He loved all of it: smoke rings and lonely squids and giant donuts and Flora Belle Buckman’s round head and all the wonderful thoughts inside of it. Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z

Delsa took one look at her, then at Mami, and her black eyes opened round and wide like those on a doll baby. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

He saw the dark intelligent eyes come slowly round and fasten themselves upon his face. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

Later, at one of the round rusting metal tables in the comer of the warehouse that served as the lunch area, I found out more about my new writer friend. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

It went right round the jar, and as she read it, she had to keep turning the jar. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

They have chin-length, wavy brown hair, a pale, round face, and thick, dark eyebrows. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

His voice echoed all round the clearing, very high and hollow. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

And there was Arletta Paisley—her rounded cheeks lifted by an easy smile, blonde, with deep blue eyes, all soft and comforting. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

After the meal, the guards began rounding up groups. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

Sometimes Dorian forgot how little he looked like his father—it was his younger brother, Hollin, who took after the king, with his broad frame and his round, sharp-eyed face. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

The footmen all wore knee-breeches and every one of them displayed beautifully rounded calves and ankles. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

He looked round him, at the dark fir trees on the hills surrounding the lake, and at his mother and Mr Hooper, only paying attention to each other, now. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

The children’s eyes grew round when she told them about the escape from Nimh, and even rounder when she described her own capture and escape from the birdcage. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

The room spun round me, a swirl of lights, smoke, sweating bodies surrounded by tense white faces. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Soon the path reached a rounded angle where the mountain-side swelled out again, and there it suddenly entered a narrow opening in the rock. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

We fill our bellies as best we can and I shove the rest of the food into Viola’s bag, now hanging round my shoulders. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

It’s like a picnic, sort of, except we are sitting at a round table under bright lights that buzz. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

The hobbits saw that they were descending into a great dingle, almost as round as a bowl, very wide and deep, crowned at the rim with the high dark evergreen hedge. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Put the other way round, our attention would have been held even more effectively had there been an underlying pull of simple narrative. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

The round and round became a back and forth. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He produced a round, black pebble and held it up. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Estimation is generally not taught either, aside from a few lessons on rounding off numbers. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

He shot two more rounds when I fired the second time, but I didn’t hear any of those rounds, either. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

The waitress swings by again to take the second round of orders, and within twenty minutes, we’ve got a mountain of food. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

This was plain and unadorned for the most part, but all well and fairly made: round platters, bowls and dishes of glazed brown clay or turned box-wood, smooth and clean. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

When Bobby arrived at the Empire Hotel in December 1959 for the first round of the U.S. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

When I heard the Nazis were rounding up workers to send them to another camp, I made sure I was at the front of the line. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

Nothing could be seen all round the house but falling water. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Late in the afternoon, I rounded a bend to find a wild turkey and her chicks crossing the trail ahead of me. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

She stood and pressed her palms together just as Ritu auntie rounded the corner in her wheelchair, pushed, as usual, by her silent, watchful new daughter-in-law, Seema. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

There they all were, a little round of people. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

It gets all in my shoes and I walk ’round with cold, wet toes all day. Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

After a while our talk came ’round to it, so I told her. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

They circled round and round the stranded steamer chatting excitedly. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Later.—I went after my round to Van Helsing and told him my suspicion. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

He had wire-rimmed glasses, a round, ruddy, pleasant face with a mustache, a light Texas drawl. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

"And anyway," he thought, "of course they'll be round on the far side of the farthest Tomb, not this side where anyone might see them from the city." The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

All the way down the hall to her room, Mrs. Mole kept turning round and making leering faces at us, and ugly, oinking noises. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

My hand flapped and Mum’s mouth went round like an O. ‘He defied the law of gravity, Mum. He went up but he didn’t come down. Which means Newton got it wrong. Hrumm.’ The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

Kropp has the round lid of a margarine tub under his arm. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Moon grows from nothing to a thin sliver to a round ball, and then back again to nothing. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Vockins’s brother, had been round a third time for a blackout inspection. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

She stops at a drawing of a round, windowless room illuminated only by light that filters through the koi pond enclosed in glass above it. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

The Horse trotted round by the fields in the dusk and met Shasta at the far side. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

What I ended up grabbing was a round, mossy-topped rock—or so I thought, until the rock started speaking. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

This morning I purposely overstuffed my game bag with food, knowing my mother would see the depleted pantry and assume I was making my rounds to the hungry. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

That improves our chances of rounding them up.” Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

He rounded a corner of the Maze, then another. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Standing in the center of a ring of zipper-hunting twins, the Head Nurse looked round. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

The cars shift and jerk as we round a corner, and I stop, clinging to the top rail until we’re once again on a straightaway. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

Ten minutes later they were at Stoke Poges and had started their first round of Obstacle Golf. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

The crow’s feet round his eyes were beaming. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

A message from the porter announced that, at the Warden’s orders, a Reservation Guard had come round with a plane and was waiting on the roof of the hotel. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

For, while it was not quite square, it was definitely not round, and for its size it was larger than almost any other big package of smaller dimension that he’d ever seen. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

The dogs immediately made a ring round Squealer, and escorted him back to the farmhouse as soon as he was able to walk. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

The four Old Ones scattered hastily into the hall, where the strange blue-white cylinders still hung ghostly round the three walls, burning with their dead cold flames. The Dark is Rising 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

Plainly exposed were two holes—simple, round rat holes. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

He was Little Walder even though he was tall and stout, with a red face and a big round belly. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Mr. Blunt’s round face swelled and turned red. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

On Wednesday, June 16, Bobby, wearing a short-sleeved polo shirt, arrived at the Roosevelt Hotel escorted by Nigro, to witness the first round of the historic match. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

No one in our group looks to be much older than twenty, and I wonder if everyone here is like Ida, someone rounded up from one of the patrol schools and sent out here. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

“No future round here. And believe me, I didn’t mind gettin’ away from Pa. I got me a job in Jackson loadin’ trucks and might start drivin’ one in a year or two. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

Merry looked round: he had forgotten the war, and all the world beside, and many hours it seemed since the king rode to his fall, though in truth it was only a little while. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

The music was tootling, the horses were going round and round, the lights were blazing—and no one was there! Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

One brownstone was rotund—like a jolly, well-fed grandfather—with a curved facade and decorative curlicues above round, owlish windows. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Then he rounded his hands into fists, set them on the table, and leaned down, his arms pillars supporting his top half. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

Part of her scalp slipped off, revealing a perfectly round hole in the back of her skull. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Dedd and Mama had gone to the capital to make their rounds. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then he announces, “The two teams with the highest scores from all preliminary rounds will meet for what we call a ‘quiz-off,’ so point totals are critical. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

At her first big golf tournament there was a row that nearly reached the newspapers--a suggestion that she had moved her ball from a bad lie in the semi-final round. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

We used to make fun of his laugh, which amused him greatly, touching off another round of “Heeerrrrrr! Heerrrrrrr!” from him, prompting further outraged giggles from us. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

We rounded a corner, and Aech and I both froze before the entrance of a giant room filled with row after row of old videogames. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Hollister led them to a round table decorated for Halloween with a giant paper spider, a witch’s cauldron, and cotton-strewn webs. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

The bicycle pulled up before the porch, a seventeen- year-old colored boy on it, all arms and feet and long legs and round watermelon head. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

From what I remember, none of the women in my village looked like that—they waddled like round hens and thought they were pretty. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The man in the white coat did not turn round. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Then, rounding the corner to the break room, he pointed to the Mars map on the wall. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every month there is a moon, gigantic, round, heavy, an omen. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then a little further on, as we continued across the empty countryside, Ruth turned right round in her seat until she was facing Tommy, and just kept looking at him. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

A little bald man was seated fully clothed at a round table draped in ivory baize, his hands neatly folded beside an untouched silver coffee tray. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Mr. Brown and Mr. Leroy were standing on both ends of the schoolhouse holding on to double-barrel shotguns and looking ’round like they were ready for trouble! Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

He held the conch before his face and glanced round the mouth. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

The shells come patiently, each round whizzing over at a predictable interval, scratching a long scarlet parabola over the roof. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

I gathered my blanket round me and pushed back my chair. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

The ride cranks up, and we spin round and round, and I’m screaming, “Whee!” Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

He twisted round like lightning, all wet and slimy as he was, wriggling like an eel, biting and scratching like a cat. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

They had come under attack as well, but the round tower had only one entry, a second-story door reached by a ladder. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“Keep in mind,” Rex Rollins says, clapping us quiet, “this is only the first round. And all of the children who were cut today will be totally right for another show.” Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

She had dyed bright-red hair, large gray eyes with dramatic eye makeup, and a soulful pout on her round face. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

Known as Fat Man, this was a large, round plutonium implosion bomb similar to the one tested at Trinity. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Next thing, I heave myself up and am on top, thumped all round with bravos by other riders. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

Add which had not been carefully mowed, the string became wound round thistles or tufts of gram, thus checking the hawk and doing damage to its training. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

I nearly tripped over that kid again as I rounded the corner. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Clarice stood behind my shoulder, I saw her round face beyond mine in the reflection of the looking-glass, her eyes shining, her mouth a little open. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Iron spikes were set along the tops of formidable stone walls, and two fat round towers overtopped the keep. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Not police dogs or anything, but when I saw it wasn’t just me who decided to break the no-armband rule today, I did have visions of all of us rule-breaking, armband-wearing students getting rounded up. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

All round him was darkness and there were no sounds. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

In a double swirl of black and gold, they rounded a corner and were lost to sight. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

Dimple said as they rounded the corner and came to a stop in front of the Little Gator Pizzeria. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

I didn’t keep glancing round at Laura, though, because I was watching Tommy; I only knew what she was doing because the others kept laughing and egging her on. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Axel turns left the moment they enter the main office, splits off from the people talking to Ms. Dale, and goes straight for a seat at the round table in the back of her room. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Sleet came into the room with another blue plate, covered with little round pieces of meat. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

The Pittsburgh news was on and an announcer was talking about where people could receive their second round of polio vaccine. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

I gathered up the heavy volumes and looked round the morning-room for somewhere to put them. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

“Where is my BAG?” shouted Mr. Banks, turning round and round in the hall like a dog chasing its tail. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

And then through the trees the familiar form: big man on a black horse, great round shoulders, head thick as a stump: James Longstreet. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her brown eyes is so big and round. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

When they regained consciousness they heard a great deal of noise and saw the forest blazing round them and much of it devastated. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

On occasion, when they were taken under fire, Mary Anne would stand quietly and watch the tracer rounds snap by, a little smile at her lips, intent on some private transaction with the war. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Spotting it on his daily rounds of the lab, Lawrence mutely obliterated it with the violent strokes of an eraser. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

He sprinted for the back stairs and was already kneeling at the Queen's feet, while Lancelot was raging round the Porter’s lodge, demanding the Queen. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

At other times, when the afternoon was almost over and disturbing shadows crept across the storage yard, a different kind of theory went the rounds. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

A round scarred face and a stubble of dark beard showed under his steel cap, and he wore mail over boiled leather, and a dirk and shortsword at his belt. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“It will have to button round the middle—” “—where we join.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Honey, when ain’t nobody round you, when you alone, get on your knees and tell God everything. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Dalton did not move or look round; he placed one of his hands over hers on the banister, covering it, and faced the men. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

For the third time the loving cup went round. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

As the sun sank lower and touched the edge of the cloud belt on the horizon, Hazel came out from under the branches and looked carefully round the lower slope. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“When’s the tap open round here? I’m thirsty as a bloody mermaid!” Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

The boys sat round the door without surprise, waiting for something else to happen. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

I can’t make my fingers go round that dial fast enough. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

He did not answer, and I tied the string loosely round Jasper’s collar. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

His nose was long and round at the tip. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Though much smaller and entirely round, the room somewhat resembled the Room of Requirement on the unforgettable occasion that it had transformed itself into a gigantic labyrinth comprised of centuries of hidden objects. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

When he stirred again, his head felt like to burst and the ship was spinning round in dizzy circles, though the captain was insisting that they’d come to port. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

They went off round the corner of the house, still whistling the song. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

I realized that Mama Mwanza had an extraordinarily pretty face, with wide-set eyes, a solemn mouth, and a high, rounded forehead under her kerchief. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maya just nodded, her eyes round like pennies. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

After a few anxious minutes, I saw the ship rounding the tip of the island. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

I could feel it going down my throat like a little white round superhero pill on its way to beat up all the bad stuff in me. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know. Now you going round looking for her and everything.” Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

To please Grandfather, he wore a small round skullcap to show he was Jewish. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

Four large, round loaves were stacked on the table. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

There are some gourds that grow perfectly round, and we would cut these in half and use them as plates. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

He hung a sharp sword from his shoulder, gathered a great cloak round him, close, to break the wind, and pulled a shaggy goatskin on his head. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was as if his heart and lungs had been compacted into a hard, round ball, making it difficult for him to breathe. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

Some are shouting for a replay, that we hadn’t won this round at all. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Maxim turned round to me, his face pale and ghostly in the darkness of the car. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

She sat against him, putting her arm round his waist. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

The round eyes gave her the appearance of a doll, as did her pink-hued cheeks and upturned nose. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

People often comment on her smooth, brown skin, full lips, and particularly her large, round brown eyes with their long lashes. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Moving against the flow, and now trying to edge round this same corner, was a column of armored cars, the paintwork untouched by battle, heading south into the German advance. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

The heavy red dress she wore brushed across the floor, tossing up dust as she hobbled to an ornate chair behind a round table. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

Except for whatever chemical it was that got into Cassius’ eyes and blinded him temporarily in the fourth and fifth rounds, the fight went according to his plan. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

The round badge looks a lot like a medal without the ribbon. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

As Winston wandered toward the table his eye was caught by a round, smooth thing that gleamed softly in the lamplight, and he picked it up. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

The warrant officer in charge of field exercises is the commandant, an overzealous schoolmaster named Bastian with an expansive walk and a round belly and a coat quivering with war medals. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

For his first round, Bobby was paired to play white against a Canadian player who’d registered in advance and paid his entry fee but was nowhere in sight. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

It was blue, translucent, round, like a private moon. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

I called Detective Riley and left a message saving that Rachel had been round again. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

I heard people say, people say the tables are round and have white cloths over them and wee baby lampshades. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s still there and bigger now, but less round. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

A large, round cage set on a wooden base that has been carved into swirling white flames. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

The sky was invaded by great white clouds, flat on the bottom but round and billowy on top. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

We played several more rounds, until Mom won with fifty points. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

Out of breath, exhausted, terrified, heartbroken, Magdalys rounded the corner to the street the Bochinche was on and stopped in her tracks. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

For these orbits the wave crest would be in the same position each time round, so the waves would add up: these orbits would correspond to Bohr’s allowed orbits. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sidhean met her that night by the side of the river, where she sat on a rounded boulder holding the medallion in her hand. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The day had been unusually mild for January, with temperatures in the mid-fifties, so he had slipped away for an early round of golf. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

For the nourishment of his outrage he depended on the memory of her underwear; those round, innocent corset eyes now lost to him forever. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

At night when he closed his eyes the Greek’s face was there in the darkness—round and oily, with a wise and gentle smile. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Ma had been walking me ’round the yard near our truck patch, and I must’ve been mighty young ’cause I had my arm stretched way over my head to hold on to her hand. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

“Now how do you spell that? D-u-n-n . . Setting the newspaper on the round table next to her chair, she writes a name, phone number, and e-mail address above the headline, laboring over the “@.” Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

No matter how many times I turned it round, I found the same answer. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Birdsong was breaking out all round and the rooks were calling from high in the elms, but nothing—not even a sparrow—moved on the ground. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

My first round of grades at school turned out to be pretty good, and so did my second. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

The other boys gathered round the eight who had been named, laughing and cursing and offering congratulations. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“Like to try standing up to that one?” said Silver, looking round at Bigwig. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

They put me in between them and started making me spin round and round, it seemed like they spun me for about half an hour. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

She goes round and proffers each of us her hand. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

She flicked the blade into a round leather sheath and headed for the back door. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

The building had once been an architectural beauty, as famous for its two tall, round turrets as for the goods that were produced inside. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

Jon could see it in his eyes, the tightness around his mouth, the flush to those round cheeks. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

We all sat down at the big round table. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

He stood now in the doorway to his study, wearing the woolen sweater, the scarf, and the round, black skullcap. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

The D.H.C. for Central London always made a point of personally conducting his new students round the various departments. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Kyril Montana and Bernabe shook hands, the sheriff rounded up his men, and suddenly they disappeared into trees; the agent was alone. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then he’d shift to a babbling “Amen” mode, where he spoke in fast motion and the words popped out of his mouth like artillery rounds. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

The new cheese did look like the round moon when it came up behind the trees. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

As she rounded the pond she squinted at the sun again, for it had not climbed up the sky but was still sitting on the horizon. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Soon they reached a place where the river curved round in a bend from the east, and here they came upon the broad, shallow fall. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Auntie was a round woman, with a round face, round tummy, and round calves. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

“I am very proud of you and your efforts today. And your classmates are as well. Let’s all give Melody a round of applause!” Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

Each time she reached the top of her arc beneath the sun, her shadow legs were transformed into the thin, curved legs of an antelope, with small rounded hooves at the bottom instead of feet. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

It was a little wooden fish painted dark green on top and light pink on bottom, with red lips and round eyes finished with cute curling eyelashes, all lacquered to a high shine. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

“That hammer might come in handy next time those iron monsters come ’round. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

We had eggs from our many chickens all year round. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Fish, langosta, mussels, or the eggs from sea urchins, those small, black round sea nnfmnfa with sharp spines that attach themselves to the reefs. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

No questions, no worries in her round hazel eyes, just that's fine. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

My people lived in small round mud huts with pointy roofs made of dried grass. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

A little murmur went round, but the clear voice of the judge was raised once more. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

But even as Riddle rounded on Dumbledore, the flames vanished, leaving the wardrobe completely undamaged. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

When you listened to his song you heard the things he was making up: when you looked round you, you saw them. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

“Stop a minute, though,” he said, wheeling round before we had gone many paces. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

Even his face seemed less rounded and babyish, his cheekbones more noticeable than his dimples. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

And Jo’s eyes went slowly round the room, brightening as they looked, for the prospect was a pleasant one. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then sing several times as a two part round. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

And in my head, thoughts go round and round and round. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

It made us feel surrounded on both ends—like we had a future and a past all bundled up in her round dark cheeks and loose curls. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

I looked up to the top of the thickly wooded hillside and that’s when I saw it: a rounded black form, coming over the top of the hill. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Then they move into the round grassy structures to give birth to their own young. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Stunned? By you lot, you mean? But why — ?” Comprehension dawned suddenly on Bagman’s round, shiny face; he looked up at the skull, down at Winky, and then at Mr. Crouch. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Everyone looked back at David, who took off his top hat and round spectacles and shook his head. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

"Well, maybe it's the other way round," he said. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

He looked round guiltily at the three boys standing by. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

They ran back with me and bunched up ’round where Mr. Leroy was laying. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

He remained where he was as the does hopped away, Nelthilta raising her voice to remark, “What a great oaf!” and half looking round in the evident hope that he would take her up. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

It consists of an inflatable transparent cone set upon a round lifebuoy-like buoyancy chamber that has a surface of black rubberized canvas stretched across its centre. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Silent Sam was Cornflower’s bodyguard on her nightly round of the ramparts. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Finally, I rounded a bend and there he was stumbling towards me, wild-haired and one-gloved and nearer hysteria than I have ever seen a grown person. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

I know the Nazis have rounded up homosexuals and political prisoners. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Ma and Pa didn’t tolerate no one saying that word ’round ’em. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

And judging by the way he was skinning and grinning and frolicking ’round this one colored girl, he wasn’t holting on for the ride, he was getting dragged foots-first by anything the girl done. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

The others were made to gather round and take careful note. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

As it was, the video sequence became something of a legend, initially doing the rounds on the Amateur Home Movies cable shows and ending up on the LEP Academy Hand-to-Hand curriculum. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

Afterwards Squealer was sent round the farm to explain the new arrangement to the others. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

In my rounds as a part-time chaplain, I often thought back to those sad, frightening days when Mama Lessie lay dying in the unfinished basement. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Her eyes—gray with large black poppils in the middle—her eyes are big and round like a cow’s. The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z

Clover made a sort of wall round them with her great foreleg, and the ducklings nestled down inside it and promptly fell asleep. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

He looked round the room, cursing himself for having forgotten his weapon. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know, Mom. You met him for as long as I did. He makes rounds soon, and I’ll get to talk with him.” It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

The third kind were large wooden houses with broad porches that ran around the buildings; they had odd shapes, round towers, octagonal bays, balconies. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

The iceman in Springfield had four evenly spaced holes in the side of his neck from four evenly spaced jabs by something thin, round and sharp. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

The girl at the next table had turned partly round and was looking at him. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

So I go to watch YouTube videos of chess boxing—a hybrid fighting sport where you alternate between chess and a round of boxing. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

I’m going to go round to the police station to come clean. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sound of police sirens rounds the bend. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

For a moment, with the fear of my sister’s working me before my eyes, I had a desperate idea of starting round the room in the assumed character of Mr. Pumblechook’s chaise-cart. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

I look round to make sure no one’s followed me in and I pull out the book. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

Near the bottom tips of the wings, there were two round . . . eyes, I guess. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

The squareness of the rock allowed a sort of plinth round it, so mat to the right, over the lagoon, one could inch along a ledge and turn the corner out of sight. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

Water dotted the scarf on her head and the white armband on her coat, and she was barefoot, her round, muddy toes sticking out from torn and filthy stockings. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

The men were still behind them, rounding past the bucket man. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

"Who is it?" the woman said, not looking round. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

The lid with its slot cut into the top was taped with many rounds of masking tape to the glass. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

Named Pocatell, the dog had curiously upright ears that were round as platters and roughly three times normal size. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

A great howl of wind moaned its way round the big dark tower above us. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

Igentle set Hope Too-mah-ee-nee in the empty tote sack and tied her ’round my back, same as the women in the fields. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

The innkeeper puts his hands on Jerome's thin shoulders and announces he's bringing another round of ale. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

Mom answered the door at 8:05 to Mr. Bridges, a short round man in a blue suit, and Coach Warner, who was wearing a Lake Windsor High pullover. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

With his supershort hair, his head looked like a perfectly round ball when he smiled. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

The woman grabbed the captive by the hair, hooked the sickle round his throat, and slashed. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

And there was the hugest, roundest stove they ever saw in all their lives. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

I looked down and saw a perfect cut, clean and round like a ring. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then, the next day, I went to rounding up and marking hogs and forgot all about the plague. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

I ask her, holding up a round one. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

A taboo was evolving round that word too. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

Conor was almost certain this was code for another round of We Need To Have A Talk. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

His wife, Angelina, round and short-haired in a tight plaid dress, was cooking tortillas in an outdoor shed with corrugated aluminum walls. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Some bushes and agave stalks were growing at the bottom of its smooth, round depth. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Kind of go slipping as I run round the porch and come down the short slope. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

I yell and with my free arm I’m already reaching for my knife and bringing it round toward the birthmark’s hand, slicing it across the top. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

The one that could round up a whole herd of corn, practically lining them up single file? Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

Leaning his weight forward, he made the end fast round his waist, and then he grasped the line with both hands. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Her brown eyes in her round face are full of compassion. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Albert was round as a kettle and his big teeth stuck out pleasantly when he grinned. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

“It’s a vegetable. It’s round and green and has no business being in any dish, ever.” A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

His round, white-circled eyes looked out at them mysteriously from the dimness of the inside of the box. Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z

Laughing, I curtsied ever so slightly, which was met with another round of applause. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

A man in a green uniform rounds the bend, sees me, and hesitates as if uncertain. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The walls of the low house were four feet thick, and the round pole rafters were tied on with rawhide ropes which had been put on wet. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Urzen stood outside his door, a sinewy man with a round shield slung over his back. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

My mom swiveled round and aimed a careful smile into the back seat. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

“But mate, you’re going to have to come round my mum and dad’s house before we do anything else, even Godric’s Hollow.” Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

And the old oil lamp was hanging over the center of the table, shedding its unstable yellow light from the round Rochester wick. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

The demon was a big, cheerful-looking demon with a bland, round face. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Behind us, the tarp hits the floor again, and I catch one more glimpse of it as I round the corner. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

Just making sure no peckerwoods round here start any illegal violence.’ Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

But his head looked as if it didn’t belong to his body—it was small and round and topped with a fuzz of extremely short hair. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Clouds swirled over the largest temple, a round pavilion with a ring of white columns supporting a domed roof. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Farmer’s final rounds took us to the clinic’s main adult ward, then the Children’s Pavilion, and finally the TB hospital up the hill. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

Little round cheeses individually wrapped in red wax. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

Sherman was the only rocket boy I could round up on short notice. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

I ate breakfast across from Dad at the round table. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He might have flinched altogether from speaking if at this moment he had not seen Ampleforth, the hairy-eared poet, wandering limply round the room with a tray, looking for a place to sit down. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Ralph took the conch from him and looked round the circle of boys. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

They come close up to the wire fence and lean their faces against it; their fingers hook round the mesh. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Full well the busy whisper circling round Conveyed the dismal tidings when he frowned. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

“No, Rory made a quick round this morning. Nothing to wash, apparently,” she says. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

When they found them, the little boy was on his back on the floor and Blanca was curled up with her head on the round belly of her new friend. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

She doesn’t look much older than I am, and wears large round glasses that make her eyes look bigger. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

He’s about as round as he is tall. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

She was thin, but her face was still soft, round with childhood. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

He looked round and saw her trunk on the other side of the bed, open, the top standing up. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

I made sure to check before I rounded any corners, and turned real wide along the sidewalks. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

The car rolled slowly round and round the sloping curves. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Short and round and dressed in one of those awful outfits from way back when—bell-bottom pants and a sports coat with enormous lapels. Lawn Boy Returns 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a brief volley; a few rebels who could not hold their fire, terrified at the approach of their King’s army, let loose a round without harm to any. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

I’m not even looking round no more for ways to get away. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

We apply another round of medicine because the skin seems too delicate for the sunlight, but it doesn’t look half as bad on smooth skin and will be good camouflage in the jungle. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Leale’s fingers probed for the source of the blood and found it behind the left ear: a neat, round hole, about the diameter of a man’s fingertip, clotted with a plug of coagulated blood. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was young and brown with smooth, round, muscled arms. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

There was little light inside, but they could make out a stained floor, round tables, and row upon row of dusty brown bottles lining the wall to their right. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

They all followed the path as it fell down between the sharp halves of a cracked boulder, came into pine woods again, and finally rounded into a sudden clearing. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

I had to make my round of errands to deliver eyeglasses and I stole a few minutes to run across the street to talk to Harrison. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her head was small and round and it held small round convictions. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

With a handsome gesture he waves toward us—and the little woman goes from one to another and smiles at us and hands round the sausage; she now looks quite handsome. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

From the islands round about and, of course, from Ithaca, men came swarming to Odysseus’ house to woo his wife. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

The meadow was small, perfectly round, and filled with wildflowers — violet, yellow, and soft white. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Four vocalists were to be chosen to compete in the final round, but soon after Marian had returned from Aeolian Hall to Boghetti’s New York studio, the phone rang. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

When they rounded a corner, they flattened themselves fast against the building to catch what followed unawares moving steadily forward. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Kingshaw had thought he was going to hit or kick him, and his mind had groped round desperately for the reason, trying to remember some terrible, unknown wrong he must have committed. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

“We’ll start with a practice round, so you can familiarize yourself with our button system. Everyone ready? Which of the following is a mammal? A. Cat B. Bird C. Turtle D. Spider.” Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

As Fred and George led a round of applause, the golden balloons overhead burst: Birds of paradise and tiny golden bells flew and floated out of them, adding their songs and chimes to the din. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

From far out in the lake came the fat, rounded plop of a fish jumping, a precise and solitary sound, for the breeze had dropped away completely. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

I loved touching that old brass key with the smooth round top that looked like a tiny face. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The dogs sniffed round it eagerly, and one of the mastiffs buried his teeth in a haunch until Farlen shouted him off. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

And then she said, “I’ll run you a bath,” and I walked round the flat to make a map of it in my head so I felt safer, and the flat was like this. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

He was short, with a little round belly, and when he moved he seemed to favor his left leg a little. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

I let the front door slam, round the corner in the courtyard, and Mr. Krajewska is at the well. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

It takes about six kicks to open the door of the general store and tho there clearly ain’t no one here at all, I still look round expecting to be punished. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

She broke into a fresh round of sobbing. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

“Here, Laura and Mary,” Pa said, and he gave them each a little round package out of his pocket. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

I looked at the round face in the Polaroid again, the way the sun fell on it. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

At about the same time, the eyes on the wall acquired a new expression, and in every one of those staring rounds I saw written, DON’T GO HOME. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

Still curious, Captain Cook started walking round and round the tripod, till the clothesline, the penguin, Mr. Popper and the tripod were all tangled up. Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z

Lee, musing through her talk, thought of the round smooth faces of the Cantonese, his own breed. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

All day long the round board settled slowly under the weight of the rock, and whey pressed out and ran down the grooves of the board into the pail. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Pudgy grim smoking men played this horse-racing game where you bet real money on plastic horses that move round a track. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

After half an hour the sun shone again and the grocer's automobile rounded Gatsby's drive with the raw material for his servants' dinner--I felt sure he wouldn't eat a spoonful. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

One night he came late and there was in the stew of cabbage a good round piece of pork. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

“FUG!” shouted Colin, wincing, and he looked up and saw her round, brown eyes blinking away sweat as she worked. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

I watch the clock, electric and round, at the front over the green blackboard. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

After Mom won her ten thousand dollars, she played another speed round. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

Next moment the country dropped away beneath them, and whirled round as Fledge, like a huge pigeon, circled once or twice before setting off on his long westward flight. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

Matilda, holding the hat in one hand and a thin tube of Superglue in the other, proceeded to squeeze a line of glue very neatly all round the inside rim of the hat. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

Hands pushed him into the center of the ring and the referee was saying, ". . . three rounds of two minutes each . . . you know the amateur rules . . . break clean . . . shake, boys, and come out fighting." The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

He said something and there was a round of chuckles. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

For Wilbur, nothing in life was so important as this small round object—nothing else mattered. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

“What kind of squirrel sits out in the open like that with folks all round him? That squirrel wouldn’t last two seconds in Arkansas, I’da picked him off easy as nothing.” The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Company camped beside the Stone, but they slept little, because of the dread of the Shadows that hedged them round. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

Robin was blowing his hunting music and the ambushed archers swung round as the griffin charged. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the center of the table is a platter of food I don’t recognize: circular pieces of meat wedged between round bread slices. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

The floor space was very restricted, because all round the walls were stacked innumerable dusty picture frames. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

While it was warming, she put a sugar bun and a spoon on a round tin tray. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Piggy took off his one round of glass and polished the surface. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

It was warm and very dry, like a blotter, but near its center was a single drop of water, round and perfect. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Squat and round and in a backward ball cap so tight, it might be cutting off circulation to his brain. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

Just beyond the crystal fountain there was a small round table and two familiar chairs. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

It looks like the tiniest castle ever built, with round stone walls and a pointed red-tiled roof. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

In the morning, a major league team picked me in the first round to play professional baseball, and in the evening, my baseball team had to play in the semifinal round of the championship. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Removing the hats carefully, he disclosed round humps of wire netting. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You may leave us,” said the Hamadryad to the Brown Bear who, after bowing humbly, ran off with his cap in his hand to where all the other animals were congregating round Mary Poppins. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

And it was cool here, now that the sun had moved round the house. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

He’d heard stories of the North Vietnamese bringing supplies down on bicycles, moving from one place to another, carrying a few mortars and rounds of ammo on a bamboo pole. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

It was an old-maid’s hand, or an old-fashioned boy's, sitting with his feet hooked round the legs of a stool arid his tongue out, writing carefully. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m pretty short and he wasn’t much taller than me and kind of round. Lawn Boy 2007-06-12T00:00:00Z

As the earth goes round the sun, we see them from different positions against the background of more distant stars. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the centre there is a stationary, round platform around which the circles of horses, each taking the same time to complete a circuit, revolve. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

His face and belly were so round, and his arms so skinny, that he looked like a dough ball with four sticks stuck into it. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

It felt like sitting in church when the bishop came round to remind us we were miserable sinners. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

They played a few more rounds, and Ivy ended up winning. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

As a result, we at the Order have taken the liberty of rounding up all the bards, singers, preachers, and printers who might complain, and we’ve slapped them in prison. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

Certain phrases drifted through the keyhole or under the door of Father’s office and up the staircase and round the landing and under the door of Bruno’s bedroom. The Boy in the Striped Pajamas 2006-01-05T00:00:00Z

The minute we turned the corner, I rounded on him. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

The big fellow twisted round, grinning with enthusiasm. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh, just going round the world, you know,” Mary Poppins said airily, as though going round the world was a thing you did every day. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

He still continued to turn the gun toward me, and I fired my second round. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

However, for orbits whose lengths were not a whole number of wavelengths, each wave crest would eventually be canceled out by a trough as the electrons went round; these orbits would not be allowed. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the excitement over the message had died down, and the wedding present had been found, some round games were immediately arranged for the younger members of the party. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a round of hideous jeering laughter. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

I peeped round the leg of the chair and watched the hundreds of witches' feet walking out through the doors of the Ballroom. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

I ran ahead of both Daddy and Dismay, and rounded the back corner of the house. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Napoleon was so gratified that he left his place and came round the table to clink his mug against Mr. Pilkington’s before emptying it. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

It was an old-fashioned silver pocket watch with a round glass face. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

And Buddy accompanied me to the rope tow and showed me how to let the rope run through my hands, and then told me to close my fingers round it and go up. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

We sipped the tea and ate small sandwiches that Mr. Singh brought out on a large round tray. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

The Greeks even had a third argument that the earth must be round, for why else does one first see the sails of a ship coming over the horizon, and only later see the hull? A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Two nights later I tiptoed out of my bedroom and peeked ’round the corner of the parlour to see if Ma and Pa were up. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

As we rounded the corner a loud moan split the air. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

It touched something round and hard and smooth: a green apple. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

They sat round the kitchen table staring at each other. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

She pressed herself against him and wound her limbs round him, as though to reassure him with the warmth of her body. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

A man's hand peered round the edge of it. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

Then there was her mother, rounding the back of the house, one side of her hair still flowing down, unbraided. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

Alone in the dim, dusty room, I could still see her dumb round eyes, rubbernecking. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

Men all in a panic of fear; sent a round robin, asking to have double watch, as they fear to be alone. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

He would wear a stiff Norfolk jacket and a round white collar. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Ashida attempted a frown, but her plump, round, smooth face could not quite manage it. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

Still, the last sad memory hovers round, and sometimes drifts across like floating mist, cutting off sunshine and chilling the remembrance of happier times. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Rising up all round us, trees and bamboo. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was small, slender, yet less angular, more rounded than the others. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

She wrote, The path in front of the veranda was made of large round water-worn pebbles, from some beach. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

And everybody else began running round and round too—Ellen and Mrs. Brill and the children. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

He was in this state as they came round the eastern edge of the resort after three hours' walking. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

In Sugarcandy Mountain it was Sunday seven days a week, clover was in season all the year round, and lump sugar and linseed cake grew on the hedges. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

He picked up what looked like a small, heavy chrome drill with a medallion-sized round saw blade at the business end. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

We rounded the corner and he opened the door to Ms. Rogers’s room, which was empty. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Bush babies have huge ears, large, round eyes, and long, bushy tails. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

In the dark, I could make out the outline of her face and her large, round eyes blinking down at me, her eyelashes almost fluttering against my forehead. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

And the massive round fruit towered over them so high that they looked like midgets from another world beside it. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

His smooth dark hair was parted in the middle, framing his pleasant round face. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

In fact, room 126 is a treasure trove of evidence: a map of Southern states, pistol rounds, a handkerchief embroidered with the name of Booth’s mother, and much more. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

Blackberry burrowed his way into the moss and ivy round the base of the thorn. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The public would see this room, I supposed, and Frith, if he showed them round, would know the history of the pictures on the wall, and the period of the furniture. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

He lay down in the green grass near the round tub at the brush line. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

Unfortunately, whenever he pulled up his shoulders, his round belly popped out in a comical arc. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

He was a middle-aged man with a round face and dark, neatly parted hair. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The door inched open and there was Phoebe’s round face, as white and frightened as ever you could imagine. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

Once this controversy was put aside, members of the Free African Society patrolled the streets daily, rounding up the ill and finding shelter for homeless children. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

She’s quiet as we round a corner, and I can see her house in the distance. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

The basement is small, with crates of goods in one corner and a round table in the center. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

This is round two, and Mom is getting beat up good. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

There is a round of applause and she smiles at the crowd. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Always wants to know everything that’s happening on the creek and round the harbor. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

All three men sprang to their feet to join in the struggle round the lifts, and the remaining tobacco fell out of Winston’s cigarette. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

We fiddled dances, rounds, and catches, and the soldiers were glad enough of our company. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

She wanted to lean against the closest building, under the shade of a tree, and catch her breath, but when she looked down the hill, the tan car rounded the corner. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

It was easy going, and soon he was peering round the rock. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

The cheers which now began, round after round, were like drumfire or thunder, rolling round the turrets of Carlisle. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her sisters emptied their pails into the big round wooden tub. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“It’s based on a completely new technology. It uses something called the round processor. I don’t suppose that will mean anything to you.” Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

He must have heard me though, for he swung round impatiently. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

As we drove through I saw faces peering through the dark window of the lodge, and a child ran round from the back, staring curiously. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Inside the shop they could dimly see the glass-topped counter that ran round three sides of it. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

Most likely they were counting on it to round out their own dinner, and it says something that they were willing to give it up for Katherine. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

The other guests arrived now and at my mother’s nod, I made the rounds, dropping a British School curtsy to each one. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not here; not nowl He did not want his mother to come in here now, with these people standing round. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

I didn’t want to, but as we left Marshall I turned 'round in my seat and looked. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the platform I look round; I know no one among all the people hurrying to and fro. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

He fiddled with his gloves, tightening them on his fingers as he rounded the corner. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

In July of that year, the committee announced a new round of investigations, but this time into something far more serious than the communist infiltration of Hollywood. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Daddy met Momma halfway round the deck and took the shopping bag. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I heard him chuckle as I went into Gladys’s room and undressed, crumpling my dress and pretty ribbons into a ball as solid and round as his stuffed potatoes. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

It was the white cat and its round green eyes gazed past him at the white face hanging limply from the fiery furnace door. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

She took my chin and leaned down to look into my face, so close that I could see the green in her brown eyes, as if they were little round gardens. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

And then I called Fay and we made the rounds. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

You go round and round and round like that, long as you can keep it tight, or until somebody finishes off the poem, or you get tired. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Janice repositioned herself, elbows astride her plate, her round shape pitching forward. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the water bearer arrived, at the end of his rounds, to fill Bibi's urn in the storage room, we instructed her to say “How do you do?” Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

Meantime, Mr. Rochester had again summoned the ladies round him, and was selecting certain of their number to be of his party. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

The great ear in which Sophie was sitting began to swivel round. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jack and Connor are up ahead, playing an intense round of “I Spy.” The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Finally, a school called Perry Valley wins the fourth round with eighty-two points, just one point more than us. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

“The two highest-scoring teams will meet for the final round later tonight. Good luck, and we hope we see you again.” Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

At a dinner in Cambridge once, during a sudden silence round the table, someone who disliked Robbie asked loudly about his parents. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

They spoke in that fancy Valley Hope way, enunciating their consonants and rounding their vowels, and it was hard to tell whether they were sincere or sarcastic. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

June says, rounding on her, a slightly frantic look in her eyes. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

The laugh that is a little too loud; the enunciation a little too round; the gesture a little too generous. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

He just lies there in his carriage, gazing solemnly up at me with his round blue eyes as his button of a nose gets redder and redder. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Rough coffins come together, and a new round of digging begins; graves open up in rows. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Take ammunition from the wounded. Make every round count.” The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had the look ’bout him of one ’em kittens whose mother had bit holt of the scruff of its neck and was walking ’round with it swaying from one side to the ’nother. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

The round fat face looked up at him, suspicious. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Afterwards, the triplets started singing again, but this time they treated Miles to a nice round of “You’re a Mean One, Mr. Grinch.” Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

An early summer breeze wafted through her hair as she fast-walked past brownstones and corner stores, rounded the corner onto Lafayette, and headed home. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

A paper screen is set up, splitting the front of the room right down the middle, surrounded by a collection of round tables and chairs. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

“Come in, Pip,” Miss Havisham continued to mutter, without looking round or up; “come in, Pip, how do you do, Pip? so you kiss my hand as if I were a queen, eh?—Well?” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

“For your information, Columbus knew the world was round,” Mom said. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

She rounded on Ron, Hermione, and Bill as though they were being noisy, and hissed, “Did you hear? He needs quiet!” Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

The tribe must be sitting round the gutted pig, watching the fat ooze and burn among the ashes. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

The eye seemed too large, as it was magnified behind the thick, round lens of his eyeglasses. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

He stared round the room, first at the mother, then at the son, then at Matilda. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

On the floor beside the bed was a round white shag rug. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Short and round, he had the dim pink eyes of some nocturnal creature. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

His broad shoulders round forward ever so slightly when he walks. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

Meggie saw a round nose emerge from the pack, snuffling in the hope of more delicacies. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

“Your team got beat in one of the late rounds in D.C. last night,” he told me. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

King Pelles was promising a new cloak all round, on him. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

He heard a stealthy rustle of leaves on the other side of the sandbags and fired two quick rounds. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

I felt it low and round in my belly, thin and quivering through my chest. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

Inside the log lean-to, he had dug out a deep, round hole. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

They rode through soft green rounded hills, a sunny mom, a splendid air, moving toward adventure as rode the plumed knights of old. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

We rounded up the civilians—men, women, boys, and young girls—hiding in the huts and houses, and made them carry our loot back to the base. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

He wore a silver belt, and round his neck hung a chain of silver and diamonds. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

There were dozens of these things all round him now. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

We rounded the corner of the admin building, and I was surprised to see the leaves from the old elm littering the walkway. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Its rounding metal blades slice the edges of the tin to the right size and shape, while the letter and number forms punch the license number into the center. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Look at that rope of pearls round her neck. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

When the master made his rounds, she kept her hand over her mouth, lest she call attention to her affliction. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Frank just walked off, and I didn’t get to talk to him before we were rounded up and put on the bus to head back to school. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

Anything would be better than being chased round and round the burial places of the Ancient Kings with something he dared not look at behind him. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

Bigger’s eyes looked round the room, as if seeking a means of escape. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Alan had fired one round when I shot my first pair, but I didn’t hear him shoot. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

"I bet my buttons that was your sister. Don't want her to steal all the glory, do we? Come on, everybody! Let's give a big round of applause to our newest tribute!" trills Effie Trinket. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

And then they taped all six preliminary rounds of the show in one day, pausing to change the prodigies into new outfits. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

From where I sat, I could see only the top part of his black robe, his round face, and those all-seeing, all-knowing eyes. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The smell of the green, standing corn was round them all day. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

She start whirling ’round like she Cinderella and babbling ’bout her “princess table.” Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

The animals rushed to the top of it and gazed round them in the clear morning light. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

And now I can recall the picture of the grey old house of God rising calm before me, of a rook wheeling round the steeple, of a ruddy morning sky beyond. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

The broad spray of fire was advancing up the road at two hundred miles an hour, a rattling hailstorm din of cannon rounds hitting metal and glass. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

She was so consumed that, driving on the highway, too fast, she rounded a curve and the Pinto swerved; she lost control, and then, at the last second, recovered. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Still wearing her shoes and socks, and her rakishly tilted round white cap, she advanced towards him. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Frightful left the penguins and blue-footed boobies to their caves and niches and rounded the island, looking for shelter. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

Little tables all round the room with candles on them that I made, lot of litde tables outside too, by the creek. The Color Purple 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had small teeth set in vast expanses of gum; those round ears; and delicate, almost maidenly skin that tended to flush and pale with the waxing and waning of his digestive problems. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

I slipped through the fence as quick as I could, and when I rounded the corner with the poster, there was no one there. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Alice didn’t show the slightest reaction at first, but made sure the glasses were safely on the bar before she turned round. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

Hold-Your-Nose Billy, his eyes round as snowballs, went charging off into the river. The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z

They were too far away for Theon to make out any of the words, but the fear on Fat Walda’s round pink face spoke volumes. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I wrote about the peanut and said it was small, round, and dirty. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Then he picked up a rounded stone, set his feet firm with the left forward, and tossed the stone high into the air. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

Each of them thinks it necessary to stress that the Earth is a perfectly round ball, globe or sphere. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

This was mighty puzzling, but the only thing I could figure was I must’ve done a lot a running ’round in circles, which would probably be why Pa caught me so easy. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

Mr. Alacran’s father rounded out the guests at the head table. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

For an instant Sam stood his ground, his face as round and pale as the moon behind him, his mouth a widening O of surprise. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Dumpy and muscular in her smudge-fronted uniform, the wall-eyed nurse wore such thick spectacles that four eyes peered out at me from behind the round, twin panes of glass. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

He disturbed nobody and would never walk round roaring. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

Du Barry gives her a round of applause, and we all join in. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

He dug the paddle in the water till the boat was the proper way round, and to her credit Alice did as he’d told her and said not a word. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

Her large, round eyes searched for the indicators that would guide her on her way. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

A round, short man rolled off it and bustled up to the Locktons. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

It looked pretty much standard issue—the same kind of round shield we always used in capture the flag. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

While a large window giving a view of the backyard and woods beyond takes up a decent portion of the rounded wall opposite the door, every other inch of space is covered in pictures. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

When he saw the snake coming towards him, the boy turned round and began to run away from the hill. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

We walked ’round back of the tavern and came up on a bunch of men squatting down and talking loud. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

Inside, a round moon met me, shining through the square window, its yellow fight spreading like a rug under my feet. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

They circled round each other, trading blow for blow. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

His face was bright, his eyes round and bright as two stars. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then he brought the end round and caught Jack a stinger across the ear. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

And he sometimes comes round to the house in the evening to drink beer with Father and watch the television and have a conversation. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

It’s a round sound, a warm embrace, not shrill like a flute. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

I rounded the corner, was halfway up the block when I saw Faith. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

The round whitish-brown bud seemed to wilt as he lifted it, but that was just how they always looked. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Their parents left them after the big delicious dinner and two rounds of hot tea with mint and sugar. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

I bought the next round of drinks, making it large mugs of straight cider for each of us. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

At the bottom of the stairs there’s a hat-and-umbrella stand, the bentwood kind, long rounded rungs of wood curving gently up into hooks shaped like the opening fronds of a fern. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the top it had rounded caps like the tops of tombstones. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

‘But this Door was not made to be a secret known only to Dwarves,’ said Gandalf, coming suddenly to life and turning round. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

He felt through the handles till he came to one that wasn’t too long to conceal, whose blade came to a point and not a rounded end. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

We lock eyes for a second, and as she takes in my face—both shades of it—her mouth rounds. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

The heat of his breath clouded his round glasses. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Just come round my house this summer! Anyway, maybe it only shows dead people. Shame about not finding Flamel, though. Have some bacon or something, why aren’t you eating anything?” Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

‘Hullo!’ said Pippin, poking his head round the curtain. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

Curses and sex stories sounded round the clock and blue smoke choked the air. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘Short cuts make long delays,' argued Pippin. ‘The country is rough round here, and there are bogs and all kinds of difficulties down in the Marish — I know the land in these parts. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

“I like this one, still nice and round. Maybe we should open that cage door and hose her down.” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

One is a sharp mountain piercing the sky, with stormcloud round the peak dissolving never, not in the brightest summer, to show heaven’s azure there, nor in the fall. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bigwig dropped on his front paws and looked round. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were evenings when they reached their rendezvous and then had to walk past one another without a sign, because a patrol had just come round the comer or a helicopter was hovering overhead. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

“Then I’ll stay still. I don’t care much for company dancing. It’s no fun to go sailing round. I like to fly about and cut capers.” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

I looked round the convent-like garden, and then up at the house—a large building, half of which seemed grey and old, the other half quite new. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

Her hairy front legs pulled her round abdomen out of the shadows. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Brandon pointed to a short, round man standing near the front of the church. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

When she reached the second floor and rounded the corner, she saw Jamison standing in the open doorway to her room. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She wore skirts to just below the knees, but from there down, her legs were shaped like chicken drumsticks, rounded and full at the top, narrow at the bottom. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

The four of us keep on playing one round after another. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

I pick up the pace as I round the corner onto the next block. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Over the foamcrested waves they saw not far off a high, round, green hill, and beneath it a town built on a small bay where boats lay at anchor, all in peace. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Smeath dozes in the maroon easy chair, his round belly swelling up. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Alas, this gaggle of uncoordinated misfits was rounded up each week and made to play some sort of sport against each other. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

Then they shot off a round of musket fire to celebrate. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

He rounded up ten other men and stationed them along the intended return route of the march. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

I show it to Morrie with the pride of a Little Leaguer rounding the bases on his first home run. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Axel rests a hand on Ray’s round skull. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

The round face was thin, the eyes sunken. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Turner had cleared away the round study table in the library and left only his father’s Bible, the Aeneid, and The Origin of Species on it, along with the lamp. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

So Zola goes away and returns later with the dolly that now has large round blue eyes with fluttery black lashes, a pink smalling mouth, and spots on her cheeks. The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z

They rounded up their cattle and drove them away. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

“I heard. Don’t much go on ’round here that get past me, but for the past two weeks, I been engaged in bringing a couple of coffles back from the markets in Charleston. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

In a round, everyone sings the same melody, but they start singing it at different times. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

His round face has the look of someone waiting for something that has been a long time coming. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

As my body rounded and my voice deepened, I was struck by this mysterious question of why. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Their tiny black round eyes stared endlessly at me. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

The fountain in the center cascades down a carved stone wall, flowing into a round pond full of koi. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Six months later, I was a fighter pilot flying Hurricanes all round the Mediterranean. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

I advance to the next round and the next. Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

The radio crackled over the voices and the murmur of the crowd and the occasional ding of the round bell. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

She covered this with another clean, wet cloth, and laid on top of it a round board, cut small enough to go inside the cheese hoop. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lady Constance’s Christmas party had ended in such a free-for-all of destruction that a whole fleet of servants working ’round the clock for a month would be hard- pressed to put the house right. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

The room is cheerful, filled with light, with a tomato-colored carpet on the floor and people reading the paper around a big, round wooden table with forsythias or cattails arranged at its center. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Then he swung a flywheel round and round, and with a bit of luck, after a lot of coughing and spluttering, the thing would finally get going. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

Behind it was what Shirley recognized as a tiny room for bathing, even though the tub was neither tall nor round nor of wood. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

This sort of silliness went on until we rounded a mesa and saw the brown mist on the horizon that announced our approach to the city of Phoenix. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

I stood watching them go round and round. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

When the waitress shows up for a first round of orders, everyone but me orders waffles. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

There was a charcoal grill in the middle of the garden, the big round kind that looked like a miniature red Starbase. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Claire was just climbing out of her car when Maya rounded the corner and into the parking lot. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Harry watched the girl and her mother disappear as the train rounded the corner. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

“They've started to round up the family members of the Jewish Council,” she says. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Then he opened the car door on his side and strolled round to my side, his breath shaping tortuous smoke signals in the gray air. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

Richard did not want to be shown round; he had managed well on his past trips abroad. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

I shut the windows and looked round for a box of matches. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

The study lamp cast a round yellow pool between us. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

"I would choose the time we were sailing back to England," he said as he began to deal the cards, going round and round. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

I remember round tables with flimsy tops, plastic chairs with shiny metal legs. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

He picked up the foot-stool from beside the bed, balanced it in his right hand, and took a last look round the room. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Colonel rapped it up with freestyle beat-boxing, and we gave ourselves a round of applause. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

She kept her long grey hair in two braids like a little girl with a flowered kerchief tied over her head and under her round chin. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

Near a pool she lost all sight of her steps and then with relief recognized an empty lemming nest, a round ball of grass that she had kicked open. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

She rounded a corner, not ten stacks from the alcove, and came to a halt. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

You could tell it waren’t no forest from ’round here ’cause these woods had monkeys hanging in the trees. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

The walls rose very high all round that courtyard. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

Listening to Twig’s commentary, I could get through most of the round without too much anxiety, but by the thirteenth egg, none of us spoke. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

She tilted the round thing backwards and forwards, and in the sunlight the disc and its letters went careering madly inside the box. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

Shay’s voice took on the tone of her daily round of complaining. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

The large, round, colored pumpkins made beautiful chairs and tables. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

She rounded a stand of trees, looking for Ivan by the river while she took bites out of the egg. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

With this accomplished, another round of model building could start and, given luck, it might occur by Christmas. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

He turned round, but all that he saw was the wind moving through the dry brown grass and a rain bird circling in the sky. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

He just strolled round the posts with his hands in his pockets. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

“I don’t like no chunks of potato lumping ’round in my soup.” Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

The server who hadn’t acknowledged me had a round, shaved head and, like many food workers, had grown a bit pudgy from the practically unlimited opportunity he had to filch food. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

A solid, round ball that must have been someone’s head butted him in the stomach. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

I looked at my feet in their white socks and ugly round shoes. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

As she rounded the kitchen door I let them fall on the tiled floor. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

But I couldn’t very well tell Lissa that without starting another round of questions. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

Her face was a round and freckled apple, but there was hardness in her eyes. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

One boy appeared perfect, so round in the cool opal dawn. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Yes, I say, even though at church the picture of his face with the dark round money eyes makes me hide behind the bench. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

She was heavily built and had a round, fleshy face and short, dark hair. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

Miss Maggie’s eyes, too, grew round for a moment when he said that. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

She must have been making her rounds, going from class to class, just to visit for a few minutes. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z

White peoples don’t come round my neighborhood less they toting the help to and fro, and that is just fine with me. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

I approached him, and said the gentlemen were coming; he nodded: then I looked carefully round and listened. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

Edd cut three thick slices off a stale round of oat bread, stacked them on a wooden platter, covered them with bacon and bacon drippings, and filled a bowl with hard-cooked eggs. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

His large round face with its wide-set eyes leered down at me like a giant floating balloon that I’d seen in a Thanksgiving Day parade. Doing Time Online 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

They rounded a bend and the crack of a whip sounded in the air like a firecracker. The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z

The white men made the rounds last as long as five minutes and each of us was afraid to stop and ask for time for fear of receiving a blow that would knock us out. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

They both walk up to the camera, and all I see is her belly, round and full. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

He hopped across the ditch to the further bank and looked round him again. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Aunt Letty looked round and saw with amazement that an enormous woman, splendidly dressed, with bare arms and flashing eyes, stood in the doorway. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

We were in a blue room with tons of throw pillows on the floor and a small round stage with a pole in the center. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

By the time Ted got round to asking God to heal my brokenness and to fill me with joy, I was feeling pretty low. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Then, as they rounded the clump of trees behind which Harry had first heard the dragons roar, a witch leapt out from behind them. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Thus our lives never changed, but went round the rolling years beneath the starry vault of distant Heaven. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

Sitting in his corner always made Billy think of commercials being played on television between the rounds. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Aunt Pearl came out on the stoop, her round face damp from the kitchen. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were two places set at a round table, complete with pads, ashtrays, and water jugs. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

It was only a polite “Excuse me!” but she spun round like I’d thrown something at her. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mary Poppins, thoroughly surprised, sat down with a plop upon one of the little green chairs that stood round the table. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

“Did what?” asked Jinny, walking over and crouching down to inspect a line of smooth round pebbles at Sam’s feet. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

‘He has told me what happened. I hardly think I want to go round asking some silly little boy if Captain Hardcastle is speaking the truth. ’ Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

Round and round he skipped, repeating the verse over and over. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

“It had hundreds of mortar rounds that would have blown up everything within hundreds of yards,” said Scruggs. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

Alex hit third base and rounded the corner without breaking stride. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

All round them it seemed, and they felt a fine rain on their hands and cheeks. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

“She told me that your sneaky behind is in that pageant. So since you want to keep secrets, since you think you running thangs ’round here, you ain’t doing that pageant tomorrow. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

A bowl of small, round, roasted red potatoes is passed around, and afterward a salad. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

We did our rounds: knocking on doors, dropping off bundles, and picking up the dirty clothes. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was in her late twenties with a sprawl of red hair and a round, boyish face. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

Dicey looked at the back of his round little head, where the yellow hair stood out at crazy angles. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

A fading halo of blue ink clings round me. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

And then something rounded the corner up ahead, and came toward them. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Maniac was covered with blotches — round, red blotches, all shiny from the bath water. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

"It's a drum," I said, bringing it round from my hip to in front of me, "but I've lost the drumsticks." How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Now his exhausted brain slipped into its accustomed circles: the withered paths, like those of the donkey in the treadmill, round which he had plodded many thousand times in vain. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

At times I found myself moving to her own ambling, driven gait, round on the heels, nearly race-walking, breasts forward in guidance, my life’s ballasts. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lady Constance stood and attempted to control her great round skirt, which bobbed around her comically. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

It was a wide round space surrounded by benches and sprinkled with trees. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

“Okay, thank you, ma’am. I’ll see what I can round up.” Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

There, at the base, was a squat, round structure, piled with layers of old blankets and tarps. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

He measured Harry from shoulder to finger, then wrist to elbow, shoulder to floor, knee to armpit and round his head. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

She was tall—even taller than Koffi—and had a deep umber face made up of soft, rounded features: apple cheeks, a mouth curved like a warrior’s bow. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

“Fulvia’s going to have the first round of We Remember spots ready tonight, so we can target the individual districts with their dead. Finnick’s absolutely marvelous.” Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

His nails were large, rounded at the bottom and blunt and neat at the tips. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

They say he is “prone to interfering with women”; one woman testified that she was “seized round the waist...and lifted off my feet.” Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

I flap the apron out and work at tyin’ it ’round my waist. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Tired, hungry still, and frightened, she stroked the scrap of cloth in her pocket, and waited for the next round of accusations. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He sighed, shaking his round head of white hair. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

It came from an opening that led to another stairway, dark and narrow: it appeared to go winding up the turret along the inside of its round outer wall. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

We were all rounded up and put against the wall. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

He sweated, his whole body shook, and his knuckles turned white round the iron bedhead, but he did not make a sound as she continued to pull the pieces clear. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

We did one round of IVF, which was all we could afford. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

The rabbit dæmon opened her round eyes and gazed fearfully at the President, and then shut them again and hid her face. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

The second round of puzzles was a little harder. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

But there was still that memory moving round the edges of his consciousness, something strongly felt but not reducible to definite shape, like an object seen out of the comer of one’s eye. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

The letters slid round the arrow, dancing giddily. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

‘Not he! When his tools have done their task he drops them. But you must go dangling after him, dawdling and talking, and riding round twice as far as you needed. “ The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

My nose—my grandma's nose—is too round, and my face is too round. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

In the center of the room, on a round wooden table that is painted black but inlaid with light stripes of mother-of-pearl, there is a small iron cauldron. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

“Everyone ready?” he said, his round face gleaming like a great, excited Edam. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

He was crouched, his back was rounded and his rear legs were spread. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

While Hazel gazed, the wind slowly veered round into the west, as Cowslip had said it would, and brought the rain driving into the mouth of the hole. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Whichever the case might be, Lancelot saluted with his gauntlet and turned round to go to the place. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was really only a large, round boulder, but it allowed her to see in all directions from the top. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The rounds were going long but, more important, they weren’t detonating. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

But then suddenly he rolled round on his side, raised his head and looked hard at Shasta, blowing a little. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

Three chairs of the twelve arranged round the circular table were still unoccupied. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

He carried the plate round to everyone in the kitchen and do you know what they did? The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

Without a second thought, Stella ripped it into wide strips, which she wrapped loosely round and round her mother’s leg. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Shay led her to the center of it all, where a round kiosk was inhabited by a small figure talking on an old-fashioned handphone. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

We rounded the bend onto Main Street, past the bookstore, and coasted down the hill. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

Round and round in her stomach the meatballs tumbled like pebbles. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

They rounded the first turn and barreled into the backstretch locked together. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Catholic Church had made a bad mistake with Galileo when it tried to lay down the law on a question of science, declaring that the sun went round the earth. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Can you tell me is Samson Fuller ’round here somewhere?” The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then, leaning back, he ran his eye thoughtfully round the dining car. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

We make our way round the pulpit, unable to keep from looking where Aaron was, his blood already washed away by the spray. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

“No, child. I told you, folks round here love ’em. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Tristran packed a bag, and his mother brought him six red, ripe apples and a cottage loaf and a round of white farmhouse cheese, which he placed inside his bag. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

His fierce eye gazed out across the mighty army: black rats, brown rats, grey rats, piebald rats, skulking weasels, furtive stoats and sinuous ferrets, all gathered round, their weapons glistening and dripping with the rain. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

‘Well?’ he said, turning round now and seeing his sister standing in the doorway, clutching the doll, her golden pigtails perfectly balanced on each shoulder, ripe for the pulling. The Boy in the Striped Pajamas 2006-01-05T00:00:00Z

I perked up because I knew I was not only good at penmanship, but I enjoyed making my words run across a page, round and neat and happy-looking. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I quickly made the rounds of the station, but Sass was not there. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

“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

Every so often he glanced round, over his shoulder. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

The round belly that I once loved to wrap my arms around is caved in, showing his rib cage. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The cavernous room was filled with golden cages, round and square and rectangular, some stacked on top of each other, others standing alone. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

The two round yellow heads bent towards each other, and Momma’s strong hands cradled the back of Sammy’s little head. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Emily rounded a corner, passing the papier-mache witch hats decorated by sixth graders that lined the windows of the library. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

An eleven-year-old boy who was decidedly large and round stood up and waddled briskly forward. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

Grandma was completing the edge of a great round box of birchbark, one that she would use to store her red willow kinnikinnick. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

That meant he hadn’t been rounded up with the rest of us. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

Just as she was rounding the corner of the hostel she heard the swift passage of an arrow followed by a thud as it struck its target. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Slowly, the boy began to walk round the writhing heap of snakes. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tom Yew got on her and sort of jiggled there and she gasped like a Chinese burn and wrapped her legs round him, froggily. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

This is a case where it’s better to round off the word. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Flies do not develop a ward round of diseases that carry them off, one by one. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yes, and it’s walking very slowly, putting its head over every gate and looking round as though it had lost something.” Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

They peered over anthills and looked cautiously round clumps of teazle. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Would you like to take some beans and pass them round to the others?" The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

“How can I have hung round with you for five years and not think girls are clever?” said Harry, stung by this. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

"Ahhh," the short one says, stretching the word out, his mouth round like the barrel of the revolver he has emptied and is passing around so the children can all hold it. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

She watched the file of traffic moving round the Common, along her route, and she thought about food. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Miss Trotter began the latest round of family history and pigtail-pulling. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

Double beat, high and sweet, round dance style. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

As the boat rounded the Laurelhurst light and headed north, it hugged the west shore of the lake. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

When they were quite certain that the meal was finished the birds rose with one grand, fluttering movement and flew round the Bird Woman’s head, copying in their own language the words she said. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

Most mornings, after the beach, she makes the rounds with Madame Manec, going to the vegetable market, occasionally to the butcher’s, then delivering food to whichever neighbors Madame Manec decides are most in need. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Mr. Kreuk is a round little man, with circular glasses that make him resemble a turtle. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

He seemed on the verge of making some joking remark, but when he saw me his eyes got wide and his mouth fell open into a small round o. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Rocked him with one hand, gently, while she waved good-bye to Mama, and kept rocking long after her mother rounded the corner and disappeared into the ferny forest growth. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

We gather around the baskets and find ripe red strawberries, purple mulberries, and round loaves of bread made from some kind of coarse meal. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

Directly above him, white with snow, was a high water tank with a round flat top. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

There was a small round table between them. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

And I see them standing by our round dining room table, this time heaped not with food but with silver gifts—flatware, tureens, platters, trays, gravy bowls, and brandy snifters. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

A whistling came down the hallway, and Richard rounded the corner, spinning his hat in his hands as he walked. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

As we emerge from the narrow path between the trees, a perfectly round, still pond magically appears. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

It’s the first Saturday morning of summer vacation, and the apartment is a delicate bubble—quiet, full, and round with me and all four of my sisters squeezed into one room. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

The Hunter's Moon waxed round in the night sky, and put to flight all the lesser stars. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

I had just dozed off after a round of thinking about all that Mom had said. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Round by round, Mitsima built up the sides of the pot; it was narrow, it bulged, it narrowed again towards the neck. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her eyes, staring frightened eyes, went round and round the ring of faces. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

“That be the punishment round these parts for runaway indentured gals. An iron collar with hooks on it.” Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Worse, a camper van was parked round the side. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

Shell bursts were appearing in the air, white flakes, round puffs. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

We play a few rounds and I win them all. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

“Where are you headed?” asked the officer—a burly guy with dark, angular eyebrows and a round face—as he ran the little brown paper over my hands. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Later, he was shown a large round chamber at the hub of a network of tunnels. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

They climbed round and round on the sac, exploring their new world. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

The recorded announcement went round another time, then another. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

He squatted in front of Hazel and looked round him in silence, to make sure of his effect. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He was an ancient philosopher,” Nick teased, “who believed that men’s souls were round like apples, the color of pearls, and had little white wings.” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mushrooms appear in clusters along the edges of the trail, with little round caps the same color as eggshells. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

One night when the laundry was so busy that the whole family was eating dinner there, crowded around the little round table, my throat burst open. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Daddy rounded up Mother and Judy and made us all stand in a line before one of the doors. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instead I could noose the bedsheet round my neck, hook myself up in the closet, throw my weight forward, choke myself off. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sun suspended above it in the afternoon is a pink, round dot in the distant white haze you may stare at and never go blind. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The long toes of Agravaine’s slippers were secured by gold chains to garters below his knee, and, as for Mordred’s toes, their chains were secured to a belt round his waist. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s perfectly symmetrical and has four massive white pillars holding up the rounded roof of the porch. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

Now and then his eyes played round the table, studying the others. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

“It should suppress some, but not all, of the activity in the prefrontal cortex,” the scientist with the round glasses says. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

He looked round; her hat was lying on the running board. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

He felt a hand touch his shoulder; he did not turn round; his eyes looked downward and saw the man’s gleaming black shoes. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

“We like you round here. You act like a good boy.” Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Or she would look for the self-styled militiaman who wore a dagger round his waist and ask if she could hold it. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

He was making the rounds, distributing the cigarettes and pesos we always brought the guards to encourage them to treat our prisoners right. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Captain Pierce was a heavy man, with round shoulders, gray hair, and pleasant eyes. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

He expected Leroy’s pickup truck, but as the vehicle rounded the last curve before the mine, he could see it was a car. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

And plink! a silver drop falls, and the round wrinkles in the glass make all the towers bend and waver like weeds and corals in a grotto of the sea. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Frodo and his companions huddled round the fire, wrapped in every garment and blanket they possessed; but Strider was content with a single cloak, and sat a little apart, drawing thoughtfully at his pipe. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Then some god, his familiar, went into action with him round the hall, after us in a massacre. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Immediately, I spotted all three Baker sisters sitting at a round table with several other girls, working on lanyards under the direction of a community center worker. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

Bran was so heavily padded he looked as though he had belted on a featherbed, and Prince Tominen, who was plump to begin with, seemed positively round. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Then everyone around us is reaching their greedy fingers into the tin, taking out small round candies. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

“Why don’t we all try to make the spirit of Thanksgiving last year round?” my father suggests, retrieving his towel and shaking it out. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

A month ago, Danny Brooks, the eighth grader with a scoliosis brace, was picked six slots ahead of me for a round of dodgeball. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

He repeated a number of times, “Tactics, comrades, tactics!” skipping round and whisking his tail with a merry laugh. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

I instinctively turned round to look behind and I saw two more cars filled with white men. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were both superb creatures with pulpy, bright, pointed tongues and mouths like round warm plums, a little sweet and sticky, a little rotten. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

“Great, you can help me!” said Neville, his round face anxious. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

She wasn’t little, or soft and round, like puppies usually are. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

His gun belt was looped under his arm and ’round his neck, with the holster and pistol hanging behind him on his back. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

All morning you could hear the rattle of the machine as it went round and round, while the tall grass fell down behind the cutter bar in long green swathes. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

Kat’s eyes went round and she looked confused. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

That night the full moon hung round and orange in the sky. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

But Runt reappeared after a few moments, something round in his mouth. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

The band shell was deserted, and the woman in pedal pushers quietly reeled in her line, and Dr. Mason’s sprinkler went round and round. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

He snuffed round the prostrate group, and then he ran up to me; it was all he could do,—there was no other help at hand to summon. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

Like all educated people in Protestant countries, he believes that the Earth goes round the sun. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

We walk on in silence, round a bend and stop. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“That’s a fine place to stop, Nicholas. Class, let’s all give him a round of applause for his report.” Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The round tunnels for drainage and pipes disappeared and were replaced with squared-off hallways and stairways strewn with rubble. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Now and then she glimpsed a round boulder or a patch of sand. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

So he began making the rounds of garage and moving sales where he would linger and chat, and at those driveway gatherings he kept hearing an unfamiliar word: “relo.” Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

By mid-September, round bales of golden straw dot the yellow fields on my walk to the county road, arranged in geometric formations and stacked in pyramids and scattered in haphazard clumps. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

He would sit at the round table in the kitchen, humming along with the radio, shining the brass until it shone. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

She filled the calabash with ease and then turned round to begin her walk back. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

Francie got pushed in with a compact group of children and went the rounds with them. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Suddenly they turned away, and a shadowy figure slipped round the trunk of the tree and vanished. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

"Be sucking my thumb next-" He looked round, furtively. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

They were round, and stuck out from the wall into the moat, so that the archers could shoot in all directions and command every part of the wall. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

The lion watched him suspiciously and tried to swipe at him with his claws, but he could barely move now, and it was easy for the hare to get round him. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

And he zoomed in on one cancer cell, its edges round and smooth until it began to quiver and shake violently, exploding into five cancer cells. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Cal looked at the curling water and turned a round brown stone with his toe. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Then she get in her car and go do whatever it is she do when she ain’t nervous bout a couple a colored mens hanging round her house. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Theresa’s out ahead as they round a far corner. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

She knew how much work they had done to track the gang and round up witnesses. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Syl’s ma and pa had their backs to us with their arms ’round each other’s waists. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

Each was hung with a round gold shield. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

The six highest scorers from all our practice rounds were announced at the last practice session a few days ago. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

But oh, oh, her arms round his neck, the lifting of her breasts, her mouth! Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

He wanted them to know both sides of their history and become the fully rounded human beings they were destined to be. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Most of them were round, but I found two with hollow places in the center which I deepened and broadened by rubbing them with sand. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

I turned to the other two and said, ‘Stay here, and look alive, too. I’m going round the sentries.’ Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

All round him was the quiet summer night, luminous with starlight but paling to dawn on one side. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“This wouldn’t be your second time round in seventh grade, would it?” Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’s got beady eyes and round cheeks and they’re all shoved up together. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

She followed the brick path that led round the outside of the stable block. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Bombs were dropped on the clusters of round straw huts that made up villages in the Nuba. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

The two-foot span arched above Bigwig, who sat perfectly still while the white feathers beat the air round his head in a kind of ceremonious farewell. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her jangling nerves relaxed, and as the clear low voice went on a contentment wrapped her round like the sunshine in the meadow. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

On Saturday afternoon Ben rounded the corner of River Street and heard Toomer’s voice calling out in a wailing summer canticle to the last shoppers of the day. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

He went round each of the animals and asked them if they knew who could have done such a treacherous thing. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

He shut the door and locked it, then rounded on Anya and demanded, “Where on God’s earth did ye find that thing?” Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

“We don’t say sorry ’round these parts, Nebraska,” Adina said in her best sheriff’s voice. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

And the nephew with the round face and round eyes was the “inaccessible cliff.” The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

No one seemed to want it, and I began to think of asking for it, wondering if such a request would be met with a new round of scoldings. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

Thinking only of escaping with her life, she spun round and ran. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

They might have been a solar system of their own, with nothing rise in space, as they went round and round among the dunes and coarse grass of the estuary. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

The logs he had selected were smooth and round and had no limbs. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, this is indeed a Pleasure,” a huge voice greeted them, and Jane and Michael looked round for its owner. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

He could just make out the entrance he had climbed through: small, round, as distant as the moon. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

Maybe someday, after all this, after we find a new life, a new home, with plenty of water and food, then I could grow up and have full rosy cheeks and a soft round belly. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

In round two the contestants were given dozens of inner tubes and instructed to stack them into tall, puffy towers, which were immediately knocked down by the afternoon's second vachette. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

Besides her bed, there are only the usual rounded walls; no sign of any vault. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

He is a short, round man, and if he hadn’t said my customers, I would have thought he was a customer himself, not the owner. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

I was impure and her body, round as the moon, was still the temple. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

Before us walk three men dressed in green clothes with funny round cone-shaped hats on their heads. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

They stood looking and looking, the whole big bunch of them, with round, wide eyes. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

In the dressing room afterward, Louis said he couldn’t remember anything about the fight beyond the fifth round. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

And your books too,” turning his eyes round the room, “mounting up, on their shelves, by hundreds! And you read ’em; don’t you? Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

I look out the rounded airplane window and marvel at the clouds. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

Amy had big round brown eyes and long black hair that she always wore in two lopsided ponytails. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

The news had run round the streets like magic. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

‘They moves about and comes and goes. There’s sometimes fifty of them in their sheds up Hobbiton way; but they go out from there roving round, thieving or “gathering” as they call it. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

As with every other tournament I’d been to, we started with the pool rounds and then progressed to direct elimination bouts. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Lee and Samuel sat at the little round table in the barroom and Samuel drew figures on the scrubbed wood with the moisture of his beer glass. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

The last one props itself on its forelegs and drags itself round in a circle like a merry-go-round; squatting, it drags round in circles on its stiffened forelegs, apparently its back is broken. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

But after a while, as your eye moves round the page, you realize that something is very strange be cause when you try to read a bit of the page you’ve read before it’s different. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

His mum’s treatments had carried on longer than they’d originally thought, first a second round and now a third. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

The night watchman had already made his rounds at 10 P.M. or so, and this was after 11 P.M. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

He looked round fiercely, daring them to contradict. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

One of these young fools who tore round the country. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

Two more were busy round the portable Synthetic Music Box. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Down on the Road, where it swept to the right to go round the foot of the hill, there was a large inn. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

“The surrogate goes round slower; therefore passes through the lung at longer intervals; therefore gives the embryo less oxygen. Nothing like oxygen-shortage for keeping an embryo below par.” Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

The mouth even opens and closes with a hinge she made from round head fasteners. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

The voice was loud and round like a cathedral bell. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

A gust of wind blew and carried with it the first hint of fall: canoe-shaped chestnut leaves, turned yellow round the edges. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Wart pranced round the edge, waving his own spear in an agony, but there, was nowhere where he dared to thrust it- in. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

“If we had killed that cop they would have rounded up all the men in town and cut off their heads and hung them from their patrol car antennas.” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Next to the bench on which the woman sat was a small round table, its legs fully concealed, much like the woman’s, by a skirt of lace. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

His father was head deacon in this church—there were only two, the other a round, black man named Deacon Braithwaite—and he took up the collection, and sometimes he preached. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

His hats were black, round of crown and straight of brim, and uncrushed as though he still left room for a coiled queue. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

On a trip to Chicago in 1893, short, round fireball Ida Wells got to know tall, debonair, easygoing Ferdinand Barnett as they worked together on a pamphlet calling out racial inequities. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Dirty stories went the rounds of the children. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

We had played a particularly good round of this game as we lay on the roof of our house just a couple of weeks before he went missing. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

Inside, there is a big round container that looks like a three-foot-tall clay flowerpot, which Kim and the other cousins fill with water every evening. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Hey, wait!” one of them called after me again, but I kept my head down and rounded the corner with a sigh of relief. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

There was a long, nagging argument that went round and round, with shouts, whines, tears, remonstrances, bargainings. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

The same beautiful round face, with the same reddish birthmark. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

“Used to see you ’round here sometimes,” she said. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

The rats would swing the cord round and round, gaining momentum until, judging the right direction, they loosed the cord. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Lee looked at him and the brown eyes under their rounded upper lids seemed to open and deepen until they weren’t foreign any more, but man’s eyes, warm with understanding. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Miss Brent herself had taken a chair just round the corner of the house so as to be out of the wind. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

Eventually, the heavy hands of the courtroom clock tick round to midday, and a solemn bong is heard. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

I kept my eyes away, watching the teacher make his rounds. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

As he rounded the corner, he noticed a familiar-looking gray Oldsmobile, a jagged crack in the rear window, parked in front of the house. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

As I was rounding the corner to the men’s room, Joey caught up to me. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“I was making my early rounds when I saw a blue light coming from your father’s room. I thought he might have left the television on.” Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

The tennis court must be round the corner. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

“The dorsal fin on a basking shark is rounded on top and convex in the back,” she said, making shapes with her hand. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

They all peered down anxiously at the sharks, who were cruising slowly round and round the peach. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

The people formed in a procession round him, and the mayor of the village took him by the hand. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Whenever one of the missiles landed intact on the rubble pile, she would seize it, standing in full view as she whirled the corded iron round and round, releasing it in a blur of speed. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Then Father asked, “What the hell were you doing poking round her garden?” The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Inside, a round disc that seemed to be covered with letters swung gently as he moved the box. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

Then he put on quickly some old untidy garments, and fastened round his waist a worn leather belt. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Each head had two little round eyes staring right at me. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

And everyone turned round to see what was going on. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Just hang a towel ’round you so they don’t see your, er, future clothes,” said Horace. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

She handed him the flat, round object and waited while he felt it. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

The water bumbles over round stones and washes the polished roots of the trees that hold it in. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

It takes another minute, but we get several rounds going. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Lancelot took the helm from Uncle Dap, with both hands, and turned it round. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

A braying donkey rounded the corner, its owner in tow, causing the family to shrink against the building, trying to disappear into the shadows. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

I turn to my right to get across the street and run straight into the round belly of a man with a big camera pressed to one eye. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Moonie turns himself round and round on the old carpet inside the crumbledown. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

When I walked in with Allen and Kenny, Arnold was sitting on his screened-in porch at his round picnic table drinking his hippie tea with four strangers, two men and two women. Lawn Boy Returns 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

His round fat face was the color of curdled milk. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

It was the ghost’s beloved face, matronly and broad, with her round red “happiness cheeks,” but there was nothing happy to be found in her affect, as flat as all the ghosts in Minya’s army. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Lyddie saw him watching, and she could tell by the smile on his little round lips that he was pleased with her. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

She carried the bottle to the round table in the middle of the room and filled the two small glasses with rum. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

They came closer, crowding and pushing round him. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

It is easy to observe something that is frozen in time, like a fossil or an image of smiling family members eating around a big round table, and a dog snoozing on the floor. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

The other children clustered round him, their eyes popping. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some people said the lake is named Turtle because it’s round and green like a turtle’s shell. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

“In a short while, I gonna be sending a man down to the docks to round up a crew.” Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

From his top drawer he pulled two pairs of sweat socks rounded into uneven balls, stepped back toward the door, and lofted both pairs of socks toward the open bag. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

In my head I rounded up the change, like Mom and Dad do when they give tips in the cab. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

As he continued to widen his hole, his hand came across a smooth, round object. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

He pulled forth another piece of brown paper and wrapped it round a coal. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

When I busted ’round the corner I saw Mr. Alston squatting ’gainst a wagon wheel watching the other men tossing the white spotty boxes. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

Ralph knelt in the entrance to the shelter and peered cautiously round him. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

He sat motionless, without his hat and with his white scarf round his neck, looking more than ever like someone medieval who lived within a frame. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Some of the villagers leaned against their round mud huts and others sat on the ground or on mortars. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Here he suddenly broke down, and threw his arms round my shoulders and laid his head on my breast, crying:— Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

I left her quite happy after the arrival of the nurse, propped up on pillows with a falling temperature, her best bed-jacket round her shoulders and be-ribboned boudoir cap upon her head. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Before jumping down he took a rapid glance round him to get his bearings. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

The juice was darker than you would expect and had made a horrid stain round her mouth. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

There was just enough syrup to go round. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

As Shin and Park did their rounds in the garment factory, Park explained that Hwang had criticized Kim Jong U for turning North Korea into a corrupt feudal state. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

He rounded his shoulders and was stiffly well-mannered, like a servant. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

As anticipated, guards split the group into men and women, then led both rows, chains jangling, through a nearly round archway fashioned in the shape of a wolf’s open mouth. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

I studied the globe and started to spin it round and round with my fingertips. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Frankie rounded the corner right behind Tad, and another shot made him jump. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Now, he heard him shifting a little, in the bed, and turned round to look at him, though still he kept his distance, staying at the other side of the room. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

I headed him out toward the road and felt something leaping ’round in my belly. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

But her smirk slowly changes into a frown as round after round I drop more diamonds and force everyone to play their most valuable cards up front. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

She talked them right to the bottom of their plates and through a round of seconds, but when a stink came up from the baby’s diaper, Muff sighed and held him away from her dress. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

And Father came round to the house that night and I was sitting on the sofa watching University Challenge and just answering the science questions. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Bank accounts will be rounded to the nearest nickel. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

After each round of prayers, groups of mourners lined up and greeted me on their way out. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Who would want to live with me with some evil boy after her and anybody ’round her? Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

“We must have looked completely mad. What on earth will the Mark think? Anyway, now we’re out here, we may as well go round the sentries.” Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

No one else is outside, so I play a few rounds by myself. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

You will get a nice, round circle of light projected on the wall. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

When she rounded the corner, she saw Ivan sitting against the outer wall with his knees drawn up to his chest, the staff on the ground next to him. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

“How are we gonna get to them?” the boy asks, moving round to my other side. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

The boy beside me wanders away with a short, round woman who tells him it’s high time she has a man around the house. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

I hoped to have more luck outside of the corporate world, but I was turned away after the third round of interviews. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

I steady my feet and turn with him as he steps round toward the pulpit half of the church, the half nearer the edge. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

Jasper was sniffing round the divan and wagging his tail. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Even on the back porch, the Avery Lumber Company temperature dial rises from 89 to 96 to a nice round 100 degrees. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Its big .44 caliber ball, weighing in at nearly an ounce, was a solid, deadly round. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Before I had much of a chance to think on it, something ’bout me tolt her I was trouble and she squozed the bag to her chest and done a quick look ’round. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

Then I heard a step behind me and turning round I saw Mrs. Danvers. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Her legs shook the whole time she was up there, and she’d been relieved when she lost in the first round and could get off the stage. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

A circle of men was watching him; Longstreet could see the grins, flash of a dark bottle going round. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

They hung on a big round rack from the ceiling. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

I said, “But, Mr. Leroy, what if he’s gone? He shot at Mr. Highgate five days ago. I don’t think he’s gonna be waiting ’round for no one to come get him.” Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

Perhaps Kat and I were looking at things the wrong way up, or the wrong way round. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

El Patron banished Tom to a year- round boardingschool with no holidays. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

It opened southward, leaning back into the slope of round Dol Baran, the last hill of the northern ranges, greenfooted, crowned with heather. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Instandy he flung up a wall of resistance round Merriman and Paul and himself, so that the two of the Dark swayed backward from the force of it. The Dark is Rising 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

I run to the river’s edge, take a swift look round for crocs, then lean down and scoop up a few handfuls of water into my mouth. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

Heeding Hitler, SS squads rounded up every available man and boy they could comb out of the city, even plucking the sick and wounded from hospitals. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Samuel went to his wife, leaned down from his height, and kissed her round red cheek. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

In my dream I was back on the peach farm, sitting out behind the tractor shed, and even though it was broad daylight, I could see a huge, round moon in the sky. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

She turned round and round on the log, looked up in the tree for a perch, lifted her wings to fly, and then stood still and listened. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Smash it up, chase people round, take what we like, burn things down. It’s all a good laugh.” Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

Stanton’s husband told her that men in the audience could tell “whether their lady friends have round and plump legs, or lean and scrawny ones.” Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

The Americans with the minigun held off until the enemy was close to the wire, then opened up with the weapon, spitting out thousands of rounds per minute. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

“Now let’s fly round, and do double duty today, so that we can play tomorrow with free minds,” said Jo, preparing to replace her pen with a broom. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

The best known among them was a small fat pig named Squealer, with very round cheeks, twinkling eyes, nimble movements, and a shrill voice. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

Now that Faizah was fencing, she could help my parents understand the intricacies of competitions and explain that making the round of sixteen at an international competition was a huge achievement. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

By the time we rounded the bend, he was back with us. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

They played the third round in deadly silence, racing through the final lap as competitively as if they were in the Indianapolis 500. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

Vincent Obi was a small round man submerged in a large pair of jeans and an ungainly coat. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

He yearned for a bed and sheets-but the only whiteness here was the slow spilt milk, luminous round the rock forty feet below, where Piggy had fallen. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

Papa had lost weight; usually, Mama s small hands barely went round to his back, but this time her hands rested on the small of his back. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

In the middle of the blades, a round brass boss proclaimed in curly script, Chicago’s Finest Wind Machine. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

Another man whipped a torch round and round his head and then lofted it toward the thatched roof of the stables. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“Well, it got rid of him, didn’t it? And I don’t expect he’ll be coming back round to check again.” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

A Circle Line tour boat is rounding the tip of Manhattan, optimistic as a wedding cake. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

He knew that a gull, which should have been far away at this time of year, was hanging round Efrafa and that he, Bigwig, had deliberately been near it. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mama Killa, the moon, rested in the sky, round and heavy, but she was leaving even as I watched. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

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

Peewee and Monaco kept pumping rounds high into the village while Johnson sprayed the trail behind us. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

His skin was sad, with the bones almost exposed, and he had a pronounced round stomach and the expression of an old angel, which came more from simplicity than from goodness. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Before they could turn round, the copper sky of summer had assumed a cold and lowering bronze, while the biggest white flakes that ever were seen were floating about them and settling on the battlements. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

On their heads sat round black silken hats, each with a bright red button on its flat top. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

The four Africans drawed back once they saw that gun and the way it was jumping ’round in my hand. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

Then the Witch wheeled the horse round so that she fated the crowd and its hind-legs were on the footpath. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

I knelt upon the window seat and put my arms round his shoulders. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Pa didn’t quit working nor look ’round nor act like I’d talked to him, he just said, “Is they white?” Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

I didn’t expect or want a volleyball scholarship, I simply wanted to prove to colleges that I was well rounded and could handle sports and academics year-round. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

There were ripples round it, for under the banks the current was as swift as in midstream, on account of weed-cutting and sound camp-sheeting. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

At once the men who were gathered round him broke up into small groups, and went off this way and that, vanishing quickly into the shadows of the rocks and trees. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

I strap on my sandwich tray and start off on my rounds. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

His black eyes, as large and round as two marbles, glared down at the policemen and the firemen below. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

The tree was thought to be a magic one, which was the reason why such a lot of traffic went on round it “Lady,” said he, “do you know of any adventures in this forest?” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

The rebels went on with their card games, chatting for hours, and then for no apparent reason they shot a couple of rounds into the air. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

I watch Hana twisting her armband round and round, and then I look at Kaepernick and at her Olympics poster, and I get an idea. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

The second he was close enough, Malcolm brought his right hand round and stabbed the knife as hard as he could into Bonneville’s thigh. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

Suddenly her head dropped off the round pillow where it lay, and she shuddered and was dead. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

One round dollar, two quarters, two dimes, and three pennies. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

The smell of her hair, the taste of her mouth, the feeling of her skin seemed to have got inside him, or into the air all round him. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

“Pin it round your neck, and then it will be useful,” said Laurie, looking down at the little blue boots, which he evidently approved of. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

I fired faster, trying to space my rounds in a sector. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

I went a couple of rounds on the floor with girls from the sidelines. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Marcus, who was not a coward, immediately remounted and rode round the ring at full gallop, lashing the horse all the way. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

She remained bent on the ground, her back as rounded as the turtle in the pond. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

He could see the white all round the irises of Julia’s eyes. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

When he rounded the next corner, he skidded to a halt at the sight in front of him. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

They didn’t enjoy it They were hopelessly nationalistic and religious, always hanging about round one of the chapels in Ireland. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’ve been told I was a beautiful baby with a perfect, round face,” I said. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

He lifted the shell on his knees and looked round the sun-slashed faces. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

The central building was a round, low tower with curved windows looking outward, like eyes. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Ifemelu opened it and saw the landlord standing there, a round man with bulging, reddened eyes who was said to start his day with a glass of harsh gin. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

He dropped his head down and drank long and hard, blowing bubbles up all ’round his mouth. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

A huge French window and a high ceiling made it bright all year round, warmer during the winter and cooler in summer. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some of them stayed off to themselves, but one guy was making the rounds of all the other blacks. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The shuttle bus made the West Side rounds, stopping to deposit Dorothy at the front door of an outpost called the Warehouse Building. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

He had left a rounded knob at one end for a handhold. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

All around the edges on clean damp stones were honeycombs and lovely neat, round light-yellow cheeses! Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

She must heard me rattling ’round, and she thump in with her walker. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

“Fools! Fools!” shouted Benjamin, prancing round them and stamping the earth with his small hoofs.“Fools! Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

She had twisted round in the chair, and, with one hand holding a pigtail, she was staring at him with round eyes. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not now, not with the men standing round. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

We were making the rounds when we saw one of the horseless carriages stranded by the sidewalk and a demon in a big overcoat standing beside it. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

The envelope was crumpled and stained, the letter written in pencil in a round, childish hand. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

I waited, hardly breathing, to see who would round the corner. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Word of Katherine Johnson’s role in Glenn’s successful mission began making the rounds in the black community, first locally, then farther afield. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

All the kings of the country round about had tried to persuade her to marry them with no success. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

She wiggled her bare toes and looked up at the sandstone cliffs where the swallows were inside their round mud nests, making high-pitched noises. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

“His father had his arms and the chains round his neck,” said Bono. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

Then I turned round and saw that she wasn’t standing in her hall any longer. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

He ran round the bed and followed her as she backed into a corner. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

And this time he asked all the students who had performed tonight to stand up again for another round of applause. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

As he does his rounds, he makes sure everyone is occupied with their particular trivial pursuits. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

All the ponds had the same round shape and were about the same size—roughly forty feet in diameter. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

But in the darkness, she could hear the twining sound again, getting louder and louder, as if something were circling the round room. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

“Put a ribbon round your hair and be Alice-in-Wonderland,” said Maxim lightly; “you look like it now, with your finger in your mouth.” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

When she had read every single children's book in the place, she started wandering round in search of something else. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

The sculpture I’m seeing is two round bubble bodies, shoulder to shoulder, every part of the figures, spherical and full, curved bulging chests pregnant with the same breath, heads tilting upward, gazes sky-bound. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

The round metal thing clunked against one of the guard’s shoes and fell over on its side. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

I joined a soul band, Black Ice, on the other side of town, playing any instrument I could round up—sax, flute, and bass, all borrowed. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

His head was large and round, displaying for­midable sideburns, a stylish goatee and some of the finest whiskers of the cat world, thick, long and white. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Capone has a thick build, round shoulders and dark old-fashioned lace-up clothing that looks hot and uncomfortable. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Certain phrases drifted through the keyhole or under the door of Father’s office and up the staircase and round the landing and under the door of Bruno’s bedroom. . .. to leave Berlin. The Boy in the Striped Pajamas 2006-01-05T00:00:00Z

“You better go back for the truck,” the cowboy with the round face said. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Liana’s face was pale, her dark eyes were round and huge, and her mouth was turned down at the corners. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

“What are you going to do with it?” continued Templeton, his little round beady eyes fixed on the goose. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

Jake’s mom was just one of hundreds of adults who were pulling for Riverview in the championship round because it had been their middle school, too. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

I told her about Davis calling it a rounding error, but I still worried that it might be dirty money or that I might be exploiting Davis or...but she shushed me. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

He thumped Alfred's chest and back, and placed the cool round end of a stethoscope over his heart. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

The shield was a plain round steel thing of the type carried by the warriors of old. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

“May and I sleep out here sometimes when we’re harvesting honey round the clock,” August said. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

We smelled the fragrant smoke from our own chimney as we rounded the bend. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

We finished off the pot, and while I pulled down our medications, Dad put the kettle on for another round. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

She drifted toward him, the perfume smell thick about her round white face. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

But when he rounded it he still couldn't see them. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

Pinmei could only gape, her mouth a round circle, her head dizzy with astonishment. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

‘We wonders, aye, we wonders. To find some of your orc-friends, I warrant. You nasty treacherous creature. It’s round your neck this rope ought to go, and a tight noose too.’ The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

The policewoman put her arms round Mrs. Shears and led her back toward the house. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

But Winnie leaned round the constable and looked back at Tuck. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

But in the fourth round, out of nowhere, Schmeling landed a hard right to the temple that knocked Louis to a sitting position on the floor. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

“Calm your mind,” she whispered to herself as she rounded a corner of the stable. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

The girl nipped nimbly round the lions at the base of the monument and joined in the rush. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

‘He shows his travel card, or puts it through the barrier, and then he’s back. Back here! We’re just round the comer from the tube.’ The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’ll wear mine,” John told the salesman, a tiny round bald man with spectacles which quickly dropped to the end of his nose as he laced up the skates. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

He does a round through the parlor and dining room, and then downstairs to the kitchens to make certain everything is in order. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

He sat, not daring to look round, conscious that every eye was upon him. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

A short round woman wearing high-heeled shoes walked towards the steps where they sat. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Language arts and physical education rounded out the rest of the day. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

At the end of the song he was swimming round his patient so close that he actually touched her, stroking his brown smooth-scaled flanks against her more rattly pale ones. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

She decided to keep to her route and reach the lake by circling round the back of the house. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

When I manage to take down five birds in one round, I realize it’s so quiet I can hear each one hit the floor. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

He’s worked it so the Confederates would fire the first round, and he’s fixed it so they fired on hungry men. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bo’s on dining room duty, and when he makes the rounds with the cordless vacuum, Bekah is quick to pick up some spare trash from the surrounding tables. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

The little round woman in high heels walked past again, from the opposite direction and on the opposite side of the street. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

The hobbits wheeled round towards it, and cast themselves down, holding their hands upon their ears. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

At seven o’clock, the four members ascended to the clubroom, tied their badges round their heads, and took their seats with great solemnity. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

All-round is better than all-around, in the sense of complete or rounded. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Second rounds start this week. If I’m not there, people will start to ask questions.” Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

There was a big room full of round tables, each with two or three chairs, and some vending machines. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

The colosseum was packed to its rounded walls. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

Now if burglars broke in again, and the family were at home, there would be a second round of locks for the thieves to contend with. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

So he buys us each another Triaminic shot, and then he takes me by the hand and leads me to a big round table in the corner of the room. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

She sat on the walkway that wound round the circumference of the big spherical room, her legs dangling over the edge—her very thin, very short legs. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Loudwing rounded up all the goslings and gave them a quick swimming lesson. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

His smile makes his face even more rounded, but just like the others, this mini-version shares the same violet eyes and pale delicate skin. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Half a dozen experts would crowd round you and express their opinions in highly professional language. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sacrabani, who had been screaming vigorously, began to quieten down: he gave one or two more tentative wails, then his mouth split in something like a smile and his fingers curled round Selvam’s. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

The ship’s carpenter was just as she’d imagined him: the round mountains of his shoulders; the brown, sun-lined face and the bandanna tied around his forehead; the splintery abused hands spotted with scars and pitch. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

“Yep. Some strange goings on round here. But don’t put my name in it if you hear anything. Was just like this when that insurance man jumped off the roof. Ever hear tell of him?” Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Appointed Muslim Sisters quickly passed small trays from which everyone took a thin, round patty of peppermint candy. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Crawling under its shadow the road went on, and rounding it sprang east again and began to climb steeply. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

One of the simplest and most familiar types of counterpoint is the round. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

He finished it in two days and started again, rolling the words round his tongue, memorizing some sentences: The slaves became as fearful of the tar as of the lash. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

She looked so pretty, her big eyes blinking fast, her cheeks soft and round, and still the roundness could only remind me of Alaska’s thin face and her high cheekbones. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

The Thug was brushing his sticks across the round gold metal thing next to his drums and making it sound like a soft rain was commencing to fall on someone’s tin roof. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

I didn't know if that were true or not, but Henrik had an irritating way of sounding official since his father was connected with the government His face was round and he was chubby. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

My hands reach out for something to hold, but the round walls of the guardhouse are smooth. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

On the shelves against the wall there was no bread at all, only a single, sad round roll. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

“You will,” said she, passing her arm round me. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

Frank reaches out for his son, puts a firm hand on his round shoulder. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

He saw the sky, swirling round and round, thank God no pain. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even Ruth looked daunted that sunny day the minibus dropped us in front of the farmhouse, circled round the little pond and disappeared up the slope. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

A second later there appeared from round a distant corner, the dark shapes of two men walking backwards and carrying tall candles. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

A picture of an old man frowned down out of an old round frame. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The cliff face isn’t even and the ledge curves round it as it stretches forward. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

Through a round grating in the side of a box a voice speaks softly. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Morning finally came, and Hugo gathered up his tools and tried to do his morning rounds. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

“Boring and uneventful,” Javier said, choosing Tracer for his first round in the game. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

They are square, neat boxes with wooden sides all round, and have unimpeachably satisfactory seats. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

There is a man at one of the other round tables, broad-shouldered, dressed in a camo jacket and a trucker hat. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

“We think we can get him in with the next round.” In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I hope we can come back to this restaurant another time with Baba, since he had to make rounds at the hospital today and couldn’t join us. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

Her mouth drops open comically, like a cartoon, and her big round eyes get even bigger and rounder. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Emma’s stomach clenched at the thought of going back through the strange house, back through the secret room—and maybe even back through another round of spinning. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

“I think I can squeeze in a nap before my rounds this afternoon.” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

He combs his flaxen strands meticulously from the lower left side of his head to his right temple, then swirls them round and round on his bald crown, securing them with a greasy pomade. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

He looked all round it and saw no hinges, no clasp, no keyhole, no way in at all. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

She caught sight of a lone tree at the top, stripped bare of its leaves, and then she was rounding the hill and there was only more road. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

She rounded the corner and ascended a small set of steps that led into a significantly smaller hallway. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Turning me like the wind turns a leaf in a puddle, making the compass spin from east to west and round again. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Kyle had already found the pinecone to complete his “outdoors” round. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

He was sitting about three feet away from the grave, and he had Grandpa’s eyes—round and kind and all-knowing. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

He came down to pick it up round four in the afternoon. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Each time we rounded a curve, Ben leaned against me or I leaned against him. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

Nathan—and a girl—sitting at one of the small, round tables. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

And the nose has a high arch, a narrow bridge, a round tip. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

In many places, the Nazis rounded up Jewish men, women, and children and executed them, rather than sending them to concentration camps. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

Arnold worked on the screened-in porch, sitting peacefully at his round picnic table drinking his sweet hippie tea and making money while he tap-tap-tapped on his keyboard. Lawn Boy Returns 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s a small rectangle of metal, and I have to hit it over and over again with a riveting hammer until it is completely covered with little round divots. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

These went round and round in his head, sometimes losing their proper order and happening backwards or by bits. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

As long as no one poked round in that fire, things would be all right. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

After that, she went and put her hand in the Cabby’s and stood there looking round her a little shyly. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

His body was round and smooth in the clear water. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

He rounded another hill and threw himself into a hollow in the ground. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

The people, walking round the ground in their best frocks, from Grand Stand to Refreshment Tent, must have found the fighting very like the game. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a kind of rushing noise, and a long chord played along with it All round the churchyard there were hundreds of old friends. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

They stood out in his mind disconnectedly, like pictures with blackness all round them. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

I lingered behind, and when their backs were turned, I rounded on the girl and thumbed both ears at her. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

The Beagle rounded the sharp jaw-bend of Tierra del Fuego and climbed the western coast of South America. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

One great coil of vapour went whirling up, twisting round and round Orthanc, until it looked like a tall peak of cloud, fiery underneath and moonlit above. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

“Pick up the phone, or I’m coming round there. I mean it this time. I have to talk to you. You can’t just ignore me.” The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Girls, girls! It's time for the bride-to-be to open her presents. Angela, you sit here and everybody gather round." The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the afternoons he takes her on his rounds. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Then they turned round and swayed backward and forward once or twice, in order to get their weight on their toes. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Soon they had a merry crackle of flame at the foot of a large fir-tree and they sat round it for a while, until they began to nod. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

I thought she’d just get in and drive away, but she spun round, her hair, her teeth, her eyes flashing in the sun. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Etienne says, “Please, Madame. Close the window. They are rounding up blackout offenders.” All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

I round the corner and head to Commerce Street. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

The makeup rounds and fills out the sharp angles of my face. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Dimples on top of freckles, which shouldn't even be allowed, and round as crabapples. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

Big black machines worked all day and night pouring little pancakes onto moving round griddles. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

A magic cloak had gone the rounds, which only a faithful wife could wear—or perhaps it was a magic horn which only a faithful wife could drink from. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Big round eyes, smiling as if he was happy to see me. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

I put my arms round him and held him. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

They were both sturdy little blond figures, with round bellies. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Cora was informed of the night riders’ rounds by the ripple passing through the park. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

No one to echo her every petty remark, round out her laughter. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

On top of this earthen structure stood a deep, round, iron cauldron. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

No turdes or elephants on her bedroom furniture, but a few statues spread out round the room. The Color Purple 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The wheels spun round throwing brush and mud. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

A heavy silver chain was looped round his neck. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

With a friendly smile, Mr. Benedict stepped round to introduce himself to the children, shaking hands and calling each by name. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

She looks like a lady of the Gentry, if one does not stare overmuch at the rounded curves of her ears. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

A sleepy head poked round the door opening. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

“It therefore follows . . .” A noise made him turn round. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

But now that he had done the latter, and was facing the prospect of asking a girl to the ball, he thought he’d rather have another round with the dragon. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

I try to catch the waiter to bring another round, but he disappears into the back just as I signal to him. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

I clearly wasn’t there yet, so I had to fence in the preliminary rounds and hope I made it to the second day of competition. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

The newlyweds were in the Rolls, Marshall at the wheel, reversing in order to turn round. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

He nearly broke out in a round of laughter. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Finally, I make it to the round clearing, where a pond sits before me, the edge of the swampland that stretches out for miles and miles. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

He cut the thongs round Pippin’s legs and ankles, picked him up by his hair and stood him on his feet. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

By his side hung a curving scimitar, a round shield studded with bosses of brass hung at his back, and his right hand grasped a lance. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

A round turret rose from one comer of the structure. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“There’s no telling when our first round will be.” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

When the cars round a bend, they feel as if they might overturn. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Through the gate there now appeared a broad thick-set hobbit with a round red face. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

The big Greek sat up in bed and his round face was dismal and reproachful. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

I walked back to the living room and found my father asleep on the sofa, his round mouth pursed and tightly shut, his breath filtering softly through his nose. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

As I say, I’ve never been sure whether or not Ruth deliberately moved things round to this. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Murder,” he said, forming his hand into the shape of a pistol and pulling off a few rounds. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were thick bands of iron hugged ’round her ankles connecting up to some locks and chains that were keeping her where she was at. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

The widow took a sip, rolled the wine round her mouth, swallowed. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Once he reached the seclusion of the freshly mown lawn, Ron rounded on Harry. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Smoke was seeping through the branches in white and yellow wisps, the patch of blue sky overhead turned to the color of a storm cloud, and then the smoke billowed round him. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

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

He looked round at the windows and walls, as if he was afraid they would suddenly give way. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

The Maggots, and the Puddifoots of Stock, and most of the inhabitants of the Marish, were house-dwellers; and this farm was stoutly built of brick and had a high wall all round it. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

"It's in my knickers! It's running round in my flaming knickers! Get it out! Someone help me to get it out!" The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

They were just behind her when she staggered into an open space where bright flowers grew and butterflies danced round each other and the air was hot and still. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

They heard the wind hissing among the rocks and trees, and there was a howling and wailing round them in the empty spaces of the night. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

They were both old and round, and they lived in their flat with a number of ageing Highland terriers who had names like Hamish and Andrew and Jock. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

I’d mash the beans with roasted garlic and sage and serve them on toasted rounds of homemade sourdough bread. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

The round little man looked splendid in his new robes, with their broad bands of dun and butternut and narrow stripes of red. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The passengers came crowding into the restaurant car and took their seats round the tables. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

Suddenly she put her arms round him and kissed him again and again. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

She went back to the bed and put her arm round Lola who raised her hands to her face and began to cry. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

“Hazel—the danger, the bad thing. It hasn’t gone away. It’s here—all round us. Don’t tell me to forget about it and go to sleep. We’ve got to go away before it’s too late.” Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

He fumed and threatened, but in the end he rounded up six men and sent them off grumbling to fetch the barrels down to the brewhouse. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Its body is smooth and pale grey, it has bulging round eyes on top of its head and four spindly legs with enormous flat feet. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

And when he come round they was all still sitting there, waiting and looking at him. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

The moustaches were stuck on round the buttons. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was brought up short by the rope which was wound round the tree—the vacuous brachet meanwhile giving a melancholy yelp— and fell off his horse with a tremendous clang. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

He brought me stacks of moon cakes, round and yellow like the full moon. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Rushing’s feet, I remember, were big and funny-shaped—not long like most big feet, but they were round and roly-poly like Rushing. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

The doc’s a short man, round belly, don’t seem to practice what he preaches about eating right, but he’s got a kind heart, and he lays out some newspapers on his kitchen table. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then, three miles up, the wind steadied and bore it in a descending curve round the sky and swept it in a great slant across the reef and the lagoon toward the mountain. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

I held the bag up and examined the rounded bulge at its bottom. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the final round Bobby had to face Walter Shipman, the man who’d first welcomed him at the Manhattan Chess Club. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“What a tiresome person Lady Crowan is. Do you really believe all the people round here are talking and dreaming of nothing but a fancy dress ball at Manderley?” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

The hall leads to a round room, the light within it bright as you enter. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

I hop off the cart and sweep him up in my arms, putting one hand round his muzzle and using the other to get back on the cart. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

Your eyes will be little and round but you are so far up there you can look down and see the whole world, Mama and everybody. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

On about the nineteenth round, Gregor decided to teach her “Row, Row, Row Your Boat” just for a little variety. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

She lets it drop, and I let her tell me about the second round she has planned for Denasia. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

All through the winter he remained as patient as he could, and tried to restrain himself from going round constantly to see if anything was happening. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

But the figures kept spinning around in circles, round after round. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

It was the world and broken things, and hand-carved beams and tangled bedcovers, and a lovely tattoo round her navel, like a girl with the hope of a future. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

He had rigged his harpoon long before and its coil of light rope was in a round basket and the end was made fast to the bitt in the bow. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

I figured he was gonna circle ’round to catch me so I ran deeper into the woods fast as I could. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

She rim round the house looking at herself in mirrors. The Color Purple 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The skin round her neck's the softest thing I've ever stroked. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

Miyax tied another red patch on the sedge, rounded a boggy pond, and climbed the heave where the owl lived. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the middle of music like a bad pageant, and of music answered from outside, the heads turned round to the door. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

The crude setup seemed like a miracle: looking at the puppet ship, they could actually “see” the spaceship as it made its rounds. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

It waren’t nothing but a old sock that someone had jammed stuffing up inside the toe part and then tied string tight ’round and ’round the neck to turn it into a head. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

His round white head was so friendly and kind, I cried like a baby because I wanted him for a father instead of my own parents. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We’ll be featuring some local teen poets who were part of the Poetry Out Loud summer workshops. So give ’em a round of applause, y’all.” Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Such restless nights make them sleep late, and Violet has to hurry to get a meal prepared before getting ready for her round of heads. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

I found myself doing calculations I’d failed at in geometry class as I determined the angle to cut the round pill. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

We got your daughter, he printed slowly in big round letters. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

She picks up a small grinning Buddha and rubs its round belly. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

“Oh dear, all I can find is my sailor hat and a pair of gloves!” said Michael, running round the room pulling at drawers and feeling along shelves. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

The wind suddenly fell and then veered round to the south. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Lancelot turned the cap round in his hands. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Piggy paused for a moment and peered round at the dim figures. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

There was just room to turn round at the far end and as they did so Speedwell and Dandelion tumbled in behind them. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

It occurred to me that I could not remain where I was for long without incurring the risk of an oncoming vehicle coming round that same bend and colliding into my employer's Ford. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

Jon brushed the loose soil away to reveal a rounded bundle perhaps two feet across. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

And the other one, after five minutes of being ’round him, if you was wearing drawers, you’d have to check to make sure you still had ’em on. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

Briony heard her sister say her name and turned round. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

He slides in next to me, stiff as a wall, with eyes round and shadowed as the moon. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

At first my grandmother couldn’t believe me, but as I went on about the workbooks and circles, she dissolved into another round of laughter. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

New shifts of street police begin making their rounds. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

He looked round vaguely for his glass, picked it up off a table and went over to the side table and helped himself to another whisky and soda. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

Putting the wallet between my knees, I looked round to check nobody'd seen. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

Bill and I rolled for the next two rounds. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

It was as tall and round as decorative bottles they use in liquor store displays and I had to use both hands to carry it. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

Still lost in thought I turn round and find myself confronted by a Major. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

I examine her round face, her deep-set eyes, and her cheeks. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Once, not long ago, he had ridden on her shoulder, his tail coiled round her arm. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

That night I send the video clip to my friends, and by the time I get to school in the morning, the video has made the rounds, and Stu Papadopolis is expelled. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

No one stirred in the farmhouse before noon on the following day, and the word went round that from somewhere or other the pigs had acquired the money to buy themselves another case of whisky. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

“They’ve been so successful rounding up people that now they have to work hard to meet their quotas,” Martin said. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

In the middle of the puffy cloud, there is a cluster of black round seeds like pepper. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a hammer and a round kind of knife. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

My iron shroud contracted round me; persuasion advanced with slow sure step. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

“It must be round. And Max is right about it being heavy.” Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

The leather covers on the round bar stools are worn to tearing from use. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Frightful had eaten until her crop was round and full, Jon showed her a perch. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

The nanny was trying to round up the other girls to dress them for a party. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I notice a freckle, perfect and round, at the corner of his mouth. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Her pale round face seemed flushed, and her eyes, behind the glasses, were afraid. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

“It’s getting late,” I say after we finish the round. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

While he poured pills into a round cardboard box she stood in the door. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Some of the white people ’round here are always trying to blame everything that goes bad on Settlement folks and we waren’t looking for no trouble. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

Her school skirt was tight at the waist, dividing her body into two rounded halves like the number 8. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

Once the door to the girls’ dormitories had closed behind her he rounded on Ron. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

As he climbed into bed that night, C.P.'s thoughts lingered on the upcoming game at the newly built ballpark, with its unique round tower that reminded the boy of a castle. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

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

In March of 1782 a settler militia from Pennsylvania, under the command of David Williamson, rounded them up, telling them they had to evacuate for their own safety. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

He’s thrown a rope with weights at either end right at my legs and they’ve twisted round and caught me, expert, just like a hunter after swamp deer. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

I never saw her walking about, and assumed, from the cane always propped against the round table at her side, that she did so with difficulty. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

The Dolphin rounded to, her top sails were furled, and with a great creaking of lines and shudder of canvas, she came to rest alongside the Wethersfield dock. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

Polite but eager applause rippled round as Hugo sliced the fish, and placed the first steaming portion on to a platter. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

There’s no use in looking back, for here’s the truth I’ve found: It’s hunger, want, and wickedness that makes the world go round. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z

Before Frodo could stop him, he sat down, swung his legs over the brink, and twisted round, scrabbling with his toes for a foothold. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Tristran produced the cottage loaf, the ripe, red apples, and round of cheese—hard, tart, and crumbly—that his mother had given him. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

Finally the hare was finished and he came round to face the lion. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

The man nearly overbalanced, but held on to the rail and swung the boat hook round in another attempt. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

I wondered if he went round and round the cathedral, in his shovel hat and his gaiters, with her on his arm. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Ralph fastened his hands round the chewed spear and his hair fell. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

For half a heartbeat Bran thought maybe a root had gotten tangled round his ankle ... until the root moved. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The calm, chrome center of the silver ceiling fan went round inside her head. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had a time clock to punch at various checkpoints on my rounds. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

Like, my sister would be sitting at a round table, coloring, and he’d smack her in the head with a crayon. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

Each had a wide, round base and a narrow stovepipe sticking up from it. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

It had a big round face and a shiny black band. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

The Wart looked in the direction which had been indicated with a despondent thumb, and saw a lot of rope wound round a tree. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

The man removed his sunglasses, greeting her with big, round, angry gray eyes. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Arthur gets another round of Cokes and when he returns, he grabs the remote. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

They kept talking, longer than necessary for a specialist whose job was essentially to determine the problem, make small talk with the patient, and proceed with his rounds. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

She said, “Hold still. I’m going to clean round it, but I won’t touch it.” Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Jackal slipped out of the hole without difficulty, but when it came to Hyena’s turn he was so round from eating the fat sheep that he could not get through. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

“Today we are going to talk to you, not the other way round. Nobody asked you to talk. So just listen. Understand?” Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You ask me, I think they ought to round them all up and burn them at the stake.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Nowhere was the war strain more evident than in the intimate crowds of strangers who pushed up against one another in the vehicles making their rounds. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Without effort, confusion, or much thought, four round stones were rolled together on the little beach. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

A good while later we rounded a curve and there it was again, just ahead, laying on its side like a dead horse. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

“The lonely church, right out on the marshes, with graves round it!” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

I watched the delicate round bone at her wrist twist back and forth and felt blood pounding in my ears. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

Tall, thin but not too, round in all the right places, long chestnut hair. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

When I rounded the last corner, onto Cactus, I could see the studio, looking just as I remembered it. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

The room was maybe half the size of my bedroom back home: a twin bed with olive-green covers, and matching green curtains covering the small round window above it. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

He looked out of the car window and then round at the white faces near him. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

“In other words, she meant to come round here?” The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Without drying off or nothing, I went ’round back of the shed to see if that’s what got Stanky so jumpy. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

And here he’d come again, ready to tie into her for another round. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

The glen and sky spun round: the hills heaved! Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

Together they rounded the corner to see what the explosion had wrought. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

On a table near the cookstove stood an enamel basin—speckled blue and white and chipped all round its rim. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was so awesome how she transformed each of our hairstyles into big, round bouffants with curled, flicked-up ends, topped by a cloud of hair spray. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

Lying in bed, with Luke, his hand on my rounded belly. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

She turned the slingshot out at all of us in the crowd and commenced firing over our heads, putting out all the candles that runged ’round the tent! Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

We ended up in an area off the kitchen that had a small, round table and four chairs. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The gardeners were going round to the lights in the rose-garden, testing them to see if they all worked. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

As I rounded the corner, I nearly tripped over a boy sitting on the sidewalk up against the wall. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Matt saw an ancient fish rise from the depths to look at him with a round, yellow eye. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The first time I tried, Richard Parker bared his teeth, rotated his ears full round, vomited a short guttural roar and charged. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Fischer and Geller were to meet in the twelfth round in a pivotal matchup. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

She had no time to reply, however, for at that moment a white furry head peered cautiously round a boulder. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

A short burst of rounds hit the side of the medevac, and I clenched my teeth and grabbed for the sides. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Precious stones of astonishing size and brightness stared from their crowns and hung in chains round their necks and peeped out from all the places where anything was fastened. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

The second day those forty-eight fencers from the first day join the top sixteen seeded fencers in the world to complete the elimination rounds of the tableau of sixty-four. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Eight rats, two from each group, ran to the round pieces of wood Mrs. Frisby had noticed earlier; these resembled sawed-up pieces of broom handle, each about a foot long. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

Finally the gown fell aWay, a pale tangle round her feet. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I started skittering round and trying to search the room. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

Beside him stands a Tribal girl clad in sheer, rose-colored robes, their hems embroidered with tiny round mirrors. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

He walked drearily between the trunks, his face empty of expression, and the blood was dry round his mouth and chin. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

He wore round glasses held together with a lot of Scotch tape because of all the times Dudley had punched him on the nose. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

Then I rose from the table, passing round to the side where the nurse couldn't see me below the waist, and behind the Negro, who was clearing the dirty plates. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

He opened the front door and led the way round the house. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

And his round eye told you he knew that everything was ruined forever. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

I must put all my mind to it, to see if we two by ourselves can take them on or if we should look round for help.” The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Morrison tells us, “We’re going to do a few rounds of Freeze Tag.” Watch Us Rise 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z

When Winston woke up the hands of the clock had crept round to nearly nine. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

A few helicopters came and hovered inquisitively round the tower. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was tempted to cover my ears, because that alone was enough to make Grandma squeeze off a round. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

Miss Honey's mouth dropped open and her eyes stretched so wide you could see the whites all round. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

She showed Miss Mallory the small round opening in the bird’s yellow mouth. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

He glanced foolishly round the room, blinking his small eyes. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Their rounded arches frame a square courtyard and a garden that is brown and shriveled by frost The November air bites my skin. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

By 1820 even Adams had stopped firing off his illumination rounds and had adopted the Jeffersonian posture of benign duplicity, preferring to risk hypocrisy rather than the friendship. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

It is a murky yellow-white, with rounded corners. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

There were many voices round about, and though orc-speech sounded at all times full of hate and anger, it seemed plain that something like a quarrel had begun, and was getting hotter. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

A round hole in the dirt, most likely, but certainly nothing like what she saw. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

The jersey has a black number 5 on the back and a round black patch over the heart, hand sewn, that shows a ferocious-looking eagle with arrows in its talons. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even her hair was shaped into a big round thing on her head. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Marion led us to the round wooden table in the kitchen. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

He heard a noise close by; he looked round just in time to see a white face, a head, then shoulders pull into view upon the roof to the right of him. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

‘That’s about it,' said Sam. ‘And we’d better be a bit more watchful ourselves, or we’ll feel some nasty fingers round our necks one of these nights, if we ever wake up to feel anything. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

The moon was already up, round, white, and beautiful like a thin transparent wafer. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

High above, the cars sailed round and round the drive, their headlights stabbing. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Trunchbull flicked her head round and looked carefully at the small girl with dark hair and deep brown eyes sitting in the second row. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

“It is a circumstance which Darcy could not wish to be generally known, because if it were to get round to the lady’s family, it would be an unpleasant thing.” Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z

Today, I stand before a stack of dark green guavas, each perfectly round and hard, each $1.59. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

If you managed to put your point through the ring, the thread broke, and you could canter off proudly with the ring round your spear. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

And then she looks up at me with raised eyebrows and a perfectly round mouth, and I can’t help but laugh. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

Jack slammed his knife into a trunk and looked round challengingly. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

But if they slept late on Sunday mornings, as Mr. Dalton had said, they would have no reason to be looking round down there. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

When someone looked particularly bad, the Boss ordered a round of hot milk for all hands. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

The parrot has rounded back and landed on me, digging his talons in to keep from being torn away by the wind. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

Dark round glasses covered his eyes, but what really caught my attention was the skin on his face. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

Patients, with accompanying nurses, made their rounds of the stocked shelves, conversing in low tones, with the asylum librarian, an alumna of the asylum herself. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

Zeitoun was on his rounds, so he didn’t see them install it. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Instead of Pippi’s white freckled face, the tattoo girl’s face was brown and round with thick lips and a wide nose. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

Butler put three rounds into the door frame. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

But if the Stormbreakers were based on the round processor there couldn’t possibly be any need for such extremes—and anyway, this was like nothing Alex had ever seen before. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

He had all of these clips that he had checked round by round, and he was taking it all with him. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The round end of her stub felt like a stuffed dumpling as I squeezed it hello. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

Four feet in diameter, the round concrete wall sticks two feet out of the ground. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

His men spread out, rounding people up with curses, blows, and kicks. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Farther on, the passage opened into a round chamber. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

He turned into Washington Park and pulled the car slowly round and round the long gradual curves. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

He warmed the palm of his hand against the rounded side of his cup. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Instantly Bree swerved round and began galloping inland again as fast as he could gallop. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

She looked at him with round, helpless black eyes. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

She was mother’s sister, a wonderfully round, cuddly woman with flowing wavy hair and a warm smile. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now these corners became, in John Donne’s phrase, ‘the round earth’s imagin’d corners’. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

After a round of applause for the cooks—the twins looking like they were being sentenced to a year’s worth of dishwashing—everyone dug in. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Bagman wiped his round, boyish face with his handkerchief and looked at Mr. Crouch, who was standing outside the circle of the firelight, his face half hidden in shadow. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

The King stood, pulling his gown round him, as if for warmth. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

The council, a group of a dozen older Underlanders, had gathered at a round table in a room off the High Hall. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

When they came to the corner they looked round and saw that the path ran on over a level strip under the face of a low cliff overhung with trees. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Off to the side is a black velvet dress—it has short cap sleeves, a rounded neckline decorated with tiny pearls, and a swirly, flowing skirt. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

He held out his left hand with the thumb and forefinger curved round, indicating the gap between them to be about as long as the thumb itself. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

He could see the comet hanging above the Guards Hall and the Bell Tower, and farther back the First Keep, squat and round, its gargoyles black shapes against the bruised purple dusk. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Round and round he went until the song ended with a shout and he stopped, his finger pointing at a child Milkman could not see. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dread was round him, and enemies before him in the pass, and his master was in a fey mood running heedlessly to meet them. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

We were in the middle of lunch, so everyone crowded round to go “urgh!” Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Three rounds of discussion took place in the space of twelve minutes, and questions were posed regarding the extent of the emergency. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Everybody round here knows me and I know everybody.” Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the round, flat top a group of bats waited. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

We rounded a headland to enter a rocky half-moon bay. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

I could see the reflection of my round face in the rearview mirror—the big eyes that seemed almost sleepy; thick, dark brows; full lips—I could see the revulsion slide over it. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Bunny’s mouth fell open in a little round o. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

I lie down and gaze out the large window, at the rounded treetops. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

She knew he did not really want another round of introducing the brown stepdaughter. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

But since Salim disappeared, it had been the other way round. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

Seven gave her the side-eye, taking in her straight, short black hair and bangs, her round, pale face and flush red lips. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

The round little white pills dropped like hard, heavy snowflakes. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Along the way, we come across the cigarette, money, and jacket scabs, and the father rounds them all up and gets them together. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

They’ve covered the bare floors with white carpets; round white banquet tables overflowing with white lilacs fill the room. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

A meadow at Westminster had been prepared for the combat A barricade of strong logs, like a corral for horses, had been erected round the wide square—which had no barrier down the middle. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

My eyes could not leave those huge round faces, with their almond-shaped eyes, flat noses, and full lips—all of Pa’s features! First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I call down to Pouncey, who’s working the hand crank that keeps bucket after bucket of chain rising up the rounded side of the silo and spilling in through the opening. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

The bag men are fast and we’re ready for our rounds. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

They swam round and round until she scooped them into her basket. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

We could perhaps find our way through and come round to Rivendell from the north; but it would take too long, for I do not know the way, and our food would not last. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

If the rotation is zero, the black hole is perfectly round and the solution is identical to the Schwarzschild solution. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

All round the walls there were low sofas with rich cushions on them, and the room seemed to be full of people; very queer people some of them, thought Shasta. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

Sewing Mistress approached, bearing a needle, an assortment of colored thread, and a round of white linen marked with a design of flowers. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

Far off in the West the full moon was sinking, round and white. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

As it went the rounds, it left a lot of startled faces behind it. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I don't look like you, Mom. This hairdo doesn't look good on me. It makes my face look too round.” Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Bigger paused and looked round the poolroom with a wild and exasperated expression, his lips tightening with resolution. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

On one side, there was a sloping garden of rosebushes and stone benches, ending at a round gazebo by the edge of a stream. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

He continued to make rounds, seeing dead bodies and being confronted by angry residents, many of them armed. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Bigger moved restlessly and his breath quickened; he looked round in the shadows to see if any attendant was near, then slouched far down in his seat. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Glancing round, they beheld a large furry shape—black with blotches of white, or was it white with blotches of black? Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

He called loudly to Frodo to send the wine round again. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

He knocked on her door ’round midnight to give it to her; he knew she was awake. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

The girl was seated by the hearth, sipping wine at a round wooden table with three of the Black Ears he'd left to guard her and a plump man whose back was to him. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

His brachet, on a long string, was wound round him several times. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

A round stool with a black vinyl cushion sat in the corner of the room. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

Then they went round a hairpin bend to their right and continued rising. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

The stone banisters on the outside stairways were chipped, their surfaces blotched with dirt, and the edges of the stone steps were round and smooth from years of use. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

He looked quickly round, but could see no signs of alarm. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mama s eyes had grown round, taking up more space on her face. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

I was even starting to feel something loosening up and slopping ’round in my nose. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

My present is a Brownie box camera, black and oblong, with a handle on top and a round hole at the back to look through. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Probably she had crushed her hand while swinging round one of the big kaleidoscopes on which the plots of novels were “roughed in.” 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

His hair was plastered to his head and a small puddle was forming round him on the linoleum. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

My body grows round again with recovered health, and my belly swells more than the rest of me. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Four tall girls arose from different tables, and going round, gathered the books and removed them. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

“No doubt about the weather today, they will certainly come, so we must fly round and be ready for them,” said Amy, as the sun woke her next morning. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

A few rounds pass me by, but somehow I manage to win the most games out of all of us. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

‘These lights? They’re all round us now. Are we trapped? Who are they?’ The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Both times we hie off into the woods, Viola with her hand round Manchee’s snout and me trying to keep my Noise as Prentisstown-free as possible till they pass. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

“Hop in the cab,” said the van driver, “and I’ll take you round.” The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“They said he should be—” and then suddenly our worries disappeared as a blue minivan rounded the corner toward the parking lot, and I saw a man inside wearing a suit. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

But at last she slid into the seat, to a round of applause from the crowd. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

The others, sensing his movement, turned round, and followed his gaze. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

He’d just rounded a corner to the right when he slammed to a stop, his feet almost skidding out from under him. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

I left him frozen on the sofa, head twisted round, eyes bulging. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

So' I turned round and I ran across the road back to our house. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

One house in particular, a small rounded hut made of rough logs and covered with thatch, stood very close to the road. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Two of the guardsmen were dicing together while the third walked rounds, his hand on the pommel of his sword. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The wood curved round and he followed it, until he was out of sight of the fence, and the tractor. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

He had ambled round so that he was still behind the King, and now gave him another terrific blow in the same place. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

They wheeled round, but nothing could be seen. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Digory was just turning to go back to the gates when he stopped to ha\\e one last look round. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

We spin round to look, my hand going right to my knife. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

Then she started swinging her round and round her head, faster and faster and Amanda was screaming blue murder and the Trunchbull was yelling, "I'll give you pigtails, you little rat!" Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

But if you put your ice cream in a round as opposed to a rectangular container and charge five to ten cents more, that seems like you’re pulling the wool over people’s eyes. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

After the festivities, Schindler still had the energy to make his rounds of the factory. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

Their round black heads leaned far back so that they could watch each other with both round white eyes. Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z

Most people were wildly looking round for Jadis and the horse. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

Jasper ran round in circles, barking hysterically at the prospect of his walk. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Most afternoons, after making the morning rounds with Madame, Marie-Laure sits on her bed with the window open and travels her hands over her father’s model of the city. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

After a round of applause for Mr. Wilde’s speech, students began putting on dramatic performances for the audience, which included several white people, benefactors of the school in one way or another. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

We all have round cheeks, although Autumn’s face is oblong, while my mother’s and mine are heart-shaped. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

And in order to get round to the other side he had to pass between the horse’s hoofs and the railings of the “area” that surrounded the house; for the Ketterleys’ house had a basement. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

He sat up with difficulty and looked round at them. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

We rounded a corner and turned into a small courtyard where several women were gathered, some as young as I was. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

He looked over the farm buildings and across at the round hills, rich and yellow with grain. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

He could snap chains round his chest simply by taking a big breath, and bend iron bars that it took two men to lift. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Go round them up so I can snap your picture.” P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

Lu said, as we rounded the second curve. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

As she rounded the bend, she prepared for the worst: Evan's lemonade stand crowded with customers. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

After eleven rounds, nearing the tournament’s midpoint, Fischer was in second place, one-half point behind the leader, Efim Geller of the USSR. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Another rope was wrapped ’round and ’round his neck and was pinching his throat narrow and tight. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

There was at present nothing to be learned from the Piccadilly side, and nothing could be done; so I went round to the back to see if anything could be gathered from this quarter. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

I put my hands on my hips and take a long look round like men do when they’re thinking. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

Then he took a peculiar half step, moving from shade into bright sunlight, and the booby-trapped 105 round blew him into a tree. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her coat was newly clipped and she wore a scarlet ribbon round her forelock. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

When I looked over, sure enough, my fruit snacks were making the rounds at the boys’ table. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

He managed to round up a few goats and cows, and a donkey to help him carry goods and farm the land. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

It was round and ruddy, a fat clay grapefruit. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

I had seen them, photos of Mama when she lived in Spokane, twelve years old and her round face blanched with rice powder. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Punch and Judy stall was made of striped canvas, red and white, with a frill round the little square stage. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

There was a much louder round of applause for Bagman than for Crouch, perhaps because of his fame as a Beater, or simply because he looked so much more likable. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

“Three days. Mr. Ronald Weasley and Miss Granger will be most relieved you have come round, they have been extremely worried.” Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

The plain box held five smaller boxes—a small round one in the center and four curved boxes that fit around it perfectly. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

Everything stood out separate from everything else, a rock, a rounded lump of sea-polished driftwood on a beach, a roof line. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wanted to see her grow round with a child and hold that child in her arms. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

A gaze, cool as the round marble inlay of a chair back. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

His voice is pure and round and haunting, like the call of an owl. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

Helms too they chose, and round shields: their bosses were overlaid with gold and set with gems, green and red and white. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

When we round the next corner, there’s another samples person. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

“He already comes round for dinner about four times a week,” said Harry. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

As they moved over the short turf—nibbling, sitting up and looking round them—they approached a little hollow, no more than three feet across. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m not sure my answer made sense to Ms. Faraci, but she smiled anyway, her round cheeks so high, they brushed the bottom of her glasses. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

“I know your round isn’t until after lunch, but you feel like you’re ready ready?” Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Silence filtered over the spot just as Ike and Felix rounded the corner. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

As they were making a way round the raucous tables Turner saw a naval party coming along the front and stopped to watch. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Feeling dishonorable, but determined all the same, he put his arms round the corporals’ shoulders and they staggered forward. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

His face was once again round like the moon and his body was soft. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Beto broke away from the heater and pressed something small, light, and round into Naomi’s hand. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

‘Let’s get on quickly before he brings all the elil round us.’ Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The other two cucos rounded a corner, skidding and kicking up gravel and snow as they joined the first. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

Around this pleasant round face, her hair—as yellow as a crows foot— curled in short ringlets. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

Even if his team lost this round, they’d all just scored some excellent swag. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

The other boys said nothing but stood round, watching him. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

“One that will get us out fast. You two round up the cats.” Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ralph sketched a twining line from the bald spot on which they stood down a slope, a gully, through flowers, round and down to the rock where the scar started. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

"Our tails are round and furry," they said. Terrible Things: An Allegory of the Holocaust 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Grudgingly, I admitted, “Mr. Gitney instructed me. ‘Sedges have edges and rushes art round. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

She twirls her hands and spins round and round to the music. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

There was a feeble movement of his arms, and I knelt beside him and clasped them round my neck, holding them there, for he was too weak. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her face turned slowly and he held his face still, waiting for her face to come round, in front of his. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

I drove the thoughts from my head and ripped at the shoe buttons with the buttonhook, yanking so savagely that one of the abalone rounds snapped free and rolled under the cot. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

She did not take to her bed as I expected but was driven round to the home of Missus Taylor to play cards and, no doubt, complain about her husband. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

My dad went out foraging and returned with a handful of snacks he bought from kids selling them by the side of the road—peanuts and mandazi, little round cakes. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

The Efrafans would either have to get it out or dig round it and this would mean more delay. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Matilda and Lavender glanced round and saw the gigantic figure of Miss Trunchbull advancing through the crowd of boys and girls with menacing strides. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

The story about his father was a lie, too—he’d twisted it all round. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Around and over his round ears and down the back of his neck his hair, dark blond and straight, grows in thick wisps. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

He began drinking his whiskey-and-soda, glancing round the room, looking at me every now and again, and smiling. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

“So paranoia justifies rounding up thousands of people and treating them like prisoners?” Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

She was too pregnant, too round, too exhausted. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

When I entered the room, I saw all my school friends gathered round a cake, shouting, “Surprise!” Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Her feet in their house sandals tapped on the rounded cobbles. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

‘I went round there in person. Her name’s Claudette. She smokes Charisma cigarettes.’ The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

Turning round he examined the place he had just exited. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

She claimed each circuit through Donald’s almanacs as a victory, then returned to the first page for another round. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

“Yes, just as lovely. Must be lovely all round world.” Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘Well, Mr. Frodo,’ said Sam, ‘I’ve been having a look round and thinking a bit. There’s nothing on the roads, and we’d best be getting away while there’s a chance. Can you manage it?’ The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

The next few hours, when you see Captain Beatty, tiptoe round him, let me hear him for you, let me feel the situation out. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

We end the night playing round after round of Taboo. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Twenty minutes beyond the village I rounded a bend and arrived at a breathtaking overlook. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

There were only thirty-two fencers competing in women’s saber, using a direct elimination tableau, so there was no first day of pool rounds. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

A red truck rounded the corner, and Freebie disappeared beneath it. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

In December, we began a new round of secret bilateral talks with the government. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You’re highly satisfactory. Turn slowly round, and let me get a careful view.” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

So when I wasn’t in school, Daddy kept me busy working ’longside him chopping firewood, clearing brush, fixing things ’round the house needed fixing. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

She looked like an ostrich the way she moved her really long neck and stuck out her plump, round bottom. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Boots lay down, but, feeling excited, he stood up again and began to prowl, round and round in his narrow prison. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

So the next time the Nazis started rounding up Jews, chaos erupted. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

His round stomach had flattened out a trifle from the starvation winter, but he was by no means thin. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

There were armies of flies of all kinds buzzing round their ears, and the afternoon sun was burning on their backs. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

No Problemo Coach says we must win our final game to advance to the next round of the tournament. Booked 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

That brought another round of laughter from the crowd, and Reverend Okonjo smiled. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

He’s moving at a good pace in front of me and has just rounded a corner. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

They decided to take a detour round the place where they had seen the monster tied up, and marched away through the darksome trees without a thought of danger. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mum boasts to visitors and relatives how, no matter what, we sit round as a family to share an evening meal. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

He tugged on a small round medallion that was suspended from a silver chain around his neck. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Once a year, Luke, Richard and I would help Grandpa round up a dozen or so to take to the auction in town, where they’d be sold for slaughter. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

His round eyes scan the stairwell and then rest on my face. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Tables with their feet upside-down and rows and rows of refrigerators with round corners and couches that spin dust in the air when you punch them and a hundred T.V.’s that don’t work probably. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

And presently, round the corner of the glass case the owner of it appeared. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

Audrey took a step back just as Lumpy rounded the corner and she stumbled against him. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

She made her way round the stable block and stopped under the arched entrance, beneath the clock tower. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Here, I am the strange one, with my blunt fingers, round ears, and mayfly life. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

I spun round you a satellite for a month, but shall swing out soon, a dark star in the orbit where you will blaze. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

The hill was shaped like a comma, large and round with a spur leading out and down: The Twentieth Maine was positioned along the spur, the other regiments curved around to the right. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Beside the windows, two simple, elegant armchairs faced each other across a low round table on which a tea tray rested. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

I would offer to buy another round of drink but he would insist, and I would graciously accept, and than him, and smile. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

When they missed Miss Gunderson and word got round that there would be a substitute, they were delighted. Stuart Little 1945-10-17T00:00:00Z

His tangible presence seemed to belie all the vague thoughts and hopes that Bigger had woven round him in his broodings. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Many other people in the theater were rounded up, including the Fords. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a round hill smooth and bare, standing by itself, the most northerly of the downs. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Then Tom put the Ring round the end of his little finger and held it up to the candlelight. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

At the restaurant they were seated side by side at a round table with a revolving platter of spareribs and egg rolls and chicken wings, which, they concurred, all tasted the same. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

The science enthusiasts quickly gathered round, trying to get a peek at the heavy-looking metal box he was holding—his notorious decibel counter. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Her dad had baby blond hair and a round, boyish face. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

They went round to the other side of the tree, and then Sam understood the click that he had heard. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Knotted round each other, they teetered, clutched, swayed. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

They wore white shirts and little round doilies on their heads. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

AH round the panelled walls there were ancient paintings of departed badgers, famous in their day for scholarship or godliness, lit from above by shaded glow-worms. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

They rounded the bend in the road, and the low plaster building that made up the Tanaburi Village School came into view. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

Heavy thunder, and mortar rounds, and people yelling. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hel hears it too, and we whirl to find Cain rounding a curve in the cliffs. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Lying there I listen carefully to the sounds that wrap round me like a shawl—the laughings, the cryings, the songs, the prayers of the many voices of the people bunched so close. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

It scuffled savagely and for an instant the three rabbits saw its round, dark eyes looking straight down the run. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sinister blunt head moved in a lazy rhythm, its forked tongue flickering endlessly in and out, the round bead-like jet eyes never leaving his for an instant. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

I sketch an oval, fat and compact, add black eyes, tiny rounded ears, tucked-under feet, and a mess of every-which- way hair. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Kyle hurried over to the round desk in the center of the room. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

Like the judge, Lombard's eyes wandered slowly round the room. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

I wait for the day to unroll, for the earth to turn, according to the round face of the implacable clock. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

They walked along for some way in the shadow of the mesa, rounded a projection, and there, in a water worn ravine, was the way up the companion ladder. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

The troll rounded on him, all ten talons sliding out to their full extent. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

He felt the rounded curve of a C. An L. And then the four letters that followed. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

“Exactly. A circular room with a round desk at the center of that circle.” Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

Vegas, for his part, seemed not too anxious to mix it up with him and they spent most of the first round fighting at a distance. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

He has a big old round belly with his belly button sticking out like a black marble. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Next, they played what seemed like a hundred and twenty rounds of Go Fish. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

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

Islimach’s eyes were round with terror; she whickered and struck out at him. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

“Mama said to ring the doctor round, Mrs. Caruthers is having a fit of some kind!” Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

I stare at Matilde’s message, the neat, round letters and numbers that I already know by heart. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was round and dark and wet, with long hair that whipped about it as it rolled. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“At least we can’t wear it this time, that’d look a bit weird hanging round our necks,” said Ron, wiping his mouth on the back of his hand. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

The boy had his father’s round moon face, his pointy stub of a chin, his twisted, seashell ears, and the same slight frame. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Frodo shut and locked the round door, and gave the key to Sam. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

We rounded the corner and pulled into a school that looked very much like our own. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had a round, soft face with eyes that seemed incapable of anger, and there wasn’t anything remotely swaggering about him. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

It bent to the left, curving back into its eastward line as it rounded the feet of Bree-hill, and then it began to run swiftly downwards into wooded country. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

They went on out to Callahan round the railroad shops and he decided to give a big chicken and macaroni supper that night, free to all. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

God himself, it was now being suggested, had been made in man’s image, and not the other way round. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

The animals agreed to this and Elephant, who was the strongest, was given the task of swinging Hare round and round with his trunk. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z