“I walked into a situation where all of a sudden there were seven hundred and eight hundred people at my readings.” The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Another has the heads of six or seven old dolls attached to her stomach. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

I thought of Mama, now seven years gone. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

All was quiet, but as they paused at the top of the bank, a tussling pack of six or seven sparrows flew down to the line and began to peck about between the sleepers. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mack, with a piece of chalk, drew five oblongs on the floor, each seven feet long and four feet wide, and in each square he wrote a name. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

According to her mother, the Witch had big black boots that could travel seven leagues in a single step. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

“I think there were seven altogether,” he says evasively. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

"I do not know this Lord of Light," Davos admitted, "but I knew the gods we burned this morning. The Smith has kept my ships safe, while the Mother has given me seven strong sons." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

I had to get up at seven because of summer school. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

The whole thing was drawn by a team of seven horses, speeding as if through the heavens. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

"It's already seven o'clock" he told himself at the latest striking of the alarm clock, "already seven o'clock and still such a fog." The Metamorphosis 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z

The next afternoon, June 14, seven days before the solstice, our train rolled into Denver. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

Mom and Dad left on their “hot date” at exactly a quarter to seven. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

“It’s only been seven minutes. You took off your socks.” Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

That autumn the ministry raised the permit fee yet again—to a staggering $50,000 for as many as five climbers, plus $10,000 for each additional climber, up to a maximum of seven. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

“Hello? It’s a haiku. Five syllables, seven syllables, five syllables.” The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

In June 2002, seven years after the death of Father Jack Roussin, the World Health Organization adopted new guidelines for treating MDR-TB, virtually the same as Partners in Health had successfully used in Peru. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

“The gods made seven wonders, and mortal man made nine,” quoted the Halfmaester. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

At seven PM on October 22, 1962, President Kennedy went on television to explain the crisis to the American people. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Apparently, this branch of the cult only traveled in groups of seven or twelve, as per musical mathematics—but they were willing to break the rule and add her to their number. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

During their last summer of freedom before the war, she would get up with Papa at four thirty a.m. to eat breakfast and go to work, even though she was only seven. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

He had some seven hundred prisoners under his command, and they all loved him like a brother. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Despite her amazing efficiency, Dr. Margot hasn't brought along seven umbrellas. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Freddie is big, he’s seven, and I ask him to push me. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

When they met again late in hurricane season, Felicia was seven months pregnant and working as a cashier in a butcher shop. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

The outcome had resulted in the hanging deaths of one woman and seven men for conspiring with assassin John Wilkes Booth in Lincoln's death. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

New Jersey’s state militia was deployed to confront the enemy with seven thousand heavily armed infantry soldiers. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

All the names ended with a 7, since there were but seven astronauts in existence, and they wanted to emphasize their unity. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

It should occur on average seven times per year, separated by intervals just slightly longer than that endured by Noah on his putative ark. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Of the thirteen colonels in his command that day seven are dead, six are wounded. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

At seven on the dot, couples begin drifting through the front doors, handing their furs and overcoats to the colored men in gray morning suits. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

There was a knight from Hungary called Sir Urre, who had received wounds in a tournament seven years before. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Let us say that the Muslims were to achieve the possession of the six or seven states that they claim are owed to Negroes by the United States as “back payment” for slave labor. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

It was supposed to come up in seven days, but it didn't. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sure, he was strong, but Tyson was a little kid in Cyclops terms, maybe seven or eight years old, mentally. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

A week later he was back with six barefoot and ragged soldiers, armed with shotguns, and an oxcart in which his wife and seven daughters were traveling. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Camped up there in the Blue Ridge for a week or more, gittin’ maybe two-three cows from one farmer and six or seven from another. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

“Look,” he began in his sharp voice, “you say you have seven goslings. There were eight eggs. What happened to the other egg? Why didn’t it hatch?” Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

When he insisted she have a stress test first, a receptionist gave her the first available appointment— seven weeks away. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

The deaths brought the year’s total to seven. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

“I hope we will work side by side in the future, but for now your place is with the crew of this ship. You are one of the seven of the prophecy.” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

In another seven years, the fields will be burned and replanted. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

George laid out his deliberate solitaire hand— seven cards, and six on top, and five on top of those. Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

With seven guards around us and Rémy behind me, it's going to be difficult. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

The new shoes felt strange to feet that had run bare for almost seven years. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

I jumped up, folded my blanket inside my suitcase, hid it and started running the six or seven blocks down to the mission. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

“Now that Jenner and his friends are gone, we have seven empty.” Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

Ishmael Chambers trained as a marine rifleman with seven hundred and fifty other recruits at Parris Island, South Carolina, in the late summer of 1942. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

You can fight each other every day at eleven am and one pm, with an evening show at seven pm.” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

When next she asked the time, Francie told her it was a quarter past seven and that Neeley would be home soon. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Since then, the battle-scarred temples with their beautiful statues, stone sculptures, and multilayered towers remain one of the seven man-made wonders of the world. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Europeans in those days tended to view children as moving straight from infancy to adulthood around the age of seven, and often thereupon sent them out to work. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

His seven daughters were a bit taller, he wrote, but otherwise they were the same, and he still could not keep their names in order. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

There were one hundred and seven boys waiting to be interviewed when I arrived at the Head Office of the Shell Company in London. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

Didn’t they say something about an argument between the father and the boy around seven o’clock that night? Twelve Angry Men 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Very slowly I drew a wavy line through theories five and seven even though a strange feeling went up my esophagus. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

At seven the truckloads of blanketed men did go past again, this time in the opposite direction. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was speechless, too: It was seven hundred Zim dollars, as the new rate was thirty-five Zim dollars for one US dollar. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

What he did not say—no reason to rub it in—was that seven dead monkeys were at that very moment being examined by Nancy Jaax. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Except for that one day when I had stayed with Ella on the way to Detroit after prison, I had not been in the old Roxbury streets for seven years. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Yes, well, good luck explaining that to seven children. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

I mean, he’s worn the same Nikes for seven years and counting. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Incredibly, I flubbed only six or seven lines. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Septa Lemore had emerged in her white robes, cinched at the waist with a woven belt of seven colors. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“Cain said to tell you the next Trial is in seven days.” An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Even at seven, Bran understood what his brother had done. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“But the competition starts at seven,” Mom mumbles weakly. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

“Irish International Side’s just put in an order for seven of these beauties!” the proprietor of the shop told the crowd. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

Usually, it was smoking or being in a girl’s room after seven. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

A creek wandered through the seven rooms of the masked ball. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

By the time Kia turned seven, he and I were the only ones left in the house. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

“Because we don’t have enough money. Each ticket is two forty-five. That makes nine dollars and eighty cents all together and we’ve only got seven dollars.” Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

I slid the seven talents into my pocket and felt a great weight lift from my shoulders. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

They weren’t counted but there must have been six or seven hundred. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Around that same time, the Arkansas Board of Education surprised us all by saying that seven state junior colleges would now be open to our undergraduate students. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“He’d sell you to the queen for a pot of that Lannister gold. Poor man needs every dragon, with seven sons all determined to be knights.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

He sought warmth and company in the bustling Bartleby mausoleum, but the Bartleby family—seven generations of them—had no time for him that night. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

“My parents work late. They can’t pick me up until seven.” The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

She’s smiling sadly in a disappointed way; her hands are outstretched as if in welcome, and her heart is on the outside of her chest, with seven swords stuck into it. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Just you rest easy, Doc. Don’t you lose no sleep about it. You’ll get your frogs, maybe seven eight hundred.” Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Zakariyya was out of prison after serving only seven of his fifteen- year sentence. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

I was five foot seven and a half, one hundred and fifty-four pounds. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

Almost seven years passed, and in that time, Edward became an excellent tramp: happy to be on the road, restless when he was still. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z

A little before seven I bundled up and dashed out into the cold. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The roof was only seven feet or so off the ground, and unlike the other buildings, it had no roofed tunnel to connect it with the rest of the station. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t read seven or eight books a week, though, like you,” I said. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

But it wasn’t enough to buy even a quarter of the food that seven people needed. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z

“You see, friends,” he said, “that before the new, clean world I gave you is seven hours old, a force of evil has already entered it; waked and brought hither by this son of Adam.” The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

So its 02 tanks can hold enough to last me seven days. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

It would be seven minutes before he could answer any questions. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Robert Hooke was born on the stroke of noon on 18 July 1635, seven years before Galileo Galilei died. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

She had three children of her own, and there were two other girls who were placed with her, so altogether she had seven children to take care of. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

But others preferred to use household knights and men-at-arms for those purposes, whilst keeping their seven as their own personal guard, never far from their sides. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

It’s seven thirty, and my bus left half an hour ago. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

I think quick and say, “Can Mr. Allen drop Russ off at Erin’s house around seven twenty?” Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Will had first realized his mother was different from other people, and that he had to look after her, when he was seven. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

On our first evening in Rome, we climbed one of the seven hills and looked out over the metropolis. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

He arrived at seven in the morning and left at four, and would make my breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

MacGregor arrived with a new wife—number seven, Matt thought; this one was as young as Emilia. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yes, tonight at seven o’clock I’ll be pulling into your driveway with my woman at my side and yours in the back. Hopefully you’ll be waiting there with flowers in hand. What do you say?” Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

As we get closer to seven o'clock, the day shift nurses will start trickling in, and there'll be more of a chance of us being spotted. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Today, he and his wife, Claudia, have seven children and twelve grandchildren. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

They take him and two younger boys, sitting nearby, to a cavernous railroad shed, where seven other officers are holding twenty migrants. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

When I was little, Saturday nights were reserved for us to journey over to the county seat of Welch, seven miles and a mountain away from Coalwood. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

The fish were only seven or eight inches long, and when Joe was young they were all beautiful native cutthroats. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

If the room with the monsters had been dark, the hall was the blackest pit in the seven hells. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The flowers on Big Ma’s muumuu now seemed bigger, just like the comfy chair she had been sitting in for the past seven years now seemed bigger. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

“They sold for seven hundred and fifty in Philly,” said X-Ray. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

There it was Sunday already, with only seven days left in the week to get ready for the next parade. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

We reached Front Royal about seven, dead tired, and went to the first motel we came to. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

We were just little kids still, seven years old. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

And in the seven years since, it seemed Benji hadn't earned back their trust. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

Between taking two buses and then walking seven blocks uphill, a girl needs her strength. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

“She’s the kind of person who either dies tragically at twenty- seven, like Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin, or else grows up to win, like, the first-ever Nobel Prize for Awesome.” Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

Human Rights Watch reported in 2000 that, in seven states, African Americans constitute 80 to 90 percent of all those sent to prison on drug charges. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

The Philippines, with over seven thousand islands but only five hundred lighthouses, was known for its frequency of maritime accidents. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Hint: of the seven major explanations on the list, only three can be shown to have contributed to the drop in crime. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

Only seven of the Thirty-Three are reliable Open Traders; of the rest, Obsle thinks to gain the sure support of ten, giving a bare majority. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

She stops by another vendor selling sundresses for seven dollars each. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

He says, “Six—almost seven years ago my little sister called me up late at night.” The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

They were to be carried “to the glory of God,” and emptied, sluiced, cleaned and stowed by half past seven, when it was time to start the morning drinks. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

A radioactive plume of vaporized coral drifted east, covering seven thousand square miles of ocean. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

‘I believe seven or eight of them were killed in that first volley.’ Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was seven o’clock, the first day of school, and I was lying there twisted up in my bedding on the top bunk, alone in my O-Hall cell. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Granny called, “See that big house, children? Down near the water? Your great-great-great-grandfather, Captain Turner, built that house. No other house in Salem like it. It has seven gables.” Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

On February 9, seven days after Mr. de Klerk’s speech opening Parliament, I was informed that I was again going to Tuynhuys. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Aureliano Triste was leaving the house with his mother at seven in the evening when a rifle shot came out of the darkness and perforated his forehead. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

I’ve got to cast tomorrow because it’s Saturday and we can’t work Sunday, and it must be done Monday at seven. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

It took another four hours to get there, and by the time I found the camp, at the end of a side street right in the center of the city, it was after seven o’clock. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

There were seven of us in the group: five boys and two girls, not including the Elders. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

Seanie and I ended up on opposite teams, playing sevens, which, like I said, is a much more wide-open and fast game with fewer pile-ups. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Today, our first day, we walked seven hours slowly with breaks, so we probably did around fifteen miles. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Wigner spotted a young boy, about seven, walking along the side of the road holding a fishing rod. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tisquantum had learned English because British sailors had kidnapped him seven years before. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

I’ve already imagined a thousand times crossing the desert, arriving at the Plaza of the Sacred Stone, the seven times I walk around it before allowing myself to touch it. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Powell followed the dim finger, “Check! Now fasten your eye on the robots and pray they don’t move too far from that part of the tunnel. They’re my light sources. Are all seven there?” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

And up the stairs into the box came the seven defeated Bulgarian players. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

She wanted everything—all seven rooms and their myriad tasks—done in five days. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

In a matter of a few months, half a dozen other students were working under him, and he’d put seven thousand dollars into his bank account. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

About seven years, or four billion miles, ago, my father swore he would never let anyone read another word of his writing. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

At home we grouped into a tight knot, two adults and seven children inside two rooms. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

An ironic sign in a war zone at a US defensive position seven miles northeast of Saigon, 1969. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

I answered the deputy’s questions—surprising myself with how fresh the memories still were, even though it had all happened seven years earlier. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

If he kept pushing himself to the limit for seven more days . Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

I remember what it felt like when I was seven and got lost at the Desert Botanical Garden. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

I stare down at the hole in the ground, seven stories below me, and then close my eyes as the air blows over my face. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

She had done well by their children, dreamed of having grandchildren, prayed seven times a day, loved needlework and flowers. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

He worked from dawn until seven or eight at night for his sixty cents a day. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

“I invented you when I was seven,” I said, “and that means I can un-invent you now.” Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

When she had a pile of seven, Stella gutted and skinned and cleaned the rabbits as unconcernedly as she had denuded and disemboweled the roosters. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He could see that now; seven hells, he had seen it then. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

When we first acquired the motor-boat, my youngest sister was four and I was seven, and by then all of us had learnt to swim. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Luke came home seven months later, he was not much bigger than one of my dolls. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

They hold up his key ring and count seven different skeleton keys. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

We woke up at a little before seven. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Madoc married her seven years ago, and shortly after, she gave him a child, a sickly boy named Oak, with tiny, adorable horns on his head. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“Now look at number seven in the table.” Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

Each killer, everybody said, was paid a bottle of rum and seven dollars. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her seven rooms were always crammed to the gills, with as many as twenty-one men boarding at a time and five to six new referrals every day. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“It is now noon. The interrogation will be at seven. Don’t bother preparing for it. You can’t withhold information while under the influence of truth serum.” Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

He had bought seven copies of the paper and used that page for bookcovers. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even a party of six or seven high-level avatars would have had a difficult time defeating him. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Coach M picked four guys to be team captains, and then we had a little sevens tournament. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Gale, who is eighteen and has been either helping or single-handedly feeding a family of five for seven years, will have his name in forty-two times. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

She confessed her affection for the seven Moscote sisters, for their beauty, their ability for work, their modesty, and their good manners, and she celebrated her son's prudence. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

“You said it would be six and a half hours—it’s almost seven.” The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

I should scratch marks on the wall, one for each day of the week, and run a line through them when I have seven. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

On 13 September 1768 a large meteorite, weighing seven and a half pounds, fell at Lucé, Pays de la Loire. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

I had spent a holiday at Edgecoombe once, when I was seven. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

He didn’t know if Pocock had talked to Ulbrickson, or if Merton Hatch had simply messed up in some spectacular way, or if Ulbrickson simply needed someone else at number seven for the day. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

The seven mysterious proteins that, assembled together, make up the Ebola-virus particle, work as a relentless machine, a molecular shark, and they consume the body as the virus makes copies of itself. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

"The Wall is seven hundred feet high, and so thick at the base that it would take a hundred men a year to cut through it with picks and axes." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

At the bottom of the scrub lay Barnard’s Forest, which stretched for about seven miles, lying like a dark animal pelt across the back of the land, and reaching out into the next county. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

About seven thousand years elapsed between the dawn of the Middle Eastern Neolithic and the establishment of Sumer. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Six or seven students turn to look, some sitting at terminals and some studying at tables by the windows. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The party’s supposed to start at seven, so I know I have to wait until nine to show up, so there will be enough people there to hide my presence. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

It was there, sitting in the lunchroom, trying to make conversation with seven curious strangers, that I first saw them. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

At seven I was too young to be insulted. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘If all the seven stones were laid out before me now, I should shut my eyes and put my hands in my pockets.’ The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

He was seven, freckled dewey was five, and Mexican dewey was only four. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

“I’ve been talking to you about seven thousand pages of documentation of crimes,” he growled. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

He had not forgotten though; he’d been only seven that winter of ’59, but the memory of the tragedy would always be sharp and terrible in his mind. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

Harry bellowed again, backing away as he swiped his wand through the air; six or seven of them crumpled, but more were coming toward him. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

The knots tighten in my stomach again, churning the half sandwich, seven mini pretzels, and three bites of cookie sitting inside. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

“I wish I was seven. Ryan’s biggest worry is what flavor of pudding pop Mom packed in his lunch.” Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

Only seven weeks after the releases were started, all eggs were infertile. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Back then, he was seventeen, and I was seven, but we were both very good at soccer, so we respected each other like men. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

“You say that Mr. Fitzgibbon said six or seven rats. Did he ever say which number it really was?” Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

She was seven years old when she died, which was also the age of my own eldest daughter, Olivia, when she died from measles forty-two years later. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

If Gaea was that powerful, and she had an army of giants at her side, Percy didn’t see how seven demigods could stop her, especially when most of the gods were incapacitated. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

I counted out the days in units of seven. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

Junior answered, “Yeah, we did. All of us graduated high school and all seven of us graduated from college too. Our school was just six blocks from here. 1 graduated fourth in my class.” Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The way it works with dice, if you shave just a bit off one side, you supposed to be able to roll more sevens and elevens. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Madeleine told him to keep the coat and Joseph walked home, seven miles. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z

When they more or less gave birth to the systematic education of young people, it is worth noting that their first compulsory seven subjects were grammar, rhetoric, logic, maths, geometry, astronomy and music. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

And through many ups and downs and storms, for the past seven years, Theo has been giving Vincent money for paint, pencils and pens, ink, canvases, paper, clothing, food, and, until he moved in, rent. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Mother Marie’s account of her son began when she was herself but seven years old. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

She would have been about sixty- seven then. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

We filled out a bunch of forms and then had brand-new bank accounts, complete with debit cards that would arrive in seven to ten days. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

At seven years old, he hadn’t wanted to talk, or maybe he just hadn’t known how to shrink that kind of loss into words. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

She was tired and run down anyway from trying to feed and clothe seven children and their father. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

In two hours she managed to secure at least seven people who said they would come, including the principal of her daughters’ school. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Five oh six seven, five oh six seven. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the foot of the scree below my overhang about seven or eight figures sat round a dirty fire. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

And off they were, before I could count to seven, down the lawn to a creaky wicker gate, through which they entered the orchard and disappeared among the trees. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

"I have been in seven wars and four revolutions," the count said. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

I said, “We shouldn’t do that,” because they had school, plus they didn’t let kids come inside the hospital and I couldn’t drag seven kids up there. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then Mrs. Popper had to scrub and polish and straighten the whole place, for she was much too good a housekeeper to leave everything at sixes and sevens while the Poppers were away. Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z

By the time I was seven, the teasing and name-calling did start me thinking more about exactly why I was the way I was. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

The rower in the number seven seat is something of a hybrid. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

When I pick up, I’m moved by the emotion in her face, from more than seven thousand miles away. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

Thanks to use of the device in 1890, the calculation of census data at the time fell to three years, down from seven, according to the Computer History Museum. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Just, as it turned out, seven minutes too late. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

The pressure to do well in school begins to build at grade four, believe it or not, and it becomes everything to students by grade seven.” Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

Because Otto’s engine was weak, heavy, and seven feet tall, it did not recommend itself over horses. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Not surprisingly, the 24/7 customer call center gets about seven hundred applications a day, but only 6 percent of applicants are hired. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

Then Harry realized that Ron had covered nearly every inch of the shabby wallpaper with posters of the same seven witches and wizards, all wearing bright orange robes, carrying broomsticks, and waving energetically. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

Soon-Lee beelines to the printer they were at, still humming as it prints out a blank page that says seven of seven. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

“Let’s see if you can beat your record. I think it took you seven minutes the last time we crossed here.” Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

I say, swallowing seven chips at a time and licking a finger. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

“But the College could’ve boughten her at any time after she showed: seven months, eight, nine. Any.” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

When he came outside again a little after seven he was reminded of the conversation because he heard Mrs. Wilson's voice, loud and scolding, downstairs in the garage. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

In 1961, when Kennedy had taken office, there were seven hundred American military advisors in Vietnam. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

She was going on seven, and she worshiped him, which was OK sometimes. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

New pair cost seven dollars though, which means I’m on be eating cabbage and tomato till I turn into Br’er Rabbit. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Desdemona kept wailing, and I’d already heard so much about Smyrna in my seven years that I watched the screen closely to see what it had been like. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

"My place is at your side. I am your sworn shield ..." "One of seven," the king reminded her. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

She gets six or seven phone calls a night. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

This twenty-four/seven hallucination was more than I could handle. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

The baby doesn’t make sense—I’m the youngest of my mother’s seven children—but like I said, none of this happened. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“I — live — at — seven — twenty — eight — Sy — ca — more. I — do.” Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was up at seven but Johnny was still sleeping soundly. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

And while they were at it, the government ministers jacked up the permit fee once again—this time to $70,000 for up to seven climbers, plus another $10,000 for each additional climber. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

The author also derived implications of the seven propositions of early children education and movement responses to music. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

She watches him every Sunday at seven, which tells me what time it is already. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

I liked the hours though: eleven in the morning to seven thirty at night, Monday through Thursday. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

“He only approached Slughorn to find out what would happen if you split your soul into seven,” said Harry. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

It had taken me seven Sundays’ worth of chores to save up for those Chucks. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

In Montgomery, only seven years have passed since Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a city bus. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

It must be seven—no, eight years ago. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

It was a hideous joke that Trademaster had played on them both seven years before. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

His uncle had taught him a bit of tumbling when he was six or seven. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

In the living room the voice-clock sang, Tick-tock, seven o’clock, time to get up, time to get up, seven o’clock! as if it were afraid that nobody would. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dad loaded seven of us in the Pierce Arrow and started out. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

“What I had in my safe at Rand,” Ellsberg would later recall, “was seven thousand pages of documentary evidence of lying, by four presidents and their administrations over twenty-three years.” Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Then I realized the thing had multiple necks—at least seven, each topped with a hissing reptilian head. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

There was this time when me and Chris were like seven, and my folks were trying to have some alone time for Valentine’s Day. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

The closest thing to it had been a toy gun made out of bamboo when I was seven. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Nate’s mind was filled up with memories of all that had happened to him over these past seven months. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z

“Two thousand seven hundred and fifty-three,” she whispers. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

Every day since her escape from the Red Keep, Arya had visited each of the seven city gates in turn. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

They were about six or seven feet long, one was larger still. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

“When you were seven, you badly wanted an Arabian horse,” Horace continued. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

At eleven past seven, Lucas’s car could be heard making its way to the end of my gravelly road. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

“We had seven canoes, all of them dugouts. One was small, one was cranky, and two were old, waterlogged, and leaky,” Roosevelt noted. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

For seven, eight, or ten minutes, or however long it takes, no blinking, no movement, my eyes open but as still as a rock. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

In eighth grade, only seven students were in my homeroom—and one of them tried to stab me. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Off Malcolm Island the boat split a pod of seven orcas. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Off and on, during their broadcasting years, all seven of the children had been fair game for the kind of child psychologist or professional educator who takes a special interest in extra-precocious children. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

“I was born seven months after they got married.” The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was looking at the seven letters in my first name and wondering how to pronounce it. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

I’m going to have to call that a seven. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

And that, he thought without saying, is a lot better than seven or eight. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

“They were full of holes that’d been stitched up with rough thread, all up and down their sides. And with a pinky missing on each hand. They were seven then.” The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

As it happened, Zooey had made a formal and serious début as a public performer at the age of seven. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

I tried to quickly wrap up my work and prepare for the seven weeks away from home—and possibly much more, if I decided to stick with the job and work in a prison. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

If they won their next match, against Hufflepuff, they would overtake Slytherin in the House Championship for the first time in seven years. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

The letters were waiting when I returned, seven of them, addressed to men with impressive names. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

And why had he been called to exercise it at such a deadly time, seven hundred feet above disaster? The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

The day before I returned to England, I drove seven miles along the mountain range, then turned onto a narrow dirt road and stopped in front of a powder-blue house. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The kid was small and scared, about six or seven years old—maybe just four billion miles or so—with thin buckwheat hair that was plastered down against his ghostly skin. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

One two three four five six seven days. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mum's at the gallery seven days a week and Dad keeps going off for interviews that only lead to more interviews. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

Here I've upped it to six or seven, mainly because I'm too lazy to do anything else. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

When Grub was seven years old, Hugo and I separated and divorced. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

Partially hidden in a valley on the outskirts of the Golden Crescent, near the intimidating mountain cliffs of what Chestnutt called Isihlangu, it was surrounded by seven spiraling towers made of ivory and gold. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

A little farther on was a smallish cafeteria, filled with seven or eight patients. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

He married a young woman called Giulia in 1562, and Galileo was the eldest of seven children, three of whom seem to have died in infancy. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

He may have died seven months after the opening of Parsifal, but tragically the toxic legacy of his views on Aryan supremacy did not. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Yet there it stood, seven tiers high, reaching far above the tallest trees. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

He towered over us, at least seven feet tall with biceps the size of cannonballs. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

We sat in the rain for seven days straight. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

But she was up at seven- thirty in the morning, making us bacon omelets. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

The seven of them tumbled away from the front door, landing in a pile on the front lawn with Anya on the bottom. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

But that changed when the federal government ordered the hospitals to be desegregated: within just seven years, the black infant mortality rate had been cut in half. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

I wish I’d never seen that box or the seven tapes inside it. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

Instead they were to be required to instruct that the earth was created by God, in seven days, sometime, oh, before the turn of the century. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Three helium nuclei make a carbon nucleus; four, oxygen; five, neon; six, magnesium; seven, silicon; eight, sulfur; and so on. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I judged it to be about seven o’clock. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The town of Buford itself was a collection of portable metal sheds - six or seven, which was probably also the town’s population. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

He told the story, once again, of how they had been within one last payment of owning the seven acres outright. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

I looked in upon a small room filled with benches upon which sat some seven men, Bear among them. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

“I gave up seven runs because you couldn’t catch a pop-up,” Carter says. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

And no matter what the words said on a piece of paper, sugar workers did not work just seven hours. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

For all the talk and struggle to get Uncle Jet to commit, Nathan realized he had no idea what the ceremony was, apart from the fact that it was seven days long. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

At first, Dad tried to explain it to me as this: My mother simply floated away when I was seven years old. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

He was seven years old and the rottweiler was thirty-two years old, which was old enough for him to know better, Satchmo had thought. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

Homeschooling also made it easier for me when I returned to the Rock School at the age of seven. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

Harry arose at four thirty each morning to go to the shop, and often he didn’t return home until well after seven in the evening. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Usually it takes seven or eight days, but it will somehow have to get to New York City in six days to make the deadline. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

In 1734, seven years after Newton’s death, an Irish bishop, George Berkeley, wrote a book entitled The Analyst, Or a Discourse Addressed to an Infidel Mathematician. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

The show begins at seven, but Ms. Albright wants us fully in costume by six. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

Paul was arrested at least seven times in Great Britain and jailed at least three times. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Ben heard a car door slam at a quarter of seven. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I was seven I had an answer to this question that made sense to me. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

And of course the ruins were very large; finding seven people in what had once been a city of millions was no simple matter. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

He might be part of a group of seven, but he was still isolated. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

"Of course I saw it, it's seven hundred feet high." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

From the first, we ate our meals together, and after three days it felt as if the seven of us had become one big family. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Then quietly, more as if speaking to herself than to him: 'But the healers would have me lie abed seven days yet,’ she said. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

At seven o’clock that evening he was alone in the crowd in Wiggins’ barn. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not wanting to miss anything, he got some of everything and paid the woman eleven silver Sickles and seven bronze Knuts. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

“I should have known. It’s the dependable part of the disease. Five to seven days after exposure. This is the seventh day.” Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

“In that case I’ll make it seven dollars an hour,” said Armpit’s boss. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

“We shoveled gravel through sieves for seven full hours with a half-hour break for lunch.” Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

“They’ll be scratching their heads and saying nonsense such as, ‘Is it OK to take seven shots at him or is the limit six?’ The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

“Longer, maybe four days, or more like seven. But don’t be all hope, child. If he had deep head wounds, he might be addled crazy and not know where he wandered off to die.” Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’d beaten out seven primary opponents and earned more than half the vote to win the nomination. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Six or seven people are standing around the small TV. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

With his little salary, we could barely afford to feed our kids— we had gone from four kids to five to six to seven. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Getting seven teeth drilled for cavities made me never want to eat candy again!” Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

“That was Milton Harper. He’s like seven or eight.” Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

His teeth had suffered so much from malnutrition and lack of care that seven eventually had to be pulled. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

The thirteen-thousand square-foot house had a pool, a tennis court, a gazebo, two jacuzzis, a workout room, ten bathrooms, and a special wing with a video room for his seven grandchildren. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Now I really don’t understand. Why don’t you sell your mess halls the eggs for seven cents apiece instead of for five cents apiece?” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Even at the speed of light, it would take seven hours to get to Pluto. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

“So you were not aware of any claim, then, that the Miyamotos might have had to any seven of your newly purchased thirty acres?” Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

For five full strokes, all seven boats stayed absolutely abreast of one another, their crews digging hard. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

And even now, seven years after her death, I cannot deny her. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Junior, seven, asks when she is coming back. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

By the time I was seven or eight, I was too smart to be tricked, so she changed tactics. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

“Left to nine. Right to four. Left to three. Right to seven.” Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

I’m back home with my mother and my seven siblings. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Seven sons had been born to her, brave and beautiful young men, and seven daughters, the fairest of the fair. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

I said ten years, but perhaps seven will be enough. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“We must get rid of Mandelet; he is getting too old and careless. He said he would be here at half-past seven; now it must be eight See what time it is, Josephine.” The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z

The typical accident involves seven consecutive human errors. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

He looked at his dollar watch; it was seven. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

He doesn’t want to only make seven bucks an hour, but I’m more than okay with making that much. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

We always left home between six and seven in the morning so we could be among the front wave of people rushing the trucks as they came in, usually around ten. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

After a fast if reckless three miles to McDonald’s, we ordered seven large french fries to share and then went outside and sat on the lawn. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

“Just on account of seven rats?” said Billy. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

For instance, writing the number 87 in the Egyptian system would require 15 symbols: eight heels and seven vertical marks. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Ashima and Ashoke can both cite examples of cousins who were not officially named until they were registered, at six or seven, in school. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

The Japanese man had asked about the land then, and asserted his wish to buy the seven acres his family had once held. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

He had walked seven miles to get there. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z

They told him they needed at least six or seven years for a cleaner bomb; he quoted them as offering an “absolutely clean” device in four or five. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

To get all twelve pitches using only the seven note names, we allow any of these notes to be sharp, flat, or natural. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

On the first Monday, Joseph walked seven miles. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z

“My soul to the devil he did so. He preached that Galahad had aye expelled the seven knights without a slaughter, and mentioned that the Holy Grail was nae for bloodshed.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even worse, this trend may be due partly to the fact that burdens an attentive reader with ten words, seven levels, and more than two dozen branches. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

Caught seven out of ten this afternoon,” he said. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Sucker was seven years old and he had on shorts. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

We’d open up the store at seven a.m. and Sam would saw lumber, cut ice, stack the meats out, stock the shelves, feed the cow in the backyard, all before we Ieft for school. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

I am a kid, not even seven years old, but somehow I will kill Pol Pot. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

But Menoeceus had not died in vain; in the end the Thebans prevailed and of the seven champions all were killed except Adrastus only. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

At five minutes past seven, the phone rang. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

She would give Herbert seven minutes before she would lift her head. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

One Saturday morning every other month, my uncle drove the two of us the seven hours to Malone, where my dad was in prison. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

On June 1, 1919, seven explosives in five eastern cities tore apart homes and public buildings. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

Six or seven of the big gray beasts turned to look at them. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

He could hardly cover the whole of Tarbean in just seven days’ time. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

And my grandma really couldn’t do anything about it, I guess, because it went on for seven years. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

Finally seven or eight Spaniards on horseback spurred on their horses, rushed upon the litter from one side, and with great effort they heaved it over on its side. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Navy, Syracuse, Cornell, Columbia, and Pennsylvania stretched out across the river in lanes three through seven. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

My first canister had expired at 7:00 a.m. on the Balcony, after lasting about seven hours. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

“I have to meet with someone at seven.” It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

The first was a copy of a letter from Dr. Barnes to the school superintendent and each of the seven members of the school board. The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z

I had forgotten that stuff about paranoia in that magazine Lorraine gave me to read about seven months ago. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

“A little kid, right? Like six or seven.” X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

She seven months pregnant and love eating chocolate. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

That evening when, as usual, I met Bobby for dinner at seven o’clock in the Oval Room, I was annoyed to see that he’d brought a guest along. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

I count the trees: thirty-two banana trees, seven guava trees, fourteen mango trees, countless coconut and lychee trees. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

"If we might resume, the seven are now six. We find ourselves in need of a new sword for your Kingsguard." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Laney curtseyed seven times before running to Mama and jumping into her arms. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

When they were checked over by a doctor, Jack, who was now eighteen, stood five seven and weighed 80 pounds. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

Below, though the threads were in places blurred or broken, the outline could be seen of an anvil and a hammer surmounted by a crown with seven stars. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

His two children were six and seven years old at the time of his sentencing. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

The Roman era lasted for about seven centuries. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

About six weeks after arriving at Da Nang, Lieutenant Philip Caputo and seven of his men sat in a helicopter, holding their rifles between their knees. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

When he came back, I started to count, with Sherman on the phone to Quentin keeping up with me, “Ten—nine—eight—seven...” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

It’s exactly seven forty-five when I reach the door nearest the bike racks. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Though he towered over other jockeys, ultimately leveling off at about five feet seven inches, he hadn’t filled out his frame yet, weighing just 101 pounds, light enough to ride. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

The pleasure of your company is requested at the Grand Civic Opera, January ninth, seven p.m. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

She had moved into the subsidized apartment in Williamsburg, which gave her her own kitchen and bathroom for the first time in seven years. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

It was seven and he wasn’t scheduled to fight until ten. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Six or seven small children were playing outside; they dashed into the trailer when they saw our car pull up. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

At 24,000 feet, I could manage only seven or eight blows of my ice ax before having to pause for more than a minute to catch my breath. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

Then she cooked, using her daily ration of seven hundred grams of corn meal to make porridge in the one pot she owned. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

Nod, say nothing, keep their faces turned down; it was how they got things like her seven acres. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Around six or seven I heard Barometer, the nuthatch. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

Enrique is counting: in some places, people at seven of every ten houses turn him away. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

“Well, don’t be surprised if you start flinging flaming squirrels on level seven.” Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

Kathy was tempted, but it was already seven o’clock, they were about to eat dinner, and she knew she wasn’t about to drive through the night again with four kids and a flatulent dog. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

It is astonishing how little one remembers about one’s life before the age of seven or eight. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

About seven and a half miles an hour. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

The natural lifespan of wild chickens is about seven to twelve years, and of cattle about twenty to twenty-five years. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even though it was only seven p.m., we both said good night. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Schatzman, down the hall, and the Krasnow sisters a floor below, with seven children between them, came into the apartment and took over, closing the bedroom door behind them. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

So we each take five, leaving seven, which will never divide equally. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

I had to be at the studio at seven in the morning on a Sunday and the night before I’d pretended to be feeling out of sorts and told Adam he probably shouldn’t stay over. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

One day two Vietnamese brothers around seven or eight years old were brought in with severe phosphorus burns. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

“Your Radiance has seven gods, so perhaps she will look upon my seventh plea with favor. Today I do not come alone. Will you hear my friends? There are seven of them as well.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

He came in right at seven and sat down in the corner, staying very quiet, blending in. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

The children in their different dormitories were woken at half-past seven by the nurses who looked after them. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

After sentencing, Paul wrote a letter home: “Dear Mother: I have been sentenced today to seven months imprisonment. Please do not worry. It will merely be a delightful rest. With love, Alice.” Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

“They paid seven hundred and fifty dollars in Philadelphia.” Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

I was still some way away, and just for a second, even though we hadn’t met since the Cottages seven years before, I was tempted to ignore her and keep walking. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

A man can make do with seven fingers. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The snowfall obliterated the borders between the fields and made Kabuo Miyamoto’s long- cherished seven acres indistinguishable from the land that surrounded them. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

During my visit I ate a sandwich atop a particularly inviting stone and looked through a stand of peach palms over the treetops to the water seven miles away. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

There were about six or seven other moms in the mothers’ group at first. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

It had ten acres of orange trees and a Spanish-style house where Margaret, her parents, her seven brothers, and her seven sisters lived. Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal 2001-01-17T00:00:00Z

Kyle stood on a pair of glowing green footprints in a line with seven other contestants facing the blank video wall. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

Now seven months since I graduated, my phone had stopped ringing. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

But at this time, I was seven, and knew more than a hundred English words. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

She would read for the first five minutes of class to give us a running start, she said, and then she would call on the next alphabetical victim to read for the next seven minutes. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

He judged the height, ran seven steps, and hurdled over the silver back of King Gorger. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Ira was seven when my first son was born, and she took a great interest in the newcomer. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had seven cents between him and starvation and the law and the long days ahead. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

The next bus wasn’t until seven in the morning. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Miss Mallory had famously matched one girl only seven minutes after she stepped off her train. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

The phone rings around seven o’clock, and my dad tells me to pick it up in the living room. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

“Now, with the firings of seven principals, three secretaries and thirty-four teachers, including my own husband, I realize it is no longer enough for me to think these things. I need to say them.” The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

As the carriage travels the seven blocks to the theater, Major Rathbone, with his muttonchops and broad mustache, sits facing Lincoln, talking about his experiences in the war. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

And he ran, lots of running, pretty much daily, often a loop of seven or eight miles that took him from the house to the McDonald’s. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Men ate in their rooms, which were a claustrophobic seven feet high, six feet seven inches deep, and three feet three inches wide. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

At once, everyone rises as seven justices enter. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

Everybody’s already here, seven family friends in their sixties and seventies. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

If you have eleven regiments and pick off from each its two best companies, it adds up to about seven hundred men. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the rostrum, seated in three compact rows of auditorium chairs, were about twenty children, mostly girls, ranging in age from about seven to thirteen. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

The villagers remembered Matty as a fun-loving young man who had been destroyed when he fought the evil, unknowable forces that had menaced the village in those harsher times, seven years earlier. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Now they had a new proposition: seven years in state prison. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Chamberlain, who could speak seven languages, recognized nothing. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every Monday evening at seven thirty sharp, the accelerators were turned off and the staff convened in the LeConte Hall library. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

She would get up at four o’clock every morning, seven days a week, to make the tortillas for both meals. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

He had had the best game of his life—seven for nine passing for 194 yards and four touchdowns. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

We are conveniently located off I-95, with shows at two, four, and seven, 365 days a year. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

Sixteen years earlier, on August 20, 1947, a U.S.- led war tribunal in Nuremberg, Germany, had sentenced seven Nazi doctors to death by hanging. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

The other seven players eventually put together the same list of titles that Sierra had. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

He tried to eat the bits of rice that hadn’t touched the stew, but there were only six or seven of those. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

On the deck of the thirty-foot boat, seven crewmen are busy pulling people onto the boat and hustling them under the deck. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

It had cost the same price as ninety oxen, but, as Guenever had already read it seven times, it was no longer exciting. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Billy was on the green in seven strokes, and it was his turn to putt. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the morning of January 27, 1945, Soviet troops entered the camps and liberated the remaining seven thousand prisoners—a minuscule remnant of the number killed and buried in the camp. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

A foot had marked that floor in all the seven ways of a dance. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

But here again, I can remember very little about the two years I attended Llandaff Cathedral School, between the age of seven and nine. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

In fact, she had given up on him by the time I was seven. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sarah’s family, with seven children, had little money to buy Sarah a custom-made eye. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

By the time the cops had arrested the four boys and gotten us all to write out our statements, it was almost seven o’clock and a cold rain was falling. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

He set himself and the gods helped him and for seven years there were harvests, and every year Wang Lung and his men threshed far more than could be eaten. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

I would be a little girl of seven the day I followed the bird away into the mountains. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I certainly didn’t want to tell Big Ma that everything she had said about Cecile for the past seven years was right. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Somehow feeding seven billion people through pure gathering. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Six of the seven reached the top, but during the descent a severe storm struck the upper slopes of K2, pinning the climbers in their high camp at 26,250 feet. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

Rishi had drawn a hoard of about seven zombies, all nuanced and gross in the goofiest way. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

The unrest in Little Rock and the bounty on our heads had by that time forced two of our seven families to move their homes away from that city forever. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Such was the fuzziness, in fact, that it took seven years for anyone to spot the moon again and thus independently confirm its existence. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

It’s not but half full since it’s only a quarter to seven and the choir doesn’t start singing until seven thirty. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

After working on it for three years and seven months, he had sent the manuscript to his publisher in January 1842. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The friends of my childhood—Flora, the rag doll, and Rosamunde, the wooden doll in the gown with seven flounces—nestled in their basket. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

It was about seven to eight inches long and bloated up. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The line in the bathroom was long, everyone getting ready for the weekend, and by the time Rishi was finished with the shower and brushing his teeth, it was seven thirty. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

He looked at his watch; it was seven o’clock. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Five thousand seven hundred Russians killed, forty-five Germans lost. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

All seven of them had settled in at collaboration stations to pore through the paper airplane book. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

We hop off and speed-walk up seven blocks to make it to choir practice on time. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Numbers five and six went in the net, then I missed seven and eight. The Million Dollar Shot 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

My grandmother died when I was seven, and at her funeral I threw a tantrum because she wasn’t waking up. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

I was seven then, and I remember going to the mailbox every single day to see if you’d sent me a postcard. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

"On my flight out of Atlanta, there were seven unaccompanied minors," I said. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

Renly had gifted him with a rainbow cloak and a suit of blood red armor, and named him one of his seven. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

A two-week federal trial in Meridian, Mississippi, resulted in seven guilty verdicts and sentences ranging from three to ten years. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“You laughed at her. You said you weren’t seven years old and then stomped out the front door.” The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

When we showed up that late summer day in 1984, we brought the number to seven. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

At the end of seven days, the man whose turn it was got all the sugar at once. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

My mother, who has now lost six of her seven sisters in Ville Rose and has never had the strength to return for their funerals. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

The flat was seven flights up, and Winston, who was thirty-nine, and had a varicose ulcer above his right ankle, went slowly, resting several times on the way. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

The widest was more than seven feet across, and it was long before Pippin could summon enough courage to leap over the dreadful gap. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

“Work resumes on the Golden Gate Bridge. 103 men are put back to work, two quit, seven scratch their heads, five have their feet up, two eat sausages for supper, three do not...” Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dicey brought out a pitcher of lemonade made from a can and seven glasses. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Although it’s nearly seven, the sun is still high and the air heavy. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

There are six or seven base women stirring and scooping food from the pots. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now Mom got paid about seven hundred dollars a month, and the first time I saw her gray-green pay check, with its detachable stub and automated signatures, I thought our troubles were over. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

She told how Bluebeard had duped and married his seven wives, how he had loved and slain them, how he had hanged them up by their hair in a dark closet. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dressed in demon masks, we would terrorize them for the seven days of High Mourning, much to everyone’s delight. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I spent two hours on seven words, and again sometime during the session he sat down, with his head in the palms of his hands. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

Dad had signed me up for the neighborhood soccer club when I was seven. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

How could she live with herself if any of the seven demigods died? The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

School ends at three p.m., but Spoon told me that the coast wouldn’t be clear until seven. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

At one minute past seven, after a brisk cold walk, she rang the bell of a large, comfortable-looking villa in one of the roads a little way north of Jericho. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

After the party, it was about seven o’clock in the morning and everyone went to the Big Boy for pancakes or bacon. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

At seven o’clock, the four members ascended to the clubroom, tied their badges round their heads, and took their seats with great solemnity. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tomorrow is dress rehearsals; Saturday morning is reserved for a light run-through before the show, which starts promptly at seven p.m. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

And Chinese speakers get that list of numbers — 4, 8, 5, 3, 9, 7, 6—right almost every time because, unlike English, their language allows them to fit all those seven numbers into two seconds. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

It happens somewhere between eight and seven o’clock. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

Loga picked up her foot and played with her flowery clog, and she was like, “I got a size seven, but it feels more like a man’s size seven.” Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m meeting her at seven outside the fire station.” A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

When I got to seven, I would start counting real slow, dragging it out. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is very small, a single square room; there are seven pews, but only two of them have backs; the others are really just benches. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

When I finally found my next class I was seven minutes late. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Zeitoun had been brought into the station on September 6, seven and a half days after the hurricane passed through the city. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t quite seven a.m. yet, but he seemed delighted to have someone to talk to. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Though convicted of a single slaying, the pair had claimed seven victims in the course of a cross-country murder spree. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

"What in all the seven hells am I supposed to make of this? He says one thing, she says another." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“You poor fool. El Patron had seven other clones exactly like you, each one educated and believing he was going to run the country.” The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Among those studies, one published in Pediatrics in 2004 found that children who watch more television in their toddler years are significantly more likely to have attention problems by age seven. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Twelve hours a day, seven days a week, is a lot of study time. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

“You cannot possibly have read that book fewer than seven times.” The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

Ask an Asian child to add three-tens- seven and two-tens-two, and then the necessary equation is right there, embedded in the sentence. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

Once they disagreed in a narrow lane, and Mr. Merriweather was abandoned for seven hours. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Enrique knows children as young as six or seven whose single mothers have stayed at home and who have had to root through the waste in order to eat. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

I suppose I should have known from the title that it wouldn't end merrily, but in my defense, I was seven. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

That seemed to make sense, so the seven men lifted the young lieutenant up and stretched him out carefully on the hood of a parked car, still pinning each struggling part of him down. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Among them, the four tired men had “checked out” some seven hundred tips and rumors. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

Their cook heats oatmeal and bacon in the hotel kitchen while the other seven take apart walls on the fourth floor with sledgehammers. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Virtually overnight, Johnny’s father was bankrupt with seven children and a wife to feed. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We were held at Camp Thompson for seven days,” recalled Bobby Thomas, a tenth grader at Hudson High. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

We also saw seven different restaurants that claimed to have the world’s best BBQ. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

In the Guildhall’s holds he stashed twenty donkeys, seven camels, and an assortment of monkeys and deadly snakes. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Catelyn had been anointed with the seven oils and named in the rainbow of light that filled the sept of River- run. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“I think she’s seven or eight, quite musical, and she loves the piano, just like you.” Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

Hahn had discovered fission less than seven years before. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Before the puzzled faces of Mr. and Mrs. Beale, he opened the front door and looked at the three cast-iron digits nailed to the door frame: seven two eight. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And I promise you, she’s probably five times smarter than the seven of us put together.” The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

There are six or seven other pigeons on the rooftop, just a few feet over from where I'm crouched. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Josh was his father's son; he was already at least seven inches taller than their mom—and three inches taller than Park. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

Numbers like seven and 31 belonged to all of these systems, quinary, decimal, and vigesimal alike. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

The house has seven bedrooms, five bathrooms, three sitting rooms, and two kitchens. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

Comer was buried under by five, six, seven Carter Cowboys as he tried to cut up to the outside. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

I think I fell asleep a little after seven. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Just as he had steeled himself against replying, Gregor thought of the last two years, seven months, and, was it fifteen days now? Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

I’d gained nearly seven hundred feet of altitude since stepping off the hanging glacier, all of it on crampon front points and the picks of my axes. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

After being honorably discharged seven years ago, Uncle Jet lived out of his duffel bag in California, Nevada, and even Colorado. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

They found seven different versions of the same book: The Complete Sherlock Holmes. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

The SS man with the list took one last look around the empty apartment, at the seven of us sitting or standing on the bare floor. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Only seven or so blocks from our homes, drug dealers hang out by the town courts and old men sit around drinking from brown paper bags. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

This happens—always—when the chimp is between five and seven years old. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

There's nothing swank about it, but there's a line out the door even though it's only seven. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

They already had sixteen—the original seven plus a second group of nine. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Except, because I’m counting in my head, I know that not even seven seconds of the seven minutes have passed. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

When Mig turned seven years old, there was no cake, no celebration, no singing, no present, no acknowledgment of her birthday at all other than Mig saying, “Uncle, today I am seven years old. ” The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

“Being in this crew of seven...I’m not sure what to do. I’m not used to being one of so many, well, equals. I feel like I’m failing.” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Six or seven hundred bucks sounded better than one hundred fifty, that was for sure. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

According to the Tralfamadorians, of course, the Green Beret would have seven parents in all. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

My seven sons fell in the southern land, another says, and my husband too, all eight in battle. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The house is good security. I had me a real estate agent offered me seven thousand last year.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had in his youth the strength of seven men. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

The dog teams broke the trail as much as possible, but in three days they covered only seven miles. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

After that, he skipped rocks and told himself he would leave after he skipped one seven times. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

In 2006, some seven hundred new mothers found out that doctors had taken their placentas without consent to test for abnormalities that might help the hospital defend itself against future lawsuits over birth defects. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Crowds of lower-caste workers were queued up in front of the monorail station—seven or eight hundred Gamma, Delta and Epsilon men and women, with not more than a dozen faces and statures between them. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

If you are not familiar with Mrs Symons's books - a series running to seven volumes, each one concentrating on one region of the British Isles - I heartily recommend them. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

He had taken the job as an interpreter after his first son, at the age of seven, contracted typhoid — that was how he had first made the acquaintance of the doctor. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

On the other side, the dam dropped away like the world’s most dangerous skateboard ramp, down to the river seven hundred feet below, and water that churned from the dam’s vents. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

I crossed the Pacific Ocean the first time when I was seven years old, in 1946. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

The storm hit without warning, killing about seven hundred people, damaging thousands of homes, and toppling millions of trees. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

By seven o’clock, Melita and her parents stood on the crowded Wilhelmstrasse, the wide street that led past the President’s Palace and the Chancellery, the building that housed important government offices. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Nationwide, nearly seven out of eight people living in high-poverty urban areas are members of a minority group. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

One hundred and seven heat-conditioned Epsilon Senegalese were working in the foundry. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had enough grant money to pay for seven radiocarbon dates. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

I’d walked onto the court and seen the team like this: seven black guys, five white guys, two Latino guys, and one Vietnamese guy. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Mother had to be at the factory by seven. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

And teosinte, unlike wild wheat and rice, is not a practical food source; its “ears” are scarcely an inch long and consist of seven to twelve hard, woody seeds. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

In the meantime, the seven of us had seated ourselves around the dining table to await the latest addition to our family with coffee and cognac. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Mr. Larson knew that out of the seven members, three would love to see him leave, and two others were not very fond of him. The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z

Even as a boy of seven or eight, I knew why everyone honored Aleer-Manguak in death. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

A civil war had started in my country in 1991, and by the time I was three years old, it had been going on for seven years. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

His happiness, it turned out, was because he had killed seven mice and was feeling very proud—not to say pumped up and gladiatorial. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

I’m not nine or seven and given to squealing or oohing like Vonetta and Fern. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Rowdy had been an absolute terror, scoring twenty points, grabbing ten rebounds, and stealing the ball seven times. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

By seven o’clock all the guests had arrived, led into the house by Fred and George, who had waited for them at the end of the lane. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

That’s why Ophie was tensed in the parlor, waiting to see if the cousins would descend upon her like one of the seven plagues the pastor back in Darling always talked about. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

It has seven sentences—short enough to recite in a moment of danger. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

She made a fine, narrow, smooth braid, using seven of the smallest straws. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had seven kids, and I had no time to think about my period. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

That afternoon, when the wind had died down and the barnyard was quiet and warm, the grey goose led her seven goslings off the nest and out into the world. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

Jaime had worked practically all night and by seven in the morning his body had had only two hours of sleep. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Finally, after probably seven or eight cuts, I heard my mother let out a loud breath—a sigh of relief. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

Each morning the radio comes on at seven o'clock. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

She explains, “It’s most of a porterhouse steak. She only ate seven or eight bites. She said it was too gristly.” Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

"Lord of Light, we offer you these false gods, these seven who are one, and him the enemy. Take them and cast your light upon us, for the night is dark and full of terrors." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

On the thirty-first, I threw on a cowboy hat and picked Jill up around seven p.m. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had lost all sense of how long she had been imprisoned in this cell, high up in one of the seven towers of the Great Sept of Baelor. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

In the end, the seven resolutions were reduced to three. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

I’d been living with Miss Thomas and the band for about seven days and this was already my third trip on the road. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

For seven years, he had scoured the library for clues of what had happened there. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

“Did your husband mention he’d gone out there? Did he tell you about his conversation with Mr. Jurgensen regarding the purchase of these seven acres?” Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

"I get off at seven. You want to come over for dinner?" How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“But I have seven best friends who all sit at my lunch table with me,” wails Savannah Bobbins. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

Coach brought us to a no-frills pizza spot near the hotel and ordered seven large pies for the team. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

Besides killing seven people, the Shuttle has been a disappointment in that it has been more expensive to operate than its fans had hoped. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

By the time the sun dips near the horizon, he’s found seven of our eight maximum the park rules allow. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

“George and I invented them — seven Sickles each, a bargain!” Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

He ushered his mother into her seat at dinner, turned in at seven, and tucked his alarm clock under his pillow so as not to wake Louie, with whom he shared a bed. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

And because these people lived seven thousand miles south of the Bering Strait, a distance that presumably would have taken a long time to traverse, they almost certainly arrived before the ice-free corridor opened up. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

The chair of the Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice Standing Committee was staring down seven agenda items on another Friday afternoon. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

In the seven years since he had entered school, he had known only two teachers. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

“The average smartphone only uses two to seven watts to fully charge. These lenses need less than one watt.” Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

But the men of the king’s household they could not yet bring from the field; for seven of the king’s knights had fallen there, and Déorwine their chief was among them. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

The other seven are filled with regular clear panes. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

An author named Adelaide Hollingsworth chose to honor the fair with more than seven hundred pages of it, which she published early in the year under the title The Columbia Cook Book. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

The makeshift refuge must house the seven of us and one other family who arrived there before us. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You can shop first and meet us at the movie at seven,” Gay added, putting on the pressure. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

This time I got seven and she got three. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

And then, when she had finished, she began her letters, five, six, seven perhaps to be answered, all written in that same curious, slanting hand I knew so well. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

I am in labor for seven hours, the agony so great in the last stretch that I wonder if it’s possible to split in half. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Every morning at seven, my father gathered his sons, divided them into teams and sent them out to tackle the tasks of the day. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The wages Mamá was paid at the hotel were too small to support the seven of them, and Lupita earned only centavos for her errands. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

There was a record of her marriage to Oliver Blake, and a list of her seven children, their marriages, some grandchildren...Then someone else had taken up the listing. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

But at five and seven years old, Adria and I didn’t think twice about that. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

There are more than seven thousand islands in the Philippines. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

Mong guessed it would take at least six or seven hours to walk all the way to Santa Cruz in the dark, but we’d learned our lesson about hitching. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

One of the boys, about seven, always started a fight, and his mother would pull him away by his ear. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

There were seven of them living here, crammed together like tomatoes in a jar. I Survived the Great Molasses Flood, 1919 2019-09-03T00:00:00Z

Mama says that was the poor woman’s bad luck, because now she has got to go right on tending after her husband and her seven or eight children. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

So the ambush was sent out post-haste, and everything within the castle was at sixes and sevens. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’ve wanted to lead a quest since I was seven,” she said. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

‘Mum and Auntie Glo gave me this money yesterday. Remember? For the five tickets. The souvenir photo was seven pounds. This is what’s left.’ The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Would you, ahem, would you please wait until seven p.m., to allow me to apprise my corporate headquarters of recent developments?” The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Pumblechook worked his head like a screw to screw it out of me, and said, “Is forty-three pence seven and sixpence three fardens, for instance?” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

The four officers in the Amadou Diallo case had their judgment derailed by the color of Diallo’s skin and the lack of white space and the physiologically disruptive trajectory of those seven seconds. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

They made him look haggard, as if he smoked a great deal and slept very little, in spite of the fact that he was only seven years old. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten! Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

When we got home, I went right upstairs to my room and wrote about what happened, and lay in my bed and tried to go to sleep—even though it was only seven o’clock. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

He’s been up since seven for a run before class. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

All seven emirates are only as big as half of Oklahoma, but the UAE is one of the richest countries in the world. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

There were eleven of them in all, eight small boys and three girls, ranging from four to seven years in age. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

I drummed my fingers on my drum, one, three, five, seven is Thursday. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

It had enabled them to have seven children and buy a house in the Sunset district with very little money. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

His worried mother had had seven children in eight years. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was relatively small, weighing perhaps six hundred or seven hundred pounds, but it nevertheless amounted to a huge quantity of meat. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The next contestant is a tiny boy, hardly seven or eight years old, with a neat bow tie and hair that hangs over his eyes. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

Your friend, Thomas I walked into a bakery seven years later and there he was. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Not a big deal when you’re seven and with your dad. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

It’s just too bad that it went on for seven years because my aunt Rebecca went through the same kind of husbands. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

“When you’re seven years old and your mama waltzes out the door without so much as a goodbye, well, that’s something you don’t forget.” Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

She counted herself lucky to be on days, seven till eight with half hours for meals. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

If that worked out they would begin integrating grades seven through nine, the junior high students. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Yvonne said to me, “Lolly, I am not sure that you deserve me hauling all this yick-yack through the snow and up seven floors, but I love you like my own blood, so...” The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

Realizing the terrible thing that had happened to his daughter made him sweat, for there were seven mulatto children on his land. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

And there were seven places to be filled. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nor he me, it seems, though he is older by seven years. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

The altar includes seven items that begin with the letter s, all with their own symbolic meaning. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

“You outweighed that other kid by seven pounds!” Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Let's say I can find a home for fourteen more panels instead of seven. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

I hardly recognize day, even though it's only been seven hours since the sentencing. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

Furman signed a receipt and got into one of the seven cars surrounding the truck. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

The first time I met Holly’s mom, I was seven years old, and Holly and I had only known each other for a few months. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

But if they can’t find anyone to come in for the second half of the split, Mom has to work the whole three-to-eleven shift, which means she works from seven a.m. to eleven p.m. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Portia’s butcher knife was stuck in his belt, and on the wide, dark road he looked so small that it was like he was five years old instead of seven. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

“I bought seven tickets and rented six strangers and a minivan for the night.” Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had raised him from the time he was seven and a better-behaved nephew no one could have wished for. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

I know that if I start drinking now, I will feel better for an hour or two and worse for six or seven. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

By the seven o’clock bell, Brigid was looking a little less distraught, and Mr. Marsden came past to pat both girls proudly. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

Fortunately, we looked up and saw everything coming down and we scattered—seven wagons in seven directions. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

Turner knew from the map there were another seven miles, and once they were on the move again, they were the hardest, the dreariest they had walked that day. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Neither the wound nor the dressing put on it were cleaned and disinfected until more than seven hours after the shooting. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Like the one on the first night of our turtle walks, this one also contained a hundred and seven eggs, but this time all one hundred seven turtles emerged. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

For another seven hundred meters, the boats held their relative positions. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

His own sister was seven years old and this boy was not close to her in size. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Cool,” they say, and then they turn into seven different girls and introduce themselves. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

“Let’s see...one, two, three, four, five, six, seven. Seven baby geese. Now isn’t that lovely!” Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

“A hooded crane. The only one in Indiana. Maybe the only one in the United States. They winter in Asia, which means he’s about seven thousand miles from home.” All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Joe meant to sleep until noon but he awakened at seven and lay in bed for quite a long time. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

She got seven months out with her ma and her pa on the little ship that crashed. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

Wall to wall, it was only seven feet long, and there was always a faint smell of mildew in its air. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Knowing that they would be competing with grade seven, she added their questions to her sixth grade set. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

After seven months, Wes met his graduation from Job Corps with as much trepidation as excitement. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Arizona Emma is only four foot five, not four foot seven like me! The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Mr. Bonger is an insurance broker with enough money to send seven children to private school. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Then I think of how there are exactly seven people now who know I have Judd Travers’s dog, and it’s only a matter of time before somebody lets it out. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I have a mother and father and seven brothers and five sisters.” Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

“So in other words Mr. Miyamoto left your residence on the ninth having heard from your husband there was at least a possibility your husband would sell the seven acres to him.” Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Year after year, plainly, all seven scrapbooks stood ready to be perused or pored over by old close friends of the family and casual visitors alike, as well as, presumably, the odd part-time cleaning woman. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

I had not seen my mother for something like seven years, and I knew we would have to adjust to one another. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

It's taken me two years to advance to the level of a Thursday, but still my seven hours of work can be undone by a single question pertaining to sports or opera. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

It was half past seven in the evening when at last, exhausted, he heard Aunt Petunia calling him. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

It’s seven fifteen, so it’s gotta be Mr. Watson, the bus driver. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

In other news, it's seven sols till the harvest, and I still haven't prepared. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

I pull open the lobby door of our building, push the up elevator button, and watch the slow numbers descend—seven, six, five, four... Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

He is a hardened veteran of seven attempts to reach el Norte. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Three mothers with seven children, all from the Hackney area of London, had been billeted on the Tallis family. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

At the end of seven years, Tehlu’s feet had carried him all through the world. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“My exit visa was approved this morning. I was told I have seven days to leave the country or I have to stay indefinitely.” The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

All told, there were one hundred five Africans, twenty-one Indians, twenty-three whites, and seven Coloureds. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

So at seven o’clock, Harry, Ron, and Hermione walked straight past the doorway to the packed Great Hall, which was glittering invitingly with gold plates and candles, and directed their steps instead toward the dungeons. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

The kid must have been about six or seven and looked like Dennis the Menace. The Million Dollar Shot 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

In one seven-month period in 1971, Gates and his cohorts ran up 1,575 hours of computer time on the ISI mainframe, which averages out to eight hours a day, seven days a week. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

I looked forward to these visits more than one would think, considering I was flying seven hundred miles to sit alongside a dying man. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

RiRi, now seven, was always curious and not shy with her questions. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

There were seven or eight people on the island who possessed the right to give names. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

The military tribunal would be composed of seven generals to serve as the judges, with President Roosevelt presiding over the proceedings. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

Davos had fathered seven sons himself, and lost four on the Blackwater. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I had also become a fanatical bird-watcher by the age of seven. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

When I was seven, I used to go to the town square to recite monologues from the works of Shakespeare for the adults of my community. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

That would be one of the seven houses we’d get our parents. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

By seven that morning it was already in the eighties, and our bangs stuck to our foreheads, our faces red and dented with pillow marks, gray crud in the corners of our eyes. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

“If one is injured by reckless use of sympathy, the offending student will be whipped, singly, no more than seven times across the back.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Only seven people stand between me and the zip line. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

I thought Uncle Willie sinfully vain, especially when I had to iron seven stiff starched shirts and not leave a cat’s face anywhere. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

It went back several millennia—perhaps as many as seven—and was found in nearly every culture—including the Unseen City, where the beings had been worshipped. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

He probably hadn’t traveled much more than seven or eight miles, but there was still a whole day before his grandfather would get home from work and even suspect he was gone. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

But Hera had made them a team of seven for a reason. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

He would meet me at the fence at seven in the evening. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

But for me, at age seven, the island was a country as foreign as India or Arabia would have been. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

The houses began after that—large, handsome, widely spaced, each set on its own six or seven acres of land. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Once she’d saved them from the mansion of the evil Cyclops when she was only seven. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

Every now and then, Old Dan would rear up on a large hackberry tree that was standing about seven feet from the fence and bawl treed. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Those teenagers made up seven to eight out of every ten slaves brought to Americas sugar Hell. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

Though I was only seven, my images of certain people from this period are very precise, because I had begun to see adults for the first time. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

She made the squares but could only write one and seven. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

God is one, Septon Osmynd had taught her when she was a girl, with seven aspects, as the sept is a single building, with seven walls. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“No, me! One...two...free...four seven ten!” she said, and lifted both hands in the air at her accomplishment. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

To the point that when I showed up to Coach Nat’s first recruitment meeting for the Firebirds, seven out of the thirteen other girls who were there knew who I was. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

Complaints, complaints—your sevens look like nines, Cochran. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Too well educated for his own good” was what Hanako’s father was accused of, and he spent seven months in the stockade. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

There were seven lawyers who worked for the county, not including Daines. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Although the old man talked for seven hours almost without ceasing, Colin's world felt eerily quiet until he finally gave in as they left the old man's house to go pick up Lindsey. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

This was still seven blocks away from the O’Learys’, but close enough that firefighters could see the flames and alter their course. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

The little girl, who was only seven at the time, had learned to read from her uncle’s storybooks and been closer to him than any other member of the family because of her prophesying powers. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Malin Hebrides, northwest seven to severe gale nine, deepening low moving north- east, rain, becoming variable . The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

The church is crowded with people at seven o’clock Mass getting the ashes on their foreheads. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

I jumped in and out of Flint around seven times before that got boring and I decided I’d better head for Grand Rapids. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

There are about six or seven of them. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

He wasn’t big, five seven and 132 pounds, but he had become the Paul Bunyan of Odessa, no story about him too tall, no feat too outlandish. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

They saw seven black plastic garbage bags sitting on the floor of the van. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It had only been seven weeks, but relatives came in from hundreds of miles away. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every Sunday, we put on our Kingdom Hall clothes pull out our Kingdom Hall satchels, filled with our Kingdom Hall books and walk the seven blocks to the Kingdom Hall. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

This morning I woke up just before seven and immediately remembered what I’d been dreaming about. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Privately, the eighty-first lord had hoped that by the time his end came upon him, six of the seven young lords at Stormhold would be dead, and but one still alive. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Nearly seven miles deep—the deepest place on earth—and southwest of the island of Guam, which isn’t even on your globe.” Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

And all the time they talked: they talked of rockets, orbits, space; gravely they pondered the seven stomachs of a cow; tomorrow’s weather; but neither mentioned dogs. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

I expected it to be on a floating buoy, but the pole is actually a wooden post that drops into the depths, presumably all the way to the bottom almost seven miles below. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

As another daraja, she and I have practically grown up together in this temple over the last seven years, but we’re decidedly not friends. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Among the seven others, Don Linton, the chief deputy county attorney, held relative primacy. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Into the silence that followed her departure, Briony said brightly, “We’ll get on, shall we? Only seven to go. When it’s over, I’ll bring you a measure of brandy.” Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

A gang of seven- to nine-year-olds threw down their switches and greeted them. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Of course the owner would pick a job that took much more than seven hours, so a worker’s day stretched from sunup to sundown. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

So, when the alarm went off at seven, I dreamed I was back in that car, stuck in the river, sitting behind Screaming Ned as he sharpened his meat cleavers. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Doesn’t seem big until you consider that most babies are more like seven or eight pounds and nineteen or twenty inches when they’re born. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

The herds and flocks are seven, with fifty beasts in each. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Before she left, she told the six remaining members of Group D that she still expected seven holes. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

At first, Bobby was a little reserved with him, but as they talked—for about seven hours—he warmed up. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Normally, Karl had said, it would take three men to keep up with the threshers output, filling the gunnysacks and stitching them with exactly seven stitches before tossing them onto the grain wagon. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

My bittersweet memory: Jason and I are six or seven, grocery shopping with my mom. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

“At the rate Mister Rufus has accidents,” I said, “he might live another six or seven years without me. I wouldn’t count on more than that.” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

Fornatee had been in the United States for seven years, longer than most of his teammates, and was used to life in America. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

Two stacks of seven solar cells on the roof of the rover; another seven on the trailer, then two per shelf. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some were riding to fairs as great as that of Troyes, others to universities which rivalled Paris, where there were twenty thousand scholars whose ranks eventually provided seven popes. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Since he had begun to show up regularly at Hobie’s, he had found a minor addiction to the small talk among the regulars who drifted in after the grill opened after seven in the morning. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was time for each of the seven regions to make its toughest cuts and choose the four members for its Library Olympics team. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

That was three years ago, when I was seven, but the day I imagined is still vivid in my mind. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Ulbrickson tried Stub McMillin in the number seven seat in the sophomore boat, but then took him out the next day. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

One two three four five six seven eight nine ten eleven twelve thirteen fourteen fifteen sixteen seventeen eighteen nineteen twenty twenty-one twenty-two twenty-three twenty-four twenty-five twenty-six twenty-seven twenty-eight twenty-nine... The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

By the time it was over, the name of Gary Edwards, a seven- teen-year-old with a face that still looked boyish, would become a household word in the state of Texas. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even now, seven months later, there was still a huge pile. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

In the picture, I’m six or seven, sun-flushed, my arm extended as far away from my body as possible, dangling a caught fish from a piece of twine. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

When Wells gave a reading soon after her book was published in Greenwich, Connecticut, there were seven people in the audience. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Is it true you died seven deaths for her?” Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

I had me seven good bass and three big perch. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

Afterwards, he got into his car, drove several miles in the wrong direction on the motorway and ploughed into a van carrying seven people. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

“That seven will be worth plenty more later,” she advised. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Two goes into fifteen seven times with one leftover—me. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

Over seven tapes and thirteen stories, her voice was kept at a slight distance by this steady hum in the background. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

Because of his unusual caution, the following seven games, numbers fourteen to twenty, were all draws. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

I had seven sons as well, but four are burned and dead. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

We form into six or seven files, facing the white-shirts, most of whom are sergeants. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

They reported that the Slytherin team was no more than seven greenish blurs, shooting through the air like missiles. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

“I’ve only been out of school for a week. I doubt my face is rounder after seven days of not walking to class.” Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

The day I came of swimming age, which, to Mothers dis­tress, Mamaji claimed was seven, he brought me down to the beach, spread his arms seaward and said, “This is my gift to you.” Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Doctors had worked on his foot for seven hours, but finally they gave up. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You may live through ten days, but when you return, you will only have been gone for seven up here. As such, you must make your preparations. Humans need sustenance for such a prolonged journey.” Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

“We are replanting, but it takes seven years before an olive tree begins to bear, and thirty years before it can truly be called productive. What of copper?” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Like Ashoke, busy with his teaching and research and dissertation seven days a week, she, too, now has something to occupy her fully, to demand her utmost devotion, her last ounce of strength. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

The glowing green numbers of my alarm clock crawled toward seven o'clock, by which time I couldn't take it anymore. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

After all, who in town could possibly forget the debacle of the 1986 season, Gaines’s first, when the team had gone only seven and two and didn’t even make the playoffs? Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Osage have found new sources of revenue, including from seven casinos that have been built on their territory. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

If he received a life sentence, he’d be eligible to go before the parole board in seven years. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

“I will be here a little after seven tomorrow morning!” she says, pointing at me. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

“Now I know he’ll rest in peace. Uncle Eugene gave Mom so much money she’s buying seven cows for the funeral!” Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

Flying across the seven seas to claim her. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Amelia, the first of seven children, was born a year later. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was seven years old again, alone in her bedroom in Richmond, Virginia. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Mariam heard of a neighborhood widow who had ground some dried bread, laced it with rat poison, and fed it to all seven of her children. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

The colors of his face, the colors of condensed milk and a cut-open soursop, had not tanned at all in the fierce heat of seven Nigerian harmattans. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

I looked around at what I could see of Ill-ah-no-way from the Howard Johnson Motel, and it might as well have been seven thousand miles from the lake. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

“Some do during Christmas, but many don’t. My father hasn’t been back in seven years.” Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Forty-seven years, and the taste still lingered in his memory, yet he could not have said what he had supped on ten days ago if all seven kingdoms had depended on it. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

To reach this restaurant we had to climb down seven dimly lit steps into a sort of cellar. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

No one was a member of all seven. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Six weeks...seven...I forget,” said the tired man. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

I ran seven times back and forth between the hills of Mt. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

For the next two hours, Beidleman, Groom, the two Sherpas, and the seven clients staggered blindly around in the storm, growing ever more exhausted and hypothermic, hoping to blunder across the camp. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

“Says here,” Lara continues, squinting at her phone, “that boogeypeople date back seven hundred years to the war with the Night Brothers.” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

“I need you to refill feeders six and seven.” Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

The story took up six of the seven columns of the front page. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

The document set a goal of seven thousand MK recruits in the country who would meet the initial outside force of one hundred twenty trained guerrillas. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Mrs. Danvers,” he said slowly, “when Mrs. de Winter and I go to bed to-night will you come yourself and lock the door on the outside? And call us yourself, at seven in the morning.” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Finally, one of us here wonders whether you have an older sister who was at Girton six or seven years ago. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

I’m home just before six, eat with the Doorman, and pick up Audrey around seven. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

In any case, sixty-two millions was no nearer the truth than fifty- seven millions, or than a hundred and forty-five millions. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

"Yes," she said, "but please, Ned, for the love you bear me, let Bran remain here at Winterfell. He is only seven." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The seven days of High Mourning were behind us. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

He looked to be about seven years old, and dressed in his grandfather’s clothes. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

By the time summer came, she had seven shots that she thought might have something, as Pauline had always put it. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Twelve were condemned to death, seven to prison terms, and three were acquitted. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Here are the facts: Dismay came to Snowberger’s seven years ago on this reporter’s third birthday. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

He hit it six or seven times really fast but the spurt didn’t increase, didn’t decrease, always half a cup. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It was hard enough for us to make it this far with seven demigods and a warship.” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Day after day we work, seven days a week. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Thoughts of the past years, the seven years since that summer phone call made my mom cry. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Their English equivalents—“four,” “seven” — are longer: pronouncing them takes about one-third of a second. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

After less than seven weeks, however, James’s plans fell apart when he developed the chills and fevers of malaria. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

An Austrian, the son of Sigmund Freud’s family physician, he had been, at age seven, the youngest student ever admitted to the Vienna Conservatory. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

He was twenty then, and although his job as a waiter at the Hotel Medallion was a blessing to his parents and their seven other children, it wasn’t nearly enough to support a wife. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

People were to be resettled there in seven different “ethnic groups.” Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I was seven, my mother decided I should leave kindergarten and go to a proper boy’s school. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

Adrastus, the only one alive of the seven who had started the war, came to Theseus, King of Athens, to beseech him to induce the Thebans to allow the bodies to be buried. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Your wife has given you seven strong sons. Do you pray to her? It was wood we burned this morning." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Seven stars and seven stones and one white tree. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

“Dance terms,” Rex says, smiling a huge smile from a mouth that isn’t as bright as Mark’s or Marc’s but looks, instead, like it enjoys seven or eight hoagies per weekend. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

In Washington’s number seven seat, a realization flickered through Joe’s awareness—the boat was drawing abreast of his father’s house on the west side of the lake. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Dr. Zamborska is one of four children—all living—and Branwell is one of seven grandchildren on that side of the family. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was sitting in a pile of Chinese scrolls, reading seven or eight at once. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

I’m about to tell him that seven is still a baby but then I remember about finesse so all I say is, I’ll be eleven next month. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I was seven, she begins, I had an intestinal disease that went untreated for lack of money to buy medicine. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Five hairpins, an olive, two dominoes, and a sock...A nailfile, four buttons of various sizes, a telephone slug, seven marbles, and a tiny doll’s chair... Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z

They filled a grain sack with coins and bills, leased seven acres of stumps and vine maple, purchased a ploiv horse, and started clearing. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Every weekday evening, the whole school would sit for one hour in the Main Hall, between six and seven o’clock, to do Prep. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

By following their runways she found seven nests and caught eighty furred young. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We just went after school. It’s probably until seven or eight. Your mother knows my grandmother?” Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

He spent the next seven months building his daughter’s house from scratch. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

But then, just seven days ago, Nate had received a letter. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z

The next morning, just after seven bells of the forenoon watch, Captain Prince came on deck with his sextant, ready to shoot the sun. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

“They appear to be seven ordinary broad stone steps; nothing special; quite the same as any other set of stairs in the Abbey, wouldn’t you say?” Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

It was dark out—it must have been seven or eight. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

That afternoon Kit climbed to the attic and surveyed the seven small trunks. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

The machine starts up again and spits out another seven pages. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

Some had seven or eight and didn’t understand how fortunate they were, how blessed that their children had flourished in their wombs, lived to squirm in their arms and take the milk from their breasts. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

I was shocked when he divulged that they currently had joint custody of a seven- year-old boy, even though a condition of Mrs. Moss’s probation prohibited her from caring for any more children. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

However, there was a time where there was no zero—just as there was no seven and 31. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

He was going to have a press conference at seven P.M. at the Hotel Theresa. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had shed it seven years before, in the middle of the war against the elves. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

But scarlet fever epidemics still raged, and with seven children, there was always something to worry about. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

June 2: In seven US cities, anarchists send mail bombs to prominent figures. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

Kobe or LeBron, ten seconds left, fourth quarter, game seven of the finals. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

In the afternoon he would go have coffee with José Arcadio and Rebeca, who had begun to put their house in order, and from seven o'clock on he would play dominoes with his father-in-law. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

For instance, one can say that a point in a room is seven feet from one wall, three feet from another, and five feet above the floor. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Everybody—his parents and every one of his seven brothers and sisters—had treated him gently since the tragedy. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were over thirty boys between the ages of seven and sixteen. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Giant tulip poplars grew in the coves and at the foot of the hills, some with trunks as wide as seven or eight feet in diameter. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

“Well, we’re not playing that. I mean, what are we, seven?” From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Two years, nine months, seven days, and two hours after Fixers are approved for public use, the world experiences its first full day without a single death. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

We didn’t want to skew the graph with new data, and so didn’t mention that Desdemona was actually seventy-one, not ninety-one, and that she always confused sevens with nines. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

He was only seven when his sickly mother died. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Most of them worked seven days a week, and anyway, children and food were woman’s work. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

When I was seven years old, I saw an image on the cover of a magazine that has remained etched in my mind ever since. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

At seven feet long and three inches thick, it makes a perfect stretcher for Abraham Lincoln. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

It was after seven o’clock by this time and, being early December, already midnight black. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

In Portland, Maine, I came closest to achieving a decent fit between income and expenses, but only because I worked seven days a week. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Probably paid with a twenty. Got six, seven bucks in change. Somebody expects to live under this roof, he ought to carry his own weight. Am I right, Eddie?” The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Hipwell was last seen by her husband, Scott Hipwell, on Saturday night when she left the couple’s home to visit a friend at around seven o’clock. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

We built a spaceship and traveled to seven planets and the moon. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

Despite multiple referrals from commanding officers for psychiatric evaluation, he remained in combat for seven months before his “crying outbursts” and “uncommunicative withdrawal” resulted in an honorable discharge in December 1966. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

We got to the hospital at seven thirty on the dot. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

But in fact it had been seven years, or eight, or nine: the summer she worked at the Stratford Shakespearean Festival, the summer of Josef. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I play shortstop when I seven year old. I play one season. Pretty good too. Maybe would have become professional one day if I have time.” A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

It was divided among plates and seven people ate from each plate. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

But then I look at this kid, at the thin face and the thin neck and the scrawny shoulders, and he’s seven and small for his age, and I remember what that was like. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten! Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

But for the moment, the joyful expectation of seeing my wife and children again after seven weeks over-whelmed all other feelings. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

All seven of them dashed across a street and then back onto the rest of the overgrown path. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

On Thursday, June 8, Luther Rice signaled the firemen at the big steam boilers seven hundred feet away on Lexington Avenue, outside the Midway, to build steam and fill the ten-inch underground mains. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

“There you go with seven words again,” she said with a smile. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

McWatt was deeply impressed with Milo, who, to the amusement of Corporal Snark, his mess sergeant, was already buying eggs for seven cents apiece and selling them for five cents. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Directly across the street stood a small one-room shack about seven feet wide and twelve feet long; it was made of unpainted wood, with large gaps between the wallboards where vines and weeds grew. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Over the course of the next seven hours, Colin and Hassan interviewed twenty-six people, asking them all the same four questions. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

Lennon and McCartney first started playing together in 1957, seven years prior to landing in America. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

For at least seven hours I don’t have to talk about One-Fifteen. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

On the tube are gold circles crossed with seven red lines each—“joy” ideographs in abstract. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“One of the masters at the University once told me that there were seven words that would make a woman love you.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

"Car number two," the father went on, "cost me one hundred and eighteen pounds and sold for seven hundred and sixty. Got it?" Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Other driver suffering mild concussions, being treated at the scene. Parents DOA. Boy, approximately seven years old, just behind us.” If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Minutes into this process, I found that of seven shower cells, only two were operable. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

"We moved one hundred seven eggs," she said. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

Naomi raised an eyebrow and said that seven wasn’t too old for a spanking. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

And he taught that a wife’s ideal age was half the man’s age, plus seven. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Number seven was he liked to eat peanut butter. Because of Winn-Dixie 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

Mom explained that she had pulmonary fibrosis, and it was getting worse, but I was seven years old, and pulmonary fibrosis were two big, grown-up words I didn’t understand. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

There is a group of six or seven people gathered just a little way behind me who have aroused my curiosity a little. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

They were sitting in the corner of the library splitting their take of the year sevens’ pocket money. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

It was a reply to a message he’d sent a few hours before, just after seven, when 1 was still slumbering in our bed. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was the oldest of seven children and, she said, had raised all the other kids because her mother was “worn out.” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

“What in seven bloody hells is Stannis doing at the Wall?” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

He went back to the screen holding every single version he’d found: seven different kinds of butterflies, each one a different color. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

I was a good six or seven blocks up Water when the K-Car caught up to me. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

If the world, at least the Hungarians, had missed his anti-Semitic remarks during his press conferences in 1992, they certainly couldn’t have missed his near hysterical posturing on Calypso Radio seven years later. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

The plan was that seven more of the successful women candidates would also fly to the naval station to take part in the same tests, including the g-force and high-altitude testing. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z

"Answer me this. I have seven apples, seven oranges and seven bananas. How many pieces of fruit do I have altogether? Hurry up! Get on with it! Give me the answer!" Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

My guess is that it went on for about nine months, a year even, around when we were seven, going on eight. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Immigration and Naturalization Service based in Cotulla, halfway along a seven- to eight-day walk between the Rio Grande at Nuevo Laredo and San Antonio. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Going up and down hills on rough terrain was taking a lot longer than I’d anticipated, which meant we still had about seven or eight more miles to go before reaching Abuelita’s house. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

Two fingers to the left; seven to the right. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the next five hours, before immigration agents and Mexican soldiers stopped the train and opened the doors, Zepeda saw seven migrants fall to the floor. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

The very thought of my contacts gave me a feeling of sophistication, of worldliness, which, as I fingered the seven important letters in my pocket, made me feel light and expansive. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

I needed to be at the station before seven. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

There was seven or eight other folk already in their chairs. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

Linda seemed to wilt, while Mark looked like one of those helium balloons that Joaquin had gotten from a birthday party when he was seven. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Around fifteen thousand years ago, they began to occupy seven areas. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

It took Patterson seven years of patient work just to assemble suitable samples for final testing. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

We stand here and talk, and in seven, eight hours it will rain and we don’t have shelter or dry wood or a fire going. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

I was probably between seven and eight years old when I left Colonel Lloyd’s plantation. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass 1845-05-01T00:00:00Z

She laughed and said, “See you in seven years.” Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

It’s a lovely evening, a little after seven but still warm and light. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like there were four party hats and one had seven stripes instead of six. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

My family, including two great-grandfathers and a great-great-grandmother who was one hundred and nine years old, traveled from place to place in seven wagons pulled by fourteen horses. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

I would eat mush at eight in the morning and greens at seven or later at night. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

My mother was one of seven children in her family. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

The room has maybe six or seven young guys in orange jumpsuits inside with their visitors. Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

The only thing that intrigued Úrsula after almost two months of punishment was that Meme did not take a bath in the morning like everyone else, but at seven in the evening. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Percy noticed seven lines on Octavian’s arm—seven years of camp, Percy guessed. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

"These handmade candles are both practical and romantic," she said, peddling her wares from apartment door to apartment door to frightened tenants at seven in the morning. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

And the real meat of the document lay in its middle, pages six and seven. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

The decon shower takes seven minutes, and you are not permitted to leave during that period, because the shower needs time to work on viruses. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had just started my first real job, as a camp counselor, which meant leaving my house every morning at seven thirty and not getting home until four thirty in the afternoon. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

“Thanks for the meal. I hadn’t eaten all day. The Forest Park PTA is meeting tonight at seven to discuss the firings. I hope you’ll all be there. Now if you’ll excuse me...” The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“About a year ago, in Chicago. He retired seven.” Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

By noon on the twelfth of August, Marie-Laure has read seven of the last nine chapters into the microphone. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

“I have a master’s degree. I’m too qualified to work at a register. And for what, seven bucks an hour?” A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

“Well, good night, Harry,” said Hermione, though it was only seven o’clock in the evening, and she left for the girls’ dormitory without another word. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

‘And must he not now be come thither? It is seven days since he rode away.’ The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

I worked from seven in the morning until noon, and I was limp, washed-out. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I was around seven, I once took a sip of my father’s. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Running the store becomes a blur until about seven. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

“It was a seven months’ baby, you know. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Are there really seven hundred twelve? Is it the same amount every day or something?” Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z

The seven ladies and one gentleman in a bow tie were huddled around a laptop, their horrified eyes glued to the screen. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

She had run away from him exactly seven sleeps ago, and because of this she had one more title by gussak standards—the child divorcée. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Deep inside he could hear poor Hodor whimpering still, but outside he was seven feet of fury with old iron in his hand. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Here they are in action: I usually wake at seven. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

She can barely afford food for him and his sister, Belky, who is seven. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

While the disposal is running, I try to detour my mind—recite the Constitution, list the presidents in order, remember the names of the seven dwarfs—I can’t stop thinking that she called me. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

‘You disobeyed my orders. Nevertheless ... I recognize that you acted with honest intentions. The valour of these seven heroes has proven that you were not entirely without wisdom.’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

And seven thousand feet higher still, dwarfing Ama Dablam, was the icy thrust of Everest itself, all but hidden behind Nuptse. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

The man who had disappeared from Gregor’s life two years, seven months, and who knew how many days ago had been the picture of health. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

But Jake and maybe six or seven other guards stand by me and the other internees, facing their fellow soldiers. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

In Bobby’s exhumation, a fragment of bone from his left small toe was extracted, in addition to seven tissue samples—enough for a binding test. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Summer was twelve weeks long, which meant that by the end of vacation I would have made over seven thousand five hundred dollars. Lawn Boy 2007-06-12T00:00:00Z

“I might be gone for seven days. At least that’s what they said.” Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

When I was about seven, I left my world. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the floor of the air lock sat the seven garbage bags. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I keep picturing him standing there at the edge of the roof, about to plummet seven stories to his death, fear painted onto every feature of his face. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

For example, in one case, a sweep of one hundred buses resulted in only seven arrests. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Finally, after I don’t know how long, we got in the car and drove the seven hours back to Brooklyn. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Some people thought it was strange or even destructive to write in books, but it was a habit Emily had picked up when she was seven and used to play “editor” while her dad worked. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

The clock on the cabinet was ticking off the last few seconds to seven o'clock. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Must walk five miles that morning, and all I find is seven cans and one bottle. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dragon-like lizards and snakes seven feet long slithered through the undergrowth. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

They couldn’t be caught by six or seven hostile immortals. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

We fly through the pack of seven words. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

He was well over seven feet tall, closer to eight, with massive shoulders and arms thick as the trunks of small trees. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“Your brother. Remember that Halloween when we were around seven or eight and those big-city kids came down to the corn maze dressed like skeletons?” Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

And he saw that in her simplicity she thought he accused her because for more than seven years she had not conceived. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

He kept careful track of the registration tallies: They were averaging an impressive seven thousand a week in midsummer but were still falling short of the goal. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

The next play, a pitch to Comer, went for seven yards and a first down to the Carter 41. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

But I let seven o’clock come and go and asked Dad to drive me to school. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

Later, these seven test pilots were further immortalized in the book The Right Stuff by Tom Wolfe and in the award-winning 1983 movie of the same name. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Yes! I have made two thousand seven hundred and forty-one magic swords,” Tyson said proudly, showing me the newest blade. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

After they made seven such bundles, then the bundles must be shocked. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had hidden her face with a heart-shaped betel leaf, kept her head bent low until she had circled him seven times. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

The Indians’ contracts called for seven hours’ work for about twenty-four cents a day. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

Waiting at the entrance ramp are at least seven people, all young, all dressed in identical dark-gray jumpsuits. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

They were leaving on the seven o'clock train for Barcelona. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

When there were only seven minutes left in recess, Danny Hupfer declared that we had served our time, and even if Mrs. Baker hadn’t come back yet, we deserved our cream puffs. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

Barry is a stout well made fellow five feet six or seven, high small eyes and an impudent look. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Chiron ordered a twenty-four/seven guard duty on the hilltop, at least until he could, find an appropriate monster to protect the Fleece. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

He only had to reach one of his brothers or sisters—there were seven still in Syria—and he could get the full report. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Three rows with seven desks each is twenty-one. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

They're all six or seven years old, but three are bigger than she is. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

And ultimately, I suppose that I did show that college counselor, because six or seven months later, a letter arrived in our mailbox on Euclid Avenue, offering me admission to Princeton. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

It's an hour away so he doesn't get back until almost seven o'clock most nights. Doing Time Online 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Six and seven times a night it ’as me out of bed. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

“The ump isn’t why you gave up seven runs,” Malik says. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

The riots ran unabated for four days straight, and when it was all over, twenty-six people were dead, more than seven hundred injured, and more than a thousand people had been arrested. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

I looked at my little sister, Tzipora, her blond hair neatly combed, her red coat over her arm: a little girl of seven. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

They had decided to homeschool their seven children, and from what I’d seen, the children were being educated to a very high standard. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

In Carlton everything was at sixes and sevens In preparation for the second campaign. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

So much had changed in seven months...she wondered how the gods could stand being alive for thousands of years. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

The Ebola virus particle contains only seven different proteins—seven distinct types of large molecules arranged in a long braided structure that is the stringy Ebola particle. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“My God, I feel as if I’ve just been through the seven gates of Hell.” The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

She reminds me of a little girl, six or seven maybe. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

Once June knows, their circle of “knowing” is up to a tight seven. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Far ahead, and a little below, the long rope extended from the suspension ring of the balloon, pulled by six or seven witches sitting on their cloud-pine branches. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

All seven of them, not back into the woods to safety, but out of the woods, toward the stubble of the rosebush, toward the men. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

“The seven... you mean in the ancient prophecy, the Doors of Death? I’m one of the seven? And Jason, and—” “Yes, yes.” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

“What about him? He died when my father was just seven. I never even saw him. Why do I have to remold myself? What does he have to do with me?” Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I get home it’s only four and I get a text from Mom saying she won’t be home until seven. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

From the carpet bag she took out seven flannel nightgowns, four cotton ones, a pair of boots, a set of dominoes, two bathing-caps and a postcard album. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

“First, tell me what happened seven years ago.” The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

He was pushed against a nearby wall on which height markers had been written by hand, from five to seven feet. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

It was seven a.m. on Sunday when my phone buzzed and fell off my bedside table. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

She scanned the floor mosaic—seven pictures in a row. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

One Muslim ruler filled a feast table with seven large palaces made of sugar; another displayed an entire tree made of sugar. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

The captain answered with a nod, grim-faced, then called for the seven girls he had claimed to be brought on deck, the loveliest of all those found aboard the Willing Maiden. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

On his mantel, he had arranged not one photograph of Elizebeth, but seven. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

And proceeded to read on into chapter seven, which details the seduction of a young man by a “strange woman.” Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

He would wait until all seven hells were frozen if he could rather than risk another bout of blisters. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Since she was seven years old, she had thought: Why don’t I get to prove my skills? The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

As a matter of fact, one of the only times Ernie didn’t wear his shades was whenever he was doing karate, which he had been learning since he was seven. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Seven times he returned, bending his tall frame to enter the doorway, and with wordless disapproval set down one after the other the seven small trunks. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

And the Beatles didn’t recoil in horror when they were told they had to play eight hours a night, seven days a week. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

It’s not uncommon for them to stay until seven or eight o’clock at night doing their homework. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

I lose seven pounds in half a minute, feel like I could float up alongside the elevator. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

With the help of teachers around the state, Terman chose some seven thousand gifted children, who have now been followed for almost sixty years. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

We’re all woken at seven, and there’s a protocol about who showers when. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

His eye lingered on the centre plaque of looking glass and the seven little china figures. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

"And you've spent the last seven months scurrying around for a replacement?" Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

I could not but shake my head-, knowing not where Pro Bono had been this seven months. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Even at seven he didn’t consider himself an amateur. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

In two rows of seven each, plus the student conductor. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

It was six thirty and Mr. Ray said to be outside at seven so that we could make it to the hospital right when visiting hours started. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Chet shoved his hands in his pockets and lumbered along more slowly as his father committed to cashier seven. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

During an eight-year career playing for seven major league teams, he became known as one of the greatest base stealers the game had yet seen. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

During the afternoon of the following day, while the Off Fore Mark were at silflay, he came limping through the sentry line with a straggling handful of six or seven rabbits. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dr. van Heerden drank seven or eight, and the sweat poured off him like a river. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instead, I see us at the village fair when I was seven. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

Link swore me to secrecy, so other than Mother and Grandmother, none of the other seven students knew he existed. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Our search officially started when I was seven, about two years after I moved in with Nan. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

“Wake me before seven. I promise, you won’t hear another word from me.” Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

On the opposite side of the record sleeve were the printed lyrics to all seven parts of the 2112 suite. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

There’s maybe seven buildings total in Farbranch, smaller than Prentisstown and just buildings after all but somehow so different, too, it feels like I’ve wandered right off New World into some whole other place altogether. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

Six or seven people were sitting at tables, working. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

“Furthermore, each leg of mine has seven sections—the coxa, the trochanter, the femur, the patella, the tibia, the metatarsus, and the tarsus.” Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

Dear Diary, I always thought that “odd” was a three-letter word; but today I found out it has seven, and they spell G-r-u-w-e-1-1. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

There is an immense difference between the two poets, who are separated from each other not only by six or seven hundred years, but also by the fundamental difference between the Greek, and the Roman. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hence seven years’ distance in time and focus now separates me from GGS’s writing. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Byron was on take seven when Momma finally wondered why the toilet was being flushed so much and came upstairs to see what was going on. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nat took the shovel and went down Turner’s Lane to the big gloomy house with seven gables. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

One day when I was about seven, Ollie jumped out of his bowl. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

There were Irish children down there who looked no older than seven or eight. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

She was the smartest of the seven, the one with the answers. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

The bombers released seven hundred bombs into the gorge on which the Vemork plant was perched. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

But this year, the school will be packed with volunteers starting at seven a.m. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

“I even heard they paid off their roommates so they could move in together to work on this stuff twenty-four/seven.” When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

At seven that night the old woman wanted to go to town. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

It means it’s seven thirty on a Saturday night, and I’m four stops away from the first act of my love story. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

Springer Mountain, the launching-off point in the south, is seven miles from the nearest highway, at a place called Amicalola Falls State Park, which in turn is a good way from anywhere. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

From the different voices he heard, he guessed that there were six or seven men in the truck, although he couldn’t be sure. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Dennis came over first around seven thirty because I told him to steal a bottle of 80 proofer out of his father’s whiskey cabinet. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

The floor was a long narrow mosaic with seven pictures in a row, like a time line. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

When he was seven years old, Hugh's family moved to the Congo. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

Her mama had told her all about his courage in the big war and how he'd been awarded seven medals. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

I am seven years old and leading him to a cake that is filled with my love for him. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

“I hope they have a girl, six or seven,” said May Belle. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

They were giving Brown too much cushion, laying off him six or seven yards. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mom called, “All right. I’ll see you two right here, on this spot, at seven o’clock. Be careful.” Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“So it seems,” replied Lupin, “but apparently they did not realize that there would be seven Harrys.” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

“I’m only resting because Doctor Neal told me to. Where are you going, Eugenia? It’s nearly seven o’clock.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

We followed Og through a maze of carpeted hallways until we reached a row of seven circular doorways, each numbered. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

She’d seen them on the road at seven in the morning coming home with their strings of fish or with mushrooms, with fern tendrils, butter clams, sea-run trout if they got lucky. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

On July 5, 1894, arsonists set fire to the seven greatest palaces of the exposition—Post’s immense Manufactures and Liberal Arts Building, Hunt’s dome, Sullivan’s Golden Door, all of them. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Seven days since Pathfinder, and seven days closer to home. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

"This man came a guest into my house, and there conspired to murder my son, a boy of seven," she proclaimed to the room at large, pointing. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

I counted seven nods of satisfaction and only three frowns. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Having waited seven years before I proposed to Janine, I wondered if people my age were being more careful than those who came before us, or simply more selfish? Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

If he gave me a problem such as nine times seven, I would have to say “sixty-three” at once. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

Seven stirs counterclockwise, one clockwise, pause...seven stirs counterclockwise, one stir clockwise... Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

She can’t bear to see the numbers moving forward, five to six, six to seven, seven to eight. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Tiwanaku let the water through, but took enough to irrigate more than seven hundred acres of terraces. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Last Sunday, Elaine rose at seven, made tea, showered, and went back to bed. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I feel as tired as I have ever felt, and yet, for seven years, I will not be able to truly rest. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The enchantress in her beauty fed and caressed me, promised me I should be immortal, youthful, all the days to come; but in my heart I never gave consent though seven years detained. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Pick you up about six fifty, the show starts at seven fifteen,” Lucas said, walking away in reverse. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

“Watched the Ministry entrance for seven hours. No sign of her. Saw your dad, though, Ron. He looks fine.” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

The sun had broken through near midday, after seven days of dark skies and snow flurries. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Some more cop cars came and before you turned around there’s about seven cars and a whole mess of people milling around 145th Street, trying to figure out what was going on. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Yeah, they love me and all that, but it doesn’t stop them from slicing my life in half every seven days and then acting like that’s normal or something. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

There was now a constant murmur as scythes discussed dinner plans as the hour approached seven. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

And how I have detested being “Flight Officer Beaufort-Stuart” these past seven weeks! Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

Before hanging up he asked her to give him a wake-up call at seven a.m. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

When several patients follow his instructions for three weeks, they find they’ve gained about seven pounds each. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then would come six or seven pretty good years of twelve to sixteen inches of rain. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Central Mutal was ringed by a chain of seven reservoirs, with another central reservoir reserved for royalty. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

One summer weekend, when I was around seven years old, I was at a public swimming pool with the whole family. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was only seven, but a clever girl. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The garden had persisted through seven and a half years now, producing roughly two thousand pounds of food annually. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

It was almost seven feet tall, so even bent in half, it still looked terrifying. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

Dr. Barnes flipped through the stack of performance review sheets he had filled out for Mr. Larson—one for each of the last seven years. The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z

“We have only seven dollars left,” he said, biting his lower lip. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

She dried her tears, straightened her head, and didn’t weep again until the day her mother died, seven years later, although it was not for lack of suffering, loneliness, and other causes. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Secondary students attended seven, with one day off a month. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

Breakfast was at seven, not a minute earlier or later. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

A bill from El Gallo for seven yards of gingham, a girl’s fabric. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Just inside the trees, there are seven or eight planks in a similar burnt condition. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

I can name the nine Muses and the seven loves of Zeus. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

“A sweater suit for a seven months’ old baby.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

"By the seven new gods and the old gods beyond count, I swear it." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

So, a little after seven o’clock, two police cars raced into the parking lot by the bus station and train platform. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

This meant that I would be the highest-ranking cadet in the entire corps of over seven hundred people. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Each pool had seven fencers, so that meant I would fence six bouts, each to five points. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

The day Trujillo was assassinated by a group of seven men, some of them his old buddies. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Which of the seven types of lover is your man? Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The seven silhouettes seemed to float across the surface of the earth, like spirits, vaporous and unreal. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

We reached Marlinton’s city limits at seven o’clock in the morning, just as the sun decided to reappear from behind the thick layer of clouds. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

For example, the classical music of India recognizes twenty-two different possible pitches within an octave; each raga uses five, six, or seven of these possible pitches. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

“Suddenly there were seven guys and five girls.” The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

I left at six or seven in the morning and returned at eight or nine in the evening, depending on the distance to water and grass. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We’ll have seven expectant mothers and a hundred and sixty-two wounded men. That could change, of course. If you see anything suspicious, we’ll need to report it.” Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

I’d never seen him drink that way—six, seven beers a night—and I didn’t want to be around him when he was like that. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

Last spring, 12 climbers died and 84 reached the summit—a ratio of one in seven. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

There were the three canvas sacks closed with copper wire, and inside of them the seven thousand two hundred fourteen pieces of eight, which continued glowing like embers in the darkness. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

She threatened to put him in jail and I was on restriction twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week—possibly forever. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Everyone else in the room, the three gunmen, all seven card players, stared at Bud, waiting for him to stop so the holdup could proceed. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

They made a list of everything they were planning to tell Mr. Kleiman over the phone, because they intended to call him at seven and ask him to send someone over. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Sometimes we would wait at Dr. James’s office for five hours or until seven p.m., after dark, while the white people often went inside for their treatment when they arrived. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

It was nighttime, and I’d just returned from a two-week trip high into the mountains, where, at about seven years old, I was the youngest person harvesting potatoes. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The engine fails seven or eight times, and I walk across the lawn, open the passenger door, and get in. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

‘And we have many of our own, which wouldn’t interest you, perhaps. But I have never heard this one. What is it about — the seven stars and seven stones?’ The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

I also went to the coach-office and took my place for seven o’clock on Saturday morning. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

“It probably takes six or seven hours to get here by griffin,” the elf said. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

On the last day of January, Lupita came home from seven hours of harvesting cabbages. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

A little after seven I went to Daddy and Mama and then to the living room to open my presents, and you were the first thing I saw, maybe one of my nicest presents. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

“One side is seven feet. Another side, three feet. One angle is sixty degrees. How long is the other side?” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

He was bred to seven mares, including Fair Knightess, but it didn’t do much for his mood. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

The other part of Clayton was ready to return to school after having been away for seven whole days. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

And we have about seven million pounds of food. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

“It’s because I ate too much of it and I got seven cavities!” Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

A year later they guided another group of seven to the top on an afternoon when forty people reached the summit in a single day. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

He was so caught up in his thoughts that he walked right off the footpath and fell down seven or eight feet. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were seven cots, each one less than two feet from the one next to it. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

Anthony and seven of the other women who had registered went to the polling place. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

I said it seven, eight, nine times, so many times I lost track. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Their cries were angry, and I guessed that seven or eight might be in the air. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

At five past seven there was still no one in my driveway except for me, and I didn’t have flowers in my hand because Handy Stop didn’t sell flowers and neither did Burke’s Burger Box. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

Over the next seven years, Milton traded up almost every year, so it’s possible for me to chart my life in relation to the styling features of his long line of Cadillacs. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

He continued on, though, following Rameel into seven more huts before they returned to their tent and settled in for the night. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

On the morning of day seven, he’s digging in the back of his closet when he stumbles upon a bundle of teal silk—the stupid kimono Pez had made for him. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Blackwell, who was seven years younger than Stone, promised her that marriage did not have to involve submission of the wife to the husband. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

He paid seven gold Galleons for his wand, and Mr. Ollivander bowed them from his shop. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

Any man, any woman, or any child is good for five to seven generations of heirs before they’re bred out. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

“This is Nick at the store. Bernie and Harlan just went over in Bernie’s pickup! 1 heard six, seven shots at least! You better get Mr. D !” Emerson Lapp ran outside. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He counted seven large, number 10, cans of food: two of chili, two of beef stew, two of vegetable soup, and one of fruit cocktail. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

By seven o’clock the first thin flakes were falling. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

There are seven ways for a foot to touch the ground, each with its own particular power. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was seven years old when she came and went—and we never ever talked about Amanda. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

I used to wish we lived at the very top, like Sneaky, but Daddy always said there was something special about the number seven. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

After that came a savory snake stew, chunks of seven different sorts of snake slow-simmered with dragon peppers and blood oranges and a dash of venom to give it a good bite. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The main building, a fortress of dark brick, was seven stories high, the smokestacks seventeen. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Hagrid had emptied vault seven hundred and thirteen, if you could call it emptying, taking out that grubby little package. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

The next thing Lefty knows, he’s sharing a sofa with three Greek soldiers, looking across at seven plump, perfumed women sharing two sofas opposite. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

When I’d left him on the South Col seven hours earlier, I was terrified that he wasn’t going to survive through the morning. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

The ache in the middle of my left shin bone came to life, and I abandoned any hope of sleep before seven, when my radio-alarm clock would rouse me with its hearty renderings of Sousa. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

There was lamb left over from the evening before, and Shukumar heated it up so that they were able to eat by seven. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

But that took you three seconds to say, so you’re really on two thousand seven hundred forty-nine. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

Darkness came early to the silent woods, and before the fall of night they halted, weary, for they had walked seven leagues or more from Henneth Annûn. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Another boy from Lafanmi has died, a little boy only seven. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Our parents pay on a semester basis, which means that in seven semesters, yours have invested...Who has a calculator? Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

“If I have to be at a house at eight thirty I will leave my house at seven,” she said. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

The seven o’clock bus for blacks to Johannesburg was jam-packed with men and women on their way to the white world to work. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

In a span I was nearly as good with six strings as I had been with seven. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Because he did not get along with other children, he had been unschooled since the age of seven. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

He will drive the entire way, seven hours, from Springfield to Dearborn. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

I can be Sweet Dorothy seven days a week, twenty-four hours a day as long as nobody crosses that line. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

On his desk, seven miniature versions of himself ran back and forth carrying pens and stacks of paper. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

When she was seven years old, her musician father was hit by a motorcycle and killed. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

The talent show starts at seven, and Nick and I arrive just as they're dimming the lights. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

Then began a sixty-second countdown, with maybe a hundred voices jumping in by the end: “... nine, eight, seven, six, five, four, three, two, one.” Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not only would it mean having my legs off in front of teachers, my grade-five classmates, and kids in grade seven, I’d also have to perform. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

Schizophrenia isn’t supposed to manifest until a person’s late teens, at the earliest, but I’d gotten a shot of it at just seven years old. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

“You have to meet me at Zimmerman’s at seven. You have to help me stop her,” he said. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

His heart beats regularly for another fifteen seconds, then stops altogether at ten seconds past seven twenty-two A.M. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

He had both, and for seven years now he’d been looking. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

With stunning skill and knowledge, they answered questions far above their grade level to defeat seven other teams.’” Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

Altogether, of his nine listed wards, seven had died. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

I’d give up bubble tea and half-price tunics and seven of my eight Hanukkah gifts if it meant Dad didn’t travel so much. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

"If Ben Stark had come under wildling attack a half day's ride from Castle Black, he would have returned for more men, chased the killers through all seven hells and brought me back their heads." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

I guessed it was from dragging these two huge plastic bags up the seven flights to our place. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

After the funeral, as we walked back to the house, each of us was given seven pebbles. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

I’d earned seven of these over the years, and what use were they to me? Ungifted 2012-08-21T00:00:00Z

But before he left, he held out to me the six or seven dollars he had collected that day in nickel and dime tips. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yeah. Her father doesn’t get home until around seven.” Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

“I send more from where I am going. Make payment. Maybe payment is not enough, you still have seven acres strawberries this year. Then, December, there is one more payment. You see? One more.” Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

The trip had been a difficult one, and it cost him over seven thousand dollars: He had flown from Quito to Guatemala, then taken a boat to Acapulco. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sprat was publishing seven years after the restoration of the monarchy and in support of a society founded under royal patronage. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

So there are instruction manuals in there for everything from the garbage disposal to the new ink-jet printer to the bike I got for Christmas when I was seven. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

All but seven of the pods are already occupied. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

The Eyrie was a small castle by the standards of the great houses; seven slender white towers bunched as tightly as arrows in a quiver on a shoulder of the great mountain. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

One, a fellow Honduran, has lived on the river for seven months. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Now they had seven minutes and fifty-two seconds. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

It especially hurt at the temples, but my mother said we were lucky we didn’t have to have our feet bound when we were seven. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The jitney, which is what rich people call the shuttle, goes up at seven, and I can drop the pieces off then. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

But since I was only me, all I could do was lie there and contemplate everything perverted I had ever dreamed about since I was, like, seven years old. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“But Aunt Sissy, he’s been married seven years and it’s settled by now—whether he’s happy or not.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

I read once that, on average, we replace the majority of our cells every seven years. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

If I left it in place, I could have four stacks of seven cells. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He just want the seven in the northwest, where his family was one time living. Before the war.” Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Start to finish, it took me seven days. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I blurted, “I’m not an orphan! I have seven brothers and five sisters!” Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

We now have a good idea of what seven of the hours will bring. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

The sun wouldn’t go down again until around seven at night, which gave me twelve hours—plenty of time if I walked along swiftly. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

In that first exchange, the British got the best of the colonists, gunning down seven militiamen in a brief flurry of gunshots on the common. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He has muscled out in the seven months he's been away. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

Angel is upset because she won’t be reunited with her sister for another seven years, when Skylar will be reincarnated as the son of some family in Australia. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

All seven miniature versions of him dropped what they were holding and raced to the compact. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

My father left every morning at six to head to work at the factory, and returned by seven PM. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

"This morning the Wisdom Munciter told me that we had seven thousand eight hundred and forty. That count includes four thousand jars from King Aerys's day, to be sure." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The stunner has a pneumatic-powered ‘gun’ that fires a steel bolt about seven inches long and the diameter of a fat pencil. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

I myself, just seven years old, was crouched on the floor at her feet, wearing pyjamas, dressing-gown and slippers. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

The game starts at seven, but there’s a parade at six. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

“Take your time. We have eight hours...excuse me, seven and a half hours, then time’s up for everybody.” Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

Spassky ensconced himself in the Caucasus while Fischer settled in the Catskills, more than seven thousand miles away. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“This has been going on for seven months? That’s why you—Oh my God, I thought you were getting into international relations or something.” Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Pax ate steadily, until finally, seven eggs swelling his shrunken belly taut, he dropped to the sandy apron in front of the dens and closed his eyes. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

By around 8500 BCE, societies in all seven areas of settlement were domesticating and cultivating plants. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

“If you row all the time you ought to be there by seven o’clock in the morning.” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

Dallas and Florida were seven when they went to live with the Cranbeps. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

They go from egg to full size in just seven weeks. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Faraday had told them that the great bronze doors to the assembly room would open promptly at seven a.m., and the scythes would be dismissed at the stroke of seven p.m. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

It was Monday, and Ob should have called me out of bed at five-thirty, but he didn’t, and when I finally woke at seven o’clock, it was too late to set the day straight. Missing May 1992-03-01T00:00:00Z

The trooper had come to see one of the seven county attorneys, a guy named Tony C. Baird. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Miss Pat took seven dollars from the money she had and put it down in front of Big Time. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was seven o'clock when we got into the coupé with him and started for Long Island. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

Volunteers have reached out to the program; the Fugees currently have seven interns who help with logistics. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

Unlike Perry, he was not convinced that a broken mirror meant seven years’ misfortune, or that a young moon if glimpsed through glass portended evil. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

Six days a week if he was lucky, seven if he was not. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

He started giving me the jewelry when I was seven. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

From the middle of the crowd, all she could see were arms and legs and stomachs, and the seven slender towers of the sept looming overhead. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

They had first been brought up to graze about seven days before. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Grandma’s feet were half bound, and when she was only seven she fought to have them released. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Chunks of asphalt as big as garage doors tumbled down, along with six or seven Italian cars. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

She talked about how she had run away when she was only seven, finding her friends Luke and Thalia and making her way to Camp Half-Blood on Long Island. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

By the time we get to sixth period, the portables’ air conditioners have been struggling along for seven hours, with the doors constantly opening and closing. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He ate seven spoonfuls and then said, “No more. Too sick.” Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

People from all seven Dakota bands were there. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

My daily routine never changed: Open the store at seven, school till three, come straight home and work till ten, then flop to sleep. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her dad only had seven dollars in his wallet, so that's what he gave her. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

For seven, you could buy a coat—it would be an old, patched coat, but still warm. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“He wants seven of Ole’s acres. He wants me to let Ole sell them to him. Or sell them to him myself. You know, step out of his way.” Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

When the shadow of the sash appeared on the curtains it was between seven and eight oclock and then I was in time again, hearing the watch. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

He'd sailed the seven seas and got very seasick every time. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

A curse perhaps, such as being turned into a raven and forced to fly north and live for seven times seven years in an ice palace—or worse, no curse at all. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Oh, I work myself to the bone, keeping this business open seven days a week and the weekends. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had gotten to campus a little after nine, after having dropped off the couple’s two daughters: three-year-old Cassidy at day care, and Stephanie, who had just turned seven, at school. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

She’d start out at seven in the morning, say, and walk westward. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

I still remember her, tiny at seven, very pale, but sitting straight up with her hands folded on her desk. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Then the seven outlined heads in the front pews drooped and the vicar removed his tortoiseshell glasses, lifted his chin and with eyes closed addressed the heavenly powers in his weary, sorrowful singsong. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Even when a bird was seven or eight feet away the arrow would turn without feathers to stabilize it and hit brush or a twig. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Since you are my old friend—I will give it to you for seven.” The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

She'd been turned into a tree when she was twelve, but that had been seven years ago. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

Sitting in the number three seat, Joe Rantz was parallel with roughly the six or seven seat in the California boat; in the seven seat, Roger Morris was parallel with nothing but open water. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Most of them were young, four or five, seven at the most. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Except you don’t have to get here until seven because you’re one of the watchers. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

He buttoned his vest from the bottom up, instead of from the top down, because the bottom-to-top process took him only three seconds, while the top-to-bottom took seven. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

We traveled for seven days, one day by rail, six days by steamer boat. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Business” has been her code word for drug dealing since I was seven years old and asked her how she made enough money to buy expensive sneakers. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Ivy dealt them each seven cards, but she couldn’t concentrate on the game. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

The clock on the mantelpiece says it’s not even seven, and there’s a violent rain lashing against the big picture window, half-revealed by parted curtains. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

They say prayers, turn their mirrors down, sit on boxes for seven days, and cover their heads. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’ve lived in seven places—some houses, some apartments, never a place we owned. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

“Here’s the referee. He’s counting. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven ... Is the contender trying to get up again?” I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Force on Iris is at seven g's," someone said. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

One of them calls out, “Forty- seven!” and the others roar with laughter. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

“And in those seven years, how many times have we had a conversation about girls that didn’t come back around to Jupiter?” Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

"Yes. She looked for you to say good-bye. They went on the seven o'clock train." The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

“Well, I haven’t actually counted them to double-check, and no, it’s not always seven hundred twelve, but James has never been wrong before,” Miss Kelsey said. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z

Still, there is a part of me that groans, I have to wait for seven people? Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

I don’t think they realize that I have seen more than seven rated-R van Damme movies and my imagination is probably worse than what happened. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

“When you were seven. My meds weren’t doing their job. And I got to thinking about how you and your mother would be better off without me.” Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

‘Yes, sir. And you shall have it delivered at your own house a week from today, seven o’clock Monday morning. And it’s going to be just exactly right.’ Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

At seven thirty-five Dad's footsteps came thumping down the corridor outside. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

In the fourth round, Bobby became involved in a 108-move extravaganza, a chess ultra-marathon that stretched to more than seven hours. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Between the Hog’s Back and Hindhead there were points where the two lines were not more than six or seven kilometres apart. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

He said, “Keep your seven dollars and sixty-eight cents.” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

The time arrives and we leave my place at six, making it to Auburn by nearly seven. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

Between them they apportioned their mother’s seven silver stretch marks. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

However, many parts of Eurasia did have quite a few of these 13 species living together in the same area: for example, seven of the wild ancestors occurred in Southwest Asia. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Well, we moved there when Miles was seven. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

The clock in front of the place where Mister Singer used to work pointed to seven. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

The plane crashed on the way, killing my uncle and seven passengers. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

His difficult life was punctuated by suicide attempts that started at age seven when he was in elementary school. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

The journey around Indianapolis cost about seven dollars in gas, and I knew it was wasteful, but I felt so much better after circling the city. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

There, he can flip between the six or seven books he’s reading simultaneously and toss his newspapers on the floor. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

The smallest of the release bonobos is only seven years old. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

I had another six or seven years to think about it. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

“Would a seven point five do this much damage?” he asks. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

Which is always an interesting experience since he’s six foot seven and 240 pounds of mahogany steel but has this high-pitched hyena giggle. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

Ranee's been on the earth for more than seven decades. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

It was cool, but still and pleasant, not yet very light though it was almost seven o’clock. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

Our good old nation was just seven years old as a republic when it be­came bigger by a small territory. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

He had never seen anything to equal it in his nearly seven years in the Wizarding world. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Maple G: You don't eat dinner until seven o'clock? Doing Time Online 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

This was Nya s daily routine seven months of the year. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

If his second progress report was equally positive, he could be resentenced to five years instead of seven. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

It was graced with broad avenues thirty meters wide, elegant architecture and statuary, Alexander’s monumental tomb, and an enormous lighthouse, the Pharos, one of the seven wonders of the ancient world. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Each stone pillar weighed up to seven tons and reached a height of sixteen feet. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

The needle is hovering at seven miles per hour. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

My last Gombe visit was only for a week, but what a wonderful seven days. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

You could tell from the way the mouse’s tail was flying behind that in the picture there was a strong wind, maybe gale-force seven. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

She thought of her mother bearing seven children, bringing them up, watching three of them die, and knowing that those who lived were doomed to hunger and hardship. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

They had met in a bar, and the next morning she had paid him the equivalent of seven dollars. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

One day her daughter Dorothy, about seven years old at the time, went to answer a knock on their front door. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

The school day was long, starting at seven in the morning and running until four or five in the afternoon. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was seven and made the colossal mistake of asking my mom to bring my favorite Indian dessert to school for my birthday. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

Usually, she was up by seven on a Saturday to work her catering job. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

He was trying to remake the girl he knew seven years before. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

She felt seven years old, flipping through their records. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

The thousands who ride freight trains must hop between seven and thirty trains to get through Mexico. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

We fell into a familiar sad huddle, which took me back seven years, to the night Papa never came home. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was later determined that only seven or eight inmates were fighting, but at the time it had seemed like a full-scale riot. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had to sigh seven times and roll her eyes thirteen different directions just to get me to ask the right question about it. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

There were seven left, plus the two chasing his friends. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

They’d been in this jungle for seven days and eight nights; finally, they were going to find the thing they’d entered it for. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

These seven errors, furthermore, are rarely problems of knowledge or flying skill. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

On a typical day, the men woke up at seven o'clock for thirty minutes of physical training. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

He had to be almost seven feet tall, decided Shadow. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

With Tisquantum and at least nineteen others, he sailed to Europe, stopping only once, at Cape Cod, where he kidnapped seven Nauset. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

He is only seven, and that is no age, no age at all.’ I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

The reason I know this is because Mr. Piper likes to write names on the board when kids act up, which is totally juvenile, but sometimes teachers treat us like we’re seven years old. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

Dany had sworn that no harm would come to the seven envoys and commanders, though that had not been enough for the Yunkai’i. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“Did your husband seem disappointed, Mrs. Miyamoto, that he had not succeeded in purchasing his seven acres? Did he seem to you disappointed?” Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

I count the windows as we emerge from underground: seven windows times two sides times five-car train is seventy windows. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

This sentence is encumbered, among other things, by a long stretch between the filler of the relative clause, the former United Nations diplomat, and the gap after tapped seven words later. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

That the ride I’d stepped onto seven months earlier had been rolling toward that moment of emptiness in front of the church sure as a runaway train on a clear stretch of track. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

“Would you take seven cents and go out and get me a dicky and a paper collar?” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

He ate seven entire salmon, leaving nothing but the bones. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

Last term, Harry and Ron had helped Gryffindor win the House Championship, beating Slytherin for the first time in seven years. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

Boys started in the mine as early as age six or seven. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z

I am seven or eight and am in my room dressing for church. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Etienne comes down the seven ladder rungs and squeezes through the back of the wardrobe and takes her hands in his. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

The runners pushed through laps seven, eight, nine. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

His soldiers were the tallest that any of the Windblown had ever seen; the shortest stood seven feet tall, the tallest close to eight. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

At last, seven years old, I came to believe what had been technically true since my birth: I was an American citizen. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

"I can't answer that for sure. But remember, we made a lunar lander from scratch in seven years." The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Eagerly he switched the motor on, and, shortly, had zipped up into the sky, in the direction of San Francisco, seven hundred miles to the south. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

He hadn’t appreciated at the age of seven how bad it was to have no parents, to be an orphan in a place like Lkossa. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

And he now owned seven Stetson Diamante Premier cowboy hats—one for every day of the week. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

Soon a line of six or seven squad cars turns the far comer and heads up the block toward us. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The Clearasil needs time to work. Killing pimples requires patience. By the way, Ben, since women live seven years longer than men on the average, I imagine I’ll be attending your funeral one day.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Time might as well not exist in this place, except I feel it pressing against me as seven o’clock inevitably draws closer, pushing me into the floor tiles. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

In March 1983, he pled guilty to the burglary of a boot shop in Monahans and served seven months in prison. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not three feet from Frightful, seven little black Darwin cactus finches were busily gleaning food. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

Maybe seven out of ten were black, another two Latino, and the last one white. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Of course, my room number—seven—told me nothing, but I think I’d already guessed where I would be sleeping. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

But by the next summer, when Emma was seven months pregnant, her fears were realized. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

My stomach tightened as I worried whether his wife and seven daughters were now members of the drifting, clamoring crowd that had flashed at intervals on the screen. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

I knew that seven or eight of those Indians lived with drunken mothers and fathers. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

The horse nodded all seven of its heads. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

In the winter of 1950, when he was seven years old, he asked Regina if she’d buy him another, larger chess set for Christmas. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

We are allowed to take out seven books each. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

Tom the innkeeper put three tables together in the parlor, and the seven Weasleys, Harry, and Hermione ate their way through five delicious courses. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

The summer before first grade, seven years ago. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

“In Philadelphia, tickets went for seven hundred and fifty dollars,” she said, trying to show that she knew a thing or two. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

I ask, wondering how seven more people are going to fit in such a small house. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

At eleven years old, with Prim just seven, I took over as head of the family. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Five feet seven or eight with a wiry build, he claimed to be twenty-four years old and said he was from South Dakota. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were seven girls and they had on their hats and coats and carried small suitcases. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

Lefty and Desdemona have been in the city seven nights now. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

She had been a quiet little thing of seven, well behaved and obedient. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

He left the apartment each evening at seven p.m. and worked a shift cooking burgers at a fast-food restaurant. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

Just before seven o’clock, he went back to the West Division. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

Many of Wolfgang’s childhood compositions, such as the first seven of his concertos for piano and orchestra, are largely arrangements of works by other composers. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

Only seven states had not yet voted on the issue, and most of these were in the Deep South, where the suffragists knew they didn’t stand a chance of winning. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

“That was your principal, Dr. Johnson. She wants to see both of us in her office tomorrow morning, at seven- thirty sharp.” Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I said seven, because I wanted him to feel more sorry for me, so he would help me. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

On the next Saturday morning, Russell, Piper, and Maniac set out for Finsterwald’s house, about seven blocks away. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Is there anyone who would have been here six or seven years ago who might know?” The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

“I wouldn’t think you would. You were six or seven years old,” my mom says. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

There are seven of them, haikus mostly but rhyming ones, too. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

Her father had insisted on giving the children cow’s milk, with the result that Theresa turned out a giantess — five seven! Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

The change was gradual, but by the time I was seven, I had started to notice a difference in the way some of my classmates treated me. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

“See you this evening? I’ll send my friend over around five and pick you up at seven.” Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

We could go maybe six or seven more hours without water now. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

But usually there was nothing at all, and Commons closed at seven, and I was left my long walk home in the snow and dark. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

I don’t know why—I worked on circuses for nearly seven years, and if that isn’t fodder for conversation, I don’t know what is. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

I tried to keep my bearings as best I could, but I was only seven and a half, and didn’t know many street names. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Mo and Nick had begun to talk about him, probably the year sevens had as well. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

As the clock sounded seven more times, the messengers scattered in all directions. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

This arrangement went on for seven years, with Bobby sending greeting cards to the young girl signed “Daddy,” and having mother and child visit him later on. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

He showed her the deepest spot on earth, seven miles deep, above the Mariana Islands. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

He made a fortune in sea traffic among those distant races, but while he did so, the foul crime was planned and carried out in Argos by Aigisthos, who ruled over golden Mykenai seven years. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

She told him that she had just finished the necropsies of the seven animals. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

We’d light six or seven candles so that there was plenty of light to see each other. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

At seven o’clock that night, I knocked on his door. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

“I’ll tell her the queen watches every night while he wrinkles his nose seven times.” Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

And it was about seven thirty when the rains began. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

At seven the next morning the telephone rang. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

Her Celestial bronze dagger was missing—the weapon she’d carried since she was seven years old. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

“Here’s the referee. He’s counting. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven ... Is the contender trying to get up again?” I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Catelyn said a silent prayer of thanks to the seven faces of god as she went to the window. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

All seven of them held out their broomsticks. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

We would walk from about half past seven to four. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

“There was this day...I was seven or eight, and me and Mahvash had gone to the park to play. We were friends growing up. Did I tell you that?” Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

There must be a lot of things on those seven floors. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

That first day alone, there were seven hundred and eighty-three people late to work because they had stopped to listen to Chester. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

She died when I was about seven years old, on one of my master’s farms, near Lee’s Mill. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass 1845-05-01T00:00:00Z

An army truck took Fujiko and her five daughters to the Amity Harbor ferry dock at seven o’clock on Monday morning, where a soldier gave them tags for their suitcases and coats. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

When I was seven, we’d had to call it off after a mudslide north of the village center. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

After two hours on a narrow ledge seven stories above a concrete parking lot and gathered crowds, Mr. George Pollucci let himself be helped to safety through a nearby window by Sgt. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

The nearby outhouse apparently stood in good stead, since six or seven men waited in single file. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

I left the house at seven- thirty to walk to the front of the development and catch the bus. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The Florentines are seven ninety-five a pound, two dollars more than the other cookies, so weigh them separately.” Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

I got to the fence a little before seven. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

It’s not enough to say that we have won seven soccer games in a row. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were two little calves in the barnyard, and seven little pigs with the mother hog in the pigpen. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ariana was barely seven years old when she vanished from sight, and seven is the age by which most experts agree that magic will have revealed itself, if present. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Each team gets thirty seconds for seven words. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

I saw those little things, babies they called them even at seven weeks, and they had tiny, tiny fingers. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were sure to get lost at least once, so they left the hotel at seven in the morning and arrived at Ground Zero in plenty of time. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

I don’t see how them Chinese people go to school seven days out of the week. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Can’t you bleeding well listen to what I say? I tell you no number ending in seven ain’t won for over fourteen months!” 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Now, there are eight kids in the elective, and seven of them were squished together on one side of the plate while one of them—me—had loads of room on the other side. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

“We’ll be going down seven hundred feet,” our tour guide said cheerfully. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

The volcano grew up seven to ten million years ago, producing fierce eruptions and explosions of ash, which repeatedly wiped out the forests that grew on its slopes, until it attained a tremendous height. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘Now the tale of Nine is filled. In seven days the Company must depart.’ The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

After seven empty villages, they had all come to dread finding Craster's as dead and desolate as the rest, but it seemed they would be spared that. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Because my brother didn’t have any friends except for Libby Truett, I decided to visit her one afternoon seven weeks after he’d been missing. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

In the end, I went to AA first, after one night babysitting Vera when she was seven months old. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

Hours, nine to five-thirty, half an hour for lunch, salary, seven dollars a week to start. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

They showed up at the barn every morning at seven sharp, Howard with sugar cubes, Marcela with Wee Biscuit, a toy Scottish terrier given to her during a visit to Bing Crosby’s house. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

In my writing life I normally work seven days a week, but writing is ego food, totally self-supervised and intermittently productive of praise. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Exactly two years, seven months, and thirteen days,” he thought. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Children in the E pod spend most of their time inside windowless cells that measure seven and a half by ten feet. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

I walk into the living room, wondering how we could be late when it is still only seven o’clock and church does not start for another two hours. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

It was here the men had stood; here upon this Green they had formed a thin pathetic fine, a handful of farmers to resist the march of seven hundred British regulars. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

He worked seven days a week, every week. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Baird was around five foot seven and trim but muscular, with the body of a fitness devotee, short hair, a square jaw, and almost preter- naturally straight teeth. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Fact is, 31 percent of them had an imaginary friend at age six or seven, even more than three- and four-year-olds. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

“Listen, that mower is worth six, maybe seven hundred bucks once we replace the motor. We can do that, no problem.” The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

When Rishi knocked on her door at seven, Dimple wasn’t even nervous. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

They were still waiting for the tickets to go on sale at seven o'clock. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

It has seven, like the Big Dipper, which explains the “Minus Two.” The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

“Due west seven, middle west seven. Leaves plots north and south. I told him better the northwest seven. If I was going to sell. It’s hilly anyway.” Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Positive results in Martian microbiology were achieved in seven different samplings in two locales on Mars separated by 5,000 kilometers. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’s been in thirty-eight dramas, twelve crime pictures and comedies, eleven thrillers, eight action films, seven Westerns, six war movies, four documentaries, three horror flicks, two sci-fi films, and a musical, among others. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Your first technical support shift begins in seven hours,” the HR computer droned softly in my ear. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

I didn’t even think about them until we were home, seven hours later, and I saw the halfway-open door to Dad’s office. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

“Two for joy, three for a marriage, and four for a boy. So seven ought to be four boys, ought it what?” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

We only came dose to dying six or seven times, which-1 thought was pretty good. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

We pass through the Rainbow Tunnel, with its arch way painted in all seven colors of the rainbow. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

Alex met Kevin outside the building at seven in the morning, the way they always did on Mondays to go body shopping. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

In under seven years, using volunteer labor, he built a 2,000-mile trail through mountain wilderness. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

I think we expected more hesitation, and maybe a story or seven about what happened at the schools. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

He called three, four, five, six, seven, eight, his fingers jerking, unable to grip the receiver. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

Carefully, Grout presses forward seven more paces, then swings open the door to a yellow shed. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

That night the officers put seven slips of paper into a cap, and Captain Roque Carnicero's unpeaceful fate was foreseen by his name on the prize slip. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

My mom, who was only six or seven herself, used to round up the abandoned kids and form a troop and take them around to the shebeens. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

The news item on page seven was the first account of his wife’s death that Shadow had read. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

It has seven impressive arms reaching up to the colorful evening sky. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

And I definitely spent the last seven hours of my life as a normal person tucked underneath it. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I take six or seven and use them and then take six or seven more. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

On March 23 it won by an astonishing seven lengths in one race and a commanding three or four in a second. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Since the start of the journey, they had zigzagged down the curvy river, traveling about sixty miles, which averaged to seven and a half miles a day so far. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

"The fuel plant can make seven hundred and eighty kilograms of fuel from that." The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Although it is agreed that there were seven of them, only six stars are clearly visible. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, he’s not sure about marriage. This is after seven years together, off and on.” Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

I’ve chosen the seven lives above my head and the one below the floor. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

My dad had served as a cop for over seven years before he had to shoot someone. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

“But it’s past his time. He never does sleep after half past seven. You know he doesn’t.” The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the quarter-mile mark the number seven man in the Cal boat did just that, and all four oars on the starboard side came almost to a halt while they reset. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

“He sails the seven seas with the Dread Pirate Roberts.” The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

“Do you know the seven words that will make a woman love you?” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

In the days when the Seven Kingdoms were seven kingdoms, not a generation passed that three or four of them were not at war. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Indeed, seven moons in the solar system, including our own, are larger. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

“I talked to your father,” her mom continued, and Hazel’s eyes snapped to the long gouge she’d made in the table when she was seven and wanted to play Excalibur. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

With Pollard standing on his back, pulling him in, he flew down the lane to win by seven lengths, smashing the track record. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

The seven members of the team came together in a circle, joined hands, then broke from the circle cheering and confident. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

But Mr. Bailey waved his hand, saying, “Seventy plus seven is a lucky number.” Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

One morning I watched her peel seven bananas in a row before she found one without a bad place. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Each filovirus strain contains seven proteins, four of which are completely unknown. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She’d gone to camp since she was seven, and still Mr. D pretended not to know her name. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

It was of Dad, sitting on a camel, when he was about six or seven years old. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“By the way, is everyone in your family over seven feet tall? Remind me not to wear flats when I visit you.” Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

When Andy took to his bed for the last time, the boys bought him a genuine swansdown pillow that cost seven dollars. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

She awoke to the quiet sounds of seven creatures deep in sleep. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We’ll be gone for five days. We have appointments to show our birds at seven elementary schools.” Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

But, as I said, by the time the chimps are five to seven years old they can no longer be part of a human family. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

It was clumsily drawn, because as good as Moss was, he was still seven—but at the center of the page was an unmistakable sketch of a hibiscus flower. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

You have about seven months to get that conga part down. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

I didn’t know how hard it would be to walk seven miles through deep snow and had no confidence that the campground would be open this early in the year. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

All seven boats lurched off the line together. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

“There were a couple of hundred of us crammed into the little courtroom who had not had any water on their bodies for seven days,” recalled Thomas. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

The hands of all the four thousand electric clocks in all the Bloomsbury Centre’s four thousand rooms marked twenty- seven minutes past two. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Vault seven hundred and thirteen now, please, and can we go more slowly?” Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

I was anxious to get to the airport, and glad when we left by seven. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

“Well, it was just three point seven miles, right?” The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

The first time Charlie Kahn told me about the spirit of the Great Hunter, we were seven. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

We are told that for the first seven years of his life he lived almost entirely on milk and milk products, plus fruit, with ‘no Flesh in the least agreeing with his weak Constitution’. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

They hadn’t had a family meeting since Maya was eight and Lauren was seven and accused Maya of killing her goldfish. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Once, when he was seven years old and his family lived near Milwaukee, a drunken hunter drove a snowmobile full-speed into an old birch tree. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The pens we used had detachable nibs and it was necessary to dip your nib into the ink-well every six or seven seconds when you were writing. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was, in fact, the lady next door to my parents—a librarian—who first mentioned seeing my essay seven years ago. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I said, “I took my temperature and it’s one hundred point seven degrees.” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

“I read about seven or eight books a week outside of my schoolwork. Have you ever read Darwin or Huxley?” The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

“I saw seven maggot pies today, Palomides. They were flying along like frying pans.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Up on the automobile bridge, Mike Bogo had the distinct pleasure of setting off seven bombs in rapid succession. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

I pump-faked, spun to my left, and nailed a fade-away banker over the outstretched hand of a guy who was nearly seven feet tall. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

I smile in spite of myself: I used to watch I Love Lucy with my dad, and when I met Papi at age seven, I thought, Wow, a blue-eyed Ricky Ricardo! Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

When I was seven, Amá found out I hadn’t showered for five days, so she dunked me in a scalding hot tub and scrubbed me with a brush until my skin ached. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

The Tangerine Middle School War Eagles have won seven games in a row, and I have played in all seven games. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Shortly before seven, Pollux and I move among the others, rousing them. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

They were six and seven years old when they began school. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was out there every day from seven a.m. to seven p.m., and every day it was: How do we turn ten rand into twenty? Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

“Okay, well, I feel more like seven things than one thing.” Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

Midway through the half, the Fugees had taken seven shots and Blue Springs none, and yet the score was still tied. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

Do y’all remember when you were seven and JB wanted to swing but all the swings were filled, and Filthy pushed the little redhead kid out of the swing so JB could take it? The Crossover 2014-03-18T00:00:00Z

I was stuck in a stranger’s barn with seven loose chickens that no one knew were mine, and a hawk-chicken outside. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

I am the last of the seven fellows from our class. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

The first twenty-three years of my life are the ones that shaped me, and the fact that I’ve lived almost seven decades since then is irrelevant. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

At seven that last night, our whole group was scheduled to entrain for London, where, as rumor had it, we were to be assigned to infantry and airborne divisions mustered for the D Day landings. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

God, I feel like I’m seven right now. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

“Right to nine. Left to four. Right to three. Left to seven.” Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

“Your dad’s been gone for seven years before?” Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

Every year there are seven days on end when the sea lies still and calm; no breath of wind stirs the waters. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

So, before we broke up into teams for a little touch sevens, I asked Coach M if I could talk to him. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

That made the score six to seven, with Perry Valley ahead. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

Breakfast is eaten by seven, on the screened-in porch overlooking the lake where they have all their meals, homemade preserves slathered on thick slices of bread. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s not even seven in the morning yet.” King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

“I’d be signing books and there would be groups of women who would come together — six or seven women — and they would have me sign anywhere between three and ten books,” Wells remembered later. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hanako had paid the neighbor her entire savings of twenty-seven dollars, earned through working at the restaurant when she was six and seven years old. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

I thought seven stories must be a safe distance. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

“Well, anyway,” the old man would’ve said, “there’s still the seven medals.” The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

By seven, Jess and the twins were in the back of Mr. Rowan’s pickup, rumbling along Spirit Lake Memorial Highway. I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z

Every night, seven nights a week, Webb sprints past our house. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

When we lived in North River Heights, Dad was usually home by seven p.m. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

Four, five, six—seven times they met during the month of June. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Some kids have six or seven pairs of sneakers. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

It’s now three years since I last walked out of Sing Sing, and seven months since Newjack came out in hardcover. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

And seven and a half months later, they got married at Los Angeles’s Mormon temple, like Terryl had dreamed about as a little girl. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

A little before seven, three separate news vans showed up, parked north of Moss’s location. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Dumbledore walked over to the trunk with seven locks, fitted the first key in the lock, and opened it. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

In at ten, out at four, seven days a week, so on weekdays I’d only see him when he was leaving. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

By “people over here twenty-four seven,” I know Thomas means he’s the only one there, listening for me. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

It’s actually made of seven emirates, which are like states, but more like principalities, because they’re owned by seven princes called emirs. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

How she had gotten those only the seven gods knew. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

But I was uneasy that a dog was loose and there were kittens, seven mouthfuls, nearby in the shed. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

The first was built largely around a core of last year’s freshmen: Don Hume, the big powerful stroke; Gordy Adam at number seven; William Seaman at number six; and Johnny White at number four. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

The country was divided up into seven regions: Midwest, Northeast, Mid-Atlantic, Southeast, Southwest, Mountain, and Pacific. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

The sister who was seven couldn’t bear it at all. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

All seven faced long prison sentences—but only for the Watergate break-in. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Once again Armpit was holding a shovel, only now he was getting paid for it, seven dollars and sixty-five cents an hour. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

I don’t know what happens in the other seven, but I know Wiress is right. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

We don’t get much company at seven in the morning. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

Now he knew where he was; soon, if he continued without turning, he would come to the dry fountain in the middle of the boulevard, then to the officers’ apartment seven blocks beyond. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

That electric cord looped out our window, seven stories above the sidewalks, and right into the window of the Jenkinses’ apartment next door. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

They measure seven by ten feet, and are unfurnished except for a cot, a toilet, a basin, and an overhead light bulb that is never extinguished night or day. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once, when I was about six or seven, I was really mad at my father because I wanted him to play with me and he just seemed so far away. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

Billy says we’re to meet tomorrow morning which is Saturday and go out Ballinacurra to see if we can challenge rich Crescent College boys to a proper game, seven a side. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

One, three, five, seven, and eleven were always prime. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

The other seven cities, lacking Selitos’ power, found their safety elsewhere. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“She drew herself up very erect...and there she stood seven or eight minutes, steadily looking out proudly before her. I think she was mentally making an address.” Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

At seven o’clock, the principal got up and welcomed us all to an exciting new year of growth and opportunity at Washington Irving Junior High School. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

For the next seven days, each day was colder than the one before. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

But he walked seven miles and knocked at her door. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z

I unroll that and discover seven loose audiotapes. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

He knew now that for seven years the Thought Police had watched him like a beetle under a magnifying glass. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Whenever I correctly performed seven actions or recited seven lines of dialogue in a row, the game would award me a “Cue Card Power-Up.” Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

My alarm went off at seven exactly, switching over to the radio, just as Elton John’s “Goodbye Yellow Brick Road” was starting. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Aimee likes to tell this one story about me: In one of my early JO classes when I had just turned seven, I saw a member of the cheerleading team do a standing back tuck. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

“We wear seven different colors, to designate our jobs. As a maintenance technician, my deck jersey, float coat, and helmet are an ugly green, the color of overcooked peas.” Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

I was seven years old, and on the day before I was to begin, my father took me aside and told me that I must be dressed properly for school. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The seven inns around the village were still jammed with folk who had left Philadelphia, and the few larger houses in the area were already filled with guests. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

I served a total of seven years in prison. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Forks High School had a frightening total of only three hundred and fifty-seven — now fifty-eight — students; there were more than seven hundred people in my junior class alone back home. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

She must have dashed through every picture lining seven staircases to reach here before him. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Powell leaps at Seward, stabbing him seven times. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

There are seven masters in Leamy s National School and they all have leather straps, canes, blackthorn sticks. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

A normal indenture was seven years, but she had to pay off the debts of her parents, and the only way she was allowed to do that was to sign up for a double indenture. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And the Jelly Slugs? And the Acid Pops? Fred gave me one of those when I was seven — it burnt a hole right through my tongue. I remember Mum walloping him with her broomstick.” Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

The first stairway consisted of about nine steps, a sharp turn, and then seven more steps to the landing of the second floor. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

And each time they succeed, they get rid of five to seven generations. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were seven children in the family when we set out with Mother for California. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

Shading my eyes, I looked up to see not three, but seven hummingbears, each in a bubble nest. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

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

They get only seven miles before coming to a dead halt at a Union roadblock outside Jetersville. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

I asked seven anthropologists, archaeologists, and historians if they would rather have been a typical citizen of Europe or the Haudenosaunee in 1491. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

With that, he modified Richard’s sentence from seven years to five years. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

There was no indoor running water, just one communal outdoor tap and one outdoor toilet shared by six or seven houses. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

No one in this age of telephones and motorcars could believe that giants seven or eight feet high existed in crowded Surrey. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Kindra—-she seven now—she sass-walk her way to the stove with her bottom sticking out and her nose up in the air. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

“So here’s our tailwind. The checks range from five dollars to two hundred and fifty, and our new grand total is four thousand seven hundred and sixty-five!” The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

When Dad was only seven, his father died, and Dad and Grandma lived by themselves. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

One afternoon, Dallas and Florida gathered up dozens of ants, seven spiders, two garter snakes, and a frog, and that evening they deposited these treasures in the beds of the Burgerton boys. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

From its crest streamed seven silken plumes in the rainbow colors of the Faith. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

He passed a bakery and wanted to go in and buy some rolls with the seven cents he had. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

“But he’s only seven and he wanted to be with his sister. You can understand that.” The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

She told them the plot of Little Women in ten minutes, a miracle of compression, especially since her book report had been seven typed pages. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Now, Quidditch is easy enough to understand, even if it’s not too easy to play. There are seven players on each side. Three of them are called Chasers.” Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

And at seven when Ma was experimenting with giving me a Mohawk. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z