| 单词 | rounded |
| 例句 | 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 I rounded up my sisters and asked if they had seen Little Ann. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z She hooked her arm through mine, and we rounded the corner to the back parking lot and hunkered behind a Dumpster. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z 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 As I rounded the first corner and passed the hardware store, I peeked inside the bag to take another look at my purchase. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z Her feet in their house sandals tapped on the rounded cobbles. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z Badwa’s face was rounded, her cheeks full, as though she were on the verge of smiling. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z Each student’s curriculum was rounded off by the Afrikaans, English and vernacular languages. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z He stared at white air, the rounded tops of smoky trees. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z I was almost to the top when Annie rounded the corner in front of me on her way down. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z There were different trees, too—more conifers at low levels and many more birches—and scattered through the undergrowth were large, rounded black boulders, like sleeping animals, which lent the still recesses a certain eerieness. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z But when he rounded that first bend and did not see the raft, and cleared the next bend two hundred yards further on and did not see the raft, worry took him. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z The light comes from the tall rounded windows behind the front desk where some women stand, dressed nice and stamping books and answering questions. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z 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 Mami raked her fingers through my hair with a sad smile then walked away, the hem of her dress swinging in rhythm to her rounded hips. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z 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 Each voice has a unique tone color that is described using adjectives or metaphors such as “nasally,” “resonant,” “vibrant,” “strident,” “high,” “low,” “breathy,” “piercing,” “ringing,” “rounded,” “warm,” “mellow,” “dark,” “bright,” “heavy,” “light,” “vibrato.” Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z The coach had rounded the curve, its horn bellowing. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z A few years later he outfitted a gigantic yacht, the Aras, rounded up a crew of scientists, and sailed them all down to the Galapagos for a research expedition. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z And Jews were being rounded up and separated from the rest of the population. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z Your shoulders are rounded, like you have crumpled into yourself. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z But the water had rounded most of the rocks so that they were no good for skipping, and anyway, there was always a wave to grab them before they could reach the gravel. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z He’d just rounded the corner when Gaily came screaming out of the Homestead, looking like a ferocious beast on the loose. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z 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 I rounded a corner and blew through a side door into a dark labyrinth that led into the bowels of the mall. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z 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 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 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 Even his face seemed less rounded and babyish, his cheekbones more noticeable than his dimples. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z 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 A blaze of connection—or collision, as though they had long been wandering in the same labyrinth and had finally rounded the corner that would bring them face-to-face. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z When the car rounded the corner and disappeared from sight, the Vanderbeekers turned and faced the brownstone. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z Before we rounded a corner I looked back over my shoulder and saw the night-watch guy bumbling into the road in front of the house. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z They ducked under the rope and rounded a turn, then stopped, stood still, and listened. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Whites should demonstrate that their silence in the drug war cannot be bought by tacit assurances that their sons and daughters will not be rounded up en masse and locked away. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z There was a large front garden and a maize field bordered by rounded peach trees. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Her plump body, her rounded arms, shook as she laughed. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z They rounded the corner of the building and stood still. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z The Dursleys rounded on Harry like a pair of angry wolverines. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z Peering out the window as the bus rounded the comer and the front doors flew open, I noticed that Mommy stood apart from the other mothers, rarely speaking to them. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Early in 1942, the Nazis had rounded up all the Jewish adults in the village and deported them to the death camps. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z They rounded them up, put them in chains. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z A small boat would heel to the wind when she rounded the headland and come out of the landlocked bay. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z Sticking out like evil litde pins on a rounded cushion of raw skin were several quills, deeply imbedded. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z As we rounded the corner a loud moan split the air. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z He walks over to a slim, blackened stone with a pleasing shape, rounded at the top before rising into a cross. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Mount Toro, on the brother range to the west, was a rounded benign mountain, and to the north Monterey Bay shone like a blue platter. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z As soon as we had finished, we were rounded up again and quick- marched to a building with bars on all the windows and a strong door that our escorts unlocked and opened. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z Her head is bowed, her back rounded, shoulders slumped. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z Lee’s wife grabbed the baby and carried him outside, while Lee rounded up a few valuables and some food and put them in a cloth sack. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z He warmed the palm of his hand against the rounded side of his cup. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z 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 Standing higher than its neighbors, at an altitude of about eight thousand feet, is a wide pillar of rock with a rounded, convoluted top that vaguely resembles the rounded, convoluted top of a human brain. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z For a second, he thought he saw a shadow before he dragged Tad again and rounded the corner. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z He walks to the far shelf where the heavy weapons are kept and picks up the porcupine, a weighted wooden club with fierce metal spikes embedded in the rounded end. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z They are outlined by rounded hoof prints and have sniff marks in them. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z We were marched through the camp, with demons staring at us, while the soldiers rounded up more and more Tang people. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z He had left a rounded knob at one end for a handhold. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z 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 they rounded a corner, a gust of this soft air swept past them, and their candles went out. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z 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 I rounded up the little kids and passed out all my candy stash, which they gleefully devoured. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z His upturned pads with their wet fur looked like little desert islands surrounded by seaweed. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z We rounded the bend onto Main Street, past the bookstore, and coasted down the hill. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z Speeches were made and food was served; a salute to the American flag and the loud singing of “The Star-Spangled Banner” rounded out the evening. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z “No. Deer prints are much more pointed and tapered. These are quite rounded.” On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z After the interviews, he rounded us all up, including my reluctant mom, to travel to Burundi for the next round of interviews. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z Standard height; large, rounded body; golden brown plumage; clean legs and feet. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z At last her father rounded the Willys and spoke to her once in Japanese. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z When we blow the notes through the mutes in our trombone bells, the sound is rounded, soft and muffled, as if underwater. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z “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 As a last resort, I rounded up my courage and went out to my grandfather’s laboratory. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z Aunty Ifeoma sat on a low stool, pulling the brown skin off hot cocoyams, throwing the sticky, rounded tubers in the wooden mortar and stopping to cool her hands in a bowl of cold water. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z 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 His nails were large, rounded at the bottom and blunt and neat at the tips. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 We rounded the bend and found ourselves in a deep valley. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z 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 Ahead there was a rounded turn-off in the road to the right and looking down I could see the road dropping through the trees. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z They rounded a corner of the library, skirted the concrete circle of Frosh Pond, descended a long grassy slope, and then crossed Montlake Boulevard, dodging a steady stream of black coupes, sedans, and roadsters. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z I walk and the desert sand gives way to a cobblestone path, its vermillion stones worn and rounded by what looks like millions who must have traveled it before me. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z They rounded a corner, and from around another corner just up ahead, a kind of drunken mumbling was starting to get louder. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z 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 We rounded the last corner, nodded at the officer at the gym door, and headed toward the front gate and freedom. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Whenever we rounded a corner, she would try to make a shield out of her body to protect the babies from what she felt sure would be mutilation or death. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z A guy named Philip rounded out my eclectic group of friends. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z Fern told how she saw Crazy Kelvin with two policemen just before the bus rounded onto the Bay Bridge. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 Her mother had too many bottles of perfume; they lined her dresser like a store shelf: stunted bottles, tapering bottles, rounded bottles. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z One of the other boys laughed, and the old knight rounded on him. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z The women, the babies, the old men with their rounded backs and thin brown legs. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z With the sun directly overhead, the moon appeared a cheery place, with soft rounded craters bathed in a rose-colored light. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z We rounded the building looking for a door or window that wasn’t blocked, but every potential entrance was filled with ice. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z 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’s packed earth on all four sides, with walls that curve inward and a rounded ceiling. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z The music grew louder, and as I rounded the bend near the train tracks, I felt the warmth radiating from the bonfire, saw the glow on the rough and ragged faces. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z Tucked in the back of one of the shelves is a small bottle, rounded with a short neck and closed with a matching glass stopper. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z As we rounded the corner onto our street, I let out a huge breath. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z The Ainu were conquered, rounded up into reserves, forced to work for trading posts, driven off land desired by Japanese farmers, and killed when they revolted. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Inside it is lit by a line of black iron sconces along the rounded wall and contains nothing but a ring of plain wooden chairs. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z She rounded the boulders, kicked the door open, and burst through the foyer into the secret passage. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z He lowers it again, resting it on his rounded belly. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z 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 “Ma’am,” Mama said, her shoulders rounded and her eyes downcast. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z I guess our noses were similar, too—rounded and slightly turned up at the tip. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z Frankie rounded the corner right behind Tad, and another shot made him jump. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z A rounded patch of sunlight fell on his face and a brightness appeared in the depths of the water. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z Finally, they rounded a bend, and Pong’s ears popped from the pressure change. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z She quickly rounded up a half dozen other militant students and within the hour, every blackboard on campus had scrawled on it: “Malcolm to speak, 12 noon, ice-cream-shop.” The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z As a result, the Allies rounded up twenty-two top Nazi officers to stand trial at the International Military Tribunal in Nuremberg. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z “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 Before Mom, Dad and Ellis get up the next morning, I’m in the garage rolling out self-drying clay with a coffee can and cutting it into rounded tiles. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z 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 We rounded a headland to enter a rocky half-moon bay. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z 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 She leans forward at the waist and those glorious tits swing, so heavy, so low—a foot long, at least, wider and rounded at the ends, as though each contains a grapefruit. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z Generations of black men will continue to be lost—rounded up for crimes that go ignored on the other side of town and ushered into a permanent second-class status. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z They rounded up their cattle and drove them away. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z Finally, we rounded the tip of Manhattan and steered up the Hudson where, without incident, we docked at the 79th Street Marina. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z The bones rounded out of the black vines. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z It is a murky yellow-white, with rounded corners. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z Twenty minutes beyond the village I rounded a bend and arrived at a breathtaking overlook. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z Her shoulders rounded a little, and she must have been conscious of her pelvis because she kept it stuck out in front of her so she could always see it. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z I lift the heavy, rounded bat in the air. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z By the time we rounded the bend, he was back with us. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z 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 It was thinner, without Jesse’s rounded cheeks, and paler, and his hair was almost straight, clipped neatly below the ears. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z The infant was recovering rapidly—his face had already rounded out, and he seemed to have accepted Masvita as his new mother. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Each corner of the triangle is rounded like a half-moon, with a platform inside. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z The calves are rounded up and herded into a “backgrounding” pen. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z And I saw to my surprise, that I was looking down into another cove, similar to the one I had left but wider and more rounded. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z Its edges were rounded a little bit, like it was made of clay or something. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z I rounded them up, dumped some dry cereal in a bowl—because you can always get on top of the situation with little kids by offering treats—and put my creative powers to work. Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z They rounded a corner, and Nina’s stomach dropped. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z Nhamo rounded the headland and saw, to her relief, that the shore did extend west. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z “What in the name of Christ—” Mrs. Grote is leaning against the door frame, cupping her rounded stomach with one hand. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z 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 What I know now is that I would be a different person, or at the least a better version of myself, more rounded, more fulfilled, more in touch with myself and everyone around me. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z All-round is better than all-around, in the sense of complete or rounded. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z “When we come to these woods in our humble clothes, I am no prince, but a man who may have my will,” he said, his words full and rounded with yearning. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z There is a rounded vaulted chamber for the queen, called the royal cell. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z We came to the house at last and rounded the great sweep before the steps. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z Soon they rounded another corner of the main body of flames, and this time Alec veered to the right, heading away from the fire. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z He ducked his head at the police whistle, and rounded a corner, slamming into a hard chest, and a hand cuffed him on the head. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 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 It took a moment for it to register, though, and when it did, he tipped the pieces all over the floor of the cell—an instant before Sergeant Holmes rounded the corner. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z As we rounded the corner to our home, we prepared ourselves for the worst. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z 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 And, like the Jews in Germany, Japanese American citizens—men, women, and children—were rounded up and forced to live in internment camps with no regard for their civil rights. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z By the time I rounded the corner at Twelfth and Cross and headed for the backyard, I felt myself going out of control. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z From her parlor window, Susan Kidwell saw the white cortege glide past, and watched until it had rounded the corner and the unpaved street’s easily airborne dust had landed again. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z Mikey took his position on the starting line as Freddy rounded the final bend of the second lap and was about to take the straightaway. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z First Wife looked quite ancient and frail with her rounded body, bound feet, her old-style padded jacket and pants, and plain, lined face. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z Hurrying farther, Celaena ignored the click of Ress’s tongue as she rounded the corner. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z With a final wave to the yunka man, I rounded the last of the trail and gazed from the ridge down to Sacred Sun City. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z 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 Mrs. Murphy gestures toward the rose velvet sofa and he sits down heavily, like an elephant I once saw in a picture book, his large stomach protruding from rounded thighs. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z 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 Suspended in its mesh: a rounded, heavy stone. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Many other people in the theater were rounded up, including the Fords. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 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 When we rounded the final bend, the old wooden sign announcing the sanctuary’s visitation policies was still standing there, untouched. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z 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 The houses were searched, and everyone in the village rounded up. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z She stood for a moment at the end of the trail, gathering her confidence before she rounded the corner. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z In a hurry, you rounded the corner…and there we were. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z Abby rounded the corner, nearly running smack into a nurse as she sprinted back over to us, a very small, very thin, brown-haired boy wearing an oversize Colombian national team jersey trailing behind her. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z 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 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 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 His hands were slippery on the rounded wood. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z 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 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 Nathan rounded a milky crystal as thick, round, and tall as a cedar tree and saw a grand gallery of clear white quartz crystals. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z Lu said, as we rounded the second curve. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z 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 he rounded the corner, the sound of muffled laughter filtered out from near the Dumpsters. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z When the Trojans had taken leave of their kind hosts and had successfully rounded the eastern tip of Italy, they kept on sailing southwestward around Sicily with all confidence in their prophetic guide. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Less than a mile past Mill Town, I rounded a bend and saw the train trestle up ahead, marching through the air high above the wooded gorge where Blind Tillie Creek ran. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z His shoulders rounded forward and his neck seemed to pain him, for he often reached up to rub it. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z He rounded a corner of the Maze, then another. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z 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 Then, in the same way that his own dwelling slipped away behind him as he rounded a comer on his bicycle, the dream slipped away from his thoughts. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z She pushes back her cuticles with the rounded edge of the file, then expertly picks and scrapes under her nails until they are spotless. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z He led them to an old, rotten stump on which a large white fungus was growing—a rounded, convoluted mass of creamy folds and wrinkles. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z We rounded the corner, and there was the Methodist church, lit with a thousand lamps. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z I remember the teachers telling us to hold our arms rounded, like we were carrying imaginary beach balls. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z “But I knew that. Got rounded up from the streets and shoved in the Asylum by one of those creepy charity ladies. I never knew my parents. What about you, Sabeen?” Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z He briskly rounded the corner of 80th Street and made his hand into a sun visor as he peered down the street. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z This way, they rounded up the Jews and got them to go along quietly. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z In a double swirl of black and gold, they rounded a corner and were lost to sight. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z As they rounded the corner and the Burrow came into view, a cry echoed along the lane. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z Instead they rounded a turn and stopped at a forlorn, ramshackle cottage, gray like chewed-up meat. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Besides her bed, there are only the usual rounded walls; no sign of any vault. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z He 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 lie down and gaze out the large window, at the rounded treetops. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z Dicey watched him scramble to the top of a rounded boulder and stand up. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z They rose steeply ahead and on either side, rounded but high, covered with trees. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z Bank accounts will be rounded to the nearest nickel. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z He fiddled with his gloves, tightening them on his fingers as he rounded the corner. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z Ron gaped at him for a moment, then rounded on Hermione, imitating her voice. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z 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 Rooster Jim expertly rounded up the three ladies and their escort. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z After glancing once at this portrait, Professor McGonagall made an odd movement as though steeling herself, then rounded the desk to look at Harry, her face taut and lined. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z We were all rounded up and put against the wall. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z The curve, however, was no sooner rounded than Jethro discovered that the vague dread he had experienced in passing the cabin had now become a reality. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 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 We rounded the corner and pulled into a school that looked very much like our own. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z The dragnet of the manhunters eventually rounded up more than one hundred suspects. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z She was small, slender, yet less angular, more rounded than the others. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z 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 Their once rounded bodies were angular and bony now, sharp small bones like the bones of birds, except for their ponderous bellies. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z 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 Kira followed the woman as she rounded a corner of the garden. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z He had just rounded the corner past the Church of St. John when he saw, farther down the road, a group of men standing in a single line with their hands placed on their heads. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z The rocky ridge was rounded and seemed to be of some kind of sandstone with bits of darker stone layered and stuck into it. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z At 12:42 an army green rounded the corner and stopped a few blocks down the road. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z Farrell banged down the phone, dashed to the press box, rounded up the dockers, and delivered the news. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z The answer rounded the corner ten feet in front of me. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z Before long, the bus rounded a curve and vanished from sight. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z 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 felt the rounded curve of a C. An L. And then the four letters that followed. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Hermione pointed at a rounded bottle at the right end of the line. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z “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 When they rounded it, Nina made quick work of the guard at the vault door. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z After the German army had passed through an area, the commandos rounded up the Jews and herded them to the outskirts of town, where they were forced to dig mass graves. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z They rounded up not just thousands but hundreds of thousands of consumers all across North America, and in head-to-head blind taste tests, New Coke beat Pepsi by 6 to 8 percentage points. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z There it is, bright red, rounded, with a dark light around it, a blackness like luminous velvet. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z “The sticky stuff on my arms,” she said impatiently, and then she held a rounded stump up to her mouth, bit off a cooked chunk, and spit it into the trash. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Language arts and physical education rounded out the rest of the day. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z Eight horses were rounded up, and eight Gypsy riders—one for each of us. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z Yedsha rounded the corner, and the words died on his tongue. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z Each time we rounded a curve, Ben leaned against me or I leaned against him. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z 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 I stare at her until I can feel the familiar rise of my arms, my belly rounded out beneath me, and up we go. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z I know the Nazis have rounded up homosexuals and political prisoners. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z I look out the rounded airplane window and marvel at the clouds. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z 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 Deepwood’s mossy walls enclosed a wide, rounded hill with a flattened top, crowned by a cavernous longhall with a watch- tower at one end, rising fifty feet above the hill. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z A red truck rounded the corner, and Freebie disappeared beneath it. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z Late in the day following as they rounded a bend in the road the boy stopped and put his hand on the carriage. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z They were rounded up by the millions, packed away in prisons, and when released, they were stigmatized for life, denied the right to vote, and ushered into a world of discrimination. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z The lane curved to the right and when they rounded the corner, it was to see the very edge of Ogden’s frock coat vanishing through a gap in the hedge. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z “For when the soldiers came, they rounded up all the men of the village. When they saw Sifen like this, they said he would be useless and left him.” When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z We rounded a curve and entered a large room crowded with Midfolk. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z Further on in the yard, another white man, also with a gun, was supervising a group of about ten black policemen as they rounded up half-naked black men and women from the shacks. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Taking her lightly under the arms, he lifted her and seated her on a rounded rock beside the stream. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Then we rounded the Cape of Good Hope, called in at Cape Town and Durban, and finally Beira. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z That meant he hadn’t been rounded up with the rest of us. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z 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 They could see the rounded green tops of the great live oaks. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z I was sitting at the breakfast table, waiting for my mother to finish packing a sack lunch which I always promptly threw away as soon as I rounded the corner. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 They rounded a corner and came to the door. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z My elbows are rounded; my palms gently cup the air. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z While his main love was for chemistry, he believed in a rounded education. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z The house was there facing south—low and square and modem looking with rounded windows letting in all the light. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z The Nazis rounded up Jehovah’s Witnesses and trucked them off to concentration camps where many were killed. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z Eventually they came to a river that ran sweetly over rounded boulders, and the Huntsman told her it flowed south to meet the Nir. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z I put the rounded end of the stick into the little hollow and start spinning it twixt my hands, pressing hard into the wood. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z She rounded a corner, not ten stacks from the alcove, and came to a halt. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z Kaede and Fin rounded an outcropping of rock that jutted from beneath the Academy’s iron foundation and stepped onto the North Beach, a crescent of unmarked, light brown sand cradling the sea. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z 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 As he rounded the corner back into the entrance hall, he checked his watch. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z The golden pommel was smooth and rounded, its color deliberately muted; ash leaves of pale gold entwined at the hilt, and a pattern of leaves covered the scabbard. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z It was worth it, Salva thought as he touched his eye gingerly His belly was a rounded lump stuffed full of honey and beeswax. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z We’d just rounded the final curve, heading toward the thinning cloud of brand flies near the tram entrance, when a scream split the air. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z It was a faded red color, with big, rounded fenders and a bulbous cab. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z If the nilas is disturbed by wind, the ice forms rounded discs called pancakes, which look something like white lily pads with their edges turned up. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z 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 The 1950s Westinghouse Frigidaire with rounded edges and a silver pull handle in one corner. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z I carve a rounded end on another smaller stick. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z But as soon as we rounded the corner of the hallway and got to Mr. Tushman’s office, we all got pretty serious. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z 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 The low, mournful hooting of sauropods sounded across the city as Magdalys rounded the corner. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z Loudwing rounded up all the goslings and gave them a quick swimming lesson. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z His dates with Joyce devolved into bleak meetings in the cafeteria, where they mixed catsup with hot water and called it tomato soup and rounded out the meal with soda crackers. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z The front of the house had a Chinese stone gate, rounded at the top, with big black lacquer doors and a threshold you had to step over. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z Before I could explain, laughter echoed through the theater as a group of people rounded the corner at the front. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z 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 “And when you mention words like ‘rounded’ and ‘smooth,’ they say Pepsi. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z His shoulders rounded over his controller, slamming buttons, his forearms taut, veins visible. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z Yet every new mast that rounded the bend of the river brought at the same time a fresh plunge of disappointment. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z 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 The boat was symmetrically shaped, with rounded ends that were hard to tell apart. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z Sierra was about to shush them, but then they rounded the corner and everyone got quiet and serious. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z 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 A large group of familiar faces rounded Broadway onto Grand, and Moss’s heart leapt. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z He rounded up a friend, and together they hitchhiked to Los Angeles, broke into a car, and slept on the seats. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z 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 He trotted her west, across the grassy flat toward the cerros, gently rounded hills of dark lava rock which were covered with a thin crust of topsoil and grass, edged with thickets of scrub oak. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z His rounded helm gleamed a sullen red, and a pale pink cloak streamed from his shoulders. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Two guards rounded the corner from Knack Street, directly ahead of her. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z I study the youthful parody shape in the mirror: the stomach lipped tight by muscle; the shoulders rounded by chin-ups; the arms veined strong. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Fred and George rounded off the evening with a display of Filibuster fireworks; they filled the kitchen with red and blue stars that bounced from ceiling to wall for at least half an hour. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z 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 “I don’t believe in prom,” I reminded her as she rounded a corner. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z He preferred women who were placid and well rounded, and the sight of Blanca stretched out on cushions looking up at the sky during their siesta reminded him of his mother. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z In the silence and emptiness, she rounded the corner and approached the door that had been open the afternoon before. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Without taking his eyes off the girl—her back was turned now and he feasted himself on her rounded jeans —he pondered the meaning of what Howie had said, sensing the importance of the moment. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 Just as they were about to emerge from the passage, two guards rounded the corner—both in black-and-silver drüskelle uniforms, both carrying rifles. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z I Rooked up and there above us was a rounded snow cone. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z We rounded a corner and I saw the pool complex, a shimmering blue expanse with the same island I remembered from my childhood, except now it was covered by a glass-plated geodesic dome. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z L-shaped, with rounded comers, and the plane was nearly aimed at the long part of the L, coming from the bottom and heading to the top. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z The building itself was nothing special—four stories, the top three just rows of narrow, rounded windows, like an old office building. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z 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 She rounded a bend in the path and saw her salvation. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z 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 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 She survived the relocation times, when the whites rounded up all us Navajo and took us to Hwééldi. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z 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 Her exposed thigh—like her breasts, which threatened to spill out of the top of the dress—was full, well rounded, flawlessly white, and heartbreaking in its vulnerability. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z 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 I rounded the car to the passenger seat. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z 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 Before the bus rounded the curve, Buck was after me. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z As I rounded the butcher’s stall at the far end of the market, someone grabbed my basket and spun me around. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z As I rounded the smelly clothes pile for a third time, Fig paused and stared at me, unblinking. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z 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 Mohor stood over them, leaning on his spear and wearing a rounded iron cap that made him look as if he had a bowl on his head. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Pinch’s eyes rounded, but his grin was full of excitement. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z But when he rounded it he still couldn't see them. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z And closer to me, I saw two girls sitting in one of the last pews, their backs rounded, their hair pulled back into perfect ponytails. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z So, curiously, the boat had rounded ends and rounded sides, but the interior volume was rectangular. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z 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 The taxi rounded the statue of the inventor of the semaphore engaged in doing same, and turned up the Boulevard Raspail, and I sat back to let that part of the ride pass. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z Why didn’t Chinese ships proceed around Africa’s southern cape westward and colonize Europe, before Vasco da Gama’s own three puny ships rounded the Cape of Good Hope eastward and launched Europe’s colonization of East Asia? Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The bones rounded out of the ditch, where the dark vines were in the black ditch, into the moonlight, like some of the shapes had stopped. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z Government agents sardonically known as the Menstrual Police regularly rounded up women in their workplaces to administer pregnancy tests. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z Sarah, the bosslady, came through the door just as Mary rounded the table, her hands balled up into fists. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z The following night I rounded up two boys whom I knew to be ready for adventure. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z I tried to curl myself around Rose's back, but the intimacy was further broken by RiRi’s feet thrown backwards over Rose’s knees so that they jabbed into my legs like rounded icicles. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z 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 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 went along the breakwater and stood at the end of it, leaning against the rounded wall. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z 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 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 Liyana could see right then she had rounded the bend where conversations with her parents were no longer going to be as easy as they once were. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z When she rounded the bend, she half expected the cabin to have disappeared. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z His boat rounded one bend in the river, then another. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z Silence filtered over the spot just as Ike and Felix rounded the corner. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z He and Abel Martinson rounded the cabin and stepped down into the cockpit. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z Up close it was a strange, crude-looking thing, its head a stump of rounded clay, its face a smeared thumbprint. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z As he rounded a bend, a small furry animal leaped in front of him. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z They’d rounded a bend between two archways and were in the cover of deep shadow. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z She recognized the boy who had rounded the corner. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z A broad rounded tail slapped the surface so hard, it sounded like a rifle. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z Together they rounded the corner to see what the explosion had wrought. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Bridge put both hands up and touched the rounded tips of her cat ears. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z The troll rounded on him, all ten talons sliding out to their full extent. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z 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 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 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 They’re rounded, like seals, only hard; they heat up in the sun, and stay warm in the evening when the air cools. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z As he rounded a curve, he saw what looked to be a teenager pulling a large green trash can toward the street. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z 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 Constance came tottering after her, struggling to keep up as Kate rounded the classroom building and charged onto the empty plaza. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z When the Nazis rounded up the Jews from ghettos for deportation to the camps and gas chambers, they usually did so without warning, terrorizing the populace into cooperating. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z I almost had a stroke when I rounded the corner and saw a tall, dark figure leaning against the side of my truck. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z The older woman arched her back and rubbed her rounded belly. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z It has a slanted roof covered in rounded shingles like fish scales, and a swirly gingerbread trim. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z The last I saw before we rounded a bend, the other train had stopped and was picking up everybody we’d left beside the tracks. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z He couldn’t care less about the Jews and others being rounded up and taken away in crowded cattle cars. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z We rounded the house to the back corner, where everyone was gathering around a giant topiary. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z Her face is rounded and bland, with that white skin of Grace’s, though without the freckles. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z While Sahil rounded up people for me to interview, I walked to the kitchen for a glass of ice; the soda I’d picked up was getting warm. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z To do this in the right way, we must make a full and rounded effort to offer to God and the future, a better Sixteenth Street. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z 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 It wasn’t until they rounded a corner that Chaol let out a deep breath and removed his hand from her back. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z Macklin rounded up his team of dogs—the last of the dogs—and got them in order. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z They rounded up the Indians in camps, the women and children and whatever they could carry on their backs, and marched them west of the Mississippi. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z 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 I sat astride it, on the rounded edge of the speared lifebuoy, my left foot against the tip of the prow, my right foot on the gunnel. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z I was glad to see them there because I’d read about kids their age being rounded up and fed from troughs like pigs. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z Before the dogs were even aware that he had gone he was back again by his tree, cleaning his whiskers with soft rounded paws. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Shomari was standing feet away, having just rounded the corner of the Night Zoo’s wall. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z Before the Year’s End the few survivors were rounded up in the woods, and those that surrendered were shown to the borders. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z The two men turned, and Emily watched until they rounded the corner and disappeared completely. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z The water then came to a drop-off, where it waterfalled one story down to a rounded piece of tin that Jessie had found on the curb coming home from school one day. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z He imagined himself strolling on a smooth, rounded mountain summit, suspended between two higher peaks. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z When she rounded the last corner, Gwen saw her and squealed, “Look at Ash!” Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z We stacked the platters and rounded up the beer bottles for Grandma’s next batch. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z He had a great many boats rounded up so that British agents could see preparations for the invasion of Manhattan from Staten Island. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z It was rare for them to spend their free hours together but she rounded them up from their preoccupations. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Diego looked back after we rounded the corner, and when he saw we were out of Principal Cody’s line of vision he whacked me on the back of my head one last time. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z Miig nudged the rounded stones placed around the perimeter of the fire with his boot. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z 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 In a frenzy, local police rounded up labor leaders and suspected radicals, plus hundreds of workers. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z He tipped his hat to Kyril Montana, then moved among the men, nodding, speaking a few words, slapping a back here, pointing to the northeast there, he rounded them up for the march home. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 He’s moving at a good pace in front of me and has just rounded a corner. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Light rain fell like dew on her, moistening her dress against her shoulders, her rounded belly, her hips. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z 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 The shoulders of his shirt were stained with the rain, his hair dripping, when he rounded the corner. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z He’d just rounded the corner when two guys burst through the bushes in a flurry of leaves. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z Vanilla, it looked like, rounded on the sides like a real giant donut with a hole in the middle and everything. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z Down the slope was a tumble of dark, rounded shapes, and then another slope rose beyond that. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z 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 As soon as she saw me, her eyebrows popped high and her mouth rounded into a tiny O of surprise. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z But the moment they rounded the bend in the road she forgot her uncertainty. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z 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 Lying in bed, with Luke, his hand on my rounded belly. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z We smelled the fragrant smoke from our own chimney as we rounded the bend. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z I kissed Mama on the cheek, then rounded the bed and kissed Maxie on the mouth. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z 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 He was seated on a flat rock, cleaning a wooden bowl, scrubbing the cracks in the rounded poplar with a rag dipped in fire ash. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z We walked to the end of the hall and rounded a corner, and there, standing in a doorway, was a girl. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z Atop each corner of the cell-block’s wall, rounded guard towers seemed to sag sadly at their edges as though the prison itself had exhaled a final dying gasp. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z 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 As Alex rounded second base, Rex passed the center fielder and was closing fast. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z I grabbed the back half and rounded on Miles, who still stood a few feet behind me, looking mildly surprised. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z As they rounded another curve in the road, the ground under them rumbled. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z Alsos teams rounded up the top German scientists. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Mom rounded her shoulders back gently, trying not to wake Evan. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z 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 They rounded a bend in the road and Nico’s fists clenched. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z I rounded the corner, was halfway up the block when I saw Faith. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z These tracks were distinct, narrow and rounded, with deeper indents in the dirt near the heel and toe. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z 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 "No one wants the Jews. Not even America. Americans have no right to criticize us. They rounded up their Indians, you know. Put them on reservations." The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z We rounded the bend, Lu leaning into it, which I honestly thought was kind of cool, and then we hit the straightaway. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z The minute we turned the corner, I rounded on him. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z I should have told him then that he was my best friend also and rounded off what he had said. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z Before he rounded the bend, Wash turned to wave, and then kept on running. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z 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 He explained how the Jews were rounded up into groups of two to three hundred people and ordered to dig a huge hole in the ground. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z By dawn the bombers were long gone, the fires dying, the final stragglers rounded up. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z The sky is biblical today—rays of sun forming straight lines from behind rounded, fluffy clouds. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z An egg-shaped clearing beneath high pines rounded out a bend in a running stream. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z She stood, head down, shoulders rounded, a little red bundle hanging from one hand. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z Like the three gates at the receiving entrance, the doors were large rectangles of rounded steel bars that slid on rolling tracks. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z It was a new neighborhood then, still developing, with empty lots of land and halfconstructed homes on every street between compounds surrounded by eight-foot walls. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z 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 In only a few moments the clay rose and fell, grew taller, then rounded down, until it curved into perfect symmetry. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z Perhaps by evening it would be wire, rounded and tempered, ready to fashion into a linked collar for some lovely lady’s neck. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z The rounded walls and ceiling are painted a deep, vibrant blue and ornamented with stars. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z I closed the cover and fingered one of the rounded corners, feathered and frayed from overuse. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z Dimple was silent as they rounded the corner to the stoplight. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z 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 She rounded a corner and walked halfway up the block. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z A cowboy rounded up the cattle in Lalao’s finca, and on her side of the fence, Doña Ana led her cow to the shack behind her house. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z 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 And then something rounded the corner up ahead, and came toward them. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z Softly rounded rectangular buses chugged up and down the streets, trailing a stream of black smoke that made your eyes water. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z At the top it had rounded caps like the tops of tombstones. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z Big hazel eyes, rounded cheekbones, a pointy chin, and a perpetual smirk. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z And as we rounded into the final two hundred meters, I had to dig deep and step it up. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z 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 And for this the overseer—she could see his little rosebud mouth rounded in horror—for this the overseer had screamed out at the child. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z They navigated a maze of corridors, then rounded a corner into a locker room. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z 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 As soon as he rounded the curve, he knew why business had fallen off so badly. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z They rounded narrow corners and passages wide enough to allow them through. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z They rounded a bend in the path where the sunlight had not yet withdrawn. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z The Turk said we would see the lights of Greece as soon as we rounded the headland. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z He rounded a corner, his feet scrunching on the gravel. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z As I rounded one of the large rocks, I came upon a man resting on one of the boulders, the remains of his midday meal scattered about. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z 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 They couldn't have rounded up and arrested the saboteurs without it. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z Trent Bolger rounded the corner and instantly got a sensor lock on me. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z 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 Miss Watson’s eyes rounded into two soup spoons. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z The next time they rounded a corner, Thomas faltered, his heart skipping a beat when he saw movement up ahead. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z The social worker rounded us up and sat us down on the steps in front of Shanon’s house. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z Enrique flees from car to car, more than twenty in all, struggling to keep his footing each time he leaps from a hopper to a fuel tanker, which is lower and has a rounded top. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z Richard smelled the saltiness of the air as Kainene led him through wide rooms with tastefully mismatched furniture, wood carvings, muted paintings of landscapes, rounded sculptures. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z From a distance, they watched as she rounded the house. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z As we rounded the corner, I turned for a last view of my mother. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z 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 At last, I rounded the corner, and the glassed-in reception area came into view. Ungifted 2012-08-21T00:00:00Z As they rounded the piles, the domovoi appeared as a cat, strolling by her leg without looking at her. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z “Calm your mind,” she whispered to herself as she rounded a corner of the stable. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z A buggy rounded the turn and the pair nearly dove into the woods. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Its outer walls are made entirely of rounded glass, but a circular tube of dark metal encapsulates the glass walls. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z Carmen and her best friend, Tony, had watched in horror as the tank began to shake, as its rounded steel sides bulged in and out. I Survived the Great Molasses Flood, 1919 2019-09-03T00:00:00Z When he rounded the corner of the house, he saw the walls and roof of the school crumple. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z 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 They rounded a corner in the lane, sleet coming thick and fast, blurring Harry’s glasses. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z They were rounded, wide, and her teeth were bared in a fixed smile. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z I rounded a corner and saw that the path led directly to a large brick building. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z “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 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 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 The colosseum was packed to its rounded walls. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z 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 We rounded the back of the school and headed for the Dumpster behind the kitchen doors. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z 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 Jon brushed the loose soil away to reveal a rounded bundle perhaps two feet across. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z The two men turned, and Emily watched until they rounded the corner and disappeared completely. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z The ranchers became so poor they could not afford to buy feed, and many cattle were just rounded up and shot to death so the stronger ones could have what little grass was left. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Sometimes, when we rounded curves or stopped at lights, I could hear her belting out, “Born to Be Wild,” or her favorite William Bell song, “I Forgot to Be Your Lover.” The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z The fact that so many black and brown men are rounded up for drug crimes that go largely ignored when committed by whites is unseen. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Then he rounded on Harry and Ron, who had been working next to Neville. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z Warden Cain rounded up fences and portable toilets, all of which he had available at the Angola campus, and sent the materials on trucks to New Orleans. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z As I rounded the corner on the upper promenade deck, I saw the old man and the little boy. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z The footmen all wore knee-breeches and every one of them displayed beautifully rounded calves and ankles. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z The rounded iron tip could knock a man out cold. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z The mountains rose like a rounded wall between them and the Union Army. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z She grabbed my hand as I rounded the corner, heading toward her car. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z Her body was beautiful, spare and big boned yet rounded and softHe desired suddenly that she should like him as her husband and then he was ashamed. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z Her sweater had bulged beautifully, her schoolbooks pressed against her rounded breasts. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z “A friend of Sapo is a friend of mine,” I said, and Blanca shot me an evil look, then pointedly clasped her rounded belly. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z But as they rounded a bend, Stella perked up—they were nearly at Carolyn’s house. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z I held the bag up and examined the rounded bulge at its bottom. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z I rounded up some cutlery and found the table, which had been buried under a stack of dime novels and Shakespeare’s plays. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z We made a sharp turn, and when I rounded the corner I saw, not far away, a lone man wearing a military uniform. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z 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 has dark brown skin and a rounded face; people say I take after him. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z 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 Just a rounded wooden affair set into porous, honeyed stone. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z Alex hit third base and rounded the corner without breaking stride. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z Cari rounded out the description with an impression of their teacher, who sounded formal but kind. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z When all were harvested, she swung the sock over her shoulder and, striding joyously, rounded her pond and plunked the peas in her pot. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z We half dropped, half laid him on the ground, but he scrambled onto his hands and knees and rounded his back, fighting to get some air into his lungs. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z But when she rounded the corner, she saw that someone else had beaten her to it. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z But that morning, apparently, Birdie was early to class or late leaving wherever she had been before, because Joaquin rounded the gym just as she did. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z 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 Book in hand I rounded the corner to the bathroom off the kitchen. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z 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 He was crouched, his back was rounded and his rear legs were spread. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z She turned to him as they rounded a corner, heading toward a private training room. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z 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 They rounded the first turn and barreled into the backstretch locked together. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 Mr. Alacran’s father rounded out the guests at the head table. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Then we rounded a corner and the cathedral’s dome revealed itself, proud and imposing despite patches of fire-blackened stone and a few crumbling arches. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z It looked like glass, only it had rounded edges like a river rock. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 Anya picked up her last piece of dough, rounded it into a ball between her palms, and then rolled her hands back and forth. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z 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 Kira hurried along, rounded the curve, and understood what he meant. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 When we rounded the playhouse, I saw Nick, far ahead of us, heading for the river. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z The Mercury Theatre’s regular actors rounded out the team. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z I rounded it so that it would fly straight. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z Ugwu struggled to focus on the rounded face, the glasses, the browned collar. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z As soon as Koffi moved forward, he rounded his side of the trunk, dagger raised—but someone screamed, stopping him short. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z The troll rounded on her, its muddy dreadlocks swinging like candles. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z Instead, they wandered off and watched from the stands, whispering behind their hands while I rounded the bases, arms pumping. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z The men dove away from the road as two buses rounded a curve and sped past, carrying night-shift workers to Vemork. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z The rounded sides were bulging in and out. I Survived the Great Molasses Flood, 1919 2019-09-03T00:00:00Z |
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