There are innumerable plant-animal combinations, mostly in the sea, where the green plant cells provide carbohydrate and oxygen for the animal and receive a share of energy in return. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

His voice reminded Grace of the ocean, of sand being sucked back into the sea. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

And now, at Grant Park, there’s a wide green lawn, with a cool fountain of sea creatures shooting water from their mouths. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

She’s holding the Coke, too, which sloshes like a stormy sea as she tries to outrun the bad visions of the recent past. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Slept but a sea apart on another beach among the bitter ashes of the world or stood in their rags lost to the same indifferent sun. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

As for the sea, there is no rhythm to the waves anymore; no reason to the ocean’s temperament. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

Lucy is sleeping soundly; the reflex of the dawn is high and far over the sea.... Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

She saw storms, rain, water droplets forming and falling and breaking apart as they struck the surface of the sea. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Beyond the fields, a mile or more away from the sea, rose a forest of oak, chestnut, and hickory, open and park-like, the underbrush kept down by expert annual burning. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

He waited and on the evening of September 15 a circumstance of fate, a coincidence, brought him through the fog at Ship Channel Bank to where Carl was stranded at sea. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

There was chaos on deck, people shouting and trying to get the schooner into open sea as quickly as possible. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Even the sound of the wind was being beaten down by the wildness of the sea. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Daddy said they haven't found all the animals in the sea yet" Argument started again. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

He told me that if I kept walking toward the sea, I would eventually find people who might have a better understanding about how to get to Bonthe. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

When we get to the door, the cab is waiting in a sea of white. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

He liked this area—it was the only place on Ogygia where he couldn’t see the sea, so he could pretend he wasn’t stuck on an island. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

There now appeared in front of me row upon row of bald female heads, a sea of naked scalps, every one of them red and itchy-looking from being rubbed by the linings of the wigs. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

The sun was rising for the third time since he had put to sea when the fish started to circle. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

In 1693, they made a proposal to the Admiralty for an expedition to find ways of improving navigation at sea, in particular by studying terrestrial magnetism in different parts of the globe. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

Abel opened the sea doors wide and a gray light flooded in. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

The tide was out, the sea very calm and remote. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

I cleared palm fronds, chunks of sea grape, pieces of wood, dead fish, fan coral, and shells that the sea had thrown up. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was suddenly thirsty, very thirsty, like I had just swallowed a gallon of sea water. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

Or at least I need to do something to stop the sea of tears that's threatening to rush down my cheeks. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

At sea, my father didn’t think so either. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Back came the manly lover, dripping wet from the sea, chest out, strong and virile, healthy and sunburnt. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

My report cards were a sea of red ink. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Once you have been at sea for a couple of days, it smells like every fish you have ever eaten, every crab you have ever caught, every jellyfish that has ever bitten your leg. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

I walked out onto the balcony and saw a boundless sea of people cheering, holding flags and banners, clapping, and laughing. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He gutted them with his sharp, sharp bait knife, tossed the guts into the sea, then impaled the fish on the hooks of his line. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

In Europe, Hitler had driven the British and their allies into the sea at Dunkirk. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

There was no sea and no sand, no grass nor rocks, no soil, no trees, no sky, no stars. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

They’re old, and the island is buffeted by winds off the sea. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

The emissary would thus be facing the sea when he inspected Min’s work. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

“I will torture you under the sea. Every day the water will heal you, and every day I will bring you closer to death.” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

That fertile valley is cooled by sea breezes, making it an ideal spot for growing lettuces nine months of the year. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

The fact that I was the son of the sea god was not going to win me any points with Mr. Crabby. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

Women looked like great sea snails—the corded wood, babies, and laundry they carried were the whorls on their backs. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I must never go far from the sea again. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Who ever heard of a scientist going to sea? Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even as they looked out in dismay towards the setting sun, it sank before their eyes into a white sea, and a cold grey shadow sprang up in the East behind. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

They had been walking toward the Capital City, the frozen sea looking exactly as before, even though the Sea King warned them that some time had passed, perhaps as much as three moon cycles. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

The wind began to blow steadily out of the West and pour the water of the distant seas on the dark heads of the hills in fine drenching rain. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

It is enough to live on the sea and kill our true brothers. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

The boy on my front, my pack on my back, we pushed our way through the sea of people toward the stairs. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

I only wished I could solve the problem of how to make friends in a sea of kids who thought I was a freak. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

But I wanted somebody to know that out of that vast sea of ignorance in the Black Belt there was at least one person who knew the game for what it was. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

He crept down a slope to rocks and scattered trees by the sea. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

I stepped off the bus in Bluefield to a sea of familiar faces accompanied by applause and cheers, brandishing the surprise medal I had garnered. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

The sea fisheries w ere defunct several years ago; the few fish they have now are from fish farms, and taste muddy. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

This will be the wild black world at the bottom of the sea, a place meant only for monsters and ghosts. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

But when it came time for the performance, I looked out into the audience, saw the sea of faces, and froze. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

She hoped it had soared to the sea and wouldn't return until it had a beak full of fish for its young. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

The sea into which he fell was called the Aegean ever after. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

When one has been long at sea, the smell of land reaches far out to greet one. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like sea things retreating with the ocean’s tide, water snakes and muskrats went back to the green areas along ditches and in the dampest vegas. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sea was calm and I had come far. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

His mind was away across the narrow sea. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The struggle against the sea is an act of physical combat, and there is no escape. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

The sea behind was a patchwork of black water and phosphorescent foam, and the last of the burning zeppelin’s flames were dwindling into nothing as it sank. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

"A fellow named Guy went to fertilize the sea and after he did his duty a shark took his legs." Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

They looked at each other a long time—two souls rolling on the sea under the silvery moon, peering into each other’s eyes. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

Disheveled piles surge toward the sea, shouldering each other for a place on the shore. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

Not that it was easy—the journey was an arduous one, perhaps harder than the sea passage to Australia. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

They knew only the sea, the ice, the occasional splash that might have been a wave or something hungry moving toward them in the water. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Every day, as he worked on the survey of Salem, he heard more stories of trouble at sea. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

I look up, hoping to see the stars, but there must be clouds because the sky is as black as the sea. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

It was just people and old ships and the whales, and the whales’ lamination, which he said was a non-organic covering that made it possible for them to live in the sea. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

They clamber down into a cramped, moist space that positively reeks of the sea. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Astern of us the island coastline faded, and no land showed anywhere, but only sea and heaven, when Zeus Krom'on piled a thunderhead above the ship, while gloom spread on the ocean. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Countless people and animals perished in the deluge, and sea demons emerged and began devouring those still alive. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

Brewing high thunderheads, he churned the deep with both hands on his trident—called up wind from every quarter, and sent a wall of rain to blot out land and sea in torrential night. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We can wait until the tide comes in and push her back to sea.” Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

“Let them come. This place can stand against twenty times our number, so long as we are well provisioned. And you say there is a way in and out by sea?” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“Says he’s brought us a wizard, Captain. Says he fished him from the sea.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The humidity by the sea was less than inland, but since there were no trees to provide shade, the sun penetrated right into the sand, making it hot and loose. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Finally, at ten o’clock at night, the barge moved out to sea, the swells getting larger and larger. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

A few times I walked out to the beach to sit by the sea, but after a while I stopped doing that, too. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

He turned and looked out at the sea. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

The sodden wharf planks moaned as the tide pulled the river water toward the open sea. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was dressed in Greek combat armor—sandals, kilt, and greaves, a breastplate decorated with elaborate sea monster designs—and everything he wore was gold. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

The sea was remarkable only in that it sounded like the tiny sweet roar of Tootsy, the conch shell. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Plastic surgeons removed half his nose, and much of the right side of his face after he was rescued at sea. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Water Claire had come in clothing, though it had been shredded by the gritty winter sea. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

“Since when do children get engaged? You’d better look around a little. There are other fish in the sea.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

But it already seems far, far away, and as hard to hold on to as sea spray. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

Sometimes, the hills reached all the way down to the sea, and in the light of the setting sun they looked like giant waves that had rolled up onto the land. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

This giant was even worse than that sea god Phorcys back in Atlanta, Percy realized. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

And another skimming low over the green blue sea. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

“If it comes, that attack will be no more than a diversion. I saw towers by the sea, submerged beneath a black and bloody tide. That is where the heaviest blow will fall.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“The sea! I have to swim in the sea. Don’t give me no itty bitty teeny tiny tub, girl. I need the whole entire complete deep blue sea!” Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Or, as others said, would the sea rise over the island in a terrible flood? Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her eyes grey as the sea were hard and fell, and yet tears were on her cheek. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

Most importantly, alongside seas and rivers rich in seafood and waterfowl, humans set up permanent fishing villages—the first permanent settlements in history, long predating the Agricultural Revolution. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the other hand, Percy looked so troubled by his experience with those imprisoned sea creatures, she thought maybe he could use a rest. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

An article a few weeks ago about the Senator said that Stuart moved his oil company down to New Orleans so that he can spend time out on the rigs at sea again. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Two people splash through the sea and into the boat. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

Baraa turns to see, and his wife plunges into the sea. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

The little raft swung above roiling seas, dangling from a pair of drop clips. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

The perfect home that could move around, a home that didn’t close you in or tie you down: and a sailor would always be at home if he was on the sea. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Auguste's voice travels as he tells a grand story about a sea monster he kept from capsizing the imperial fleet last year. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

The centurion...commanded that they which could swim should cast themselves first into the sea and get to land. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Dutch burgers, ambassadors and sea captains stood wide- eyed in amazement, face to face with another civilization in the Imperial City of Peking.' Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Others were probably swept out to sea by the wind. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

With ludicrous care he embraced the rock, pressing himself to it above the sucking sea. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

The sun rose on the flawless brimming sea into a sky all brazen—all one brightening for gods immortal and for mortal men on plowlands kind with grain. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Below that dramatic vista, the sea is as glass—a perfectly reflective surface, mirroring the sky. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

During the days, he walked the circumference of the island and found nothing of interest—unless you liked beaches and endless sea in every direction. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

We passed the turtle kraals, the pens at the dock where they kept giant sea turtles like a herd of cows. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then the seas rush over her and she floats underwater with wide-open eyes. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The sea looked rough to me. There was wind and rain.” Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Nothing like the vast, angry sea she’d been lost in only the day before. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

For The Count of Monte Cristo, they flushed toilets in the studio bathroom to imitate oars splashing into the sea. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

It smelled of rich soil and new blossoms, with just a hint of the sea. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

Even this old sea god must be smart enough to realize they were the demigods with the bounty on their heads. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

He liked the days he could spend with his bees, and the summer svm, and the way night came gentle from the dusky sea. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z

Although sedentary in adult life, they discharge their spawn into the sea, where the young are free-living for a period of several weeks. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Far below she saw the Wood, a sea of trees all around Taninli. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

He parted the water in the tunnel the way Moshe had parted the sea. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

Just as we wore ready to go, there was an explosion and we looked toward the sea. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

But there was an equally vigorous sea trade from India eastward, between India and Indonesia. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Strangely, it made Piper think of the sea - how the waves boomed along the cliffs of Santa Monica back home. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

“We have a sea bass special today,” she stammered. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

That was one thing that never varied about Lynn: her love of the sea. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Not to mention the danger of sea life. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Come,” he said, his voice sounding as if it were coming from the depths of the sea. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

I remember being lost among a sea of small heads and matching green-and-blue-and-gray uniforms. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

And when the sea breeze sprang up again, it pulled him toward Malaga. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

“Take your pick. Which one do you want? The sea horse? Or the merman?” The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

The witch consul lived in a green-painted wooden house within sight of the sea, and when they rang the bell it jangled loudly in the quiet street. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

A wave the size of a skyscraper crashed over the forward deck, washing the front crossbows and half the port railing out to sea. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

And Ivy wanted anything to be possible inside of it...even a girl who flew above a turquoise sea. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

In front of the cave was a high ledge of rocks surrounded by deep kelp beds, and I would have paddled by it if I had not seen a sea hawk fly out. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

This was a fish built to feed on all the fishes in the sea, that were so fast and strong and well armed that they had no other enemy. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

The smells of the sea and the strawberry fields wafted on the breeze. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

The rain grew stronger and the sea rougher as the night pro­gressed. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

As much as I don’t like being the newbie, I don’t like being the salty sea dog either. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

I think of all those people in Savannah the moment Hurricane Noah made that unexpected turn and barreled straight toward them, instead of heading back out to sea like it was supposed to. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

He walked across the land until he caught the taste of the sea, carried across the flat, marshy fields on a freshening breeze. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Far below them, so that the sound of the breaking waves was very faint, lay the sea. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

The abrasive Atlantic winds and the salt of the sea would eventually cleanse my soul. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Halley seems to have mentioned this event as a curious benefit of the sea voyage or the air in St Helena on the childless couple; Aubrey implies that Halley was the father of the child. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

Behind my captor, a sea of legionnaires tries to pull Helene down, barely keeping a hold on her as she twists and spits, a cat in a net. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

“She said ...” I remembered her sad eyes, looking out over the sea. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

They will sail to the Tropic of Cancer and sink into the sea. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Beyond that was a void: ten stories of empty air and then rocks and churning sea. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

He was everywhere, he enjoyed himself hugely, he laughed out loud at passing sea gulls. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

The boar’s severed right tusk fell at my feet, while the disoriented animal charged into the sea. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

One of them told it in the court of Hygelac, king of the Geats, which lay far from the land of the Danes, over the stormy sea. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z

They usually attack one and then go back to sea. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Illuminated by the setting sun, they had their first glimpse of Soldier Island jutting up out of the sea to the south. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

Some were completely whole, as if crazy sea captains had simply decided to steer the kilometer-long ships onto the sand and then walked away. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

I realize something about all the suicides traipsing north, north, north to a nowhere place where the Highlands melt into the sea. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

“It’s back there at the bottom of the sea, and we don’t have Percy to retrieve it.” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

The deserts and empty seas swung by him, and the mountains against the stars. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wished Lynn could have lived to see the sea with us! Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Which, after a long, stretched-out moment, is what I do, my tears blurring the sea of faces. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Halfstumbling, she raced down the dry stretch of sand to the darker sand where the sea still rolled in and out. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Under the stout, gray cylinder of the water tower on its commanding hill, the sandbar curved out into the sea. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

And before they will leave the shore and learn to swim, their mothers have to push them into the sea, which is often difficult to do because of their size. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’d seen both Doc and Mama weave strips of palmetto leaves and sea grasses into baskets and other shapes: flowers, crosses, and such. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

The goddess made a wide loop...to the top of Italy, then east to the sea, then down along the western coast of Greece. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

It seemed as though a person could walk out to sea on this reef, although it looked very rocky and slippery. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

It occurred to me that I knew nothing about survival at sea. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

It protests for a moment, but then it speeds me forward, a dot in a sea of moving humanity. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

A net woven from long grass that covers the couple during their vows, the touching of each other’s lips with salt water, and the ancient wedding song, which likens marriage to a sea voyage. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

For centuries after, people imagined that they could discern ghostly samurai armies vainly striving to bail the sea, to cleanse it of blood and defeat and humiliation. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

With the cod gone, the sea urchins on which they fed had no enemies left. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Lacking a consensus on what the American Revolution had intended and what the Constitution had settled, Federalists and Republicans alike were afloat in a sea of mutual accusations and partisan interpretations. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

“Since the sea is not yours, why do I have to give you any part?” Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

If I drew you adrift in apen and ink sea in a raging storm would you laugh at me? Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

If she’d wanted to, she could have seen the history of the sixteen-pounders at the gun ports, the ship, maybe even the sky, the sea, the very air that whipped around her. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

He sympathized with Mary over Sammy’s death, but he said, ‘‘Don’t blame the sea, dear. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Percy explained about the captive sea creatures in the aquarium, she understood why he seemed so upset. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Aziz was the little princess of the khan’s grand floral sea. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

“Uh, hi,” I said, looking out at a sea of faces. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

He has already built a fleet of eight hundred ships, appointed his close friend Nearchus captain, and sent them to investigate the coast of India by sea. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

She wanted to discover where the sky and the sea meet each other like two old paramours who had been separated for a very long time. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

At this the grey-eyed goddess Athena left him and left that comely land, going over sea to Marathon, to the wide roadways of Athens and her retreat in the stronghold of Erekhtheus. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

They never even see That storm clouds are forming Upon the peaceful sea. Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The captain is full of weatherworn wrinkles from a lifetime at sea—although his dark, tangled beard hides many of them. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

The boat crashed onto the rocks and overturned, throwing the giant into the sea. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

As they sailed into twenty-foot swells, the sea heaving underneath them, Percy could hear poor Hazel down in her cabin...also heaving. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Two weeks earlier, on the ship sailing over from Europe, she had slipped on a staircase in rough seas and broken her ankle. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

They fought hungry sea serpents about every hour. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

I turn and run out the door, past the grove, the tractor, the community building, past the houses and the reservoir ditches and out onto the cliff overlooking the sea. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

But the Dreamers have improved themselves, and the damming of seas for voltage, the extraction of coal, the transmuting of oil into food, have enabled an expansion in plunder with no known precedent. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

He thought he could hear the sea but perhaps it was just the wind. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

The winds flee before her and the storm clouds; sweet flowers embroider the earth; the waves of the sea laugh; she moves in radiant light. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Marie-Laure steps onto the floor of her grandfather’s old bedroom and summons him: a curious boy with lustrous hair who smells of the sea. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Having grown separately for millennia, the Americas were a boundless sea of novel ideas, dreams, stories, philosophies, religions, moralities, discoveries, and all the other products of the mind. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

I streamed the sea anchors— what was left of them—full open to keep us perpendicular to the waves, and I tripped them as soon as we began riding a crest. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

He falls toward the sea, layers of parchment peeling away as he falls, page after page until there’s nothing left of him. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

The beaches glistened with smooth stones and sea foam. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

The welcome hiss of wind washes in, or maybe it’s the sea and the wind, her ears unable to unbraid the two. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

One hand slowly makes some crosses while the other gently guides the heads of his subject backward into the sea. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“So the boy turned into a dragon and found himself the king of the sea,” Old Sai said. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

But he couldn’t reach up to its backhand so he tried the sea horse. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

Vetch thought to see him fall and sink down in the sea, the sea that surely was there behind this dry, dim veil that hid away water, sky, and light. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

Mornings, I never knew if I would have to jump off the streetcar one step ahead of the warm sea of nausea that threatened to sweep me away. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

A sea dragon roared up from the waves with a maiden of extraordinary beauty by its side, her arm extended as if she had just caught something. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

“You shall sense as the ship heels side to side on the sea, and position yourself opposite of the roll, starboard to port, port to starboard,” the captain had said. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

On the second day at sea, directly after dinner, Lefty made a tour of the ship. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Dozens of wooded islands dotted the sea, and white sails cut across the water. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

It was narrow and shaky, but the sailors made sure the women had no opportunity to escape into the sea, should they dare. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

The paintings too—mostly oils in deep blues and greens—had sea themes. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

To the bottom of the sea, the bowels of the earth, to the heart of the fiery furnace? Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

The idea that it might be difficult finding a single vine strand in a small sea of Snow Sand never bothered him. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

“I have written orders for him to secure your passage back to Ch’ulp’o by sea,” he said. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

In the open sea, with the land blue in his eyes and the sea green in his hand, he wept. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

At the heart of it, magnified by the curved surface, there was a strange, pink, convoluted object that recalled a rose or a sea anemone. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Outside, the great city murmured and thrummed and seethed, all its myriad voices blending into one low sound like the surge of the sea. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

They hear a program about sea creatures, another about the North Pole. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Telemakhos made answer: “No two ways about it. Will I pry you from our gunnel when you are desperate to get to sea? Come aboard; share what we have, and welcome.” The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Spring again was a time of flowers, and water ran in the ravines and flowed down to the sea. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

As soon as we were done, Mouse crept out of the grasses and attacked a small hole in the soil, dragging out a strand of sea lettuce so she could properly subdue it. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

As the fire died down so did the excitement The littluns stopped singing and dancing and drifted away toward the sea or the fruit trees or the shelters. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

“The sea boiled with waves, fierce winter swells. Seven nights you swam, so people say.” Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

Kaz managed to endure it all the way past the iron railings of Zentzbridge, the grating covered in little bits of rope tied in elaborate knots, sailors’ prayers for safe return from sea. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Poseidon was under siege and losing a war against the sea Titan Oceanus. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

The Barents Sea in the Arctic Ocean and Tasmania in Australia are named after Dutch sea captains. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

About 45,000 years ago, they somehow crossed the open sea and landed in Australia—a continent hitherto untouched by humans. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

The old man in the corner woke up and said: "You can't never tell at sea—never!" And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

“The only sea passage from the PersianGulf to the Gulf of Oman and then out to sea. Twenty-one percent of the world’s oil travels through the narrow passage.” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

He hoped that they never smelled of sea salt, that they never heard the urgings of the ocean, that they were so lonely that being a stranger in them hardly mattered. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

I want to tell them what the sea looks like and about our bus journey and the shouting man in Adana. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

The hot night was laden with the scent of flowers and with the salt smell of the sea. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The other headed outward, northward and angling toward the sea. she quoted from the next line of Shay’s note, and wondered how far north she was going. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

She stood silently looking out into the great sallow distances of sea bottom, as if recalling something, her yellow eyes soft and moist. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You know now,” she said, “why Mr. de Winter does not use these rooms any more. Listen to the sea.” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

I could imagine those bloodshot eyes, set in that massive, scarred black face, sweeping over the sea. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

The rising sun was buttering the clouds, the sea was royal blue, and dolphins darted in and out of the water, weaving between the rocks with absolute grace. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

I told him about the shark falling from the winch and possibly being whisked away to Guam in the rough seas. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

She gallops through the first ten pages, the story coming back: worldwide curiosity about what must be a mythical sea monster, famed marine biologist Professor Pierre Aronnax setting off to discover the truth. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Seashells dotted the surface, evidence of the living sea that had once stretched from horizon to horizon. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The shovel brought butter clams, sticks, and sea worms up with it. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

It trapped cows and pigs and sheep and drowned them in its muddy brown water and carried them to the sea. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

The little sea water pump whirred softly and the needles of driven water hissed into the tanks forcing lines of bubbles under the surface. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

The salt sea was at her back, and to the south was the fish market and the docks and the swirling torrent of the Blackwater Rush. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Finally, my wings begin to falter, I lose height, and gravity pulls me into a foamy sea the color of Finnick’s eyes. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Today there are heads rolling about like tumbleweeds with the motion of the sea. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

He stared at the lamb on the marker, at me, at the sea. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

“The fortress is surrounded by open sea. I think we would be visible from quite a far distance.” Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Behind her smiles the blue sea with white-horses, at the side is a bright bay. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

A sea surge of laughter from the road. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

Neither could she see that around them there were islands rising high above the sea, many islands. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Stargirl had vanished into a sea of them, and I was thrilled. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

Below them small towns passed by like lit-up islands in a dark sea of prairie. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

It is a view his father would have appreciated, and Gogol is reminded of the many times he had driven with his family, on cold Sunday afternoons, to the sea. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

A stream connected the pool to a little river, and the river led directly to the sea. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

In Mutiny on the Bounty, when people died at sea, they were wrapped in white sheets and thrown overboard with millstones around their necks so that the corpses wouldn’t float. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t so much drowning in the earth or the sea, but the feeling that he was sinking into too many expectations, literally getting in over his head. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

The brown blotches of the benevolent skin cancer the sun brings from its reflection on the tropic sea were on his cheeks. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wasn’t in love with the book—I thought it was overly dramatic—but I liked Hemingway’s writing, and I thought the scenes of the sea would look good on a wide screen. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

Like on their first day at sea, when he had climbed up the huge ladder into the crow’s nest. I Survived the Sinking of the Titanic, 1912 2010-06-01T00:00:00Z

He would find the sea and his freedom. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

At last the sun sank into the sea and night arose. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Our one lifeline in this stormy sea and Papa is cutting the rope she’s been playing out. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jinny wondered if maybe, somewhere, on the other side of the sea, Deen was swimming right now, both of them in the same water. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

The word of his death at sea provoked a colitis attack that kept Ernest bedridden for four days, until he roused himself and hobbled, ashen, into an East Bay church for Mills’s memorial service. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

I wish it was possible for me to show you the sea bottom in those days—the black bodies, the blood, the bones broken by boots and clubs! The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were seated on the mud, which now began to be disturbed by the angry, thin, returning sea, or else were already riding on the water, wakened by it, outside the annoyance of the surf. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Far away someone hooted and leapt into the sea. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

She began a charcoal drawing of the fields, rolling like the sea rolled. Sarah, Plain and Tall 1985-04-25T00:00:00Z

And then, from the sea cliffs, there came new sounds. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

I said, ‘We’re on a raft in the middle of the sea!” Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

“We all have to watch out for each other now. We have to keep our lookout posts too. As many eyes on the sea as possible, right?” Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

All the articles of his trade were filed away on the coast, sea cradles here, octopi here, tube worms in another place, sea pansies in another. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

The whole statue had acquired around its northerly surfaces a bluish-green patina, so that from certain approaches, and in low light, the muscle-bound Triton really seemed a hundred leagues under the sea. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Rain fell in such sheets that the whole heaven seemed falling into the sea and the sea seemed leaping up into the sky. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

As Juno’s brother he was quite aware of her way of doing things and it did not suit him to have her interfere with his sea. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

However, news of Actium had traveled quickly across the sea, prompting Mark Antony’s commanders to pledge their loyalty to Octavian. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

Nicasia’s limbs are long and perfectly shaped, her mouth the pink of coral, her hair the color of the deepest, coldest part of the sea. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

You’ll come by no indulgence in our house; kicked down into a ship’s bilge, out to sea you go, and nothing saves you. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The flute climbed again and plucked cellos sounded below and the sea crept in and in toward the beach. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

These were fay, creatures who inhabited the trees and the rivers, the seas and the hills. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

“And these sea monsters,” Kate narrated up ahead, “can grow five hundred feet long in the deep ocean. They have over a thousand teeth. And these? Their favorite food is demigod—” “Demigod?” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

And also I like the fact that they are filming in a place which is harder to get to than the top of Mount Everest but is only a few miles away from sea level. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“I can hear ships at sea. Madrid. Brazil. London. I heard India once. Here at the edge of the city, so high in the house, we get superb reception.” All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Reverend Buckminster had said nothing about not talking with her, or throwing a baseball with her, or sitting by the green-blue sea with her. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

The others followed and taking Ariadne with them they fled to the ship and over the sea toward Athens. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

In late September, the sea breeze stole the gold from the maples, the silver from the aspens. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

As periwinkles etched the beach with their purple trails, and sea foam blew off the waves and tumbled across the beach as if longing for a dog to come out and play. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

Still I would rather be that beast down there in the darkness of the sea. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

I crossed the Kargav, this time on lower passes, on a road that winds along above the coast of the southern sea. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

They were waiting for their masters to carry them over seas to slavery. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

My attention span and my motivation rank up there with that of a sea cucumber. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

A yolk addressing a sea of boiled eggs. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I cursed and Emma screamed and threw herself against the rail, clawing at the air as the cage fell toward the sea. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

He reminded Tyrion of a dead sea cow that had once washed up in the caverns under easterly Rock. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The sea surge that had drawn up the coastal waters of Maine poured past the cliffs and tore along the ragged coast. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

The still operates on the principle of distillation: sea water lying beneath the sealed cone on the black canvas is heated by the sun and evaporates, gathering on the inside surface of the cone. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

With the sea and woods at hand, they were in their element in a way they could never be in Manhattan for all its glitter and glamour. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

His head was pounding, and he wasn’t sure if it was from stress or the altitude—Santa Fe is over 7,000 feet above sea level. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like the Peruvian littoral, it is bracketed by sea and mountains, but it catches, rather than misses, the prevailing winds, and the rain that comes with them. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Her shirt is the color of the sea. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

“This desert was once a sea,” he said. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Whenever he saw the sea, or a fire, he fell silent, impressed by their elemental force. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The quiet work and sea air suited him. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Homer makes Poseidon say that he rules the sea, Hades the dead, Zeus the heavens, but Olympus is common to all three. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Never,” the Fire Department reported, “was so terrible a tragedy witnessed by such a sea of agonized faces.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

“A lot washed out to the sea. And they’re still removing bodies from the subways. You looking for anyone in particular?” The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

“Just sleeping. Though I don’t know why a ghost needs to sleep. She could be sailing the seas. Or flying to Africa.” Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

She was like a fisherman trying to reel in his catch, but it leapt away from him time and time again, splashing back into the sea. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

"What color is the sea when it storms?" he asked Sarah. Sarah, Plain and Tall 1985-04-25T00:00:00Z

In the far distance, he caught sight of the moored clipper ship, its sails glinting in sunlight, a white gull resting on a mirror sea. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

When the wind picks up they come alive, their wooden boards creaking against one another, and under the sound of the sea there are murmurs of movement: someone or something, coming closer. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

As Sinon finished, suddenly over the sea came two fearful serpents swimming to the land. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s cheap stuff, probably made from those bland sea grapes that grow in ocean water. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

“The train, it is as dangerous as a sea voyage!” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

The instructor looked up, into the sea of faces. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

The sea bubbled and steamed around the shore. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

He couldn’t see anything around them, but he had perfect bearings at sea. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

All she could see was a sea of people, who could not be more different but could not be more the same, standing together. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

“Nisha,” Papa said impatiently, looking out at the sea of bodies all around us. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“Fresh catch,” said the fisherman, “fresh rabbit from the sea.” The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z

Someone advanced from the sea of faces, someone tall and gaunt dressed in deep black, whose prominent cheek-bones and great hollow eyes gave her a skull’s face, parchment-white, set on a skeleton’s frame. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Rather than lying flat, though it was only a mild breeze the sea seemed to rise around and away from the Frog. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

I checked the sea on all sides before I dared reach down to scoop a little water onto my face. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Orgota noblemen drink that precious fire, brought five thousand miles over the foggy seas from Sith, as if it were beer. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe it’s in that wind out over the sea that’s bringin’ with it loss and wreck, and sore distress, and sad hearts. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

You were also free to bribe a sea captain to return you to England before the terms of your transportation were over and done. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

She blinked, and the history of the lantern swam before her eyes: the rough seas when it broke, where it had come from, images so quick and confused that she couldn’t focus on them. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

They’d been on television, a sea of men in orange sitting on a roadway filthy with feces and garbage, surrounded by guards with automatic rifles. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

A dozen pigeons roosting on the cathedral spire cataract down its length and wheel out over the sea. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

He thought he should feel sleepy after sailing all night, but the daylight seemed to drive away sleep and his body hummed with the boat and wind and sea. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Afterwards they stretched the linen smooth to dry on the shore where the sea had washed it clean. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

A sliver of spring moon was low, just above the quiet-moving sea. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

As mentioned earlier, there is also firm evidence for regular sea trade between some of these islands, such as New Ireland and New Britain. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Forty years at sea, and yet this was the first time he'd rammed another ship. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

It struck him dead, shattered the chariot, and made the maddened horses rush down into the sea. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

I knew that it was a ship there on the sea and not a big canoe, and that a ship could mean many things. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the girls and boys come back inside, the big sea monster has eaten all the Go-do-feesh. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

I worked all this morning, stopping from time to time to cool off in the sea. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

When lightning strikes the sea, why don’t all the fish die? All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Tree-ear shaded his eyes from the sun as it began to set, wondering if that smudge on the horizon might be the sea. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

Exotic sea creatures were carved into the walls, and oil lamps cast a golden glow. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Idomeneus brought his company back to Krete; the sea took not a man from him, of all who lived through the long war. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Water as blue as a summer sky stretched beneath us, and giant ships dotted the sea. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Percy wasn’t excited about more fireworks, donut-scented smoke, or depressing captive sea creatures. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Out of the four large windows facing the water she can see the sine curve of the coastline, the serrated firs in the distance, the glittery amethyst sea. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Pressing my greasy face against the glass, I scanned the sea of red-and-navy-plaid uniforms for my matching book bag. Monday's Not Coming 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

The sea laps at our ankles, the water cold, the foam warm. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

I want you to take my ashes out alone on the Frog, out to sea alone, and leave me there. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the other side of the avenue was the sea. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was good to be on the sea after the winter storms, with the new spear in my hand, but all the morning as I hunted the giant devilfish I kept thinking of Rontu. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instead of a knife she used a blade that curved like the prow of a Viking ship, sailing to battle in distant seas. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

“You brewed fine ale,” said Loki to the sea giant. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

She slid her arm back, revealing the deciphered words in a sea of cross-outs and false starts. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

"I've never liked court much. I was lucky to be at sea with my father most of the time. He's grooming me for a boring life on a boat." The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

Warriors burst out of the river, riding the waves on huge sharks and dragons and sea horses. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

His brilliant blue eyes were as dark as the sea, and carried its same loneliness. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

The sea water kept the abalones fresh, but when we had to go out again the night was too dark to find our way to the reef. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

At this those faces, cloaked in desolation upon the waste sea beach, were bared; their eyes turned toward me and the mighty lighting, foreseeing pleasure, one by one. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Being the son of the sea god, I never liked going into the air. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Let these girls be reborn in light, undefiled by mortal lust, or let them descend to the Drowned God’s watery halls, to feast and dance and laugh until the seas dry up.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

It almost felt like something wa/pushing against his will, wresting the sea from his control. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

On the other side of the town a drawbridge crossed the river, connecting Ravenel with the three sea islands that separated the town from the Atlantic Ocean. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I decide I’d rather be beaten with an oar than sit in the dark ’tween deck waiting to be devoured by sea monsters. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

Just then, twenty, thirty gulls rose from somewhere on the island coast and turned to face the sea breeze, screeching like broken promises. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

When the doors of the railcar slid open and Seabiscuit’s head poked out, Smith was down on the platform waiting for him, standing in a sea of hostile reporters. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

By navigating there through fog, snow, and winter seas, Worsley had found the needle in the haystack. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

He took one of them from his sea chest in the attic. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

I am hungry, he thought, but I am hungry while I am becalmed over three hundred miles out to sea with no assistance available and one heck of a walk to a McDonald’s. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sea was quiet, which was really helpful. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was slipping away, or breaking away, like a crumbling glacier cracking from the continent and drifting out to sea. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Their lives were at sea, together and apart, as they passed from their twenties to their early thirties. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Not far from the spot where his crew had made the vessel fast was a cave, open toward the sea and very lofty. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

The dark blue shimmered like the deep sea, as if there were infinite depths within the color, and needless to say, it looked amazing on him. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

“We blacks haven’t the slightest desire to drive you back into the sea,” I said, measuring each word carefully. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

And at dawn, as light spread across the sea, my first glance was toward the little harbor of Coral Cove. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

But on the same flat there are millions of sea cradles. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

I tried to tell him that he was young and that there were a lot of fish in the sea, but it was little consolation. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

At last report, the ragtag fleet they had assembled to rescue the free folk from Hard- home still huddled at Eastwatch-by-the-Sea, confined to port by the rough seas. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

"By all the gods of sea and air, and even him of fire, I swear it." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

She was 3000 feet above sea level, but between the Tay and the Dee, the Cairngorm Mountains rise higher than that. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

Plain and simple explanations on living off the sea were given in abundance, but a basic knowledge of seafaring was as­sumed by the author of the manual. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

It was the only place fit enough after the sun flares and the risen sea levels, the massive destruction of all the towns and cities and vegetation. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

From there it spread to Europe, and finally traveled across the sea to North America. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

A fresh breeze blew in over Brooklyn from the sea. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“There’s a light out at sea,” said Lyra. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

It may be I must spend my life running from sea to sea and land to land on an endless vain venture, a shadow-quest.” A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

They passed the giant dinosaurs at the rest stop and then drove through what seemed like a sea of windmills. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

The ocean was ruddy, as were they, and some passed into the sea from the shingle, and others rose from the sea and waded to shore. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

Not that she could make out sea lions from this distance—the lone sailboat she could see wasn’t any bigger than her fingernail, so a sea lion would be like the size of a freckle. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

I believe all the answers lie at the bottom of the sea. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

Dona Ines, it is said, was frequently seen staring out to sea, searching the horizon for her husband. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“All right, maybe, if we had sea room. But what do we know about where we are now?” Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Facing down her own death, with the hissing of the sea behind her and the night spread out like a cape, she seemed to have grown taller, haughtier. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Ms. Treadwell held up the book that showed the same figures: a boy at sea on a small boat. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

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

Those in the water were struggling to get out, forgetting in their haste to swim, wailing, walking, held back in their flight by the viscous, clinging sea as though by a biting wind. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

A turtle turned up, a different kind this time, a green sea turtle, bulkier and smoother-shelled, but curious in the same fixed way as a hawksbill. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

"Wooden horses with a hundred legs, that fly across the sea on wings full of wind." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

He and the rest of the crew had spent the last day at sea studying maps. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Then I glance beyond the fence at the sea of people. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

It was a chilly night and the desert breeze was blowing, making the old wooden ceilings creak and the curtains swell like black sails on the high seas. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The sea provides all the salt that Qarth requires, but I would gladly take as many olives as you cared to sell me. Olive oil as well.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

As the sea crashed around him and the deck rose and fell beneath his feet, he had seen Dagon s Feast and Red Tide slammed together so violently that both exploded into splinters. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Hours before, he had moved past the islands, felt more than saw them in the darkness, and headed into the open sea. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

And his eyes lighted at the news that Nat was going to sea. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Rum War was the result—an ongoing battle at sea and along the shores. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

But then he was outside and the sea breeze found him again and chucked him lightly under the chin. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

The sea was peaceful now, sunny and radiant. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

Out there, perhaps a mile away, the white surf flinked on a coral reef, and beyond that the open sea was dark blue. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

The new sea ice hissed and creaked as it rose on the swell. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

To the empire trying to control trade and immigration across the seas. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

The idea was that all the other Greeks should strike camp, and apparently put out to sea, but they would really hide beyond the nearest island where they could not be seen by the Trojans. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Augur gazes at me with black eyes that swim in a sea of blood red. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

In any case, I know that my memory of you will live even there as I too become a child of the sea. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

The Poet was dying in his house by the sea. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I want to go under the sea and watch the last fishes. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was blinded by the glaring lights held high over the heads of the sea of people by news photographers trying to get pictures. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

But we had to cross a small plateau which overlooks the sea and then drops steeply down to the beach. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

For one moment I glimpsed howling, sweating, red-and-white faces, distorted into hideous masks of hatred and cruelty, a sea of demon heads that bobbed restlessly outside our store. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

And all around him the swells grew still, and the sea breeze quieted, and the perfect sky above him vaulted like a painted dome. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

And where would a cowboy in the middle of the desert get a sea cucumber from anyway? Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

The new musical style was already well under way by the time Mozart was a young composer, and he grew up in a Europe experiencing a sea change in cultural attitudes. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

“Please. Keep the Ophiotaurus safe. My dad can hide him under the sea somewhere, or keep him in an aquarium here in Olympus. But you have to protect him.” The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

I looked out at Long Island Sound and I remembered my father saying, The sea does not like to be restrained. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

From here, looking east across the rows of trained raspberry canes, the sea was visible beyond the tops of the cedars falling away along the hill. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

And she, just like I, according to Miss Merriam Webster, had been named for a dolphin under the sea. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m so glad I tasted your sea salt caramel before ordering,” Mom says, glancing back at me. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

“There’s a balcony with each room, every one with a sea view.” In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Scattered across the landscape below were countless islands of forest, many of them almost-perfect circles—heaps of green in a sea of yellow grass. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

“First you chopped a handhold, then a kneehold, and then chopped off ice hastily but carefully, with an occasional sea washing over you,” Worsley explained. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

If that yellow towline slipped off my foot, would I sink into the sea as he had or would I swim for all my life to catch up to it? Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

He couldn't go back to the city but if he followed the river downstream, he knew it would eventually lead to the sea. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

The sky and its clouds are made of melting cherries and flaming oranges and burnt grapefruit as the sun sinks into the sea. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

In a cracked voice, the Boss ordered the sea anchor brought in. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

He tried to get to them, but his feet were stuck in the ground, and he could only watch as they were washed out to sea. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

“No. I am planning to throw it back to the sea!” Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

“He arrests people, then cuts out their eyes and fingernails, and throws their cadavers in the sea for the sharks to eat them.” Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

“When Nuwa, the great goddess with the fish tail, sacrificed herself to save the sky, the earth, and the seas, she left behind three things. Do you remember what they are, Storyteller’s granddaughter?” When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

All through the late spring and early summer the water rose and at last it lay like a great sea, lovely and idle, mirroring cloud and moon and willows and bamboo whose trunks stood submerged. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

I waited, as if the sea could make my decision for me. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

The sea of people parts for him like he’s a brown-skinned Moses. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

And then he saw the sea surge that was coming in. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

“Trees will cover the sea bottom and seaweed the mountain tops before I cease to love Scylla,” he told her. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

One of the teenagers, Dan Daniels’s son Scott, took a three-step running start, threw out to sea, then pitched headlong into the salt water. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

He lived peacefully with his mother and father in a beautiful house beside the sea. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

We ride over the cliffs and then the sea, watching mermaids leap in the spangled waves and selkies rolling along the surf. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

It moves with the current, swiftly towards the sea. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He, wheeling once above them, screamed the hawk’s scream of defiant rage, and then shot on across the low beaches of Osskil, out over the breakers of the sea. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

In the poem, a traveler is hurrying toward a town, and it is getting darker and darker, and the sea calls to the traveler. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

A navy officer on a ship, out to sea, sailing around the world. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

Scipio reluctantly climbed down from the sea horse again. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I also have the largest collection of captive sea monsters in the world!” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

As they worked, he kept glancing at the sea, waiting for Chrysaor and his pirate dolphins to return, but they didn’t. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

So he sailed southward under the west-going stars, and the long night passed slowly, until the first day of the new year brightened all the sea. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

I had once asked the captain how far we were from the Marianas Trench, because each day the sea is exactly the same. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

I wedge my way through the sea of students, between the locker-lined buildings and concrete pillars. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Then the sea blended imperceptibly into sweeping areas of land populated only by the figures of animal life unknown to her, hulking creatures grazing on tall tan grasses. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nobody knows anything about steering boats across open sea in the middle of the night. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

The rain was still falling, but the darkness had parted in the west, and there was a pink and golden billow of foamy clouds above the sea. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

Perhaps I was chosen from the beginning of time to live there with Agwe at the bottom of the sea. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

Now the sea races beneath the aiming windows. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

When a ship without sails or sailors came drifting in from sea, they went to meet it looking for a wonder, and sure enough there was a child in the ship. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z

The terrace sloped to the lawns, and the lawns stretched to the sea, and turning I could see the sheet of silver, placid under the moon, like a lake undisturbed by wind or storm. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

As if at any moment one will stall and drop into the sea. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

It takes years for the sea grass to grow back. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

‘In my sea chest in the attic. That’s why I keep it locked.’ Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

He knelt down to where the sea lay flat and exhausted after tumbling in close. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

Their coffee tasted slightly of shrimp and the sea. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Huge drops pelted the grass and the surface of the sea. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

“I wouldn’t doubt it. Everyone wants to get a look at the Titanic. Even sea monsters.” I Survived the Sinking of the Titanic, 1912 2010-06-01T00:00:00Z

Those dumb mountains seemed to be perched right along the river, standing smack between him and the sea. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

Sometimes when the Current was in port, he’d climb the mainmast and stand in the crow’s nest while the sun sank, and as the waters turned golden and dark, he’d listen to the sea. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

The black wings flurried and black dragon-blood dropped in thick drops into the sea. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

Eventually, by evening, the river would rouse itself to accept the day’s offerings and sludge off to the sea, leaving wavy lines of thick white scum in its wake. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not that she could make out sea lions from this distance—the lone sailboat she could see wasn’t any bigger than her fingernail, so a sea lion would be like the size of a freckle. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

And way off, we saw a tiny trawler moving, almost imperceptibly, across the dazzling sea. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

Once near the port of Chou Doc, the fisherman peels back the sheet and allows us to breathe in fresh sea air. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Beyond that, the land dropped off into the sea. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

"And so to sea," cried Tumnus, leaping up and beginning to dance. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

He noticed how pleasant it was to have someone to talk to instead of speaking only to himself and to the sea. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

The day was bright and the sea blue and the salt air clear. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

He looked them up and down, one finger at his lip, as Turner’s heart stood still, and as the sea breeze paused and quivered. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

The sea is too rough for me to drop down into her arms tonight. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

Its lights twinkled in the winter night on the first bench of the river near the sea. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The hole poked in the bottom of the eggshell was not to keep the witches from going to sea, as Cordelia said. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Its walls and floor and ceiling were made of wooden planks notched cunningly together and decorated with all the creatures of the sea. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

"Clarisse,” I said, "Charybdis sucks up the sea. Isn't that the story?” The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

They were on the point of killing the horrid creatures when Iris intervened, but the Trojans were driven away by them, and forced to put out to sea to escape them. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were a thousand feet or more above the frozen sea. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

Soon the two of them would grow quiet, near sleep, hearing the waves push against the island’s outer walls, the ceaseless shushing of the sea. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

She could sit for hours with her toes in the sand, letting the sea foam come up to her ankles. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

Maybe then my skin would absorb the sea’s consoling silence. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Except when he is in the sea, he weighs twice as much as a man. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘Happy folk are Hobbits to dwell near the shores of the sea!’ said Haldir. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

The lifeboat briefly floated in a sea of fruit. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Or the sea, she added in her mind. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

The shore line was peaceful and flat, and the calm sea bumped it playfully along the sandy beach. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

He hung there in the phosphorescence of the sea, gathering light and undulating, and his boat moved now on the tidal current, brightly lit and silent in the fog. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

His thick tresses floated loosely around his head like the black tentacles of a sea monster. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

The really old ones came from the shell of a sea mollusk. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

I saw that La Saline stretches for many kilometers along the sea, built out on dumped refuse. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was worse, much worse, than being buried at sea. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z

At one and a half miles above sea level, the train accelerates to 35 miles per hour. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Of course, one smelt the sea on an island anyway, but this was different. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

“Such a brave soldier deserves our respect,” he said, “so we give him a burial at sea.” The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

He felt like the lethargy of the addled sea creatures was starting to affect him. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

“On the edge of the world sea,” he said, “lives the giant king Hymir. He owns a cauldron three miles deep. It’s the biggest cauldron there has ever been.” Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

He’s being pulled behind us in the sea. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

Opposing them were the Plutonists, who noted that volcanoes and earthquakes, among other enlivening agents, continually changed the face of the planet but clearly owed nothing to wayward seas. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

Kyle made his way through the glittering sea of dressed-up adults. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

The mechanism of Harrison's chronometer could withstand the turbulent motion of a ship at sea, defy changes of temperature, and resist the corrosion of salt water and air. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

But all seemed settled until the shipmaster casually told him he must furnish his own blankets, oilskins, sea boots, warm pea jacket. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Afternoons when the girls were in school, Kathy searched the Internet for homes and schools in Charlotte and found that it, too, was a sea of new subdivisions. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

They wore dark frock coats, top hats they held against the sea breeze, and shiny shoes that probably hadn’t walked on honest granite ever before. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

Her female crew consisted entirely of maidservants dressed as sea nymphs. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

And then Ma and Ba went into their house, leaving the sea of shaking heads behind them. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

Although spawning occurs at sea, the young come into the estuaries and bays when a few weeks old to undergo successive molts and changes of form. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

It has a growth upon its back resembling a sea anemone. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

That the sea anchors, miraculously, were not lost—they continued to tug at the lifeboat faith­fully—was a consolation that had no effect. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

With the narrowing of the river the fresh sea breeze dropped behind, and by sunset it died away altogether. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

That's the problem with being Poseidon’s son: since he created horses out of sea foam, I can understand most equestrian animals, but they can understand me, too. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

Her bloodriders would sooner have returned to their great grass sea, even if it meant braving the red waste again. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The strong winds would blow in from the sea and catch the rain, so that you never knew from what direction it would hit. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

A clean, cold breeze blew from the north, pushing the ship so fast across the sea we seemed to fly. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

They mean the smell of dust and grass on a baseball diamond, the first fresh sea breezes that come all the way inland from Long Island Sound, all the maples decked out in green-gold leaves. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

Then she turned around, away from the island, to stare at the sea, and she watched the waves roll in, watched the sun glint on the endless vista. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

There was a sea of spilled kibble bits spreading across the asphalt parking lot. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

“Kino,” she said huskily, “I am afraid. A man can be killed. Let us throw the pearl back into the sea.” The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maxim turned to me, laughing, wiping the hair out of his eyes, and I unrolled the sleeves of my mackintosh caught by the sea spray. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

One moment the sea is as smooth and tranquil as a mountain lake, the next, it’s roiling with rogue waves. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

Jomon people lived at some of the highest population densities ever estimated for hunter-gatherers, especially in central and northern Japan with its nut-rich forests, salmon runs, and productive seas. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Clayton hoped to hear funny stories about his grandfather as a kid, or as a young musician during his “Mr. Louisiana Hot Lick” days, or of his days at sea in the navy. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

A faceless, spiny sea creature twisted and revolved in its liquid home. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

The edge plunged into the sea, hundreds of feet below, with sheets of frost constantly crumbling into the water. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

“The sun has aged it and the sea has weathered it. It's high time the bowsprit was polished.” Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

He looks much older than her mother’s photograph, the one that replaced her father’s face, the one Lourdes flung into the sea. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“A living man can find the sea more easily than a dead one. Let the wolves keep their gloomy woods. We are making for the ships.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The first Americans arrived on foot, which they could do because, at the time, sea levels were low enough that a land bridge connected north-eastern Siberia with north-western Alaska. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

This barge is not bound south, for the sea. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

He had sung many a song about ships and going down to the sea in them with a heave ho and a heave to. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The fate of this man or that man was less than a drop, although it was a sparkling one, in the great blue motion of the sunlit sea. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was like a giant bowl, cracked in half, the other half washed out to sea. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lies! my father shouted, Antonio was not baptized in the holy water of the moon, but in the salt water of the sea! Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

An ache deep and wide as the sea threatens to drown my heart. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

Floating in the sea of black, we were forced to witness the massive and grotesque deaths of thousands of people. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

A lovely if somewhat bedraggled young woman—dark tangled hair, sea green eyes — runs toward us in nothing but a sheet. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

George squinted out into the distance, hoping to see the iceberg, but the sea faded into darkness. I Survived the Sinking of the Titanic, 1912 2010-06-01T00:00:00Z

The sea overflowed with water from the Starry River of the Sky and churned with monstrous beasts. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

The wind blew freshly in from the whistling buoy and the barking of sea lions came from around the point. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Lost at sea? The sea is their home." The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

The sea wind drove snowflakes steadily inland, hurling them against the fragrant trees, and the snow began to settle on the highest branches with a gentle implacability. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

On the windowsills, Tyson had set out water-filled vases with sea anemones and strange glowing plants from the bottom of the ocean, more beautiful than any flower bouquets the Demeter kids could whip up. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

He stayed up a long time, watching the distant lights of Opium.There weren’t many.The mansion sat by itself in a sea of dark. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

And here Jule was, out on the sea, this crazy turquoise sea, with this rare, unique human being. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

It was a bleak, harsh view, the sea and the rock unrelieved by any tree or sweep of grass or sand. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

There was a sea bird painted on the ship to protect it against shipwreck and winds. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Michelangelo's red hair dances in the sea spray. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

He threw it over the side and pulled half a bucket of sea water back to the cockpit. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

The merchant princes, grown vastly rich off the trade between the seas, were divided into three jealous factions: the Ancient Guild of Spicers, the Tourmaline Brotherhood, and the Thirteen, to which Xaro belonged. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

I’ve been drifting around at sea, have spent days searching for an effective antidote to that terrible word “easy.” The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Those forty oars carried the ship over a hundred and fifty miles of wintry sea before sunset of the second day out from Serd. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

Three months later they received in a large envelope twenty-nine letters and more than fifty pictures that he had accumulated during the leisure of the high seas. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Out of the corner of his eye, Reed saw them lower a rowboat into the sea. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

I can see the rippled sky, fluffy with cloud, and the white-whipped sea. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

“If you put in these requested forces and increase air and sea effort, we can at least turn the tide to where we are not losing anymore,” commented Air Force Chief of Staff John McConnell. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

“But also creatures yet to be discovered in the seas’ depths.” The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

He was tall for a Japanese man, nearly six feet, lean and hard and healthy- skinned from the sea. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

And in the air, unmistakable, was the salt smell of the sea. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

I loved it, and immediately thought it was up to me to record my boat's history, like so many other sea writers had done. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

I will finally be at sea, traversing the waterways into the oceans, like the adventurers you so love to read about in your precious novels. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

All she saw was a sea of white faces. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Sometimes the sea was quiet and blue as well, but most days it churned dark gray-green, with spumes of white blown and dissolved in the air. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

I did not look up at those standing quietly on the ledge or at the flute player playing for them, but paddled fast out into the morning sea. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

I went out to the pen and gazed over the sea of ninety black Angus cattle. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

As for the dogs, they could chase penguins and run wild without going too far—on all sides was the frigid sea, where killer whales cruised in search of a meal. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

The snowflakes were bigger now, and they fell more heavily past Lizzie arid Turner, their sharp angles slicing into the bulky sea. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

Kepler described comets as darting through space “as the fishes in the sea,” but being dissipated by sunlight, as the cometary tail always points away from the sun. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

He laced to his feet the sandals of imperishable gold which bore him swift as a breath of air over sea and earth. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

And if they were, then the sea itself would get fuller. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

I asked.The sky was still thick with clouds, so the surrounding countryside was just a sea of black. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

She got seasick so easily, it was more like sea plague. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

We meet Gulliver as a dreamy young man in search of adventure, trying to get anywhere that would involve sea travel, and see him evolve masterfully. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

She turned away from Amari and looked out at the sea. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

It owned a mother ship far out to sea, packed with tens of thousands of bottles, plus other vessels that were usually called “blacks.” The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

“You will be fine, Frank Zhang. Keep practicing those sea life transformations. The koi fish is good, but try for a Portuguese man-of-war. Remember what I showed you. It’s all in the breathing.” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

In the center of the platform stood four sea demons, but these were fully grown, at least eight feet tall. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

He found a picture from his first year at sea, aboard a ship captained by Ahmad. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Grasses, and pasture land, are hard to come by upon the islands tilted in the sea, and Ithaka is the island of them all.” The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sit­ting in the dark next to Hassan, I had always wondered if it was true what I’d read, that sea air smelled like salt. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

So he seemed to the lovely nymph Scylla when she was bathing in a little bay and caught sight of him rising from the sea. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

She walked back and threw the tube into the sea, holding onto the pole. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ten years ago, Tyrion had read a fragment of Unnatural History that had eluded the Blessed Baelor, but he doubted that any of Barth’s work had found its way across the narrow sea. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Long ago, a strange stone from the sea rolled up onto the shore. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

At dinner that night Mom looked at Dad and me as if she were being washed out to sea. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

He knew that each of the jerking bumps of the shark had been meat tom away and that the fish now made a trail for all sharks as wide as a highway through the sea. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

My mother poured out tea sweetened with sugar into the teacup, and threw this into the sea. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

On occasions when the tide ran exceptionally high, waves washed perilously close to the lighthouse, dashing its base with salt-tinged algae, which clung to it now like sea moss. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

A floating blue island in a pink house where I spilled out my guts and then hoped I wasn’t tossed out to sea to wait for my punishment. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was thinking about the night before, and wrestling old age, of drinking the sea. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

I carried them to the walk that runs along the shallow sea wall and ate. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Yet the sea becomes rougher and the boat rocks from side to side like a pendulum, and with each swing the waves violently slap against the side of the boat. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

His north sea eyes were colder than she’d ever seen them, empty of feeling, stripped of anything human at all. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

It let her know that nearby was a waterway, which, dirty though it was, joined a river that flowed out to the sea. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The bay is beginning to sparkle with the morning's light—black eddies glowing golden in their creases, sea foam blushing chrysanthemum. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

Once I saw Nereids, the glowing lady spirits of the sea. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t want Carlyle mopping my renegade brain into the sea. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

Ten minutes later, the river fed into what was either a sea or the biggest lake Gregor had ever seen. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

All of these canal rats and slum dwellers had easily found their sea legs, used to hopping from boat to boat on the waterways of Ketterdam. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

It was not difficult to choose between these circles of suffering—the sea, the beach, the front. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Together they made a waterproof bag for the alethiometer that she could wear around her waist, in case she fell in the sea, she said. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

The flames in the distance, still burning into the night, had made it seem as if the sea itself had caught fire. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

I doubted hyenas were capable of swimming in open seas. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Clay's announcement reflected simple geography: West Berlin floated like a tiny island in the sea of eastern Germany, a region completely controlled by the Soviets. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

During the Ice Ages so much of the world’s water was frozen into glaciers that sea levels fell as much as four hundred feet. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Later that afternoon the sky cleared, the wind died, and the seas slicked off. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

Tally took one last look around, taking in the ruins splayed out below them, the dark woods, the pearly strip of river stretching toward the glowing sea. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

“You tried to buy it with eighty-four days at sea. They nearly sold it to you too.” The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then he rolled up the long sleeves, pulled up the baggy pants, and laboriously climbed back up on the wooden sea horse, “These shoes are going to fly off my feet!” he complained. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

Celia hopes that the sea, with its sustaining rhythms and breezes from distant lands, will ease her son’s heart as it once did hers. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

We walk over the little semi- lunar bridge Baba has built near a cluster of fig trees; it becomes a great suspension bridge joining cities, and the little pond below, a foamy sea. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Rose-gold sand met the turquoise sea in a clash of vibrant fury. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Alys had always yearned for a daughter and felt that the sea had sent this one to her. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

The sea was all around, leaving the three of them alone in the darkness as they slowly climbed up to their beacon fire. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Hell, I’m beginning to like this,” he said as a sea of black- clad fans cheered wildly behind him. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

At night, I lay awake and listened to the sea, knowing my father was out there. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

A goddess of the earth who fell in love with a god of the sea. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Even when the United States consisted of just a few states on the Eastern Seaboard, the country’s founders fully intended for “America” to extend “from sea to shining sea.” An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

“From a passenger I flew across the sea a while back,” Lee said easily. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Cooler air blew off the sea, surrounding us as we marched behind him. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

If they had tides in this sea, the tide was high, because there was only a narrow fringe of soft white sand above the water. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

But the spring came and left and the sea was empty. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I remember how we celebrated your birthday. We gave you a picture book—you know, the one about the sea serpent with a toothache winding itself around the lighthouse....” Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

She could get a job in a shop or a gym, spend her days by the sea, find a place to live. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

“No one ever boards a boat at sea except in an emergency. He wouldn’t have come aboard just to talk, you see. Fishermen don’t do things that way.” Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

The blackout helped protect the U.S. ships that were out at sea, patrolling the coast for any lurking German U-boats. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

The shy, plump girls were like sea lions, lurking in the depths. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

One night, when the sea breeze remembered that autumn wasn’t far away and so began to blow colder, Turner told Willis he wanted to take the tender out into the bay. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

With the rising sea levels and the superstorms and the wildfires. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

At the track, the announcer’s voice called out over the sea of heads, explaining Seabiscuit’s condition. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

She said it would look like the sea. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

He stood facing me, with his back to the sea cliff. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

What could a man tell a woman about the sea—so that she wouldn’t worry? Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the afternoon, when the sun had gone over the mountains of the Peninsula to sink in the outward sea, Kino squatted in his house with Juana beside him. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mirjam rises from her chair and goes to stand by the window, looking out into the sea. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Only far to the north small white peaks stood sharp against the blue, and southward one could guess the shining of the sea. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

No means of faring home are left him now; no ship with oars, and no ship’s company to pull him on the broad back of the sea. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The beach was very small, with high cliffs curving round in front, and the sea behind. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

She read the pages about the sea urchin, the horseshoe crab, and the moon snail. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

So I went down to the sea beach and the ship, where I found all my other men on board, weeping, in despair along the benches. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Your sea is so large and my boat is so small—have mercy.” The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

She can hear the boy’s voice in the museum: When is the last time you saw someone throw five Eiffel Towers into the sea? All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Occasionally sea foam broke across the boats and water washed through their cockpits. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

There were days when the sun was bright and the sea was calm—and there was no coffee ready to be loaded. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

The surface of the sea is a mirror, reflecting divergent evolutionary paths. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“And further out one sees the sea in its natural state, and that’s beautiful. Yesterday everything was grey.” Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

“The moment has come,” said Dumbledore, smiling around at the sea of upturned faces. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

They were blown here, and fought in vain for sea room; the ships kept going in to their destruction, slammed on the reef. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Or I’d be walking along the shoreline with the others, and I’d spot him wading up to his waist through the shallows, impossibly thin and pale, as though his time at sea had eroded him. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

They were the names of snows that emptied south in stone canals to fill the empty seas. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

The coral was scribbled in the sea as though a giant had bent down to reproduce the shape of the island in a flowing chalk line but tired before he had finished. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

She is plunging soundlessly through the night sky, toward the mirrored darkness of the sea. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The sea glittered with chop, but Leo had fixed the stabilizers well enough that Hazel didn’t look too seasick. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

He said, “I have. Over and over again. Every time I paint the sea.” Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

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

But that the hand had a reason for all of this, and that only the hand could perform miracles, or transform the sea into a desert ... or a man into the wind. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Keeping my eyes on the ground, I watch the sea of feet until I’ve found a bathroom. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

The baby seal scurries toward the sea like a fat black inchworm. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

Before three purple-robed Syrian bishops murdered by the Portuguese were found floating in the sea, with coiled sea serpents riding on their chests and oysters knotted in their tangled beards. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Was help for the Redcoats on the high sea, heading for Boston? George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Weeks ago, while taking measurements for the model, the locksmith saw this same man atop the ramparts pointing a camera out to sea. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Fogs were part of the Arctic summer, rolling in from the sea for only an hour or for many days, but Miyax had never given them much thought. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hence those seas became dry land during the Ice Ages, when much ocean water was locked up in glaciers and sea level lay at about 500 feet below its present stand. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

The parachute took the figure forward, furrowing the lagoon, and bumped it over the reef and out to sea. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

A spontaneous call was echoing over the sea of heads: “Bring on Rosemont!” Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the sea is calm, and I don’t have to run from side to side, I sometimes hang out on deck with Carlyle. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

One piglet, with a demented shriek, rushed into the sea trailing Roger's spear behind it. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

But four hours later the fish was still swimming steadily out to sea, towing the skiff, and the old man was still braced solidly with the line across his back. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was alone at sea for two days, with sharks below and storms above, clinging to the remnants of the barrel, when he finally washed ashore near Lattakia, fifty miles north of Arwad Island. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Somehow, she’d peered into him, like watching a frothing sea through the eye of a needle, all those images and thoughts and feelings at once, all part of him. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Dimarion released the gun and Reed kicked it aside, where it was sucked up by the spiral of water and flung into the sea. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

I mean, I was lying there in ratty sweatpants, amid a vast sea of soggy tissues. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I did wish it was closer to the sea, so we could have a better view. But I changed Daddy’s décor and it’s not too nouveau riche, I pray?” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

After such a long time at sea, my skin was like a hide and my hair was long, matted and as silky as a fly- catching strip. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

When they grew tired of waiting, the dinner smells climbed off the curtains and drifted through the Sea Queen windows to dance the night away on the dinner-smelling sea. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

She seemed like a fair bird-girl girdled in veils calling to me from the angry surface of some gray and threatening sea. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

When creatures first crawled from the seas, this is what came up, and they haven’t changed a great deal since. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

And every morning the sea breeze bustled up and called Turner until he followed it to the shore where Lizzie waited for him, her bucket half full of clams. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

Memory cannot be confined, Celia realizes, looking out the kitchen window to the sea. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“What’s going on down there, Katniss? Have they all joined hands? Taken a vow of nonviolence? Tossed the weapons in the sea in defiance of the Capitol?” Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Colored stone tiles representing different armies and sea monsters shifted around as the forces changed position. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

The sea, visible ahead of her in a gray swathe only a few shades darker than the sky, moved in giant, undulating swells. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

They projected a sea of stars on the domed ceiling, and we all oohed and aahed as, one by one, the constellations were highlighted and morphed into Greekish-statue versions, making the formations easier to see. Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

Rather he came to see her as an obstacle, just as a sea captain might view an iceberg—something to monitor and avoid. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Her nose came around, past the beach, aiming more and more out to sea. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

We slid off the nice, safe shelf and back into the sea. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

Even the Sun would be invisible in the daytime; its light would be scattered and diffused over the whole sky—just as scuba divers see only a uniform enveloping radiance beneath the sea. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

After years at sea McNeish knew his naval law, and he was convinced that Endurance’s Ship’s Articles were canceled. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

The sea was beginning to reach for our hilltop, climbing the forty feet with raging whitecaps. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

He sailed a day and a night over the lonesome sea, and on the second day he came to a small isle, which they told him was called Vemish. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

Out at the horizon it was impossible to see the line where the sea and the sky met, and he felt once more as if he were in the bottom of a large blue bowl. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

A huge sea serpent appeared from above us and spiraled down toward the roof. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

Grey-eyed Athena stirred them a following wind, soughing from the north-west on the winedark sea, and as he felt the wind, Telemakhos called to all hands to break out mast and sail. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The next morning the news blew through the village like a sudden sea breeze: The emissary had visited Kang’s house. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

The men of the West were trapped, and soon, all about the grey mounds where they stood, forces ten times and more than ten times their match would ring them in a sea of enemies. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

They all sailed away together, until they came to a swallow of the sea, between two high rocks— and there a second barge was waiting. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Only insofar as he struggled successfully with the sea could a man lay claim to his place in things. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Wealthy knights from Houses old in honor did not cross the narrow sea to sell their swords, unless exiled for some infamy. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Luckily, there were plenty of fish in the sea. Ungifted 2012-08-21T00:00:00Z

I flick on the projector and flood the dark blue sheet with a spectacular swirled sea of stars. Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

The fighting, when there is any, takes place on the vague frontiers whose whereabouts the average man can only guess at, or round the Floating Fortresses which guard strategic spots on the sea lanes. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

“I did. But when the war was over and I was going home, I took my rifle apart piece by piece and flung it into the sea.” Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

It reminded him of reaching port after a long trip at sea; the temptation was to leap from the ship and dance and run on the solid and limitless earth. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Then she remembered that Poseidon had a changeable personality, like the sea. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

I was going to ask more, but then I heard Sohrab’s mom let out a cry and charge across the sea of Bahramis separating her from her target. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

While the treasure stayed safely under the sea, I stayed with Osh and Miss Maggie on the Elizabeths and learned how the stars changed with the seasons, and how we did, too. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

Forty terrified women and girls howled as the boat began to float upon the sea. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some of us had not seen each other for more than a year, and everyone was excitedly picking old classmates out of the sea of new faces. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Can you imagine that? Five generations of sea captains in her blood, and she won’t marry a sailor!” Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

"In Pentos, I make them with pork," the old woman said, "but all my pigs died on the Dothraki sea. These are made of horsemeat, Khaleesi, but I spice them the same." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

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

His eyes were green, but not sea green like Percy’s . . . more like pond-scum green. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Asha thought she had known cold on Pyke, when the wind came howling off the sea, but that was nothing compared to this. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The sea gulls come flapping in to sit on the cannery roofs to await the day of refuse. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

And he was at the mercy of this sea, hanging there with darkness all around him. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

Blue sky and blue sea here, but off west... A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

He saw him and that red cap, and Martin’s right hand was raised high, his middle finger a sign of defiance in a sea of anticipation. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

My palms are faintly green, for like everything else on the ship, the tiller wheel has turned to copper and has oxidized green in the salt sea air. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

When it is day, you are hot and wish to be cool and dream of ice cream and pour sea water on yourself. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Before the men prepared to head to shore, the captain of the U-boat said, "You bring the bodies back and we'll feed them to the fish when we get out to sea again." Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

She watched the sea shift and sigh, each wave a breath. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

A quiet bubble floating on a sea of noise. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Many were shot down and just as many fell into the sea without hitting any target. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

While Senator Trueba attempted to alter his country’s destiny, his wife sailed masterfully through the agitated seas of social life and the other, more surprising ones of her spiritual voyage. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

A bold sea bird, it resembled its close relative the gull, but was not a fisher. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

It reminded her of being on the ship, where it was impossible to determine time or place—just the endless sea. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

We zoom across the clear water, and overhead the birds fly, and there are sea turtles too, drifting through the clouds. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

We had to throw our extra things in the sea because the water is beginning to creep in slowly. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

The blackness of the sea suddenly overwhelmed her; it was nothing more than a vast emptiness. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

I transfer to Kijkduin, a suburb on the sea, and as the train gets closer, the air becomes briny. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

“One most of all. A tall and twisted thing with one black eye and ten long arms, sailing on a sea of blood.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

From the direction of the sea come whistles and booms; flak is going up. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

As I sat on the bus peering out the window at Mommy, the only white face in a sea of black faces, a black man walked up with his son. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

He could smell the sea, hear it washing against the docks and the faraway shores, calling him to wilder waters, to bigger monsters, and to stories yet to be earned. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

The snow had mostly stopped, and Turner smelled the salty sea breeze taking up its place behind him—not playful but solemn and steady. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

“I made my first sea voyage to Bourbon,” he said. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nok turned around and wove around the marchers, pushing her way through the gaps in the sea of bodies. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

The navigator peers down from his bunk above mine, not seeming to care that the ship is about to be shredded into driftwood by the enraged sea. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

Only that she’d been born on a farm, raised on a farm, married to a farmer somewhere far from the sea, and that she had lost it all. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

But all day we heard nothing but familiar sounds, the surf, the wind, and the cries of sea birds. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

We both grew up thinking Scooter’s bed was the safest place in the world, like a boat in a sea full of crocs. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

As for the sea, it looked rough, but to a landlubber the sea is always impressive and forbidding, beautiful and dangerous. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

If young Slash could go to sea, why couldn’t he? I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z

Toward the sea there are salt marshes and very few roads. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

With this fish I was retaliating against the sea, against the wind, against the sinking of ships, against all circum­stances that were working against me. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

The sea was flat; no breeze blew, but Van Eck’s remaining Squallers filled the ship’s sails with a driving wind. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

They have weathered nearly five months at sea, and they show it. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

Just as the skeletons opened fire, the pearl fragments at my feet exploded with a burst of green light and a gust of fresh sea wind. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

There she crouched among the oil drums and looked out on the sea. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

I saw how since the sixteenth century, the so-called “Christian trader” white man began to ply the seas in his lust for Asian and African empires, and plunder, and power. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her second stride seemed longer; she hovered in the air for a split second before landing and then hurtling toward the sea. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

In the mornings, she opened her eyes and saw these blue-green sheets and that painting of the sea. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Everyone stopped to follow her gaze, and together they all found a black head of hair bobbing above them, above the sea of grass, climbing the boulders, halfway up and moving fast. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

They are just two regular guys in uniform joining the sea of pedestrians, soldiers, and tourists. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

The smoke from the burning pizza changed into something fragrant—the smell of a dean sea breeze with wild- flowers mixed in—but I had no idea if that meant my father was really listening. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

“She looked at me like I was a sea slug or something. Didn’t even answer. And then — I dunno — I just sort of came to my senses and ran for it.” Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

The mermaids were dancing and singing in Latin like the priests do at the cathedral during Mass. You were there with me too, at the bottom of the sea. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

It was just a weird hand-ship the size of a yacht, sailing without a captain, roaring across a burning sea toward us. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

July 30: Of all the sea books I've been reading, the book that has taken me over is Jack London's Martin Eden. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

In the centuries before the Dragonlords came over the sea, they had sworn allegiance to no man, styling themselves the Kings in the North. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

After staging a false “burial at sea” to throw the press off the trail, Booth’s body was buried in a simple crate in an unmarked grave at the Old Arsenal Penitentiary. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ged's was in the South Tower, with a window looking down over the steep roofs of Thwil town to the sea. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

Twilight was beginning to fall when the mountains drew back from the road and the sea suddenly appeared beyond green hills, a sea as wide as another sky. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

In fact, he was sitting in the copilot’s seat, and they were cruising over the forest, looking down at the wildly tossing treetops, a wild sea of leaf and branch. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He remembered how near he was to the sea and that brought another unpleasant thought. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

This bone ship looked like a rib cage, curved bones curling up as it erupted out of the sea. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

I made my way through the heavy brush and, moving swiftly, down the ravine until I came to the sea cliffs. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

In 1917 they were tempted to imagine they were capturing messages destined for warships or submarines at sea. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

We do not want to drive you into the sea, I said. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She tells of a giant across the sea who has the strength of thirty thanes. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

All hills had died in this last slant toward the sea. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“She can go forth on the sea, surely, if she must go.” Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

“He threw himself into the sea because he thought I was dead in the Labyrinth. I wanted to bring him back, but I could not.” The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

Some shots fell short and landed in the sea, raising great columns of water. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Aye, how I tremble for him, lest some blow befall him at men’s hands or on the sea! The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sea was now three hundred feet below them. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

“Quarry? You all don’t have no sea? No ocean?” Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

The food coloring didn’t show up as brightly in the sea as it did in the store bottles, but you could definitely see it. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

By honoring both the invention of an essential instrument for large-scale research and the creation of a laboratory model to put it to use, the Nobel committee validated a sea change in science. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

When Virginia left the Union she bore his home away as surely as if she were a ship setting out to sea, and what was left behind on the shore was not his any more. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ares, God of War, always took sides with Aphrodite; while Poseidon, Lord of the Sea, favored the Greeks, a sea people, always great sailors. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

I remember the boys at the orphanage talking about Captain Newport, how he was in a battle at sea with the Spanish and got his arm shot off. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

It was the color of bruised flesh and storm-dark seas, the bleak and hopeless blue of a dead girl’s eyes. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

“Well, it's several weeks’ walk to the sea from here. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

Ground, sea, and air troops from the United Kingdom, the United States, and Canada, supported by the French resistance, stormed onto the beaches of Normandy in France. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

She bought a white blouse next and a nightgown—fawn trimmed in sea foam. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Later he was convinced there was a sea monster under the dock. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

On the Docker, the men were clawing their way toward the island in heavy seas. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

The sea scallops look good until I'm told they're served in a broth of malt liquor and mummified litchi nuts. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

The sea tumbled him over and over like a stone, seeking out his eyes and nose and throat. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Across the ancient sea floor a dozen tall, blue-sailed Martian sand ships floated, like blue ghosts, like blue smoke. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

“What if the Ocarrion is there, but it’s fast, makes it out to sea before we can catch up?” Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Gradually the Luftigs disappeared from sight, swallowed in a sea of thousands. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

South of the bridge the river opened up to embrace the briny sea. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Only the sea and the whistling wind could be heard. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

Even the sea brought him no comfort tonight, though. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

She heard the music of rainfall, the cry of the wind, and the roar of the sea. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

“My ghost won’t associate with your ghost,” Matthias said primly, and then wondered if the sea air was rotting his brain. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

She stared at it as though it were an exotic monster from the depths of the sea. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

The hawks, he thought, that come out to sea to meet them. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

But instead of this a narrow ledge of rock, a few yards wide and perhaps fifteen long, continued the island out into the sea. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

There it sat, perfect as a fresh-laid egg on the dead sea bottom, the only nucleus of light and warmth in hundreds of miles of lonely wasteland. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

With his pants undone he had fallen in and, to his partner’s horror, had thrashed once or twice before disappearing altogether beneath the surface of the moon-addled sea. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

The sea rocks and the beaches were his stock pile. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jinny looked back up, and out, into the endless sea, the distance. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Suppose that one twin goes to live on the top of a mountain while the other stays at sea level. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then they rigged a sea anchor, a canvas cone dragged through the water to keep the boat turned into the storm. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

And there is no sea, no running of river or spring, in the dark land where once Ged had gone. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

The memory of it nagged at me whenever I saw the sea from the terrace. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

I clasp a hand in a sea of flesh and know it’s Marlena’s from the look on her face. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

The Lyseni was a sleek, smiling man whose flamboyance was a byword on both sides of the narrow sea. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

He was just a shadow in a sea of shadows. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Only the ship is made of books, its sails thousands of overlapping pages, and the sea it floats upon is dark black ink. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Vehicles shrieked their horns, carving a narrow path through the sea of refugees. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

I could see the sea from the terrace, and the lawns. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

The pit fighters were King Hizdahr’s only reliable support, against a sea of enemies. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The neighborhood committee has voted her little brick-and-cement house by the sea as the primary lookout for Santa Teresa del Mar. From her porch, Celia could spot another Bay of Pigs invasion before it happened. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then the sun was fully up and the sky was a perfect blue, pale and calm, a mirror reflection of the sea below. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

They dragged me from the second place to the third place, every voice sowing the wind, all things summoning the whirlwind that would sweep us all away to drown in the deepest sea. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

The red light was dying out fast from the hills and from the windy sea. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

They sat with their heels dug into the sand and watched the bleak sea wash up at their feet. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

I walked farther down the line to the photos from the necropsy, the shark twisted into the rocks like a huge white sea monster washed up from the pages of an old story. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

But at the mouth of the harbor where it opened out to the sea a heavy wind blowing landward struck them and they could make no headway against it. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

I have no idea if anyone has been lost to the sea. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

We yelled at them to have a good trip, and after they were out of earshot and the sea had swallowed their engine noises, we kept waving. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

His knees buckled, his arms gave way beneath him, all vital force now conquered by the sea. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

He sat, watching the sea heaving between his hands, and hearing the wooden clatter of gannets on an island cliff. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Just a boulder jutting out into the sea. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

And how fast had the sea been taking him? The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

The cries of his victims rang out as barns blazed, and ships foundered on a stormy red sea. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

And I grabbed her crescent flukes and tugged, inch by inch, until the water lifted her enough so we both slipped back suddenly into the sea. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

There were no lush green mountains or rolling hills falling into the sea. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

The air was heavy, and the breeze from the sea didn’t come, didn’t come. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Gwenforte runs out ahead, and the sea sprays up around her like wings. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

He terrorized the seas around the poor island, pillaging coastal cities and extorting others, attacking traders and supply ships bringing aid to a kingdom that hadn’t had a king in generations. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

On the march, through the hot days of early April, he carried the pebble in his mouth, turning it with his tongue, tasting sea salt and moisture. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had left the sunlight of the new day behind him on the open sea. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

She didn’t want to think about the last time she’d been at sea, but the memories were hard to fight. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

The other half stood safely off to sea, with orders to raise sail and make for Sea Dragon Point if the northmen took the strand. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Fog on the sea, fog in the streets, fog in the mind. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

The Dipper, the constellation called also the Great Bear, does not set below the horizon because a goddess once was angry at it and decreed that it should never sink into the sea. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Americans have them pinned against the sea. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

They stopped, leaning over a jagged fence made of sea drift, to ask for water. The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z

I thought about how long it had been since I’d stood on the beach at Montauk, on the opposite side of the country, looking out at a different sea. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

He looked at the sea again, the sky, letting his mind roll. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

That is how you can get lost, in a sea of names. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe this is a drink from the sea. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

As they rose through a gap in the dunes, they heard the sea and tasted a salty mouthful before they saw it. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

He was walking across the land until he came to the sea. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

He’d missed fall rains, the water dripping along the knobs of his spine and mixing with the sea spray in his hair—things he hadn’t known he’d miss. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Like Kuboyama, the farmer had been a healthy man, gleaning his living from the land as Kuboyama had taken his from the sea. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Thicknesse had fallen to the ground with tiny spikes erupting all over him; he seemed to be turning into some form of sea urchin. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Within minutes they were under way again, dodging their way through the sea of ice. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

One afternoon, after another dreary Sunday, he walked home from Mrs. Cobb’s with the sea breeze determined to shove him to Malaga Island. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

Frey spoke to nobody when they got there, neither his father, Njord, who is the master of all who sail the seas, nor his stepmother, Skadi, the lady of the mountains. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

My dad looked out to sea, where a big rusted lighthouse jutted up from a pile of rocks. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

Before the inland sea the valley must have been a forest. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Meggie saw multistory buildings, palm trees with dusty leaves, and, suddenly, still far away but shining silver in the sun, a glimpse of the sea. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

In the drawing room the French windows were open on to the terrace and the sound of the sea murmuring against the rocks came up to them. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

At moments Alba felt as if she were on a sailboat becalmed at sea, locked in an eternal, silent wait, peering out at the horizon for hours. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Below them, the sea is deep and cold and hungry. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

“Here the birds are buntings and longspurs. They do not fly to the sea twice a day like the puffins and sandpipers that my father followed.” Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’d done that once or twice at Westpunt The skate is kin to the deadly sea ray, but this one was as shocked as I was and swam off to deep water. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the time, that answer—the idea that I’d come from the sea, that I was like the sea—had made me feel strong and unusual. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

Hazel was tempted to push the stupid rodent into the sea. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

The invasion is still going splendidly, in spite of the miserable weather—pouring rains, gale winds and high seas. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

At that Ged left off his bleak thoughts and his gazing ahead over the sea, and he saluted Yarrow more earnestly, perhaps, than Vetch. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

The girls head turned and she half rose, listening to the murmur of the sea, but she did not answer and the old woman did not urge her. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

She says, Think about the waves in the sea. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

I thought it far more likely that they would have sent me off to the mainland, to some place without so much sea and sky. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

By dawn the Frog should be well out of sight of land, well out to sea. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the sly dog dived, came up under the man-of-war, scuttled her, and down she went, with all sail set, ‘To the bottom of the sea, sea, sea’ where...” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

The cog was drifting on a sea of dragonglass beneath a bowl of stars, but all around the storm raged on. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

For a moment Meggie thought she could hear the sea breaking in the distance, but perhaps it was only the traffic on the nearby highway. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

It is punctuated by more than fifty rivers, which channel Andes snowmelt to the sea. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Having lived on a mountain for twenty years, he’d never seen the sea before. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“Wait till you see the flax in bloom. I’ve never been to the sea myself, but I imagine it couldn’t be bluer than a field of flax.” Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

In the harbor one or two rowboats lay still at anchor, and beyond the breakwater the starlight glittered on a calm sea. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had been a young girl when she was washed from the sea to the place where she had lived for years. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

He floated in and out of consciousness, unsure of what was real or fever dream as the flatboat moved out to sea. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

He has built gigantic bridges to span the seas and gargantuan buildings to kiss the skies. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

The sea lions did not move when photographers walked among them. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

We stood on the edges of the room surrounding the posters, like we were on dry land and the posters were floating out to sea. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the sea turned to silver and the cold chilled the light of the sun, Pinmei knew the Black Tortoise of Winter had arrived with his usual calmness. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

Tyson had faced down fire-breathing bulls and sea monsters and cannibal giants. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

The Word sucks up Cannery Row, digests it and spews it out, and the Row has taken the shimmer of the green world and the sky-reflecting seas. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

The stars were still out and the grass was terribly cold and wet, but daybreak was just beginning, far to their right across the sea. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

In a blink, he was swallowed up by the sea—and gone forever. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z

To their number the fleet had added nine new prizes taken on the seas, so the sum was fifty-four... but the captured ships were cogs and fishing boats, merchantmen and slavers, not warships. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The whole floor was covered with a sea of rubble. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

Descendants of the ancient kings and queens of Qarth, the Purebom commanded the Civic Guard and the fleet of ornate galleys that ruled the straits between the seas. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

He gave the command to continue, and the litter rocked like a ship on a rough sea as the Burned Men cleared a path. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

She was reluctant to journey away from the water; she didn’t want to go far from the Sound that was part of the sea. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Abruptly the room took off on a rocket flight into the clouds, it plunged into a lime-green sea where blue fish ate red and yellow fish. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

He ached to be outside, to see the sky, to gaze at the sea. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

She signs them with things like, “Yours till Niagara Falls,” “Yours till the cookie crumbles,” or “Yours till the sea wears rubber pants to keep its bottom dry.” Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Two, however, of the first rank, were missing: Odysseus, King of the Island of Ithaca, and Achilles, the son of Peleus and the sea nymph Thetis. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

The procession moved slowly and quietly through a black sea of men and women dressed for mourning. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Cross gales he blew, making me lose my bearings, and heaved up seas beyond imagination— huge and foundering seas. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

By land, sea, and air, Lord Asriel assembled his materials, and within six months of his committal, he had all the equipment he wanted. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

In the summer once, when I was on my way to the place where the sea elephants lived, I had seen a young dog that looked like Rontu. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

I guess it was supposed to look like something from under the sea, but I don’t think there are any lakes or oceans that really have rocks that color. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

And even the trees in dead center were near enough that the sea breeze could take the ball into their branches—if he could hit it high enough. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

"Men fish the sea, dig in the earth, and die. Women birth children in blood and pain, and die. Night follows day. The winds and tides remain. The islands are as our god made them." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The sea was not calm, nor deep green like jade. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

Philip Lombard was looking the other way, out to sea. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

Not only had he stood her champion on Nagga’s hill and shouted out her name, but he had even crossed the sea to join her afterward, abandoning his king and kin and home. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

As much as she feared the cliff and the climbing she must learn to do, Claire feared the sea more. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

We took the table right at the back—which meant the one stuck out closest to the cliff edge—and when we sat down it felt like we were virtually suspended over the sea. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

At last I came to the place where it opens into a meadow right at the edge of a low sea cliff. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

The vast beach, the thousands waiting on it, and the sea empty of boats returned the Tommies to their predicament. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

And now the stone was gone and she flew across the Dothraki sea, high and higher, the green rippling beneath, and all that lived and breathed fled in terror from the shadow of her wings. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

It was early evening now, the light in the dining room window was a soft amber color, and all through the house the wooden floors, curiously enough, groaned and creaked like a ship at sea. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

I started to go by but old Phoebe stopped and made out she was watching the sea lions getting fed--a guy was throwing fish at them--so I went back. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

Ancient sources talk about his perishing at sea for his impiety, or alternatively, say that the brotherhood banished him and constructed a tomb for him, expelling him from the world of human beings. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Approaching the sea the land had begun to slope gently, the hills were brushed downward, the earth was smoothing itself, and the rivers straightened for the final run to the sea. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But I think we know the Iron Rod is unlikely to be found in the sea,” he said to them. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

“No sooner do we get out of one trouble than down comes another. There doesn’t seem to be anything to hold on to when Mother’s gone, so I’m all at sea.” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

For over a month, six days a week, ten hours a day, that’s what he’d been doing—lowering boats full of men into various sea conditions. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

We sprang out of the water, grabbing a moment of hang time before smacking down onto the sea's surface. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

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

It was ba­nana split in the wrong sense of the term: the sea dispersed them. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

It’s like watching some strange sea animal coming back to life. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Silently, she threw the needle into the sea. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

The fifth morning after Hermes’ visit found Odysseus putting out to sea before a fair wind over quiet waters. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

I didn’t like having to explain to them, so I just shut up, smoked a cigarette, and looked at the sea. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

“Though the mountains be carried into the midst of the sea.” Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then the sea breathed again in a long, slow sigh, the water boiled white and pink over the rock; and when it went, sucking back again, the body of Piggy was gone. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

He’s going down hard to the bottom of the sea and twon’t be seen again. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

The clouds above the sea became heavy, and just as he began to hear thunder, a wall of dark water poured from the sky and into the sea. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

South of the Wood the land sloped down in fertile, rich farmland toward the sea. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Glaucus was a fisherman who was fishing one day from a green meadow which sloped down to the sea. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

People who’ve never seen a sunset at sea would be blown away. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

He did not know if he was in the sky, the earth, or the sea. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

The mirror is a sea of conflicting emotions signified above all by the color scheme of her reflection. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

She recorded a piano song about a cathedral engulfed by the seas and sent it to me, full of dim, chiming bells and green gloom. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

He lay far across the room from her, on a winter island separated by an empty sea. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

He believes witches can summon up storms that sink ships at sea—James had almost lost his life in such a storm. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

The second girl had risen more slowly, and at first Kit was only aware of the most extraordinary eyes she had ever seen, gray as rain at sea, wide and clear and filled with light. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

He gave them wise advice, too, about the dangers before them, in especial about the Clashing Rocks, the Symplegades, that rolled perpetually against one another while the sea boiled up around them. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

They’d walk among the mountains and across seas, like the adventurers and outlaws that filled his daydreams, all oceans and sailing ships and pops of gunfire. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Over on the rocks near Hopkins Marine Station the sea lions barked monotonously. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bottled oxygen does not make the top of Everest feel like sea level. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s going to be rough seas all the way!” A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Beyond that black clot the sea lay, pale with the last ashy gleam of day. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

I knew how the breeze sounded whoa it crossed die sea grape. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then it made its way back to the sea, cutting rivers and canyons into the earth over the centuries. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Evidently, those first Neolithic occupants of Taiwan had watercraft adequate for deep-sea fishing and for regular sea traffic across Taiwan Strait, separating that island from the China coast. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

And most of them were here now, on the dead seas, in their resurrected ships, by their dead chess cities, one of which had just fallen like some fragile vase hit by a pebble. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was as if we were sitting amid a sea of stars. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“Hitler and his gang should be thrown back into the sea.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

The ship sailed on, out of the Ocean Stream, riding a long swell on the open sea for the Island of Aiaia. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had been the one who’d taken off and gone when the sea or the road called. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

Looking through an opening on the south side of the flet Frodo saw all the valley of the Silverlode lying like a sea of fallow gold tossing gently in the breeze. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

There was quite a sea running but we were going with the wind. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

Jordie’s body was beside him, barely recognizable, white and swollen with rot, floating on the surface like some kind of gruesome deep sea fish. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Once in the middle of a passage I looked into the sea of faces and thought, Do they know? Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

“That was awkward. Now can we go get this Lucinda chick out the sea or whatever?” Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

Dog Town, beside the ship, was a noisy center of activity in the middle of a frozen sea, littered with seal bones and dog droppings. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

He was pulling so hard that at first he didn’t notice that Marco was slipping into the sea. I Survived the Sinking of the Titanic, 1912 2010-06-01T00:00:00Z

It pleased me to think they would be perched there on the silver log, pointing out to sea, like a sort of soul-compass, after I was dead. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

It was the mightiest on Earth, with hundreds of warships prowling the seas. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z

“And then, well, it is a big world. Maybe America. Somewhere near the sea. Like California.” A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

The sea breeze had scooted the heat of the day out in front of it, and Turner found himself shivering by the time he came back up to Parker Head. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

The four Tuckers and Cruz, a tiny island in a huge sea. I Survived Hurricane Katrina, 2005 2011-04-01T00:00:00Z

When the Andals crossed the narrow sea and swept away the kingdoms of the First Men, the sons of the fallen kings held true to their vows and remained at their posts. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Then the red thing was past and the elephantine progress diminished toward the sea. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

For a moment, I was confused, not knowing whether to run for cover under sea grape, or what was left of it, or try to fight them off with my cane. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Pretty much. Riding the deep sea, tracking slave ships and boarding ’em, freein’ everybody. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Tree took account of road, which was aware of air, which was mindful of sea, which shared things with sun. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Actually, when we did reach the sea, we found we were standing on a road carved into a cliff edge. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the cove, they lined up, breathless and staring out to sea, to watch the boat come in against the sunset. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

But if I had to imagine being on the sea, this is what I’d imagine. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

They sank their blades into the sea of stone—loosened by swings of Jake’s pick—and heaved it backward in a pitter-pattering shower of gravel. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

Margaret Kochamma’s tiny, ordered life relinquished itself to this truly baroque bedlam with the quiet gasp of a warm body entering a chilly sea. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Over the Humbug’s strenuous objections, Milo and Tock decided to swim, and, protesting loudly, the bug was dragged along with them toward the sea. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

Dancing and swinging her arms to get warm, she picked up the thongs of her sled and walked toward the sea. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

I sipped my tea and turned back to my afternoon companions of pirates, parrots, and the sea. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

And so with a last abrupt kick, the sea breeze twisted around and left him. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

My phone was the only thing I owned that had survived our disaster at sea, but it was useless here, an alien object. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

The devilfish does not swim with fins or flippers, like other things in the sea. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the top of the cliff I stood for a while gazing at the sea. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

You can help things move along by standing at the end of your boat, feet on opposing gunnels, and sway­ing in rhythm to the motion imparted by the sea. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

It was freezing cold, the wind driving off the sea; it had been raining for days. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once the hippocampi's white manes disappeared into the sea, we swam for shore. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

They reached the edge of the desert the next night, on schedule, then followed a river for three days, all the way to the sea. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

The air is moving inland off the sea, but the sraf is moving slowly against it. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

For, as if all the earth dragons were waking from nightmares, the grumbles became snarls and the sea began to bellow. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

When they lifted her on to the lighter the water would stream from her sides, back into the sea again. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

At first he thought he was looking at some kind of pregnant sea snake or a constipated eel. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

It was low tide, and a tidal river flowed past us on its way to the sea. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

The sea’s languid retreat into the horizon and the terrible silence of its absence. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

No matter where we go, we will always be able to line up on the roof of Cuddledown and gaze at the sea. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

For before them, glittering with the cold, hard, sharp sparkle of a diamond, was the sea. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

He chuckles like he's made of the frothy sea. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

I began to understand why some people could not bear the clamour of the sea. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

She would have a fresh bruise there by the time she went to sleep, somewhere out at sea. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The sea glides along far below, spattered with the countless chevrons of whitecaps. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

With the sea literally at their backs, on a cliffy tongue of land, they had built their tingle wail across the root of the tongue. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

We have learned to fly the air like birds and swim the sea like fish, but we have not learned the simple art of living together as brothers.... While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

The second time I opened my eyes must have been a good while later, because the seas were almost calm. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sea had turned to sand, shadowy, unstirred. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

I found myself plunging over the roads of Washington, as dedicated to the sea as any migrating lemming. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Is it safe? Ain't there a cliff? I can hear the sea." Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

Driving over that field was like trying to steer a boat through a sea of dark chocolate. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

The giant peach, with the sunlight glinting on its side, was like a massive golden ball sailing upon a silver sea. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

She isn’t participating in the clam dig; she’s content with taking pictures of us, and with staying far away from the freezing sea. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

In France ’tis the Pressure of the Moon that causes the Tides; but in England ’tis the sea that Gravitates towards the Moon...The very Essence of Things is totally chang’d. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

At the far end is a thick grate through which lustrous, clear sea wind washes. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

But the morning broke clear and in front of me lay the dim line of the island like a great fish sunning itself on the sea. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

He might have considered the popular theory that the Milky Way, which glowed so brightly at sea, was the remnant of a path through the sky abandoned by the sun. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

Behind Hedge, the sea goddess began to move. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

The Zeitouns were a high-achieving clan, full of doctors and school principals and generals and business owners, all of them with a passion for the sea. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

I searched through the sea of papers on the table until I found a chart of the tides. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

It came from that distant glitter she thought was the sea. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

“He took off,” a voice says from behind me, immediately silencing all music, all chatter, the wind and the sea. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

The sea is cold, but my blood is hot, running down my neck. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

I glance up just in time to see the massive jaws of a great white clamp down on a sea lion. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

It had emerged from the sea with the speed and the impossibility of a huge stage illusion. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

One would think they would be hurt by their furious impact with the sea, but, no, they almost always came up with a fish in their beak. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

Thor was carrying them on his back: boat, oars, Hymir, and whales, carrying them along the shingle at the edge of the sea. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

All the creatures of the sea, from a graceful longma to a smiling fish, were bowing toward the mountain in gratitude. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

The lab was swimming in a sea of subatomic projectiles. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

To see them all the way out here soothes him, as though he has turned and found an old friend floating beside him in the middle of the sea. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Sure, when it gets wet, you kind of resemble a droopy sea lion, but at least it isn’t pink and lime green like Linda’s swimsuit is. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

Bill and Fleur’s cottage stood alone on a cliff overlooking the sea, its walls embedded with shells and whitewashed. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Or what if it was a couple kids lost at sea. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

I kneel before her and press my cheek to hers, still salty from the sea. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Emily Dickinson never had to move across the sea. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

The moon came up, jumping right over a sea cliff to hang above the horizon. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

Am I to die in a sea of sick people I do not know? First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I think it a beautiful name, like a town I heard of once, with pink and blue houses, by the sea. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

She and Dorothea hastily preserved caterpillars and reptiles in brandy and packed up live cocoons and lizard eggs in the hope these might hatch during the months at sea. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Part of his flight was over the dark sea, but it didn’t frighten him because he knew he could not fall. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

There's a splash, and one of the sea lions breaks through the surface and lands on a flat stone. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

We’d learn later that nearly two million people had flooded the Mall, arriving from all parts of the country, a sea of diversity, energy, and hope stretching for more than a mile from the U.S. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Perhaps I would see him at the docks, sketching a ship or sea gulls. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Minli nodded — and as she waved a grateful goodbye to the village, a sea of ruined sleeves fluttered back at her. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

He plunged away into the deep sea swell, and she grew big with Pelias and Neleus, powerful vassals, in their time, of Zeus. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Baraa pushes the settlement men as they pitch into the sea. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

When the Crow’s Eye took the fleet to sea Tris had simply lagged behind, changing course only when the other ships were lost to sight. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Clara woke a little before it, having had an apocalyptic nightmare of exploded horses, cows hurled into the sea, people crawling under stones, and gaping caverns in the earth into which whole houses were falling. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I remembered being at Marcus’s party, sitting by the pool—then I was on the ship—but I had no idea how I’d ended up floating on a sea of sandspurs and goose grass. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

The three adults paid tribute to Amaroq until he was almost smothered with love; then he bayed a wild note that sounded like the wind on the frozen sea. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sea beckons with its blue waves of light. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

A breeze started to blow, and you could feel that the air came from the sea. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

It was a long time since Meggie had seen the sea, and then it had been a cold sea, slate gray and pale from the wind. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

When we got off in Cape May it was the first time in three weeks I had been on land, and I had sea legs. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

“They’ve fought in worse seas. The Arctic is the worst fighting on the planet. They aren’t afraid of a little rain and waves.” Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

It struck him suddenly that he might return to Winterfell by sea. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

In the dream I was alone in a small wooden boat, hooked up to a humongous tarpon that was dragging me out to sea. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

Outriders spied the Manderly banners—the white merman with trident in hand, rising from a blue-green sea— and hailed them warmly. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Neither of us knew what to do about the sea urchins but Timothy said he'd think mightily about them. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sea elephant moves fast in spite of his size, waddling along on his great flippers which he uses like hands. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

As we galloped past the cabins, I glanced at the dining hall—an open-air Greek pavilion on a hill overlooking the sea. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

“I can’t be here any longer. I’m going down to the sea.” We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

What about the blacks who’d practiced slavery for millennia and sold slaves across the Sahara and then across the sea? Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Dicey tried to remember the last time she heard Sammy laugh, and that had been laughing at Maybeth because a doll she made out of sea grass had been washed away by a wave. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I finished the sea salt caramel as soon as you left,” she says. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

A thin red cow with a protruding pelvic bone appeared and swam straight out to sea without wetting her horns, without looking back. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the evenings Kapugen sang and danced with the old men, and all of their songs and dances were about the sea and the land and the creatures that dwelled there. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Lots of bad people above the sea, too,” Tyson said. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

Because the sheets of polar ice locked up huge amounts of water, sea levels around the world fell about three hundred feet. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

And he picked off several hundred sea cradles and put them in his wooden bucket. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Percy knew it was a horrible wish, but he almost regretted that they hadn’t been captured at sea. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

If you’re marooned in a calm sea, with barrels of wine and no water, there are two things you shouldn’t do: drink the wine, or drink the sea. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

She sped like a bird over sea and land seeking her daughter. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

The park was still there; in the night she had dreamed she was at sea and chained belowdecks. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

When she put those hands on my hot forehead, I thought of sea lavender and April. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

But they were the falsest thing in the sea and the old man loved to see the big sea turtles eating them. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

She peeked over the edge of the ship, and suddenly, green and golden beyond the blue of the sea, the land appeared from the distant mists. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

She found Nina near the prow, gazing out at the sea. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

On that happy thought, we turned our backs on the sea. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

His shield bore the storm god’s cloudy hand, lightning crackling from his fingers down to a raging sea, but the paint was discolored and peeling, the wood beneath starting to rot. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

She wondered if they might be the Pier 39 sea lions she’d read about. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Mayday, mayday, for pilots whose planes had been hit, and ships — was it ships too? — at sea. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

His brother Aeron would have known, but Aeron had seen the majesty of the Drowned God’s watery halls below the sea before being returned to life. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“Pease stay. Or the sea might come. Don’t let the sea get me, Jinny.” Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

"Well, you're about to see it for real now. The sky, the beach, and the sea." Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

There was a battery-powered drill, a canvas cot, a bucket of sea water for rinsing, a metal suitcase full of the various instruments. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“That should help with safe passage. Percy, pray to your dad, too. See if he will grant us safe passage through the seas.” The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

She gazed across the courtyard—past the panicked tourists and fighting demigods—to the edge of the battlements, where a large mortar pointed out to sea. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Her eyes were soft brown with a perfect halo of sea blue around the edges. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Piggy fell forty feet and landed on his back across that square red rock in the sea. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

I been dreaming how me and Lally find a fish down by the sea. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

The haven now was sunk from sight and Lookfar’s painted eyes, wave-drenched, looked ahead on seas ever wider and more desolate. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

I remember my mother’s face and how her tears could make a sea. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

The windows had been shut against sea breezes long ago, and they let in only a little sunlight. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

After many days of traveling, he found himself by the sea. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

Below them, the blur of the meadow and the prairie stretched out like a green-gold sea. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

The decline in sea levels let the two peninsulas join up. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

There will be flooding too, as the seas rise and surge onto the land. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

A sea of fingers waved in the breeze. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

However much things may appear to change—the sea may shift from whisper to rage, the sky might go from fresh blue to blinding white to darkest black—the geometry never changes. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe life was like a sea, and all the people were like boats. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

I could perhaps mix some sea water with his fresh water, but I had to procure more fresh water to start with. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

The arctic morning air stung my cheeks as I gazed out over the uneven sea of trailer rooftops. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Pretending to be dolphins, then seals, then ships that could sail far across the sea. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

The worry about Jay was slowly flowing away, like the tide ebbing back out to sea. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

For a moment Jon could almost see them too, coiling in the night, their dark wings outlined against a sea of flame. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

If they took to the sea again, they faced another perilous journey 130 miles around the tip of South Georgia to the whaling stations. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

I tore all the roses off a single sad bush and threw them, one after the other, into the angry sea. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

Then she remembered Loo beside her, and turned to discover that he was methodically tugging on one arm of a red sea star. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

But as I lay in bed that night, listening to the sea on the rocks and the northbound wind, I wondered what kind of sickness those people had had. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

There was a round grassless patch in the middle of the lawn, like an island in a green sea, where a thin palm tree stood. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

And then, as I know I am about to pierce the crust of existence, like a flying fish leaping out of the sea, I feel the pull from below. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

The neighbor women were right in what they had said about Papá’s death at sea saving them money. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

On the way home, carrying the abalone between us, Ramo and I stopped on the cliff The air was clear and we could look far out to sea in the direction the ship had gone. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

He kicked Bob downhill, knocking over a row of telkhines like sea mammal bowling pins. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

The car was just where they’d left it, and in a moment they were on their way again as the road turned away from the sea and began its long climb into the mountains. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

His voice is like a warm sea breeze filling up the cold, dry air in this place. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Or took them out to the deep sea and drowned them? Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

The office overlooks the sea, and we took a minute to watch the freighters in the harbor, which was ablaze with sunlight. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

“And then we go to sea,” I said. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the late afternoon Mary took Will and Lyra along the riverbank, past the fishing posts where the nets were tied, and through the wide salt marsh toward the sea. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

And because the mainland police couldn’t collect Martin’s body until the seas calmed, the townspeople were left with the net- tlesome question of what to do with his body. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

Some had sour, gimlet-eyed faces; some had not yet lost the rolling gait of sea captains. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

He didn’t take a seat in the sea of scarlet robes, but stood in the back of the theater, in the shadows. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

As he drove, his windows down, the smell of the sea in his nose, he thought about the many times Kainene had driven him down the same lonely road. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

It had been raised by King Jon Stark to defend the mouth of the White Knife against raiders from the sea. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

We began going up a steeply climbing path, and we could see—maybe a hundred yards further up—a kind of viewing area right on the cliff edge with benches facing out to sea. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

The weather was just beginning to warm up, although the sea might still send a blast of chill through the corridors of the city. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

They were facing the sea, not fifty feet from shore. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

It must grope after him through the days and across the seas of the sunlit world, and could take visible shape only in dream and darkness. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

Outside my window the view was spectacular—a glorious vision of sea and sky I will never forget. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

He is trapped in a sea of foamy white packing peanuts. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Along one side was a wide shelf of rock, which ran out to the sea through a narrow opening. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

A sea of sand dunes stretches below the cliffs, lifeless and unforgiving. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Since Hiroshima, there had been more than 190 atomic and thermonuclear tests in the atmosphere, underground, and at sea. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

“Hey, pitcher, look at me, I’m a fishy in the sea,” I chant. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

A wave crashed over it and swept it out to sea. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Further downhill, the rest of the legion was trying to form up, but the Second, Third and Fourth Cohorts were now surrounded by a sea of ill-tempered monstrous allies. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

But when he looked out across the crowd, the sea of faces, the thing happened again. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

Even as the sea rages around him, the brave sailor keeps the flag safely above him and the water. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

The sea made no sounds on the shore. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a low gray building hewn from sea stone, with shells and coral fossils imprinted in the rock. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

The boys surveyed all this, then looked out to sea. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

Only the rolling sea and the bars of rich, cool light and the boat sliding up and down easily, as she was meant to, on the gende swells. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Threatened on land, he still could take comfort from the fact that he could get aid from the sea. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

In other words, just like a vast majority of the crewmen, my job is to run side to side across the deck and back again to counteract the rolling motion of the sea. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

He thought often of the miles of ridge after ridge until at last there was the sea. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

Unfortunately the landing field had become a sea of mud because there has been nothing but rain, rain, rain for the past week, all over France I think. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

Today I saved a young woman from falling into the sea. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

The songs of the sea had betrayed him. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

I leaned over to look down at the violent sea, then sat back in a hurry and prayed we would go even faster. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

He held onto her hands as though he were in the middle of the sea and her hands were the lifeline that would drag him in to shore. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

He sat on a dog bed at the center of a sea of dog beds. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

The sea does not become a solid mass of cod as it would surely do if all the progeny of all the cod were to survive. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

At the lowest tides, the barnacled ribs of a thousand shipwrecks stick out above the sea. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

His power overran the world, from the foot of my cliff to the northern sea to the impenetrable forests south and east. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

He swung the trident in his massive hands and in one shock from top to bottom split that promontory, toppling into the sea the fragment where the great fool sat. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

If you blended together a kid, a Doberman pinscher, and a sea lion, you’d get something like what I was looking at. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

If Kilvin’s demonstration was any indication, I guessed the whole shop could be a sea of flame and caustic fog in less than a minute. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The sun was a bright orange disc hovering over the sea, and the sunlight glittered on the surface like a web of light, or lace that ever changed its pattern. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

The coast guard lighthouse on the rocks at Point White was a tower built out of reinforced concrete that rose a hundred feet above the sea. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Tyrion had finished them all by their third day at sea. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

He was no longer in a boat out to sea, but in a row of desks and chairs. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

Out of sight on the other side of the whale, she could hear the old men as they cheered this gift from the sea. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

He rowed out to sea waveringly, but with silent dignity. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had purchased several, shipping them by sea to New York. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were but few lights in sight at sea, for even the coasting steamers, which usually “hug” the shore so closely, kept well to seaward, and but few fishing-boats were in sight. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

Out to the four corners of the world, answering the sea’s call. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

The sea of faces represented no special personality to me. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The amazing horse took off at a gallop, racing up through the water, across the frozen sea, and back to the seaside. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

Thinking about leaving Ju Mi and my house by the sea makes my heart hurt. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

Indeed, sir, say I, for I am awash on the seas of chance and giddy with their heaving—and thus I spew. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

Places where sea creatures with rows of eyes blinked back at them from the other side of the glass. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

One day he said, “Nat, have you ever thought of going to sea?” Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

She thought of the fortress of ice; she could imagine the walls of it so clearly, the windows bright in the sunlight, the sea all around it deep sapphire blue. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Instead, it floated right on top of the water, surrounded on all sides by clear blue sea. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

And he had thought of them as a sea of simple brutes, clapping, swaying simple brutes, all of them accepting and pliant before the pastor in his designer suit. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

When it was very hot he sometimes took himself off along the street to the sea, had a swim, then trotted back, wet and cool. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

Diego grabbed his tray and waded into the sea of tables and chairs. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

And one by one they rose out of the sea into a golden spray. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

I want to stop, I try to hold my breath, but the sea forces its way in and out against my will. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Around them, shells of all different sizes exploded, flaming and colorful tracer bullets whizzed past, and antiaircraft guns fired from the ground and from ships stationed on the sea below. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

In those days there were two dark elves who lived in a fortress by the sea. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

The sky above the sea was still clear, but gray clouds were forming above the hills and every time the sun disappeared behind them a shadow fell over the village rooftops, making Meggie shiver. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

It featured a heroine in disguise, a perilous sea voyage, rogues and brigands, and deep forests in which to become lost, perhaps forever. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

The flow of goods across the seas, buoying and depressing the wages of men, held a fascination. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Then, about a hundred yards out to sea, three white lines appeared on the surface. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

Over his pallet was a window that looked out on the sea, but most often the shutters must be closed against the great winds that blew all winter from the west and north. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

The officers in charge of it got it into working order, and in the pauses of the inrushing mist swept with it the surface of the sea. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

It was not the ceaseless motion of the sea that disturbed me, nor the wind; you get used to those the way you get used to lumps in a mattress. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

This again led into more open forest so that they had a glimpse of the spread sea. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

Beyond it, the blue sea stretched to the horizon, beckoning. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

The earthquake had caused the sea to rise up. I Survived the Great Molasses Flood, 1919 2019-09-03T00:00:00Z

We’d decided to use food-coloring gel instead of laundry dye because the gel wasn’t made with chemicals that would harm the sea life. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

He saw water, a wide sea of it. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

The stars called to her like signal beacons burning on a vast black sea as she flung herself a hundredfold into the dizzy air. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

There were thousands of men, a sea of bright red spreading as far back as Nate could see. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z

Either across the dead seas or out of space in a rocket on a little thread of red flame. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sweep of her hair back from her face, the curve of her nostril suggested the figurehead of a ship plunging gallantly into a rough sea. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sea otter, when it is swimming, looks like a seal, but is really very different. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

I took a long look at the sea of avatars around us, then shifted my attention to the castle. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

And behind them, a moonlit glimmer that might have been the sea. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Then he worked down the flat after the retreating sea. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Many dolphins live in our seas and it may be from them that the name came. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We live 3 hours from the ocean. I’ve never even seen a sea lion.” The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

It had started on the day they’d clung to his glass box and kissed in the sea, and now it must go on forever. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

If they kill him, though, and drag him into the sea, what of Calliope? Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

As we shall see, that high productivity of the land, fresh water, and seas was a key to Japan’s prehistory. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

How do you defend yourself against the prolonged, insufferable agony of knowing you will surrender to the sea? Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

And one day after a storm, we rescued a batch of hatchling turtles and took them out to sea. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

Turner held on to the sides of the dory and rolled side to side with it with this great vastness that had swum past the mountains and valleys of the sea. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

He knocked Percy’s sword out of his hand again, and once more Riptide flew into the sea. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t until he stepped out of the sea, hearing shrieks of surprise and the chanting of his name, that he realized he’d won. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

The sun rose thinly from the sea and the old man could see the other boats, low on the water and well in toward the shore, spread out across the current. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Perhaps the wind and sea had gone to his head, for he backed away from me, barking stupidly, and began racing round the beach after nothing at all. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

And then, as she stood there, listening—a cold, clammy hand touched her throat—a wet hand, smelling of the sea.... And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

The sound of the rain was like the swelling sound of the sea. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

She surged through the stormy sea, lunging into wave troughs and then climbing their slopes before plowing down into the next deep liquid ravine. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

“I’ll tell you a secret, son of the sea god. Scoop up some dirt.” The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

The seas were blue, the lands were green, the mountains black and brown. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Ess could look out over the sea from above, watch the birds nest in the rocks. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

We pitch and dip on a heaving sea. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

I would go to Alaska, ski inland from the sea across thirty miles of glacial ice, and ascend this mighty nordwand. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Cortes and his bedraggled adventurers landed on the Mexican coast in 1519, they might have been driven into the sea by thousands of Aztec cavalry mounted on domesticated native American horses. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Her silver was trotting through the grass, to a darkling stream beneath a sea of stars. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

We were sea clean and sun dried, the two of us, and fine that way. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

So I had a hunch what was about to happen on the deep- sea boat when the bald crooked-nosed guy grabbed my sister around her neck. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

Jemmy saw that the prince was wearing a black cloak and carrying a wicker basket the size of a sea chest. The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z

Then I sling an arm around it and make for the closest boat as if all the jinn of air and sea are on my tail. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

She was right—the sea did leave an itch when it dried—but the soap made me smell sweeter than I was. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

As they climbed, she could see the glitter of the moon on the sea far off to the left, and its silver-sepia light seemed to envelop her in a cool, skeptical wonder. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Indeed the white missionaries—valiant men like Dr. Livingstone—heard the call and braved treacherous seas and jungles and disease to bring our ancestors Christianity. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

These are the days when Alcyone broods over her nest floating on the sea. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We’ll have Jenny fatten up the British navy and make their ships sink to the bottom of the sea!” yelled a red-faced man. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And then we lost our things at sea.” Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

“Well, what on earth or sea are you doing here?” Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

But I get in as close to the rock as I dare, with the sea slurping over the top and the seaweed floating like a woman’s hair, and I pull up the first trap. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Once the wind picked up she would be moving again, but for now there was only the blank and endless sea. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

She stood apart from the teachers, alone in the black shimmering sea of asphalt. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

Sitting beside his gear, peering out to sea, he tried to make out Betio, but the island could not be seen. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

After two days at sea, Lyra decided that this was the life for her. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

Small drops of sea water fell from his hair to the cockpit seat and he ran his hands through his hair to get more of the water out. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

To turn the force of the wind and sea, the force of the earth and a person, into a dance across the water. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

They buried Beowulf's body in a great green fist of land that stuck out into the sea. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z

Turner’s arms felt strong against the long, smooth swells, so low they were not breaking, the sea the color of the inside of a mussel shell. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

I loved being up on deck, where I watched the sea and glimpsed dolphins, sharks, and flying fish. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

I looked to Osh, but he was busy looking at the sea, his back to the rest of us. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

The old man made his way through the handcarts and fishmongers fresh from the sea, stubbing his toes on the cobbles and bumping into sailors on shore leave. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

“I want to look at the sea in peace,” he said. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sea and perfect peace—that was what he needed. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

Her vision was fickle and wild as the sea, and it had already failed her once today. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

At this point, no one was even certain if they were heading toward the beach or back out to sea. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

He saw the glittering sea far, far below. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

We sent something about our genes, something about our brains, and something about our libraries to other beings who might sail the sea of interstellar space. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I sat and stared at the light and past it at darkness over the sea. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

The days and nights at sea were all the same. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“Yes! And the sea came in and took everything away.We had to live in a refugee camp.” The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

His body sailed through the air, his back snapping in two against the ship’s rail before bouncing into the sea. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

A river, she thought; rivers led to the sea. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Flocks of Antarctic petrels and snow petrels accompanied the ship on its journey toward the continent, diving with high, wild screams when the crew threw their garbage overboard into the sea. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

I remember how Sasha, too small for her presence to register amid a sea of adults, stood proudly on a footstool in order to stay visible. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

We climb a dune, and a black sheet of sea spreads before us, its ripples silver-bright in the moonlight. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

A wind from the sea lofted snowflakes against the windowpanes, where they melted and ran toward the casements. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

A fog was rolling up from the sea, and I could not see the woods beyond the bank. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

There were sounds coming from behind the Castle Rock Listening carefully, detaching his mind from the swing of the sea, Ralph could make out a familiar rhythm. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

From the loam of Jutta’s memory rises a sentence: What I want to write about today is the sea. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

“That the army hemmed in and machine-gunned three thousand workers and that their bodies were carried off to be thrown into the sea on a train with two hundred cars.” One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Come sunset, as the sea turned black as ink and the swollen sun tinted the sky a deep and bloody red, Victarion came back on deck. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I am an expanding universe swimming upward in a silent sea. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

I believe I smelled the sea rocks and the kelp and the excitement of churning sea water, the sharpness of iodine and the under odor of washed and ground calcareous shells. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The boy had stowed away, secretly following his older brother onto the ship in Nantucket and hiding until they were far out to sea. Marcus was furious when he found his little brother on board...” The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

"The narrow sea would still lie between us. I shall fear the Dothraki the day they teach their horses to run on water." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The sea bottom was rich with crawling and swimming and growing things. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a little white silent town on the edge of the dead Martian sea. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

I did not sleep much the night before I went to the place of the sea elephants. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

A sail, a ship, was there on the sea, halfway between the horizon and the shore! Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And you’re all eating fish right now, but they hunt and eat a wide variety of animals, including the seal, the sea lion, the stingray, the squid, and the octopus.” The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

I concentrated all my might on shutting off the force of the sea. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

He rowed and rowed and kept going around in a circle and never did get out to sea. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

I close my eyes and take a deep breath, hearing the familiar wheeze of my lungs trying desperately to fill with air through the sea of mucus. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

He would have believed that we were terrorists and Communists who wanted to drive the white man into the sea. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s a miracle, I tell you I A miracle! I believe in God again. I really do. Washed ashore in Sweden after so many weeks at sea! It’s a miracle.” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

“I saw water. Quite a lot of it, through the trees Emma’s face clouded. She said, “We’re trying to get away from the sea, not back to it. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

By the time Little Miss Byrd was Clayton’s age, she hid from his kisses, wiped them away, and told anyone who asked that her father was lost at sea. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

"He would say that even a million Dothraki are no threat to the realm, so long as they remain on the other side of the narrow sea," Ned replied calmly. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Far up the trail that led to the mesa I found things from the sea. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

They sat well apart at first, with arms outstretched, soaking themselves in the freshness of the sea air. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Eyes pale as sea foam watched Theon from under those shaggy white eyebrows. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Then sent a long swell running under a norther to bear the prince Odysseus, back from danger, to join the Phaiakians, people of the sea. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Where the white Mist met the dark smoke of Clytius, it steamed and sizzled, like lava rolling into the sea. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Perhaps it was just the sea’s waves battering the island, but Hazel didn’t think so. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

“These must be tiny sea animals that glow in the dark, like fireflies.” Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

This is the time when humans have begun to sail the sea of space. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sea around us whipped into white-capped waves that slapped at our hulls and broke into our boats, sloshing cold water around our feet. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

Without the cruise ship blocking their view, she saw a mountain jutting from the sea less than half a mile to the north. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

His trade had to do with the sea, though she never saw him set foot upon a ship. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I could not hear the restless sea, and because I could not hear it my thoughts would be peaceful too. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

We see two enormous sea turtles that seem to be flying instead of swimming. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

What better saint to protect her own son, in peril on the sea? Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

The last thing I remembered was sinking in a burning sea, knowing that Tyson was gone forever, and wishing I were able to drown. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

The floor was a carpet of sea urchins, which would have been uncomfortable to walk on, so Leo was glad he was floating. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Lyra found Lord Asriel in a room whose wide windows overlooked the frozen sea far below. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

But the breath of the Black Tortoise of Winter was still shaking the bare tree branches, and the birds were still as asleep as mussels deep in the sea. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

Over five weeks, Darwin collected carcasses of finches, mockingbirds, blackbirds, grosbeaks, wrens, albatrosses, iguanas, and an array of sea and land plants. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

I’m looking at her, but I’m not really seeing her, not seeing anything but darkness, not hearing anything but a roaring in my ears, like the sea, or a plane right overhead. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

For Pauline’s judges, as for King Louis, slavery far off across the seas was completely different from enslaved individuals in France. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

Those first hours are associated in my memory with one sound, not one you’d guess, not the yipping of the hyena or the hissing of the sea: it was the buzzing of flies. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

As he turned, the base cracked and the whole mass toppled into the sea so that, a thunderous plume of spray leapt half-way up the cliff. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

At sea they picked up Swan broadcasts from a little island south of Cuba as well as Radio Rebelde in Cuba and Radio Rumbos from Venezuela. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The tone of her skin, with its soft bluish lights, and of her hair, as well as her slow movements and silent character, all made one think of some inhabitant of the sea. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Two other planes had arrived at the same time as their Virgin Atlantic flight, and the sea of pearly gray carpet swarmed with people, all waiting to have their papers processed. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

“I wouldn’t mind a nice little bungalow up here facing the sea. I don’t know that I’d care for this part of the world in the winter though.” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

It must have stretched for several acres, and to support all of his bulk there were a hundred golden legs, each carved like some creature of the sea. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

The days and nights were short, every hour passed quickly like a sail on the sea, beneath the sail of a ship of treasures, full of joy. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s a creature, walking out of the sea. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

I make the Go-do-feesh swim in the sea and then get eaten by a big sea monster. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

As the storm continued, a large buildup of ice on the sea anchor’s rope had kept the line swinging and sawing against the stern. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

A huge black form comes racing through the sea. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

He lit another cigarette to curb his hunger and tried to reduce his task to the basics: you walked across the land until you came to the sea. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

I peek through the curtains, and it’s a sea of bleary-eyed freshmen and seniors. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

Had he not explained why the stars twinkled and how submarines slunk beneath the seas? In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

Although the United States was still officially neutral, it was lending aid to Britain, then under Nazi assault by air and sea. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Soon the floor was a sea of green, sky blue, and petal pink. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

A windy rain that stirred up the sea and kept us on the island. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

Moss gazed out at the sea of people. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

The island was only an island because the sea was there, all around. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Their house stood on the lower slope of Catoctin Mountain, overlooking the town, above a sea of apple orchards. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“No, not from this wing,” she answered, “you can’t even hear it, either. You would not know the sea was anywhere near, not from this wing.” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Each of his phrasings was rather like a little ancient island, inundated by a miniature sea of whiskey. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

On the eighteenth day a cloudy mountain top arose up across the sea. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Earth is a place of seas and nothing but seas. There is no land. I am from Earth, and know.” The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were together, a thing of the sea and the wind and man all joined in a single dance. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

A south wind was blowing up from the sea, rustling the black trees of the gardens, and through that warm stormy summer dusk I hastened from him as from a murderer. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

You are as likely to see sea life from a ship as you are to see wildlife in a forest from a car on a highway. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Cutting between them was a narrow line of sea - the Straits of Corinth. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

But given how topsy-turvy everything was, Aru wondered whether it was a sea. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

I was back in my home turf—the sea. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

She had not lived by the sea all those years, listened to the wharfman’s songs all that time, to spend her life in the soundless cave of Elihue’s mind. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

The deep sea breaking miles away on the reef made an undertone less perceptible than the susurration of the blood. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

They would be sweeping in on the flood tide, but the Lannisters would have the river current to their favor, and the Blackwater Rush flowed strong and swift where it met the sea. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Like a child’s drawing, her pale face was floating in a sea of brown fabric. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

He looked about at the sky, the sea, the brown swelling sail above him, his friend’s face. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

Leo’s head was pointed straight down at the sea—maybe thirty seconds to impact. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Slip out of the house and hurl it into the sea. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

A woman has some pink rollers in her hair and a sea of curls hangs down to the sides of her face. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

It offered twenty-one guest rooms, commanding sea views, and a lobby fireplace as big as a truck. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Now he’s laid out on the sailboat of the gentle sea, smiling and calm, while I write at the blond wood table that belonged to my grandmother. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

And it seemed to me sometimes at night that I could feel both the sea and the redwood forest before it. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Jinny could feel herself crying as she swam, taste her tears, salty as the cold sea but warm on her face and tongue. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Pinmei took another look at her home, but only a sea of flames, crackling orange and red, met her eyes. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

It took no less than six months of furious battle on land, on sea, and in the air. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Everyone—except for Caliban—is happy, and everyone is forgiven, and everyone is fine, and they all sail away on calm seas. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

Odysseus, who had borne the barren sea, stood in the gateway and surveyed this bounty. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Behind them lightning stabbed down from the sky, blinding purple bolts that danced across the sea in webs of light. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The earthen ghosts closed in - a sea of misshapen faces with hollow eyes. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

All afternoon the seas had been thickening, and now, as they came out on deck, the water was running high and rough. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

Better than wading through a sea of law enforcement. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

The sun was so full of promise, and the sea was whipped white with a merry wind. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

He held his wet hand up and watched the salt sea drip from it. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

Nor did I kill another wild dog, nor did I try to spear another sea elephant. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sing with me, the duende cries, sing for the black sea that awaits your voice. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

It begins to rain, lashing water against our skin and making the sea splash into our hair, and even then we just stay in the water together. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

A great noise as of sea gulls rose behind him. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

If he were to tire of the Andalusian fields, he could sell his sheep and go to sea. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Percy threw the golden mask aboard the vessel, which was now sinking even faster, brown fizzy liquid spewing out the trireme’s oar slots and bubbling from the cargo hold, turning the sea frothy brown. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

The story unfolded as the wheels of the cassette turned, and Joseph was entranced by this tale of a boy and his brother aboard a ship at sea. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

The sky was quite clear now and the sea gleamed in the sunlight. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

The sea flared with light every time one ship crashed into another, and the impact sounded like a crack of thunder. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

All is vastness; the clouds are piled up like giant rocks, and there is a “brool” over the sea that sounds like some presage of doom. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

Outlaws could be as good or as immoral as they pleased, and they didn’t answer to any authority but the gun and the sea. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Except for a few moments of terror when she found herself crossing the deep sea on the back of a bull she did not suffer at all. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sun, low on the horizon, casts a hypnotic reflection on the sea. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

Staring out to sea, tobacco farmers imagined themselves as race car drivers, silk dyers as Wall Street tycoons, millinery girls as fan dancers in the Ziegftid Follies. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

The best route away from the village was by sea. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

No one stared out of a window at the sea. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

But reading Robert Barclay while the sea breeze waited outside—that was something not even a minister’s son should have to do. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

Kaede and Fin rounded an outcropping of rock that jutted from beneath the Academy’s iron foundation and stepped onto the North Beach, a crescent of unmarked, light brown sand cradling the sea. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

They sat at a picnic table with a view of the parking lot on one side and the sea on the other. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Sitting cross-legged on the carpet, in a sunspot bright as the open sea, Uhmma unfurled her fingers. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

I was pretty sure this wasn’t Sookie’s shark that had drifted out to sea because Fred told me it would have disintegrated out there, but I had to make sure. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

Tell them you want to go to the bottom of the sea—just for a look—they’ll hide your oxygen tank. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sea was warmer than the rain, but it meant that not the smallest part of me stayed dry that night. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

“By all means, Son of Poseidon. Jump! There is the sea. Save yourself” “What did he call you?” The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

We felt a light breeze that began to ripple the smooth sea. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t get Ding Dongs, you don’t get sea god!” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

When further groping seemed useless to them, back to the ship they went and out to sea again. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

I probably would’ve sat there for the rest of the day, staring at the lava and trying to remember what my name was, but the sea demons jarred me back to reality. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

He heard-felt a deep thrumming that seemed to come from the sea through the hull. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

They disappeared in less than a moment, and the sea hardly noticed them at all. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

The terrifying incomprehensibilities which were worshiped elsewhere, and the fear some spirits with which earth, air and sea swarmed, were banned from Greece. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

The black sail was seen by his father, King Aegeus, from the Acropolis, where for days he had watched the sea with straining eyes. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

They found the island deserted, maybe because the seas were too choppy for the tourist boats. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

By heaven! when she vomited, all the sea was like a cauldron seething over intense fire, when the mixture suddenly heaves and rises. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

He looked quickly at the sea, saw that the swells were still rolling toward the Frog in long, oily moves, and turned away. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

I kept afloat and swam your sea, or drifted, taken by wind and current to this coast where I went in on big swells running landward. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

Then the sound came drifting across farm and field and rolling plain, indistinct as the murmur of some distant sea, but swelling as they rode closer. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Someone was pushing through the sea of bodies, coming toward her, someone tall and dark and... Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

If I heard another aircraft I’d start a fire and then throw bundles of sea grape into it until I was certain a strong signal was going up from the island. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

We burned up some of it singing sea chanteys and pirate songs with naughty words, being careful to switch to hymns when other riders came into view. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

A serpent slithered out of a hole in a wall, its scales fashioned of rivers and seas. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

"My kid," Hambro said, "filibustering against going to bed. A real sea lawyer, that kid." Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

It requires great skill to handle a small boat in seas like these. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

The rivers that flow out of the Brooks Range are close to the sea. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

I remember when I first went to sea being astonished that the men who sailed over the world and touched the ports to the strange and exotic had little contact with that world. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Before I could answer, something rose out of the sea, and out of my nightmares, too. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

She was clinging to Papa’s back as the sea churned all around them. I Survived the Great Molasses Flood, 1919 2019-09-03T00:00:00Z

“I wonder whatever happened to that guy McKinley Moran. Remember that deep sea diver?” Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

At times I wonder if there is really land on the other side of the sea. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

The sea would be swifter, but if she does not have the ships... A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Verses told of smoky, poisonous fumes, of great fractures in the earth itself, of the way huge buildings toppled and were swept away by the seas. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sea fell to Poseidon, and the underworld to Hades. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

And of course it does not mean even that, for there are seas and bays and straits beyond counting that bear names of their own. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

Even his old friends were included in this, so that now Carl was a lonely man who understood land and work, boat and sea, his own hands, better than his mouth and heart. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

The seas are warming, which is terrible for almost everyone. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

The Great Depression effectuated a sea change in American race relations and party alignment. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

He drank his way across the narrow sea. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

With his face so close to the surface of the sea he imagined he could smell the salmon running. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

This didn’t matter too much if you were using the telescope to identify a ship at sea, but it was a major bugbear for the accurate work required in astronomy. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

Recently, we have waded a little out to sea, enough to dampen our toes or, at most, wet our ankles. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is colder than normal and a sea of mostly unfamiliar faces press too close, saying some version of how sorry they are. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

Mahmoud and the rest of the crew dove into the sea just before the planes began strafing. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

All were riveted, puzzled, inspired, and dismayed by what they heard of these strange new people across the sea. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

There were women on the Iron Islands—not many, but a few—who crewed the longships along with their men, and it was said that salt and sea changed them, gave them a man's appetites. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

My own black ship I chose to moor alone on the sea side, using a rock for bollard; and climbed a rocky point to get my bearings. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sun was constant there, a warm white light that bleached the stone buildings and cobblestone alleys, that brought incredible clarity to the surrounding cobalt sea. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

At sea, heavy steel was as like to cost a man his life as to save it, he believed. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

They are the only bright spot in the dark sea around us. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

With crack on crack of thunder, Zeus let fly a bolt against the ship, a direct hit, so that she bucked, in reeking fumes of sulphur, and all the men were flung into the sea. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Soon, in a matter of centuries, the sea would make an island of the castle. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

Bodies lie on the ground and float in the sea, but at this distance, with everyone dressed exactly the same, I can’t tell who lives or dies. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

They sprang after her, but she kept straight on over the sea. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The rest of my kit has gone by long sea,” he explained. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The sea is going to give a lot of scope to be very creative.” Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

I have been feeling very clearheaded lately and what I want to write about today is the sea. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

As the boat picked up speed, charged out into the chilly sea, Jinny allowed herself to look down at Loo, beside her, nearly lifeless on the plank seat. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

But his eyes, sea- green like mine, were surrounded by sun-crinkles that told me he smiled a lot, too. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

On the other side of the narrow gap that led into the open sea was another high headland. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

The collision with the sea cow had rattled me—I couldn’t help wondering what other creatures might be cruising around the dark cloudy basin. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

He swung harder, then lost his balance and fell into the sea. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

It was a queer-looking land that loomed up over the sea as he drew nearer and nearer. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

On his deathbed, Ser Aegor Rivers had famously commanded his men to boil the flesh from his skull, dip it in gold, and carry it before them when they crossed the sea to retake Westeros. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“That was back before they dropped fish traps all over the reefs. Back before certain creeps started dumping their crapola in the sea.” Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

“Not a worthy son of the sea god!” The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

Heart of the moon, jewel of the sea, depending on which foreign language you’re using. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

The sea was printed in blue, with pink islands like La Gonave. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

She’d never be able to visit the sea again without remembering her broken heart. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Winds slant sideways, crushing raindrops mixed with sea spray against the glass panes. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Elinor took two rooms on the top floor, with balconies that had a view of the sea. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

The resulting freshets carried streams of fresh water far out to sea and drew in unusual numbers of salmon. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

He looked at the cool ice of the white Martian buildings over there on the empty sea lands. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Krete was out of sight astern, no land anywhere to be seen, but sky and ocean, Kronion put a dark cloud in the zenith over the ship, and gloom spread on the sea. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Shaking her head, she blinked and tried again, but still she found herself floundering in the sea of hands, faces, glimpses of dark places. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

He'd sailed the seven seas and got very seasick every time. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

Then there were no letters, but that was natural; he was at sea. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Below him, the dark sea gave way to a strand of white: waves slapping the northern tip of Oahu Island. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

Giants live at the edges of the world, beside the deepest seas. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

So up he goes to the wrought-iron perch and begins a slow pan across the sea of multicolored chain. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

But I wanted to leave things in order and not just trust that obliging and indifferent sea to sweep my refuse away. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

This could have been the forerunner of the kind of chronometer that would have been accurate and dependable enough to determine longitude at sea, and Hooke claimed to have worked out how to achieve this. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

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

The gently rolling sea of grass became a grid of steel fences as far as the eye could see. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

The one with self-care and the smiley faces was stuck to the front of the sealed pint of sea salt caramel in the freezer. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

As a result, what are now the shallow seas between Asia and the Indonesian islands of Sumatra, Borneo, Java, and Bali became dry land. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Deep below the surface of the sea, far beyond the warm reach of sunlight, it will be a blind world, with no difference between night and day. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

On deck, he took a deep breath of sea air, watching the harbor and Ketterdam fade from view on the horizon. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

I wedged my body down through the nearly solid sea of coils, forcing my legs deep into the cockpit and jackknifing my knees so that my upper body swung downward and inward. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

A warm wind came from over the vacant sea and blew the dust into their faces as the captain turned the Bible pages. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

It measures the heat of the clouds and the surface temperature of the sea. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

And the ashes blew towards us with the salt wind from the sea. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Nicholas, the world is an infinite sea of endless possibility. Booked 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Tycho was back in Copenhagen by the end of the month, where he found that Joergen had also just returned from fighting a sea battle in the Baltic. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

"You, Sikander, aren't a god, but you have the benefit of being more or less immortal, so the sea's properties won't affect you. And Mo's already dead. The worst is over for him." City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

Finn whipped around, scanning the endless waving, twisting bodies, a vast sea of faces, searching for the pocket of stillness. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

But more and more pigeons descend from the angry sky, and soon we’re surrounded by a sea of cooing birds. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

Then he leaned down over the neck of the sea horse. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

“They should both flow through this town and out to sea where maybe they’ll make it back to the island of their birth.” The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

“Wind in your hair, sea spray on your skin. The cold of the living.” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Like most boats of the North and the Reaches she was clinker-built, with planks overlapped and clenched one upon the other for strength in the high seas; every part of her was sturdy and well-made. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

He could follow the Wall east, perhaps all the way to the sea, a longer route but a safer one. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Call, standing on the port washboard, had sighted the head of what seemed to be a large sea terrapin and was fixing on it a fierce concentration. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Staring at the sun Oh my own voice cannot save me now Standing in the sea It’sjust one more breath and then down I go. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

As I swiveled around, the ground liquefied beneath me, drawing me into darkness deeper than the sea. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Or you can get back in your longboat and take your chances with the sea. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

His knees bent; he could feel the sea breeze wrapping itself around the cupola and leaning into it some, setting the frame to creaking cheerily at the familiar nudge. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

He had worn a place for himself in some comer of her heart, as a sea shell, always boring against the rock, might do. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Rivers, lakes, and seas were the only highways; there were no roads. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’d heard of sea cows, like manatees and stuff, but this really was a cow with the back end of a serpent. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

His account is simple and straightforward; Ovid’s extremely verbose—for instance, he takes a hundred lines to kill the sea serpent. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was her first trip to the Academy; the time she had upset Fin by leaving the workshop a mess; the warm saltiness of the sea on a summer day. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

“It is the land grant to all of the territory from the silver mountains to the blue hills, from the dead salt sea there to the distant valleys of moonstone and emerald,” said the Leader. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

Deep windows had opened out on curving formal gardens, and the sea breezes had filled the room with the scent of flowers. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

Suddenly, in spite of the heat in the carriage she shivered and wished she wasn't going to the sea. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

In any case, their meaning mattered little as long as the letter arrived, telling her aunt that Papá had been killed at sea and her niece and nephew were coining to Indio to find her. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

Red Cross volunteers, many of them from Boston’s wealthiest families, arrived in their immaculate white-and-gray uniforms, which immediately turned brown once they stepped into the deep sea of molasses. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

It lingers beneath the trees where the sea tang can’t reach. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

The sea gushed forward and backward; it was a mournful sound. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

We’re in the only Rolls-Royce among a sea of limos, so of course people look when we pull up to the entrance. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

New Guineans manage to look secure while paddling dugouts on calm lakes and rivers, but not even New Guineans can use a dugout in seas with modest waves. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

The Americans were fighting an air and sea war against the Japanese in the Pacific. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

“Lumps,” he used to say when they were getting ready to go out and the wind was blowing the sea around. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Living by the sea in California was what she looked forward to second most in life, after going to college. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

I crumpled to the metal floor and heard the sea demon children howling in delight. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

Then it takes the dying sailor over the edge and into the sea. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

The deck is wet and soaks my pants as I sit down and inhale the fresh sea air. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Something more awful than all our African ancestors is rising with the seas. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Outside the church, I’m adrift in a sea of anacos and gold beads and blue ponchos; only a few other people are dressed like mestizos. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were about 4,000 feet above sea level, and the temperature was as Alpine as the terrain. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

So here I am thirty miles out to sea in a blind fog with nothing but a few peanut butter and jelly sandwiches and a jug of water. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

‘I’m pretending to read out the shipping forecast and instead of this calm we’re having, a storm’s brewing. Out at sea.’ The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were kept cooped up on the hot, crowded transport ships out at sea. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

If Montana had a seacoast, or if I could live away from the sea, I would instantly move there and petition for admission. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

As the cutter slashed out the items, throwing the discarded paper to the floor, a sea of newspaper rose as high as her waist each fifteen minutes. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the 1400s, Spain and Portugal were competing to explore down the coast of Africa and find a sea route to Asia. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

Kalinda runs right through that garden and jumps into the sea. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

So strong, the goose can fly over the Himalayas, 20,000 feet above sea level. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

The crew gathered for a hurried meeting on the foredeck - mostly because Percy was keeping an eye on a giant red sea serpent swimming off the port side. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Off go the numbers, winging out across rooftops, across the sea, flying to who knows what destinations. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

I dodge through the sea of red blazers like a running back, my arms pumping, head tucked. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

They completed their stream growth rapidly and went to sea early. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Beyond the kelp beds pelicans were already hunting, soaring high over the clear water, diving straight down, if they sighted a fish, to strike the sea with a great splash that I could hear. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

How she’d be the only sad parent in a sea of smiling ones. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

I deployed both sea an­chors fully, at different lengths so that they would not interfere with each other. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

He walked / across / the land / until / he came / to the sea. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

When it was ordered that the soldiers should bathe in saltwater twice daily to fend off disease, I saw a regiment walk into the sea at dawn. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

They wavered, broke, and fled back; and then charged again, broke and charged again; and each time, like the incoming sea, they halted at a higher point. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

It is as if we are skating upon the sea, rather than sailing through it. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

“Well, later, I found out what it means. It’s from an Aleut word, Alyeska. It means ‘that which the sea breaks against,’ and I love that. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

“I must take some blame for that, I suppose. The sea does not like to be restrained.” The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

No: pull out to sea, you say, with night upon us—just as before, but wandering now, and lost. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Harry could smell salt and hear rushing waves; a light, chilly breeze ruffled his hair as he looked out at moonlit sea and star-strewn sky. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Celia reaches up to her left earlobe and releases her drop pearl earring to the sea. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Reflected light like the glare off the sea was polarized; it might be that the shadow particles, when they behaved like waves as light did, were capable of being polarized, too. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

His life didn't begin to change until he found himself imprisoned in “a sea of puke and urine” following another arrest. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

If Telemachus wished he would send him to Sparta in a chariot with one of his sons who knew the way, which would be much quicker than by sea. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

The road was exposed to the wind from the sea and it was blown free of ash save for patches here and there. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

As the winds built up speed across the tumbled floes, the frozen sea began to shift and creak and press against itself. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

When they landed at Chicago, it was dark, and she saw “Lake Shore Drive in myriad of lights...as thrilling as the New York skyline when coming in from sea in a ship.” The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

With the sunrise warming her and the crash of the sea rumbling below, it was the best meal she’d had for ages. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

The captain lowers it, and as it touches the sea, it makes not so much as a ripple. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

He knew what the jitters of the season opener could do, how the most talented kid could come unglued in the sea of all those lights and those thousands of fans. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Somehow I know that he is talking about Master Wingfield, the biggest fish in the sea. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

First of all it went just south of the fisherman's cottage to the little river which there ran into the sea, and took care to leave in the mud some very plain hoof-marks pointing south. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

He was a very big Mako shark built to swim as fast as the fastest fish in the sea and everything about him was beautiful except his jaws. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

So wand in hand he paced into the air, shot from Pieria down, down to sea level, and veered to skim the swell. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The moon had roused herself fully out of the sea and was tossing her silver bedclothes all around. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

“She will return it to the sea and the whales,” he said. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

But there was only hazy glitter where the blue of the sky paled at the edge of the sea, and the sea took up the pallor and made it sparkle through the shimmering air. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

It’s a sea horse the size of a man, with bone-hard spikes up and down its body. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

His rolling gait proclaimed him as a man of the sea. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

Most of the guests back up, making way for this rarity, this dazzling creation with blue-green, white-tipped icing waves swimming with fish and sailboats, seals and sea flowers. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

His nine daughters are the waves of the sea. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

If we let fly enough of them at once, we can even burn out the one-celled green creatures in the sea, and thus turn off the oxygen. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

There must be thirty thousand people in the sea of humanity down there. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

The sea swelled rhythmically beneath him, and he leaned forward whenever a wave folded in and broke to a yellow froth. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

All he could do was again to sit wretched and helpless on the shore, but this time not trying in fury to kill people, only singing mournful love songs to soften the sea nymph’s heart. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Only the sea, a flat line in the distance, and the mist above it. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Then they went on looking through the glass at anemones, sea cucumbers, and tube worms. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Mr. Wingfield most strenuously recommended it, sir—or we should not have gone. He recommended it for all the children, but particularly for the weakness in little Bella’s throat,—both sea air and bathing.” Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z

Shirley threw herself on the mattress and lolled about like a fish tossed back to the sea. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

And I was, on that day, in that moment, content to be under the spell of the sea and the islands and the here and now. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

Lord Balon had let no word of the hosting escape the Iron Islands, and Theon's bloody work along the Stony Shore would be put down to sea raiders out for plunder. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“Not at sea, sir. But I have one.” Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Next day, on 12/10, Alex resumes quest for an opening to the sea, but only becomes more confused, traveling in circles. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The survivors, in massive numbers, threw themselves into the sea and drowned. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I knew that wild sea from long ago was much on Timothy’s mind all afternoon. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every few seconds a tiny wave folded itself over at the sea’s edge before sliding back neatly under the next. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Wouldn’t the two men have tied their boats together? Wouldn’t you have the mutual consent necessary—an emergency situation, even if feigned—for a successful tie-up at sea? Wouldn’t you, Mr. Gillanders?” Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Chiron shouted across the sea of wild centaurs. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

Surrounded on all sides by the Red Army and by units of the KGB, West Berlin floated like an island in a hostile, turbulent sea. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

There are many sea caves on the Island of the Blue Dolphins and some of them are large and go far back into the cliffs. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

The witches heard the rumbling of a storm, and they saw the lightning play over the sea and the foothills, but it was a long way off. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

But there was the sea breeze, and the trees were starting to yellow and blush. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

We walk through the night with the sea of people, following their route. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sea—its deep warm blue—mornings spent lying out on the sands—Hugo—Hugo who had said he loved her.... And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

Like the desolation of some alien sea breaking on the shores of a world unheard of. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

There was a picture of a storm on the ocean and a sea gull being dashed through the air by the wind. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

He smelled the sea air, the warm bread, the antiseptic from his bandaged thumb, and then he saw her—Desdemona, sitting on the suitcase where he’d left her— and felt even happier. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“You’ll get your sea legs soon, don’t worry. And when we’re up on the hydrofoils, it’s almost like standing on dry land.” Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

Brother Khoi gets to monitor lines for the bathrooms, where bottoms stick out to the sea behind blankets blowing in the wind. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

We dragged our boats across the beach toward a sea cave, its entrance a black fissure in a hill of rocks. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

Sciron, for instance, who had made those he captured kneel to wash his feet and then kicked them down into the sea, Theseus hurled over a precipice. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Noah, what you did back there for that sea turtle, that was very . . .” “Dumb? I know.” Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

The grandstand became an undulating, endless sea of earth-tone fedoras and ladies’ spring hats. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then he walked into the sea in his jeans. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

Then it crawled completely out of the green and onto the khaki and lost itself among dozens and dozens of other worms that were wriggling or just lolling about between the sea and the sky. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

Miss Peregrine kept her eyes trained on the slate-gray sea. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

But I knew that lurking in the tide pools were the treach-erous sea urchins. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sea breeze bent the pines behind them, blew across their backs, and sped out over the water, tearing the whitecaps back even as they came to shore. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z