| 单词 | scrap |
| 例句 | There were few scraps and bones for Sounder. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Shady tossed a block of scrap wood into an empty waste can, causing a big clang that echoed. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z “Where are they? I’m surprised they aren’t here waiting for fried biscuit scraps with honey.” Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z The profile listed my indent account balance, pay grade, blood type, current performance review rating—every scrap of data the company had on me. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z For everyday work, Kira helped in the weaving shed, picking up the scraps and leavings, but her twisted leg diminished her value as a laborer and even, in the future, as a mate. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z He tended to hum cheery scraps of Vivaldi when his work was going well; when it was not going well, he hissed softly through the thicket of his mustache. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z Here, we eat the Commandant’s scraps, and no matter how hungry I am, they taste like sawdust. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z Streaming forth into the night, the darkness fractured into a hundred fluttering bits like windblown scraps of velvet. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z She looked like the little kids who squatted outside of Chen’s, hoping for scrap bones. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z Inside are a small anaco and blouse, and a pile of fabric scraps of all colors, faded and frayed. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z He didn’t have a single coin in his pocket or a scrap of food to eat. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z The place was packed with lopsided row houses patched with tin sheets and scrap wood and cardboard. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z I had hopes that some might find its way into the scraps bucket. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z He loaded everything from his stand into the wagon, making sure he didn't leave a scrap of litter behind. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z They were simply scraps of paper torn from a notebook, with random words scribbled in pencil and crossed out. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z He handed me a scrap of paper with a cell number written on it. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z He laid Barney in the hole, then took from his pocket a scrap of paper. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z Thanks to Big Ma, I could skin a potato with a paring knife without wasting a scrap of white potato. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z Or maybe it’s time to just scrap the word “racist.” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z It horrified the children when they caught her throwing scraps of chicken into the chicken feed. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Such things did not help him bring in a crop or keep a scrap of cloth on his children’s backs. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z He says there’s no food in the house, not a scrap of bread, and when he falls asleep I take the greasy newspaper from the floor. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z Whenever we fed Buster scraps of meat, he turned his head sideways and stared at us out of one angry-looking yellow eye. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z She made a point of using the ugly scraps until she had a large piece. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z I ran inside the house and got the pie tin of table scraps I’d been saving. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z When a falconer fed his bird, he stroked her with one of her own feathers, often accompanying the feeding and stroking with a scrap of melody: always the same song. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z I thought of what I could do to contribute, besides collecting bottles and scrap metal. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z Wash brought them the things they needed, worn-out clothes from his mother’s scrap bin, heavy wire to connect the limbs, armfuls of straw they could pack into the sleeves and pant legs. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z He was just scrapping, like any other kid would. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z August and I walked her out to her wall, and for the umpteenth time she wrote June and Neil on a scrap of paper and wedged it between the rocks. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Charles sorted “a multitude of papers”—including his notes on scraps of paper, envelopes, and Athenaeum stationery, and his readings. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z After we redeemed the bottles or sold the scrap metal, we walked into town, to the drugstore next door to the Owl Club. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z They hadn’t scrapped like this in years, since they were boys, and with a sudden sense of relief Moody laughed again even as Trip socked him in the stomach and they toppled onto the floor. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Inside the drain pipe, Tucker’s nest was a jumble of papers, scraps of cloth, buttons, lost jewelry, small change, and everything else that can be picked up in a subway station. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z We could use scraps or pieces of logs that might have floated ashore. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z And a shocking scrap with Leah, who wanted to go hunting with the men. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Instead, he was ordered to pick up every scrap of straw on the ground. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z No doubt the idea was absurd, but it had sprung into his mind in the very instant of feeling the scrap of paper in his hand. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z And like a magpie I bring these scraps and twigs back to the store. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z The Mlothi provided us with many items we could not afford— clothes, knives, furniture, spoons, cribs, mugs, forks, plates and scraps of food. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Two or three of the gentlemen sat near him, and I caught at times scraps of their conversation across the room. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z He kept his eyes on his hands, which were raking the gold scraps aimlessly about on the cloth. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z Thinking of that special scrap, Kira went to the carved box, unfolded the bit of cloth, and put it in her pocket. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Mrs. Hubbard looked at the little scrap of cambric he held out to her. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z Ma had pots to mend, so she kept to the brick oven out behind the barn, heating up metal scraps to melting so she could build little dams out of that steaming hot liquid. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z And not in an icebox but sitting on a scrap of leather on a workbench. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z They’d positioned scraps of silvery metal from the plane’s wing at chest level and were using them to reflect the sun. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z As May neared, I found myself hosting more scraps of fabric than budding leaves. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z The Kings scare me, sure, but not this little scrap of a kid. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z I grabbed a pen from Mr. Betz’s holder and found a scrap of paper. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z When Desdemona did the laundry, she found scraps of paper in Lefty’s pockets, covered with mathematical figures. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z The scrap of skin had fallen into her lap. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z The journey had become automatic: the sleep by day, hidden in underbrush and trees; the finding of water; the careful division of scraps of food, augmented by what he could find in the fields. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z Every scrap of paper we wrote on was collected at the end of each day. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z “We cut these scraps and lengths of wire into small pieces. About this size, you see. Copper in this bowl, silver in this, and gold here.” The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z Judging from the piles of soggy, chewed-up scraps that littered the steps, the boys had been gnawing their way through each one. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z Women, young and ferocious, dressed in scraps of black silk and riding pine branches through the sky—there was nothing like that in his world, but he faced them with calm wariness. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Making appropriate grunts and sighs, he grabbed a stack of newspaper scraps and dropped them into the open hole. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z Miss Bell handed him a scrap of paper. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z "Listen, if scrapbooking don't work out, you can always take up scrapping," I joked to make her feel better. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z I quickly carried the scraps bowl out into the yard, walking past the privy, all the way back to the stable wall where straggly holly bushes grew. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z The windows were blown outward, glass littering the grass in front of the house, nothing left of the door but a few charred scraps swinging on their hinges in the breeze. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z I scrabble around in my bag for a scrap of paper. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z My sister collected the scraps of bark and got some Elmer’s glue and pasted them back onto the tree trunk like a jigsaw puzzle. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z Hastily he spread a scrap of clean linen over the mold and hurried across the courtyard. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z Bongo flew to the low branch where Samar had tied her pink, dotted fabric scrap. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z By suppertime, Shirley looked like the beggars who waited by the servants’ gate for scraps from the clan table. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z “One day, when a beggar from a far-away land came to the old couple’s door, they fed him the last of their corn. Then their dry scraps of tortilla.” The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z Dad saw every piece of scrap as the money it could be sold for, minus the time needed to sort, cut and deliver it. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z “Most white folks I know scuffle for every scrap of food they get.” Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z Sierra dug in her pocket and retrieved the scrap of paper Grandpa Lázaro had placed in her hand. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z Rasheed took him to the shop, let him crawl around under his crowded workbench, play with old rubber soles and spare scraps of leather. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z I have spent a vexing half hour scrapping with Fräulein Engel over the pen nib, which I swear I did not bend on purpose the first time. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z Could we have fought each other over these lifesaving machines, reducing them to scrap metal? Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z I had to read the scrap of paper three times through before I understood the extent of my grief. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z I was twelve by now, and I had been weighing our options, doing some research at the public library and picking up scraps of information about how other families on Little Hobart Street survived. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z He writes her telephone number on a scrap of paper. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z It was very much like the main town: shabby little huts, repaired a dozen times, patched with scraps of plastic or corrugated iron, leaning crazily against each other over muddy alleyways. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Just the whisper of an unwillingness to subsist on scraps offered by others. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z “If she won’t come back in, I’ll just scrap the whole thing. We’ve put all this time and effort into this, and no one will have anything to show for it!” From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z There were no torn scraps of cloth clinging to branches, no deep bootprints or abandoned campsites. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z The scrap lumber he sent me to look at behind his shop proved to be a stack of beautiful tongue-and-groove pine boards. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z The yellow Whitman’s Sampler box that held my colored pencils, stickers, and scraps of paper still smelled of chocolate but no longer contained a delicious assortment of candy. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z “Even if I had some, I don’t give anything away out of this shop, even scrap. You want something, I like to trade. What you got?” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z My father used to bring scraps from work, but now that the factory was doing so poorly, that luxury ended. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z He pushed past her and dug furiously through a pile of paper scraps, until he uncovered a thimble with a piece of leather stretched across its open end. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z I pushed away the piece of scrap paper and looked at the note I’d printed. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z “We’ll get this whole place as tight as a barrel, Mama. I already met a guy who told me where they pile all the scrap lumber.” Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z The Tower’s northern wall sat right on the edge of the Junklot, where mountains of trashed cars waited like crumpled-up scraps of paper. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z The navigator was scribbling some figures on a scrap of paper, which he handed to the pilot. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z As of tomorrow, we won’t have a scrap of fat, butter or margarine. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z Her junk drawer is full of pens, paper clips, scraps of paper, receipts, old notebooks—nothing even remotely interesting. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z She bought the coveted dance set—panties and brassiere made of scraps of black lace held together by narrow black satin ribbon. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z He pulled a dirty scrap of paper from his pocket. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z The word door jumped out at her from line 4, whole on its scrap of paper. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z I search through all her notebooks and scraps in her junk drawer again—nothing even remotely interesting. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z He remembered exactly how he had felt sitting there—listening, making notes, appreciating everything, tabulating every scrap of evidence that told against the prisoner. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z I dried myself with a scrap of towel and looked in the cracked mirror at the back door. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z He found himself thinking how easy it would be to drop a few of these scraps into a wineskin when no one was watching. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z As I got closer, the spot under the surface started to look like different things: a towel, maybe a scrap of a shirt, or a dress. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z The Congress of the People took place at Kliptown, a multiracial village on a scrap of veld a few miles soudiwest of Johannesburg, on two clear, sunny days, June 25 and 26, 1955. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z My friends and I were standing in the middle of the junkyard, mountains of scrap metal stretched out in every direction. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z Brian and I also collected scrap metal that we sold to the junk dealer for a penny a pound—three cents a pound for copper. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z It might have her face, but it was a phantasm—just a scrap of memory dancing on a string—and everything it said and did came from the dreamer’s own mind. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Susan Calvin burst into body-racking gusts of wild laughter, “not dead—merely insane. I confronted him with the insoluble dilemma, and he broke down. You can scrap him now—because he’ll never speak again.” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z Even the pencil she gave me was made from scraps. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z She took the scraps from the box and spread them out on the table in her bedroom. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Holly only nodded and went back to looking through her fabric scraps. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z Would we become like the orphan child we often saw in the village streets, begging for bread and eating scraps of meat like a wild animal? Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z I begin sweeping scraps into a dustpan and change the subject. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z He pinched one of the scraps, then carefully withdrew his hand. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z I found some scrap wood and we started a fire. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z Picking up a scrap from the mitten, she swung it around her head. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z “Butter and honey shall he eat,” Dad droned, low and monotone, weary from a long day hauling scrap. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Rising and going into the bedroom, Pris reappeared carrying a pen and scrap of paper; she reseated herself, scratched out a hasty message. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z Down in the bottom of my lunch bucket I found a neat little package of scraps for my dogs. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Boats and river taxis were moored, men sitting with their oared skiffs and tiny scrap sails, waiting to ferry anyone who needed to move into the Orleans beyond. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z Ultimately it is scrapped as obsolete, never having brought any material benefit to anybody, and with further enormous labors another Floating Fortress is built. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z Sinks everywhere are clogged with scraps of lettuce, decomposing lemon wedges, water-logged toast crusts. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z I bet he’s still stuffed from all the Thanksgiving table scraps Zack fed him when our parents weren’t looking. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z Before Enrique entered the water, he tore up a scrap of paper with his mother’s phone number on it and scattered it on the bank. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z Babysitting and tutoring and doing other kids’ homework and mowing lawns and redeeming bottles and selling scrap metal didn’t count. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z She seemed smaller than ever now—so small the harbor breeze might catch her up like a scrap of paper and carry her away, carry her into nowhere. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z But she felt disappointed that it now seemed no more than a scrap of cloth; she wanted Thomas to understand. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I make it a rule never to keep a scrap of paper bearing a woman’s hand, and I never write them at all. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z Then grown-up birds confuse those plastic scraps with food and feed them to their chicks, and the babies die of starvation even though their parents are feeding them just like they should. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z The pages were glossy and soft, made softer by the hours I’d spent hauling scrap. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Nobody knew, so it was sold to a junkman and hauled off to be broken up for scrap metal. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z The evidence for it lies tucked away in her files, on a yellow scrap from a legal pad. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z I drew it out, a tiny scrap of a thing, lace-edged. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z I can’t help it, I catch sight of these discarded scraps, a dirty T-shirt or a lonesome shoe, and all I can think of is the other shoe and the feet that fitted into them. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z A moment later, when they lifted their foreheads from the temple floor, the scrap of paper was hanging in Thoth’s curved beak, and Toby was backing away from the altar, bowing at every step. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z Beside the legal pad is a biography of the author, a thick book called Divided Soul, the pages marked by numerous scraps of torn-up paper. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z I knew I should be drunk with gratitude that I, an ignorant girl who’d crawled out of a scrap heap, should be allowed to study there, but I couldn’t summon the fervor. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z The trailer was a fifty-foot flatbed rigged for scrapping, essentially a giant bucket. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Behind us, the scrap mountain was boiling, rising up. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z Their uneven footsteps—scrap, clump, scrap, clump—didn’t get any faster. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z It was about two inches on a side, little more than a scrap, and aged to the color of last season’s straw. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z The smell that came out of it made you think of hog pens and maggots and kitchen scraps from back when Nixon was president. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Under the direction of an older bear, the human prisoners were building a shelter out of driftwood and scraps of canvas. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Instead, I made her a cornhusk doll, painting a face on it with pokeberry juice and fashioning a gown for it with a piece of cambric from Becky’s scrap bag. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z We need to forge ahead with our heads raised, not buried in scraps of throwaway paper. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z I saw the angels, or at least I imagined I saw them, watching us scrap, stepping forward and catching the car batteries or jagged lengths of steel tubing that Dad launched across the yard. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z A name was written on a scrap of fabric affixed to the crown —James. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z My feet felt heavy as sacks full of scrap metal. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z Not a grain of gold, not a scrap will I bring that Evil One, let him beat me all he likes. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z It’s like my whole world is coming undone, but when I write, my pencil is a needle and thread, and I’m stitching the scraps back together. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z Miss Trixie’s apartment was decorated with scraps, with junk, with bits of metal, with cardboard boxes. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z He’s dressed in an imitation of a court doublet, except his doublet is made from scraps of leather. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z They left her scraps to eat, worse than what they fed the dogs in the street. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z On Monday a man comes and collects three barrels of scraps of fat and brings back one barrel of soft soap on Wednesday. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z It was a scrap of paper folded into a square. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z His thoughts spilled into his notebooks, and out of them, onto scraps of paper, and onto stationery from the Athenaeum Club, where he took most of his dinners. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Due to the stench and what our mother referred to as "one small scrap of dignity," my sisters and I rarely entered the back room. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z She knew she sat with a scrap of paper held down by pebbles—but the pictures in her mind were so real, she thought they must somehow exist. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Then, one day, the truck itself vanished, dragged off and pressed into a rusty cube of scrap metal. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Besides a few scraps, he had had one cold biscuit. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Captain Reed reexamined the scrap of canvas and tapped each of the letters with his fingers: REED. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z An ugly yellow scrap from a ripped bodice was still tied to the handle of the front door, which was open. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Music floated out of parlors where the doors had been flung open, and men and women lounged on couches in little more than scraps of silk and gaudy baubles. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z It was a little hard to comprehend how anyone, even a Supreme Commander, could create a whole nation from scraps. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z The train rolled past scrap and recycling yards, men and women’s backs sheened mirror bright with sweat as they stacked hand carts with purchased scrap and moved it to weighing platforms for sale. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z They had with them tools and scraps of lumber, and they were prepared, they said, to build for the Imadas whatever was wanted: shelves, a chest of drawers, chairs. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z And usually these carrion talkers were the same ones who had said one American was worth twenty Germans in a scrap—the same ones. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Sam made Oksi comfortable inside the tree, then took the trail to Mrs. Strawberry’s farm and her collection of pipes and lumber and wheels and scraps of metal. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z “At least ten times,” he says, handing me the scrap of paper with his number on it. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z Francie pretended to be glad but shuddered as she put the gleaming scraps away. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z The Alsos mission’s job was to follow close behind advancing Allied forces in Europe, searching for any scraps of information about the German atomic bomb program. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z We were a needy bunch of baby birds who had fallen out of our original nests and were desperate for any scrap of attention. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z Scraps of a waltz played by a large orchestra drifted down to the travelers on the grass, and scraps of conversation too, from the people who were walking to and fro. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z The floor is covered with mats, rugs and scraps of carpet, in the middle of which sits a woman surrounded with papers and documents. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z I picked up every scrap of my letter to Doreen, so Doctor Gordon couldn't piece them together and see I was planning to run away, and walked out of his office without another word. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z “I assume we’re pumping this fellow for every scrap of information we can get?” she said quietly over my shoulder. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z If they were trying to build a case against her, any scrap of information that Bobby might give them could possibly be used against her. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Squirrels lived in the tree, and after weeks of tempting them with leftover breakfast scraps, Perry lured one off a branch onto the window sill and through the bars. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z These people fed her scraps of food, much as they might have fed a dog. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z The students moved away from the bag in which they collected their quilting scraps and pulled up their feet that were dangling over the edge of the bed. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z My life was turning out a lot like one of Holly’s scrap quilt squares. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z The walls of these houses were patchworks of wood or aluminum or metal or whatever scraps were lying around. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z Even he had to scrap his own work sometimes. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z Bianca got right next to the giant’s foot, trying to balance herself on the metal scraps that swayed and shifted with his weight. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z I watched him cleaning his master’s woolen coat; he was wrapping wet scraps of brown paper about hot coals, and, with a tongs, dousing grease spots with the steaming paper. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Like all their neighbors, Maria’s family heated their house by burning wood, and she was gathering scraps that were lying around the yard. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z Uncomfortably, I thought of the Bacchae: hooves and bloody ribs, scraps dangling from the fir trees. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z It was only a small handkerchief, quite a scrap of a thing. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z She sewed clothes for him, built him toys from scraps of wood, rags, and dried grass. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z I cleared the Scoreboard off my display and opened up my grail diary, which had now grown into a vast mountain of data containing every scrap of information I’d collected since the contest began. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z I sighed, marked my place with a piece of scrap paper, then leaned back in the chair and studied the kid. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z “If we took the rails, the scrap yard might be suspicious and tell the railroad company,” O’Dell answered. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z When they had cooled she dressed the three dolls with scraps of cloth which she took from her black bag. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z From a scrap in the street the jam was jumping to nines. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z A group of gulls had settled on the water and were crying foolishly, hoping for scraps. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z They ripped up his scrap of paper with his mother’s phone number on it, too, and tossed it to the wind. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z Judy and David started searching then, looking in corners and boxes and under scraps of paper. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z He’d cut up scraps from real shingles to do the roof. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z Below each gay scrap of color was a scientific name in my grandfather’s careful copperplate script. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z Sometimes they alighted on unattended boats and scavenged desperately for deck scraps. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z We went back to Gus and Bertha’s a few times to check the trap, but the table scraps were still in the pie tin. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z Kira opened the box he had made for her and held out the fabric scrap, reminding him. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I devour each scrap of newspaper that falls in my grasp. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z Maybe a slave girl in the bottom of a boat, chained to some boy with the prettiest eyes and some girl who keeps stealing my little scraps of food. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z I took out a ballpoint pen and started pressing it against a piece of scrap paper, making dents in the paper but not making a mark. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z He made the furniture from driftwood, nails, and scraps left over from the cabin. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z So La Cadette turns to the captain and asks, “Does Etienne spend the whole working day scrapping with people? He might as well be back in school!” Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z There, right in the basket’s center, he could see the last scrap of parchment. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z But it seemed they had all forgotten that, for Salva now had to beg for scraps, which were given grudgingly. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z Mission accomplished, he found a few scraps for himself, too. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z To Dr. Trefusis, I delivered scraps of turkey pulled from a carcass. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z Her father owned a big scrap yard in War, and her mother was the third-grade schoolteacher at War Elementary. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z We’d been waiting for more than an hour, starving for even the smallest scrap of news. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z We have a few more scraps of information about his intellectual pedigree. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z Then after you leave for school, I climb in through your window and put the scrap of newspaper in your door. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z They came on, clutching their scraps of wood until the time came to feed them to the flames. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z He pulled out a scrap of paper and a pen and scribbled some numbers. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z At night, before she slept, Kira held the scrap of cloth that had so often assuaged her fears and even answered her questions. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Shanties built out of every imaginable scrap of waste—roofs of coconut thatch or gunnysacks, walls cobbled together from metal signs, wooden crates, or even cardboard taped over with plastic sheets—lined the narrow streets. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z “The Lord of the Dead is the only possibility” A scrap of aluminum dribbled out of Grovers mouth. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z He likes to paste lots of paper scraps together with flour and water to make a bigger drawing space. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z She collected all the dry scraps and puzzled over them for a long time, trying to figure out where they fit into the larger piece. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z The guard began to laugh again and threw the scrap of iron over the fence. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z The boy was young, the bare scraps of a mustache on his upper lip. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z She begins to save cuttings from the fabric station in the store; every scrap goes into a steamer trunk with my name on it. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z “Go get the scrap iron,” I gasped at them. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z She’s holding a pen and scrap of paper and shaking it under my nose. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z There was no money for wood, but my father, he hauled slab ends from the scrap pile at the mill. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I dig my fingers in the pocket and pull out a torn scrap of brown paper. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z The worn scraps of fabric felt deliciously soft in my hands as I folded them in neat squares, transformed by my imagination into fine clothes for sale. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z The last week of March, as the hearing began, the steps to the courthouse were crowded with journalists and tabloid reporters alike, all rabid for scraps of anything that emerged in the testimony. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Doreen extricated a black scrap from her bundle and dropped it in my lap. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z He did not need to steal scraps of it now. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z “Heroines usually are the Kingdom of Death’s worst nightmares. They’re always barging in, waving scraps of metal around, and demanding things. No manners whatsoever.” Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z The heady smell was as odd in that desert setting as the little scrap of park had been, as odd yet just as familiar. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z It seemed strange that this scrap of paper had actually come from a battlefield, that Tom’s big hand had actually touched it. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z He called for bread and meat until he was sated and threw the unfinished scraps to the dogs who slept by the fire that roared in his hearth. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z In a blaze of smoke and bullets, Safaa’s bag bursts into a million shreds of carpet and torn clothing and scraps of cloth. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z Clary’s desk was a rickety table, littered with scraps of paper, all of them covered with notes in her neat, round handwriting. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z He pulled our little scraps of paper out one by one. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z The captain offered the knife to her, handle first, and held out a scrap of wood. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z He readjusted his spectacles on his nose, sighed, and drew the next batch of work toward him, with the scrap of paper on top of it. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z In the store we collect ladies’ lightly used stockings for use in parachutes and ropes, and tin and steel for scrap and metal drives. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z We’d put a piece of scrap metal-—or a penny, if we were feeling extravagant—on the railroad tracks right before the train came. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z In a square perhaps fifty yards on a side the ground was carpeted with broken human bones and scraps of thousand-year-old fabric. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Among the personal effects that authorities will later find are a broken comb, tobacco, embroidered slippers, and one very telling scrap of paper. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z She fished a little scrap of paper from her jeans pocket and put it on the desk. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z He took them to the library, then scrapped that idea after their shenanigans left the librarian blubbering and blue-faced. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z My daughter would sit beside me in the room, a small scrap of cloth and a needle and thread in her hand. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z Girls don’t scrap so much as boys either. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z I had to ask Daddy for the telephone number, then I’d probably see him not care as he scribbled it on a scrap of paper or said with a shrug that he didn't have it. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z Must I drool like Chow Chow, eyeing each mouthful until someone is good and ready to toss a scrap my way? In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z Around the edge were the squares we’d made together from scraps left by the people of Hope Springs—every print and color imaginable, a real mismatched jumble that together looked perfect. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z “Such a tiny scrap of life,” said Miss K. “He’s a little miracle.” Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z Logic puzzles used grids, but she didn’t see how that scrap of paper added up to being a logic puzzle. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z The tykes would be scratched and splintered by scraps of her own destroyed past, but there was nothing she could do. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z His room must be emptied, every last scrap either taken back with him to New York or tossed. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Daylight streamed through the hole onto a mound of splintered floorboards and broken glass from which rose coils of silty dust, pieces of torn carpet plastered here and there like scraps of desiccated meat. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z Quentin silently wrote the result down on a scrap of notebook paper. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z A relative would know personal names and secrets about husbands, babies, renegades and decide which ones were lucky in a chant, but these outside women had to build a path from scraps. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Too anxious to think of doing anything productive, I simply sat and enjoyed the weather, watching the wind tumble a few scraps of wastepaper along the cobblestones. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Sure, Tanaburi was a scrap of a town with one school and a tiny temple, but they still had to follow the same rules as everyone else. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z The roommates kept a stewpot simmering perpetually on the stove, tossing in a scrounged vegetable when they had it or a scrap of meat when flush, and squabbling over spare potatoes. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z She was the night wolf, no scraps of skin could frighten her. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Robbie obeyed with alacrity for somehow there was that in him which judged it best to obey Mrs. Weston, without as much as a scrap of hesitation. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z In front of the cutting table sat three five-gallon buckets full of scraps. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z She went to see him every day for two weeks, bringing him scraps she saved for him. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z It was red-hot, and a puff of smoke rose from what I guessed was a little scrap of human tissue that had been stuck on the blade from her last operation. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z She has a scrap of paper in her coat pocket that says, “We have it. Window. Two days.” The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z He brushed cracker crumbs and Ping-Pong ball scraps off his lap. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z Wash set the bowl of scraps on the edge of the back porch and handed Naomi the other bowl, now lined with neat filets. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z It’s as though the fabric scraps of my self are being sewn together, in tiny, almost invisible stitches, with the finest of threads. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Usually there would be a tide line of empty cups and glasses and plates with scraps of food surrounding it, which I didn’t like as much. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z The aeeda and small scraps stuck in their hair, their mouths, their nostrils, and worked, tickling, inside their clothes. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z The woman had scars carved into her arms and legs, bits of scrap steel embedded in her face and necklaces of scavenge twined around her throat. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z He flattened out the two humps of wire, and with great care wriggled the charred scrap of paper on to one of them. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z A few hours later, a pile of scrap metal stood in one corner of the clearing. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z Even if her cooking wasn’t any good, I was hungry and would eat every scrap. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z In the patrolman’s pocket was the bright green scrap of clothing that had snagged on the Mother Paula’s fence. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z I sort through my bag of scraps for reds, oranges, purples, heart colors. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z Lázaro shook his head and placed the crinkled scrap of paper in Sierra’s hand. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z Had she mentioned the scraps of paper, or his red eyes, or the musky-sweet smell on his clothes? Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z On May 11, 1906, the wrecking company dynamited the wheel, for scrap. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z It was a scrap of ancient bark material tied with a twist of sisal. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z We didn’t get another deer until fall, so with the scraps I made big square pockets for food gathering. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z A scrap of roofing tin propped up near the fire acted as a stove and baked the biscuits with its hot reflection. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z We should work hard to improve the prisons in our society—take up the unfinished work of Thomas Mott Osborne and transform these scrap heaps into repair shops, to paraphrase the great reformer. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z But by the time she got up to get some of the food off the floor, the previously quiet women had already rushed past her and savagely fought over every scrap of bread. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z Mice and rats and dogs have burrowed these tunnels through the dried clay, searching for food scraps. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z And there would be scraps, charred bones with bits of flesh still on them, the remnants of Drogon’s kills. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Tired, hungry still, and frightened, she stroked the scrap of cloth in her pocket, and waited for the next round of accusations. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Which skill or scrap of knowledge would be called for? The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z “That is where you’ve been taking the table scraps, isn’t it?” Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z Enrique is struggling financially Fed up with the cramped conditions in his mother’s apartment and their constant fights, yearning for some scrap of privacy, he has moved out and rented a bedroom in a trailer. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z A sheen of oil lay on the water just below where scraps of rug had been nailed down to act as dockside bumpers. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z He would buy further scraps of beautiful rubbish. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z Or we played with dolls our mothers had made us out of scraps of old clothing. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z I became a popular dinner guest, with my stories of hunting and horses, of scrapping and fighting mountain fires. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Bat Lady sat on a couch that looked as though it had been ready for the scrap heap during the Eisenhower administra-tion. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z In the summer of 1838, in his rented rooms on Great Marlborough Street, London, Charles Darwin drew a line down the middle of a piece of scrap paper. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z A havoc of scrap and rubble littered the alley. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Sanjeev turned back to the baseboard, to replace a Post-it scrap that had fallen to the floor. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z No maps or scraps of paper, no empty cups or loose change or receipts. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z The mirror came, a scrap of it anyway, and Angeline stared into it. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z I put enormous pockets all over it, using every scrap I had, including the pouches I had made last summer. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z Brian had taken to carrying a pocketknife with him at all times, and he often whittled pieces of scrap wood when he was working something out in his head. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z His fingers were clenched tightly around a scrap of lined paper. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z Lina watched as he wrote slowly on a scrap of paper: “Mayor stealing. Secret room.” The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z On a scrap of fabric, someone—Chubs?—had sewn a perfect black square. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z They came on serviettes, on paper tom from exercise books, on scraps of foolscap, on the backs of our own leaflets. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Some people try to scare me away, to keep these few scraps for themselves. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z Mrs. Nurmi was out in the yard by an old wood stove which she still used for boiling the vegetable dyes for her weaving, or peelings and scraps for the hens. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z She reach in her pocketbook, pull out a scrap a paper and write her telephone number on it. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z Several minutes after he presses it, enough to make him double-check the address on the scrap of paper in his jacket pocket, Maxine arrives. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z And he would have seen that every scrap of The Landry News was gone. The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z Or across to Stockton, where I could live on the levee and Diego could visit me every day and bring me scraps of food. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z For not a leaf fragment blew under the door but what the wall panels flipped open and the copper scrap rats flashed swiftly out. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z A feeling of reassurance, of solace, came from the scrap. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The kind you let in your house because he was not dangerous, because you had seen him with children, bought his products and never heard a scrap of gossip about him doing wrong. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Eighty members of the Husky marching band led the procession up Second Avenue and Pike Street as confetti and scraps of paper mixed with a steady, cold rain drifting down from clouds high above. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z And he says, “You might live, Djo. But you need every scrap of your strength.” Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z To anyone else, it was a ratty old scrap of leather, barely recognizable as a baseball glove, fit for the garbage can. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z “A man can’t make a living out of books and scraps of paper,” Dad said. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z My mom stands up and puts a scrap of paper on the table. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z “All you have to do is let go of that scrap of cloth and let it drift down here to me. The moment you do, your loved ones’ safety is assured. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z Then his plate was put before him: hominy grits and a scrap of bacon. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z I vacuumed books for epigrams, scraps of information, ideas, themes—anything to fill the hollow within me and make me feel educated. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z I scramble to connect the few scraps of information I do have. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z She removed a scrap of paper that had a three-by-three grid drawn on it with the message Fly into flamingo theater, enter empty nest. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z She stuck a scrap of paper in my face. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z She knew when Trip had failed a math test by the shredded scraps in his trash bin, when Moody had been writing songs by the crumpled wads of paper in his. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Ye are to tell the world there isn’t a scrap of food in this house, not a lump of coal to start the fire, not a drop of milk for the baby’s bottle. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z Kyle had already scribbled out the answer on a scrap of paper: “Go to Liberty.” Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z He had taken the scraps back to the water with the thought they might work for bait, and die other fish came by die hundreds to clean them up. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z I opened my closet and there they were, where I’d left them four months before: my scrapping boots. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Shining scraps of snow lighted the ground as far as she could see. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z Word came that a new garbage dump, the Mlothi, had just opened, and many of Alexandra’s poor were going there in search of scraps of food. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Mr. Das hunted about until he came upon a scrap of cloth. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z Atop their interlaced bodies, three small scraps of parchment rose and fell with their movements. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z For what was a person but the sum of all the scraps of their memory and experience: a finite set of components with an infinite array of expressions. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z In her mind, she planned them out, sewn from scraps of moosehide that were left over from the summer. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z Even the meat scraps between their teeth had been washed out. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z I woke up every morning at six to study—because it was easier to focus in the mornings, before I was worn out from scrapping. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z “I need you in Oneida, not mucking with scrap!” Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z “She does look rather worn,” Ignatius said, watching Miss Trixie spread the contents of her bag on her desk and sort through the scraps. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z They walked and walked, and still the streets and shacks and scrap bunkers went on. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z I will sleep in alleys and stables, wash dishes for kitchen scraps, beg pennies to buy pens. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z “Three-two-nine-three-eight,” he whispered, then checked a scrap of paper in his hand. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z But it's just a scrap of it, an inch. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z An official collection song had this line: “We collect bones, scrap metal, rags, false teeth, and paper bags.” Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z As the bin continued to pitch, the scrap at the front began to slide forward, bit by bit, a great iron glacier breaking apart. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z The giant careened back into the junkyard, and his right hand fell off, landing in the scrap metal with a horrible CLANG! The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z She reached into a pocket of her apron then and pulled out a small, faded scrap of multicolored fabric. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z Over the following centuries their descendants colonized virtually every habitable scrap of land in the Pacific. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z He reeled away, unsteady on his feet, and Grey Wind snapped at his arm, teeth ripping at his sleeve and tearing loose a scrap of cloth. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z On our walk back to the car, my mom pulls me close to her and shows me a little scrap of paper with a phone number. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z She reached into the muddle of papers on her desk and found a scrap on which someone had written with a green pen. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Perhaps some might turn up in King’s Landing with their scraps in hand, hoping to convince his sweet sister to make good on them. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Instead, army engineers arrived unexpectedly on November 24 with sledgehammers and blowtorches and reduced his precious accelerator to scrap. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z But Grammy says it’s a compliment and that potential is like coupons in a drawer; if you leave them there, they are nothing but scraps of paper. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z Seeing as how I no longer ate anything, there were no rotting food scraps to worry about, just cigarette butts, aspirin tins, wads of undernourished hair, and bloody Kleenex. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z “But I had stored a few things in the clearing so they missed the burning. My basket of threads, and some scraps of cloth. And look at this, Matt.” Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z There is a scrap metal recycling plant, a sprawling Goodyear tire factory, and a plastics factory. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z A metal dealer never guessed that the grinning Italian kid who often came by to sell him armfuls of copper scrap had stolen the same scrap from his lot the night before. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z In it she put a piece of fat from the bladder-bag and a scrap of sinew. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Tuerto bats leftover beads among the tools and scraps lying around. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z “There’s scrap iron out there, boys,” he whispered. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z She scribbled the words on a scrap of notepaper. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z Now, with Thomas watching, she fetched the scrap and laid it in the box. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Hatsue went out into the desert wind and returned with a few scraps of tar paper she’d found blown up against a roll of barbed wire along a firebreak. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z Having seen firsthand that the conventional method of data gathering was in this case absurd, Venkatesh vowed to scrap his questionnaire and embed himself with the gang. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z But when he went to the first training session, he stared at what was before him: a dull metal container full of scrap metal. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z When she finished, she showed the scrap of cloth to Marmalade on her left before passing it to Archer on her other side. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z So he slowly pulled away from anyone who ever tried to befriend him, like a starving man hoarding his last scraps of bread. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z “Here’s what was in the box,” said Lina, lifting the covering paper from her patchwork of scraps. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Piles of metal scrap sat here and there, with three anvils positioned around the forge itself. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z I remembered him reciting a poem at our nika from a scrap of hotel stationery paper. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z He was always keeping his eyes out for scrap metal and saving things like nails and screws. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z “Unfortunately our present leadership won’t authorize a quest to look for them—” “Because Reyna isn’t stupid,” Hazel said. “—so we have only a few remaining scraps from the books,” Octavian continued. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z They had left behind many of the things they had salvaged from Endurance, including the scrap lumber that had made dry floors for their flimsy, canvas tents. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z He constantly attempts to put the tiniest scraps of paper and lint and whatever else he finds on the floor into his mouth. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z He was more interested in the encyclopedia than in the domestic problem, even when he had to content himself with a scrap of meat and a little rice for lunch. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z Stubbornly he had fitted and glued the scraps together and carved out three small crucifixes from the blessed wood. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z He grabbed a scrap piece of paper and a pencil off his desk and began to sketch. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z I watched as she used the rotary cutter to cut a pentagon shape, sewed different scraps together around the pentagon’s edges, and ironed after each seam. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z “Been hanging around here for months. Bertha keeps putting table scraps out for him. He don’t mind eating her meat loaf, but he don’t want nothing else to do with her.” Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z As if joining scraps of fabric to make a quilt, Molly puts them in the right sequence and stitches them together, creating a pattern that was impossible to see when each piece was separate. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z Sometimes they’d take their pencils and scrap paper and draw to pass the time. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z Hephaestus would lose his temper when projects didn’t work out, and he’d toss his scraps into the mortal world. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Like the garbage bin at his boy’s home, the can promised a variety of scraps. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z He shrugged, pulled out a little scrap of paper from his jeans pocket, and flicked it across the table to me. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z Each morning Beetle started the fire, blowing on the night’s embers to encourage them to light the new day’s scraps. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Once that was done, he began to recast the Celestial bronze scraps. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z The next time that she got a chance, Piper swore she would melt down Katoptris and sell it for scrap metal. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z He set to work fashioning for himself a kingly cape made out of a scrap of the red tablecloth. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z He grabbed a piece of scrap paper and spent nearly a half-hour drawing diagrams and explaining the basic biology of cells as Deborah asked questions. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z We would feed our scraps to the poor. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Reginald James, the physicist, declared that once he got back to Cambridge University he never wanted to see another scrap of ice for the rest of his life. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z The four boys stared open-mouthed at the wound and the scrap of flesh, like a button mushroom, curling in the cherry blood that ran into the comers of the slate. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z He plowed across the tissue paper battlefield, his shoes collecting colorful scraps. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z A bicycle cart rattled by, full of scrap. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z She takes a faded scrap of paper from her pocket, bearing her name, her real name that he coaxed from her years ago and asked her to write in one of his notebooks. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z When I was a kid, I would gather the brightest reds of the fallen leaves and tie them with scraps of ribbon into little bouquets for my mom. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z Pretty much everyone else she’d ever known had died; he was a scrap left over for her to take, the alternative to being forever alone. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z She handed him a scrap of paper which she had hastily ripped from a page of her film magazine. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z I wiped the last scrap of scrapple around my plate in the corn syrup. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z She almost fell off on the first turn, zooming down a new path they’d spiked with scrap metal only a few days before. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z He makes sketches on scrap paper until I’m satisfied they’re right, then I let him draw them in the book. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z Huge finlike wind wings stuck up along their lengths, harnessing the breezes to help move the lumbering ships and their scrap loads of nickel, copper, iron, and steel. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z Lina gathered up the scraps of paper from the floor and gently pried open Poppy’s fists and mouth to extract the crumpled wads. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Two ravens sat on Odin’s shoulders, and he would give the ravens scraps of meat as well, while they whispered to him of things that were happening far away. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z Finally, she slept, without dreams; and in the morning when Kira woke the little cloth was limp, no more than a wrinkled scrap of pretty fabric in her bed. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “Mum! Dad!” he yelled, but the wind and the rain and the torrents of the river tore his voice away like a scrap of tissue paper. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z Then he’d cleaned the spatter of rain and moisture from the floor of the refuse room, and made sure there were no scraps of rope or other signs of their presence. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z Just when the clerk looked over the top of the counter and said, "Aintie, what you gonna have today? You need some neck bone scraps?" March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z When another customer came in and gave her a bundle of scrap fabric, I couldn’t resist asking. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z But dese scraps of paper I got in my pocket are his trials and errors. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z I scribbled their names on a scrap of paper towel. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z I dug into my pocketbook and found the scraps of my letter to Doreen. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z Eventually a fine fat pickle, greenish yellow and hard at the ends was fished out and laid on a scrap of brown paper. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z “We dig up those pipes, bust ’em into pieces, and sell the lot to a scrap yard. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z He had got a scrap of paper and was folding it into a note-book. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z He collected scrap metal, made clay pots, and worked in a convenience store. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z I noticed, when the woman paid, she took out a stack of fabric scraps and said, “For your collection.” Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z But because they had called to her in a friendly way, Kira moved through the shed, through the clatter of the wooden looms at work, and picked up the scraps from the floor. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z At that time he had a cigar box full of scraps. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z The farmers would put out scraps for the animals, and she’d jump for it. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z When they escaped that complex of mirrors and marbled halls in an eruption of fire and rubble and charred scraps of paper. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z I plan to build him a three-dimensional maze out of scrap plastic that I can pick up cheaply downtown. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z He lays the wrinkled baby-blue scrap of paper on the counter and asks our question. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z On the other side of the arena, Tyson and the Stoll brothers were racing miniature bronze chariots that Tyson had made out of armor scraps. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z I stared at the table, covered with leaves and scraps of paper. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z Victor, with hammer and nails and scraps of scantling, was patching a comer of one of the galleries. The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z Let slip the tiny scraps of information he knew. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z He handed back a crumpled scrap of parchment, slowing down only slightly so Magdalys could grab it. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z Dad answers with a wave, Mom a nod, and Gisa doesn’t look up from her scrap of silk. Red Queen 2015-02-10T00:00:00Z “We don’t know. The regiment arrived yesterday and commandeered every billet, every scrap of food, and every ship in the town. They’d have had this boat, too, if you hadn’t taken it.” The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z I have been fortunate enough to receive letters with such information, to have rêveurs share with me writings from journals or thoughts scribbled on scraps of paper. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z In an effort to stop Japan, President Franklin Roosevelt imposed ever-increasing embargoes on materiel, such as scrap metal and aviation fuel. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z She filled my closet with handmade dresses with puffed sleeves and made dolls’ outfits from the scraps. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z He lay down a scrap of cardboard and used another piece as a blanket to keep mosquitoes away. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z She was mending the dress she’d wear to the gathering when he “come sneaking out of here holding his boots in his hand and looking like a dog that’d stolen some scraps.” The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Penelope wished she had thought to bring some scraps of meat with her to lure the poor frightened things. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z No definitive data exist, but the majority of the extant evidentiary scraps indicate it. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z For years, leftover beef scraps were ground up and put into cattle feed. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Every scrap of arable land had been terraced and planted with barley, bitter buckwheat, or potatoes. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z Jody patted their heads seriously, and moved on to the weathered scrap pile. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z The speech had been proceeding for perhaps twenty minutes when a mes-senger hurried onto the platform and a scrap of paper was slipped into the speaker’s hand. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z I tried to make a ladder from bits of scrap wood, but it kept collapsing whenever I put my weight on it. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z Every scrap of shelter and deceit was stripped away, and she stood naked, body and ghost and dæmon together, under the ferocity of Metatron’s gaze. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z It stabbed its sword into a junk hill, missing Grover by a few feet, but scrap metal made an avalanche over him, and then I couldn’t see him anymore. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z I grabbed it up quickly and had started out—jittery, anxious to leave—when my eye was caught by a scrap of paper also on the table. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z There were a whole bunch of scraps of paper on top, and there was a folded index card, too. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z She gathered a handful of scraps, stood up, and hurled them in his face. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z Then she went to the carved box and took the scrap of fabric with her to her bed. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z For days afterward, Pax would scour the ashy fire bed for overlooked scraps. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z On the scraps are telephone numbers: their only way to contact their mothers. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z I really didn't want to put my hand in there among the scraps of paper and pens and pencils and stray peppermints and gum wrappers. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z She could work all day at the railroad site, then race David and Shay home on hoverboards, her backpack full of more scrap metal than she could have lifted a month before. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z And just when Holly had mentally consigned herself to the scrap heap, she felt it. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z He would eat later, off whatever scraps Lord Ramsay thought to send him. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z He paced his cage vigorously, and even ignored the scraps of meat that were given to him to whet his appetite. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z Once inside, he paused several times on the stair to remark upon scraps of debris that the janitor had missed, feebly kicking at them with his foot. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z Within a minute of the zeppelin’s hitting the ground it was a mass of twisted metal, a pall of smoke, and a few scraps of fluttering fire. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z She pauses at a page that holds a scrap of paper bearing the looping signature of Lainie Burgess, next to a space where an equal-sized piece has been removed, leaving only a bright blank void. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Eating scraps of food and drinking warm beer and not talking. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z They ate only if there were leftover scraps, which was never the case in my house. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z She rolled over and over among the scraps of silk and batted pearls around the floor. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Klaus ignored the insult and opened the book to where one of the scraps of paper was marking his place. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z “You scrap like this dude say you do, you can roll with us anytime.” Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z In the pot on the stove were scraps of cow bones stewing in hot bubbling broth. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z “There’s an old shed that’s falling down behind the MacGregor place. I’m going over to gather up some scrap wood. You’re welcome to come along.” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z Boys no older than I nailed together boxes out of wood scraps, painted them in bright colors, and set off for San Juan or Río Piedras, where men paid ten cents for a shoeshine. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z In contrast, the scrap of cloth from Kiras pocket, the one which had created itself so magically in her fingers, fluttered where it lay near her head. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Painstakingly, she put a dot of glue on each of the scraps and pressed each one into its place on one of her precious few remaining whole sheets of paper. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Then, inspired, she tied around her head one of the red scraps from the cloth in which she was to have married Zororo. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z The light had retreated at the insistence of the darkness—a scrap of cloud lidding the blank eye of the moon—and Bone Gap was still. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z When I open the box, I see broken shards of my Christmas ornament, along with burned scraps of what must be my father’s painting. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z She leafed through her study book, crammed with sketches of insects painted from life on scraps of vellum. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z The moths weren’t...they weren’t scraps of rag. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Logic puzzles used grids, but she didn’t see how that scrap of paper added up to being a logic puzzle. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z She wished she had saved every scrap, every note he had written to her. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z I didn’t see her put the scrap of paper, the one that had been stuck on our fridge since the day Stan died, the one with my uncle’s phone number on it, onto my desk. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z I spent most of the voyage bent double over a puke bucket, bringing up every scrap of food and swallow of brackish water I choked down. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z I shrugged and crumpled the scrap of paper. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z O’Dell had drawn up a plan for our blockhouse on a scrap of notebook paper. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z She set the scrap a paper between us on the step, then she get in her Cadillac. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z Gwenforte lies at their feet, gnawing on a mutton bone, her strong yellow teeth scraping away the last scraps of meat and gristle. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z The moth lay on his pillow like a scrap of sooty velvet. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z She was holding one of the homemade confetti scraps, gaping at it. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z That prisoner slept on the same dormitory floor and worked in the factory as a garment cutter, a job that allowed him to accumulate scraps of fabric, which he traded for food and other goods. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z She sat at the gray folding table in the kitchenette, a heap of tom paper scraps in front of her. The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z They were hanging the family motto her dad had years ago stenciled onto scrap wood: LIVE, TRAVEL, ADVENTURE, BLESS, AND DON’T BE SORRY. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z How long could they live on eggs and the scraps left in the pantry? Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z He looked at the scrap of wrapping paper, at the crude, tiny address. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Walking behind his mother, into the dark hall, he managed to open out the scrap of paper. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z I had my eye on a piece of soft blue chambray at Mr. Dye’s store for the sky and I’d been saving scraps of brown gingham for the prairie. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z With not a scrap of physical evidence to go on, little can be said about the physical arrangement of the scrolls in the Library. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z We fed it some scraps of food and gave it water, but it still meowed. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z She remembered that she had placed the scrap of cloth there. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “We’ve used every scrap of construction paper in the whole district. And there’s no money in the budget to purchase more.” Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z A scrap of leather fluttered down into her lap. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Wounded by flying metal scraps earlier in the war, he’d pulled out his pocketknife and dug the steel from his thigh. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z We curled around each other on the scrap of wool at the feet of Mrs. Milgrom. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z They looked the other way when he set aside scraps of materials. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z They had trouble taking aim at their target because the sky was full of scraps of cloud, but they managed it at last. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z One of my eyes was swelled shut and I could taste blood, but I searched until the last scrap of evening’s light was gone. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Her mother hands me a pen from her purse, and I write on the scrap of paper as legibly as I can. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z “What were you doing carrying these scraps across the ocean ?” Brave Orchid took what was useful and solid into the back bedroom, where Moon Orchid would stay until they decided what she would do permanently. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Now and then one or another would approach the altar, bow and drop a scrap of humanity on the flames: a hair or two or a shred of fingernail. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z He climbed, stopped, and warmed them both briefly again, with a tiny scrap of memory that seemed certainly to be all he had left. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z I did manage to get a few scraps of information from him, though, such as my mother was buried in Virginia where her people came from. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z You probably think of hyenas as skulking, cowardly scavengers, waiting for scraps left by the lions. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z He selected an old broom handle and a short piece of inch-square scrap wood. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z He walks around the room so we can pull red scraps from the center of the earth. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z I’m okay, Papa, I write on a scrap of paper and show it to him. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z Out of sticks, palm fronds, salvaged shoes, glittery jewelry, two suitcase wheels, and evening gown scraps, Taylor had built a found- object beauty queen sculpture upon which she placed a scrawled sign for a sash. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z Next problem: finding uses for all the animal parts that were ending up on the scrap heap. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z This meant that the children were in and out of his study looking for rulers and scissors and scraps of paper to draw on. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Sam sagged with relief, mopping at his brow with a scrap of silk. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z I take out a scrap of bread, eat the white and put the crust back in my knapsack; from time to time I nibble at it. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z The crew of the ship leant against the side throwing scraps to the gulls, while visitors in pleasure-boats rowed slowly round the ship. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z Mapper was nearby, hunched over some scrap of paper and fiddling with his glasses, ignoring the play entirely. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z As workers piled mountains of fresh lumber beside each building, jagged foothills of sawdust and scrap rose nearby. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z There are scraps of paper and footprints on the tile. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z She gave the visitor a bowl of scraps, which he bolted down in ravenous gulps, looking up then for more. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z The stones only produced the smallest of sparks and the scraps of newspaper and leaves that he had collected were already far too wet. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z I had not so much as a scrap of lace or a remembered scent of her. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z Apa peers down at the scrap of paper in his hand and then looks up at the number on the gray stucco building. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z Mom had helped me collect scrap iron to make steel, and even let me donate our cast-iron kettle to the cause. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z The scraps of information we received were frequently contradictory. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z But all she had were small scraps of fabric she found in the streets and old newspapers, so she made dolls from the scraps and imagined they were rich ladies. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z Her pockets were empty of anything metal, populated chiefly by small pebbles and assorted scraps of yarn. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z Dad didn’t have enough of a crew to build hay sheds, so he went back to scrapping. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z I marvel how the scrap of bread on her tongue fills Therese with a visible joy. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z She smiled at me, and at the scraps waving in the early-morning breeze. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z “The fire’s getting low. I’ll go look for some more scraps while you guys talk strategy.” The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z In it we burn scrap pieces of wood left over from the construction. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z As I went to empty my porridge into the scraps bucket, Becky pointed to her own bowl. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z The children who lived were all scraps and eyes. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z “I can’t make them out clearly through all this dirt,” the prince said, inspecting what skin showed through the scraps of her shirt. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z Rain, colds, scraps, bullies, handing in homework on time, such things didn't worry these kids. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z Sierra nodded, conceding the point, as Rutilio struggled back to his feet and hurled a random scrap of metal for Cojones to chase after. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z He hardly looks at the scrap pad on which he’s doodling, but once in a while he tears off a sheet and crumples it up. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Middlings, warm water, apple parings, meat gravy, carrot scrapings, meat scraps, stale hominy, and the wrapper off a package of cheese. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z This mainly consists of scribbling with fountain pens on various scraps of paper. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z I got a new dress for Dinah, a tiny scrap of yellow trimmed in red polka dots. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z Desdemona, finding the scraps in the wash, thought they had to do with the new restaurant. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z “It is? It’s just a scrap of ribbon,” she said, lighting back up. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z It was full of junk and scrap dealers, men and women selling tools, sheets of metal, rolls of wire. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z We don't get much hunting done though because I'm too busy getting every scrap of information I can out of Rue about the Careers' base. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z “Surely there’s enough scraps inside for all of us.” Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z Rolling her eyes, Marmalade pulled a pile of canvas scraps from a pocket of her loose patchwork jacket and slapped them onto the table. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z The moment she had put her foot on the step leading up to the porch, she saw her ripeness mellowing and rotting before a heap of red velvet scraps on a round oak table. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z She might be able to turn a thousand scraps of fabrics into a beautiful dress on her sewing machine, but she can’t figure out how to take a picture like I can. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z Inside, a goose roasts in the oven and the black-and-white dog, Monty, waits under the table for scraps. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z Everywhere I look, there are little circles of women stitching, making the most precious things they can out of scraps of material. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z The children were fed in a haphazard fashion, a bit of com bread here, a scrap of pork there; occasionally they received a cup of milk, sometimes potatoes. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z Other versions were much more elaborate, full of descriptions and scraps of dialogue. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z But his mind wouldn’t stop spinning, and so he reached for a scrap of paper and a pencil from one of the boxes near his bed. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z She works for free, from dawn until late at night, seven days a week, to obtain money for food, units of blood, medicine, prostheses, and a scrap of land to build a permanent shelter. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z “Food. They took every scrap of food in the kitchen, even the ...” I froze. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z After the choice parts were sold, scraps would be thrown. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z "Here's a scrap of paper, Billy," said Cutwater, finding it in the pocket of a stolen coat. The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z But Sohrab had wandered to the window, where a half-dozen pigeons strutted back and forth on the sill, pecking at wood and scraps of old bread. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Monday morning was blue and white, and everything was blowing: cumulus clouds, bare branches, scraps of rubbish. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z An angry public outcry followed, and the plan was quickly scrapped. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z But when he was six his mother took the scraps away from him. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z “Hushpuppy,” the boy replied cheerfully as he reached down to hand the dog a scrap of bread. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z “Being crew wasn’t worth a scrap of rust with Sloth. Crew don’t mean anything except that we’re all sweating together on the same ship.” Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z “Thomas,” Kira suggested, “take your little piece of wood. The special one. I have my scrap with me.” Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z A brown-and black hound nosed his way around their feet, sniffing for fallen scraps. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z Muriel, the goat, could read somewhat better than the dogs, and sometimes used to read to the others in the evenings from scraps of newspaper which she found on the rubbish heap. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z The boy took Sounder some table scraps in a tin pan. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z I laughed, and she handed me more scraps. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z No flesh remained on the arid bones, but the two friends cracked them open and worried away every scrap of marrow from inside. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z They ate without speaking, first wolfing it down, then savoring each bite, chewing on the narrow bones, eating every scrap of potato. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z He is perhaps best known for this quote: “We will turn this prison from a scrap heap into a repair shop.” Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z He pulls a tiny scrap of paper from a pants pocket with the telephone number of his uncle Marcos in Florida. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z I start a fire in the stove with some lumber scraps we find behind the ladder in the little hallway. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z Every night now Guitar was seeing little scraps of Sunday dresses—white and purple, powder blue, pink and white, lace and voile, velvet and silk, cotton and satin, eyelet and grosgrain. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z Holly took the scraps and put them in a five-gallon bucket behind the counter. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z The Baudelaire orphans copied the puttanesca recipe from the cookbook onto a piece of scrap paper, and Justice Strauss was kind enough to escort them to the market to buy the necessary ingredients. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z I sat up and found, in the bottom of the box, a scrap of rough cloth tied into a bundle with some twine. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z By the first post I got my directed envelope with a dirty scrap of paper enclosed, on which was written with a carpenter’s pencil in a sprawling hand:— Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z With so many mouths to feed, every scrap of food was precious. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z An hour later, she had a new scrap of paper stashed in her lock box and a whole new page of calculations on her desk. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z He winked and patted his pocket, where he kept the scrap of canvas Sefia had given him a week before. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z “Could it have been the cucumber on the plane? The little scrap of tomato in your sandwich?” Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z “For treasure. Like this. Glass or metal scraps are best. The waste mart man will even buy cardboard and cloth if they’re not too tattered.” The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z With her hand in her pocket, she fingered the small scrap of woven cloth and pictured its colors in her mind. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Dragon, who had been admitted after she was safely caged, had eaten his bowl of catfood greedily, sleeping powder and all, purring as he licked the last scraps from the bottom. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z He loved the feel and colors of beautiful cloth and he would sit with his scraps for hours under the kitchen table. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z It was just the sort of car that my truck would make scrap metal of. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z “They were gonna pitch ’em all out in the scrap, but I was like, Wait a minute. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z “One package, yes, but one package may contain many things, do you see? Now clean up these paper scraps—I despise a messy floor.” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z Absently, she removed a scrap of lint entangled in Aziza’s hair. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z In the other hand he is holding a scrap of paper. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z Tony and Shawn had left the mountain, but they’d left to do what my father had taught them to do: drive semis, weld, scrap. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z “Got one more scrap of peppermint if you want it.” Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z “We've been talking about doing something with that scrap of ground by the roses for years, Michael.” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z “Nothing helpful,” Violet said, glancing down at a piece of scrap paper on which she had been taking notes. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z What not to feed chickens: Avoid desserts, citrus peels, coffee grounds, moldy food, and junk food, and limit scraps to a small portion of your chickens’ meals. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z She padded toward him with a bucket full of kitchen scraps, her sandals squeaking, moving toward the compost heap, and on her return trip she’d passed between the rows of raspberries. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z I push past the shoe boxes full of dream books and no-good lottery tickets and fabric scraps, and go for the one marked with my dad’s name—Gregory. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z He would have to fall back on scrapping. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z He was mad, and no wonder, poor old man; but he might have some scraps of information that Lyra could use. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Actually, you can hardly call them that, since they’re nothing but scraps of fabric, varying greatly in shape, quality and pattern, which Father and I stitched crookedly together with unskilled fingers. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z Some floated up to the surface of the ponds, the scraps that fed the meerkats. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z “Listen,” he said, “you want me to go writing your name everywhere? Carving your initials on trees? Writing ‘Eleanor, Eleanor’ on little scraps of paper?” The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z No one came to the door, so I scribbled a note on a scrap of paper and shoved it through the letter box. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z There’s some broken electronics, wood scraps, an old coffee table covered in stains, and a bag of clothes. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z It was a painting, a vase full of delicate flowers, bright blue, lavender, and red carefully painted on a scrap of wood. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I saw a scrap of paper balled up in her fist. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z Thumbtacks at the comers pinned four white scraps of bedsheet to the plywood. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z His bright orange backpack was full of scrap metal and apples to snack on. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z Before long his property was littered with busted vehicles and scrap metal. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z She had learned the little she knew, the tiny, next-to-nothing scraps that came the way of a trainee nurse, in the safety of the ward and the bedside. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z There was something hard and curving in a corner, wrapped in a scrap of cotton rag. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z As they had in Bursa, his pockets filled up with scraps of paper. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z I empty out my handbag, looking through my notes scribbled on bits of paper, all the scraps of information I’ve gleaned, the memories shifting like shadows, and I wonder, Why am I doing this? The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z Kutti nosed through a small mound of garbage, searching for a scrap to eat, his coat glistening. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z In the truck, on the way to the train station, she saw a few makeshift homes built out of what looked like scraps—even worse scraps than the barracks were made out of. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z I took different scraps of fabric from her grandmother’s old handkerchiefs and ripped up an extra copy I had of the funeral program to make the background. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z The interior was dark and leaky, with a mud floor like chocolate pudding, a cramped and filthy sleeping platform, and scraps of wet litter everywhere. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z “You even said so yourself. Dad and Uncle Armando were the same way coming up. They’d get in scraps all the time, right? But when it came down to it, they had each other’s backs.” We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z When I wake before dawn, scraps of nightmare stay with me: my face carved and branded; my brother hanging from the gallows, fair hair fluttering in the wind. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z “Why are you staring at ash and at sticks and scraps of wood when we could be chasing Loki? Kvasir! As you ponder and talk your nonsense he is getting away from us!” Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z On the last night of his spying he saw her empty a bucket of kitchen scraps not fifty yards from where he crouched. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z Upon the crest of a hill beyond the trees and roofs and spires of town sunlight lay like a pale scrap of cloth, was blotted away. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z Kate, the day I go around pinching your scrap bonnets is the day I dance a jig naked in the dining room. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z She removed a scrap of paper that had a three-by-three grid drawn on it with the message Fly into flamingo theater, enter empty nest. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z A man pulling a cart full of wood scraps went by. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z After swearing Abdulrahman to secrecy, Ahmad brought him up to the roof and showed him a cage he had built from scrap wood and chicken wire. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z To my surprise, she reached up to my lowest bough and gently tied a scrap of blue-striped fabric in a careful knot. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z Moreover, there was nothing inside but for a scrap of folded parchment wedged tightly into the place where a portrait should have been. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z What remained were scraps of bread upon on the floor, and mostly empty tankards on the tables. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z “So I heard. And when the silver queen saw your scrap of parchment she fell into your arms, yes?” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z “There’s plenty scraps to gather,” one called and gestured with her head as her hands continued work. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The best time to see them was at dawn because after the sun came up they would be hiding or sleeping inside shelters of old tin, cardboard, and scrap wood. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z “We can use fabric scraps and buttons,” I continue, making sure I don’t meet Edna’s eye and lose my nerve. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z As Ben agonized over a blank memory, Mr. Loring busied himself by walking around the room removing scraps of paper that were wadded and thrown under each desk in the room. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s an attractive and drizzly winter’s night, scraps of melting snow shored up against the edges of the Place de la Concorde, the city looking ghostly, its windows jeweled with raindrops. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z The scrap in her pocket was warm against her hand. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Walls had been constructed out of wood, scrap metal, cars, anything big and strong enough to protect what was inside: a mostly burned-out urban center. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z The authorities are still piecing together the scraps of what appears to be the tragic and broken life of America’s homegrown suicide bomber, Ethan Branson. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z Her special scrap of cloth lay folded there. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Strange flakes of fire, like burning scraps of paper, drifted around them on the air. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z We weren’t poor—Mother’s business was doing well and Dad was still scrapping—but we’d spent everything on supplies. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Sweat slicked his palm as he unfurled his fist and handed that scrap to Father Olufemi without looking at it. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z Tendai could focus on a part—the little teeth or scraps of scalp—and another area would collapse. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z On Thursday, after I’d finished scrapping, I drove forty miles to the nearest Walmart and bought a pair of women’s jeans and two shirts, both blue. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Voices call to her in ragged words stitched together from many languages, like dissonant scraps of quilt. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z The fence was sheltered on three sides by a screen of scrap lumber and flattened tin cans. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z With that in mind, she picked up a scrap of graph paper off the ground and read, Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z Then Farrow pulled a scrap of paper and a pen from his pocket and looked sternly at JP. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z I tucked the scrap up under my head, hoping to use it as a bit of pillow against my ear, but there was something hard inside it. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z There was litter about it, an unkemptness, a rundowness, a lack of plan; no flowers, and bits of paper and scraps of wood scattered about on the ground. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z “I help there. Not with the actual weaving. But I clean up the scraps and help prepare the looms. It is work I can do with my hands and arms. And I am strong.” Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I slipped on a pile of wood scraps, but when I shined a light on them I realized they were pencils—hundreds of them, all broken in half. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z Putting aside her qualms about eavesdropping, she crept close enough to the door that she could hear every scrap of the conversation within, and listened. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z And at the last of the journey, when Matt had run ahead with his treasured scrap of blue, the blind man had come alone. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “This lasted only a couple of months, but it helped me keep going. If it was more than a scrap of food, I shared it with other prisoners. They did the same with me.” Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z Clary let out a long breath, and a few of the scraps of paper on her desk fluttered. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Matthias and Dunwing pushed hastily past the scrap of sacking that served as a door to the King’s chamber and began their search. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z When the meal was left in scraps and ruins, Miles checked his watch and straightened up. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z I returned the books I had been using to the front desk, and threw away various scraps of paper. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z I got a notebook, handmade paper, and pencils made from recycled scraps. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z She’d made it out of crocus, a gunnysack fabric, and used scraps of bright cloth to make a dress and headwrap for her. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z Still, his knowledge was useful—and the Soviets wanted every scrap of information they could get. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Only deep into the play’s final act did he notice a white scrap of paper visible behind a flickering, holographic prop stove he’d been working on earlier. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z In the shrinking scraps of free time I had left, I traipsed after Granddaddy as often as I could. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z In the center of the room is my scrap box. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z I had buried what was left of my supper, but they dug it up, snarling and fighting among themselves over the scraps. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z A large table occupies that space, covered with tools and scraps of metal and gears and old computer parts and wires. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z Abruptly he left the bench, twisting and wringing the bag of gold scraps. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z Nestled in a scrap of purple velvet was a tiny jar of Mariam’s baby teeth. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z She cares about making sure every scrap of paper goes into a blue recycling bin. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z The abandoned stores, equipment and vehicles made an avenue of scrap that spilled across their path. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z A glacial sun filled the streets, and a high wind filled the air with scraps of paper and frosty dust, and banged the hanging signs of stores and storefront churches. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z Dad always worked from sunup until sundown in the weeks before the first snow, trying to stockpile enough money from hauling scrap and building barns to outlast the winter, when jobs were scarce. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z In a swift and furious struggle, all three of them, twisting in the air like scraps of flame, rose and fell and rose again, only to fall, finally, among the rocks on the far side. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z But Nanny belonged to that other kind that loved to deal in scraps. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z But not even a sibyl could have made sense of those tiny scraps of paper. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z With scrap lumber from Endurance and a small and precious collection of used nails, he began raising the sides of the boats to make them more seaworthy. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z The scraps of wood, still too damp, wouldn’t light. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z I made up every scrap of work in every class, I got a tutor, I studied like a monk... Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Best of all, instead of scraps from my maa’s worn saris, I was to have a sari of my own to wear. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z "The kitchen scraps are gone, and we'll have no begging after dark." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z She had been following the news in unrelated scraps. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z “That mountain. There isn’t a scrap of vegetation on it.” A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z It was as if her body had been tom to pieces and remade from the scraps. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z D’Ath and the other hounds feasted, too, for all the scraps were thrown into the rushes on the floor. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z My mom wordlessly kneels to gather scraps of drawings from our game of Honor Pictionary and stacks them into a neat pile. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z Branch shook himself briskly as if he had just played in the stream, then settled himself on the floor and nibbled at scraps they handed to him. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z My oldest brother, Tony, drove rigs, hauling gravel or scrap, trying to scrape together enough money to marry the girl down the road. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z I cut off one and chopped it into bits and scraps. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z She herself constructed shapeless beings made of leftover scraps from the wool she used to knit for the poor. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Dad jammed the forks under the bin, then lifted me and the scrap and began driving, full throttle, toward the trailer’s head. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z “Look!” breathed Petey, and he glanced up and saw one of the shadows flickering, gathering scraps of moonlight and cloud to assemble itself into a vague shape that drifted over the tops of the stones. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z Between my straw mattress and the bed planks, I had actually found an old scrap of newspaper, yellow and transparent, half-stuck to the canvas. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z Inside, the workshop was a warren of crates and sandbags, wood scraps and tools. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z To help fund the war effort, the Hitler Youth went door-to-door, collecting brass, copper, scrap metal, razor blades, paper, and bottles to be recycled. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z I walk back toward the closet, past Tuerto, who is napping on a shelf, curled inside a basket of fabric scraps. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z The first step was to stick the scraps of paper down. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z My daily routine was exactly what it had been: after breakfast I sorted scrap or pulled copper from radiators. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z There were scraps of paper on which he had written his evil ideas in an illegible scrawl, lying in messy piles on top of the copy of Nuptial Law he had taken away from Klaus. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z They brought Nebraskan wheat to Tokyo, Brazilian bananas to London, American scrap metal to India. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z Kira’s hand, in her pocket, felt no warning from her scrap of cloth. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The scraps of cloth, he was beginning to think, may have been a child’s pajamas. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Ear picked up a scrap of black cloth. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z We snake through a labyrinth of old furniture, car scraps, and oddly shaped metal sculptures that Annie welded together. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z While her mother slept restlessly, Kira sorted the dyed threads in her basket and began to weave them into the cloth scrap with a bone needle. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Bags of garbage and scraps of food were spilled across the hallway, amid a trail of melting snow. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z Luckily, she had two pieces of paper with her, crumpled, dirty scraps, much too small for all the words unspoken over nine years. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z Mrs. Chippy was too well fed to bother hunting, preferring to torment the dogs and dine on scraps from the galley. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z “This is your gift? A scrap of writing?” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z With no companies like GE buying scrap for their manufacturing operations, or shipping companies like Patel Global Transit looking to buy scavenge to sell overseas, the ship-breaking yards were idle. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z Some were KLA soldiers, but most were town residents, identified from scraps of clothing they’d been wearing the day they were last seen alive. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z He crumpled the scrap and stuffed it into the hole with the skull. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z Making us necklaces out of scraps of old rope like it said in the song, not knowing the real meaning of the words. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z He wore only boxers and ragged scraps of a terrycloth robe. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z Still, I worked hard, glad for any faint scrap of praise from Elnora. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z I have an image of a kitchen full of food scraps and broken dishes, like the A-Team after one of their bar fights. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z On this sticky little scrap is written carefully my word-of-the-day, which I must keep in my memory and use whenever the chance pops itself up. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z Meeks didn’t look at her as he studied the scrap of his name. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z David unfolded a scrap of paper from his pocket. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z It was hard work getting full on the scraps of crabmeat. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z They were old enough to remember when rags became felt for the war effort, when cans and scrap metal could become bullets and cans of grease explosives. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z “If you please. And if you have some scraps for our dog, she would thank you.” The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z He was walking behind them earning one of Miss Trixie’s bags of scraps. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z He doesn’t direct me to do anything differently; he leads me home to catch scraps of sleep just after dawn. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Agnes noticed and the atmosphere in the shop went tense and dark, like before a scrap at school. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z They had fifty feet of rope from scraps knotted together. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z Every year on the first day of May, people come from all over town to adorn me with scraps of paper, tags, bits of fabric, snippets of yarn, and the occasional gym sock. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z He tried to gather up some papers and scraps of wood, as if there were traces of his mismatched life that he hadn’t wanted me to see. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z My time with granddaddy slipped away as the domestic mill wheel gathered momentum, grinding its principal raw material—namely, me—into smaller and smaller scraps. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z He finds nothing to take with him, as he is unwilling to steal a sign, and the only other things out in plain sight are scraps of paper and the occasional smushed piece of popcorn. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z A few gray jays, so tame they would eat from his hand, landed nearby and started hunting for sandwich scraps in the flattened grassy area where the posse had been. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z One day before dinner at Patti’s, Jule stood on a street in upper Manhattan, holding an address on a scrap of paper. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z The rebels had dragged the couch from my mom’s office onto the back lawn, soda bottles and bits of paper and food scraps strewn around it. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z Miss Bessie stared at him sleepily as he climbed across the scrap heap, over the fence, and into the cow field. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z She was wearing this ridiculous apron with squirrels all over it, and Oso sat at her feet, waiting for scraps. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z She hands us all pieces of scrap paper. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z A young girl stood in front of me, a scrap of paper and a pencil in her hand. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z “Excellent. Now, we’ve brought in some scraps for you to practice with. Let’s see how ingenious you are.” The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z Vonetta was too happy to run out to the tree and scrap around among the twigs for a good licking stick. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z I tucked them into my shirt, then gathered my fabric scraps in a sack, slung it over my shoulder, and scampered up the tree. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Their prize possessions are scraps of paper, wrapped in plastic, often tucked into a shoe. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z He didn’t know why he kept the bag, except that it was made from a scrap of bark cloth and had come from Myanda. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z I lifted up the tarp and found it was half full of scrap metal. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z He giggled like a crazy person as he excavated the scraps. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z He sat outside on the steps that led to the backyard and wrote on scraps of paper. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z I drew on small scraps of paper so as not to be noticed and hid them between the pages of Dombey and Son. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z The hills were enormous mounds of old cars, appliances, and other scrap metal. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z When we were packing yesterday, Papa made Amil bring the Mahabharata book and only a few scraps of paper and two pencils. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z He’d manhandle one of the beleaguered cats up onto the keyboard and coax it with a scrap of ham to walk back and forth. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z Miss Trixie was reaching for the bag of scraps that she had brought as luggage. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z She came inside to eat, but most of her time was spent outside in the pen, slumped in the A-frame doghouse our father had designed and crafted from scrap pieces of redwood. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z Behind him, sitting on piles of scrap and rubble, was the blue kite. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z He had her sit behind his crowded workbench, the top of which was littered with old soles and scraps of leftover leather. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z The journey from rooftops to terrace was long for such small fluttering scraps as moths, and she had never been so impatient as in those minutes while they rose through the heights of the air. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z “Yes, the cloth is soothing at times too. I was fearful here at first, the same as you, when everything was so new. But when I held the scrap, I felt reassured.” Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I looked around at all the scraps of comic strips littering the bed. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z When the crow was hungry, it would land on the veranda and walk in doors, and Monet would feed it scraps of food from his table. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The test booklet, 2 pencils, and scrap paper wait for me on the table. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z There was considerable excitement and honor in winning, especially after Mother took a scrap of blue silk from her sewing basket and cut out a fine medallion, complete with long streamers. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z Rhaegal and Viserion were fighting over a scrap of meat, buffeting each other with their wings as smoke hissed from their nostrils. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z A wind scoured through, blowing scraps of refuse past her ankles, and a terrible pit of fear opened in her. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z The smallest scrap of no news made me cry. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z Boys who fancy the girl might pick a scrap with you to show her she's going out with a squirt. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z Meitner pulled out a scrap of paper and pencil, and Frisch sketched a diagram of a circle stretching into a long oval shape, and finally breaking in two. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z There was a fence made to look like ornate wrought iron around the little platform yard, which was done up with synthetic turf scraps left over from the indoor soccer field in Billings. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z When they were out of sight, she dropped the scrap of paper on the kitchen table and returned to her housework. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z Hephaestus was always tossing broken parts out of his godly workshop and littering the earth with scrap metal, but what were the chances some of it would hit Ogygia? The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z That led some of the boys to cut spoons out of scraps of metal so they could scoop their food without burning their fingers. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z A ragpicker, who was collecting scrap paper to recycle, pulled some old da-zi-bao off the wall and happened to tear the newspaper that was posted underneath. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z A huge truck swept past, lifting scraps of white paper into the sunshine; the bits settled down slowly. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z Joseph imagined Leo, perhaps a century ago, looking up at this same angel and drawing it on a small scrap of paper. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z She tells us take off every scrap of our clothes, get out to the tap in the backyard and scrub every inch of our bodies. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z I scuffled through the jars and envelopes and came up with it, an unprepossessing dried brown scrap. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z His little boat of wood and magic, scraps and spells, was ready. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z It was a little scrap of a thing, this mouse, perhaps still a baby, on its first foray into the world. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z He was peaceful unless you took his scrap of quilt away, and then he became distressed and produced horrible, loud mooing noises until he got it back. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z Before I could protest, a thousand scraps of garbage surged off the bottom and flew straight at me from both directions: broken glass, rocks, cans, tires. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z When our hands blistered from the buckets and shovels, we tied scraps of cloth around our palms. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z "Sorry you're so crowded," he said, moving the car into traffic, "but I'm studying for my permanent teacher's license and I've been collecting every scrap of paper I can get my hands on." The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z “What are all those scraps of paper stuck in it?” The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z “Alex told you to scrap the statement our press secretary drafted and write this whole thing?” Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z We sewed red flags and tied the red scraps around arms, legs, horses’ tails. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z He found a small scrap of paper and tore it into strips, which he used to mark significant parts of the book. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z My fingers brush over the soft fabric scraps— my pretend clothes for sale, which I used to sell to my cousins for leaves. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z According to the scraps of labels with Chinese and American addresses, stamps, and postmarks, the family airmailed the can from Hong Kong in 1950. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Fie continued to provide Segre with metal scraps and even acceded to Segre’s request to irradiate a quantity of uranium oxide mailed from Italy so that he could continue searching for nuclear reactions. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z I stamp out the remains of my little fire, clear up the scraps of food, and tuck Cinna’s gloves in my belt. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z The scraps of paper in Lefty’s pockets now recorded not gambling debts but forwarding addresses in Athens or Astoria. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z “Hey, Mountain Goat,” Dad said at the end of the dinner, while Mom was putting our table scraps in her purse. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z They tore up scraps of canvas, placed them in a hat, and drew, one for each sailor. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z Sierra dug into her pocket and pulled out the scrap of paper her grandfather had given her that morning. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z What they must see is the white wings only, a scrap of face, my chin and part of my mouth. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z He gestured, and she could see a large table with his carving tools and scraps of wood. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z He thrust a scrap of paper in my face. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z When every scrap of paper in the street had disappeared, they shuffled home, heads still bowed. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Many and more of the worshipers were wearing some scrap of red cloth pinned to their sleeves or tied around their brows. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z He drew a scrap of cambric from his pocket and handed it to her. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z “I grab me a scrap of paper and write it down. It be out of my head then, and onto the paper.” Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z Touching her scrap of cloth, she shook her head no. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z They were hanging the family motto her dad had years ago stenciled onto scrap wood: LIVE, TRAVEL, ADVENTURE, BLESS, AND DON’T BE SORRY. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z They dragged boards and other materials down from the scrap heap by Miss Bessie’s pasture and built their castle stronghold in the place they had found in the woods. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z He was gone, leaving Winston holding the scrap of paper, which this time there was no need to conceal. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z Their smoky glow flickered redly over the scraps and tatters of building material, as if they were the last remaining flames of a great conflagration, staying alive out of pure malice. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Then he tripped over something in the tall grass—a circle of scrap metal about the size of a tractor tire. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z We played “lorry” inside the many stolen, scrapped cars strewn about the yard. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z We walked up a slight hill, following a simple map Chestnutt had drawn on a scrap of paper. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z He had thrown a piece of scrap metal at the toes and hit one, making a deep echo, as if the column were hollow. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z She is crying now and wiping the tears with the clothes and fabric scraps. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z The scrap of song came from a woman’s throat, and Joe thrashed and beat his way up the incline and through the hedge, a tangle of muscadine vines, Virginia creeper and hibiscus rusty with age. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z He stubbed out his cigarette on a bit of scrap metal. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z She groaned and let the scrap of paper fall from her hand as she struggled to her feet. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z Also, I saw only one pair of trousers actually completed during the time that I spent there, although the factory workers were shambling about clutching all sorts of scraps of cloth. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z I penciled these notes on the back of a scrap of paper, so I wouldn’t forget. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z I slipped the folded scrap of paper in my pocket and swore to forget about it. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z Holly laughed and went back to sorting her scraps. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z Especially when they hear that someone else might be making money off those scraps, or using them to uncover potentially damaging information about their genes and medical histories. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z "A dog,” said Dan, "would be a friend. He could eat scraps of food. He would save us waste and would save motions for the garbage man.” Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z They faced a pit of hungry reporters, all desperate for any scrap of new information. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Instead he gave me another scrap of cloth. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z Lina slid the piece of paper back over the pasted- down scraps. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z “Look what she has done!” she said and showed him the scrap that Kira had just completed, the one that had composed itself so magically in her fingers. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Mrs. Milgrom was laid in the cart and covered with a ragged scrap of cabbage-colored wool that had once been a blanket. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z Alone in his flat, Marco constructs tiny rooms from scraps of paper. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Mother said we should wait until morning, but Dad wanted to get home so he and the boys could scrap the next morning. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z 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 Michael wrote down three letters on a small scrap of paper. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z Sometimes she took a plate of leftover white rice and a scrap of bread to the living room, by the window. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z She had asked permission to take the scraps to her cott. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z McNeish pried nails from Endurance’s distorted decking and made a stockpile of scrap lumber, including the lumber that had been meant for the expedition's winter hut. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z It began to dissolve, leaving only scraps of bone, meat, hide, and a new drakon skull whose open jaws ringed the oak tree. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Not another scrap of the strange script has turned up in the 89 years since its discovery. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Someone had taped a scrap of paper to the opposite wall, with "#1" written on it in pencil. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z I hadn't the heart to tell Jay Cee there wasn't one scrap of space on my senior year schedule to learn languages in. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z More than thirty minutes passed unnoticed as these scraps—memories, judgments, vague resolutions, questions—uncoiled quietly before her, while she barely shifted her position and did not hear the clock strike the quarter hours. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z He jotted down his thoughts on yellow pads, envelopes, folders, scrap paper. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Tonight it is holding scraps of paper, the 35 bus schedule, and old copies of the St. John’s Review—our community newsletter. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z We played Operator with a scrap of cardboard and a length of twine for a switching station. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z Besides, I’m not offering food, and my ability to provide scraps has always been my main redeeming quality to him. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z Poppet finds a fountain pen amongst the clutter on the desk and tests it on a scrap of paper to see if it is properly inked. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z On May 23 Conant summoned to Washington all the program chiefs— Lawrence, Briggs, Compton, Murphree, and Urey—in the hope of settling on one or two separation methods and scrapping the others. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z She puzzled over the patchwork of scraps for a long time, tracing the lines with her finger, murmuring the parts of words. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z “I agree,” said Will, and every scrap of his attention was now focused on this great ferocious being in front of him. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z And then you had to throw these mistakes in a barrel, which counted against you because the owner could sell those only as scraps. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z Doon reached into the bag and took out the last scrap of paper. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z In the late evening, my father, David, and Pesza returned to our apartment with scraps of bread in their pockets. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z One of the men pulls out a small scrap of paper. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z Students stood under the last line of lanterns, their fingers curling through the plastic- coated wire of the fence, peering into the vast blackness, straining for a glimpse, a scrap of sound. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z So of the song of the Shadow there remain only a few scraps of legend, carried like driftwood from isle to isle over the long years. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z The frankfurters and cheese and sour cream is all gone, so I got to be watching for table scraps again and go out can collecting soon. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z I gathered all of my drawings, even the ones on small scraps, from underneath the lining in my suitcase. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z They exchanged scraps of paper, talked, and nodded. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Two scraps of canvas, and one would kill you. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z He washes the dishes, when he washes them, in the bathtub, where scraps of crust and kernels of canned corn are to be seen caught in the drain. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Once, he and Jutta built a little sailboat from scraps of wood and carried it to the river. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z On each scrap of paper, I wrote a number and location. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z He turned, still running, and headed for the scrap heap. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z A boy who scrapped with his foster brother one minute and laughed with him the next. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z We took turns feeding Legs scraps of food. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z It was carved in black wood, with a canopy of angels in relief and a few scraps of red brocade that were frayed with age. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z “Got scraps of paper all over the place,” she says. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z I found the gang lounging lazily atop the hood of a scrapped ’65 Chevy, basking in the flaring morning sun waiting for me. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Then he picks up his bag, puffs out his chest, and walks off, taking Camel’s last scrap of hope and my father’s pocket watch with him. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z Instead he turned his head away into the pillow, and soon he was murmuring his unintelligible scraps. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z She seized a quill pen and printed two lines on a scrap of the curly birch bark which the children collected to use in place of costly paper. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z Brother Luke brought small slender pieces of pine and showed Robin how to smooth them into mast and bowsprit, then found scraps of linen for sails and pieces of yarn for rigging. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z From the foot of the embankment I called up, “What scrap?” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z The captain made him sound like a starving mongrel, tagging at Lucky Girl’s heels, hoping for scraps. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z If I got into a scrap with Gary Drake I'd probably lose it. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z Sometimes we would get bright scraps of fabric from dresses Mom had made. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z Vonetta, Fern, and I could afford to have our little scraps. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z Chisamba Singles was like a small city—more than ten thousand people lived there, either in shared houses or small shanties built from scraps of metal and wood nearby. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z It was May Belle yelling from the other side of the scrap heap. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z She gives me Nia’s and Aaron’s and the teacher’s numbers; I write them down on a scrap of paper that Smitty has given me. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z Babies cried, tykes fought, scavenger dogs growled and menaced each other as they vied for dropped scraps. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Rough drafts of articles and scrap paper with notes were carried back to the Times building and put through the basement shredder. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z An occasional scrap of chewed rawhide was all that remained of the worms. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z But at this moment the four pigeons, who had been sent out on the day before, returned, one of them bearing a scrap of paper from Pilkington. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z At the top of her head was a sprig of brown hair tied up with a scrap of red yarn. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z A trail of scraps beckoned the passerby to climb the unpainted front steps toward some goal within the building. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z My mom had had it all reinforced a year ago, after she discovered that one of the night guards was snipping away bits of wire to sell in the scrap metal markets. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z The train flew over its pylons, curving toward the center of the trade nexus, speeding over brackish water, bright with leaked waste oil and scrap trash and the stink of chemicals. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z More bones and scraps of clothing were scattered all the way to the altar. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Tons of whale meat, bone, and scrap blubber lay rotting around the station. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z Seals glided by her boat, looking at Hazel hopefully, sniffing for fish scraps. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z I picked up the enormous bowl of table scraps and headed out the back door. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z But I kept thinking of the torn scraps in the basket, and after a moment I had to get up and look in the basket once more. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z One held a few wild mushrooms; the other, bits and pieces that might come in handy one day—scraps of cloth, twine, flint stone. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z Stubby tree branches, splintery scrap boards, even pieces of wadded-up paper that look like garbage. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z It was a scrap of colorful cloth, a bandanna or a handkerchief, probably left there by one of the gypsies who’d slept in these bunks before us. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z He even begged a scrap of silk ribbon from a traveler for Robin to use as a pennant for the masthead. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z A scrap of notebook paper, loosely tied with red yarn to my lowest branch, broke free. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z One at a time she drops each scrap of silk and lace into an empty teacup and lights it on fire. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Lovey walked with me, talking to everyone while they threw their scraps and bones in the black bags. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z She had seen the thin, ragged drug addicts huddled on street corners, begging for scraps. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z I walked past dark green Dumpsters filled with plasterboard and scrap metal, past blue portable toilets parked along the construction lots. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Since that day in Momingside Park, I can hear fragments of people’s thoughts, glimpse scraps of the future. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z It was said that he could describe the look and nature of an animal from a single tooth or scrap of jaw, and often name the species and genus into the bargain. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z What little scrap of audacity caught the attention of an army officer on the road? The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Eleanor had taken all the safety pins from her mom's sewing kit and used them to pin scraps of silk and velvet over the holes in her jeans, and her mom hadn't even mentioned it. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z His officers would be too slow and dull to notice it—a tiny scrap of parchment showing from beneath the pillow. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z I unwrapped the scrap of treated canvas I used to protect it and was relieved to find it dry and well. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Many of Alexandra’s poor flocked to Mr. Green to buy various parts of cattle —heads, entrails, hooves and heavy bones with scraps of meat on them. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Wilbur’s appetite had increased; he was beginning to eat scraps of food in addition to milk. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z She settled for scraps of fish and a little of the jerky that Osh made from beef and blueberries. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z Faces are a mercy; most identifications come after scrutiny of birthmarks, scraps of clothing, scars. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z He tinkered with some metal scraps from his building kit for a while, but whatever he was making, he wasn’t happy with it. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z Cans and bottles lay all over, along with crusts, peelings, cores, scraps, rinds, wrappers — everything you would normally find in a garbage can. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z A scrap of surviving color told me the horse had been black. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z If anyone had ever raised a hand to Trapis, a hundred howling children would have tom them to bloody scraps in the middle of the street. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Someone tied it to a stop sign and started walking, and that’s how far he got before it gave out. aside, grabbing more scraps, crying out, “Oh no! . .. Oh no!” Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z He examined the gleaming leather with satisfaction, removing a scrap of charred paper from the toe of one boot. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z Heleen had called her a criminal, but to them, she was only a little thief in scraps of purple silk. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z I filled the bucket with potato scraps and mutton fat, and put the pie on top. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z To make matters worse, I find this scrap of paper after art class on Friday when I am on cleanup. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z Each book has a scrap of duct tape on the spine with a year written on it. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z By their spontaneous action, the Greensboro students had forced the Durham leaders to scrap their plans for cool deliberation. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z I made some effort to keep up my schooling in the free time I had between scrapping and helping Mother make tinctures and blend oils. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z |
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