| 单词 | bean |
| 例句 | ‘You is forgetting that I is doing this sort of thing for years and years and years. No human bean is ever catching even the smallest wink of me.’ The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z And I vowed to myself that those beans would thrive. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z “I left twelve B a can of beans,” she said. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z I shoveled stale-smelling chili onto my plate and poked my fork at the lumpy chunks of beef, kidney beans, and vegetables. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z But before I can beg her to spill the beans, Justin rushes into the kitchen and pulls the turkey tea cozy off Mom’s head. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z He found beef jerky, rice, beans, dried onions, coffee, and candy. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z “What if one day you skipped the beans and bought a half pound of meat instead?” How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z Day two: a neat spherical basket with a tight-fitting lid, filled with mangwansi beans. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z He got wicked drunk at a party and passed out in a bowl of bean dip. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z Supper was a royal feast of boiled potatoes seasoned with a scrawny turnip and a few beans. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “In a few more days I’ll have to thin it. The peas and beans are in, but not up yet.” Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z With dark they built a fire against the log and ate plates of okra and beans and the last of the canned potatoes. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z “Breakfast!” he hollered as he coasted by, beaning her on the forehead with a plastic-wrapped muffin. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z Two crops a year are not uncommon; in terms of yield per acre, peach palms are typically much more productive than rice, beans, or maize. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z The smell was awful, nose-filling, the smell of a dirty toilet and rancid steamed beans and boiled eggs gone bad. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z I let it bubble, then drop the whole carton of bean sprouts. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z We stuck the bright seed packets on sticks at the ends of the rows—squash, beans, Halloween pumpkins—to remind us what to expect. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z “Kindra, get the plates, Sugar, watch the beans, Felicia, get Daddy to sign that test, Mama needs some air.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z “If you work hard and plant all the beans today, you’ll get a lamb.” The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Jake spied a glass jar of jelly beans sitting on the greenroom table. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z The shop owner had just finished setting up a tidy pyramid of fresh-baked sweets: golden egg-flour cakes, the insides probably stuffed with sweet beans or pineapple jelly. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z “Kindra, I don’t want a see so much as a bean setting in that sink when I get back. Clean up good now.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z We ended up with more of the chewy exterior than the adzuki bean filling, so I took the extra dduk and made it long and stringy. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z The meal of beans and milk was carried through in silence, and as they left, the strip of hidden wall rose up and formed an unbroken surface once more. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z “You say you’ve seen these plants?” said Bigwig, turning his ears to catch the distant rustling of the beans. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z ‘I was not eating you, Jack! I is never eating human beans! I swear I has never gobbled a single human bean in all my wholesome life!’ The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z There was still some rice, and reheated with the beans, it almost tasted like real food. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z ‘Human bean babies and little chiddlers is spending half their time sleeping, so you is only four.’ The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z They joined for a meal of tortillas and beans and chokecherry wine; they ate sheltered by spruces and pines. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z We grew these bean plants from seeds, and—once they got big enough—we started doing different tests with them. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z I hold tight to the water jug, but the beans and rice tilts and half of it falls into the stinky water below. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z I didn’t know any recipes that Kazi made with them, but we could fry them with the onions and the beans. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z “Not a hole. A ditch, to bring water from the river to the fields. We mean to plant beans. The beanfields must have water.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Tables were covered with barbecue chicken and ribs, rice and beans, egg rolls, and so many other dishes. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z When I had enough, or nearly, I found I could no longer see well enough to fit them properly; so I decided to finish the next day, by daylight, and ate cold beans for supper. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z Corn was their most important crop, but beans, pumpkins, tomatoes, cocoa, and other food crops flourished and supported the dense population. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z “I guess. Until the jelly beans wear off, anyway. But until they do, I think you need to use your Spidey powers to do whatever smart stuff needs doing.” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z ‘All of them is guzzling human beans every night,’ the BFG answered. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Most of the garden was hidden by a screen of runner beans. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z Curiosity had led Horsethief Shorty to follow Nick, and now he asked, “What the hell did you do, you bully, you beaned the little old lady with your shoe?” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Green beans, snapped always the right length, collards, cabbage, juicy red tomato preserves that came into their own on steaming buttered biscuits, and sausage, beets, berries and every fruit grown in Arkansas. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z “So is it okay or not?” she asked, pushing back two lonely green beans to the edge of her plate. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z He drove his knife through the top of one of the bean cans, sawed out the top and passed the can to Lennie. Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s a Mexican restaurant that serves rice and beans and I’m happy to finally get to eat something familiar. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z My sisters, Cecile, and I would eat egg rolls, white rice, bean pies, and fried fish before we spent another penny in the stores of the no sayers. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z “Pork and beans the musical fruit, the more you eat, the more you toot,” says Mr. Smeath, grinning round the table. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z “They’re my favorites. Lauren likes the tomatoes best, because there are so many of them, but the string beans remind me of summer.” The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z ‘You is only interested in guzzling human beans.’ The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z “But you only knew that’s what I was doing because of my jelly beans!” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z People getting off work bought boxes of pasta and cans of beans, or they played their numbers in the lottery. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z I take the beans from her and pass them along to Tobias, who is staring at the fire. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z If you lived in Mexico you ate rice, beans, and corn tortillas. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Only another sister, Rosa Amalia, holds hunger at bay: each Saturday, she brings Enrique’s grandmother milk, cheese, butter, rice, sugar, beans, and vegetables. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z “Daddy brought home some nice bright green beans, too.” Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z She bought macaroni and cheese casserole, baked beans, and coffee that morning. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z The other half was vegetables from her garden: snap beans, four turnips, a cabbage. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z She stirred a potful of green beans stewing in fatback and poured in a big handful of salt. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z “It’s that heap of rotting coffee beans on Ball’s Wharf, I tell you,” Mr. Carris said to the other men. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The two found a fair number of shoes, watches, and coats, which they traded in for soup, mixed vegetables, black beans, and rice for Alex and vodka for Kevin. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z When the three Marshes came upstairs, my mom had put out rice and beans. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z “Wonder which jelly bean that little tidbit was hiding in.” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z “Made from soy bean whey. I wish I had some—” Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z Only this room has framed diplomas on the walls and a bowl of jelly beans on a big mahogany desk. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z But he couldn’t, since Habib had stepped away to pick up some canned beans, and he had to save their spot in line. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z Steam wafted from the pot’s contents—a thick, hearty stew of barley, beans, and potatoes, studded with chunks of brisket and sausage. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z The cafe served refried beans with my eggs instead of grits like they did back in Marshall. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The string beans and potato slice were easy. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z “Well, a lot of people think so. Now, do you know the present price of beans? I mean, what can you sell a hundred sacks for in Salinas?” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z In the early morning, when the alley was still quiet, I could smell fragrant red beans as they were cooked down to a pasty sweetness. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z She knows I can’t turn down her mom’s rice and beans. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z But now, plump red tomatoes grew fatter every day, yellow flowers turned into bright green zucchini, and pole beans hung in clusters from vines that snaked up twine to form leafy tepees. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z Alex should probably blame some of his queasiness on nerves but chooses to blame it all on this morning’s appalling breakfast spread—what kind of garbage country eats bland beans on white toast for breakfast? Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z Then Joe cut the water back into the river and sat for a moment longer while the sun rose higher and water seeped into the ground around his bean plants. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z There was no rice on the chart, no beans, no salted codfish. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z By the time of the Pilgrims, fields of mixed maize, beans, and squash lined the New England coast and in many places extended for miles into the interior. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z I add some green beans to the barbecued chicken on my plate and do as I’m told. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z In produce, I pick out six sweet potatoes, three handfuls a string beans. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z Every few weeks, UN workers would deliver the rations of rice, beans, vegetable oil, sugar, salt, and a flour mixture called sosoma, made of soybeans, sorghum, and corn. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z They were one of the few families that still had daily white rice, but just like everyone else, Doha’s mother mixed it with barley, millet, and beans to make it last longer. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z Two women, snapping pole beans on their porch, grin, shout, “Dance, girl.” Ghost Boys 2018-04-17T00:00:00Z Uh-uh, that doesn’t fit the sounds Miss Thomas was making, you couldn’t help but look up and wonder if this was a real human bean that was making these sounds. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z As dawn broke I ate my pork and beans, feeling dopey, sleepy. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z “Come marry me now, I go give you rice and beans.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z She could fill the empty can of beans. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z In the stories, a ten-year-old kid superhero named Isaiah Dunn goes on tons of secret missions and gets his power from bowls of beans and rice. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z Did Father aim to suggest God was not obligated to send us down any beans or squash at all, no matter how we might toil in His name? The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s probably a good thing that I spilled the beans beforehand, because we’re pretty quiet and respectful when the principal makes the announcement. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z He filled a glass at the water cooler to water his beans. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The scent of garbanzo beans in spicy sauce hung in the air, mixed with the smell of dung and sweat. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z “It don’t mean a hill of beans, because the only people that matter are in this room. It doesn’t make a difference, except for the people here.” Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Nearby was another hedgerow and beyond, moving gently in the breeze, stood a field of broad beans in full flower. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z ‘Don’t gobblefunk around with words. I will now give you another example. Human beans from Jersey has a most disgustable woolly tickle on the tongue,’ the Giant said. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z I just happened to have two purple jelly beans in my jeans pocket. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z How exactly do people eat jelly beans differently? I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z ‘I hope you will forgive me,’ he said, ‘if I tell you that human beans is thinking they is very clever, but they is not. They is nearly all of them notmuchers and squeakpips.’ The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Fern bowed her head low and grand over her plate of corn and string beans. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z Then they brought in a steaming cauldron of beans and handed out tortillas. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z “Why don’t you two take your little colored selves outside and get those bush beans and collards in here before it gets dark,” Mama said, edging the book out from under their fingers. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z In the next aisle, Mama goes for the biggest bag of rice I’ve ever seen, and I imagine her cooking me magic beans and rice, like in Daddy’s stories. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z A woman stands at a butcher- block island by the appliances, snipping the ends of a pile of green beans with a pair of scissors. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z At his nod she gave him the water, opened the cracker box, and scooped out some beans for both of them. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z Sitti popped two almonds into Rafik’s mouth when he laughed and then she left the room to arrange the green beans and stuffed squash they were having for dinner on big trays. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z Three whole months of old lady, baked beans, and raisin toast. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z Janie baked a big pan of beans and something she called sweet biscuits and they all managed to be happy enough. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z Auri froze with a bean halfway to her mouth, then relaxed and bobbed her head once, sending her fine hair swirling around her. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z My father pressed his fork onto his plate and crushed a lima bean. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z After that, ten times more zealous, I planted beans and sweet potatoes, brinjals and chillies, and they all grew well under my hand, so that we ate even better than we had done before. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z The beans provided a more hopeful solution to the problem of food. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z “I can’t,” said my sister, while passing the lima beans and not taking any. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z ‘I thought all human beans is full of brains, but your head is emptier than a bundongle.’ The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z I was restaking my green beans when I heard a rider approaching. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z “For real. He got bit by a radioactive spider. You ate jelly beans. You both ended up with superpowers.” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z “I could use another bag of beans,” I said. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z The next morning I had fried tomatoes for breakfast and a tin of green beans which Mother heated up in a saucepan. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z The string beans obviously came from a can but someone had thrown in some slivered almonds; the sweet potatoes had marshmallows mixed in, and there was enough stuffing for everybody. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z Six hours in: “Man, I shouldn’t have ate those leftover beans for breakfast.” Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z Then I went into the kitchen and had my baked beans and broccoli while Father had sausages and eggs and fried bread and a mug of tea. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z “Young lady, when it's sixty-five below and your front doors froze shut, you’ll be glad for this twenty pounds of beans.” Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z “This bridge was so bad that one of the rules ’mongst the crew was that you couldn’t eat no beans eight hours ’fore we was set to cross it.” The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z Or, “We will sell the wheat straw and burn the bean stalks in the kitchen.” The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z Harry crushed his bean with the flat side of the dagger. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z Similarly, wheats, barley, lentil, chickpea, beans, and flax all have numerous wild relatives besides the ones that became domesticated. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z ‘And tonight I is galloping off to Chile to swobble a few human Chile beans. Is you wishing to know why I is choosing Chile?’ The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Dad stabbed at a green bean and let the subject drop. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z That said, she settled back down and ate another bean, chewing primly. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z She lifted the dish of green beans and helped herself to an almond-sprinkled spoonful. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z “I have tired of stories of Onyeka. I noticed something when he came by yesterday. He should bathe more often, he smells like rotten oil beans.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z ‘I has told you five or six times,’ he said, ‘and the third will be the last. I is never showing myself to human beans.’ The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Then the singsong cries of a beans hawker floated in through the window. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z They were served individual plates with potato and beans on them. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z Suddenly the agent noticed all the refuse that had been left behind, pieces of waxed paper and tinfoil, discarded Baggies, a few aluminum bean dip cans, empty cigarette packages, and some crushed coffee cups. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The exercise had begun at six o’clock in the morning after a gray-lit breakfast of sausages and beans. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z ‘As I am saying,’ the Giant went on, ‘all human beans is having different flavours. Human beans from Panama is tasting very strong of hats.’ The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z There was not a bean lost in the threshing. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z “My mama sent pinto beans,” she announced, placing it on the table. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z I bend over them rows so long, dropping the beans into a bucket, I think I’m going to be bent for life. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z There’s probably not a more perfect combination than rice, refried beans, and cheese. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z She had silver eyes and skin as pale as paper, and the contrast with her hair, as dark and glossy as an espresso bean, caused people to describe her as striking, if not pretty. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z There were the beans and peas with their curly ten-drils, the dark green spinach, the ruffled lettuce, and the hard, pale green cabbages, some of them as big as a newborn baby’s head. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z I had a chicken—a great treat for us in those days—stuffed with oysters, boiled potatoes, corn pudding, some of Momma’s canned beans, rolls, and a hot peach cobbler. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “You better be careful out there,” she says, setting a plate of pinto beans, rice, and pork chops down on the table. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z The Negro had come back and was starting to collect the empty plates of people who hadn't dished out any beans yet. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z “Your bean,” said Clary, pointing at the little pot of dirt on the windowsill. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Jimmy kicked the body of the plane apart, opening it like a can of beans. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z In the yard, small groups of indfgena women are stirring steaming pots of beans and chicken broth over fires, and peel- ing an enormous mountain of potatoes. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z “I’ll get some more jelly bean fish,” she said, writing it on the board. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z I hacked and dug, but didn't find anything, except for a large white bean. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z After that, we’d go to the grocery store at the bottom of the hill and stock up on staples such as beans and rice, powdered milk, and canned goods. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z Different varieties of the same species replace each other among the kidney beans, lima beans, the chili pepper Capsicum annuum / chinense, and the squash Cucurbita pepo. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “I know it’s hot, but we could eat that can of beans. They’d be better hot than cold. You got the matches?” Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z Three cooks in white clothing worked at the big stoves, putting beans, rice, and enchiladas onto plates that dark-haired waitresses in bright-red dresses picked up at a counter. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z She picked up the basket and stood with it and the bowl of beans over her mother. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z It was a closet filled with hundreds and hundreds of jelly bean fish. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z “Look, if you have the formulas for those jelly beans, you should be able to figure out some way to stop them from doing whatever they’re doing inside my brain.” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z “He ate all the jelly beans. Didn’t save any for me...” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z At dinnertime, Jinjoo’s mom gave everyone small servings of rice mixed with barley and beans and told them to make it last. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z And by slightly, I mean there are several oil paintings of single coffee beans hanging on the wall. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z One day they were working near where the beans ended and the sugar cane began. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z In the center of the room, a long wooden table was cluttered with scrolls, notebooks, tablet computers, daggers, and a large bowl filled with jelly beans, which seemed kind of out of place. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z He saw his friends eating die heads off chocolate bunnies and tossing handfuls of jelly beans into cavity-rich mouths. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Then I add: eating beans and rice every day, not being able to write poems, and having to live at Smoky Inn forever. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z She took a ham bone out of the beans and went down to the Gypsies’ house, waving it in the air. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z My mom couldn’t afford to buy much food at the market, usually just a half pound of beans, a few ingredients to make gravy, and some cornstarch to make kaunga, a traditional doughlike dish. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z I keep picturing you at Aunt Maureen’s, knitting a sweater and eating stinky baked beans. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z Some time around 1000 a.d., the Indian agricultural trinity of maize, beans, and squash appeared in the area. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z ‘I is not galloping to any human bean country,’ the BFG said. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z We have grown them the way Namontack taught us, planting the corn and beans together in a mound, so that the bean plants can climb the cornstalks. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z My father said that Gram couldn’t read maps worth a hill of beans, and that he was grateful that I had agreed to go along and help them find their way. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z “Your beans are getting cold,” Angelina murmured, her voice a miaow. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z I was tying the bean tendrils to the wire fence I had built when I saw a quiver in the leaves of the pumpkins. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z ‘So what I is trying to explain to you is that a human bean who says he is fifty is not fifty, he is only thirty.’ The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Shelly thumped him with both heels and said, “Get up, you sorry sack of beans, before I park that slimy aquarium on your head.” Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z Two bright eyes shone, and out through that hole that was no wider than a string bean came a weasel. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z I google it so fast, I almost misspell the word “bean.” What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z We had a good meal, a roast chicken, new green beans, mashed potatoes, a salad, and some apple-pie and cheese. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z We wandered on and found some orégano, and we gathered plenty because this was not only a cure for coughs and fever but a spice my mother used for beans and meat. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Third day, though, he puts out a quart jar of water for me when I go to pick his beans. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z Valley had been right about the jelly bean fish. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z Before he reached for a log, the silver sparkle off shiny bean leaves several fields away caught Snuffy’s attention. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z It was May Belle who came to tell him in the bean patch that people were moving into the old Perkins place down on the next farm. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z “Spot on, Duncan. But would you spill the beans on this one?” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z Valley took jelly bean fish from her bag and looked at Seven. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z "Baked beans are hard to eat, Miss Trunchbull. They keep falling off my fork." Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z And some of us also need jelly beans. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z But Jake was surprised by some of the correct answers that kept tumbling out of his own jelly bean brain. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z Ambuya had told her often enough of the dangers of eating uncooked flour and beans. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z There were beans, spinach and oranges in one drawer, slabs of meat in another. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z All night, all day, hurrying in to pick beans. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z I had lost weight and was as thin as a bean pole. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Chantal tries to come in, too, but I only let her taste the rice and beans since that was her one request. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z So the three of us pulled weeds and picked beans and pinched dead flowers off the marigolds. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z First, she brought out plates of spicy tamales and borracho beans, and when that was gone, she brought down a fruit basket. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z I scoop a nice amount of baked beans on there somehow. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z At the first grocery store that they passed, she bought a box of crackers and a can of refried beans, which the shopkeeper opened for her. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z Pima distributed metal tins to the adults, rice and red beans and ground sausage spiced. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z The bark tasted good—like raw beans—and gave her the illusion she was eating as well as working. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z “If you don’t have purple jelly beans,” he said, “red will do in a pinch.” Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z “The teacher says to the class, ‘Tell us about different kinds of beans.’ The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z “What do you two know about my jelly beans?” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z Earlier visitors to the shelter had left behind an assortment of canned foods—beans, corn, Spam, baby carrots—which were lined up carefully along one of the support rafters. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z ‘The human beans is making rules to suit themselves,’ the BFG went on. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z “He’s hiding at the bottom of my bed, shaking,” said Ron angrily, missing the pail and scattering beans over the greenhouse floor. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z By the time Emma came back into the room, the jelly beans were gone. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z The reason for the soliloquy here is that Morgenstern's previous book had gotten bombed by the critics and also hadn’t sold beans. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z Hot corn bread and lima beans sat on the table. Monday's Not Coming 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z Mrs. Hidalgo smiled again and started pouring coffee beans into a large grinder. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z Now I knew perfectly well you didn't serve two kinds of beans together at a meal. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z Today it was sausages and baked beans, Lavender's favourite, but she couldn't eat it. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z I worked, too, harvesting maize and fava beans. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z After Lupita’s supper of beans and rice that evening, Uncle Antonio arrived with other men to say the rosary for the second night. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z The stuff they were eating was a thin stew, actually a soup, of haricot beans. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z The boys followed with the food: a large plastic bowl full of steaming rice and smaller ceramic bowls containing helpings of warm cassava, beans, potatoes, and stewed greens. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z They lived on biscuits and boiled beans, maybe a little bacon. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z For the appetizer I turned to the garden, where there were fava beans ready to pick. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z When I reach Greasy Sae’s stall, I boost myself up to sit on the counter and order some soup, which looks to be some kind of gourd and bean mixture. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z He steadfastly would not touch the few beans that O-lan still held in her hand, and it comforted him vaguely to hear her crunching them, one at a time, a long time apart. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z As a result, beans and maize make a nutritionally complete meal. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z I walked back there that evening and checked on the beans. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z They would come to town and bring corn and millet, sorghum, and beans and take the T-shirts or other clothes the UN had given us in exchange. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z I said with a mouth full of rice and beans. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z Second, I did not like falafel because I was categorically opposed to beans. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z But all I remember thinking is how great it was to have a friend who liked purple jelly beans as much as I did. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z “We lost everything over the weekend. It’s all gone, all the vegetables. All our vegetables. My string beans. I wanted you to eat my string beans, and now they’re dead.” The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z But by June many of my beans were not so young anymore, so I decided to make fava bean toasts. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z That evening the women brought bowls of pot liquor from black-eyed peas, from mustards, from cabbage, from kale, from collards, from turnips, from beets, from green beans. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z There were lots of green snap beans, stalks of yellow sweet corn, Sea Island red peas, crookneck squash, benne seeds, and purple okra that looked like fingers reaching for the sky. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z But would ye no gie us a loan o’ your hob to heat our wee tin o’ beans before we go?” Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z They buy things they are not certain how to prepare, leeks and fresh fava beans and fiddleheads, looking up recipes in the cookbooks they’ve received for their wedding. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Some sacks split open when they hit the ground, and corn and beans spilled everywhere. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z “I don’t usually get mad at my parents,” I tell her honestly, my eyes drifting back to the bowl of jelly beans. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z Corn, beans, and squash may have taken several thousand years to spread from Mesoamerica to the U.S. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z ‘They is shootling guns and going up in aerioplanes to drop their bombs on each other’s heads every week. Human beans is always killing other human beans.’ The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Had she picked pole beans out in the garden with Gus? Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z “Oh . . . Say, I’ve got a couple of pig tails left. You want me to put them in with the beans?” Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z “That doesn’t count. Neither do the tinned beans. What are you most afraid of—what’s your number one fear?” Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z “Okay, I’ll throw in two of my best cans of spinach, and just because I like you, a can of lima beans.” The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z The bedroom door opened and Moms came in with some fried chicken, green beans, rice, and gravy. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z Then she set a tray of Pillsbury biscuits on the kitchen table and ladled out a plate of the beans for each of us kids. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z I listen and the spoon slips down into the pot of beans. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z Riches more than mind can picture, Wheat and barley, oats and hay, Clover, beans, and mangel-wurzels Shall be ours upon that day. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z A few people walking by point and stare, and I wish we had magic beans and rice to make us disappear. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z The king took out the plates of delicate pink shrimp dumplings, savory noodles and pork, dragon’s beard bean sprouts, emerald green chives, and a bowl of white jade tofu soup. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z Finally, at one house, another gift: a woman offers him tortillas, beans, and lemonade. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z He extracted the speckled purple jelly bean with a pair of stainless-steel tweezers. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z The only main-course options on the menu at the steakhouse are steak and a burger, both served with cowboy beans, cornbread, and coleslaw. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z "And why, might I ask, is there a baked bean on the front of your shirt?" Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z When he left for work the third morning, he had brought up some food, a dish of white beans in tomato sauce and bread. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Once I counted mine: There were 75 pieces of corn and 15 beans—so little it barely covered the plate. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z A black bean falls out of her mouth and lands on one of her keyboards. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z ‘I is able to tell if it is a man human bean or a lady by the breathing-voice. We has a man in there. Snortling a little bit, too.’ The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z I sprouted with the velocity of the mung beans we studied in Earth Science. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z How wonderful those tomatoes tasted after days of crackers and refried beans! Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z This proliferation of corn and other crops such as beans, squash, and potatoes required vast networks of cultural and commercial exchange among the peoples of North, Central, and South America. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z “The first little boy says, ‘There’s pinto beans.’ The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z She picked up a droopy bean between her thumb and forefinger. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z “A little girl was crushed underneath one of the wheels as she was helping her mother drag a box of canned beans.” Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Then Ching began to weep suddenly and Wang Lung rubbed his own eyes and cried out as if he were angry, “Do you think I have forgotten that you gave me that handful of beans?” The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z Frypan and his cooks served up a grand meal of steak, mashed potatoes, green beans and hot rolls. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z He would like to have taken some coffee beans—a man lying out in the woods all night needed a hot drink; but that item was one he would not take. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z To his astonishment, it immediately exuded so much juice he was amazed the shriveled bean could have held it all. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z ‘I is not a very know-all giant myself, but it seems to me that you is an absolutely know-nothing human bean. Your brain is full of rotten-wool.’ The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z He thinks he has failed in the real world, although he once created a famous illustration for canned pork and beans that I can remember from childhood. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Amarante surveyed the damp earth, the glistening green bean plants, the faint yellow irrigation foam left around the stalks, the mud cracking softly in some freshly watered rows. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Was he eating a warm meal of beans and coffee? Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z “You okay? You want some of my vanilla bean?” Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z “Thank you, A. Now come on, Miss Walters, eat up a little green bean for me.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z I grab a gallon of water and a bowl of beans and rice. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z I ate my meat loaf and green beans and then went into the living room and watched a little television. Lawn Boy 2007-06-12T00:00:00Z One day she made a stew with green beans and tinned sardines. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z I go in the kitchen, put the beans on to simmer. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z They fried it that night over their fire, thick slices of it, and put the slices to simmer with a tin of beans. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z I made us a good dinner of pork chops that was grilled with special sauce and potatoes cut thin and sauteed in butter and fresh green beans. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Lee moved five dried lima beans in patterns on the table—a line, an angle, a circle. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Claudia kept looking at the picture of the statue as she finished eating her baked beans. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z Two bags of rice, six cans of red beans, two of black beans, four of spinach, two of split pea soup, one of lentil, one of carrots, three of mixed vegetables, and one of sardines. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z “And will there be awful meals, with food made from recipes, with garlic and tarragon and broad beans in?” asked Coraline. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z All he’d been able to get from Harvey was one of the cans of chicken soup and a badly dented can of string beans. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z “With cucumber kimchee as well. Truly a felicitous combination. Soft bean curd—crunchy cucumber. Bland bean curd—spicy cucumber. That woman is an artist.” A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z “Look: I made a joke. Get it? Full of beans?” Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z I dished myself out a helping of green string beans and turned to pass the tureen to the enormous red-headed woman at my right. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z Remember when you beaned old Jack the rooster? Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z “Be careful, dear. There’s cholesterol on the beans.” Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z Far around, on all sides, stood the orderly rows of beans, securing them against hostile approach, roofing them over and covering their scent. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z There were painted baskets and beaded curtains, paperweights with various objects suspended in them, dried flowers, colored grains and beans. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z George turned the bean cans so that another side faced the fire. Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z I was always taught not to tell anyone about anything that happens our household, but tonight I guess you could say that I spilled the beans. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z Sam is in front of us and has already put her rice and black beans in the bowl. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z The sky was as thick as Indiana bean soup. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z Leaving the beans I went to look, stooping to part the leaves with my hand. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z Bridge passed the black beans to her father, who passed them directly to Jamie. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z What if this was when the jelly beans wore off? The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z In a clatter of forks against plates, beans, stew, tomatoes, rice, and doughnuts disappear. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z The farmers, who lived in quaint stone cottages surrounded by broad fields, grew yellow squash and long green beans and bushels of wheat. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z With all her heavy-duty stirring, her beans were starting to look like pudding. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z “Wonderful,” Papa said, taking in the bright orange cubes of sweet potato nestled among the fried green beans and onions. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z “Take the guy’s card. Just don’t bore me to death with more jelly bean trivia.” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z While I planted the young beans, I tried to imagine life in that orphanage. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z Like a mung bean my body stretched up toward the great grow lamp in the sky, and my case was even more significant because I continued to grow in the dark. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z ‘I has told you before that human beans is simply not believing in giants.’ The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z The earth was soft and crumbling, with a scattering of the weeds that are found in cultivated fields—fumitory, charlock, pimpernel and mayweed, all growing in the green gloom under the bean leaves. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z If she didn’t tend to the house, she was apt to find clothes, shoes, open rice bags, cans of beans, and dirty dishes strewn about everywhere. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z “She couldn’t cook. She burned everything, including water. She had a hard time opening a can of beans. She couldn’t make head nor tail of a piece of meat. Six.” Because of Winn-Dixie 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z Momma made chili for dinner, and it’s just the way I like it, super spicy with hardly any beans. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z “My master, Jasper Blake, asked that I bring you these coffee beans and mention that his warehouse is open for business.” Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “I need to speak Spanish, Mr. Farooqi. My little sister goes to a Spanish-immersion school. I want to be able to help her with her homework. I need a Spanish-language jelly bean.” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z I reached for one of the bags of coffee beans. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z ‘You is a human bean and human beans is like strawbunkles and cream to those giants.’ The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z There were white beans and white peas and white squash and white tomatoes and white lettuce and white zucchini. Bunnicula 1979-03-01T00:00:00Z The earth had yielded richly: there were, besides, beans and potatoes, melons and chillies, and I was well pleased with them and with the silver coins I had received in exchange. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z He nosed over an empty bean can, sniffed in its opening, and rejected it. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z They ate beans and rice when they were lucky and begged on the streets when they were not. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z Apparently my father has been taking payment in the form of beans and eggs for nearly two years. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z I listened to all the sounds of the market, vendors calling out prices, children laughing and crying, the rush of dried spices, beans, and rice being poured into bags. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z Now we just call it “Millenium,” and it is a stretch of bare land and several rusted metal sculptures—one an abstract, plated mammoth, another shaped like a lima bean that dwarfs me in size. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z When the electricity was on, we ate a lot of beans. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z One weathered old hobo told the preacher that if he wanted more pilgrims on that road to heaven, they should pave it with pork and beans instead of onion soup. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z I laid those beans right back in the ground, as gently as sleeping babies. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z The water seemed to wake up my senses, as if I’d just had a bag of my mom’s double-espresso jelly beans. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z “They’re giving me my own lab. Meanwhile, don’t tell them, but I’m purchasing mass quantities of research supplies: sugar, gelatin, cornstarch and...jelly bean molds!” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z My class had sprouted lima beans in paper cups the year before. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z “Kylie hates jelly beans. And anyway, I told you they were magic, Jackson.” Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z And the heap would roll down the slope and lodge against the fence, like the scarecrow rolled along a bean row until it caught in the brambles at the edge of the garden. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z A fellow with a week-old beard and a hole in his hat brought a can of beans. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z He misses the beans and spaghetti she made for him. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z And farmers wished they hadn’t contracted their beans for a lousy two cents a pound above the going price six months ago. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Taking puffs from a cigarette, I scooped the beans out of the can with my fingers and ate them. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z There’s a class Christmas party, which consists of cookies brought from home and eaten silently at our desks, and different-colored jelly beans provided by Miss Lumley, five for each child. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z That way the bean vines could wrap around the corn plants like necklaces and dangle their pods like earrings. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z “Jesus Christ,” the angel whimpered, staring forlornly at the healthy bean plants. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z As another example, archaeologists originally assumed that Mexican corn, beans, and squashes reached the southeastern United States by the most direct route via northeastern Mexico and eastern Texas. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z ‘Human beans is the only animals that is killing their own kind.’ The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z And eating corn and beans together supplies all the amino acids humans need. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z We eat fresh broad beans, venison with scattered pomegranate seeds, grilled brown trout with butter, a salad of bitter herbs, and, for after, raisin cakes smothered in apple syrup. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Naomi was sitting there snapping the ends off of green beans. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z I had decided, if I got the tractor running, to plow that field and plant it in com, with maybe a few rows of soybeans and pea beans. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z “I shall need to buy bean seeds and chilli seeds, and perhaps a few young pumpkin vines...sweet potatoes of course...I have made a lot from my vegetables before.” Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z “When I harvest those beans I’m gonna eat those beans myself. Because those are my beans. 1 paid for the seed. 1 bought the gas for the tractor to turn over that earth.” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z He searched floors, roads, and fields for grains of rice, beans, or cow dung that contained undigested kernels of corn. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z I add the card and jelly beans to the presents piled on the table and sit next to an older woman, sliding the guitar under my chair. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z They joined Mel Willis’s honey clusters and piles of sandwiches and vats of chili and dozens of bean and tuna and macaroni casseroles on the counter. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z Didn’t the jelly beans in my hand seem extremely real? Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z She remembered her best friend Rosemary, who’d had braces the year before she did and had showed her how to eat jelly beans with them on, even though you weren’t supposed to. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z ‘Us giants is making whizzpoppers all the time! Whizzpopping is a sign of happiness. It is music in our ears! You surely is not telling me that a little whizzpopping is forbidden among human beans?’ The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z But the thought of climbing the twelve flights just to ram cold rice and beans into his mouth was even worse. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z As my fingers pluck the green beans, my mouth waters. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “Can we use the jelly bean fish in some other way?” asked Seven. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z Folks had already brought over more cakes and pies, and platters of fried chicken and ham, and their good china bowls full of string beans, butterbeans, okra, and tomatoes. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z ‘He is saying, “I has never done any harm to the human bean so why should he be eating me?”’ The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Lucy said it was about time I wore good clothes, but she didn’t spill the beans that she had picked out my jumper two weeks ago. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z I set a small pot of water to boil and added the beans and turnip. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “Isn’t it kinda weird that the traps didn’t work if they love jelly bean fish so much?” Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z “We need to head to your mom’s hotel. See if there are any more magical jelly beans lying around. I want to get my parabola on, too.” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z The thing Adam had in front that Eva had in back was the letter A. The thing that’s put in hard and comes out soft were the beans in the boiling water. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z ‘Giants is also making rules. Their rules is not suiting the human beans. Everybody is making his own rules to suit himself.’ The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z I tellCharlie that in Daddy’s stories, the beans and rice have magical powers, and she eats it without whining. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z She added and subtracted endlessly, determining what she would need and not need, cooking rice and beans each week, and heating up small portions in the microwave for lunch and dinner. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z ‘Dreams is not like human beans or animals. They has no brains. They is made of zozimus.’ The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z They ate a can of white beans, passing it between them, and he threw the empty tin into the woods. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z We had green beans, turnips, macaroni and cheese, caramel cake—all kinds of funeral foods. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z We ate a lot of canned pork and beans, during the war. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z “Yeah, her and my dad got in a huge fight. I mean huge. She threw a clock radio at his head, so he beaned her with a mango.” Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Either rice and beans or rice and lentils. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Each time he returned with more crackers and beans, he told her how little money there was left. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z For some reason I was starving, and I piled my plate with fried chicken, biscuits, mashed potatoes and gravy, string beans, okra. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z I said: “It’s okay. So are the beans.” Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z A pinch of the precious salt and a few bean sprouts filled her with energy for a while, but it wore off. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z There’s a window we keep open on the nights Tagoe eats beans, even if it’s mad loud outside. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z “So you cheated. And these magical beans weren’t enough? You had to steal the answer sheet, too?” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z Like Mama had said, that cabbage was ripe and ready, and they picked the beans and greens in record time. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z “Ate a bean burrito for breakfast,” Pigeon says. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z He had declined the sauteed new greens, the tender and expensive leaves of bean plants plucked before the sprouts turn into beans. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z If you lived in West Africa you ate cassava, yams, beans, and millet. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z The fish and bean pie place run by the Black Muslims. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z She was full of beans, as his mother would have said. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z They settled in villages and planted corn and squash, bush beans and berries. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z I ate as much as I could of the baked beans. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z “Then the main royal came loose from her gaskets, flappin’ and makin’ the mast quiver like a bean stalk. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z After a breakfast of grits with flakes of fried shark steak, Jay washed dishes while I snapped a whole colander full of pole beans. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z She pulled out the beans and the can opener. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z “Luke, we're just trying to protect you. How about a big slice of your bread? There’s cold beef and canned beans, too.” Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z The week before she died, she called me, full of pride, full of life: “Auntie Lin cooked red bean soup for Joy Luck. I’m going to cook black sesame-seed soup.” The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z We'd get beans from time to time, if our father could afford it. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z Harry got toast, coconut, baked bean, strawberry, curry, grass, coffee, sardine, and was even brave enough to nibble the end off a funny gray one Ron wouldn’t touch, which turned out to be pepper. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z He drank some water, swallowed a couple of aspirin for no particular reason, and opened one of the cans of red beans. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z Calamity followed Finn as he weeded and watered their puny half acre of new vegetables—asparagus, kale, onion, beans, carrots, spinach, beets, broccoli, tomatoes. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z “Yeah, right. I was here for most of it. Spill the beans, ‘Doc.’” Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z Some of those related beans and barleys were indeed domesticated independently in the Americas or China, far from the early site of domestication in the Fertile Crescent. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z I went into a store and bought a can of pork and beans and a can opener. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z I held a jelly bean up to the light. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z “She sent me to fetch those Arabica beans! Me, the hero of Trenton and Germantown reduced to a simple errand boy. What has the world come to?” Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z He poured the potatoes and the beans into a pot and carried the pot into the diningroom and set it in the fire. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z ‘So the music is saying something to them. It is sending a message. I do not think the human beans is knowing what that message is, but they is loving it just the same.’ The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Bill could cook rice like the Chinese— I mean rice that stood every grain on its own, but I never knew the Chinese to do what Bill could with seafood and beans. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Sim waved and I headed to the Mess, where I sat down long enough to spoon up my beans and chew through a flat piece of tough grey meat. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z And Mr. Alacran wouldn’t put out so much as a single chili bean because he hated El Patron. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z His mother looked up from a pan of beans. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z I rub my sore arm, and try to scoop some beans and rice into my mouth. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z We remained in class until 12:45, and then had a lunch of samp, sour milk and beans, seldom meat. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z "They can call it whatever they want to call it. I have a perfectly good pot in the kitchen and some beans that are fresh enough for anyone." We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z The table is set with pernil, ham with pineapple sauce, yellow rice, pink beans, and salad. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z The other stuff on my plate was candied sweet potatoes, string beans, and something I didn’t recognize, little brown clumps. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z It made him a little sad to think how many beans it would have bought for Mrs. Popper and the children. Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z The jeepney will circle the neighborhood while selling halo-halo, a sweet concoction of ice, milk, red beans, tapioca pearls, jackfruit, and coconut flesh—with even sweeter condensed milk drizzled on to stir in. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z Yesterday we were relieved, and now our bellies are full of beef and haricot beans. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z I guessed that he had the jelly beans to make it look like he was offering kids a treat, but in actuality he never did and went on his own jelly-bean-eating binges. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z I watched Daisy attack her school-provided rectangular pizza and green beans with a fork. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z Odors of the night and autumn and the swamp entered to mingle with the inside odors of children, kerosene, cold beans, urine and the dead incense of pine ashes. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Each bag had a box of rice, a can of red beans, a can of mixed vegetables, and two cans of tomato soup. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z She gives water, apples, socks, and sandwiches stuffed with beans. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z ‘Imagine it please. This human bean who says he is fifty has been fast asleep for twenty years and is not even knowing where he is! Not even doing anything! Not even thinking!’ The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z “There’s enough beans for four men,” George said. Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z Everything dried up all the plants the corn the beans they all dried up and started blowing away in the wind. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z Klaus thought this over for a minute as he swallowed a chewy bit of bean. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z But they must buy food for the journey; more crackers and canned beans and perhaps some cheese too. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z I cooked the kidneys, my nose wrinkling at their stink, and stirred the beans, although they hardly needed it. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z We’d hung the sacks of beans on hooks in the hallway, just inside our secret entrance, but a few seams split under the weight. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z You can find calamansi juice and green beans for stewing at the farmers market, or a ton of Filipino restaurants and shops. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z My mom grew vegetables in a garden—cassava, corn, beans. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z “You aced that social studies quiz and made all those shots in the basketball game because you ate jelly beans?” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z I ate the tasteless beans, the sticky rice, the greasy fried chicken. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z Eleanor wasn't complaining about the grilled cheese either—it was a nice break from bean soup, and beans and rice, and huevosy frijoles. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z Dara Lynn’s dipping bread in her glass of cold tea, the way she likes, and Becky pushes her beans up over the edge of her plate in her rush to get ’em down. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z It was as if she could preserve her anger and store it in a glass jar next to the hot horseradish and yellow beans and corn chowchow she kept in the dank basement pantry. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Now, suddenly, Mom realized that recreational gymnastics might be the perfect outlet for her daughters—especially for me, her little bouncing bean who jumped and climbed on everything nonstop. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z Family members stood in line with people who were obviously homeless and waited their turn to be served chicken, and green beans, mashed potatoes, and bread, by Love. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z “Mom,” I yelled, “did you buy some jelly beans?” Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z He plucked what looked like a four-foot version of a string bean from a branch, split it lengthwise, and showed me flattened, shiny seeds arrayed along its length like teeth in a jaw. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Every farmer with half a brain had planted beans. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Maybe one did bean him in the head. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z When he did, she beaned him with a beer can. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z June’s mom set them up with all kinds of weird snacks like green bean chips and baby carrots with hummus and vegan carob-chip cookies. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z That was one good thing about all the fighting— soldiers ate beans, and prices would be high. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z ‘They is always having fifty winks before they goes scumpering off to hunt human beans in the evening,’ the BFG said. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z “You don’t think I live on cacao beans, do you?” Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z Usually it is rice and beans and whatever else has been donated, maybe a big bowl of soup. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z Of course, Joe understood immediately that this dynamite had not just fallen from heaven in order to increase the personal wealth and power of Joe Mondragon, all-around handyman and bean farmer par extraordinaire. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z “Oh my goodness. Zabardast! My jelly beans worked! I knew it. Isn’t science amazing? Think of it! Oh, the wonder of what I have done!” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z Feeling the fuzzy hair of the beans between my thumb and finger, I crave to put it in my mouth before anyone sees me, but instead I drop it in the basket. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I slash the scythe across the empty air until my arms feel like overcooked green beans, limp and wobbly. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z She neatly lines up little bags of beans, sugar, and laundry soap—items a local grocery store donates because the packages are damaged and cannot be sold. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z Before the jelly beans wear off, he thought but didn’t say. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z Hazel reached the hedge, crossed a narrow turf verge on the other side and found himself looking straight down a long, shadowy aisle between two rows of beans. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z And everything that grows: frangipani, jacaranda, mangwansi beans, sugarcane, breadfruit, bird of paradise. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z She pulled the wagon into the shade by the side of the new house and took from her shirt pocket a blue-colored jelly bean. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z He kept everybody laughing in the bean field. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z Dina’s talking about a stir-fry that Molly has thrown together for the three of them after returning from the library in Bar Harbor: tofu, red and green peppers, black beans, and zucchini. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z When I went to take out the cereal piece, I found four purple jelly beans instead. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z People in Central America domesticated maize and beans without knowing anything about wheat and pea cultivation in the Middle East. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Samuel had said that Tom always took too much on his plate, whether it was beans or women. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Just before he stepped out, he bent down and grabbed a can of green beans from the nearest shelf. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z And in first grade I wore a cherry jelly bean costume for Halloween, and Dad said, “Well, I guess Mila’s pretty princess days are over.” Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Then Ma put on the boiled potatoes and cabbage and meat, the baked beans, the hot johnny-cake and the baked Hubbard squash, and she poured the tea. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z Beans bared his green-and-yellow teeth and breathed baked beans into his face. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z I soak kidney beans, and wash the rice and set it aside. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z There are sacks of flour, beans, and dry corn scattered on the floor. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z We could make ravioli and garlic bread, quesadillas with beans and rice on the side, vegetable soup, a spinach salad with dried cranberries and blue cheese, or chili with corn bread. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z I look at the baskets of beans and squash we’ve already gathered. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z He came back with a handful of roasted coffee beans. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z Samp and beans was the best meal that the prison prepared, and in this case, the authorities put in more beans and gravy than usual. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z You don't plant beans till the weather's hot. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z It felt like a thousand pounds of refried beans had just been dumped onto my head. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z After the ham, macaroni and cheese, fried okra, biscuits, green beans swimming in butter, and sweet tea, Mama and Aunt Lena cleared the table and brought out the pies. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z Still, my cousins eat my stewed turkey, my rice and beans, cassava fritters, fried plantains, and the best one of all, my soup joumou. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z So, since Emma was out of the room, and since nobody had labeled the jar as theirs, Jake popped open the top and gobbled down the jelly beans, one fistful at a time. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z I pushed the bean to the side of my mouth and bowed my head. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Gus whistled while he hoed around the tiny tomato plants, stepping carefully between the pole beans and zucchini that were just beginning to poke through the warm spring dirt. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z So, with nothing to lose but those beans, I just kept picking them up, slowly, one after another. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z A big bag of pinto beans cost under a dollar and would feed us for days. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z But this only if there were any money left after the bean oil and the soybean sauce had been bought. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z His mother had a soup they could eat, she said: five kinds of beans, onions and celery, a ham shank, two small turnips. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z I am filled with sudden loathing—I’ll bet he’s never taken payment in the form of beans and eggs in his life. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z And pinto beans—were they always so colorful? In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Just the other day I was shellin’ beans—right at this here table—and I almost stepped on his hand. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z He staggered under his load like an ant carrying a jelly bean. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Please pass the green beans and by the way I have fifty thousand... Lawn Boy 2007-06-12T00:00:00Z Why, some of the bean vines had wound themselves all the way into the very treetops, striving for light. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z In several empty ice cream cartons on top of the filing cabinets beans were already sprouting little vines. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z I hadn’t realized how hungry I am until I smell the fried chicken, string beans, macaroni and cheese, and homemade dinner rolls. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z And when Miss Celia burns the beans, I try and use some of that self-control my mama swore I was born without. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z I wasn’t exactly sure what sunstroke was, but it sounded like something that might make you see flying cats and magic jelly beans. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z It was as if my calves had sacks of dried beans tied to them. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z I warm up bowls of beans and rice, which we already had two days in a row. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z When I be younger, I pick the tomato, the cucumber, the bean, the cotton. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z It took a moment to realize one of the boys had a bean shooter. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z He uncorked the bottle of Chablis, divided the peaches and the cheese and the bean curd. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z His mother had finished the beans by now. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z Wang Lung measured unwillingly into the skin of his uncle’s robe a small heap of beans and a precious handful of corn. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z Beans and carrots, or beans and peas, maybe, but never beans and beans. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z Besides, she was just an old woman full of beans anyway, so I decided to call her bluff. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z She sat at a table near the windows, rolling around a few green beans on her plate and flipping through the pages of a book. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z ‘Bonecrunching Giant only gobbles human beans from Turkey,’ the Giant said. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z They sat by the fire and filled their mouths with beans and chewed mightily. Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z She’d stopped in the middle of a row of beans and faced Mary with fascinated curiosity. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z My dinner is beans and hot dogs and salad, with cookies and a pear at the end. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z Today a pair of shoes was worth two cans of beans and a box of pasta. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z Before long, he was thumping around the house, thin as a string bean, swallowing buckets of food to regain the weight he’d lost. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z We ate mostly corn and beans—yellow corn, from America. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z Now and then she drank water and nibbled the rest of the beans and salt. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z He buys Enrique a plate of eggs and refried beans and a soda, another gift. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z Pork chops smothered in gravy, green beans floating in butter, cornbread hot and fluffy. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z People in Central America cook corn with lime and serve it with beans. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z The supper was baked beans and broccoli and two slices of ham and they were laid out on the plate so that they were not touching. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z “Stuffing, mashed potatoes, string beans, cranberry sauce—all the side dishes. I hear turkey doesn’t have a lot of flavor.” Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z A small fire with a metal grate slid overtop where they were cooking beans in a tin pot. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z Someone halfheartedly whizzed a bicycle chain over the top of the file cabinets and knocked the bean plants to the floor. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z From the deep freeze he fetched rimed cartons of beans and strawberries, twenty years old. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z Quite a few men had brought their own tortillas and cold beans, or bean dip; in the helicopter there were large thermos jugs of coffee. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z I also asked him to make the pasta for the first course: morels sauteed in butter with thyme and, for color, the tiny fava beans, over fresh egg fettuccine. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z From a street vendor, Tariq bought them each a plate of boiled beans topped with thick cilantro chutney. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z He threw his empty bean can off into the brush. Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z “See? I haven’t eaten a single magical jelly bean but—BOOM—I’m doing that kind of math in my head.” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z Between the disaster at the DA’s office and King, my ribs and baked beans look disgusting. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z As soon as Beans tore open his presents—baseball from Palmer, pocketknife from Henry, Campbell’s baked beans from Mutto—Mutto called out, “Treatment! Treatment!” and dragged Beans outside. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z Eventually, they became such good friends that they even ate leftovers—beans, rice, and potatoes—from the same plate. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z “Because you ate the jelly beans! Fate put them there and you gobbled down your destiny.” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z That was something Tea Cake loved so no matter if Janie had fixed beans two or three times during the week, they had baked beans again on Sunday. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z “And remember this when you’re eating beans and washing in the river. I’ll still be here the day you leave with nothing but your hands in your pockets.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Emily pokes her fork into a baked chicken nugget that sits next to wilted green beans and an apple on her lunch tray. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z Alex asked as he devoured in three bites his lunch of red cabbage and baked beans. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z This task kept her busy throughout the day and demanded so much of her time that the family began to complain that all there ever was for dinner was old string beans and jellied quince. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z The beans were put into a shiny brass hopper, and the great wheel was turned with two hands. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z The sky spoke of rain to come; but the light was broadening quickly, and the red flowers on the beans began to glow against the wet green leaves. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z In place of roses it was full of thick pole beans and hard green cabbages and strong carrots. Missing May 1992-03-01T00:00:00Z I do make my lunch almost every day—usually some slow-burning, high-protein combo like frozen chicken patties with melted cheese on top and canned pinto beans on the side. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z ‘All of them is having their own special ways of catching the human bean,’ the BFG said. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z I serve up a few bowls, and without looking up to see who my next customer is, I say, “Would you like to try our new white bean chili?” Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z She was probably eighty years old, but she could still carry one of the giant trays that held a dozen bowls of cowboy beans. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z Wood smoke and oil fumes, bodies and cigarettes, bangers and beans, sweet and sour manure. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z With water siphoned off from the Los Angeles-bound aqueduct, a large farm was under cultivation just outside the camp, providing the mess halls with lettuce, corn, tomatoes, eggplant, string beans, horseradish, and cucumbers. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z “I bet you never heard the joke about the teacher and the beans,” she said. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z “You just watch your mouth or you’all will be eating beans next month.” Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z On the floor she had two shopping bags full of canned peaches, real peaches, beans wrapped in taro leaves, cookies, Thermos bottles, enough food for everybody, though only her niece would eat with her. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z There were also beans, watermelon, squash, and other vegetables. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z Claire filled her plate from a large bowl of soft beans that had been baking all day in a sauce of tomatoes and herbs, and added a piece of soft bread. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z He had a V plate of boiled beans in one thick, stub-fingered hand. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z I see us yet, chasing the setting sun down the ribbon of road between the bean rows, in the ’!• A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z Her mother set the dish back in the center of the table and speared a green bean with her fork. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z “And if you don’t mind beans—” The ground rumbled and rolled as I stepped out of the barn. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z Here was the menu: smothered chicken, rice and gravy, butter beans, sliced tomatoes, biscuits, and candlelight. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z “You guys are a family of three, so you can grab three cans, plus a bag of dry beans.” Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z ‘But human beans is squishing each other all the time,’ the BFG said. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z “How long will the can of beans last us?” The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z “Boiled eggs, fried bread, and beans. And a jug of wine. The worst wine in the cellar.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z The Marshes stood awkwardly in the kitchen and stared at the pot of rice and the pot of beans. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z ‘They is fighting and squarreling a lot with each other, but never guzzling. Human beans is more tasty to them.’ The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Among her armload of presents were a teddy bear; jelly beans wrapped in cellophane; copies of GQ, The Atlantic Monthly, Esquire: good God, I thought, since when does Francis read magazines? The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z We also had mashed potatoes, gravy, green beans, corn, cranberry sauce, and pumpkin pie. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z A few beans slipped out of the side of Lennie’s mouth. Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z One of the boys in my group had eaten some undercooked beans that had made his stomach swell with gas. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z “I propose a Triwizard Trivia Tournament. If you get a question right, you choose your own bean. If you get it wrong, someone chooses for you.” What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z “African bugs, Leah. Creatures fashioned by God for the purpose of serving African plants. Look at this thing. How would it know what to do with a Kentucky Wonder bean?” The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z And she returned most of the beans to the tureen and gave it to the person next to Mrs. Mole and led Mrs. Mole off. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z Anyway, fellowship at Christ Temple really means snack time, and snack time really means fried or baked chicken, potato salad, green beans, pound cake, and soda. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z Henry shoved a fork into the beans, raised it almost to his mouth, then set it down without taking the bite. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z In the afternoons she sat in the kitchen with Lee and helped him to string beans or slip peas from their pods. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z They’d brought slabs of hard salt beef, dried cod, dried beans, turnips, carrots, sacks of barley meal and wheaten flour, pickled eggs, barrels of onions and apples. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z The beans were dry, but she could soak them. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z “But they would have asked the bean of a darker roast and they would have liked a little chicory for bite.” Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z We stop on the concrete around the metal bean, where the Erudite sit in small groups with newspapers or books. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z George undid his bindle and brought out three cans of beans. Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z Ophie said nothing, just scooped beans into her mouth until they were gone. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z Less well known are Africa’s combination of sorghum, African rice, and pearl millet with cowpeas and groundnuts, and the Andes’ combination of the noncereal grain quinoa with several bean species. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z I left the fresh beans and carrots and onions on the woodblock table, but everything else got put away in cupboards that, if you asked me, were pretty full already. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z And most nights Mrs. Grasso sent one of the kids down to invite her and Papa to join them for heaping plates of pasta or bowls of garlicky soup with chi chi beans. I Survived the Great Molasses Flood, 1919 2019-09-03T00:00:00Z If only she had picked up the beans. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z There are brown beans in everything, including the bread. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z There was beans and rice, fried chicken, ribs, plantains, and corn on the cob. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z “I happen to love green beans, you know. When my dad sautés them in garlic with just a touch of olive oil...” George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z “There’s fried chicken, baked beans, coleslaw, and peaches. Want me to make you a plate?” Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z Comfort food: pot roast, green beans, and garlic mashed potatoes. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z “It refers to coffee beans, Mama,” I tell her calmly. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z He had peeled and pounded yams and cassava, blown out the husks in rice, picked out the weevils from beans, peeled onions, and ground peppers. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z I caught up with him at the base of Listening Rock, where he slurped his sloppy tongue all over my face in a frenzied Hurry up!, his breath smelling like lima beans. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z ‘Well, first of all,’ said the BFG, ‘human beans is not really believing in giants, is they? Human beans is not thinking we exist.’ The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z I sometimes requested samp and beans, which I used to eat as a boy. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z I put a scoop of rice and beans in my bowl. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z “I eat all the tiny seeds inside the string beans first.” Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z “Okay. Get my kid here a bowl of bean soup.” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z “Yeah. But I didn’t know that the jelly beans were a knowledge delivery system.” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z The dinner is baked ham and baked beans and baked potatoes and mashed squash. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z I fumbled my meal chit into one of the dull tin trays and collected a portion of steamed pudding, a sausage, and some of the ever-present beans. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z I held the front door open as Mama carefully carried out her pot by both handles, making sure not to spill the cooked beans. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z “Shall we have beans every day?” asked Janie and Bill, coming in from play. Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z She served mashed potatoes with butter in pools on the top, and green beans. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z After delivering the water home and snapping green beans into a big pot to steam with a cinnamon stick, Sitti took Liyana to meet a neighbor who was stringing orange beads on nylon thread. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z She stood in the kitchen, stirring a pot of green beans and taking swigs from the bottle of hooch in her pocket. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z They grow potatoes, onions, leeks, beans, and tomatoes. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z They had waited nearly an hour on the sidewalk for their table and then feasted on flowering chives and salted squid and the clams in black bean sauce that Maxine loved best. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Wind raged, the bean leaves were covered with dust; they looked bedraggled, unhealthy, dying. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z They ate the little mushrooms together with the beans and drank tea and had tinned pears for their dessert. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z Do not proceed with other organisms until you can successfully grow the bean plant. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z A couple of hours after the mysterious jelly bean appearance during cerealball, my mom gave Robin and me each a grocery bag. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z I said gravely as I tore the crust off my bread and dropped it into my beans. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z There were no more lima beans—which, let me tell you, didn’t cause me much sorrow. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z We sit on chairs with red velvet seats and eat meat loaf with an egg cooked into the middle, chicken croquettes, black beans and white rice, fried plantains, and a salad with avocados. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z Nancy opened a cabinet and pulled down a can of Libby’s green beans. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z We had lunch on Howard’s front porch, sitting on the couch eating Vienna sausages and cold pork and beans off of paper plates on our laps. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z “You will be going to Columbia University when lima beans fly.” The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z In the soft earth of a bean, potato, black-eyed pea and asparagus patch there is plenty of food left over for mice after the human crop has been gathered. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z She had a lush mane of gold-brown hair like Hazel’s, and the same dark complexion, brown as a roasted coffee bean. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z “Wishbone dug up some beans last night,” I said. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z Everyone needed a partner to plant: one person made a hole with a stick and dropped in three com kernels, and the other person dropped in three beans and covered up the hole with dirt. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z ‘The giants is guzzling human beans...no, not that one...nor that one...here’s one!...And here’s another!...’ The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z There weren’t any beans here, but there must be berries. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z I watched her move green beans and fatback around the plate with the fork big in her small hand. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z “Did you eat some of my jelly beans, too?” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z Tearing through trees, trying to stay in the shadows, I had a bag loaded with cans of beans for the fellas. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z He dropped the ball, and Shirley fell on top of the bag like a piece of ripe bean curd. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z I felt ashamed that they had to carry me in like a sack of beans. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “Which was a remarkably dumb emotion for someone as smart as you and your jelly bean brain.” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z We greeted everyone, and Mom placed the bowl of bean and corn salad she’d made on the counter, which was already covered with enough food to feed more than six people. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z It was nothing like Tar- bean with its twisting alleys and garbage smell. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Yar came home with some dried beans and corn and sorghum. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z The beans were so overcooked that they fell apart when I stuck my fork in them and so salty that I could barely force myself to swallow. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z “For the last time for eight months we really had as much as we could eat. Anchovies in oil, baked beans, and jugged hare made a glorious mixture.” Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z Two black women sat stirring the beans and talking about a shared memory back from the city, about a play where the main actor had been too drunk to recite his lines. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z “If it’s a secret, we need to make sure you-know-who doesn’t spill the beans.” The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z By six o’clock she was exhausted, almost too weary to talk with Salvador, who came to sit beside her in Señor Rodrigo’s kitchen and eat a dinner of enchiladas, beans, and rice. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z There were so many colors, they looked like jelly beans. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z The pole beans looked better and the squash leaves spread like wide green hands shortly after I watered them. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z He was in his subbasement lab holding up a small plastic bag with one speckled purple jelly bean sealed inside. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z Did the United States government know about the jelly beans? The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z She sniffed the beans, and again an expression of pleasure and suspicion entered her eyes. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z The place where the whole jelly bean thing had started. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z After carrying countless kettlefuls to the green beans that morning, my arms felt as if they would fall right out of my shoulder sockets. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z I don’t like the pita bread, and the bean dip is too cold. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z “We expect a ship soon out of Liverpool carrying the finest teas and beans. Your business will be appreciated.” Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z That night in my rented room, while letting the hot water run over my can of pork and beans in the sink, I opened A Book of Prefaces and began to read. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Another Saturday I go again to the market and I buy bean plants. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z So I had followed along behind them while they pointed out each little plant, telling me how the pole beans were gonna climb up the twine and the zucchini would have giant yellow flowers. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z Obediently Matty moved the wooden ladle around in the pot and watched beans and chopped tomatoes churn in the thick mixture as it simmered. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z She handed Lina the bean seed, took a little pot from a shelf, scooped some dirt into it, and handed the pot to Lina, too. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z No can of beans ever survived his absence and on several occasions, returning late, he had found guests in his bed. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Unfortunately, for the next two weeks beans have been substituted for oatmeal or groats. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z My favorite portrait is of a woman who is thick like me, and dark brown like coffee beans. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z I always found it suspicious, because it had red kidney beans in it that looked like tiny eyes, corpse lights lit in the swamp of the green stew to draw weary Hobbitses to their graves. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z We called him The Boy Who Ate Beans, but as far as I know he never ate beans again. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z The menu's chips, beans, hamburgers, sausages, and fried egg. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z There are large wooden bowls of steaming beans, peas and squash, platters of roasted fish and venison, baskets of bread and fruit. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z We had bean cubes and fish sticks for dinner. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Close enough that I can smell the smoky sweetness of coffee beans on him. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z I hear the clink sound when I go to throw away the empty can of beans we had for dinner last night. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z I ate my first jelly bean slowly and carefully. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z I said I wanted baked beans and broccoli. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Emma wasn’t sure if it was because he’d had to claim in public that he liked lima beans, or if he was afraid someone else in the school office would overhear their secret code word. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z Mrs. Flores had selected two cans of kidney beans and put them on the counter. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z I crossed the Wabash tracks past the grain elevator on my way to Veech’s garage, eating the dust of the trucks hauling in the beans. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z Donovan smiled shakily, “Oh, that’s all right. The ship brought us here. The ship will take us back. Me for more beans.” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z “This isn’t a baked beans kind of house. Bandage first. Is there any hot water in the tap? I want to wash. I hate being covered in this...” The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z “Let’s see, I put the green beans in first, then I go on and get the pork chops going cause, mmm-mmm, I like my chops hot out the pan, you know.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z As I add scallions, bean sprouts, and mint leaves to my soup, Ma dips my spoon and chopsticks into the hot water, wiping them dry with her napkin before handing them back to me. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Daniel orders us patbingsoo, which turns out to be shaved ice with fruit, small, soft rice cakes, and sweet red beans. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z But when he’s preparing potatoes, beans or vegetables, he seems to be totally absorbed in his task. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z Or, in the case of our barren wasteland of a refrigerator, three-quarters of a thing of yogurt and half of a microwave bean burrito. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z He brought a little woven straw bag of red beans and a gourd full of rice. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z He usually took his pay in trade: flour, coffee, spice, dried beans, and canned goods; or put it on account for a day when we needed more than lobsters would buy. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z “I could use onion, parsley, and green beans.” Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z I investigate the sacks from Mrs. Krawiecka, and there are four kilos of beans, four kilos of flour, kasha, butter, salt, a sack of potatoes, and two cabbages. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z There was black bread and honeycakes and oaten biscuits; there were turnips and pease and beets, beans and squash and huge red onions; there were baked apples and berry tarts and pears poached in strongwine. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z “One of those jelly beans definitely had some grammar in it.” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z “Because, as you might recall, you ate my jelly beans.” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z Someplace cold, where they eat beans on Thursday and hang their wash on the line on Monday. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z We promptly began picking them up, but beans are so small and slippery that they roll into every conceivable corner and hole. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z I grab his arm and pull him under the arch of the metal bean. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z “This is a secret. Anyone who spills the beans has to pay double for their T-shirt. Understood?” Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z I weeded the bean patch and found a few hidden string beans for my efforts. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “Wait, wait,” Seven says over our laughter, “we gotta test him to see if he really is black. Chris, you eat green bean casserole?” The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z “Canned beans and hot dogs and something the Americans call salsa.” The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z “And what I say is, you can go home and open a can of beans,” shouted the maitre d’. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z Roast beef and Yorkshire pudding, green beans with almonds, orange salad, corn bread and cream of asparagus soup. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z He washed his face and ate the eggs and beans his grandmother prepared. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z In the bean field, drowsy in the late afternoon heat, Mary heard Atal’s voice, and she couldn’t tell excitement from alarm: had another tree fallen? The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z My socks are neatly folded over and my loafers polished a deep shiny brown, like roasted coffee beans. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Matt, between mouthfuls of beans, gave him the story Tam Lin had prepared. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Mr. Smeath says, “Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition,” and reaches for the baked beans. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z ‘I is thinking,’ said the Fleshlumpeater, ‘that you is catching human beans and keeping them as pets!’ The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z After a lunch of rice and beans, they pulled me into the dining room and shut the door tight. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z She was flushed with April sun and her mouth felt sticky from jelly beans and Easter candy. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Plus, there was a choice of buttered carrots, lima beans, french-fried onions, and potatoes au gratin. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z Kidney beans, peanuts, green and red chili peppers, sorrel, cress, and quinoa, yucca and cucumbers, and of course potatoes and corn were piled, steaming, into the people’s bowls. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z But as the “paper” got closer, we could see that it was really sacks of corn and beans. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z Take the number 5—it’s a jelly bean shape, red-brown, like the color of Carolina mud. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z Dinner in the Mess was brown bread with butter, stew, and beans. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z We were in her garden, planting more corn and beans that would continue to bear after the crops we’d planted in May were done. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z We ate Doña Ana’s rice and beans with stringy fried chicken and waited in the yard, huddled together. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z A large pot with beans was hanging by the edge of the fire. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Whenever he drained a pot of boiled beans, he thought of the slimy sink as a politician. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z There was a bean- bag chair that leaked small pellets. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z And then he'd spill the beans about the terrible thing she was about to do. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z The boat assignments really didn’t amount to a hill of beans for now. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Charles fried salt pork, warmed up a skillet of beans, fried eggs. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Seven took the vial back from Thorn and put it into her rucksack, which was filled with jelly bean fish pods, just in case. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z “One of those jelly beans linked to a travel app?” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z Our weekly lunch menu consists of brown beans, split-pea soup, potatoes with dumplings, potato kugel and, by the grace of God, turnip greens or rotten carrots, and then it’s back to brown beans. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z He was tall and skinny and looked like a giant string bean. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z Dad shoveled in a spoonful of beans and corn bread. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z I buy licorice whips, jelly beans, many-layered blackballs with the seed in the middle, packages of fizzy sherbet you suck up through a straw. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z “You don’t need to explain now. You just had the beans scared out of you. jCaray! I got scared watching you. Come inside where you can have a bath and something to eat.” The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z They had eaten one ham and traded one for beans and flour at the store. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z They weren’t any older than Fidelito, who had lost his battle with airsickness and was coating the plastic strips in secondhand beans and tortillas. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z “He’s four feet tall and as skinny as a bean pole.” The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z I wanted to get out of there before Joe spilled the beans about our plan. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z Soon I grew tired of walking and planting and started dumping beans by the handful, quickly covering them with dirt so Mamita couldn’t see. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z But for now, the only thing I knew for sure was that purple jelly beans tasted way better than bran cereal. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z I now placed a bean in each of the holes. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z The mother prepared mashed beans and canned milk for the infant. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z I sprinted to the end of the runner beans. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z I started eating my baked beans and broccoli and two slices of ham. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z To provide ourselves with a source of nutrition that will keep, aside from the hundred cans of food we’ve stored here, we bought three hundred pounds of beans. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z If the beans started going bad, we’d just put extra spice in them, like the Mexicans at the LBJ Apartments always did. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z I’m no Big Ma in the kitchen, but I would have opened a can of beans and fried up some franks. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z Jomon sites often contain remains of edible plants that are native to Japan as wild species but are also grown as crops today, including adzuki bean, mung bean, and barnyard millet. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Samantha puts down a bean and sits in front of me. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z “Very true,” said Aunt Petunia, who was still squinting into next door’s runner beans. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z Mom fished a blue jelly bean out of her candy bag. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z I like taking these walks during dinnertime because of the dinner smells wafting from the houses—toasted chiles, stewed meat, boiled beans. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z Dinner was beans and rice with chunks of chicken. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z Dimple was sure she’d go nuts if he didn’t spill the beans soon. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z Far along the bean row Hazel glimpsed Buckthorn’s back and followed him into the depths of the field. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z He reaches in his pocket and shows me the assortment of extremely protective beans and seeds I stowed there. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z The potatoes were in the oven, the beans in a covered pan, the table set with forks and a platter of sliced tomatoes and glasses of water. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z How long could a can of chicken soup and a dented can of string beans last? The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z She’d been shelling butter beans on the porch, and sweat glistened on the pearls of hair around her forehead. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z And he went away and in a little while he came back, bringing tied in a cotton kerchief a double handful of small red beans, mouldy with the soil. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z She laid a trail of beans leading to a very deep, circular hole in the ground. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z While other kids were swimming and playing baseball, de la O was out in the hot sun, weeding, picking beans, and pulling heavy sugar beets out of the ground. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z Inside the house, for instance, inside a bean basket with the lid on tight. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z She knew some famous American foods had molasses in them, like baked beans and gingerbread. I Survived the Great Molasses Flood, 1919 2019-09-03T00:00:00Z “But I wouldn’t eat none, George. I’d leave it all for you. You could cover your beans with it and I wouldn’t touch none of it.” Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z ‘I is not understanding human beans at all,’ the BFG said. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Everything was gone, used over months of bartering for cans of beans and bags of rice. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z Gale and I head down to lunch, where we’re served bean and onion stew, a thick slice of bread, and a cup of water. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z "Eat some chicken before you go. And some rice and beans. I'll make you a tamale. What do you want?" How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Where was the little girl who planted the bean seeds? Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Jim had found a use for it: as a trellis for his string beans. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z He opened up a can of C rations, pork and beans, but the baby buffalo wasn’t interested. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Her gentle efforts to guide the hand of destiny, by decoying her master with fertile tricks or by reticent considerations these had not bean strong enough to be recognized in the despotism of fife. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z A big kettle of cabbage and meat was boiling on the stove; a big pan of beans and a johnny-cake were baking in the oven. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z Sure enough it is half full of beef and beans. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z ‘Map? I is never hearing these words before. Is this Air Force bean talking slushbungle?’ The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z She looked for a heavy pan to fry the green beans, but she couldn’t find one. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z I mean, one minute you’d see her snapping string beans and cutting corn off the cob. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z As she leads me out of her office, I swipe three jelly beans from the bowl. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z Maybe the jelly beans weren’t real, and I was just tired or sick. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z I told him yes anyway, I really wanted to make it, so we drove all the way to the Asian supermarket to get adzuki beans and sesame oil. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z If so, he hoped the jelly beans wore off before it happened to him. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z The old man dry-farmed beans and some corn two years hand running, but during those two years the rains never came, or they came too late, and his crops failed. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The bean plants stood erect in thrifty order, casting as they stood little fringes of clear shadow in the sunshine. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z It only takes five days in hot weather for a Kentucky Wonder bean to gather up its vegetable willpower and germinate. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z They’d eaten cold beans and were trying to ignore their thirst. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z When Roberto was finished, Mama placed the pot of beans on one of the burners. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z “Hey,” I say, “you want to have dinner with me and my dad? It’s Saturday night so it’ll be hot dogs and baked beans.” Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z Coupled with squash, beans, and avocados, maize provided Mesoamerica with a balanced diet, one arguably more nutritious than its Middle Eastern or Asian equivalent. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z “That old woman eat two butter beans and say she full. I couldn’t get her to eat nothing.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z “They were on their way to lure the Nightbeast to town as well. Just check their satchels—they are filled with jelly bean fish!” Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z One night the group of boys I was marching with pooled the last of our beans and water. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z She gave me a short, hard look and then stirred the pot of beans she had on the stove. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z “Tell your mama her beans will go perfect with the killed lettuce. I hope Mrs. Odom is bringin’ her famous corn pone,” Stella’s mother said as she stirred another pot. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z When everyone had left, his mother and sister went back to picking off the tails of all the bean sprouts. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z There were sliced bread and steak and fried potatoes and gravy and string beans and spinach and a huge piece of chocolate cake. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z I smother my green beans with mashed potatoes. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z “Well, right now you can buy fruit and all kinds of vegetables for two bits a lug. And in the winter you know what we pay for canned peaches and canned string beans.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z ‘Jack is the only human bean all giants is frightened of,’ the BFG told her. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z “Black beans and rice, fried bananas, and some stew.” The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z In New England it was used to make baked beans, brown bread, and pumpkin pie. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z Scott hated baked beans, but both George and her mother loved them. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z Mamita tied a cloth around my shoulder and made a sling where she put a few handfuls of beans. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z We have this old piano, and on Friday nights we’d sing and eat beans on toast and watch telly all together and have a laugh. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z Villagers in the satellite settlements exchanged products with the center, sending beans uphill and obtaining llama jerky in return, all the while retaining their citizenship in a homeland they rarely saw. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z “Because I am that dough, Mom! Am I the chocolate chip or the vanilla bean? I’m not really sure.” Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z Valley pulled a jelly bean fish from her bag, put it in another egg-shaped pod, and tossed it to Seven. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z I look behind me, half expecting to see a sniggering back-row guy who beaned me with an eraser. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z ‘The human bean,’ the Giant went on, ‘is coming in dillions of different flavours. For instance, human beans from Wales is tasting very whooshey of fish. There is something very fishy about Wales.’ The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z He’d park himself on our dusty front-porch steps, fold his suit jacket neatly on the glider, roll up his sleeves, and read to me from the Psalms and Deuteronomy while I shelled beans. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z One day, while she’s saying, .. got a white baby on one arm, green beans in the pot—” she stops. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z Every so often he would look up the stairs to my sister’s room, then back down at his lima beans. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z “Because I don’t need that jelly bean. Probably the nasty-tasting licorice one...” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z A can of chicken and another of kidney beans. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z She could go on and in her sorrow put a pot of beans in the oven, bake six pies, and plan to exactness how much food would be necessary properly to feed the funeral guests. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z In the produce section in the bottom of the bins they found a few ancient runner beans and what looked to have once been apricots, long dried to wrinkled effigies of themselves. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z “And—I’m so sorry, Delsie—they took some of your mother’s things. Jewelry. Pins. Old coins. Lots of stuff that wouldn’t mean a hill of beans to other people but us.” Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z Dylan gags on a vomit-flavored bean as I watch the movie. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z People get seventy years, a bean plant gets four months, maybe five. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z Dinner was a somber affair, with Ophie and her mother eating warmed Heinz baked beans from a can. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z The dried meat, beans, and onions that usually hung from the ceiling had vanished. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I nodded and began to spoon up my beans. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Kindra carries a plate of beans and ham to her daddy and comes back to the stove for more. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z When she wakes up, we eat turkey from last night and some bean salad. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z Each morning my uncle cooked food for us over the fire, usually mutton and beans. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z “What do you two know about jelly beans?” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z Usually after service we went down to the basement and had cake, fried or baked chicken, and string beans. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z ‘You is a human bean and you is saying it is grizzling and horrigust for giants to be eating human beans. Right or left?’ The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z There was nothing to do, after they had gathered several bushels of dried beans to save over and sell to the planters in the fall. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z “Nothing,” he said, looking at all of us as we crowded between the butter beans and the okra. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z “No—she’s good all the way through. I’ll tell you— if we don’t have meat to cook with the beans, why she just goes ahead and cooks the beans anyhow.” Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z They squatted in the road and ate cold rice and cold beans that they’d cooked days ago. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z I peeked inside and saw a fresh tortilla, stuffed with rice and beans and onion and red salsa and green cilantro and grilled chicken. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z At the end of each performance, they hosted a reception, serving rice and beans, and Fanta and Coke in glass bottles. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z "Clean water to drink. "A big plate of rice and beans every day. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Hazel stopped short on the edge of the beans. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z When Craig and I were very young, we pulled a brand-new carton of Newports from a shelf and set about destroying them, snapping them like beans over the kitchen sink. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z After breakfast I milked the cow and planted some more of the garden: melons, beets, and several rows of beans. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z The baked beans and the broccoli and the ham were cold but I didn’t mind this. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Tonight it’s pizza, a fruit cup, soggy green beans, and milk. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z “Yeah, I like green beans,” Hassan said, trying to change the subject as quickly as possible. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z Grandfather found a small bag of roasted coffee beans the thieves had overlooked, and he cooked a pot for us, army style. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z ‘You can go looking into every crook and nanny. There is no human beans or stringy beans or runner beans or jelly beans or any other beans in there.’ The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z He liked best little green soft butter beans and he stacked them in a neat pile on the prongs of his fork. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z Jesse had finished all the picking and helped his mother can the beans. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z Lots of okra and dried beans, and, since it was September, berries of every kind. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z I ate the rabbit’s body, rolling my tongue over my lips to lick off the sticky bean paste. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z “We may not have much in the fridge, but we have coffee,” she said, triumphantly holding up a package of beans from Calaca. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z Werfel stepped back again, closing his fists, ready to bean opponents if necessary. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z And yet, by 2100 BCE, the Hohokam peoples of that area had traded for, and were cultivating, corn, beans, squash, and cotton. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z Some people started worrying, looking ahead to ripe beans and tomatoes and thinking about strangers coming in. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z The food was a thick soup of vegetables, beans and barley, and it filled Tristran and contented him. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z Wish it had been toad for dinner, not tinned carrots, baked beans, and Heinz meatballs in gravy. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z She visited Aunt Chipo’s hut and took a box of matches and a bag of beans. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z “No, he literally meant grind my own beans. Basic-training coffee sucked.” Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z Closely related species replace each other geographically among the amaranths, beans, chenopods, chili peppers, cottons, squashes, and tobaccos. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z His own obviously came from his appetite for cold baked beans out of a can, anytime, day or night. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z In the kitchen I saw the big plate of picadillo with rice and black beans. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z Just as she would never align a pine needle with the leaf of a cottonwood tree, she would never put the jars of tomatoes next to the green beans. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z Lunch was a bowl of steaming-hot potato soup, beans, narrow rashers of fatty bacon, and fresh brown bread. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z He made himself baked beans on toast and sat at the kitchen table wondering about the best order to look through the downstairs rooms. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z The beans are so hard it took three days to soak them. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z There were all kinds of green vegetables in the chow yuk—string beans and pea pods, and also pieces of diced chicken. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z Would there really be enough beans to last, she wondered. Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z Ham and green beans and mashed potatoes with biscuits and gravy. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z But to have put that flat white bean in the dirt, to have almost forgotten about it, and now to see it forcing its way up into the air ... The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z From the kitchen my mother brought forth the succession of dishes: lentils with fried onions, green beans with coconut, fish cooked with raisins in a yogurt sauce. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z When he came in at noon and at night he ate well of the food which O-lan prepared for him, good rice and cabbage and bean curd, and good garlic rolled into wheat bread. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z Vietnamese girl was working there, picking beautiful lima beans. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z He ate two more spoonfuls of frozen red beans, then walked back to the bedroom. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z I drag myself into a state of relative alertness, eat a can of potato and bean stew, and sit against the wall facing the door. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z She grabbed two of the jelly bean fish from the bag in her bare hands and looked back at Seven and Thorn. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z Moby shook his head between mouthfuls of rice and beans that he shoveled in with his hand. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z Big Lake Okechobee, big beans, big cane, big weeds, big everything. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z She used lean-cut meat, dark kidney beans, carrots cut small, a bottle or so of dark beer, and freshly sliced hot peppers. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z “They won’t,” I responded, placing the bean pot on the kerosene stove. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z “No, but all I eat on ships are beans. Something else would be first choice.” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z Mr. Dell Duke had a large jar of jelly beans on his desk. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z In elementary school, did you learn that some Indigenous peoples thought of corn, beans, and squash as “the three sisters”? Did you help plant a “three sisters” garden as a school project? An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z The mere 700 miles of north—south distance prevented Mexican corn, squash, and beans from reaching the U.S. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Eliza shoved a bowl of beans at Joseph to cut him off. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Nelson could make a rabbit stew with mangwansi beans and mangoes that even Rachel couldn’t help eating, it was that good. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z ‘You is talking to a human bean, that’s what I is thinking!’ The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z A can of spinach, two cans of green beans, a box of rice and another of instant mashed potatoes. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z He’d put it by because it was the boy’s favorite, pork and beans. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z The chocolaty sauce of the chicken enchiladas spilled out of the rolled-up tortillas and mixed in with the rice and beans, making the dish extra delicious. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z We had black beans and oxtails and collard greens and rice. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z Some of it I don’t recognize, but there’s a list on the refrigerator door: stuffing, cranberry sauce, macaroni and cheese, collard greens, black-eyed peas, sweet potato pie, Haitian rice and beans. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z Hoe that cornfield again, scrub that porch, weed that bean patch. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z The men who belonged to the Nation were easy to recognize, standing in front of their storefront mosques with their bow ties and bean pies. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z And so it was that Colin dined that evening primarily on rice and green beans. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z I followed, carefully counting out three smooth beans and letting them fall into each hole and patting dirt on top. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z The puppy at the Palace was growing like a pole bean, and having a thousand generations of training behind her, she began to train herself. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z The stewardesses brought us small trays fitted with square plates filled with sauce over chicken, mushy rice, and boiled string beans. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z Outside lay Celia’s garden filled with stands of corn, tomatoes, beans, peas. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z So the very next morning Janie got ready to pick beans along with Tea Cake. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z A small garden on the side of the house seems to be growing only a trellis of neglected beans. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Instead, he ate sadza and chicken and beans with his family. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z I’m sitting across from her with a pot of dry beans, sifting for little rocks. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z How Tony had put the jelly beans in the greenroom, backstage at the hotel. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z “I don’t know,” said Lina, staring at the hard, flat bean. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Inside are tidy piles of hummus, carrot sticks, and edamame beans. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z He went straight home after work and opened a can of pork and beans. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z Maybe I imagined the sound, or maybe it’s something else, like the can of beans from dinner the night before last. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z We sit around the kitchen table and munch on black beans and rice with steak from the Cuban restaurant in town. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z That’s how we remove mold from the beans and restore them to their original state. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z Here, there’s so much dirt that you could probably plant fifty bean seeds and no one would even notice. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z “You think half a can of beans is going to make you strong again?” The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z The saving to Lee Chong in cans of beans and tomatoes and milk and watermelons more than paid the rent. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z I separated out the bean sprouts and seaweed from my noodles, making a pile on the side of my bowl. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z A few days ago, I tried to make beans, but they never softened, even though I boiled them for three hours. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z Mrs. Hidalgo came out of the back room, her arms full of bags of coffee beans. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z He was laughing and talking and telling stories and singing the whole time, all the time it took to pick the last of the beans and pull all those carrots and beets.” Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z The neighbors slipped away to go to their houses, and Juana squatted by the fire and set her clay pot of boiled beans over the little flame. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z “Kids are asleep. There’s fried ham and beans. Potatoes and creamed corn. I can warm it for you.” Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z He dropped the beans into the bucket and swatted with both hands. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z Now each time we go upstairs, we bend over and hunt around so we can present Mrs. van Daan with a handful of beans. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z They include such familiar crops as wheat, barley, peas, beans, and grapes. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z They’d finished the macaroni and beans by lunchtime the day before, and with the minimal amount of food in each bag, there was no way they could survive on what he alone would bring home. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z Elbows flew as everyone scooped the mushy rice and black beans topped with avocado picked from the tree in our courtyard. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z ‘And sometimes human beans is very overcome when they is hearing wonderous music. They is getting shivers down their spindels. Right or left?’ The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Like magic a crepe forms to be filled with shrimp and eaten with cucumber and bean sprouts. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z He also picked out three jars of bean soup, bamboo shoots, fish killies with their heads still on, and a lot of other delicious items. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z I knew my father could taste those Kentucky Wonder beans as surely as any pure soul can taste heaven. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Uncle Stanley sometimes sneaked down beans he’d boiled for us, but he was afraid if he stayed talking, Erma would think he’d taken our side and get mad at him, too. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z “Your friend is being paid with food and shelter. I cannot give him back his wealth. Meereen needs beans more than it needs rare spices, and beans require water.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z "That leaves three beans for each us," Ben had cracked to Eleanor earlier. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z Pascal and Patrice helped me scratch up a little plot that eventually produced a few bleak, dusty bouquets of spinach and beans, which were gobbled up one night by our neighbor’s goat. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z She handed me a tray of bean sprouts and pointed to an empty row. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z Fiona’s home, larger than the cabin that Nathan and his father shared, sat neatly between several rows of corn and beans. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z Instead of being tagged and called “it” like the way human beans play the game, out here the ones that got got, got ate up. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z It was steaming hot, and we enjoyed the string beans and white potatoes in the beef stew. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z It was the big back-to-school dinner that night—roast beef, green beans almondine, cheese soufflé and some elaborate lentil dish for the vegetarians. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z First I give them all the food in my pack, grain and dried beans mostly, but there’s enough to hold them for a while if they’re careful. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z Back up the scale with the sandwiches: Mr. Talbert looked at me and said... he’d never learn to sit on the pot... of beans every Thursday night. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z After the harrow, for the next two days came the Fitzgibbons themselves, all four of them with hoes and bags of seeds, planting lettuce, beans, spinach, potatoes, corn and mustard greens. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z She woke early, sometimes even before Papi, cooked the beans and rice for our supper, ironed our school uniforms and her work clothes, and bathed, powdered, and stuffed herself into her tortuous undergarments. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z She filled it with lucky beans to make up for the lack of proper beads, and hurled it far into the lake. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Every so often, his father went to the marketplace by bicycle and brought home bags of beans and rice. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z Here in Bat Deng’s market, long homemade wooden tables display dried fish, slabs of pork, yellow naked chickens, green beans, white corn, red tomatoes, orange mangoes, ripe guava, papayas, and some precooked food. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “Dad,” I asked, “did you buy some purple jelly beans?” Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z We walked on the beach, fed blue corn chips to the seagulls, and munched on blue jelly beans, blue saltwater taffy, and all the other free samples my mom had brought from work. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z There was everything from beans and meat to fruit cocktail—-just like those canned goods we Navajos had gotten together on our food drive to help the poor earthquake victims. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z She set a sack of coffee beans on the table. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z In dreams I think of chiles and beans, and home. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z “Careful, Weasley, careful!” cried Professor Sprout as the beans burst into bloom before their very eyes. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z Valley stuffed the jelly bean fish back into her rucksack, and her face went red. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z The house smelled of corn bread and beans, the Coalwood staple. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z “I made all his favorites. Liver and onions, corn souffle, green beans, dinner rolls. We re having a feast tonight! ” The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z But then she thought about what he said, and she tried something new: She bought a small amount of chicken—a quarter pound—and mixed it with beans and cabbage. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z I would say at the present time she looked ready to bean somebody with a baseball bat. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z I fumbled it a little, and caught it before I had green bean juice all over my only suit. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z She usually cooked a pot of beans on the other burner. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z Jay scowled his face up like he did when we had green beans for dinner. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z Now, she saw, there were beans at the end of the row and tomatoes at the beginning. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z We are sitting in the kitchen, plucking the tails off the bean sprouts Grandma is making for dinner. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z I did my chores—tried to revive my sad little garden, cleaned the chicken coop, put a pot of beans on to simmer for supper. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z That was when he remembered the jelly beans. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z That was what he needed to give him an appetite for his beans. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z Alex put the vegetables and the juice boxes and the spinach and the lima beans and the rice and the Cheerios into his backpack. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z The place smelled like old lady, baked beans, and raisin toast. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z He doesn't know about the smell of a hayfield and eating beans off the vine instead of from the store. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z “Breakfast!” he hollered as he coasted by, beaning her on the forehead with a plastic-wrapped muffin. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z By this time, the beans had been passed to Phoebe. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z He supplemented his soup and rice with canned C rations he’d brought with him: familiar American food like beans and franks, even if he had to eat it cold from the can. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z “Turkey and stuffing. Gravy. Disaster movies. My mom drinking too much wine. Green bean casserole.” We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z A month later, huge, chaotic clumps of plants sprouted from the holes where I’d thrown handfuls of beans. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z In my mind, I pray real hard that there’s no beans and rice over there! Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z If you got up too fast, you were likely to get beaned by beans or potted by a pot roast. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z To Kaede, it looked like a white bean cake, but there was something different about its texture. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z He looked cautiously out from among the beans and then darted into the hedgerow. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z “It may only be beans, but you always have food here.” Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z I walked along the edge of our farm, past the beans and peas to the corn and the watermelons across from them, until I got to the tomatoes. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z Bowls of stewed butter beans with bits of crispy salt pork sprinkled on top were at each place on the table. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z Maybeth stood across the table from her grandmother and snapped the ends off the green beans. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z He watered all the plants, including the squash and beans that Nali had planted. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z The can was the preheating type with enclosed spoon and the warm odor of baked beans filled the room. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z “Them beans better be hot when your daddy wakes up!” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z Lee’s forefinger hung over a bean for a moment and then slowly fell and pushed it to make the 0 into a Q. He knew she was looking at him. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z That evening she went out and bought enchiladas, rice, and beans. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z “Well, I’d rather everyone have the same basic food on their plate,” Mom said, “instead of some rich people eating steak and some poor people eating beans.” Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z “From when I was a baby. Ma said every time she nursed me after she ate beans, I’d toot all night long. So she started calling me Beans.” Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z We walk to Millennium Park, where the mammoth bean sculpture reflects the moonlight, and then down a set of stairs. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z And stuff like that, through the meat loaf and green beans and canned peaches. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z Nana tossed creamed corn and green beans and artichoke hearts into our cart. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z I watched her as she began to eat, dipping a green bean into the salt before taking a bite. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z She served him a plateful of rice and beans and fried up a pork chop or two. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z “Why on earth are you sleeping in a kennel filled with background dogs, old bean? Have you been demoted?” Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z When he emerged, he was seated at a table and given a plate of tortillas and beans by a man in a black uniform with the emblem of a beehive on one sleeve. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z In the city, Yoren had loaded up the wagons with salt fish, hard bread, lard, turnips, sards of beans and barley, and wheels of yellow cheese, but every bite of it had been eaten. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Then she got out the green beans and began trimming them. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z Mrs. Dimblewit emerged from the crowd, climbed up the gazebo steps, and grabbed Seven’s rucksack and dumped out the jelly bean fish pods and potion vials. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z Mrs. Baxter gave us green beans and this thing with meat and potatoes all mixed together. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z The others went in for white bread and gravy mix sandwiches, lukewarm baked beans, pies made from cardboard and glue. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Rocky dunked his tortilla in the chili beans and kept chewing; he didn’t care what they said. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z The UN’s refugee agency had heard about all of us waiting in that field, and they arrived with dried corn, beans and lentils, oil, and salt. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z She’d set one place at the table and dished up the green beans, mashed potatoes, and meatloaf. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z I grew onions, eggplant, cabbage, cauliflower, beans, spinach, carrots, cucumbers, broccoli, beetroot, lettuce, tomatoes, peppers, strawberries, and much more. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z What if this turned out to be the exact moment the jelly beans wore off? The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z None of them got their smarts from jelly beans. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z At a quarter to six I swept the floor, dumped the dirt into a newspaper, along with the rotten beans, and tossed it into the stove. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z A deep-fried bean burrito, the bufriedo proved beyond the shadow of a doubt that frying always improves a food. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z “Then a little girl in the back raises her hand and says, ‘We’re all human beans!’” The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z “I don’t understand why they didn’t just give us a sack of rice and a bag of beans. It would keep this family fed for a month.” When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z To make soup we use brown beans, navy beans, potatoes, packages of vegetable soup, packages of chicken soup and packages of bean soup. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z “Two nights ago,” Jake explained, “Emma and I were hanging out in the greenroom. There was this jar of jelly beans.” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z Hermione asked timidly as they stripped fat pink pods from the plants and emptied the shining beans into a wooden pail. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z He walked in and sat down before a plate of rice, green beans, and what appeared to be very small chickens. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z Though Negroes apparently live on beans and rice in this area, it is no handicap. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Some insecticides affect sensitive plants such as beans, wheat, barley, or rye, retarding root development or depressing growth of seedlings. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z He forks rice and beans into his mouth. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z I remember Mom’s friend, Dr. Nguyen, but think Voxy’s tiny closet is way too small to be the universal seed vault where Mom contributed New Mexican corn, squash, and beans. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z She gives Chicho a huge helping of black beans and a huge mound of white rice and fried steak smothered with fried onions, and an entire plate of sweet fried plantains. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z I don’t have a bowl of beans and rice, but I do have my daddy’s words. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z While these discussions go on you are to imagine me bowling along on some little road or pulled up behind a bridge, or cooking a big pot of lima beans and salt pork. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Every day An Yi came to visit me, sometimes bringing me a bowl of sweet green bean soup from her grandmother. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z “I hate lima beans,” Alex said, remembering a time when he wouldn’t even eat them. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z It wasn’t all that thrilling, but Annabeth kept telling us interesting facts about how the Arch was built, and Grover kept passing me jelly beans, so I was okay. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z Because extensive fields of maize, beans, and squash surrounded every home, these settlements sprawled along the Connecticut, Charles, and other river valleys for miles, one town bumping up against the other. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Butter beans “But I did butter beans last week.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z Out in the field, after a battle in Kentucky or Virginia or Georgia, a dollar bill in your pocket would not be worth a can of beans. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z When Lupita came out in the morning to fix the family breakfast, beans piled into corn tortillas, she found Salvador asleep on the floor, rolled into a blanket. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z She shrugs and takes a can of beans from Edward, plunging her spoon into it. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z The dishes sit alongside Mom’s mashed potatoes and cranberry sauce, and Dad’s green beans with almonds. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z Past the cabbages and beans, down the path lined with gold and orange chrysanthemums. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Bandit scowled as she scattered the dried lima beans. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z “No. I change my mind. You find somebody else to spill the beans.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z Determined to finish quickly, I rip off the tails of the bean sprouts as fast as I can. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z “Stick the bean in here and water it every day,” she said. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z “Maybe not. Lana knows that wandering around the mountains looking for us wouldn’t amount to a hill of beans. Better to make a beeline for the one spot that’s most obviously a rendezvous point. Here.” The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z I watched her from the den window, and where Montego Drive curves like a kidney bean, she stopped, withdrew a hankie from her bra, and mopped her face. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z Next to a plate offering the gods beans and rice is her black midwife bag. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z “Because I don’t know about you, but I left my magic beans in my other shorts.” Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z She served him a plate of pork chops, butter-drenched green beans with bacon, and mashed potatoes with brown gravy, and she got out the piece of lemon cake she’d tucked up in the cupboard. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z He scooped a plastic spoonful of baked beans from his can and dumped it onto her shoe. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z We had rice most days for dinner, but I didn’t want it with peas or butter beans, or even collard greens. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z “And then there’s the untouched jelly bean fish,” Valley had added. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z Two of Redemption’s uncles were sitting at the long table, picking out stones from trays of dried beans, while his baby cousins played under the table. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z She banged a plateful of rice and beans in front of him, a fork, a glass of water. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z I watched her eat her macaroni and cheese and fried chicken and green beans and coconut cake while I pushed my food around my plate between tiny bites. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z Jesse made peanut-butter sandwiches for the little girls and himself, and because the kitchen was still hot and almost nauseatingly full of bean smell, the three of them went outside to eat. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z And every year they took the leftovers—the fat pieces of meat, the rice and beans, the bottles of soft drink and maltina and beer—home with them afterward. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z There were several sweet potatoes, green beans, two onions, and two cucumbers. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z They had finished eating the main meal and she was enjoying a turtle-shaped cake filled with sweet and soft red bean paste, a taste not known to her before. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z There were only about two or three dozen brightly colored jelly beans sealed inside. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z Then came lamprey pie, honeyed ham, buttered carrots, white beans and bacon, and roast swan stuffed with mushrooms and oysters. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Sometimes baked big pans of navy beans with plenty of sugar and hunks of bacon laying on top. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z “They are our history. Some families who like crafts even fill them with dried beans and pose them in favorite attitudes—a big hug, for example, or a beloved picnic.” The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z By nine o’clock, I was light-headed with hunger, so I sat down with Josephine in the kitchen of the steakhouse and ate a bowl of beans. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z Quietly, she fixes a special meal: tortillas, a pork cutlet, rice, fried beans with a sprinkling of cheese. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z I walked between the rows of beans, climbing up a twine grid, and the low, bushy vines spilling squash across the plot. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z Fadi looked at his budgeted options—cheeseburger minis with French fries or something called a “bean and cheese burrito.” Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z Probably she didn’t eat a single lima bean. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z It became fully terrifying when I realized that if my skin were permanently black, they would unhesitatingly consign my own children to this bean future. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z “The British Purchasing Agency? They can’t take it back. They’re paying twelve and a half cents for beans all over the country.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Vegetables such as peas, beans, and sugar beets are sometimes thus protected. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z But Hana’s not back yet, and Momma is spooning out the red beans and rice. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z I can only gaze longingly at the jelly beans, which are about a foot too far away to reach. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z My father mostly concentrated on his lima beans, until my sister pointed out that a steady diet of lima beans had already killed lab rats, and was probably killing us. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z “Lavalas, wash us like beans. Help us find the wicked and throw them out” She scooped the rotten beans off the surface where they floated, and pitched them out the door. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z And headed back toward the bass stands, eating the jelly beans as I went, so lost in thought that I almost tripped over Mouse, who lay sunning herself on the path. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z “Look at those,” he said, pointing at green beans that were well over a foot long. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z “You might plant some beans too,” said Lee. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z At the edge of the blackened field they ate the salt pork and the beans Boseman had prepared, the dry flies screeching in waves. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z A basket of fresh lettuce, hot bean paste. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Pythagoras himself fled for his life, and he might have gotten away had he not run smack into a bean field. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z So we had salmon and bean pies when I was little.” American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z After the animals had been tended to, the riders shared a simple supper of salt pork and cold white beans, washed down with ale. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z The third and last tureen was chock-full of baked beans. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z We had supper at five—homemade bread, butter, milk, red beans, spinach and a peach. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z “You can speak Spanish! The purple jelly bean worked.” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z Janie fussed around the shack making a home while Tea Cake planted beans. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z I get sacco beans, which are pinto beans marinated in oil and vinegar and crushed red pepper. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z There was some concern because things were being planted late in the season, but most of the vegetables had gotten a head start in a greenhouse: string beans, corn, tomatoes, squash, zucchini, cabbage, potatoes, broccoli. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z During “weeding combat,” which occurred between June and August, primary school students worked from four in the morning until dusk pulling weeds in corn, bean, and sorghum fields. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z There was a tiny refrigerator with food in it, and some canned stuff—peas, beans, peaches, things like that. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z Valley stuffed rancid jelly bean fish from the Uncle’s basement in Seven’s pockets, in the hood of her cloak—she even put one in her shoe. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z Apparently, none of the jelly beans carried the chemistry he needed for the concept of “trace evidence.” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z It was a little Oriental girl, with a trowel and a plastic bag of lima beans. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Of course, we have to be careful with the menu because of my allergies, but my mom always makes her version of a cassoulet—a French stew with chicken, sausage, duck, and white beans. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z In the candy aisle, he adds bars of chocolate to the cart, along with jelly beans, lollipops, and chunks of candied ginger. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Rather than our typical roasted pig and black beans, Airs. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z He would watch my beans break ground and spread, and would notice with pleasure their pods growing plump. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z People arrive at the church with smaller bundles of beans, oil, rice, and lentils. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z Cases of lentils, chickpeas, rice, beans, and dried foods obstructed the entrance. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z Bagman didn’t seem in any particular rush to spill the beans, though. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z He’d given her most of the beans, but even so he took much longer than she did. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z “Everybody knows it isn’t worth it. For a lousy sack or two of beans?” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Somebody had found a cache of coffee beans about two months earlier, and they had sent to Saigon for a coffee grinder. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Grandma insisted on finishing the soup and side dishes she was going to make with the bean sprouts, and then changed her clothes and did her hair and makeup. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z Great-uncle Edisto always cooked his famous corn bread and good black snap beans and corn on the cob, if it was summer. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z Before she leaves, the waitress also puts down a plate filled with fresh bean sprouts, lime slices, chopped scallions, whole red chili peppers, and mint leaves. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “By the way, at the risk of repeating myself, how about those purple jelly beans?” Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Alyce worked hard and lived mostly on beans, bread, and Jennet’s bad beer. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z “Do you have any purple jelly beans?” he asked. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z I went through my beans and half my ham before I answered him. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Mamá Jacinta gives me a giant plate of beans, rice, and shredded beef tostadas covered with sour cream, lettuce, and chopped tomatoes. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z By each name is a capsule description of what Yolanda might remember of that relative: the one with the kidney bean swimming pool, the fat one, the one who was an ambassador. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z We fell on the food, spooning the peppery bean soup ladled over fluffy rice into our mouths. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z If you are concerned about this score, we suggest you seek professional help regarding that ax issue and perhaps develop your level of responsibility, beginning with a single bean plant. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z He declared that he would rather be killed than cross the field of beans. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z And, of course, we could eat corn “as is”; the same was true of the beans. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z “Well, mister, we may look stupid, but that’s as far as it goes. I bet there’s nothing more than beans in them cans.” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z It looked like a neck, as if a creature in the bean were trying to escape but hadn’t yet managed to pull its head out. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z A handful of beans sprayed back at them as the food tumbled out of sight. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z “My dad cooks mostly hamburgers and opens cans of beans.” Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z The women were already on the ground, beans boiling over unattended. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z Places where people who have no home, no money, no hope gather together of an evening to share a fire and maybe some beans and coffee. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z I don’t need a bowl of magic beans and rice to tell me how to answer. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z ‘Not nearly as much as human beans. Human beans is crazy for sleeping. Is it ever occurring to you that a human bean who is fifty is spending about twenty years sleeping fast?’ The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z The version that my mom cooks for me contains only white beans cooked in chicken broth. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z It was only rice and beans with corn tortillas, but it made me feel like a king. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z She wished she wasn’t shy, that she wasn’t shaped like a lima bean, and that her left ear didn’t stick out farther than her right. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z ‘Human beans is not understanding them at all. Not even their brainiest prossefors is understanding them. Has you seen enough?’ The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z And why weren’t there any lima beans for supper tonight? The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z By then, we had been eating sadza for days on end—no beans or even collard greens. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z Everything they ate was what my father would call “side dishes”: potatoes, zucchini, bean salad, and a mystery casserole that I could not identify. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z “She can’t cook a dry bean. And her biscuits are like...like...I don’t know what.” The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z “Bring her over here, and we’ll put some steaks on the grill and something with beans and twigs on it for you.” All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z If you left a bowl with even a few grains of rice, you would find it covered with hungry flies so thick it looked like a living bowl of black bean soup. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z The root word, whole, loses an e but gains a second I. Daryl ordered the wholly vegetarian refried beans. yield. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z In Salinas, Olive had experienced niceties of living, the choir and vestments, Altar Guild, and bean suppers of the Episcopal church. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z They called me spider legs, skeleton girl, pipe cleaner, two-by-four, bony butt, stick woman, bean pole, and giraffe, and they said I could stay dry in the rain by standing under a telephone wire. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z Spread across it was a sliced ham, warm applesauce sprinkled with cinnamon, hot corn bread, and green beans. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z “You said the jelly beans might wear off!” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z Meanwhile, my father and mother tended to their garden, cutting weeds from their patches of com, beans, sorghum, and pumpkins. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z That night, Bertha made a special supper of meat loaf and lima beans, fried green tomatoes, and sweet potato pie. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z “Not for people who don’t want it to. But for me”—she stabbed a few green beans and lifted them to her mouth—“it definitely got easier.” The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z I filled my lunch thermos with water and reached into our jar of dried lima beans. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z “Another boy raises his hand. ‘There’s lima beans.’ The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z On the right, she straightened a half-empty bag of dried beans. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z The fava bean toasts and boar pate went over well and that led to a discussion about boar hunting. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z “We got a can of string beans last Friday.” The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z The soup was barley bean, which I don’t dig that tough but it was hot and the restaurant was warm. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z ‘And you can have chocolate as well. Chocolate tastes even better than cacao beans because it’s got milk and sugar added.’ Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z Mama stopped helping Merry’s plate with butter beans. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z She made him drink enough water to sink the battleship Missouri, fed him corn bread and beans, and then sent him to sleep in my bed. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z One year it had been “Yes, he was in the quarry, but he was sick in the winter and was moved to the bean farm in Bartow County.” Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Atik dressed, went out to his sled, and brought back bacon, bread, beans, and butter. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z And my mother and father and all of us filled our plates with mashed potatoes and green beans and a pork chop each, and Lucas and Christopher and me, we started to eat. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z It consisted entirely of large yellow beans cooked in water. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z "Would you like to take some beans and pass them round to the others?" The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z Indigenous peoples are portrayed as having helped make the country great by sharing corn, beans, buckskin, log cabins, parkas, maple syrup, canoes, and even the basic concepts of democracy. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z Boys that could throw a ball, and boys that constantly got beaned in the head with the volleyball no matter how hard they tried to return the volley. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z You couldn’t have a hurricane when you’re making seven and eight dollars a day picking beans. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z I couldn’t figger what eating beans had to do with crossing no bridge, so I shrugged my shoulders. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z While trying to escape, she stepped into the pot of scalding-hot beans. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z Cal said, “What are we going to do with five-cent beans in a three- cent market? Oh, yes! But how can we be sure?” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z He just plucked up another bean flower and held it up to the sky, examining it in the African light like a doctor with an X-ray, looking for the secret thing gone wrong. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Once he quieted down, she asked Roberto and me to clean the beans to cook for supper. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z Her skin is the color of coffee beans, and she has no wrinkles, though several silver strands are woven into her black braid. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z As I stepped through the door, the Negro woman sang out: “All we got left’s beans and rice, honey.” Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Rosemary gets to eat jelly beans and I get to eat horseradish. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z The beans were scorched black, and no amount of scraping could get them out of the pan. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z ‘Human beans is having their own music, right or left?’ The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Alex pictured row after row of dead string beans lined up in Yankee Stadium. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z Auntie was washing beans now, sifting them through her fingers in a pan of water. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z “Better safe than sorry,” said Kate, through a mouthful of lima beans. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z She used raisins as eyes and jelly beans for the nose and mouth. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z The fountain pen remained unused on the table, while its owner, sighing, was forced to make do with a very tiny corner of the table, where she began rubbing beans. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z Thus a kidney-shaped bean might be good for treating a disease of the kidneys. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z The wives of the umunna took the leftover food, even the cooked rice and beans that Mama said were spoiled, and they knelt in the backyard dirt to thank Papa and Mama. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z So after each of the lunch ladies gives me a spoonful of mashed potatoes or green beans or fish sticks, I make sure to say “Gracias.” Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z He had the same curly hair, shaggy beard, and intelligent eyes—a look somewhere between wild hippie and fatherly professor, except this man’s skin was the color of a lima bean. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z "You won't eat a bean till you do us the document." The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z I wish all the beans and rice Mama’s been making would give me some type of superpower in real life. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z They eat appreciatively, commenting on the tenderness of the meat, the freshness of the beans. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Mamá made a fresh batch of flour tortillas and refried beans to give to Ito. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z Actually his view was screened by a tall line of beans on poles; but above and far beyond them the grey top of the hill loomed up against the sunrise. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z My sister will be home by then too, and we get plates of buttery rice with beef chunks and kidney beans stewed in green onions, mint, and parsley. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z “I can eat unadulterated vegetables. Or if you have any red bean salad handy—or stuffed cabbage leaves? Broccoli and lentil casserole? Macaroni and cheese? Vegetarian spaghetti?” Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z “We may never know which bean did what to your friend,” Farooqi explained. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z Ma’s putting up beans in jars, and all the while she hums to Shiloh like he’s a baby in a cradle, not a dog in a box. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z When I awakened the next morning and recalled Bess’s naive hopes, I was glad that I had the can of pork and beans. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z They had seemed dull and forgettable then, but Ophie yearned for one more dinner of beans and fatback with corn bread, Daddy telling stories of the rail yard as they ate. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z An hour later, I examined my treasure on the kitchen table: two handfuls of green beans, four stunted crook- neck squash that had been nibbled by mice, and a few sour cherries. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Those hot dogs and baked beans taste even better than usual. Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z For warming up beans and frying sausages for lunch while my people lie in the attic and smell it. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z For breakfast he was given only half a bowl of beans and three tortillas instead of six. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z “Are you making more jelly beans?” asked Jake, a hint of desperation in his voice. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z AT home that night, I get the butter beans simmering, the ham in the skillet. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z Soon we were inside, coats off, helping to set up tables of sandwiches, cake, beans, and cottage cheese. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z Maybe he heard her open the can of beans, went noisily downstairs, and climbed quietly back up; maybe he stands outside the big wardrobe with his pistol drawn. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Alba had no trouble obtaining the key to her mother’s pantry, arguing that there was no need to hoard ordinary flour and poor men’s beans when you could buy Baltic crab and Swiss chocolate. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z She did not stick green beans in her nose as Jack would have done, but Hazel did not really expect her to. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z ‘Human beans from Jersey is tasting of cardigans.’ The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z In an instant the rabbits were running in all directions through the bean rows, each one tearing by instinct toward holes that were not there. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z In St. Louis, peanuts were bought in paper bags and mixed with jelly beans, which meant that we ate the salt and sugar together and I found them a delicious treat. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Her heart was beating so loudly that if the jelly bean fish didn’t work, the thumping in her chest would. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z The light was thicker, the breeze had dropped and the beans were still. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z “Maybe it fell in the stove, along with the beans!” The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z In the palm of her hand was a white bean. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Peanut butter, white bread, canned figs, and string beans; she could taste the dust in all of it. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z Finally she took the eye-dropper from her pocket and squeezed two drops of croton oil on the string beans and stirred it in. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z I’m nowhere near done, cuz I’m super sick of beans and rice. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z Reyna’s hand rested halfway between her dagger and the jelly beans. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z At Christmas and New Year’s, she kept the gate open so that anyone could come in and have a meal of rice, meat, and beans. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z My mind flooded quickly with the tastes and smells of food I had not eaten for the past month: canned meat, beans, crackers, soup, cookies. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z Looking happily into Mr. Reilly’s area, he noticed that the bean vines were growing so healthily that they had even begun to twine downward through the handles of the file drawers. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Supper was a handful of wild radishes Ross found, a cup of dry beans, water from a nearby brook. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z He asked me to feed him jelly beans as we drove, and a friendship was born. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z A hard man with a can of beans—a soft man with the bones of his grandfather. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z “Right. Those. So, Subject One, this is my urgent status report. I may have an antidote. I may also have a Spanish-language jelly bean. Which one do you want me to complete first?” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z They ate a cold supper of cornbread and beans and franks from a tin. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z At dinner, Raymie’s mother watched in astonishment as Louisiana consumed four entire pieces of meat loaf and all her green beans. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z Bring a can of green beans and some applesauce up from the cellar. Doing Time Online 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Sissy explained that all new babies had blue eyes and that probably they’d be dark as coffee beans as she grew older. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z I’d mash the beans with roasted garlic and sage and serve them on toasted rounds of homemade sourdough bread. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Charlie’s so close, I can smell her bean breath, but I don’t clown her for it. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z “Oh. Right. The jelly beans. I forgot to put the goofy little guy’s business card on the table with them.” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z Ethan bought an apple, a bean and cheese burrito, and a bottle of milk. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z Southwest; at less than 0.3 miles per year, for corn and beans from Mexico northward to become productive in the eastern United States around A.D. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “Pork chops, brown beans, corn on the cob, and biscuits sound good to you?” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z The room was warm with the nine of them around the table and heat still rising from the turkey, the sweet potatoes, the small mountains of stuffing and green beans. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z At the makeshift camp, the guerrillas set up their tents and open cans of pinto beans and pressed meat the color of dung. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z The same girl who had never so much as drawn her own bath was now sprouting mung beans in jars with holes punched in their screw lids. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z It was bubbling with a meat stew chock-full of carrots and onions and beans and potatoes in a thick brown broth. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z Then I saw Summer smiling as I walked past her row, and when she saw me look at her, she gave me a secret little thumbs- up and mouthed a silent “cool beans” to me. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z And chess would give them both a way to kill time between their half cans of string beans and their half cans of corn. chapter 8 S^nda.^, The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z When the evening came, the neighbors in the brush houses sat eating their corncakes and beans, and they discussed the great theme of the morning. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z Some say that Pythagoras starved himself, but the most common versions all say that beans were his undoing. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z I didn’t need nothing, but I looked around a bit and at midday got some rice and beans. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “I hear Will Hamilton is telling around you made fifteen thousand dollars in beans. That true?” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z “Do you have any purple jelly beans?” he asked. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Since there were about fifty pounds of beans in that sack, it made enough noise to raise the dead. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z “We can stretch the rice and beans for two meals each,” she said. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z I took stock of what I had in the cave: a few pounds of cornmeal in a paper bag, some salt, three cans of meat, three of beans, one of peas, two of corn. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z I scooped a spoonful of beans carefully into my mouth, holding the spoon with my toes. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z Ron picked up a green bean, looked at it carefully, and bit into a corner. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z Pima went away and came back a little while later with a pot of rice and beans and then surprised Nailer again with a stick of grilled pigeon. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z ‘We is having an interesting babblement about the taste of the human bean. The human bean is not a vegetable.’ The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z The three of them stopped at the wide aisle of frozen foods and started taking inventory: black bean soup, lunch rolls, pizzas, bagels, pizza bagels, tripe, codfish, catfish, I-can’t-believe-it’s-not-fish fish. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z If Howard stayed for supper, he and I would eat pork and beans or potato chips or a bologna sandwich in front of the TV and nobody would say the blessing. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z The police searched the truck and wondered why anyone would hijack a truck containing, not pork and beans, but cases of buttons. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z “He started it,” I said sullenly through a mouthful of beans. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z He was holding a bean burrito, and it was dripping onto his T-shirt and the floor. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z No kid’s going to get kidnapped because they loved corn and lima beans too much!” The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z She was stirring a doughy paste of ground beans in a mortar. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z That night, we ate beans and collard greens with our sadza. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z At the supper table as I’m passing the green beans. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z I don’t like avocados, peaches, green beans, or peas. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z Ben pushed his beans to one side of his plate. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z They kneeled over the board, and Muti threw the wooden dice and moved his colored bean with a sly smile on his face. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z The grocer showed up, and the postmaster, and the principal of the village school, and the neighbor, Abu Mahmoud, who grew famous green beans, and all of their wives and babies and teenagers and cats. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z I double-check that Zack packed the box up correctly and discover he had included three bags of marshmallows and no green beans. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z My mother had packed a small jar of hot beans and some good, green chile wrapped in tortillas. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Beneath the window was a brown stain made by the bean seed in its pot on the windowsill. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z He stretched his toe beans wide, with an expression of blissful calm. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z The money saved bought a pouch of toasted coconut, one sugary fried dough, two crunchy mung bean cookies. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z He scoops some rice or beans out of buckets of food left in the pantry or eats from a can of food he plucks off the shelves. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z “While you’re at it,” said Coach Hedge, “see if you can get the latest baseball scores. Italians don’t cover baseball worth beans.” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z ‘The human bean has two legs and a vegetable has no legs at all.’ The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z He’d rather go to the clinic than snap bean sprouts at home. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z “Do you want that first, or shall I do another bandage? l can do whichever you want. And there’s eggs in the cold cabinet, but I can’t find any baked beans.” The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z If we even suspected she might want more water or milk or green beans or anything at all, we would run to the kitchen to get what she wanted. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z |
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