“A for apple!” sang Ess, drawing with her stick in the wet sand. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

There was a small pool at the end of the river, dammed back by sand and full of white water-lilies and needle-like reeds. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

She said, “It doesn’t feel small to me,” and I thought about moving a single grain of sand one millimeter. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

We jumped out of the water, grabbed our sandals, and ran back through the sand onto the shadowy path. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

All this time I had kept my face to the sand, but I took courage from his words. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were no views of the moon or the peninsula of powdery sand from the gambling rooms, only the lights of the chandeliers enticing them to stay. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

He spread them by the fire on sticks angled into the sand and piled on more wood and went and sat by the boy again, smoothing his matted hair. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

From the height of the tanker’s deck, Bright Sands Beach stretched into the distance, a tarred expanse of sand and puddled seawater, littered with the savaged bodies of other oil tankers and freighters. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

He blundered out of the triangle toward the drop to the white sand. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

He fixed dinner while the boy played in the sand. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

The dunes were covered with mats of sand flowers, which are red and have tiny eyes that are sometimes pink and sometimes white. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Longships filled the sea, sails furled and oars shipped, floating at anchor or run up on the pale sand shore. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The sands were all ribbed, like the roof of your mouth. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

I filled it with sand to a depth of 10 centimeters. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was helping this little kid build a simple sand castle, fast, between when the waves rolled up the shore. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then they threw me down on the ground; the sand from the fake beach cushioned the landing, but I still hit my head. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

Every shelf in his office boasted pictures of his kids: building sand castles at the beach, swinging baseball bats, waving from sailboats. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

His breath was ragged, his giant hands all over me, his fingers in me, the sand burning into my back, my brand-new cherub tattoo burning into my belly. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Men in uniform and men with obvious power and authority strode across the sand all afternoon, clearly preparing for something. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sammy started brushing at the stage like it was covered with sand and he was clearing a spot to spread, a blanket. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

We put down our rods and sat on the sand. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

He gave no indication that he’d just delivered a puzzle via sand pail, but now he wore a bulky purple scarf. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Take our shoes off and wiggle our toes in the sand. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

And immediately before them was a cloud of whirling, swirling sand from which came a series of grunts. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

There was a dented punching bag with sand spilling from its ripped side. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

They had pulled the boat pretty far onshore, and when they returned to the beach they had to push it across the sand. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

The drill came up first with topsoil and then with gravel and then with white sea sand full of shells and even pieces of whalebone. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

There were fewer horses and camels to be seen, and a dearth of palanquins, but the streets teemed with children, beggars, and skinny dogs the odor of sand. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

A nearly extinct breed of giant snake particular to the island leapt onto the sand, blocking the path. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

They thought the moon looked like dirty beach sand. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tyson was drawing a map in the sand. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

I kept looking for Irene on the beach, relieved, somehow, to see her there, her face shaded by a white baseball cap, her hands busy building something in the thick sand. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

He took a deep breath of cold mountain air: there were no boundaries; the world below and the sand paintings inside became the same that night. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Over the wall and under the wall the last assault came sweeping like a dark wave upon a hill of sand. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

We were heading up the coast along the North Sea, the sun hanging low in the west-sky and sea and sand all gold, gold light all around us. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

Towels crowded the sand, like bright pieces of confetti. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

A small dark shape flipped across the sand behind him, and I tried not to look at Gum Baby as she scrambled up John Henry’s shoulder. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Depressed by the turn of conversation, people started gathering the leavings of their meal, dousing the beach wood with sand, and getting ready to return to whatever families or caretakers or safe flops they had. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

Ruza and Tzara didn’t fall back, though, or even heft their spears, and so he took his cue from their calm, wiped the sand from his eyes, and stared. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Sea spray struck Reed’s cheek as he stood, testing the shifting sand with his toes. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

The truly enchanting part is that there’s a small carpet of sand and a folded lawn chair. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

Blue-fire lamps make even the bare, sand training fields of the school seem ghostly. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

As the winds grew in ferocity and speed, the grains of sand began to sting like bites of mosquitoes and then like splinters. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

One of them said something else into his walkie-talkie and then they all hiked back through the sand and over the guardrail to their cars. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

The black wings cracked like thunder, and suddenly the scarlet sands were falling away beneath her. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The wind and sand were blowing so hard he didn’t hear her walk up from behind. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

I pulled the skiff higher onto the sand and tied it to a post. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

A fine dust of salt and sand pattered over his face. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I lie down on the sand with Peeta, who drifts off at once. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I made a hut out of mud, palm fronds, and ripped-up swimwear. And walking in the sand is toning my calves while I work!” said Miss Arkansas. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

In between the lines of the moon sands, the diamond dust fell onto the desert floor and into sparkly piles. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

He’d seen something similar on holiday, in the sand dunes of Death Valley, Nevada. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

I crawled onto the sand on all fours, invisible creatures skittering away as I collapsed onto what felt like a pile of leaves. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

Most of the time they were in the desert, with only a shovel to dig the sand and a wad of coca in their mouths to keep them alive. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I leave my towel and sneakers on the sand and wade in up to my waist. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

“I will offer my sands and support. In return, if I ever need assistance from either the water monster or the human, I shall expect them to help me.” Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Ruby sighed and held her breasts, laxly rubbing the nipples until they grew stiff, letting her body flow and twirl with the currents, her toes stepping lightly off rocks, pressing gently along patches of sand. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

City boy with your dty ways sitting in die sand trying to read the tracks and not knowing, not understanding. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

It felt like the insides of his mouth and throat were coated with sand. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

The blood leaked through her fingers and dripped to the sand. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

The beach was yellow sand, but at the water’s edge a rubble of shell and algae took its place. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

Clothes left out of duffel bags were instantly filthy, and all of the meals, which the crews ate outside while sitting on the ground, were infused with sand. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

It was the Big Star constellation old Betonie had drawn in the sand. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Called “werewolves,” the young commandos sabotaged army vehicles, pouring sand into gas tanks. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Héctor found a boy to chase him around a tree, and Alicia crawled to a sand puddle where she and other toddlers smeared one another with the fine red dirt. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

My flying sand ladies washed ashore after years at sea. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Scruffy kicked off his flippers so he could slap the sand with his “bare paws.” Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Wondering what had caused the birds to attack me, I felt around in the sand. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Duff picked up a shell, too, and rubbed the sand from it. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

Then several scales, glittering from the moon sands below, fell off his green body. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

He twisted his right foot into the sand. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

He made the entry and dusted the ink with sand. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Only then did she remember the lump on the sand. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

The view slid over reflecting sand and salt water pools until he found the figures hurrying across. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

Tayo stepped inside one that was half buried in the reddish blow sand; he hooked an edge with the toe of his boot, and then he let it slip into the sand again. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Wind Being waved goodbye, and its human form disintegrated into strings of wind carrying cactus flower petals and sand. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

He bellowed, and sand poured out, but he was too far up to touch the earth, and the dirt did not rise to help him. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

He can walk about three miles to the North Sea coast and stroll on the beach and into the sand dunes. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

She tried to shove him into the sand, but Nailer ducked out of her grasp. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Was that brave enough?” she asked Strong Belwas, as a scream rang out across the sand. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

There is nothing out there but the quiet shifting of sand. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Max kisses her head and says that when the war is over, he’s going to take her to a beach, where she can feel the sand and play in the wide and salty ocean. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Snow Sand is usually, again incorrectly, identified with lightning sand. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Eventually, Dad gave up, and it was quiet except for the sound of our feet crunching on the sand and rocks and the wind whipping off the desert. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

A slender stream twisted back and forth in its broad bed of gray sand, and the water was not milky with silt but clear and pleasant. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

I got some normal sand, but plenty of powder, too. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Watching the world end in various, ever more ludicrous ways sanded the jagged edges off the day. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

There is a noise then like a chant, and she tells him something Babi had taught her years before about singing sand. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

Sam Parkhill motioned with the broom, sweeping away the blue Martian sand. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

A large black wasp with scarlet wings ran over the sand, searching for the spiders that were its prey. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

His wild eyes just stared at us as we pulled Florence on the sand. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

A rusted tin sand pail was being lowered, and once it reached her, the window upstairs shut. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

The white sand and pleasantly underdeveloped beachfront were spectacular and soothing. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

A lanky boy turned, spit in the sand, and then tossed me a ball. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

The wolf’s hind legs scrabbled at the sand. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

The tide was halfway in, or halfway out, and a row of pedal boats was drawn up on the soft white sand above the high-water line. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

People might want to bury their heads in the sand, but he wasn’t going to give them that option. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Before I approached him, I hid the bundle I was carrying behind a sand dune. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

The desert was all sand in some stretches, and rocky in others. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

She saw she wasn’t the only one—some of the other women screamed and tried to grab handfuls of sand as they were forced out of the holding pen. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

The buildings were painted in shades of pale limestone and sand, adorned with colorful hieroglyphics and a menagerie of statues depicting gods and creatures. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

As the creatures pulled themselves onto the sand, I saw that they were only horses in the front; their back halves were silvery fish bodies, with glistening scales and rainbow tail fins. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

If the sand was too fine for the animals’ hooves, they sought a way where the sand was more substantial. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

A big round laughing sand lady with her arms open to the sky like she’s about to lift off. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

The Aleut grunted to his companion and the two of them stalked off on their short legs across the sand dunes that lay between the village and their camp. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

The little loudmouth dropped from Nyame’s head and collapsed on the sand, pounding it with her fists. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

As she flew down to the sand, he felt his heart tighten and release in a way he never forgot. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

In the dark, she knelt beside a giant shark that had spilled out of the ocean and beached itself in the sand. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

They were strange, a main center line up from the lake in the sand with claw marks to the side leading to a small pile of sand, then going back down to the water. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

She puts her shoulder bag on the sand and sets Jay down on it. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

He slung the tarp of goods up over his shoulder and took the boy’s hand and they went on, tramping in the sand like parade horses against tripping over some piece of driftwood or seawrack. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

I took out the sand dollar my father had given me for my birthday. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

We flew higher and higher, over green valleys and dark, ridged mountains, and then over the coast, waves breaking on the white sands. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

If the tide hadn’t come in, he would have slammed against sand instead of plunging into water. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

For hundreds of feet in all directions, sand was melted into a greenish glass. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Nothing wrong with drawing a line in the sand,” Goddard responded. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

The barely sanded, barely painted wood was rough against my palms. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

I’d rather be soaking wet and covered in gritty wet sand and seaweed than living in a land of black robes and pearl buttons and sadness. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Soon the sand outside was drenched and there were rivulets running down to the lake. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

The wind was whipping the cotton trousers around my legs and I looked for some place where the sand wouldn’t kick into my eyes. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

He stood and moved out into the sand and looked up at the sun. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then I looked up, checked the line of big rocks between the sand and his blue beach house. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

They packed sand around the edge into a high wall, stretched the evening gown, which they had ripped open to make it bigger, across the hole, and weighted the dress’s edges with rocks. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

It was blood the crowds came for: death, dismemberment, and shrieks of agony, the music of the scarlet sands. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

She rinsed the cooking pots but used ash and sand to get the wooden plates clean. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

She buries her feet in the sand until she is planted, rooted as the palms, rooted as the gnarled gardenia tree. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a sheet iron stove in the center of a wooden frame filled with sand, and a faded map on the wall and the dingy plat of a township. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Just one step down from the edge of the turf was the white, blown sand of above high water, warm, dry, trodden. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

Is the sand merely pulverized rock or something else? Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I closed my hand around the sand dollar, but something was really bothering me. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

I thought about Mr. Sloan sitting in the sand, scrubbing himself clean. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

At the last second, Matthias dropped into a crouch, knocking the first wolf into the dirt, then rolling right to pick up the bloodied knife the previous combatant had left in the sand. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

He went to the left, his paws gouging the wet sand, but changed his mind and spun around. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Then I looked down at the sand and actually found what was left of the little makeshift barbecue Mong had made. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

She lifted his head again, cradling it gently as the blood from his shattered knee flowed between the patio stones, turning the sand in the cracks to red mortar, drying to brown. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

The wind picked up motes of sand that stung their cheeks and forced them to shield their eyes. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

To top it all off, his room smells like him—like the ocean and warm sand and crisp leaves. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

They carefully covered the boxes with sand and seaweed. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

The same white-sugar sand that whipped through our development in Houston and the one before that, in Huntsville. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

But before the boy could say anything, the old man leaned over, picked up a stick, and began to write in the sand of the plaza. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’ve heard of the effect of moon sand, but never would I have imagined it to be such!” Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

We found quail tracks in the dust, quail tracks in the sand and mud of stream beds, bits of quail-feather fluff in the dry tips of the sage. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

He piles the bubbles together like he is making a sand castle. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

The girls sat in the sand, sapped of all energy. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

Walking barefoot on the sand was like walking on a hot tar road. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

I sat on a bench at the edge of this space, watching mothers and childminders scolding their charges for eating sand out of the pit. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Lawson & Carlson says a storm’s coming. Big one. We’re going to be off the wrecks for a couple days. I want enough wire that you can work it on the sand.” Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

We usually find a place tucked away far from others, though it’s mostly sand and dirt as far as the eye can see. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

We ate around the flames of our bonfire, dripping butter onto the sand. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

Slowly, the girl’s legs strained upward until only the tips of her toes touched the sand. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Just outside, where her pupils played in the sand, a piece of shrapnel had drilled an elegant hole in the ground. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

She could hear Madame Antoine’s heavy, scraping tread as she walked back and forth on the sanded floor. The Awakening 1899-04-22T00:00:00Z

Golden, horrid bees that stung, poisoned, and fell lifeless, like seeds on the sand. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not quite so tall, his features not so fine, and his hair is sand instead of spun gold, yet still . . even a poor copy of Jaime is sweeter than an empty bed, I suppose. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

She stood up, brushed the sand from her clothes; and when she did, the girl followed her lead. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

The physicists are another species, whiter-skinned, towel-draped against the sun, unearthly, the soles of their feet so sensitive that they limp on sand. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The scene shifted to and fro over the glittering sands. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Joe noted the scant dozen of shame faced houses scattered in the sand and palmetto roots and said, “God, they call this a town? Why, ’tain’t nothing but a raw place in de woods.” Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

Not only are there no dunes, there’s no sand. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

A whoop of joy escaped his lips as he ran across the sand. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

The dirt of the tangerine grove that we burned, and buried, and plowed under, and coated with sand, and landscaped over. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He looked better in clean clothes, though some blood was seeping through at the knee and his hair was still wild with sand and salt. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

Perhaps there are smaller forms in every rock and sand grain. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“When I engulfed you, your heart spoke out and caused the sands around you to move and shift. This sand painting reveals your inner being. Now I can assess.” Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

He brushed the top off gently with his hand but found only damp sand. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

The girls fell into the sand, exhausted and groaning. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

I’m so embarrassed, I want to bury my head in the sand like an ostrich. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

A mound of loose white sand was visible at the entrance. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

A rusted tin sand pail was being lowered, and once it reached her, the window upstairs shut. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Their horses cried out, and all their weapons were filled with sand. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Not yet, my boy. I sense you will be needed here. Which reminds me ...” He brought out a sand dollar and pressed it into my hand. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

They buried the fire in sand and tossed the shells into the water. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

These already looked like the ones we’d first moved into, sand piling up against foundation blocks, the clotheslines empty, all signs and markers gone. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

She turned and ran, kicking up sand as she raced back to her family’s villa. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

“Nathan,” Darkness said, “bring these moon sands as a gift to Mother Water Monster.” Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Being close to the water and hearing the lake slapping ’gainst the sand was ’bout the peacefulest thing you could think of. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

But probably it was only that carpets and couches and curtains just didn’t make the right atmosphere for a game about hidden splendors and giant mysteries, in a land of mud and sand. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Young one, stand up, or else squat yonder, at the other side, unless you wish your eyes put out. The sand flies and it will cut flesh as well as stone.” The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

Alexa became my friend in kindergarten when Carver Jamison threw sand at me and she made him cry by dumping a pail of sand on his head. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

“What am I supposed to do, then? Sit in the sand dunes until I die?” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

The stranded dolphin towed out to sea by the Munoz brothers, and the majestic shells, thousands of them, with intricate mauve chambers, arranged on a cemetery of wet sand. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

He learned that sandstoning was even more monotonous than sanding the drill, and far more fatiguing. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

Finally I said with a mouth as dry as sand, "Lao Lao, isn't there anything I can do?" Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

A few moments later, the winds calmed, and the grains of sand fell back to the earth. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Then out through the door and onto the beach, to lie in the cool sand, my head pillowed on my laced hands. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

So Bronwyn set her on a dry patch of sand, and we all stood back and waited. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

And her own parents were sitting to the left and right of Meggie, and her mother was writing and writing, on leaves from the trees, on the fabric of her dress, in the sand. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

All for Ess, thought Jinny, as she pulled her Care to standing and held her hand across the sand, guided her to the path that led up the hill to bed. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Emily wasn’t sure why it was called North Beach, because there wasn’t a speck of sand in sight. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Young women in modest one-piece bathing suits with frilled skirts splashed in the water or stretched out on warm sand, waiting. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Damp yellow sand choking him, filling his nostrils first, and then his eyes as he struggled against it, fought to keep his eyes open to see. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

The sand pulls the heat from her fingertips, from the soles of her feet. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

He fell, wet and breathless, face down On the sticky sand. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sand is wet and flat and dense. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Each fission would release just enough energy to move a grain of sand. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

I pointed at an empty lot full of sugar sand. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

But as I stretch out on the sand I wonder, could it be more? Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

The Dolphin blew some sand from her nose and gave a start of surprise. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

Now a young girl, probably twelve, was drawing figures in the sand, carving out big, crude faces with a piece of driftwood. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

Between the flying sand and the dizziness, I have to squeeze my eyes shut. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Out front there was a five-foot sculpture made from gray rock, ivory and sand. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

The cleft in the rock was barely large enough for man and horse to pass, but beyond, the walls opened up and the floor turned to soft sand. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The ground gave way beneath my feet, dragging me downward, spinning fast, like sand rushing through a hole in the bottom of the universe. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Sometimes, Allyssa would fall out of the red wagon, with Luke the Lab carrying her across the sand. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Gram said, wriggling her heels into the sand. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

I rolled to one side as Ares’s blade slashed the sand. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

She gave birth on the sand; the barbarian women were said to be able to birth in the saddle. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

There are a number of others in the sand with me, it’s too crowded and we’re getting irritated with each other. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

I twirled my fingers, and a small figure stepped out of the whirling sand and took his place on the miniature throne. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

“Once the undergrowth was gone, replaced by the orchids, there was nothing to hold the good soil down. It blew away, and all that’s left is sand.” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

It was enormous, as big as Loo, stretched out, so that its many strange slimy legs draped and fell over the rough board surface into the sand. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

For centuries men had dived down and torn the oysters from the beds and ripped them open, looking for the coated grains of sand. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

The ship’s cabin was close and the bunk wasn’t the most comfortable, but it beat a pallet of palm fronds in the sand. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

After we sanded, sprayed on the white primer coat, and let it dry, the morning had passed without us noticing. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

How do you keep a wave upon the sand'? The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

"There was a huge sandstorm. Why isn't there sand all over them?" The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

The highway ran for miles along some of the most magnificent beaches I have ever seen—white sands, a beautiful ocean; and opposite the beach, splendid homes. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

He would let you live in the warehouse for free if you carved pegs or sanded a few mandolins now and again. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

The helper worked in the shadows beyond the dark mountain range; he worked with the black sand, making bear prints side by side. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Bing had found an empty soda bottle and was using this to dig sand next to the dark cove wall. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had to rotate it slowly and that was hard to do with his hands so he found a forked stick and stuck it in the sand to put his cooking stick in. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some boats were up on racks, and men and women worked over the hulls, sanding, scraping, painting. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

The little calves reminded Tayo of new shoes, bright white with light brown speckles, silky and untouched by mud and sand. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

It seemed we watched her run for minutes across that stretch of cleared sand. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I guess I would have moved a grain of sand.” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Their remains drifted down like ash onto the sand, the surface of the water, everything. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Instead, as our feet sank ankle-deep in the black sand, the only fire we heard was from our own guns out to sea. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

The men followed, and Dasch led them over a couple of sand dunes before coming upon a gulch. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

Something stung her face and hands like sand blowing on a beach on a windy day. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

But as their feet came down they slowed, and gently, as if they were made of sand with wind blowing across them, they faded away. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The silver sands glowed like the surface of the moon against the dark of night. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

He felt his heel bump land, touch pebbles and rocks, scrape sand. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

Meggie’s eyes began to burn, and when she rubbed them she found sand sticking to her knuckles. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

He wondered if it was because of the protection of the moon sands that the song wasn’t affecting the water in his body. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

In the flat pool beside the stream tadpoles spotted the sand. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

I want to travel the world and wander in sand dunes and climb to the top of snowcapped mountains. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

No liquid water was present except for very thin films wetting individual sand grains. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh, man,” Hudson whimpered, reaching out for the sand dollar. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

I soap myself, use the scrub brush and the piece of pumice for sanding off dead skin. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sand was grayish blue, though the weird illumination made it difficult to judge its true color. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

Gold-painted shovels were handed out, and on Mr. Muckle’s signal all the dignitaries smiled, leaned over, and dug up a scoopful of sand. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

As he had foreseen, the track was crumbling like sand under the horse’s hooves. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

As we went shopping for bulk foods or kicked sand at the beach, we were always thinking about the invisible viewers who hovered around us like a band of watchful angels. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

There are two sets of barbells, a burlap sack of sand, a jump rope with red wooden handles, and a pear-shaped leather punching bag nailed to the closet ceiling. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

The ocean sends another wave toward the sand before pulling it back again. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

The sand stings got worse, and it got harder and harder to walk, as if she were pushing into the wind on a particularly blustery day. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

I shook the sand off my feet, grabbed my sandals, and hurried toward the boardwalk. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

She was used to running on beaches, where the sand gave way under your feet and each thrust of your legs was hindered. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like all hogans, there was a fire in the middle of the red sand floor with an opening to the night directly above. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

He runs across the sand at full tilt, then stops and stares up at the ramparts rearing above him as though imagining pennants and cannons and medieval archers ranged along the parapets. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Reaching the shallows, he plowed out of the river onto a sand bar. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I have a gift. These are moon sands. I was told to give these to you in exchange for the medicine. I guess that doesn’t make it a gift and more like a payment.” Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

I have to pout and roll my eyes for hours until she finally wears down and crumbles into a thousand grains of beach sand. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

Justin would be pushing her down into the sand, to do whatever he wanted to do. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

The waves retract, gathering force, the soft, dark sand seeming to shift away instantly beneath their feet, causing them to lose their balance. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

I sat down in the sand and pulled my legs up to my chest. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

He was a pile of sand, slipping through our fingers. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

The beast pawed the sand, glaring at me with beady eyes as it lowered its razor-sharp tusks and waited for the command to kill. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

The boat hissed to a halt against the sand. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

The waters carried them across waves of sands and rock, and in no time, they had arrived at Nali’s. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Lifting his feet high out of the sand, Ralph started to stroll past. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

And at last he made out something dark among the waves, a long way off across what had been sand and now was wild water. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

We came to a firebreak and Papa plunged into it, began to cut a twisty path across its emptiness, shouting “Hyah! Hyahl,” gouging ragged tracks through the dusty sand. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

A picture of a heart drawn in the sand came up next to the handle @CARSAN2121. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

He tells us to be quick so they don’t get away, demonstrating by plunging his shovel straight down in the ground, then heaving clumps of wet sand away. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

He was buried with Martha under the white sand at the Jersey shore. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some went into the sand, and that sand became glass again, and that glass became all kinds of things, creating mischief beyond what even Mal could have imagined. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

I could see the small waves sliding up the sand and beyond them a curving line of foam where the currents raced. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some places, the sand blew over so you couldn’t see any road at all. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

"We'll keep along by the sands. Then if he comes well do our, our dance again." Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

Someone has thrown sand in Luke’s face and he’s jumped out of his sand grave and thrown himself on top of Mark, thrashing and kicking. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

There, with a long stick she drew a letter in the wet sand. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

She ordered a huge dump truck full of sand, and she had it poured into the hole. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

All that was left were footprints in the sand leading toward the dense forest that spread out beyond the village. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

She thought it was like the desert threave, a sand beast that could survive for years eating nothing but its own molted skin. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

He beat his wings again, sending up a choking storm of scarlet sand. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

After the semidarkness it’s ferociously bright, and my brother stands blinking as the image clears to sand and sea, a happy vacation postcard. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

I wave to the man and trudge through the sand. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

Jessie had sand in all the places where her skin rubbed together: between her toes, behind her ears, and between the cheeks of her bottom. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

In the center is the Cornucopia on its circle of sand with the twelve strips branching out from it. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

“The Commandant wants you to bring her sand from the dunes for a scrub,” Izzi says. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

That evening, while Ess was busy arranging shells in the wet sand along the beach, Jinny offered to help Ben with dinner. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

He digs a parabola into the sand with his foot and sighs. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

In the sand she scooped out hollows for our bodies and sat down, waiting. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Leaving my shoes on the sand, I creep into the pond up to my shoulders, my bra and underwear sticking to my goose-pimply body. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

And, most important, they found the trail in the sand leading to the buried boxes. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

In some places the water is shallow, and in other places it is nearly gone, leaving sand and seashells glistening in the first rays of the morning. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

The roads were brown with sand and clear of snow, the driving dirty but easy. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

He looked for an imprint of her feet or the outline that the cloth of her skirt made in the sand. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

A maelstrom of sand and copper screws and plastic shards swirled around him, the debris of the ship-breaking business ripping at his skin as he ran barefoot down the beach to Pima’s shack. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

A fickle breeze suddenly kicked up sand around us. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

He knelt over the arching tracks the snake left in the sand and filled the delicate imprints with yellow pollen. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

His motorcycle rumbled beside him, its headlight turning the sand red. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

Only the sand was white and soft, and it fell slowly—landed cold on her shoulders. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Some of the town kids, not knowing it was bad luck to catch the carp, would scoop them out of the low waters and toss the fish upon the sand bars. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

No sound of boots as they crossed the sand to the tide line. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

The force of its fall had driven it into the sand—in a hundred pieces. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

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

He saw images of smiling, dark-haired white girls lolling on the gleaming sands of a beach. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Furthest away in the sky were lots of little white clouds which looked like fish scales or sand dunes which had a very regular pattern. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Throw sand from the East to distract him.” The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Under the moonlight the sand, in every direction and as far as they could see, gleamed as if it were smooth water or a great silver tray. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

And all the little friends whom he used to know would be down by the seaside, playing in the wet sand and splashing around in the water... James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

The Nile River, flowing slowly through a shallow valley, is the only thing that interrupts thousands of miles of empty sand. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

I remember we came up to a crossroad, sand everywhere, the outline of two intersecting roads. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

Some were digging holes, others were carrying sand. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

A colony of thin candles stands in the sand, a few of them flickering with yellow flames. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

It's strange to think that a sand dune will stop me from hearing what the MAV has to say when it can talk to Earth no problem. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

But this time when she reached for the boat, instead of sending it back out to sea, she pulled it up onto the sand. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Each of the hundred thousand tiny grains of sand in her fists grinds against its neighbor. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

The lowest step, where the stream collected before it tumbled down a hundred feet and disappeared into the rubbly desert, was a little platform of stone and sand. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

When it floundered in sand, the men had to jump out and put creosote branches under the wheels to urge it on. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He dug on his knees with an entrenching tool while the man beside him threw up in the sand before lying down with his helmet across his face and fainting. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Mixed images of violence ran like sand through his mind, dry and fast, vanishing. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Suddenly the ground jerks beneath my feet and I’m flung on my side in the sand. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

He followed it out of the sagebrush clusters and onto a long stretch of sunbaked, cracked sand. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

I would not have been any more amazed to see many-headed animals, tall Ethiops as black as night, or mermaids thrown upon the sands by the tides. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Felicia designed great circles of overlapping shells on the sand, as if someone on the moon, or farther still, might read their significance. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

She sanded around the latch on the door. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

I pictured all these old-time people in suits from both countries pointing down at the sand, speaking in their different languages. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

The pilot cut the engine, opened the door, and got out, balanced, and stepped forward on the float to hop onto the sand without getting his feet wet. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

Another new captive, who looked positively irate, was the black man who had just held Amari down on the sand while she was branded. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

The “Uncle Toms” think that every Negro should bury his head in the sand and pretend he is not there. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’d built his whole life around the irritation of her words, like the grain of sand at the centre of a pearl. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

He found her cleaning pots with sand and ashes. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

How many grains of sand are there in the world? Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

Waves fizz and melt into the black sand. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

We marched in single file across the cool gray sand, from oldest to youngest. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

I seemed to gain momentum as I progressed, like when water starts to wash away a dam made of sand. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

But at the last moment, as Jeanne is choking and Jacob is not breathing at all and William is totally submerged in sand, I throw myself forward on my face. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

They burrowed under the sand and lay in wait, for years even, for prey to happen along, and they were only a threat if you had the poor fortune of walking over one. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Only the fountain seemed real, spewing forth sand like a reminder of Gaia’s limitless power. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

She bent and grabbed handfuls of sand, throwing in rapid movements, and the sand fell on his shoulder, arms, belly. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

And when Miss Deaver left the room for a minute, Nick spread about ten cups of fine white sand all over the classroom floor. Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Another step, and Dany could feel the heat of the sand on the soles of her feet, even through her sandals. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

They fled in confusion to the ships, and the wall they had built to defend them went down like a sand wall children heap up on the shore and then scatter in their play. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the turtles push their way out of the sand and start waddling toward the water's edge, they look like a bunch of wind-up toys escaped from Toys "R" Us. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

He stopped and sat up, the sand making his wet hair white. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

How I didn’t hesitate to plunge my shovel into the sand, chasing the clam as it burrowed deep. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

When she passed the place in the cove where the boat sat up on the sand, beside the bell on its hook, Jinny stopped. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

It was a torrent of sand, looking like a rain cloud, that came in from the northwest and turned the place so dark in the afternoon light that the street lamps suddenly started glowing. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

My feet punched down and the bottom was closer now and I crawled and kicked toward the sand. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

All up and down the coastline, female turtles come out of the ocean and paddle their way across the sand, dig a hole, and lay eggs—about a hundred at a time. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

I dug at the sand, unable to face her. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

Along with doctors, nurses, and medics, Kelley would sit in a big circle out in the sand, get stoned, and swap stories. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

Oh, what a fool he had been to build hope upon such shifting sand! Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

As if on cue, the boat zipped back past Jinny again, up to the sand. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

The sand road now changed to crystal brick, and BaiMa’s hooves made the sound of tinkling bells. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

The tide was out and the sun shone on the white sand of the beach. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

I poured the water for him while he stirred cement and sand together. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

We walked over to watch the dudes playing ball on that famous beach court, right there between the walkway and the sand. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

It seemed like my mouth was filling with sand. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Peeta and I sit on the damp sand, facing away from each other, my right shoulder and hip pressed against his. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

He set down his bottle in the sand and held up the ugly brown thing so he could see it. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

Dried algae stuck to the walls and the sand formed a strange topography on the floors. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

He tells me he has a bag of sand in there. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

Kaede paced back and forth, her footprints sending long trails across the sand. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

On hands and knees, carrying his gun in regulation fashion, Kantorek shoves his absurd figure over the sand immediately in front of us. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Threatened closely I grow stupid, and sit on a bag of sand wondering if a man could swim to Orgoreyn. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

The flame birds waited, like a bed of coals, glowing on the cool smooth sands. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

That beautiful girl who brushed the sand from my skin after my secret swims in the lake. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

On the beach Captain Smith demonstrates to me how to clean the sword with a rag and sand—he says this sand is fine enough to do the job. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

It reached into its dark body and pulled forth the pouch containing the moon sands. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

He is already hovering over Richard and James, showing them how to scoop up a handful of sand with a rag and use it to scrub out the mess pots. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

Millions of acres of forests were sprayed instead of thou sands as before, in an effort to save the balsams, which are the mainstay of the pulp and paper industry. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Rachel Elizabeth Dare was walking along a white sand beach. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

Timothy had driven a heavy piece of driftwood into the sand so that the raft would not go out to sea with the tide. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

I think it was the sand castle she built with that kid. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Just smooth sand with rocks smaller than half a meter. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her limbs felt like bags of wet sand, but Percy was helping her now. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Its shore could not be called a beach, there being neither sand nor pebbles, and there was no pounding of surf either, since the waves that fell upon the island simply vanished into its porosity. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Did you just sink forever until the sand ate away at you and then did your poor bones continue the trip forever down? The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

As I rose toward the surface, East called out, “Hey, kid, any time you got a sand dollar to spend, come on back. Assuming you live.” The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

She places them on the sand, where waves can lap at their stumps. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

There were papers neatly arranged and ink bottles, pens, sand for blotting the ink, and a stack of maps. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He eased himself deeper within her and felt the warmth close around him like river sand, softly giving way under foot, then closing firmly around the ankle in cloudy warm water. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

The pavilion and courtyard had painted walls and floors of colored sand and clay; heavy sculptural objects, including several of the trademark heads, studded the area. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

But all around them was sand, stone, and sun. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

“It’s light brown, like sand. A little golden.” X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was dark, but the two girls were still sitting in the sand when Jinny felt a small head of wet curls lean against her arm. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

From the air, the beach reminded me of Cuba with its coconut palms, turquoise water, and white sand, but as we went farther inland, the rest of Miami looked very different. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

There was nothing left of them but weapons in the sand and piles of smoking, empty uniforms. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

“They just right there,” Rondell said, pointing at the line of boulders that separated the sand from where the houses started. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

We ate hot cereal with strawberries, buttermilk with strawberries, bread with strawberries, strawberries for dessert, strawberries with sugar, strawberries with sand. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Here, the sand was fine, gray, and sun-seared, nothing like the clumpy red earth back home; the trees were tame, unlike the bursting greenness that sprang up and cast shadows on the road to Umunnachi. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

All of a sudden sand was churning under my feet as I sprinted across the beach. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sand at the bottom caught the color of the sun, and tiny green leaves grew out of this color, suspended in the still water. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

The old man cackled and coughed and hacked up a glob of phlegm that he spit into the sand too near my feet for comfort “Must’ve been some party.” We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

In an impressive display of engineering savvy, the Cahokians encapsulated the slab, sealing it off from the air by wrapping it in thin, alternating layers of sand and clay. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

A glare that blinded you and brought visions of sunsets and golden sands. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

“After it dries, I’ll sand and paint it,” he said, standing back and observing his work critically. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Ralph shook sand out of the deep tube. "-mooed like a cow," he said. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

The raw substances available to ancient peoples were natural materials such as stone, wood, bone, skins, fiber, clay, sand, limestone, and minerals, all existing in great variety. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

The exterior sustained some damage, so they’ll pressure-wash it, sand and caulk it, and repaint every wall and window. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Papa emerged from the bathroom, where he was sanding down the walls in preparation for a new coat of paint. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

I went outside and sat in the sand by the door. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

They reached a Rusty city around daybreak, a cluster of unremarkable buildings stranded on the sea of sand. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Because a grain of sand is a moment of creation, and the universe has taken millions of years to create it. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Above them, in the cloudless sky, stars were scattered as thick as sand. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Don’t think about what you’ve left behind,” the alchemist said to the boy as they began to ride across the sands of the desert. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The water is gelid, murky; down there, past where the sand drops away and it’s deep, there are old rocks covered with slime, sunken logs, crayfish, leeches, huge pike with undershot jaws. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

The young man brushed some sand out of his thin hair. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

"You scared the sand will swallow your feet, boy?" a man calls out from a fruit stall he's setting up. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

One time, he was assigned to help build a sand bed for a railroad. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

At sundown he was lying on the sand at the bottom of the long mesa, feeling the heat recede from the air and from his body into the earth. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

He had spent three days sitting inside the bole of an artificial oak tree, three nights crawling on his belly through the heather, hiding microphones in gorse bushes, burying wires in the soft grey sand. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nothing could be in it except tools and cutting sand, as always. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

“Seed Collector, we will need to cooperate,” Wind Being said, its human body forming from strands of sand and flat discs of flower petals. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

“Sam,” she said after a minute more of traveling, whispering over the moon-colored sea of sand, “stop the ship.” The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

I followed her obediently over to where the sand dunes dropped sharply five or six feet to the beach itself. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

BaiMa, still a dragon horse, his mane and mustache floating like the tentacles of a squid, walked on a road of white sand. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

Quiet before a storm maybe means folks are done hammering wood across their windows and placing sand sacks beside their front doors. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

He shaped the ends with the knife and sanded them smooth with salt and he stained them with soot until they were the color of lead. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

She laid Elowen’s body on a stretch of icy sand and sat near Elowen’s head, her eyes squinted against the setting sun. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

His elbows jutted out at awkward angles as he lowered himself down onto the cool sands. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

He traced it back into the canyon with his eyes; the gray banks cut a winding track, its curves and twists the print of a snake’s belly across the sand. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

The close-up faded and the next scene showed only the girl’s legs running over the sparkling sands; they were followed by the legs of the man running in pursuit. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Before his job as a sand pounder, Cullen had worked as a deliveryman for Macy's department store in New York City. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

My job is to sand the puzzle pieces with scratchy paper. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

It moved and churned, foaming and dark, carrying leaves and sand and twigs from one place to the next. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Others jump inside hoppers full of sand or grain, but only if they can find cars that are full enough that they will be able to crawl out. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Two swords fell to the bottom and plunked in the sand. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

I walk across the sand, and the sound gets louder, until I realize it’s not just one sound, but many, all blending together. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

It was still tiny, the size of a speck of sand, but I knew it could grow as heavy and as mean and as cold as that gun. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

The sand in my throat had spread to my eyes. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

The raft began scraping against the sand, straining to reach the waves. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Uhmma holds her high heels in one hand, her stocking feet buried in the sand. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

They slept that night in the sand with the fire standing off the cold and their goods scattered all about them. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

Duff dug at the sand with a stick. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

Right next to our stairs, in Papa’s rock garden, the moss was dry, the sand needed raking. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

Robin shouted as she plunged down the dune, her legs lost in a cloud of sand. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

The clatter of the chains that bound them made a harsh metallic music as they marched across the sand in lockstep and formed up with their long spears. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Apparently the blackflies, sand flies, and tsetse flies have not yet become resistant to chemicals. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

He could see the tracks of the cart where they sloughed up through the loose sand. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

The potential people who could have been here in my place but who will in fact never see the light of day outnumber the sand grains of Arabia. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

Then you walk to one of the lounge “beaches,” which have no sand, but green turf, and a ton of lay-down chairs, and lockers for your clothes and shoes. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

The newsreels and magazines were choked with images of blazing artillery and bodies half sunk in the sand of a beach somewhere. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

Practically all the pieces were brown—brown pyramid, brown sand, brown people. Missing May 1992-03-01T00:00:00Z

When they laughed and splashed, she laughed and splashed; when they dived, she 357 dived; when they swam to the sand bar and rested, Nurse Cramer swam to the sand bar and rested. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

They made a path covered with sand from the woods. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

I showed her how to take a thin stream of sand and make squiggles to decorate the turrets. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

The tides had almost buried the canoe, and I labored many days to dig it out of the sand. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

They whipped the wind around us and stirred up a storm of dirt and sand. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

“Do we have our heads in the sand, Madame? Or do they?” All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

He fills my basket with sand, not looking at me. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

By the time I swing the coil up onto the sand and pull myself from the water, her body’s gone. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Tialys continued to pack the lodestone resonator away, and as he did so, the Lady Salmakia woke up nearby, sitting up graceful and slow from the little hollow she’d made in the soft sand. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

I was standing at the edge of the water, waiting for the waves to come in so the sand could swallow up my feet. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Grammy eats from a tube of saltine crackers; the crumbs on her chest remind me of the sand I just left. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

He left no footprints in sand, no ripples in water, no image in mirrors. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I slide my palm into his, leaning against him to keep the weight off my tingling knee as I inch my way down to a patch of sand below. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

She could almost feel the knife, feel something scraping everything that mattered out of her onto the cold sand. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

The walls were yellow stone, so soft that it was almost like damp sand. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

My mouth felt like it was full of sand, but I spoke the last two lines. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

A handful of sand contains about 10,000 grains, more than the number of stars we can see with the naked eye on a clear night. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

He hurried away from them with a shiver of eerie alarm and did not slacken his pace until the soil crumbled to dry sand beneath his feet and they had been left behind. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

To the right, the vast turquoise ocean bit at the shoreline, gobbling small mouthfuls of sand. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

The driving wind and sand battered them, but they were able to stay on their feet. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

It deposited me at the edge of the ocean proper, where the sand bank dropped off into a huge chasm. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

It looks so unnatural lying on the sand with no legs, looking like it wants to walk. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

I tried to picture little Mong running around on this sand. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

He began to back away, slowly, belly to the sand, giving that same singsong whine. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

I have crossed the line in the sand. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

The raft hits the bank; its bottom scrapes against sand. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

They use their flippers first to dig the hole and then to scoop the sand back over it before returning to the sea. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

He stood abruptly, picked up a rock from the sand, and threw it with all his force. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

We passed a little boy and his mom doing a sand castle. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

“A test of worthiness,” said a deep, loud voice that caused the sparkling sands to shiver. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

“What about sand that comes in through the cracks?” Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

A beach chair rolls along the sand as if it wants to fly like a plane. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

They had built castles in the sand at the bar of the little river. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

Standing on the sand, looking around at all the shocked faces, Jinny felt a tremor. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Three days pass, like sand falling from one side of an hourglass to the other. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

The children strutted and shouted as they ran about in the wet sand. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

“Throw it at the wet sand. Then look for the bubbles.” Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

Tree-ear picked up this piece and swished it through the water to rinse off the sand. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

If my love were a desert, you would see only sand. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

A few feet in front of us was this hole in the side of a medium-sized cliff that ran right up along the sand and rocks. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

My legs were stiff from kneeling and as the canoe struck the sand I fell when I rose to climb out. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

As it comes together, I add the outline of a building—a long, rectangular structure set on the sand. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

When she let go, she pushed my mountain of sand into the hole and packed it down. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

He remembered the black of the sand paintings on the floor of the hogan; the hills and mountains were the mountains and hills they had painted in sand. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

“See?” he said when they landed on the wet sand. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

We took a bus to the ocean where all the skyrise hotels stuck out of the sand like a row of white teeth. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

She looked down at her dirty feet in the sand. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

In addition, the sand lets rainfall drain away from the mound, preventing it from swelling too much. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

They went on, stumbling through the sand and the trash along the tideline. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

As the marines walked, dripping, onto the sand, local schoolgirls stepped forward and placed garlands of red and yellow flowers over their necks. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

They threw their clothes in the sand, put on sunblock, and drank from cans they took from the cooler. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Dust and sand blew off of it in spiraling streams to reveal…. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Barnacles, cowries, thirteen lumps of quartz gritty with sand. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

My toes skim the fine sand below my feet, and I feel as though I'm flying. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

When you kill a monster in Final Fantasy, it makes a sound like a groan and disintegrates into sand. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

“That wasn’t there before,” Elodin said apologetically as he pulled his feet free of the grey sand. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I scoop my T-shirt off the sand, shake it hard, and put it on. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

There were the pups, rolling and playing in the warm sand. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

He poured milk for her in the lid of an old enamel coffeepot, and then he opened the pen and let them run, greedy for the tender green shoots of tumbleweeds pushing through the sand. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Then I get busy sanding off the chipped paint on the door—cha-cha-cha-cha—trying to smooth it down. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Just before he closed the screen again, I grabbed the cinnamon box from the windowsill and pushed it into the sand. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

The men were already running to the end of the bridge to come down and claim the man whose dead hands dug into the soft, wet sand in front of me. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s like shoveling sand into the sea,” he used to say, sadly shaking his head. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Immediately, a gust of wind pushed the top layer of sand into the air and into Nathan’s eyes. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

I felt, looking at her, that I was helplessly watching precious flaxen sand slip away between my fingers. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

He wore pants that stopped high above the ankles and a cut-off T-shirt, and his bare toes wiggled in the sand. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

They haven’t had a really good cleaning in three months, so the sand has some hard work to do. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

It was the same sun, the same light still shining on the same sand as before. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

There were long stretches of beach, with palm trees waving and little naked dark children against the white sand. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Digging and curious, crowing at the tiny scuttles and sand beetles living in the old shoes. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

The black and purple benches, highest and most distant from the sand, were crowded with freedmen and other common folk. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“Okay,” said Akimi, “from the way Mr. Lemoncello was just winking, either somebody kicked a bucket of sand in his face or our recommended reading list is another clue.” Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

And there’s Jamie and me in June, the sun on our faces and the sand at our feet, finding each other again after all those years. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Ralph, Jack and Simon jumped off the platform and walked along the sand past the bathing pool. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

And with the green boat sitting up on the sand like that, it was true that anyone could go, at any time. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

We sit there panting, scraping the sand out of our mouths. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

The boy looked at the sands around him, and saw that, where his tears had fallen, a scarab beetle was scuttling through the sand. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Aye, tomorrow it'll be clear. But don't ye stray from the causeway. After a night like tonight, with devils' pools and the cross-eyed currents, the sand will be hungry indeed." The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

She navigated us through the desert, under clear blue skies, the sand so bright it hurt to look at. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

It seemed at first there was a sheer drop down to the sands, but once you leant over the rail, you could see zigzagging footpaths leading you down the cliff-face to the seafront. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

She is almost entirely in ballast of silver sand, with only a small amount of cargo—a number of great wooden boxes filled with mould. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

Some kind of water animal that came up to the sand to ... to do what? lo do something with the sand, to play and make a pile in die sand? Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

That hidden grain of sand—tiny and infinite all at once, both compact and expanding. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

He was so beaten and broken and cold that this crawling through the wet sand in the whistling, sea-thundering dark was the hardest thing he had ever had to do. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

They trudged on through the sand at the upper edge of the beach, hoping to see the shape of the log where they’d camped. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

The river was low and there were stretches of sand and pebbles with a narrow channel of water and sometimes the water spread like a sheen over the pebbly bed. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

Inches from my toes, the umbrella landed in the sand like a giant dart. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Raul stopped by a large boy who was sanding a curved piece of wood. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a turret really, a flipped sand bucket and then a flipped Dixie cup on top of that. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ran around in the sand, talked about what had happened. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

I ran my fingers through the sand; I pressed both of my hands into the dirt and left my impress in the earth. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

He struggled to continue digging as he fought the wind, which often blew the sand back into the excavation. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

So the wind blew with all its strength, and the sky was filled with sand. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the base of the cliffs, I fall to the sand. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

The sand was the finest in the world, and there was no bulk to it whatsoever, and, at first, no unpleasantness. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

When I get to the bottom, I kick the sand out of sheer frustration, and thanks to a gust of wind, some of it flies right into my eyes. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

I do the breaststroke, dipping my face in and out of the water, so I don’t have to see Ryan standing on the sand waiting for us. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nuria wasn’t all that gorgeous or anything, and she could barely speak English, but her long skirt had swayed pretty enticingly when she’d headed my way across the soft sand. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

It occurred to Shadow that there was another wolf, a twin to the one that Wednesday was riding, keeping pace with them in the sand dunes, just a moment out of sight. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

She showed Ess how to hold two corners of the sheet and blanket and shake them free of sand and dirt. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

He stood in the sand with his arms crossed, his hundred eyes glaring at us. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

Cigarettes were flipped into the gutter or mashed into the sand- filled receptacle near the door. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He let out another sigh and the sand blew about me. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And we will begin your training. With the sands of the moon, you will be able to learn the songs with no danger to your being.” Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

The black sand was too loose and too deep. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Put that stuff down and go get her some water,” Clara said to the guy with the sand. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Me and Rondell threw our bags in the sand too and looked up at the house. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

They were the color of the moss near the spring, and their backs were spotted the color of wet sand. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

I pictured him stabbing me in the back on a beach in Mexico, me falling to my knees, blood pooling all in the sand. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

It was a dull yellow like desert sand. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

It was almost too much for me to drag in the loose sand. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Dex and Faris walk away, I rappel to the desert floor, where Helene sits cross-legged in the shade of the cliffs, her feet buried to the ankles in the hot sand. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Hermes got up and brushed the sand off his legs. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

By the end of the day, the sand is crisscrossed with a mesh of ordinates, abscissas, curves to account for everything in nature. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He took a puff from the cigarette and stared down at the red sand floor. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Elsewhere teams of slaves were raising ramps of stone and sand beneath their mangonels and scorpions, angling them upward at the sky, the better to defend the camp should the black dragon return. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

When the horse pulled the children up onto the sandy beach, Tidbit jumped off right away and cheerfully ran on the wet sand. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

My mother was busy keeping sand from blowing onto the blanket, then shaking sand out of shoes, and tacking corners of blankets back down again with the now clean shoes. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

They had moved suddenly, like a whirlwind, dust and sand flying up from their hooves as they chased him back toward the truck and horse trailer. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

One of the sand ships fell apart, the sail, the emerald body, the bronze hull points, the moon-white tiller, and all the separate images in it. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

We watch the way the water pulls back and turns over and beats against the sand, trying to wear the earth away. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

And I turned away, shivering, surprised to realize that I was in my nightshirt still, drenched myself, my own hair full of sand and salt. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

Yet the coast is not a classic, Sahara-style desert of sand dunes and scorching sun. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

“Or near the seashore,” said James eagerly, “with lots of other children down on the sand for me to play with!” James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

After the loggerhead swam off, we jumped in and goofed around until Thom cut his ankle on a broken beer bottle that was buried in the sand. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

As they got closer to the edge of the beach, Amari noticed that the water never stopped moving, sending huge waves of itself against the sand—first blue, then white, then blue again. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sand creature laughs as delightedly as if I’m juggling and pulling faces. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Here, the eye was first attracted to a black, bat-like creature that danced on the sand, and only later perceived the body above it. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

They lay on the sand, intact, not moving. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hale toiled day and night for a pittance; he rode through storms—hail, lightning, sand—and survived stampedes, guiding the cattle into smaller and smaller circles before they could trample him. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

He had left his tennis shoes in the shelter and when he felt the sand turn to mud between his toes he kicked off the bottom and began to swim. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

They arrived here dusty and full of sand, but in large quantities. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Timothy said that the sand in the sea water acted like a grindstone on the sharp edges of the coral. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

I turn my head, sand clogging my nose and my mouth, and I see Marmeluc, on his knees on the causeway, pulling me toward him. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

There was also a pile of sand and gravel, equally intact. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

I turned left and pedaled against the sand toward the front of the development. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

She collapsed, out cold against the hot sand. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

She followed her and found Sosie stretched out on her back in the sand, watching the clouds and stars perform their own choreography. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

Under Ralph's direction, they picked a careful way along the palm terrace, rather than dare the hot sand down by the water. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

Lazlo couldn’t tell how much of the threave lay buried still beneath the sand, but from what he could see, it was made up almost entirely of mouth. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

They trekked out along the crescent sweep of beach, keeping to the firmer sand below the tidewrack. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

“Dome is sand and scorpions, and bleak red mountains baking in the sun.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

We met her in the sand, Mama breathless, small in front of him, looking up saying, “Ko! Ko, it’s a boy!” Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

Erishkigal spread out her hands, and the sand around us became animated, showing a storm-racked sea with a pinnacle of rock rising out of it. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

He was huddled in the sand asleep with his head on the pile of clothes. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

“Yeah. I remember you threw sand at me and then tried to run away, but I chased you down the beach.” The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

The sand she had dug with her hands was still damp on the mound. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

About fifty yards away two coyotes stood watching me, their tawny coats blending with sand and sun. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

And after a while he saw at the faint outermost edge of the light a shadow that came towards him over the sand. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

Devin pressed the little nub of tobacco into the sand floor. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

After a few months, we would sprinkle a handful of sand along the corridor so that we could hear the warder’s footsteps and have time to stop talking or hide any contraband. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was no bigger than a grain of sand, no bigger than the head of a pin. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

The octopus was flopped and all forlorn on the bottom sand, trying to pry open a scallop. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

Hollister’s words—just be, just do—washed over her mind like a wave on sand. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

The water was pale green instead of blue, and, strangely, the riverbanks were covered in sand. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

“Silly cat,” I said as she came to her senses and rolled in the dry sand. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

They plopped the squares down over the white-sugar sand, like pieces of a jigsaw puzzle. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The boy tried to read what was written in the sand. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

And perhaps beyond those shrouded swells another man did walk with another child on the dead gray sands. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

Men fell to the sand and rose to fight again. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then he changed, and flowed over the sand to her as a snow-white ermine. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

He washed his face in the water; the surface water was still warm, so he plunged his hands deep into the cool layer above the yellow sand. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

By the fall of 1957, she had painted in the sand and shells and much of the sky and a couple of seagulls. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Where the sand ends, woods begin to rise sharply. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

In our time we have sifted the sands of Mars, we have established a presence there, we have fulfilled a century of dreams! Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

He drops his duffel bag onto the packed sand with a jostling thud. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

His scent finds me from where he stands—salt, sand, and the seas: the comforting scents that waft inside my windows in the morning when I open them. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

“Not much. I just fool around. I don’t like that sand, makes me itch.” Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

A dozen men with boar spears came trotting out onto the sand to drive the boar away from the corpse and back to his pen. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

After twenty meters, the soft powder gave way to more solid sand and the rover shuddered to a halt. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

He twisted his foot as if he was digging in the sand. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

He lies back in the sand, links his hands behind his head. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

She looked to the window where the sand pail dangled, but this was too urgent for that. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

I decreased the magnification on the map a bit, then pulled back far enough to confirm that the northern edge of the hill ended in a cliff of sand and crumbling gravel. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

I said, Then sand began to gather on it and after more years, it was finally an island.” The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

The wind is fierce, kicking up the sand. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

I can see in my mind’s eye his black arms thrown back behind his head, the muscles like great big peach stones sanded down, with veins running like little swollen rivers down his arms. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

Across the street, a frosty black sand beach led down to the sea, which was as smooth as steel. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

The guard picked the book up by the spine and tapped it on the table as if he were shaking sand from a shoe. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

The power in it slammed the impostor back into the sand. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

The blazing sand looked red to me now. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

Soldiers studied battle strategies in the sand gardens. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

"No, thank you; I'll free myself," I said, struggling to rise from the cutting sand. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Pocock had spent his days at Travers Island carefully sanding down the shell’s hull and then applying coat after coat of marine varnish, buffing each coat until the shell glistened. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

He felt against the cold sands and found his glasses. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

There must be thirty of them in the sand, crooked letter after crooked letter. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

There was a search, a hopeless one, in the sand, and so we set off on the long ride back without any breakfast, and got to Devon just in time for my test. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

Led across the sand, Amari found it surprisingly hard to walk. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

The island was less than a mile wide, a barren patch of sand and rock distinguished only by the wrecked foundation of an old tower used by the Council of Tides. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

There were carnival rides lining the Pier, palm trees lining the sidewalks, homeless guys sleeping in the sand dunes, and surfer dudes waiting for the perfect wave. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

Whenever she was really scared or freaking out, the same thing always happened: she began to dissociate, reality loosening around her like a hammock deconstructing itself, spilling her out into sands of nothingness. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

The ground was still pretty soggy from the winter, and the sand around the stakes was all wet through. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Princesse watched her own skin grow visibly darker as she sat near the open sea, the waves spraying a foam of white sand onto her toes. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

He drew on the sand with a stick. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sand slid whining under; the blue hills drifted by, drifted by, leaving their home behind, the raining pillars, the caged flowers, the singing books, the whispering floor creeks. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then one of the boys flopped on his face in the sand and the line broke up. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

The girls sat formally down in the sand and straightened their skirts over their knees. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

The fire flared in the wind and sparks raced away down the sand. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

If you pushed your hand down too far into the loose sand your skin would be burned. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Beside me, little yellow-white sand grains cling to the wheel of Jason’s wheelchair. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

I felt a great shower of sapphire sand as his head rose up. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

When we first arrived, there were sand and ants everywhere, but we cleaned it up as best we could. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

The wind from the chopper sent pieces of sand and dirt into my face, and I just wanted to lay down. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

He pulled off his boots and socks and dug his toes deep into the damp sand; then he started walking again. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

He trotted through the sand, enduring the sun's enmity, crossed the platform and found his scattered clothes. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

Blue water washing up to gray sand and nothing else. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Yet he cannot picture his family occupying a house like this, playing board games on rainy afternoons, watching shooting stars at night, all their relatives gathered neatly on a small strip of sand. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

From the three-foot-tall pedestal, a geyser of sand spewed upward, arcing into an umbrella-shaped curtain of white particles before spilling into the circular basin. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

“So, when I look out over your sands, I am also looking at her. I want to return to her, and I need your help so that I can turn myself into the wind.” The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

They come with the waves and twist and turn on the sand as if they were dancing. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then he reached out, hand scrabbling through the sand, searching for something. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

And if there had been a clock on the island, it would have ticked off exactly three seconds before he lost consciousness and went down hard in the sand. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

Different colored sands painted a boy with glasses holding a feather in one hand and a book in the other in the center of a giant circular mural. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

An hour later, I waited on the sand while the ferry passengers crossed the long boardwalk from the pier to dry ground. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

Then he looked at Pipkin, huddled into a fold of sand, more panic-stricken and helpless than any rabbit he had ever seen. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Space researchers use the Atacama as a model for the sands of Mars. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

He wailed and went down, and Citra raced across the sand, leaped the hedge, and grabbed him by the shirt with both hands as he writhed. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

I rolled over on my stomach, my cheek against the wet sand. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sand wouldn't have seemed very comfortable to you, but Shasta had been sleeping on the ground for weeks and hardly noticed it. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

Grit: As chickens do not have teeth, they eat sand and small stones to fill their gizzards. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

“But it’s still bleeding,” Bronwyn said, pointing out red droplets that dotted the sand beneath him. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

I concentrated on the sand in front of me and kept my legs moving forward. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

The dampness from the sand seeped through my shorts. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

His toenails still had sand underneath them from two nights ago. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

I put Mr. Patterson in a pair of white shorts with skinny white legs sticking out and I gave Mrs. Patterson a big sunhat and a bathing suit, imagining Moxie bottles in the sand. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

The cold green ocean and a hot gold strip of sand. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

He rose and let the blanket fall to the sand and then stripped out of his coat and out of his shoes and clothes. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

In his other life Maurice had received chastisement for filling a younger eye with sand. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

For the moment, he’d totally forgotten about the pond, and Leo could see the sheet of bronze sinking into the sand. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

As for me, I sit in the sand, enjoying the gritty feeling as it sifts through my wriggling toes. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

His school held terrifying air-raid drills, and in each classroom was a large bucket of sand—to be used to extinguish fires sparked by incendiary bombs. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Between here and there lay only swirling sand, wind-scoured rocks, and plants bristly with sharp thorns. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

I used my bare hands to scoop away the wet sand that stuck her fast. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

The sheer volume of attacking sand buried her feet with each step. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

The firelight was bright and cozy, flashing and flickering on the sand and the boulder and the logs. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Zephyr’s arm was a lead weight on my shoulders, pushing me down into the sand. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

It’s not like she can’t take Mom down to the beach and show her one of her flying sand women before the tide wipes it out. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

The horses' hooves land like explosions on the water and sand. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

She shook her head, then poured a little water onto a cloth and began to wet the lips of one of the men on the sand. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jinny walked Ess past the sleeping cabins, down the path to the water’s edge, where the sand was hard and wet. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

As each sheet was passed to him, he scattered fine sand across the signature to drink up excess ink, shook it off, and set the note aside. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

She looked down at Ess, at the bits of leaf and sand in her hair and the smudge on her cheek. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

We stepped straight from the street to the sand, scaled a dune, and then found ourselves near the edge of the black water. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Dummy positions, wooden frames covered by sand and rock, were constructed to draw American fire. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

They kept to the coast for several miles, sometimes struggling over ice and snow, sometimes trudging through deep sand and around rocks. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

Sometimes religious folks draw pretty deep lines in the sand. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

The blurry memory swims into focus, and I can see my dad standing next to me on the beach, the tide pulling at our feet, our toes digging into the sand. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

“It’s like the biggest tug-of-war contest ever,” Tiara said as they formed two lines on either side of the ship, dug their feet into the sand, and took up the ropes. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

Rani races ahead, but when I step onto the beach, my feet sink into the sand. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

He saw things partially, through the tremble of the heat haze over the flashing sands, and his own long hair and injuries. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

The dragonslayer lost his footing and went tumbling to the sand. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Two trails led there, one on each side of a long sand dune. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

It bothered him, like a sand grain in the eye of his scientific instinct. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Across the smooth sand, in the high doorway that led into the corrals, the bull-fighters were standing, their arms furled in their capes, talking, waiting for the signal to march in across the arena. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

That was why Dicey always ran along the sand beside the ocean, as if she had to race the waves. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Augur and I are alone, looking out over darkened sand dunes that stretch all the way to the Serran Mountain Range. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Olly steers us to dry sand and we find a place to sit. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

My father took his stick and began writing an equation in the sand. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

They all carved pictures with sticks in the wet sand now and then, but the tides or the night rain inevitably came to wash those away. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

The sound of their footsteps was muffled in the sand. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

We slip off our sandals, walk close to the water’s edge, and sink our toes into the cooling sand. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

He paced back and forth on the sand where they were having their picnic. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some whites had been upset earlier when four blacks ignored the invisible line, plopping themselves down on the sand as though it was nothing out of the ordinary. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

They were not loose, but stuck down tight in moss and sand, and were black and shiny, as if they had been polished. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the most exposed portions there was only sand tufted with marine and prairie grasses. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

I built a ramp out of rocks and sand. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

She looked again at the word she had written, then erased it with her own toes, stamped the sand firm, and tossed the stick into a pile of glistening kelp nearby. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Churning up sand, he raced to where the curious puppy was poised to paw at the jellyfish. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

These cattle were descendants of generations of desert cattle, born in dry sand and scrubby mesquite, where they hunted water the way desert antelope did. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

We’re in the open, under a warm sun, so it’s probably the sandpit in the Infants’ play area, just possibly it’s the sand at the end of the long jump in the North Playing Field. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

We sat in the sand at the water’s edge. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

Nothing moved but slow snakes of sand borne by the wind. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

In the clean white sand on the floor Hannah traced a careful B. Looking at Prudence, Kit held her breath. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

With its blade, he drew a circle in the sand, and then he placed the snake within it. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Those thousands of tons of bombs didn’t do much more than disturb the sleep of the Japanese soldiers in reinforced caves and tunnels a hundred feet below the black sand. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

She wanted to paint the feel of the sand beneath her toes, the crackling of dry empty crab shells as she popped them between her palms. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

I knelt and pressed my face against the sand. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

A hundred feet below, the bay glittered against a crescent of red sand beach. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

I thought to aim for the sand barrel. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

“That sand dollar’s mine, unless you want me to let all those ships cross the Hudson.” The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

I bored two holes in each of the disks, using thorns and fine sand. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Under his hands, the sand was damp and soft as powder. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

The surf and the high sand wall had made it impossible to unload the tanks. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

His hands were tired, the sand was boiling, the sieve was empty. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

Kino watched with the detachment of God while a dusty ant frantically tried to escape the sand trap an ant lion had dug for him. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

I tell her, “I’ve probably seen all of your sand sculptures.” I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Before the gritty sand, the hot sun, and my itching skin demand a return to reality. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

When she’s joined us, Beetee shoos us all back a bit so he can have room to work in the sand. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

We need to get all the sand off of our feet. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

He pressed upon her through the coat until she spewed frothy brine onto the sand, and coughed. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

I stopped and walked slowly over to the hut that perched like a circular living room on the waste of sands. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

“Yeah. See? The granules are perfectly round. It’s not really sand. It’s calcium carbonate.” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

The afternoon sun was warm on the sand. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I finally stand on the white sand, it feels as if it is moving under me. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

Between this level and the surface was a mixture of sand and clay so saturated with water that engineers called it gumbo. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Our rocks and pebbles, the sand and gravel you see: these were Ymir’s teeth, and the fragments of bones that were broken and crushed by Odin and Vili and Ve in their battle with Ymir. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

All morning I worked, moving the sand away. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

People moved like blue vapor lights on the cobbled avenues, and there were faint murmurs of sound, and odd animals scurrying across the gray-red sands. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

The fighting against the wind and sand to get there calmed him down some. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

Next duel She went to her room, slid open the window, dropped the paper in the sand pail, and raised the bucket. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

The charred sticks still lay on the rocks where the rain had quenched them but the sand by the water was smooth again. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

The deep red of plomms and the pale sand color of the beach itself, the black of the night sky and the green of the prairie. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Using my cane to feel the way, to touch driftwood or coral ledges the night tide might have uncovered, I moved along the damp sand, calling out now and then. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Beneath it was a rectangle of white sugar sand two feet long and three feet wide. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was sitting on the sand, with her feet out straight in front, arranging short willow twigs into bundles, tying them with fluffy cotton string that she had twisted by hand. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

She slammed her own torch, flame side down, into the sand, extinguishing it. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

A blackened metal wing lay on the sand. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

She says, “And worse, I ate mushrooms one time in the sand box with my little brother. Boy! Never do that! We had to go to the hospital. They made us throw up.” The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

That the air, the sky, the trees, the sun, the rain, the light and darkness were all slowly turning to sand. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Inside, floors had been sanded and the master bath retiled in beige limestone. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

And you can see them perfect ’cause they got these border-patrol vans parked right there on the sand, shining their headlights over the border part of the water. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

“See their big foot pads? They don’t sink into the sand and can go for many leagues without drinking. They store water in those humps. And they can be ridden.” Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

Choices, numberless as grains of sand, had layered and compressed, coalescing into sediment, then into rock, until all was set in stone. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

It whips around full of white construction sand, the sand that covers the streets and the unsold lots. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I struggled to shore and fell upon the sand. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Here was an oaken sill, cut long ago and sanded clean and bedded true. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Those seats need redoing, and that trim, and there’s a couple of leaks, and it needs a fair amount of sanding and varnishing.” Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

The waves beat down on the sand louder at night, breaking even stronger than usual. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

When the sand died down, the sky outside stayed black. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

The slate gray sea roiled, scraping the narrow strip of sand rhythmically, tugging at beach grass, digging and sucking loose the rocks at the shore's edge. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Two thin reeds on the sand point from the center of the compass outward. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mong showed us how to dig a little hole in the sand and line it with a bunch of small rocks for a homemade barbecue pit. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

By myself, keeping my feet in the damp sand, which meant I was near the water, I walked the whole way around it Timothy was very proud of me. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

She fell on the sand, scraping both knees, and scrambled to put distance between herself and the treacherous lake. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“So you just take this and pull it through the sand like a regular rake. You’ll catch all kinds of stuff. Then just dig through to see what you have.” Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

When Skarpi told a story, any interruption was like chewing a grain of sand in a mouthful of bread. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

They were dwindling away like sands in a glass. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He turned neatly on to his feet, jumped down to the beach, knelt and swept a double armful of sand into a pile against his chest. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

My feet feel as if they’d sunk into the silky sand of Little Cow Beach in Cuba. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

Then he handed the boy the pistol and sat in the sand and began to unlace the cords of his shoes. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

We started to run with the sand at our backs and just a trace of smoke in the air. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

She said I had trivialized the issue and if I thought it was outdated I was living with my head in the sand. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

The morning of her two hundredth notch, Jinny woke to the sound of rain, spittering softly against the sand and leaves outside her window. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Someone thought he saw Mace down on the sands, and for half a minute the crowd went that way. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Using a large crane, soldiers eased the five-foot-wide ball of explosives out of the truck bed and set it down on the sand. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

I could hear wind, but the sand did not fly. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

He shot up from the sand, his hair flying, sand dribbling from his pockets, screaming, “It’s the magnesium. It’s the magnesium.” The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Year after year, she slowly pared away the sand and dust over Caral. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

On either side was sand that could suck down half the car before we could even get out. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

There were no windows, so to give an illusion of light and space one wall was covered in a huge photogram showing a tropical beach, with bright blue sky and white sand and coconut palms. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

Eventually, we reach an open stretch of sand. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Once someone discovered a bottle of wine stuck in the sand that was still corked. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Captain Sinjin took off his boots and tossed them in the sand. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

Ephialtes lay charred and groaning on the arena floor, the sand around him seared into a halo of glass by the heat of the Greek fire. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

My two older sisters, Janice and Ruth, jumped up from the blanket and slapped their thighs to get the sand off. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

They would have liked a roll in the sand. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

Out in front, beyond the red fence, the sand of the ring was smooth-rolled and yellow. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

There was a sand bar not far from the rocks, and stepping carefully on the bottom, which was full of holes, I slowly made my way toward it. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

The dunes were changed constantly by the wind, yet these were the same sands he had known since he was a child. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Finnick sits on the sand, cracking them open with a stone. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

I sit next to Peeta on the sand to eat my rolls. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Then she remembered the small door, the bright sand, the blue water, and the fiery burn on her shoulder. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

A little gray-coated sand bird came tripping over the beach ‘peeping’ softly to itself, as if enjoying the sun and sea. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Clair de Lune,” a song that makes her think of leaves fluttering, and of the hard ribbons of sand beneath her feet at low tide. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

“Maybe for the same reason you did not tell her about your sand women.” I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

The water in the skins was two months stale, and besides, he’d gotten used to the labor—which involved an ironwood mallet and pounding stakes deep into the sand. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

The ballroom floor was ruined and would have to be sanded and refinished. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

The storm had abated; I was facedown, almost totally buried in sand. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

A stiff breeze comes off the sea to lift a sting of fine sand. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

There are dozens of them lying in the sand around us, creating an eerie eight-bit symphony. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

She smiles and extends a hand for me to join her on the cold, wet sand. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Apart from food and sleep, they found time for play, aimless and trivial, in the white sand by the bright water. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

Tyson flew backward, plowing a trench in the sand. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

I thought children were supposed to respect their elders, but they were throwing rocks and sand at all of us, my parents included. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

They walked to the center of the moon sand painting and Pond began to sing. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

At the far end of the beach we finally came to a little spring running down through the sand behind a large rock. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

The sand was smooth and I dug many small holes with a stick. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was sand and sunflower-seed shells and big dust bunnies all over the floor. Because of Winn-Dixie 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

I was wandering, and the world I touched turned into sand. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

It gave her a peculiar feeling of warm and expectant well-being to know that so many naked boys and men were idling close by on the other side of the sand dunes. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

A pinch of sand, a long, dull wait, another pinch of sand. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

Josiah said they could stay buried in the dry sand for many years, waiting for the rain to come again. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

There’s a picture of Taylor with his friend and neighbor Travis, both five years old, buried up to their necks in sand. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

I try to click my microphone on, but my tongue feels slow and covered with sand. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

Once again I willed the sand to come to life above the circular door, and I barely had to pull the figure of Anansi into existence before the grooves in the floor blazed to life. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

A few brave seagulls were still waddling around in the sand or flying over the shallow part of the bumpy water, looking for fish. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

Its link to the rest of France is tenuous: a causeway, a bridge, a spit of sand. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Sosie did a wild Watusi in the sand while Jennifer stood next to her pointing one finger up and down in a deadpan disco. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

I’m alerted by, I don’t know, a soft shift of sand or maybe just a change in the air currents. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, mine are probably getting divorced,” Maya said, kicking at the wet sand a bit with her toe. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

“To nourish the falcon. And the falcon then nourishes man. And, eventually, man will nourish your sands, where the game will once again flourish. That’s how the world goes.” The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Taylor grabbed a shell and gouged the sand, going deeper and deeper. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

He looked up, saw me, closed the spigot, and set the pitcher in the sand. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

They anchor themselves into the sand, and can live up to 160 years or more. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

When he had them heaped on the sand in a pyramid—he had never felt so rich somehow—he suddenly realized that he did not know how to eat them. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

A clear blue sky cast its light over the oasis.The sand next to the water was marked with animal prints, and the metal chest was still hidden under the grape arbor. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

I draw an infinity symbol in the sand. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

He sat down on the beach in the coarse dry sand and pulled off his boots. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

After she was done piling sand and I was done with my angel, we stared up at the sky. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The storm had made a mess of the beach, dredging up everything in the ocean and dumping it on the sand—seaweed, logs, and trash. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

They moved quickly downhill, running over damp sand and scrub brush and narrow swaths of grass, steering clear of boulders, keeping an eye out for drapeweed. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

All the way up that cliff, bullets kept spraying the sand in our faces and bouncing off the rocks around us. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Next duel She went to her room, slid open the window, dropped the paper in the sand pail, and raised the bucket. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

The tide is moving, so the sand whirls around my feet. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

The stream bank is mud, muck, loose sand, and pebbles. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

Ess giggled at her and jumped into the wet sand, making footprints. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

The warm sand came in over the tops of Laura’s shoes. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

I followed, and we pulled the boat up on the sand. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

“Because the song is dangerous to humans. I’m only allowed to sing it with Pond and Darkness, when I am protected by moon sand.” Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

When the captain closed the book someone began shoveling slow streams of sand down upon the wrapped figures. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

He wore reindeer antlers and delivered puzzle challenges via a rusty, old sand pail. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

The wind blew and dry seedpods scampered down the sands and stopped and then went on again. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

I wished we could see the shore over the tops of the other buildings, to find comfort in the gentle surge of water onto the sand. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

I used a sleeve to wipe the sand from the belly wound. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

They are in plain sight around us, right there in the sand. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

I had spread out part of the Sunday Sun and was trimming the wood down before sanding it. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The insect dug furiously in the sand, found nothing, and scurried on. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

They all went back through the sand to the wagon on the lake shore. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Peeled flesh hung down and congealed blocks of blood and particles of sand clung to each hanging bit of skin. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

"Yes, sir!" he answers, his mouth as dry as sand. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

Zak regards the sand training fields, empty at this early hour. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Why I swam in my underwear and left no clothes on the sand. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

The South Wind horses were made of fire, sand, and hot thunderstorm. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Stupid Marysville had so much snow that winter that the town ran out of money to pay for the plowing and the salting and the sanding. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Nathan pressed his palms into the soft beach sands to stand up. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

One day, we were walking back from work along a road and passed a workspan of several hundred prisoners carting sand in wheelbarrows. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I heard the sand thud behind me, and Cal came up. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

While they were cleaning more dust and sand blew in to settle on the newly mopped pine boards. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

I could see a few tents set up, the first rows of black barracks, and beyond them, blurred by sand, rows of barracks that seemed to spread for miles across this plain. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

Percival finished his whimper and went on playing, for the tears had washed the sand away. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

I thought my mouth must be made of sand. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

The sea had turned to sand, shadowy, unstirred. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh yeah it does, most definitely it has an ocean, only it’s purple, and the sand is blue and the sky is hella green.” I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

The scholars dashed hectically across the sand, leaping over the bones of previous victims. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

And it feels really good to step away from the shovels of sand they’ve been throwing on me for weeks and finally climb out of the hole. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

Beto stood in the darkened kitchen and traced the edge of the real casket, the one that was right and tight and smooth from sanding. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

He turned the net inside out, dumping three sand eels into the pail and then sluicing in some water so they could breathe. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

Salva counted nine men, all of them collapsed on the sand. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

A crab scampering over the bottom raised a little cloud of sand, and when it settled the pearl was gone. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

I spot a sword and belt someone has left lying in the sand. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

He looked up at me and his face was bathed in water and flowing, hot blood, but it was also dark and peaceful as it slumped into the sand of the riverbank. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

She finished her stew, cleaned the bowl out with sand at the shore of the lake, and waited with a sigh for her mother to ask her to fetch the deer-bone scraper. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

She used to sit on the sand with his head in her lap by the hour rubbing her fingers over his eyes and looking at him with unfathomable delight. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

The day they buried her the wind blew gusts of sand past the house and rattled the loose tin on the roof. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

At first his own ship would not move, then he remembered the sand anchor and yanked it in. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sand traps of the golf course were newly raked. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

Back then, my world had been sand and sky and the love of Tribe Saif, who saved me from exposure. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

I got all the sand in and ready to go. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

“To punish her He made her walk in sand for forty years. And she returned to her king, the Lord, and He loved her and sent her David!” Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

He rubs at her eyebrow, wipes grains of sand from it. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

When she went to the stables, she wore faded sands ilk pants and woven grass sandals. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

My bare feet slip a bit in the loose sand on the side of the road. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

“I can’t dig in the sand with a new manicure,” she tells me. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

In the distance a flat-bottomed motorboat lay beached on a strip of sand scarcely wide enough to accommodate it. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

When the boat’s hull scraped sand, two men rushed forward to haul them farther onto land. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Otherwise the dust billowed like sand over Khartoum and sifted deep into her scalp, where even a good brushing failed to dislodge it. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

One time I saw an old jet-black woman, bent like an ostrich with its head in the sand, trying to cultivate the bone-dry soil with a broken hoe. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Below, in the cells, corridors, and cages under the innocently raked sand, all was purposeful bustle and organized activity. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

As I got off the elevator, 320 feet above the Florida sand, I could look out and see the beautiful beach and the calm blue Atlantic. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sound came from the opposite side of the dunes, and leaving the trail I climbed upward through the sand to its top. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Salva looked at the hollow eyes and the cracked lips of the men lying on the hot sand, and his own mouth felt so dry that he nearly choked when he tried to swallow. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

She brought in a whole bunch of shell necklaces and postcards and even a bottle full of sand from a Hawaiian beach. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

Hannah pulled and pushed and kicked at the corner they’d said was leaking, to redistribute the sand, and then went inside and locked the door. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

Then, inevitably, some tiny problem would crop up and throw sand in the gears, and instead of dealing with it he’d let it completely overwhelm him. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

She could sit for hours with her toes in the sand, letting the sea foam come up to her ankles. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

I stop where the water crashes onto the sand, foaming up around my toes, trying to suck me back out again. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

“All I am looking at is water and sand,” Kanei replied, and then waved us to come closer and take a look. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

We crossed lines in sand drawn through palmetto scrub, lines down the middle of highways, soup-kitchen lines, lines of worry, souls lined up awaiting the burning tongue of salvation. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

But to Vetch, watching in terror through the dark twilight from far off over the sand, it seemed that Ged was overcome, for he saw the clear radiance fail and grow dim. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

On vacation at Caloundra every year I was confined to the shallows, sitting on the sand while the water splashed over my lap. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

I sat down too, ran my fingers through the sand. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

Taps the packed sand with the flat side of his shovel. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Past the sand dunes yawned the entrance of a large tunnel. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

They come from nowhere, made by the heat of hell, they carry with them the evil spirit of a devil, they lift sand and papers in their path. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

We couldn’t walk in the water or the wet sand near its edge. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

There were more than a dozen of them and they jumped and kicked like sand fleas. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

My head feels like it’s full of sand. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

In the distant land the boy came from, they called it the levanter, because they believed that it brought with it the sands of the desert, and the screams of the Moorish wars. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

He left that place and he never went back; and late at night when his mother was gone, he cried because he saw the mound of pale yellow sand in a dream. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

I roll one last sand grain, perfect and sharp, between my finger and thumb. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

The doll’s torso burst open, a pile of the black sand stuff left in Lindsey’s hand. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

The volcanic texture turned into soft sands and sifted away, revealing a smooth oval egg. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

I almost wanted to tackle the guy into the sand and get his big head in a vise grip for saying something that actually made sense. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

She retraced her path, leaving faint crisscrossing patterns in the fine yellow sand. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Was this really the time to draw the line in the sand? Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

The sand is smooth and damp, swept clean by the recent wave. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Then he happily arranged the rocks on the sand, following my lines. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

We're so close to the shores of Palestine, we can practically feel the sand under our feet. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The third message is a photo of the beach: a long stretch of white sand, a cloudless blue sky, and a glittering turquoise sea. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

He spied Tater down on the beach, frolicking where the sand was gray and wet. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Jinny’s mouth snapped shut, and her eyes darted to the sand. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

The snake wasn’t lying in the sand, basking in the sun, like usual. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

As they slept, the santana wind came up, and they awoke to dust and stinging sand strangling them. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

I see his fingers digging into the sand as he reassures himself that whatever nightmare he inhabited wasn’t real. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

This lion was huge, the color of sand in the late afternoon. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

Long ago, somehow, some committee of scientists, prodded by footsore wives, found enough money to cover it with a layer of sand. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

They all sat on the warm sand near the wagon and ate bread and butter and cheese, hard-boiled eggs and cookies. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

The rear wheels spun sand and pebbles against the fenders, and the truck skidded and swerved back on the pavement. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Her feet stuttered in the sand as she reached one arm stiffly into the boat, hand open, palm up. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Yet as big as those numbers were, they were finite—and were more than enough to fill the universe to overflowing with sand. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Then it told him, “I’ll give you my sands to help the wind to blow, but, alone, I can’t do anything. You have to ask for help from the wind.” The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was a big guy and he took up a lot of sand. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

From the crowded boardwalk, as far as they could see up and down the shoreline, the beaches were a dark, seething mass of bodies packed together on the sand. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

He thought of Roza, of her kidnapper, and bitterness sanded his tongue. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

But she must already have made some impression on me, because I remember carrying on busily with whatever I was doing in the sand, absolutely dreading the idea of her turning her gaze on me. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sergeant had no time to be surprised and simply fell over face first into the sand and squarely on top of his own intestines. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Sand rippled and swirled in his dream, enclosing his head, yellow sand and shadows filling his mouth until his body was full and still. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Which would mean I moved a grain of sand?” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Then, we went outside to put up luminaria, which is an activity where all our neighbors fill brown paper bags with sand and line the street with them. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

Uncle and Jedda-Boy took a couple of surveying instruments and discussed mud and sand and other important surveying matters. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Nor can the water evaporate; the clay layers atop the sand press down and prevent air from coming in. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

A sand shark passed over Mom’s head, swimming through the bubbles rising from her regulator. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

Ahead of them lay an island—a line of sand so white, it might have been pure table salt. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Stones were piled on top and the sand around it was smoothed. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

This was no island he was on but a mere reef, a bit of sand in the midst of the ocean. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

Brooklyn became just a memory as I led them to distant lands where palaces shimmered against desert sand and paupers became princes with the whush of a magic wand. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

With the water and the sand, my mom said it almost was like a little piece of Panamá. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

Dimarion’s gaze darted to the ancient copper coin in the sand. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

He came quickly, and in moments, the boat was digging its trench in the wet sand at their feet. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Up from the water to a small pile of sand, then back down into the water. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

The glare of the sand made his eyes ache: but he knew he mustn't shut them. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

At the bottom of the trail he stopped and kicked away the snow until wet sand was exposed. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

We chased and wrestled each other in the sand, played somersault and running games. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

My backpack was still on my back, pressed against the sand. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Vietnam, not far from Japan, was seen as an important line in the sand for holding back Communism. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

He could see it, just how each man was, two sleeping curled up and the third squatting in the sand with the rifle between his knees. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

I'm still half in the dream, with sand hitting me in the face. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sand is dark and smooth and wet, gleaming like sealskin as the water pulls back. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

When I tried to get up, my arms and legs felt filled with sand. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I collapsed on the sand, and Nico scrambled back in surprise. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

“Sandy, I submitted dress patterns and sample dresses I made. I talked about the sand sculptures in my essay.” I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

He breathed deeply, trying to inhale the immensity of it, trying to take it all inside himself, the way the arroyo sand swallowed time. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Sand clung to his skin, and as he dried little black sand ants began to crawl over him. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

We headed for town but veered off toward the rocky beach that looked out onto the lighthouse, picking our way down the steep path to the sand. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

It was bigger than a horse or buffalo and it was a dark, dusty green like the color of sand dirtied from ocean foam. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

Halfway up, Nhamo found a low cave partly filled with a drift of sand. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

One had his stomach ripped open and its contents spilled onto the sand. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

Prosper carefully lifted the tortoise off the sand that Victor had poured into the bottom of the box; “She looks a bit parched.” The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

But I was extremely uncomfortable sitting naked in the sand. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

“Oh!” said Sam, when he caught sight of the strange beast, its many legs dragging in the sand. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

They stuck up at intervals in every direction, strangely sharpening the loneliness and desolation, sometimes the only sign of human presence in an acre or two of sand. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

She and Percy hauled themselves ashore, shivering and gasping, and collapsed on the dark sand. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Mom is happily barefoot, and no matter how warm the sun is, the sand stays cool. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

Perhaps that transformation itself seemed magical—a heated liquid turning into something that looked like dark grains of sand. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

The sand split beneath me, opening up a crevice straight down to the center of the earth. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

We cut through the hard sand and sat next to each other on the swings, started rocking back and forth a little. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

Jinny stood, rocking on her heels in the soft sand of the dunes, and shook her head hard, as all through her she felt a flutter. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

When his vision returned to normal, the boy was able to read what the old man had written in the sand. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

These people were all stuck in the past, setting up their booths at the art fair and thinking themselves successful because they'd sold a silk screen of a footprint in the sand. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

There was nothing to distinguish the sand there from the sand anywhere. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Kate kept a hopeful eye out for anything unusual, but unfortunately there was nothing to see except boulders and sand and swaths of green vegetation. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

The big beach had softer sand and less seaweed. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

When I was halfway done I grabbed my bag, got up and went over to where Mong and Rondell were laying on their backs in the sand, both their bags underneath their heads as pillows. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

A tiny lizard, about the size of his palm, crawled out from beneath the sands. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Across the ancient sea floor a dozen tall, blue-sailed Martian sand ships floated, like blue ghosts, like blue smoke. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Take the sand upstairs. If the Commandant asks about Slave-Girl, tell her she’s taken ill and that I’m tending to her so she can get back to work.” An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Pennies and dimes fall out of his pockets into tbe sand. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

The cuts were full of glass, some of it in splinters, some of it in powder like shining sand. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

For a long time while the log dried, caught fire and turned red hot, Ralph sat in the sand and said nothing. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

Helene says as she hauls me away from the Commandant’s house and across the sand training fields. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

“He would give the Ewe people impossible jobs—like weaving baskets out of sand.” Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

"I've been thinking," he said, "about a clock. We could make a sundial We could put a stick in the sand, and then-" The effort to express the mathematical processes involved was too great. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

He knelt and cupped a handful of white sand. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

“Oh, yes. In my day, you could buy quite a lot with a sand dollar. I think you will find it still buys a lot, if used in the right situation.” The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

His uncle turned the boat and shipped the oars and they drifted over the sandy shallows until the transom grated in the sand. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

The target was little more than a blur of color, so far back that its bull’s-eye was a grain of sand in the vastness of the room. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

It was a dung heap, a bunch of logs covered in mud, sand, and moss. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

Often, when she returned yet again to the sink with the high taps and the soda block, it was beach sand she scrubbed away from between her fingers. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Soon the horse-hoofs were falling on pebbles and stones instead of sand. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

Piggy stirred the sand under water and did not look at Ralph. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

Her pale skin was the color of beach sand. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

A naval officer stood on the sand, looking down at Ralph in wary astonishment. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

The men walked us to their village and made us sit outside in the sand in front of their chief. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

“Guys, one last favor. Can you push us out as far as you can? I want to be sure the propeller clears the sand.” Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now they were gray and stiff with salt and sand. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

The sand rattling against their legs and racing away in the dark and the thunder cracking just offshore. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

Wisely, it turned out, for as he dropped a last pinch of sand into the fourth socket and stood back, he found Pai at his elbow. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

After a time, there was no feature but the sand, corrugated with the action of the tides. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

“I’m pretty proud of it. I lugged a few wheelbarrows of sand here from that playground they’re building off of Maiden Lane.” Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

With my eyes still on the white sand in front of me, the log slipped wetly out from under my right foot. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

The sand in my hands felt fake too. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

He shook off the excess water like a big dog and sat down in the sand. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

Then he puts the cat down on the sand, and while the cat does figure eights around his ankles, Henry lets out a sound like a giant with a toothache. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

Before dawn, southeast of the village, the bells would announce their approach, the sound shimmering across the sand hills, followed by the clacking of turtle-shell rattles—all these sounds gathering with the dawn. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

I guess maybe I had some sand in my eyes, because I was blinking a lot. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

The dragon pitched sideways and catapulted Leo face-first into the sand. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

“She can’t talk. Dumb as a sand fly. Dustfinger has a photo of her in his backpack. She's probably helped him quite often. And I think he’s in love with her.” Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

The humidity by the sea was less than inland, but since there were no trees to provide shade, the sun penetrated right into the sand, making it hot and loose. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Mandy and I headed for the wet sand closer to the water. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

He patted me on the back so hard he almost knocked me down the sand dime. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

But the weakness that has plagued me all morning takes firm hold, and I fall to the sand a few feet away, sweating and nauseous. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

That small mass on the sand up ahead, not as dark as the rocks—could that be a vase? A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

"Well, think of that. And they do say that Calormen is hundreds and thousands of miles away, right at the world's end, across a great sea of sand." The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

“There’s no glass behind one of these boards,” he says, and then he starts jogging away from the build-ing, his sneakers splashing sand as he goes. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

I feel the centrifugal force pulling me toward the water and dig my hands and feet into the sand, trying to get some purchase on the unstable ground. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

My allies and I are rounding the horn, starting to give chase to Brutus and Enobaria, who are sprinting down a sand strip toward the jungle. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Now, standing barefoot in the pebbly sand, Gabe didn't feel brave. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

We carried the casket to a sand dune between The Shoe and the ocean, where Dad and Tom dug a shallow grave. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

He wades into the water and swims to the dock when his shoulders grow too warm, the sand free of stones or growth, smooth and yielding under his feet. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

It circled all around them, and at the edges of the sand painting was the elongated body of a Rainbow Being. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

He sat in the sand and inventoried the contents of the knapsack. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

Over the decades, the balloons had ripped and filled with sand. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, we talk about words, but it’s not the same as other teachers. Like we never use paper. Ever. He has me write letters in blue or pink sand. Or sometimes in shaving cream.” Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

It had a curious name, Playa Vaquita, which means Little Cow Beach, and the sand was like silk. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

As soon as Zeus’s head passed through the shower of sand, the marble disintegrated like it was going through a wood chipper. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

“Well, now, Mr. President,” Gus said, “I’m pretty busy. They raising sand over there in Germany and I got to send ’em a note. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

The line of phosphorescence bulged about the sand grains and little pebbles; it held them each in a dimple of tension, then suddenly accepted them with an inaudible syllable and moved on. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

The stadium where I played soccer was adjacent to four ramshackle sand courts, used primarily by kitchen girls and kitchen boys on their day off. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

She always experienced a moment of panic in the middle because she couldn’t swim, but she planted her feet firmly in the coarse sand and struggled on. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The wind was high, and the sharp desert sand blew hard, stinging Bod’s skin. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

Outside, a pot half filled with white sand sat on the fire; he would give it a little more time to heat up before he placed the dough inside. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

The sun beats down, the heat comes wavering up off the sand. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

To Farid they looked like the tracks left by snakes slithering across the sand. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

When he came to a huge tortoise in the sand, he sprang over it and cleared the creature, almost without noticing it was a living thing. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

The veils would keep the wind from blowing sand into her mouth. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

And so they fled: away from the gym, away from the paths, away from the Institute—into the tangled rock-jungle of sand dunes, ridges, and crags that made up the island’s interior. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

She kicked at the sand as she walked. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

The voice of the commentator ran with the movement of the film: Here are the daughters of the rich taking sunbaths in the sands of Florida! Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Grass and rocks, bushes and rocks, vines and rocks, sand and rocks. Lots of rocks,” she said, lowering the spyglass. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

Then his eye focused on the enormous shape of a sea turtle struggling out of the sea and ponderously making its way up the sand. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

It commenced to blow harder, raising the desert sands. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

She recalled crying, and then sitting in the sand, digging in the sand with her fingers. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

At thirty her hot brown eyes had turned to agate, and her skin had taken on the sheen of maple struck down, split and sanded at the height of its green. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

He lay again in the cool sand, exhausted. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

We dug, being careful not to scratch up the coffin, and then sifted the sand from the pencils. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he tries to breathe, he's pulling sand into his nose, his throat, his lungs. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

There was a good quarry of limestone on the farm, and plenty of sand and cement had been found in one of the outhouses, so that all the materials for building were at hand. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

At the other end of the field, he raked his fingers through the sand. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

I got sand everywhere, in my eyes and ears and down my throat. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

The harpies sounded like they were right behind the sand dunes. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

Black sand flowed into my face and down my neck. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Or you just call him things like cockroach and sand monkey. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

I carried with me a small spyglass I’d found in the sand. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

Aaron’s fallen back into the soft sand at the river’s edge, his robe getting tangled up in his legs. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

Nathan saw the footprints in the sand that he had seen before. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Nevertheless he worried it as a dog worries a bone while he doled out cutting sand for old Zahotep’s drill. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

The saliva in my mouth tasted salty, like beach sand. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

I walked through thick sand and giant clumps of fly-infested seaweed to try and find a spot with enough light that I could see what I was doing. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

The boy went back to contemplating the silence of the desert, and the sand raised by the animals. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sand had piled up high enough to be flush with the land outside the crater. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tiara sniffled as a tear rolled down her cheek and plopped into the sand. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

She pulled the handwoven blanket up around her shoulders and head, and walked into the stinging sand with her head bowed. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

If they had tides in this sea, the tide was high, because there was only a narrow fringe of soft white sand above the water. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

The sand, when we came to it, was covered by a dusting of snow. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

“Fried sand bass go good with everything, I promise.” Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

He collapsed to his knees and began crumbling into sand, until all that was left were three cooking aprons and an oversized pair of cowboy boots. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

The grains of sand felt very fine, almost like powder. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

He must have rolled over on his stomach in the sand, because his hand left mine abruptly. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Though much of its lands were sand and high desert, its mines had yielded more precious metals and gemstones than any other in Kelanna. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Water rises through the clay to meet it, but cannot proceed further because the sand is too loose for further capillary action. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Piggy sat down carefully on the sand and began to polish his glass. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

He just sat there, staring at the sand. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

He twitched once and lay motionless, his legs bent at unnatural angles, a pool of his blood soaking through the sand. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Their song rose and fell in gentle crescendos that matched the waves lashing along the sand. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

Jinny rinsed her own fingers clean, letting a handful of wet sand and tiny shell bits sift through them briefly. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

My head felt like it was full of wet sand as I looked over my shoulder. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Sparks flew so heavily that several of them skittered and jumped on the sand beneath the rock and he smiled and struck again and again. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

He squealed and rolled over in the sand, kicking frantically, as a rabbit does in a snare. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

About Mabel and all of our other friends, cross-legged in the sand, part shadowed, part lit in the bonfire glow. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

This morning Mrs. K stood between the pillars, listening to the desert sands heat, melt into yellow wax, and seemingly run on the horizon. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sand exploded at his feet and out charged a wild boar, even larger and uglier than the one whose head hung above the door of. cabin seven at Camp Half-Blood. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

Of the sand that still clung to my skin and the scent of Mabel everywhere. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

It was when I first set foot on the shingle and sand beach of Chimpanzee Land—that is, Gombe National Park. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

Grains of sand began to cascade down and bury his tail. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

It was a futile spread of pink rocks sleeping on a rise of sand, a few tumbled pillars, one lonely shrine, and then the sweep of sand again. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

Somewhere on this planet among its sextillion grains of sand. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

She pointed down the beach at Ess but then noticed the little girl had abandoned her letters, and was now seated and burying her feet in the sand. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Soon as they sold some cars, she was going to order sirens, hill holders, auto robes—“wind, water, dust, and oil proof”—and chain pulls for getting out of mud or sand. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

The breeze smoothed the sands, erasing the print. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

We show up to a restaurant that is so close to the ocean that when I look out the window it feels like I'm going to fall onto the sand. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Jamie runs his finger around the sand, making figure eights and messy zigzags. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

We are mixing that sand into the paint. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

I took off my shirt as I was told and knelt in the sand. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

How, unbeknownst to me, someone took pictures of my flying sand women and sent them in to CSA. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Instead she took a picture of Eliot and Mr. Sen standing on the sand. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

I tried to catch my breath, all the time staring at the kayak, which had landed bottom up, water and sand dripping onto Miss Amanda's deck. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

Red sand kicked up beneath his heels, and shouts rang out from the seats. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

With a stick, she wrote This sucks in the sand. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

And sometime before this, he must’ve sent in pictures of my sand sculptures and gotten me in. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

And the beach is covered in sand and big rocks and there is a lighthouse on a point but the light is not on because the lighthouse keeper is dead. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Their footsteps crunched in the wet sand, and the water lapped against the shore. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Sometimes he shouted, “Get back!” and they fell flat on their bellies in the warm sand. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

It’s sitting in white sand leading to a clear blue ocean that stretches out to the horizon. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

Broken trees and fractured palm leaves littered the sand. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

He combed his hair with his fingers and felt the heavy coating of sand and salt. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He dived in the sand at Piggy's feet and lay there laughing. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

At night, when it was calm, you could see the stars reflected on the wet sands. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

I reach into the sand with my fingertips and pull it out. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

Instead he had stood befuddled as she leapt into the pit, shouting her name, then running uselessly after her across the scarlet sands. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

They moved the sand around and uncovered obsidian arrowheads he could sell to old men in camp for fifty cents apiece. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every rivet was examined, every link tested, and the plates were burnished with the finest sand Just as much attention was paid to his claws. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

In the meantime, Heinck, Quirin, and Burger carried the wooden boxes, the bag of clothes, and the suitcase full of money up a sand dune. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

"They must walk across their native sand. We think that something registers in their brains that kicks in twenty-five years later because they return to the beach where they were born to lay their eggs." The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

How much sand had been blown by wind? Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

At last there was something different—a mass of rock sticking up out of the sand about fifty yards long and thirty feet high. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

The raised dirt path that wound around the island was bolstered by bags of sand to prevent any more of the shore from disappearing into the water. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

"Within a year, he'll be covered in sand from normal weather activity." The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

But then the next day we’ll just lounge around the sand on the beach not talking, just watching the waves or checking out the people who roll by. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

Musa had just lifted his foot and was trying to separate the sand from his flesh. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Grains of sand, incalculable, pressing into sediment, then rock. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Its flesh nearly matches the grayish-brown color of the sand. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Even from the island, she could see the land rear toward the sky and the tall buildings collapse and crumble as if made of sand. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

We mus’ not lose it” I sat there in theshade, running sand through my fingers, wondering where, among all those many islands in the Caribbean, we were. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

The children who came along the beach, singly or in twos, leapt into visibility when they crossed the line from heat haze to nearer sand. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

And the truth was, to him, the grits tasted like he was eating sand. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

They set the logs so they were upright on the sand, the height of people. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

He sprinkled sand on the fresh ink, blew it off, and closed the ledger. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

The Greek was rough going but I had a hangover, too, and I’d been at it so long that the letters didn’t even look like letters but something else, indecipherable, bird footprints on sand. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

In the distance they were like grains of black sand. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

I heard Annabeth’s voice calling my name from the sand dimes. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

I am full of such gratitude for the sun, the water, the way my feet sink into the sand, the way my hand feels holding hers. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

Inside the house, they sanded and polished the scratches out of the furniture. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

I think about Daddy’s words in the notebook, the words about the jewels in the blanket of black sand. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

The final step was to smooth, sand, and polish the body of the car to within an inch of its home-built life. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

We broke into an adrenaline-fueled sprint, flying those boats into the cave like they were on rails, while Miss Peregrine hopped lamely alongside us, her broken wing dragging in the sand. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

The outer blocks had long been deserted, filling up with tumbleweeds and sand. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

I slumped on the trampled sand and cried aloud, caring no more for life or the light of day, and rolled there weeping, till my tears were spent. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Taste like sand,” Genie blurted, not quite wanting to spit it out, but not wanting to swallow it either. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

He throws the rock in the sand just in front of his feet. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

It took all three of them to raise the chariot, but finally they’d managed to haul everything ashore to a black sand beach near the base of the glacier. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Totally unconcerned about getting stuck, Joe swerved off the beaten path at a good spot, bucking through loose dirt, sand, and muck to where busted trees lay all about. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Something hot and sharp cut through the air, billowing out under Betty like a stinging cloud of sand. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

The trees were dry and stubby, the mound was barren, and my attention was arrested by a water faucet sticking two feet out of the sand, like some subterranean periscope. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had two kids, a girl and a boy, and she yelled at them as they wrestled and got sand all over the beach towels. The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z

Brian nodded at the front door, and we all went outside and started making sand castles for scorpions. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

The pewter mugs had to be scoured with reeds and fine sand. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

I take the stairs again and cuff my jeans up when I get to the sand to feel a little cooler at least. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

The sand and its caresses, the conch and its melody would be there forever as well. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

We walked on the hot, burning sand until sunset. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Each time she walked into their cemented compounds, she longed for sand in which to curl her toes. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

But the sand got tracked out into the hallway, where Manny the custodian did not think it was creative at all. Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tess and I are sitting in the sand underneath a pier, at the part of the lake that crosses into our sector. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

It is hot, a dry desert air with pounding sun and powder-soft sand. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

“Fine, fine, okay, sorry,” grumbled Jinny as she stomped off to collect Ess, who was digging happily in the sand with a stick. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Beside her, in the sand, the laughing children imitated Einar, dragging their feet and limping dramatically, and then watching the furrowed ruts they made fill with seawater and smooth over. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

This was my first look at something I would soon know very well, a billowing flurry of dust and sand churned up by the wind through Owens Valley. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

A gentle surge of seawater moved in silently, smoothed the roughened sand, and receded. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

I scooped a handful of dry sand and let it pour out slow through my fingers, shaking my head. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

So Will lay down on the warm sand, and somewhere nearby, he thought, the angel was keeping watch; but that was little comfort. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

He squatted in the sand at the edge of the pool and looked into the shallow clear water. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

He used sticks and cleaned it as best he could, covered it with clean sand and went down to die lake to wash his hands and get a drink. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

I would’ve broken my back if I hadn’t crashed into the soft sand of a dune. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

Instead I feel something cold and round and plastic, and when I look, it’s a fishbowl with sand in it and a hermit crab, scurrying around with a shell on its back. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

The friends are both wearing riding boots encrusted up to the calf with desert sand from a recent outing on horseback. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

The man tried to speak but only a coyote sound was heard, and the tail moved back and forth sweeping ridges in the sand. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

The crumbling sand all but buried the hogs. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

I felt so slow, like I was running through wet sand — I couldn’t seem to get enough purchase from the concrete. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Qhorin seated himself on the sand, his back to a wall, no more than a vague black shadow in the gloom of the cave. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

There were the bricks, sand, and lime for the schoolroom to be purchased, and it would also be necessary to begin saving up again for the machinery for the windmill. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

He gave a wild whoop and leapt down to the pale sand. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

Nathan used his hands to push and move sand on top of Pond’s body. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

The sun was pushing against the gray horizon hills, sending yellow light across the clouds, and the yellow river sand was speckled with the broken shadows of tamaric and river willow. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

“You are no longer slaves, doomed to die at a master’s whim. I freed you. Why should you wish to end your lives upon the scarlet sands?” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

He runs around with the rock, darting back and forth, hitting the sand with it. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

It settled down to the sand bottom among the fern-like plants. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

The wet quick sand sucked me down and I was almost to my waist before I squirmed loose. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Grains of golden sand and dust bounced on the floor before rising and swirling in the air. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

With Fidelito dancing attendance, they carried him to a soft patch of sand. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I ended up with my face buried halfway in the sand. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

“If you hold it,” said Malcolm, “I’ll put the sand in. It’s almost impossible for one person on their own. I suppose if you made a frame to hold it...” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

It hit short again, but rolled until it flopped in the sand near the post. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

The alchemist erased the circle in the sand, and the snake slithered away among the rocks. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

So he scratched a hole in the dry sand beside him, and when the glare of that light finally blinded him, he turned to his right side and vomited into the hole. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

And I feel like that, like water disappearing into the sand. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

Mummy found me on the sand, curled into a ball and half underwater. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

He took off his boots to feel the sand against his feet, as if the world were a place he was only beginning to live in instead of somewhere he would soon be leaving. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

It was in the sun, but there were still kids all over it, screeching and sliding and throwing sand. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

The weight of the sand began to brutalize her shoulders. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

When we get to the sand, I lean over to roll up my jeans. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

Endive with sand, endive without sand, endive with mashed potatoes, endive—and—mashed potato casserole. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Even with the sand dollar I’d given the East River for a magic cleaning, the water here was pretty polluted. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

He twisted the cup into the sand beside him and cushioned the folded blanket under his sweaty head and covered him. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

Around the edges of the pond, before it whitened up, you could lie down on the clear ice and see pebbles and drowned sticks and sand. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z

The three boys walked briskly on the sand. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

He had been rolling a barrel of sand across the uneven stone, and was red-faced from exertion. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

To my left, there's a pedestal filled with sand. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

After minutes of noisy crunching over glass, there was sudden silence under their boots where the road ended in fine sand. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

I feel heavy, like I'm walking through water, or waist-high sand. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

He shook the sand from a cracked torso. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

The sand must have felt like lava; didn’t he notice? Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

He imagined a pair of shadows moving along the strip of sand where things came together but also separated. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nothing had ever been so welcome as that glimpse of land, that pale sand beach, the cliffs above. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Jenna thrusts her pitchfork into the sand and the camera zooms in on her sandy feet, then glides up the length of her body, like every inch is being adored. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

You did not bring home a carved seashell from Key West or a miniature of the CN Tower or a finger-sized bottle of sand from Martha’s Vineyard unless you intended to stay. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Mr. Ingman scoops sand with his hands and tries to form a pyramid. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Why would anything wild come up from the water to play in the sand? Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even if Mong stabbed me on the beach and I had to watch my blood go into the sand. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

“Moon sands? Why, we haven’t had the sun and moon in our world for many ages.” Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Nhamo followed the stream to an area of yellow sand where she could see the bottom clearly in both directions. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I plunk down on the sand next to Finnick and screw the lid off the tube. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

It wears a coat of ice and snow, its diamond-like sand swirling inside like an impending storm. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

At the center of the sand painting, Nathan saw a human with a square face and what looked like glasses. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

She stepped forward in the hallway, into another gust of wind, which stung her cheeks and face with invisible sand, sharp as needles, sharp as glass. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

I buried everything I’d just read and covered it with dirt and sand and gravel, patted it all down with the underside of my fists so nobody could ever read his life again. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

Our pact from the old days has been pounded into sand. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

"Do you have any idea how many grains of sand there are in the world?" he asked. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

I use the Aura arcana to extract the paint and coat the new body-shaped canvas, coloring it the same shade as the sand that lines the royal beach. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

There was a playground at the edge of the park where some toddlers, unfazed by the weather, climbed and swung and dug in the sand, bundled up against the cold. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Gaia turned into loose white sand, but Jason summoned a squadron of venti who churned around her, constraining her in a cocoon of wind. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

There was dust and sand in the air, and when her teeth met she felt the grit. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

The sand was washed pale and smooth by rainwater and wind. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

She kicked off her slippers and walked barefoot across the front yard and over to Baby’s sand hut. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Emily wasn’t sure why it was called North Beach, because there wasn’t a speck of sand in sight. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

She watched the blue sky of Mars as if it might at any moment grip in on itself, contract, and expel a shining miracle down upon the sand. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

While everyone spent the day frolicking in the sand and water, I stayed in the hotel room so I could soak in the silence. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Then she took off her espadrilles and walked down onto the sand. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

A sand shark was spread on the ground, cut cleanly down the middle. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

I found out where the bags of sand went. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

He wrote a note, and dusted it with sand to dry the ink. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

With his boot in the sand and his camera around his neck, he was home. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

They went on with their work of sanding or varnishing the newly finished benches, but they didn’t talk. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

I cried, spitting out sand, “dirty fighter, dirty fighter!” Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

She had learned to wash her feet at night without being told, so Jinny no longer had to shake the sand from her blankets in the morning. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Both of us go barefoot across the damp sand. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

On the cover is an island with a single palm tree and footprints in the sand. The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z

I draw two warriors with swords made of starlight, pointing their weapons at each other and drawing lines in the sand. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

He flapped them once as he swept back above the sands, and the sound was like a clap of thunder. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

With every blade of light that flashed off the sand, from a bleached shell or a piece of broken glass, my jaws tightened. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

The last bit of distance was a wide sand plain, revealed in low tide, and made easy walking. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

Jinny pivoted to inspect the new boy, the lump in the sand, sitting exactly where Ess had sat a year before. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Sweet odors came from the wild grasses in the ravines and from the sand plants on the dunes. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a wide platform in front of the store, and at one end of it steps went up to it out of the sand. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

She scrabbled in the sand, pushing against the pitmaster’s corpse, and her fingers brushed against the handle of his whip. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I stirred the milk, and beige pellets floated up from the bottom, like sand encased in a shimmery oil that skimmed the top and bubbled around the whirlpool I made with my spoon. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Instead, under almost perfect control, I got a broom and began savagely to attack the sand that was stuck like cement in the corner of the living room. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Little scraps of my life blowing away from me, blowing down the road, into the sand, across the street. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

“Mojo football, it helps you survive all this sand, the wind, the heat. I wouldn’t live any other place.” Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Kendra tried to pretend she was on a surreal playground, where the kids waded in milk instead of sand and slid down thick, meaty poles. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

He had seen his sisters in the dream, Maya and Grace standing on the edge of the ocean, calling for him as the waves crashed harder onto the sand. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

When he woke he was lying shivering in the sand and the fire had died almost to ash and it was black night. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

I had removed my patent leather shoes after a while, for they foundered badly in the sand. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

Most of the bones had been taken away to make ornaments, but ribs were still there, half- buried in the sand. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

If it were not for the constant renewal and replacement going on before your eyes, the whole place would turn to stone and sand under your feet. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He picked up a conch and wiped the sand from it. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

As the boy and the girl and the two dæmons watched her approach, Xaphania spread her wings wider and glided down to the sand. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

There was no way to stop the sands of knowledge from slipping through the hourglass of my mind. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

The boy poked holes in the sand with his fingers until he had a circle of them. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

Near the gate, Baby was on her knees playing in the sand while Ugwu watched her. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Lake Michigan still washes onto the sand at both Twenty-Sixth Street and Twenty-Ninth Street. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Full bellies, the warm crackling fire, the rain pattering on the roof and falling gently on the sand pulled them together and held them close. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was drawing a swirl in the sand garden on her desk when I said that. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

A portrait of another world: strewn boulders and gently rolling sand dunes at the Viking 1 landing site in Chryse. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then she picked up the basket, dusted some sand from her bag of cornmeal, and walked home. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

With that he dissolved in the sea breeze, leaving a fishing pole lying in the sand. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

I went into a bathing-cabin, undressed, put on my suit, and walked across the smooth sand to the sea. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

The water is just a short walk downhill and then across the sand. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Nathan practically had to carry Pond to the center of the sand painting. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Beyond that was a groomed strip of sand. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

I turn my head away from her and look out my window at the long stretch of sand. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

He fished out his acorns and threw them into the sand, then played his pipes. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

The sand shuddered under my feet as the first wave struck. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fin set the case down on the sand and unlatched it, asking, “Who does your father want you to marry?” Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

I had no choice but to return the favor with a fistful of my own, and pretty soon things devolved into a no-holds-barred sand fight. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

They are lifted from the nest and taken home and given shelter until they straighten themselves out, and then they are released onto the sand. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

The granules of sand at my feet and the sun and sky above me seemed to dissolve into one strange, complete being. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Runaways who hadn’t showered in a grip and probably smelled like week-old sweat and seaweed and sand from the beach. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

The sand is so warm beneath me, and the ocean and salt spray and plum-colored breeze is so calming, that I tell him the story about my uncle. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

"Go with Jhiqui and find me some clean sand for a bath, and trouble me no more with silly talk." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

And once exposed, it behaved as though it were itself a plant and flourished into a huge suede-gray flower that throbbed like fever, and sighed like the shift of sand dunes. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

In his eagerness, his feet slipped in the loose sand and down he went. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Plover eggs in the sand look like stones,” he said. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

I dive off the trail, landing on a mixture of pebbles, sand, and dirt. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

I felt tears collecting behind my own eyes like sand in a windstorm. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

I stood watching the lighthouse beam wheel around and wash over everything—a million seabirds sleeping in the pitted cliffs; giant rocks exposed by the low tide; a rotted skiff drowning in the sand. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

Ben just shook his head, looking at the sand. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

By the time he stopped, my shoes were full of sand, so I kicked them aside and peeled off my socks. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

A stick is standing upright in the sand. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jack says, “Those are sediments, bud. Just dirt and sand. All natural.” The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Not attractive, but adorable in the sense that you can’t help pitying him—like a wet puppy rolled in sand. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

A second pair of bare feet appeared beside mine in the sand. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

All these people with bongos were gathering in the sand straight down the way from us, and this beat started growing, making this hypnotic rhythm. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

He stared at me for a few seconds and then looked down at the sand shaking his head. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

Behind them in the valley, the highway was a faint dark vein through the yellow sand and red rock. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

I could hear them battling in the sand. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

About a mile or so down Mong veered us across this little bank, past an old unused road with mad weeds shooting up where paint used to be, and into the thick sand. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

The sand also twinkled in the light of the glowing lanterns that hung from red trees that lined the road. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

Me and Rondell leaned against a couple posts in the sand, outside of the vans’ line of vision, and rested our hands on our full stomachs. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

I walk farther away from everyone and decide to make sand angels to see if that will calm me down. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Soon the beach Cullen was patrolling would be crowded with vacationers staking their claims on the sand with colorful towels and umbrellas. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

Kino moved cautiously so that the water would not be obscured with mud or sand. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

She showed Will and Lyra how to gather a particular kind of mollusk by finding their breathing tubes just above the sand. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

She even transforms one audience member’s pocket watch from metal to sand and back again. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Alone, she stretched out in the sand down the beach under the swishing leaves of a palm and stared at the sky. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

I slogged bow-legged up from the beach as quickly as I could through the deep black volcanic sand. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Something about this caused my own eyes to sting like sand had flown into them. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s a small stretch of sand with high rocks on either side. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

We were flying low over the long sands at Holy Island, and it was beautiful, but the plane kept trying to climb and I was fighting and fighting to keep it down. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

When the shower of gold stopped, at the very moment Mo closed the book, Meggie saw there was a little sand among all the gleaming, glittering money. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

“Why’d you have to throw sand in my face?” moaned Luke. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

The lambskin and the cable-tow used in Masonry today are symbolic of how the nakedness of the white man was covered when he was chained and driven across the hot sand. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Other parts were gritty with sand, or were tangled in seaweed, or were inhabited by small, scuttling creatures. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

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

And Mom took us down to Ocean City for a day at the beach, where we built a sand castle with Emily and jumped around in the waves. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

We were walking along the solid part of the sand, where it was dark and packed tight ’cause the tide had just been there. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

A swirling human figure erupted from the sand—Leo’s least favorite goddess, the Mistress of Mud, the Princess of Potty Sludge, Gaea herself. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

As I get closer to the water, the sand changes. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Queenie’s white tail stump is visible for only a moment before she burrows further into the straw, like a crab in sand. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

Dr. Trefusis’s blood was on the sand where he had fallen. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

I’ve already sanded it down to take off the rough edges. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

Something glinted inside her ear, grains of sand from the beach maybe. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

At least not the sort of sand you find at the beach. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

He remembers the garden in Zundert as he builds a sand castle on the beach with the boys. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

It looked to me like somebody had cut the black Mary’s picture from a book, glued it onto a sanded piece of wood about two inches across, and varnished it. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mom says we can sand down and repaint the side tables a fun color. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

It was a calm walk along the sand, since we didn’t expect trouble in this part of the country. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

He sat with him in the sand and held his forehead while he bent and vomited. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

The freshets had made a small sandy beach through which the pool flowed, and bright green watercress grew in the damp sand. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once again I could see the red sand and feel the burning of the sun on my forehead. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

Laura was so happy, when she ran through the sand to Pa, with all those beautiful pebbles in her pocket. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

He sanded the rust by hand, checking to make sure he wasn’t disturbing the peregrines. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

She sinks to the ground, picking up a handful of pearl-white sand and letting it fall slowly through her fingers. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

When we caught up with him he was standing with his feet planted in wet sand, looking back at us with a self-satisfied 1-told-you-so grin. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

Hollister’s words—just be, just do—washed over her mind like a wave on sand. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

I heard Irene next to me saying my name, but she sounded like she was saying it from beneath a pile of sand. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

The subsoil beneath the palm trees was a raised beach, and generations of palms had worked loose in this the stones that had lain on the sands of another shore. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

“You’re telling me,” I say, digging my fingers into the cold sand. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

He stood, finally, in the shallow surge and suck of water, walked forward, his feet heavy in the drenched, icy sand, and laid her there. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

The red sands drank his blood, the wind his final words. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

We built sand castles, ran in the surf, rode a merry-go-round, a miniature train, and bumper cars. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Now a wind was rising, the kind of biting, steady wind that could bring an ocean of sand into camp at any moment with almost no warning. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

A mile later the sand smoothed out, combed clean and white. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tom’s father was determined to make the killing mercifully swift, and once the apparatus was completed, he repeatedly tested it with sacks of sand. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

The sugar-white sand felt cool against his burning cheeks, and he was very sleepy. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He got off me, and I stood up, brushing sand off my boxers and spitting. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

She said nothing else, just sat down and began tracing pictures in the sand with her finger. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then I wandered down to the beach and sprawled out on the sand. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

In December, 1959, the Somerset’s “beach facilities” consisted of two beach umbrellas stuck in a strip of sand at the rear of the hotel. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sphere came to rest in a sand trap near the outer wall. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

The prisoner cast them aside into the sand, and a second later Nina heard it—a roar that carried even over the excited baying of the crowd. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Osh stuck his pitchfork in the sand and ran his hands through his hair. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

She looked over her shoulder and saw miles of soft, gray-white sand. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

Spreading it on the sand, he gets down on his hands and knees and studies it. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

As it widened, dust and sand particles carried along with the attack settled in the basin below. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sound, mocking and cruel, came faintly to his ears, as though muffled by sand or sacking. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

It took only one person to tear away the delicate strands of the web, spilling the rays of sun into the sand, and the fragile world would be injured. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s beyond the maw of that cave. From there, I’m sure we’ll find the entrance,” Wind Being said, forming its human shape from the sands around it. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

I'm lying in a sand trap of my dad's golf course looking at the sky. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

He walked past me, past the bass stands, down over the bluff and across the sand bridge that was nearly dry for once, the tide dead low. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

He stooped down and brought up a handful of gray sand. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

I didn’t get the chance: the wide beach with fine, golden sand, the calmest waves and the clearest blue water, a few blocks away from the hotel, was reserved for whites. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

And then they were gone, leaving behind a cloud of sand and dust in the road. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

He said, “I just mean right then, when you moved that single grain of sand. What would that mean?” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Then the creature stepped from mirage on to clear sand, and they saw that the darkness was not all shadows but mostly clothing. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

There seemed to be sand in his mouth. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

It sucks at my feet, but at least the wet sand is firm. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

The fifteenth of December, when they sounded, the lead brought up sand. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

She set the boy back down in the sand. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Objects began to rain down onto the sand as the people threw flowers, laurels, coins, pieces of jewelry, articles of clothing. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

Having shimmied a few more inches up the flagpole, Fatty lost his grip and fell down into the sand. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

The country surrounding Davis Gulch is a desiccated expanse of bald rock and brick-red sand. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The boy fell to the sand, nearly unconscious. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

He dug a deep hole in the sand and collected seashells with us. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Gently now,” Miss Maggie said, and they carried him across the sand and into the cottage. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

They formed a little procession, Rachel and Judith supporting the invalid at each elbow, and Kit following behind to hold up the trailing ends of the quilt from the sanded floor. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

A big gust of sand swirled around them; Rocky turned his back to it and Tayo covered his face with his hands; old man Jeff went inside the post office. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

They’d learned that there were trillions and trillions of stars in the universe, more stars than grains of sand on every beach and desert on earth. I Survived Hurricane Katrina, 2005 2011-04-01T00:00:00Z

“And let you drive me in a sand ship? Oh no.” The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

Each time, Adina missed and the spear struck the muddy bottom, sending little tornadoes of sand swirling. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

Trading in her dress was somehow different from burying her shoes in a heap of sand and walking away. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Some were completely whole, as if crazy sea captains had simply decided to steer the kilometer-long ships onto the sand and then walked away. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

A sea of sand dunes stretches below the cliffs, lifeless and unforgiving. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

It was heavier, and she hadn’t adjusted her technique to the weight yet, so it struck the very edge of the target and tumbled to the sand. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Beneath his feet was an enormous sand painting. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Like ours, it lies ahead of her like a wilderness just before the first explorer sets foot on the virgin sand. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

White families had gathered as usual, looking forward to a lazy Sunday away from work and household chores, a chance to relax, children entertaining themselves with sand castles and water play. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Still, I could look at the pictures while the demon girl outlined the story about flying carpets and phoenixes and magical amulets and cranky old sand elves who lived on beaches. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We were told to lie down oil the sand, turn our faces away from the blast, and bury our heads in our arms,” remembered Edward Teller, who was on Compana Hill. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

He rose and walked out and stood barefoot in the sand and watched the pale surf appear all down the shore and roll and crash and darken again. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

The particles of sand stung my skin like needles as I raced toward the gate. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

Carrying the still sleepy Pantalaimon, she walked away from Will and sat down on the slope of a sand dune a little way off, so their voices wouldn’t wake him. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

The landscape turns more and more desolate—sand and scrub brush, jackrabbits and snakes. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Ralph and Piggy lay in the sand, gazing at the fire and idly flicking pebbles into its smokeless heart. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

Oh my God, why am I falling into this sand trap? Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

“Go to sleep, poor folk,” he said to his silent hosts, and laid his head down on the floor of sand, and slept. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

He heard the gritting of sand as they blotted their pages. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Salim thinks of the desert then: red sands blow a dust-storm through his thoughts, and the scarlet silks of the tents that surrounded the lost city of Ubar flap and billow through his mind. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

And, all at once, the grain of sand behind her forehead began to soften and release—just a bit. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

‘You are Aspirants. Your footsteps echo in the sand and the stars. To own souls such as yours is a great honor. You will serve me well.” An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

He was just too stubborn, or too proud, to admit it I nodded and began feeling around the sand for a stick. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Did you know they were coming?” she asked as they walked across the wet sand. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Lightning sand is moist and basically destroys by drowning. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

The hogs were gone now, but I could see their tracks in the sand around the rocks, where they’d tried to get at him from behind. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once Dad and Mr. P were safely on the sand, I trudged to where the trucks were lined up. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

He had pictured Dorothy standing on a boardwalk or beach, tossing Nipper into the air, Nipper soaring over the sand, the foaming surf. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

The sea—its deep warm blue—mornings spent lying out on the sands—Hugo—Hugo who had said he loved her.... And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

When she reached the edge of the kitchen garden, she went down a narrow stone staircase toward the sand. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

The wooden planks began to disappear, spilling sand into the pits of the hypogeum below. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

He felt the warm sand on his toes and knees; he felt her body, and it was as warm as the sand, and he couldn’t feel where her body ended and the sand began. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

In addition, Napoleon ordered the almost empty bins in the store-shed to be filled nearly to the brim with sand, which was then covered up with what remained of the grain and meal. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

David pointed at dark shapes rising up from the sand, a row of them receding into the distance. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Maribel crouched down and ran her hand along the sand, barely skimming the surface. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

Henry’s truck slides on the sand as he pulls into the parking space and slams on the brakes. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

They ran, climbed, and dug in the sandy dirt, building sand castles as if they were at the beach. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Then, when nobody was looking, I buried it in the sand. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

I remembered riding a donkey along the sands. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

The boy thought about that for a while as he looked at the moon and the bleached sands. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

In a handful of silent minutes, the boat slipped into the cove and nestled its green prow in the sand at their bare feet. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

This jar is not empty but contains a small amount of white sand which shifts on the bottom. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Could anything be so wonderful as the firm wet sand of the island? Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

The bitter wind came down off the mountains and through the barbed wire and hurled the desert sand in their faces. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Every day, for several summers, that tiny secret sand- patch on that tiny secret island was our regular destination. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the new wife had risen completely out of the sand, Kumalo went forward and embraced her tenderly. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

Its human form disintegrated, and the crystal sands zipped through the air. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

They came in like undulations in the water, gathered weight of water, and then broke smoothly on the warm sand. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

The sand where he sat was warm to the touch but the night beyond the fire was sharp with the cold. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

He got up and walked twenty steps away through the soft, deep sand, and then stopped, for the heat and humidity were stunning. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

“He’s no Muslim,” they told Drew as we sat on cold sand watching the dying flames of a campfire. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

He had seen kings and beggars walking the desert sands. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Inkpots turned the book around and dusted the page with a bit of fine sand. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

For a while she just sat in the sand, hearing and seeing the dark waters. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Because the tarred roads spring potholes like surprise presents and the air smells of hills and history and the sunlight scatters the sand and turns it into gold dust. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

A billion tiny mud creatures lived and ate and died in the top layer of sand, and the little casts and breathing holes and invisible movements showed that the whole landscape was aquiver with life. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Halfstumbling, she raced down the dry stretch of sand to the darker sand where the sea still rolled in and out. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wrote the bytes in the sand as they came in, took a picture, then transcribed them in the Hab. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I turned away from the village, my traveling companions were dancing in the sand, mimicking some of the dances we had seen. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

That sand would fill her nostrils, her lungs, her mouth. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then he turned and went back to shaking sand out of his bag. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Sure enough those coyote tracks went right along there Right around the marks in the sand where the man lay. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

A mixture of sand and fine brown adobe clays and gray caliche, it had the texture, viscosity, and crippling powers of a tar pit. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was formed like a dove, but his color was dark and hard to tell in the moonlight; at any rate, he showed up clearly on the white sand. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

He left no footprints in sand, no ripples in water, no image in mirrors. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Crouched on the sand, he squinted through gushing rain. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

The instant the pebble struck the surface of the sand, the desert floor erupted. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

There he played the drum, while the senior cousin jumped up and down on the sand. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

When the coffin was pried open in the presence of the appropriate authorities, it was found to contain a bag of sand. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

While they pinned his arms, he kicked at the sand, sending windblown bursts of it toward the knot of men dragging his opponent out of reach. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sand on it felt coarser to my feet Everything about it feh different, but that didn't really make sense since it was only about a milft from south beach. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jinny and Ess dropped to the sand and put their arms over their faces until the bits of shell stopped blistering the air around them. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

I reach slowly for the rag again, scoop up sand, press it against the sword blade and give it a stroke. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

He could still see the air shimmering above the scarlet sands, smell the blood spilling from the men who’d died for their amusement. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

That night dust and yellow sand blew through the knotholes in the walls and floor. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

I could hear him padding across the sand. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hazel felt like her lungs were filling with hot sand. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

A minute later he came back, shivering, caked in sand, a red stain outlining his chest. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

She swept up the scuffed sand and spread a fresh layer in a fine pattern. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

So I tuck Lolo’s shoe and socks under my arm and hurry across the hot sand toward the pier, where I’m not usually allowed to go by myself. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

A cringing crater in the sand, and the sea screaming around him. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

She laughed at Sammy’s jokes and turned cartwheels on the sand with him and tossed him up over her shoulders into the water until he was exhausted. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dark, choppy waves, crested with foam, were plowing across the sand. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Shin watched them disappear from a perch on the riverbank where he was hauling sand. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

That beach is filthy now, but back then people used to go swimming there and sunbathe on the sand. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

I scraped a flat spot out on the sand next to a giant black boulder and gathered a pile of twigs and sticks and branches, the smallest I could find. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

The curved ridges of the culvert pressed against his spine, and he could feel tiny pebbles and fine sand that had been washed inside. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Just enough, Meitner and Frisch calculated, to make a grain of sand jump. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

There’s so much to watch out for: holes and rocks and sand near the side of the building. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once he had sworn never to leave the ocean, convinced that his soul craved sand and the green expanse stretching all the way to his ancestral home in Europ>e. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The backyards of these houses fell away in green slopes down to a strip of sand, and then the blue Lake Erie, lapping all the way to Canada. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

A handful of kids were playing with buckets and pails in the sand­box. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

She tried to walk, but she kept falling onto the sand. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

The floor and walls were smooth, sanded down to resemble an actual hallway inside a building. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

I flew out of my chair, out of the window, slid all the way down the bluff, my feet touching the sand as Noah hit the water. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

There’s a girl getting buried in the sand right next to us. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, you know, like a sand sculpture,” Max said. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

And she turned Ess upside down in the sand until the girl burst out laughing. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

She yanked her toes free of the sand and fought the undertow back to the shore. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

I parked on the street, near the outdoor showers where people washed the sand off their feet before walking to their cars during the summer. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

It originated from a point right behind her forehead no larger than a grain of sand. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

The sand is still warm even though the sun has completely disappeared. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Dragging Loo with her, because his arms were still connected to her hips, Jinny walked the three long paces in the sand, to lean over Ess. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Ahead of us was a two-lane road half covered with sand. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

They drank tea and sat by the fire and they slept in the sand and listened to the roll of the surf in the bay. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

Emma pulled her clothes over her swimsuit and I tripped into my pants, all gritty with sand. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

The raked sand had never received the imprint of such strides toward danger. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

I shifted my weight from side to side and clapped the edges of my sneakers together, knocking the wet sand off. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

He looked back at the sand dunes and then noticed that the water monster wasn’t leaving any footprints. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

“It is just water, lots of it, and sand, lots of it.” A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Using sticks, they had outlined a house and were furnishing it with debris they found in the sand. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

The moon shone through the curtain of falling water to lay a shimmering pale stripe across the sand, but after a time that too faded and went dark. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Jinny memorized the feeling of the moment too—the grit of damp sand beneath her scrunched toes, the lapping of the surf, the salt on her lips. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

“Those seem to be sand ships,” she said. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

The wind blew strong as we climbed the trail, cover- ing the mesa with sand that sifted around our legs and shut out the sky. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Several jute bags lay on a pile of sand in her little front garden, and she was trying unsuccessfully to fill the first one. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

Once it’s sanded, stained, and coated, I’ll slip off my socks to feel the soft texture under my feet. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

Leroy kicked sand in his face and Pinkie lunged at him. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

One year before, a hopper like Enrique’s overturned with a load of sand, burying three migrants alive. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

We walked along the sand dunes that seemed to stretch endlessly away on either side. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

I looked up at the border-patrol vans just sitting there in the sand, facing Mexico. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

Looked at so closely one sees the fine sand is composed of millions of the tiniest pebbles, as clear as if they had been made in a laboratory. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

The soil was littered with boulders, the spaces between with deep sand, where the harvester wallowed and complained before struggling on. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He ran stumbling through the thick sand to the open space of rock beyond the fire. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

As we sat there in the sand, me and Rondell finished another beer each, cracked open a couple fresh ones. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

Silver healers run across the sand, rushing to the fallen Cantos. Red Queen 2015-02-10T00:00:00Z

It was caked along with sand in every pore of my body. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

There was something about it that touched him, or as his wife Mary put it, “They say when you get the sand in your craw, you never want to leave.” Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

I try not to think about Bundt cakes and headstands and kisses and velvet sand. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

The light of the half-moon and stars tinged the sands blue, purple, and silver instead of the daylight colors of orange, red, and white. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Then he was down, rolling over and over in the warm sand, crouching with arm up to ward off, trying to cry for mercy. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

Then when the late spring came, the river drew in from its edges and the sand banks appeared. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

After that, a lone acacia ... another clump of rocks ... a spot bare of everything except sand. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jasón had said look at the letter carefully, draw it on the tablet, or on the sand of the playground. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The doll’s head was shattered, and the sand that had filled her body spilled onto the floor from a rip across her back. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, I see that, you weirdo,” I say, getting up and dusting the sand off my clothes. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

But the majority of the army wandered about the sands without purpose, like citizens of an Italian town in the hour of the passeggio. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

The sun still sets quite late in the north of England in August, and Maddie on fabric wings flew low over the long sands of Holy Island and saw seals gathered there. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

There were low bluffs, rock and sand and dunes that dimmed away out of sight, but no sign of any human habitation. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was two feet high and two feet long, and he had spray painted the cubes with this kind of fake- sand paint or something. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

Three coves down, Jude’s been making them out of the wet sand. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

I’m a swirl of sand art against a black canvas. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

Blood spilled over the sand as the Tidemakers collapsed in two very solid heaps. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Wes moved the sand around, clouding the already murky water even more, hoping it would hide the gun. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

I turn away and walk over to the girl being buried in the sand. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

The beat and the crowd and the sand. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

My mother always teased me about how I didn’t understand what sand was, and how I was afraid to let it touch my feet. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Entering, Woody had passed through an immaculate rock garden, its sand white and freshly raked. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then, we stick a candle in the sand of each bag, and when we light the candles, it turns the street into a “landing strip” for Santa Claus. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

The third time, as he came up into the shallow water, I walked backward across the sand bar so he would not see me, and pulled on the string with all my strength. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

She pours a fresh heap of bread crumbs on the plate, their color and texture reminding her of sand on a beach. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

There were rocks and sand drifts and a distant eminence, as natural and unselfconscious as any landscape on Earth. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Up and down, he walked on the round bellies of sand. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

I myself have no memories of sand castles, but there must be some sense memory attached, because I feel I know how to do this, how to shape this. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

I kept seeing that motherhouse up in the mountains, its roof caving in, its walls crumbling like a foolish house built on sand. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nine steps down and she’s on the sand and the twenty thousand sounds of the ocean engulf her. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

But the scientists could not shed the suspicion that someone was throwing sand in the gears, and they thought they knew who: Oppenheimer. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

He woke up and she was gone; his fists were full of sand and he was sweating. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

She washed some sand off Baby’s face and hands before they walked out of the compound and down the road. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

All his life, time had been passing in the only way he knew time to pass: unrushed and unrushable, as sands running through an hourglass grain by grain. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

At last, as Grandma stirred, the syrup in the saucer turned into little grains like sand, and Grandma called: “Quick, girls! It’s graining!” Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

A gust of wind blew against his calves and then began to circle in front of him, picking up grains of the dark blue sands. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Whether it was true or not, most people said they had first come out here during a sandstorm, meaning their first taste of Odessa had literally been a mouthful of gritty sand. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Earlier, I had just written letters in the sand. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

She bent down to pick up something from the sand. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

When we get to the beach, sand spilling onto the road, she doesn’t waste any time. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

“Before you go to sleep, imagine warm sun and sand and salty water and sharks…” He makes a little snapping noise with his fingers, like the snap of teeth. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

So he hoped, so he dreamed: that, in the course of time, grain by grain, the gray would give way to the dream and the sands of his life would run bright. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

The sand was starting to get hot underfoot. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

I dug the hole until it was so deep that the sand at the bottom was wet and cold. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

Bean shaped and smaller than a speck of sand, the fruit fly embryo begins its life in a whir of activity. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Behind her, a stretch of white sand hugged the foot of the hills. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

He remembered all the times the earth goddess Gaea had appeared to him in the ground—her sleeping face made of dust or sand or dirt. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Finally, we came upon a hut that was on the sand. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Wait, did he just say my sand sculptures were wonderful? I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Tyrion was dozing, but he woke abruptly when the motion ceased, rubbed the sand from his eyes, and accepted Bronn's hand to climb down. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Up ahead, he saw a flat wall of sand before them. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

That wall was said to be forty feet thick at its narrowest, and near eighty on the seaward face, a double course of stones with an inner core of sand and rubble. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Then we found a good spot among some sand dunes at the lonely end of the beach, and there we settled down to sleep for the night. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

He wore reindeer antlers and delivered puzzle challenges via a rusty, old sand pail. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

And this human truth has an especially grinding force here, where identity is almost impossible to achieve and people are perpetually attempting to find their feet on the shifting sands of status. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

You had to wade through them like sand on a beach. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And you caught up to me, pinned me to the ground, and dripped wet sand on my back that slithered down my butt when I got up.” The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Later he walked up the beach, his long shadow reaching over the sands before him, sawing about with the wind in the fire. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

My knees and elbows were scraped raw and covered with sand. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

The children wandered up and down while Stewart and Dicey sat watching the little waves that meandered up onto the smooth sand. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Just then the TV made a scratchy sound like pouring dry sand on paper and the lights went off. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

The kids stumbled through the water, over and around boulders, through sand and muck and thick bank grass and willow thickets. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Throwing his hands forward, his palms pressed into the hot, soft sands. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Another year, they tossed everybody into a landscape of nothing but boulders and sand and scruffy bushes. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

A beach umbrella is lifted out of the sand and tumbles down the beach. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

I was crying hard, so many tears, but they drank and drank, so many of them, until I had no more tears left and the pond was empty, everything as dry as sand. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

He sat in the center of the white corn sand painting. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Shelly was shaking the sand off her towel when we walked up. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

They emptied out the bag and spread blankets and clothing out on the warm sand to dry before the fire. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

The wind makes her eyes water and buries their shoes in sand, hurls knots of dead grass from the curved ridges of one dune to another. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

“Thank you,” Darkness said, gesturing to the sand painting. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

There was no swing, no seesaw, no sand pit, and no other children were ever invited to come up the hill to play with poor James. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

He gave no indication that he’d just delivered a puzzle via sand pail, but now he wore a bulky purple scarf. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

They lay down in the soft sand at the foot of the dunes, and then they heard the first bird calling. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

I looked at the sand and kept moving and didn’t think about anything else. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

Colored umbrellas and beach chairs cover the sand like confetti. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

Before Nathan, there was a trail of petals on the soft desert sands. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Uncle Antonio told her of the deserts in Baja California, describing them as terrible places of heat, sand, and bare rocks, with no water to be found. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z