors, vibrant boulevards, homegrown shops—that let roots sink in deep. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

More of the black things were scuttling out of the dark, their feet beating a quick staccato rhythm against roots and rocks and leaves. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

A fight snow had fallen the night before, and there were stones and roots and hidden sinks lying just under its crust, waiting for the careless and the unwary. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Woundwort waited only for Groundsel to bring back the two rabbits who had been sent to search among the tree roots at the north end of the burrow. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

She stepped out of the shelter of the roots and faced them directly. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Soon our jaws are tired from chewing on the sassafras roots, and for a time our bellies are fooled into thinking we have eaten. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

One tuft was of two colors, magenta and brick red, apparently growing on the same root. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

We washed it all down with root beer and pithy lemonade. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

As a teenager reading African parasitology books in the medical library, I was boggled by the array of creatures equipped to take root upon a human body. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Doc motioned for us to sit while he showed us how to measure the strength of the herbs and roots that would go into the potions and incense he made. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

“Isn’t that part of why you do root? To get back at people who hurt you?” Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

The hole it left had filled with filthy water, but the roots were dry and tangled enough to make a comfortable seat. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

Everything hurts—my skin, my bones, my fingernails, even the roots of my hair. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

“Now what,” said Nhamo, perched in a curl of tree root. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I whispered, wondering if root was secret and I shouldn’t talk about it too loud. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Instead, it seems to me that, in the past, good institutions always arose because of a long chain of historical connections from ultimate causes rooted in geography to the proximate dependent variables of the institutions. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

When sharps and flats are used, remember that the alteration is always from the scale of the chord root, not from the key signature. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

The root cellar being darker than the night. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

Here is a summary of the intervals in triads in root position. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

I have followed its roots, so to speak, to the first infallible cause of all created things. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

There are beds of squash, root vegetables Sergio calls yucca, and a tree with big green fruit that looks like spiky footballs. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

“More like getting a root canal,” she joked back. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

But she was growing roots where she stood, and staring open- mouthed at the dead man. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Jackie came to the plate, colored folk everywhere were rooting for him to get a hit. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Groundsel set to work along the bank, while Vervain went into the wood, where the mouths of the holes lay between the tree roots. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

If the cane took root and began to send off shoots, the weeding gang followed. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

I had only been in St. Louis a few days, and I had never been to Chicago, so I rooted for St. Louis. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the south playground we sit on the roots of a huge tree and talk about football or Final Fantasy games. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

The place was like a root cellar—dirt walls, air choked up with must, and bugs. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

Still unconvinced, Fflewddur settled himself against a tree root for his turn at guard. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

But in New York, she needed to settle somewhere, and since the natives were unfriendly, and the country inhospitable, she took root in the language. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Write the major chord for each root given. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

People too firmly rooted to the center of their lives find such questions uncongenial at best, quite distasteful at worst. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was so easy to disappear, so easy to deny knowledge, so very easy in the smoke and din to mask that something dark had taken root. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

“I do have to yell. What happened to my root book?” Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Hazel had eaten various roots in his life, but only once before had he tasted carrot, when a cart horse had spilled a nose bag near the home warren. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Boundaries blur as tapioca fences take root and bloom. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

All along, some part of me was rooting for T to go down just so I could stay afloat. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

The roots of those mountains must be roots indeed; there must be great secrets buried there which have not been discovered since the beginning.” The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

She had only to wedge a pot into the grass ring and climb the fig roots. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

He establishes that “pride” was at the root of his downfall, hints at the pathos of what he’s lost, and appears unexpectedly generous to the God he might reasonably be expected to curse. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

Mr. Freeman touched up the dark roots on the head of a lady school board member and asked if Principal Principal needed help. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

The Company stood rooted with horror staring into the pit. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Harry said his fence would take root in places, maybe, and get green leaves on it in the spring. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

Rudy faced me as if he were finally seeing the root of the problem. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

I think he means to conjure up the same magic that made the roots grow, made the branches of the throne bloom and twine. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Others, with fingers as gnarled as tree roots, nevertheless moved with the grace of leaves in a summer breeze. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

But a week before we were due to leave, Gran tripped over a tree root and sprained her ankle. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m gonna stick here and nurse my glass of root beer,” Bull said. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

There’s a small section of Irish who’ve come to root for Erin. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Weasels and stoats jostled past them carrying baskets of earth or dragging rocks and roots. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

The girl did not say thank you, but remained rooted to the spot as they passed and watched them out of sight; Ron glanced back at her. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Fadi peered closely at the tree’s winding roots pushing up from the rich soil. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

The only person I knew who had more root understanding than Doc was Gran. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

So, with Fang scampering around them, sniffing tree roots and leaves, they entered the forest. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

It is important for a freedom fighter to remain in touch with his own roots, and the hurly-burly of city life has a way of erasing the past. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is roots sucking deep at the earth, and the pale, sightless creatures that live below the ground. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

“My family doesn’t do root magic,” she said, like she was confessing something. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

He turned back to his ginger roots once more, picked up his knife, and started slicing them again. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

“But maybe stealing, too, if we have to. And there’s wild fruit and I know some roots we can eat if you boil ’em first.” The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

“Tomorrow, then,” Sticky said, hurriedly grinding a plant root between two rocks. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

Philology is related to the science of etymology, dealing in root words. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Is it, though? Is it attached to a root system? Is it ingesting nutrients? Water? Those are all signs of life.” The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z

In Cuba, we see guests competing against Cubans in dominoes, and a line for sugar cubes, and Rufus cheers for his roots. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Along one entire wall, arranged neatly in small piles, stood the raw materials he had collected: roots, seeds, dried leaves, pods, strips of bark and shriveled mushrooms. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

I pour the leftover dirt into Claudia's pot, and then place the roots in the middle, pressing the soil around it. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

A great consensus was reflected in the statement of the Eighth Regiment’s black leader: “There is no color in patriotism. Patriotism is as deeply rooted under the black skin as under any other.” A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Among other things, this meant rooting out pseudoscience. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Judicial systems are rooted in common legal myths. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Giving Stuart my oxygen bottle, I rooted around until I found another one with some gas left in it, and then we both began packing for the descent. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

Calvin and I do a whole day of cleaning up the root cellar. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

Blue velvet and hammered silver and braided gold tablecloths are rolled out, each one decorated with the House of Greenbriar’s standard, a tree of flowers, thorns, and roots. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Whenever I dug another foxhole, cutting down through ferns and rotted vegetation and tree roots and mud, the bottom of it would be filled with water by the time I finished. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

She fell in and out of the same dream she always had: ashes falling over the land, settling into the crevices between tree roots, dusting over every unfurled bud, smothering each hint of life. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

She says the flowers have no scent and the waterfall has no water and the trees have no roots. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

I rose from my seat but could not move farther, feeling my feet rooted to the stones beneath them. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

“True creativity thrives on disorder, simply tucks in its roots and grows on chaos. I wouldn’t say no to a sweet sherry.” The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

I heard him rooting around in the bathroom, opening cupboards, slamming drawers. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

I mouth an apology to Fizz and watch her rooting in her bag as the bus pauses. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

Now I understand, God is not just rooting for the dollies. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I hurried off, trying not to trip on the tree roots and rocks. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Sometimes, in my fantasies, I imagine there was someone who thought like this: We eat berries and roots. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Part of the root system dies and begins to decay. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

She kept rooting through her bag and then with a satisfied smile she pulled something from an outside pocket. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

All that was left were the thorny roots digging into the bottom of the door to the next compartment. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

He picked one out and they turned it over, using the roots for leverage, until they got it half floating in the water. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

They scrambled down a steep cut and up the other side, using roots for handholds. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

As late as the seventeenth century, Descartes refused to accept negative numbers as roots of equations. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

The city rulers encouraged and rewarded the workforce during construction and maintenance of the mound by staging celebratory roasts of fish and achira root right on the worksite. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

They set to work to enlarge it, digging between the roots and tunneling upward to make a second run that would emerge inside the wood. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Finally we come to an upturned tree stump with a red ribbon caught in its dead, gnarled roots. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

It shares roots, of course, with tending—a farmer’s or gardener’s activity—but also with tension, the stretching of a pea tendril to incline it toward sunlight or to train it on an arbor. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

It ran wild in the Big Woods, living on acorns and nuts and roots. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

“We love being American, celebrating holidays like Thanksgiving and July Fourth. But Halloween is a holiday with pagan roots, against the teachings of Islam.” A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t bring myself to tell him the truth: that because of an old man’s story I suspected the Amyr might have roots much older than the Aturan Empire. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The root system of the entire field weakens. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

The difficulty was obvious: a silver chain attached to the bird's foot had become entangled in the twisted stub of a jutting root, and the bird was caught there by it, unable to move. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

There are roots, too, hanging down from the rocks above, belonging to who knows what kinda plant. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

Who, then, is to say with authority where the root of so much anguish and evil lies? The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

That night he had dreamed of an orchard under the moonlight, of skeletal white trees, their branches ending in bony hands, their roots going deep down into the graves. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

The singers made Bran a throne of his own, like the one Lord Brynden sat, white weirwood flecked with red, dead branches woven through living roots. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

We’re tempted to spell it like religious, but sacrilege is the root. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not that Grim ever swills anything stronger than root beer. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

I’m not sure what it was, but it had something to do with him still being rooted enough to things to know when they were going wrong. Missing May 1992-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Then later we’ll put the heavy rake on your tractor and dig up all the roots.” Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

NOTE.—The forms ac-, af-, etc., are euphonic variations of ad-, and follow generally the rule that the final consonant of the prefix assimilates to the initial letter of the root. New Word-Analysis 1871-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were only a few calls for R. C. Colas, Dr Peppers, and Hires root beer. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You know it’s gone now? I mean, the root cellar.” The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

Though quadratic equations are more complicated than linear equations, there is a simple way to figure out what the roots of a quadratic equation are. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

In desperation, I turned and fled into the woods, stumbling over roots and stones, crying as I hadn’t cried for years. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

Then he is quieter to say, “You hit the ceiling of the root cellar! Sweet!” The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

I eased the shoots out of the earth and gently combed their roots apart. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

Kabuo was rooted there just as she was, a boy who understood the earth and the working of it and how it was a good thing to live among people one loved. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

So silent was it that the fall of their ponies’ hoofs, rustling on dead leaves and occasionally stumbling on hidden roots, seemed to thud in their ears. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Turned, too, his jaw to the light of the bulb so she could press out between her thumbnails the hair root caught in a pore the dog. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

It looked like a tree had wrapped its roots around my wrist. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Negra hated the church, couldn’t wait to leave her parents’ house and rip up her Pentecostal roots. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

She liked Gothic details: mist hanging over a silent lake, gnarled roots heaving up from the earth, a solitary crow in the branches of a bare tree on the shoreline. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

She smelled the good morning wind rippling the curtains, bringing in the odor of grass and roots and damp earth. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

In season, they fed on acorns, berries, wild plums, prickly-pear apples, grass, weeds, and bulb plants which they rooted out of the ground. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

But they were for the most part too long, or still connected to the root structure, which made them impossible to use. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

Finally, when Horace tripped over a root and fell to the ground and then lay there begging for a rest, we all stopped. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

“I’ll take a blunt button hook and pull his tonsils out by the by jingoed roots, just like I promised him. He doesn’t quit. He’s fired.” Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

He noticed that a root lifted itself and stabbed slightly at the man’s sandaled foot. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

Be assured that I pull at the roots of these sympathies. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

That’s not to mention all the fallen branches and raised tree roots waiting to trip him. Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z

She roots through her kitchen drawer for a packet of incense. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

There were several tree roots running across the roof and it was these that supported the unusual span. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Meanwhile, we lived on what remained of our salted fish, roots and leaves, the fruit of the prickly pear, and on the plantains from our tree. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

“What happened with Collins is even more reason for you to let me teach the kids some root. We need to get them started on helping to protect ourselves and this place.” Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

But then a fireman comes running out from the mouth of the root cellar. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

Unlike Burr’s distinguished bloodline, which gave his aristocratic bearing its roots and biological rationale, Hamilton’s more dashing and consistently audacious style developed as a willful personal wager against the odds of his impoverished origins. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

“Right,” said Harry coolly, turning back to his ginger roots. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

He didn’t even have a root beer this time. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

In the root cellars strings of onions and garlic dangled from the rafters, and bags of carrots, parsnips, radishes, and white and yellow turnips filled the shelves. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

And the trees, their roots dotted with the snails that make her drool. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

Pausing in the shade of an apple tree, he put his strong snout into the ground and began pushing, digging, and rooting. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

He passed the mouths of two blocked runs, came to an opening between thick tree roots and stopped. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

I say, “Oh. The root cellar. I mean, what’s left of it. They don’t think bad about us for it. You know what I mean?” The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

Intercontinental missile silos and fallout shelters're sunk deep in the roots of the mountains. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

Mr. Ferris turned down a rutted dirt road, made even bumpier by the roots that crisscrossed it like the veins on an old man’s hands. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

We follow her onto the tree roots, where she sits and offers me the bowl of raspberries. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

With Nero racing ahead, we fled through the woods, tripping over roots and ducking branches. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

The roots seemed to merge right into the foundation. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

She kept looking at it while she moved slowly down the root cellar. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

A new society was emerging—one that had its roots in the dark history of slavery but was also moving into the future. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

Rit kept giving her a hot and bitter brew, made from the root of a plant that Ben brought back from the woods. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

They’re white, with big maroon letters that say root for rosa on the front and team rosa on the back. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

He slid the root through the fish’s gills and then tied the rope tight. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dark at the root, pale at the ends, as the color leeches from our hair with the stress of Stilts life. Red Queen 2015-02-10T00:00:00Z

Mason jars filled with roots and herbs on the counter. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

Tommy refused to be snubbed and, cupping his ear to the carton, shouted, “What’s that? No kidding! You’re crazy about me. Inside that answer machine all those brainy cells are rooting for me to win.” In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

In one hand he still held the half-empty can of root beer. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

I visit with the corn kernels planted deep within Pachamama’s body as they eagerly stretch out their first roots. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

I saw her use vials of oil she had not used before, and I saw that some of the roots she used were fresh with wet earth. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

He could see his mother rooting around in her head for a good reason to say no. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

It’s possible my attraction is rooted in the fact that she’s such a force and everyone adores her, so it’s fairly exhilarating when her attention is on me. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

In a civilian title, general isn’t the root, so it doesn’t get the s: Two attorneys general went dancing with two major generals. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some of the conflict we saw, of course, wasn’t only a fixed feature of prison life; it had roots in Sing Sing’s frequent changes of officers. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is called Roots & Shoots because roots move gradually under the ground to make a firm foundation, and shoots seem small and weak, but to reach the light they can break open brick walls. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

From it he removed and handed to my father several small pouches filled with roots, ointments and bottles containing drops of the grey, misty brew—medicines for all his problems. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

But no Proto-Indo-European word can be reconstructed for “gun,” which uses different roots in different modern Indo-European languages: “gun” in English, “fusil” in French, “ruzhyo” in Russian, and so on. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Well,” he said as he dug up another root. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Never did I think of Mama as getting root lessons from Gran. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Its floor was hard-packed dirt, and its wooden roof was an arched intertwining of roots, above which rose the tree itself, an oak. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

Their greens are good, and so are their roots—a little strong and milky, but you get used to that. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

Anthony was eager to steer the suffrage movement back to what she considered its more respectable roots. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Knotted grass roots hung down and brushed them as they passed. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Economics is, at root, the study of incentives: how people get what they want, or need, especially when other people want or need the same thing. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

In other areas, though, that role of cereals was taken over or shared by roots and tubers, which were of negligible importance in the ancient Fertile Crescent and China. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

The Nation of Islam is a religious organization based on Muslim principles, but it is also deeply rooted in Black nationalism. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

A thousand eyes, a hundred skins, wisdom deep as the roots of ancient trees. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

These have their roots in the mid-eighteenth century, when the French government, which had claimed Haiti as its own, made Port-au-Prince, the capital, a major hub of slave trading. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

“The roots give good red. Madder’s better for reds, though. There’s my madder over behind.” Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She looked at the mountain and the meadow and the gorge, and I felt her feet squeeze into the earth and take root. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Are there roots here every day?” asked Hazel. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The company of men long dead seemed to suit him better than that of the living, and his boar seemed happy rooting amongst the graves, well away from other animals. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Then she plucked ferns and grasses from the ground and sank their roots into her new muddy coating. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

They lay on the lawn, their pink and white flowers grazing the grass, their roots waving lumpy soil in the air. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

Scientists think that morels are a mycorrhizal species that live on the roots of the pine trees. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know how root magic works, that’s why I took your notebook. I wanted to see if there was anything in there that could tell me what my skin would be good for.” Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Frank yelled, “You want my poison roots? Come and get them!” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

The Indian mathematician Bhaskara wrote in the twelfth century that “there is no square root of a negative number, for a negative number is not a square.” Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Three or four rosebushes with their roots tied in burlap were propped against the fence. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

As Matthias contorted himself to negotiate the tree root, he poked the point of the blade at his enemy’s head. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

They also have deep root systems that help them to recover quickly from grazing or prairie fire. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Powdered root of what to an infusion of what? Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

I couldn't see her face because her head was hanging down on her chest and her stiff blonde hair fell down from its dark roots like a hula fringe. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

If it’s not about Calvin and the root cellar, it will be about Benny. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

As an African American with roots in Long Beach, he saw the value of supporting our unique family. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

The ground had been dug up; the soil was still fresh from where deep tree roots had been. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

“I’ll live without a root beer float until next summer,” I say. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

I read my book, bright eyed, breathing heavily, and rooted for Rontu to win against the pack of wild dogs, his former brothers. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

And then another fell, farther off; she saw the massive thing descend, and watched it crash into the buttress-like root of the nearest trunk and roll away. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

“Her big feet grew roots. She didn’t move to save anyone.” Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

“And these lessons and this learning will be rooted in what all of you brought to this classroom these last few weeks.” A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

The pine shelves smelled sweet and clean, like they were fresh cut, and were filled with bottles and jars of roots and dried flowers. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

I take a quick sip of root beer and look up to see my grandmother’s shocked face staring at me. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

Ron seized his knife, pulled Malfoy’s roots toward him, and began to chop them roughly, so that they were all different sizes. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

Zero clashed with one of the central tenets of Western philosophy, a dictum whose roots were in the number-philosophy of Pythagoras and whose importance came from the paradoxes of Zeno. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

But the roots jutting out of the ground form a perilous web, and I trip again, catching myself on my hands. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Besides this, she always had to keep one eye on our very active pig to keep him from rooting in our small vegetable patch. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

I believed her when she said she was rooting for me. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

They fought in the predawn gloom, shadow against shadow, stumbling over roots and rocks, with mud and rotting leaves beneath their feet. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Then the little mouth rooted against my breast until she had found the nipple for herself. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Half the stuffing has come out and it smells like a root cellar full of damp; but still, an eiderdown—a silk eiderdown! Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

She had calabashes of water and boiled marula juice, a pot of toasted grasshoppers, a basket of tsenza roots, and a small grass mat covered with ripe bramble berries. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Elinor stumbled over a tree root, grabbed at something prickly, and fell to her knees sobbing. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Tomorrow I'll stay here, resting, camouflaging my backpack with mud, catching some of those little fish I saw as I sipped, digging up the roots of the pond lilies to make a nice meal. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Or can we haul that mess out of the old root cellar in the back of the truck? The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

The roots seemed to be shaping themselves around him, slowly pulling him into the earth. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

As the day wore on, Holmes bought them chocolate and lemonade and root beer at one of the Hires Root Beer Oases that dotted the grounds. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

But if you feel you want to go to Africa to find your roots I won’t stop you. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

They don’t tell me to stay safe or nothing like that because they know what’s what, but they’re no doubt rooting for me. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Here the roots and stems of creepers were in such tangles that the boys had to thread through them like pliant needles. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

I had to watch each step I took very carefully, avoiding roots below and branches above, and I soon fell behind. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

When educators promised to open their schools, it was partly because they couldn’t imagine another response; their schools were rooted in the belief that higher education should be available to all. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

They created dark­ ness in the middle of day, and shadows that distorted the path and made him stumble from time to time on roots and rocks. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

Remembering my unkept promise, I pried its roots from the earth with desperate fingers and filled my basket, hoping that Elnora would somehow find them there. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

The different colors spoke of the various soils and minerals that the tree’s roots encountered, some harsh and stunting, some rich and nourishing. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

The root woman was assigned the job of finding out if what he said was true or not. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

I would go to school, do my lessons, and come home to learn root. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

I was pretty sure he was rooting through the trash, too, but we never talked about it. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

At last, I managed to pull the comb through my hair from roots to ends. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

So Sam planted saplings in all the places where specially beautiful or beloved trees had been destroyed, and he put a grain of the precious dust in the soil at the root of each. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

Plan is, we will haul that heap out of the root cellar site. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

“Then our hall will be full of these thick, vertical roots?” asked Hazel. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nowhere had I to stand, no way of climbing, the root and bole being far below, and far above my head the branches and their leaves, massed, overshadowing Kharybdis pool. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The problem, at root, is with the premise of the show — the essential joke that Big Bird doesn’t want to be known as a big bird. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the mornings, before it was too hot, Ultima and I walked in the hills of the llano, gathering the wild herbs and roots for her medicines. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like a human woman, Rachael had every class of object conceivable filched and hidden away in her purse; he found himself rooting interminably. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

My roots sank too deep into this earth. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

We were out at the ranch, up in the hayloft, sweaty from helping Mr. Klauson mend a fence, and we were sharing a bottle of root beer. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

"And when we are done with the Lannisters," he promised, scratching Grey Wind behind the ear, "we will march back north, root you out of your keep, and hang you for an oathbreaker." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Holding on to a fig root, she got into the water and refreshed herself with a quick swim. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

From a pouch which he had with him, he took out powders which he had made from the roots and other substances. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

They looked as rooted to the ground as I was. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

I want them to understand their culture and the ancient roots of their family. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

In order to escape the racial attack that went to the roots of my life, I would have gladly accepted any way of life but the one in which I found myself. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

And like any war, this one also had roots that traveled deeply into the past. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

A host of piglets rooted about three huge sows in the sty. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“Because I don’t know how to make it. Many years ago, my family used to work the roots, like yours. But before I was born, they made a decision to leave those ways behind.” Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Mabel tripped over a cypress root and went sprawling into the water. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

He didn't answer but reached over and put his hand at the root of my hair and ran his fingers out slowly to the tip ends like a comb. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

Mine took hold, rooted, and bloomed, even though there were inevitable adjustments to the new soil and climate. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

The root of the word is that for zoo, because the zodiacal constellations, like Leo, are mainly fancied to be animals. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Taran, hunched against a tree root, pulled his cloak closer about his shoulders. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

Up and up and up she went, methodically climbing past nests and ledges and tiny trees rooted in the cracks, and before long our robot felt the soft soil of the island beneath her feet. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Besides, states that arise quickly, just like all the other natural things that are born and grow rapidly, cannot have roots and branches and will be wiped out by the first adverse weather. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z

Milk-vetch root, dried and ground up in yellowish brown crystals, for strength. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Huge bundles of giant brown roots tied together with rope were balanced on their heads. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

He held on to it like a man clinging to a root on the side of a sheer cliff. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

A tiny head, hair going every which way, poked out from the roots. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

I looked toward Momma, across that square of stained boards, over the collection table, hoping that a look from her would root me safely to my sanity. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Remember that you do not support the root; the root supports you.’” The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Perry, on the other hand, was without appetite; he subsisted on root beer, aspirin, and cigarettes. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

Flame-red hair spills over his forehead and into his eyes, so dark at the roots it’s almost black. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

A root bag might work, but it also felt strange to think of using magic to make Jay care about me again. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

The ratios for equal temperament are all multiples of the twelfth root of two. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

If their folks are such geniuses, how come they spend their days rooting around in the mud? Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

Because Elnora’s eyes were weak and her knees crippled, I helped her by digging roots and measuring tiny pinches of dried plants. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

It stinks of roots and mud and ugly herbs but I’m so tired I let her tie it round my forehead, right over the bandage that’s still stuck on the side of my head. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

Hair the color of root on milky skin. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

Missed upended trees, roots facing sky not earth. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

We had nothing to eat for a long time until Abraham found a pumpkin and an amochro, a short plant with a fleshy, juicy root shaped like an onion. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

I have a few small cuttings taking root in water glasses by the window. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

They went into the house and lay down on the soft moss Mrs. Frisby had placed on the floor of their room under the roots. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

And I know the root cellar door is behind the thorns. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

You could almost feel the trees drinking the water up with their roots. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

My lack of experience was a source of shame and the root of all my insecurities. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

The beginnings of the new warren had been hollowed out among the roots of one of the beech trees. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

I squeeze my eyes shut and try to sink deeper into the moss, stretching out my arms and imagining they are tree roots. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

She was a large woman whose hair was dyed platinum blonde except where you could see the mousy-brown bits growing out from the roots. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

I see it as going back to my roots. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Hundreds and thousands of roots and shoots can solve the problems, change the world, and make it a better place to live. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

In order to root him on, she had taken a rare afternoon off from her live-in job at the judge’s house in Laurelhurst. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

“Veneration of such things as ‘Turkey in the Straw’ is at the very root of our current dilemma.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I am glad the root men give me an excuse not to answer, because, of course, she’s right. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The thread led to a piece of cloth wrapped around one of the arms of the root—the remaining part of the boy's unraveled shirt. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

She found a narrow space between two great roots and crammed herself into it, peering over the buttress beside her and out toward the approaching dust cloud. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

It was growing on the edge of the deepest arroyo, its web of roots exposed, held upright only by a single connecting root. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

With her great pink snout she rooted affectionately under Taran’s chin and came close to knocking him down. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

He says, “I dreamed he sailed over the hole. Over my head. Maybe even over the whole entire root cellar hill.” The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

Part of him was worried about the tactics used by Beatrice’s stepbrother, and part of him was rooting for the kid. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

But if his first fourteen years hadn’t been rooted in a healthy diet of education and the richness of his heritage, Malcolm wouldn’t have found himself gravitating to the prison libraries after he was incarcerated. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Bando,” I say, “Pigs are omnivores. We’ve got to think snakes, fungi, grasshoppers, and big juicy moths as well as bulbs and roots.” On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

There is a little bit of wax stuck in the impression, and I try to root it out with the edge of my nail. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Even on the narrow path, she was constantly shoving past branches and twigs, tripping over roots and rocks. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

The roots had flattened as he made his way here and there, seeking the shortest, safest route from place to place. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

We know the basic parts of a plant—roots, stem, leaves, flowers. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

He had been working, because there were bowls of root cuttings and such on the table, but there was no sign of him now. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Well, these books get down to the root of the why. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

Then he knelt in the gnarled root bed of a tall tree and removed his pack. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

You pinned the flag to my lapel and said, “We’re rooting for you.” Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

The ramp he’d used to jump the creek—just some dirt and roots over rushing water—was crumbling. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Oftentimes I find him asleep on the couch in the living room, his form under a quilt like the exposed root of an old tree. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

“I still don’t think you should,” Bando says as I serve him the fish on a nice thin slab of slate, garnished with watercress and crisp daylily roots. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

I shut my eyes, and instead of darkness, I see rooting hormones. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

When Dryope, terrified at the ominous sight, tried to hurry away, her feet would not move; they seemed rooted in the ground. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Shouldn’t we focus the public’s attention on the so-called root causes of mass incarceration, such as educational inequity? The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Fearing the smell of meat will draw unwanted predators -fresh blood is bad enough -I make a good meal out of the greens and roots and berries Rue and I gathered today. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Then, each in an angle of the great tree’s roots, they curled up in their cloaks and blankets, and were soon fast asleep. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Thus Bacon rejected the distinction, so deeply rooted in his society, between theory and practice. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

With that, he gave a number of furious kicks against the tree roots. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

That’s a good example of root words, as I was telling you. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

At their roots, there’s wilted, crackling scrub, dry bushes. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

“You’re not going to take my babies,” she said to Dorothy, struggling against the changes that had been set in motion by Langley’s letter, but which had roots much deeper than that. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

I felt suddenly faint and somehow still rooted to the ground. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

How long would it take them to root out Caesar? The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

I stared at the knotted roots of the trees on the creek bank, trying hard not to look like I’d just been called adorable. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

Hall Heorot rocked down to its stone roots with the rage of the demon's struggling. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z

He grabbed the oak tree and pulled it from the ground, roots and all. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Baba and Sunny are rooting hard for me; I can feel their love reaching all the way up here. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The square root of a negative number seemed like a ridiculous concept. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

This room, this house, this man were all a part of my roots, all parts of a memory I had always loved. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

“If we do not completely eliminate the roots, the plant will grow back,” we heard. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The stream of root beer shot out and smacked the spider queen right in the face. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Perhaps the story was told to us through the waves of water while we were eggs or whispered to us by the roots of the lotus flowers. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

Sunday morning, I cannot wait to get into the root cellar again. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

Suddenly there are no more roots supplying them with food. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

The ash tree is resilient and handsome and its roots go deep. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

Enrique knows children as young as six or seven whose single mothers have stayed at home and who have had to root through the waste in order to eat. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

There was a clearing directly in front of her, at the center of which an enormous tree thrust up, its thick roots rumpling the ground ten feet around in every direction. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Kitty and I like being nomads, but it has been a long time since we stopped long enough to grow roots. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

I saw that the roots did not go their own independent way into the algae, but rather joined it, became it. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Animal sacrifice is a part of root, Jez. Always has been. We are thankful for their life because it helps preserve ours.” Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

He thinks about roots, about first and second languages. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Charlie leaned sideways and rooted around in a large basket sitting by his chair. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

So I was there to see when they set that big claw down on the roof of the root cellar. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

The weather lifted and the cold and they came at last into the broad lowland river valley, the pieced farmland still visible, everything dead to the root along the barren bottomlands. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

It was morning: The sun shone down in long beams of light, raising the dew from the ground in misty breaths that lingered in the hollows between tree roots. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her eyes were rooted to the two majestic buildings on the screen. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

She stumbled over the roots of a massive, eighty-foot oak that towered above her and landed on her knees. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

For a while, we dig roots, we gather berries and greens, we devise a strategy in hushed voices. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

How did they feel about raising their children without roots? Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

A blast of lightning split the tree down to its roots, opening a smoking crevice. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

The three of them walk-run as best they can the whole way back, over those roots and branches, until they are home. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

There beneath the roots of soggy flowers were the bones of murdered pirates and dinosaurs, the eye of a unicorn turned to coal. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

They had engulfed the great buildings and were slowly ripping apart the soft limestone with their roots. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Who taught me how to put down roots, and thrive on both sun and rain, and understand what it is to bloom. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

"Don’t stop cranking,” Dad shouted at him, "or your tonsils will be next. I’ll pull them out by the roots, myself. Crank, by jingo, crank.” Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

Whatever I cut off, I put under the bush, to feed the roots. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

The central plateau was his roots as an epidemiologist and a clinician, and a model of how a committed staff on a limited budget could raise the standard of health in the third world. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

“You want a cold drink, Grandma? How about a root beer?” Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Get these open as quick as you can,” he said, “and send two rabbits to find out what’s behind the tree roots beyond. If they’re attacked you’re to go and join in at once.” Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Think of minus as the root, not mini. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I take the nuts and replant the roots. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Old Lord Merryweather’s inaction had allowed the rebellion to take root and spread, and Aerys wanted someone young and vigorous to match Robert’s own youth and vigor. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Its branches are spread over most of the greenhouse, and its roots bubble up from the ground, forming a dense web of bark. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Of course in the towns where their families live they have whatever roots are possible—clubs, dances, love affairs, and murders. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

The color seemed darker, what had been traces of a reddish hue were now gone, and only her roots were left, the fine nubs rich and brown. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

He rooted about on a table and produced a parchment map. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

He shrieked and twitched as Kaz yanked out his eyeball, its base trailing a bloody root. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Huge, isolated, it grew in unlikely soil—entwined in its own roots. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Is cleaning house really part of root? Because it sounds like a way to get us to clean for you.” Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Coach murmurs, “Fencing has aristocratic roots. But you belong here. We all do.” Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

I slowed, crawling over thick branches that arched through the air like tentacles before diving into the fertile soil and becoming roots. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

She wedged the boat between the fig-tree roots that snaked down into the water, to keep it from battering against the rocks. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

As they played, rooted in their places, she pranced around the grass in her bare feet and long lemon- yellow dress. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

There were four cups, one with Coca-Cola, one with Pepsi, one root beer, and the last orange pop. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

He snuggled down between the roots of the tree, trying to find a comfortable place where the hard wood did not stick into his shoulder-blades. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Derivatives not obviously connected with the Latin roots are given in the last paragraph of each section. New Word-Analysis 1871-01-01T00:00:00Z

He twists one of his dreads at the root. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

The roots and shoots are you and your friends and young people all around the world. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s over for us. So we’re all rooting for you now, amigo. Good luck.” Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Asha tried to slip to her right, but her feet were tangled in some roots, trapping her. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Whoever thought digging up a random orange root—then eating it—was a good idea? Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

She slid down the muddy bank, clutching at loose roots that ripped away in her hands, and landed in the turgid water, tumbling over and over in the dark and the cold. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

For the infinite had already begun to gnaw at the roots of Western thought, thanks to Zeno of Elea, a philosopher reckoned by his contemporaries to be the most annoying man in the West. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Later at work he had to remove a red tip photinia from someone’s yard, and its root was enormous. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

I give the squirrel to Jessie and put the squash in the root cellar for tomorrow. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Here’s more: “I feel a thousand capacities spring up in me. I am arch, gay, languid, melancholy by turns. I am rooted, but I flow. All gold, flowing...” All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

And gradually the idea took root that magic was merely an old country superstition. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

All around me, clothes looked like they’d sprouted roots and bloomed on their hangers. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

I swore it would grow to be a massive tree whose roots would strangle them all. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

“You already knew the answer. Now second question, what is the square root of sixteen?” The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

“Will you get us a root beer, Cam?” she asked, all loud and obvious. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

The magician was inside, with Archimedes sitting on the back of his chair, busily trying to find the square root of minus one. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

The salsa music was new and always evolving into something else, but it always returned to its afro-ji'baTO-antillano roots. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

The question sprang up like a lone weed; ugly, and deeply rooted. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Dalton’s simple insight was that at the root of all matter are exceedingly tiny, irreducible particles. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

She stood rooted to the ground, trembling against my leg as if a gale were blowing. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

And so Bono and I, Clippinger and Olakunde lay that night in the mud of the marsh, flies thick upon our heads, roots around our fingers, guns lain in leaves upon the shore. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

Yoren was stooped and sinister, his features hidden behind a beard as black as his clothing, but he seemed as tough as an old root and as hard as stone. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Descartes thought that these numbers were even worse than negative numbers; he came up with a scornful name for the square roots of negatives: imaginary numbers. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

At first, most Americans believed that if an exposition honoring the deepest roots of the nation were to be held anywhere, the site should be Washington, the capital. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

He laid down the new ones and went rooting through the rubble. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

Startled, she dropped the spear, which stuck fast in a fat tree root. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

The ground around the roots, however, was free of snow, and Harry could see no sign of footprints. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

That one we built in the root cellar. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

“You don’t know anything about root magic! That’s not how it works!” Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

The word Aryan used to mean noble—it’s an old Sanskrit word, and Mom says it’s actually the root word for Iran—but it means something different now. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Once, last year, I had asked Gran to teach me and Jay some root magic. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

As the big tree had fallen, the roots had been tom and twisted from the ground. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lyra felt a blush from the roots of her hair to the soles of her feet; Pantalaimon became a brown moth to hide. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

From time to time, the two of them talk about ointments and roots. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

Her stick caught at roots knotted under the earth of the path, and she stumbled from time to time. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

All I found were acorns and bitter roots. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

The word ‘investigate’ has as its root meaning to follow tracks when hunting. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Ultimately, our omnivore’s dilemma is rooted in our nature as human beings—but we’ve made our choices much harder than they used to be. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Trees enveloped the great buildings, their roots slowly ripping apart the soft limestone walls. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

The trees were torn from their roots as it crashed through the forest. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

They lit a fire in a hollow, down among the roots of a spreading hawthorn, tall as a tree, writhen with age, but hale in every limb. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Finn fell asleep draped in Kittens and dreamed that the corn walked the earth on skinny white roots, liked to joke with the crows, and wasn’t afraid of anything. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

It has faded to a rusty brown, with blond roots. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

If identical twins possess a strong concordance for schizophrenia, say, while fraternal twins—born and bred in an identical environment—show little concordance, then the roots of that illness can be firmly attributed to genetics. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

The second, as you may suspect from its root word, torture, means “painful.” Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“There’s a hole dug out back for a septic tank. We could use that. Cyclops boy, fetch my ice chest from the kitchen. I hope the dead like root beer.” The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

They saw Lupin, Ron, and Pettigrew clambering awkwardly out of the hole in the roots. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

Harry stood rooted on the spot and watched them disappear. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

The heart tree at Winter- fell had roots as thick around as a giant’s legs, but these were even thicker. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“I like to surround myself with reminders of ancient Kemet so the boys and I never forget our imperial roots. You know anything about that?” Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

He leaned over and kissed me, and I smelled the root beer and the strawberry and the sadness all mixed together on his breath. Because of Winn-Dixie 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

When cattle eat the leaves of a grass, the plant will kill off some of its roots, to balance itself out. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

In late April when the mosquitoes, flies, and gnats come out, Kainta shows me how a layer of bear grease mixed with a powder of red puccoon root keeps the bugs away. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

When the knights finally bear the body away and no one is searching for us anymore, the Ghost leads me across the roots again. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Even his opponents recognized that Harrison, despite his privileged roots, made an intensely appealing candidate for the city’s lesser tier. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

I look into Hudson’s eyes, and I know he’s not only rooting for my love, but he’s aching for the heartbreak that may be coming my way. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

It is April now, and the rain falls in sweet showers that hathe every root and swelling hud of nature. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Though his hair was as blue as his son’s, he had red roots and redder eyebrows. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

High John looked worried as he pulled the root bag from around his neck and laid it above Ayanna’s heart. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

With the sea literally at their backs, on a cliffy tongue of land, they had built their tingle wail across the root of the tongue. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Vines dangled from low-hanging branches, and roots dipped in and out of the water, while the treetops disappeared into blurry white, as if some supreme cartoonist had forgotten to finish drawing them. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

We ride on through a cavern, between pillars of roots, over packed earth. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Richard and I dig up sassafras root to chew on to ease our hunger. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

“Sometimes roots are like that. Very deep. Much deeper than people can see.” We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

Their hair died at the roots and fell out in clumps, as if they had received radiation bums. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

But now at last, sweet fantasy has found root in your blessed soul! Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

His full weight hung from a tree that was rooted to the rock wall. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

He called them “false roots,” which explains why he never extended his coordinate system to the negative numbers. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

But now the feelings were twisted, tangled roots, and all the names for the source of this growth were buried under English words, out of reach. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

This whole time I’d been rooted in place, terrified into absolute immobility. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Several people curse as they trip on roots and fallen branches. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

“A girl at school made fun of me for working root,” I said. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

There was a path of sorts, a meandering footpath of cracked stones overgrown with moss, half-buried beneath blown dirt and fallen leaves and made treacherous by thick brown roots pushing up from underneath. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

He pretended that he didn’t know that the square root of four was two. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

They are gentle with my new leaves, careful with my exposed roots. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Hangman was gripping the root of my tongue and every letter in the alphabet was a stammer-letter. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

Its twisted roots went down into his own being. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z

The wheelbarrow swayed as it bumped over a root. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

I used instead the root of a tree which I shaped into a point and hardened in the fire. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Johanna sits on a tree root to wait, but the Amity do not burst into conversation as they did the last time I was here. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

I wanted to drop the stick and run too, but I went on digging roots because they were needed in the village. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

A few drops of root beer spilled, and Tantalus tried to dab them up with his fingers, but the drops rolled away like quicksilver before hie could touch them. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

The steady rooted ones stayed home and are still there. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

He looks up and all around the root cellar. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

In this view we are a restless species with a very short history of roots, and those not widely distributed. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

He finished his root beer and pushed the intercom button. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ultima and I had visited the place in search of roots and herbs. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Thorn posed dramatically as she walked, and Valley covered her face, nearly tripping on a tree root. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

Another well beneath another root was the Well of Knowledge, guarded by Mimir the Wise. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Kaede was rooted to the spot, stunned by what was happening in front of her. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

In other words, 3 is a zero or a root of the expression 4x – 12. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Most had already sprouted in the previous weeks, but their little roots had not held them to the Reverend Farmer’s flat-as-Kansas beds against the torrent. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

With Gran’s passing, school starting, and starting our root training, I almost forgot. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

“Kind of like you...convict choir boy from the root vegetable family.” Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

If you’ve ever seen a dog bury a bone, or a spotted green chipmunk rooting for a lost acorn, you will know what I’m talking about. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

I just stared at him, rooted to the spot. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

‘Do you know, Sam,’ he said at length, ‘the beastly tree threw me in! I felt it. The big root just twisted round and tipped me in!’ The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

A guy whose strings were broken, who didn’t feel the root of his leaf of grass connected to the field, a guy who was cracked. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

She harvested all her plants from the little island—leaves, seeds, and roots—leaving nothing to replant in the rainy season. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Thousands of fans spent lazy summer evenings rooting for their family and friends on teams in an industrial baseball league that included the Swift Premiums. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Back home with Jay and Doc, learning to work root. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

“Grass is already brown, but these roots are too dry to hold water. Pretty soon, any rain that comes is going to be too late.” Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The only green things were the acacia trees, which have long roots that grow deep into the ground. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

She carefully untied and spread the embroidered wrapping, then took out his diaper moss and brushed him off like a root pulled from the ground. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

What if he got to the root cellar after me? The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

Hazel sat nibbling and biting, the rich, full taste of the cultivated roots filling him with a wave of pleasure. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were some plants that Ultima could not obtain on the llano or the river, but many people came to seek cures from her and they brought in exchange other herbs and roots. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

As he approached, Groundsel backed down the further tunnel and began cleaning his claws on a projecting root. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

What prevented them from taking root and flourishing? Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Of course, since I am a Jew profoundly rooted in my people’s memory and tradition, my first response is to Jewish fears, Jewish needs, Jewish crises. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

He first cut off the bush at the base, then started on the root, but no matter how deep he dug, he never could seem to get to the bottom of it. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

The lower part of the long face was covered with a sweeping grey beard, bushy, almost twiggy at the roots, thin and mossy at the ends. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Then I realized: while Mama didn’t work roots, she thought keeping the story about Daddy a secret was protecting us. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

They were in there somewhere, changing her friend’s thoughts, warping her feelings, gnawing at the roots of who she was. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

“We’re branches grafted on this good tree, Mrs. Price. The great root of Africa sustains us. I wish you wisdom and God’s mercy.” The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

If I die weep at my grave every day until a seedling appears in the dirt, then cry on it to make it grow until it becomes a beautiful tree whose roots surround my body. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

Dell drives me to the Southside plant nursery on Saturday and we buy rooting hormone and three large bags of potting soil. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

A second daughter, Polly, was born that year, and as his business took root Harry bought a stump farm—160 acres of recently logged land southwest of town. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

“Tripped over a tree root,” he said angrily, getting to his feet again. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

At the words a dragging numbness came upon her, her feet seemed rooted in the earth she had been so swiftly speeding over. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a back eddy from where the water came around the big tree roots and such hanging down. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

They’d roam the nearby forests and meadows, gathering mushrooms, digging up edible roots, catching frogs and occasionally running away from tigers. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Great trees, bare and silent, stood, rank on rank, with tangled bough and hoary head; their twisted roots were buried in the long green grass. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

“Buy us a root beer,” she said, finally all the way around me. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

The roots were almost a foot long, like a stubble of whiskers. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

It existed now in a permanent state of windblownness, leaning over so far that it seemed ready to topple, although, in fact, its roots held it firmly in place. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Because it said in this article there’s a cure, a special root tea— “Mother,” I say, shutting my eyes tight. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

It made me shiver, not because it was cold but because the roots of everything I had ever believed in seemed shaken. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’d even broken off a branch so he could root around. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

“They were rooting for me to try and find you. They had suggested Craigslist, but my mom wasn’t having it.” What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

When he had finished them—which he did in a humiliatingly short time—he surveyed the lotus root, wiping it on the mat of crushed grasses and wondering how he was going to cut it. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

I want to dash to the infield and root them around Rigor Mortis Bend. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

I stumble on, Manchee behind me, the flashlight not much good against every ruddy little branch and root and puddle in a great big swamp. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

I didn't know I would have to root my feet in place so intentionally, just to make sure I didn't run away. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

His white hair was fine and thin as root hair and long enough to brush against the earthen floor. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I draw tulips and trees, putting a line for the ground and including the root systems in every case. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

A group of people stand around my unfinished house laughing and talking, holding old-fashioned bottles of root beer. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

Her husband, on the other hand, was like an oak: “He may be torn up by the roots. He may break. But he will never bend.” Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

Harry kept his eyes on his ginger roots, listening hard. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

He rooted through them until he found one he liked: a long, thin one. Fourth Grade Rats 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

A few trees surrounded it, their roots like gnarled hands digging into the rock floor for food. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

When they caught a glimpse of the country westward the distant Forest seemed to be smoking, as if the fallen rain was steaming up again from leaf and root and mould. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

On either side of the road are enormous, stately trees that look like their roots are growing into the sky instead of underground. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

Why is a cent the hundredth root of a semitone, and why is a semitone the twelfth root of an octave? Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

Elizebeth rooted for her readers even as she pushed them to excel. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

“I’ll water it when the earth has cooled a little. If you water a plant when the earth is too warm, it shocks the roots.” Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The sort of things you’ve seen me and your gran doing since you were young, that’s only part of what working the roots is about,” Doc said. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

As she was almost past the island, she spied a giant fig tree with long roots snaking down to the water. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Snape approached their table, stared down his hooked nose at the roots, then gave Ron an unpleasant smile from beneath his long, greasy black hair. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

The brown swirling waters lapped at my feet, and the monotonous chirping of the grillos as they sang in the trees mixed into a music which I felt in the roots of my soul. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

You tore it from the ground by the roots. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

They called themselves Patriots, which meant they were rooting for the Americans to win the war. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z

In the pattern-thinking about roots I and most other people have left two things out of consideration. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

In small groups we followed Mrs. Baker onto a path that went mostly uphill while jutting up as many tree roots as it could to trip us. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

And Mom—well, Mom has her own sordid history with the bottle; we’re not even allowed to have root beer around the lady. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

Trees creaked and groaned, and roots tangled my feet, but still I moved forward. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

We brought the chickens up from out of the root cellar to get fresh air and sunlight. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

It is also said that “one of the roots goes up to Asgard.” Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Ancient sighed and picked up Heqet’s knife to slice a lotus root. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

This time, it knocked the tree over, causing an explosion of earth and rock as the tree’s roots tore out of the ground. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Ugly old women, every one of them, but all that praying and scrubbing and beating novices with sticks had left them tough as roots. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

And as if after dragging up roots, she has finally managed to yank them free of the soil they have clung to, she finds she can move her own feet toward the car. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

There’s an initial sense of impact followed by an explosion that resonates in my innermost parts, the lining of my intestines, the marrow of my bones, the roots of my teeth. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

She blindly felt with her hands and recognized the thick roots and trunk of a pine tree. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Two pieces of groosling, a small mishmash of roots, and a handful of dried fruit. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

“Is this why people think root is wrong?” Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

His wound had stiffened so that he could not settle himself on the roots and pebbles. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

Three aspirin, cold root beer, and a chain of Pall Mall cigarettes—that was his notion of a proper “chow- down.” In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

And a field of mixed grasses with a deep root system is much more likely to survive dry spells and droughts. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Greenberg’s first step was something that would make no sense if you did not understand the true roots of Korean Air’s problems. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

She stood still, her bare feet rooted to the cool cement. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

He says, “Sorry, Mason. Sorry about the root cellar...” The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

I spotted some students from my school, walking toward the nearby football stadium, on their way to watch the game and root for our team. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

She said that they needed to put down a real root system to achieve their potential. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

Then, in what was either a brilliant stroke of luck or a bit of disastrously poor timing, depending on whether you were rooting for the squirrel or the children, the doors swung open. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

When she told him about their nightly promenades, their whispers, and their suffocated cries, Jean de Satigny was rooted to his chair, his fork frozen in midair and his mouth locked open. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

We walk across roots and beams, unnoticed, jumping silently high above swarms of liveried servants. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Only moss, grass, lichens, and a few hardy flowers take root in the thin upper layer that thaws briefly in summer. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The root of the hoary, decumbent, and less elegant, but larger-flowered Hedysarum mackenzii is poisonous, and nearly killed an old Indian woman at Fort Simpson, who had mistaken it for that of the preceding species. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I smile at her and touch her face, pulling the short hairs out and killing the roots of them. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

Then the weakened roots, having grown accustomed to the poison, responded one day to severe pressure, and the tooth fell free, leaving a ragged stump behind. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

Trying not to appear eager, I rooted through the box I was kneeling beside, pretending to check sizes, but covertly I kept an eye on my mom. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Write a triad in root position using each root given. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

Already they seemed to have been tramping on, on, endlessly to the mountains’ roots. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Thus, instead of a way out for Bloom, Linda threatened to reaffirm the roots he badly wanted to destroy. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The roots of her irritation were long and many branched and deep. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

They had no more huge feasts, but the leftover pieces of the cooked rabbit lasted a few days, and roots and tubers were plentiful every time they reached a river. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her hair, once an even curve from part to shoulder, was now unkempt and frizzled at the roots and tips, smooth only in the middle. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

Any large-scale human cooperation—whether a modern state, a medieval church, an ancient city or an archaic tribe—is rooted in common myths that exist only in people’s collective imagination. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

He wandered off a little way into the clearing, kicking his feet against the tree roots, stirring up the leaves. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

He went with her to learn about the roots and plants she had gathered. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

“So have I. And I can tell you the roots are edible.” The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

The Chicano roots she had rejected had refused to shrivel and die; the culture she had hoped to adopt had refused to compensate. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He is rooted to the stone floor, regarding me as if I am a puzzle. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Alys tended her there, holding her head so that she could sip warm liquid made from chopped wild sunflower roots simmered in spring water. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

See, my family, if you had a been part of them, you wouldn’t have time for this foolishness, your roots, so to speak. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“How do you know which roots to pick, which herbs are safe?” Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You should have learned the art of questioning from Amaka. Why does the tree’s shoot go up and the root down? Why is there a sky? What is life? Just why?” Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

We are still and silent in the secret of the root cellar. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

“I was down in the root cellar all day and then I come up to see what a gift God gave us today. That sky. And them hogs...” The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

The tree’s roots, thickly twisted and fanning out like huge, grasping fingers, snaked out from its base. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Rewrite each chord in root position, and name the original position of the chord. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

Their roots could be roasted like yams or even eaten raw if she was really hungry. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Me: IT sits on my table, ITs leg smears my chalk drawing, blurring the roots into a mossy fog. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

By that point, I’m not sure there really even was a middle class anymore—just all of us hoeing for root vegetables next to our cracked aboveground pools. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“It’s just, we don’t know to what degree we’ll succeed. If any. My guess is that fearful events are the hardest to root out. They’re the ones we naturally remember the best, after all.” Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

“Your dad scheduled a root canal at five P.M., so we won’t be home until later.” Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

He was like a scientist who had pursued the root of cancer all his life. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Just as my hand closed on a root I thought my feet touched bottom, but I wasn’t sure. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Few axes had ever swung in that black wood, where even the moonlight could not penetrate the ancient tangle of root and thorn and grasping limb. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

If it bothers you that the ratios in equal temperament are roots, remember the pure octaves and fifths of the harmonic series. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

Now we never have lotus root, except boiled, and I like it better raw, don’t you?” The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

There were still piles of dogtooth violet bulbs and Solomon’s seal roots and a few dried apples. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hairy plants sent bleached roots out of tiny pots. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

After I had gathered enough roots and bulbs and smoked enough fish to last Alice and me for a couple of months, I began it. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Want your root beer in a champagne flute?” Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

I’d tripped over an aboveground root bent like an arthritic finger and picked up a limp. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

Science has been very slow to take root. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“My granda always told me that fall’s the time to root up something you don’t want coming back to trouble you.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

He clung to tree roots until someone heard his calls and hauled him out. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Before he gets to the door I say, “Let’s make sure he sees that the root cellar is gone. Make him happy.” The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

They knew the seeds of goodwill had not yet taken root. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

In 1974, instead of reclaiming his roots by visiting Bursa, my father renounced them. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Its dark hurrying waters ran across the path before them, and joined the Silverlode in a swirl of dim pools among the roots of trees. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Late that summer we picked the fruit green and stored it in a root cellar he had dug under our new barracks. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fears of interracial sex and marriage have deep roots in the United States. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

It held a number of small plants, all of them the same kind, with stringy roots and dark, veined green leaves that looked like mint. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

After Knighthood changed hands, a rumor began circulating that someone from the horse’s erstwhile rooting section had placed a curse on him. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Together they woke Hake, who received the Lord Commander's orders with a stream of curses, but got up all the same and soon had a dozen brothers cutting roots for a soup. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Henry has got some of Esme’s island music playing and uses his root beer bottle as a microphone to sing to us while he cooks. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

At the shattered pine tree, a woman knelt at a cave entrance that had cracked open between the tree’s roots. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

The crowd surges around me, but I am rooted to the spot as Taryn leans in and tucks a stray bit of hair behind Locke’s ear. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

This grove of oaks is where they dig for acorns, roots, and grubs. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Glancing over his shoulder, he stepped onto the brown lawn that blanketed my roots. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Gently, I settled the first coneflower in the earth and packed the powdery dirt in around the roots. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

When both twigs were undressed Nel moved easily to the next stage and began tearing up rooted grass to make a bare spot of earth. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Later, as I sat at the lunch counter in the five-and- dime to have a root beer, I could hardly eat for keeping watch all around me. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Rue's pack holds my sleeping bag, her nearly empty water skin, a handful of nuts and roots, a bit of rabbit, her extra socks, and her slingshot. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

To stay alive, I need a vast network of roots. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

I put in the meat and roots, swap in fresh rocks, and go find something green to spice it up a little. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

She could not stop herself, even as she stumbled over tree roots, but at last she broke free of the Wood and began to cross the meadow. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Exactly what I’d wear to the studio if I weren’t bound to the root vegetable look. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Since the square root of 9 is 3 and the square root of % is Vi, we conclude that 3 inches = Vi yard! Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Or do you suppose this is a red herring and that the abandonment of the gold standard is at the root of the matter?' The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

But do we know enough about the sunlight that warmed them, the soil in which they put down the roots, and the rabbits and lumberjacks they were lucky enough to avoid? Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

They lit a small fire down under the gnarled roots of an old pine, that hung over a shallow pit: it looked as if stone had once been quarried there. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Her neck looks like it’s got tree roots running up and down it. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

“What would I get if I added powdered root of asphodel to an infusion of wormwood?” Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

There wasn’t much in the garden yet beyond spring onions and baby kale, but she still had some potatoes and carrots in the root cellar, and cooking had brought them back to life. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

After the roots and leavings we had existed on, I was grateful enough for the food, but of what she bought Nathan would not touch a morsel. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

The committee was brusque, thorough, and relentless in rooting out inaccuracies, inconsistencies, incomprehensible statements, and illogical conclusions obscured by technical gibberish. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Dr. Cable’s pendant seemed to grow heavier and heavier, wound around her neck as tightly as the vines, brush, and roots grasping the railroad tracks. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

He was rooted in Georgia because of the seal on his birth certificate. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Black rats and a pig root around in a ravine where the children play. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Before long the ground ahead of the column was blanketed in white, concealing stones and twisted roots and deadfalls, turning every step into an adventure. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Large rodents nosed among the roots and munched contentedly on fallen nuts. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Each time he cantered around the little training track, a happy whoop went up from his rooting section. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Other plant foods included berries, fruits, seeds, leaves, shoots, bulbs, and roots. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

All triads are transformed in some way if the root in the bass line is not the same as the bottom note of the triad. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

The roots of Indian mathematics are hidden by time. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

It’s all a muddle, but I somehow feel that if I went back to the root of our troubles, my actions would be at the heart of it. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

I rooted my feet to the ground, waiting for him to pass. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

And if she thought too hard about her, Hazel would just stop right there in the woods and wait for herself to take root. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

I got macaroni and cheese and she got a root beer float, and we drove back home to the superior wilds of Brooklyn. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

But this horned toad wore furry plant roots as bracelets and even a necklace of sweetgrass. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Both sets of animals obligingly drank up the root beer. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

I think this: The root cellar is a room. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

She closed her eyes, willing herself to be rooted there, in that chair, and she gripped the armrest until the pattern carved in it rose up to meet her fingers, solid and reassuring. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

NOTE—In Division II, the English derivatives from Latin roots are given in abbreviated form, and are arranged in paragraphs under the particular radicals, from which the several groups of derivatives are formed. New Word-Analysis 1871-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now see if you can identify these chords that are not necessarily in root position. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

Other than his mother, who sat in her shack with six. younger sons working roots, he had never met an interesting woman in his life. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

“It looked just the way it does now. A clearing, lots of sunshine, that big tree with all those knobby roots. We stopped and everyone took a drink, even the horse.” Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

He sat by Cathy and chatted about the pieplant roots just come in. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

During the spring of 1955 many of these growers undertook a large-scale program to control the strawberry root weevil, whose larvae had become abundant on the roots of the hops. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

“Maybe the flowers are poisonous. I’m not eating the flowers. I’m eating the roots.” The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

I look up at her, smelly brown root water dripping down my face, and I turn back to look at Wilf, up there driving his cart. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

Then there was the heavier rooting around of an armadillo, stupid and awkward in its heavy armor. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

One of them reached out to her, and her fingers resembled roots twisting up from them ground. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Trees, overgrown and huge, grow beyond the cement fixtures intended to keep them enclosed, their roots sprawling over the pavement. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Of course the Greeks too had their roots in the primeval slime. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then he grabbed Kuwei and launched them both into the black mouth beneath the roots of the tree. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Then the bacteria, fungi, and earthworms will get to work breaking the old roots down into rich brown humus. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

I was sitting in a taxi, wondering if I had overdressed for the evening, when I looked out the window and saw Mom rooting through a Dumpster. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

“She admits it! She’s one of those root witches that poison people’s minds. My mom says you can’t expect anything from them. They don’t know any better.” Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

And at the root of the hill were secret caves. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

The roots had grown in and around and through them, every one. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The roots were black, and the top third was bright yellow. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

But later, at the stoplight, I say: "I'm trying not to put down permanent roots. That's probably what you should tell people like Henry." Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

So I had to root for Methuselah to learn to be free. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

A hundred blossoms grew up from the roots, and the fragrance was very sweet. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

And these trees have deep roots, so grounded that even though they bend, they don’t break. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

He left the cleared yard and headed to where the uneven ground was snarled with roots and brush. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

We were debating whether or not Chubs had broken his toe against an exposed tree root when the wail of a truck’s horn shattered the silence. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Pretty soon, we are in the root cellar. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

An electric current seemed to course through Harry, jangling his every nerve as he stood rooted to the spot. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Write the augmented triad for each root given. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

I take another swig of root beer to unglue my mouth—just in case I have to cry for help. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

The enemy was upon him; he was rooted helpless to the spot. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Kind people have a way of working their way inside me and rooting there. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

There was no sound but the creaking of the wagon as it floundered through the sour-smelling mud and over mammoth tree roots. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

Axel, like his own fence, like Byrd’s potting shed, like the flower boxes, like the remaining trees, is rooted to the ground. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

An elm tree seems to shade the world with its aerial roots. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Staring at thick, twisted tree roots, I scan upward, seeing green extending higher, glowing against craggy granite and rock. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

Yet the roots of inequality in the modern world lie far back in prehistory. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Bags of sassafras and licorice root and birdeye vine sat open for bargaining, and by the time we poked around those a minute, Constantine’s whole body’d be rambling and loose in the joints. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Now the hair was gray at the roots and chopped into a bob. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

This means pigs have been rooting here overnight. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

I say, “Guess we turned out the light. Down in the root cellar.” The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

A pair of hands, his own, digging for roots. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

The antebellum plantation system had never taken root in West Virginia the way it had farther east and south. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

"It's just a root," the girl said, confused. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

Adam led him to it, and Cyrus looked down at the nestlike hole between the roots. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh yes she does. Says she don’t want us rooting around in there without her permission. But I usually manage to save something.” Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

These modern tensions have roots going back thousands of years. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

"Come, let us see what mischief my sons have rooted out now." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Before them a pale lord in ebon finery sat dreaming in a tangled nest of roots, a woven weirwood throne that embraced his withered limbs as a mother does a child. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

In this darkness she dared not run, for fear of tripping on some unseen root or losing her way. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

He had decided not to truckle with Might any more—to cut it out root and branch, by establishing another standard altogether. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her aqua hair lies flat instead of in spikes and you can see the roots growing in gray. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

This may be the root of his budget problem with the school board. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

The roots weren’t thick or strong enough to do much more than annoy the Titan. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

Lord Eddard Stark sat upon a rock beside the deep black pool in the godswood, the pale roots of the heart tree twisting around him like an old man’s gnarled arms. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

There are uncountable snakes at the base of the tree, biting at the roots. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

A fistful of tubers had hit the Cloak over Ron’s head; the slimy green roots were suspended improbably in midair as Ron tried to shake them loose. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Two was always the square root of four. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

He was too slippery to hold on to, but with both of us, we could push him against the bank as we stood on some tree roots to keep our footing. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was root beer for future floats, and chocolate chips for future chocolate chip cookies. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

Where his other eye should have been, a thin white root grew from an empty socket, down his cheek, and into his neck. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Her box is empty, so she roots through the bin for her mail. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

The roots sank so deep that the vine was nearly impossible to remove. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

She wasn’t family, but wasn’t it a good idea to try and educate people who didn’t know about root but wanted to? Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

In addition to vegetables and fruits, they eat insects, grass, roots, and small pieces of clay, which they chew and swallow, perhaps to get salt and minerals. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She took many herbs and roots from her black bag and mixed them into the warm oily water. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Only a few leaves were crushed, and the roots are fine. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

And there is no difference between the killing of Prince Jones and the murders attending these killing fields because both are rooted in the assumed inhumanity of black people. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Shadrack stood at the foot of the hospital steps watching the heads of trees tossing ruefully but harmlessly, since their trunks were rooted too deeply in the earth to threaten him. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Inside, she had all manner of herbs, seeds, sprigs, and plant roots. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

For variety I ate a quarter of the nuts and roots raw. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

And Harry realized, with a shock so huge it seemed to root him to the spot, that Malfoy was crying —-actually crying — tears streaming down his pale face into the grimy basin. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Her hair is frizzly and short, red with darker roots, and I suspect she is chewing gum: every once in a while there is a slow, furtive, sideways motion of her jaw. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

They were passionate women, but their devotions were like roots; they were sunk into the past towards the old man. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

The local girls whispered when I walked past, and once or twice I heard the word “root.” Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Driving the big highway near Toledo I had a conversation with Charley on the subject of roots. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

I would save the roots and nuts for hard climbs, the places where nothing grew, the emergency should I not find the hut. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sellsword scrambled backward, checking each blow, stepping lithely over rock and root, his eyes never leaving his foe. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z