“He’ll wake up at daybreak, and I simply cannot bear another day like today.” The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

But it was really that I could bear neither to receive them nor turn them away. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Silence from the bear; and then he dropped the ragged bone and lifted the jar to his muzzle again, drinking the powerful spirits like water. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

“But if there were penguins up there, mightn’t the polar bears eat them?” Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Whatever else it may have, it bears the bardic symbol—those three lines there, like a sort of arrowhead.” The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

The first night we try to get our bearings. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Any bears out here?” he asked in what he hoped was an interested but not anxious voice. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

When she could bear it no longer, she joined the knot of girls under the live oak in a corner of the schoolyard. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

He really had been through death, but he had returned because he could not bear the solitude. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

When Lawrence and Teller arrived back at Livermore, they were greeted by letters bearing his congratulations. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Under my mother’s glare, he gave Caroline a timid peck on the cheek, then wrapped his arms around me and gave me a bear hug. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

He said that he couldn’t bear to think of them spending a lonely, desolate Christmas in England. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

We had been worked so hard and fed so little all our bodies wanted to do was hibernate, like bears. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

I am certain that if he were released he would have charged every bear we passed and found victory or death. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her hips assure them that she will bear children easily and painlessly. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was joined in the dark hallway by Emma and Finn, each bearing laptops of their own. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

This was Constance’s great gift—the gift of stubborn independence—and she was bringing it to bear with all her might. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

Never would she let the earth bear fruit until she had seen her daughter. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

One of these moral principles was that it was never a sin to charge as much as the traffic would bear. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Even raising his eyebrows was difficult, for his forehead was stiff with dried clay And he was so exhausted that he could hardly bear the thought of wheeling the now-heavy cart back to Min’s house. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

The elderly had bowed their heads in quiet respect; children had come bearing wreaths of laurels and flowers to lay at his feet. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

“I would ask where I could obtain the services of an armored bear,” he said. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

A dozen or so adults were among the pews, several of them bearing pairs of small-size rubbers, soles up, in their laps. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

In orientation, we learned that the store’s success depends entirely on us, the associates; in fact, our bright blue vests bear the statement “At Wal-Mart, our people make the difference.” Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

When she returned, bearing her load of berries, Mama’s eye lit on Big Pinch. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

“No, she can’t bear fashionable young men, and she’d shut us all up in bandboxes rather than have us associate with them.” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

Perhaps the mother bear’s skin was now draped across Old Tallow’s bed, although she hadn’t heard about a recent kill. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

Could they exist side by side, two such opposites, like the love and hate he’d borne for three long years? Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Mundín says that our uncle has been feeling bad that he got out just in time, leaving my father and Tío Toni and others to bear the brunt of the dictator’s son’s wrath. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t bear to string sentences into strands of thought, or to weave those strands into ideas. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“What kind of a person doesn’t let you have gummi bears?” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

“The bear didn’t try to hurt me,” Cole said. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

Polybotes advanced slowly, giving Jason plenty of time to contemplate the three-storey-tall tower of armour and muscle bearing down on him. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Nothing worries and antagonizes a female bear more than to have people between her and her brood. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

He grabbed Travis in a huge bear hug and they took one last picture together. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

I knew the earth was fruitful because I had seen my uncles make it bear in abundance; but I never realized it could be like this! Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Constitution’s Second Amendment, the right to bear arms, does not mention Indigenous peoples, but it had a significant impact on them. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

“The arms are fair,” Halsey said, cleaning off a Winchester, “when the intent of bearing them is just.” Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Every bear bone was gathered respectfully and buried, all together. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

At the sound of squishing shoes and a strange, rapid little clicking sound, the boys awoke to see Kate giving their radiator a bear hug, her teeth chattering furiously, her clothes dripping water. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

Each bear took a leg in her mouth, and together they slowly lowered Roz headfirst down the cliff. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

“What brings you here? I have not seen you for a long time, nor had any of your succulent fruit. Would that be what you bear with you?” Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

Amari held her breath, the excitement almost more than she could bear. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

"It has a direct bearing on the Moscow trip. You better come into the office. I think you need to see it now." Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Jemmy had reared back, but now Betsy gave a whistle and the bear stopped in its tracks. The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z

Flying it was like wrestling a bear, leaving pilots weary and sore. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

I said, “But, Ma, how come everybody keeps telling me ’bout what I done to Mr. Douglass that got all the bears and wolfs coming to the Settlement looking for something to eat?” Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

“Oh, ordinary penguins, yes,” said the Admiral judiciously; “but not such highly-trained birds as yours, Mr. Popper. They could outwit any polar bear, I guess.” Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z

Because Cole and the bear belonged to the same landscape now, Cole still felt the bear inside. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

Of course the old bear paid no attention, just kept fighting. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

Scarcely twenty feet from the bear, Cole paused one last time. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

The bear’s shiny nose twitched as raindrops beaded into splashed pearls on its shaggy hair. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

Just like Nan never met a town she couldn’t bear to part with, Momma never made a promise she wasn’t willing to break. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

“I’m not stupid enough to cross a mama bear.” The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Mr. Curtain clearly would not bear having to wait for a door to open. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

At the sight of her mass bearing down, I jumped off the fallen tree and bolted across the clearing. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

It was almost too much excitement to bear. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

She was sweating inside her furs, out of breath, exhausted, and the bear still sat impassive. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

Five of them would die, but that would not make her grief easier to bear. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“How rude of us,” said the sister bear. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

“Tell her thanks. And now I wish I had gotten extra gummy bears.” Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Might as well just throw open the cabin door full wide and invite that black bear right onto the hearth. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

She grew weaker and lost her appetite, but against all advice, my father simply could not bear to let her go. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

He expected the bear to stop when it reached the shoreline, but the great white animal waded into the water and swam with powerful strokes out into the bay toward the open ocean. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

Three times he whistled; and then faint and far off it seemed to them that they heard the whinny of a horse borne up from the plains upon the eastern wind. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Feeling that I was bearing an important message, I ran every inch of the two miles; I thought that news of a death should be told at once. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Brisen, standing rigid, as she had stood to bear Sir Lancelot’s glare, looked at the closed door with an inscrutable expression. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

It might support the weight of a child: it would certainly not stand under the weight of an armored bear. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

I could see that he had the confidence and bearing of a man who was used to the exercise of authority. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

There is ample evidence that pressure has been brought to bear on Ralph Meyers since his trial testimony which could tend to discredit his recantation. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

It did not look strong enough to bear fruit, did not look useful at all, like most of the plants here. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

I can’t bear to be in the same room with Cherry or look at his face. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

A rising heat puffed at her face, soft and sudden as a lover's breath, but in seconds it had grown too hot to bear. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

For she does bear a child— easily, and painlessly. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

Flatnose made his way down the slope, clumsy as a bear. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

"Nor will I. Leave it be, Robert, for the love you say you bear me. I dishonored myself and I dishonored Catelyn, in the sight of gods and men." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Then I swung my chopping axe high and wheeled, aiming to cave in the she bear’s head with the first lick. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

One of the polar bears just had twins, so there is a crowd of people hoping to get a good look. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

And mine, I think, is to leave my house one day unmarked by whiteness and walk on a compassionate earth with Ruth May beside me, bearing me no grudge. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Spassky’s defense of his title became, symbolically, a defense of the Soviet Union, and the Russian’s millstone was a heavy weight to bear. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

He spun around and he squealed with pleasure and picked her up in a bear hug and danced her around. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

All of these poets were older and wiser than me, and many of them were well read, and they brought this wisdom to bear on me and my work. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Like, I literally can’t tell if he wants me to go away or if he wants me to bust into his car with a bear hug. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

There was no bearing such an “always;” and to break through her dreadful gratitude, Emma made the direct inquiry of— Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z

Something I could bear because I could make sense of it. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She thought she could not support his weight or bear to see his wound again. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

They also keep a close eye on possible economic reprisals from the Councils and the Klans, plus other superpatriotic groups who bring pressures to bear on the newspapers’ advertisers. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The bear stood patiently, proud, nose forward, ears alert. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

“When that bear sits on the throne of Kiev, I will gladly serve her. And you will too.” Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

He wouldn’t have been able to bear it. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

The next one she showed him was Roscoe, a fuzzy bear with twisty arms and legs. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

I could hide behind the door, wait until she comes, hobbles along the hall, bearing whatever sentence, penance, punishment, jump out at her, knock her down, kick her sharply and accurately in the head. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had grown up with the Ten Commandments— including “Thou shalt not bear false witness”—and with the injunction to love your neighbor as yourself. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Though Müller would be delighted to have Kemmerich's boots, he is really quite as sympathetic as another who could not bear to think of such a thing for grief. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Already he had tried to kill the bear. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

She darted off in another direction, for bears have poor eyesight and cannot track if they cannot smell. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bobby was still looking for a woman who could bear him a child, and hoped he would meet a number of young Filipina women, among whom he might find a candidate. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

So as the startled bears watched Roz stomping out of their cave, they really had no choice at all. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

He rubbed them bright and greased the hinges of the jaws and the springs of the pans with a feather dipped in bear’s grease. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was the kind of belt intended to bear the weight of multiple weapons. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Also, the fuzz was comforting, like going to school covered in old teddy bear. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

“And then to make his poor grandson bear the awful news back to us.” Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

Dad scooped me up in a bear hug. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

As I stood with her on the platform—she impatient, tapping her foot, leaning forward to look down the tracks—it seemed more than I could bear to see her go. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

None of the Good People can bear the closeness of iron. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I can’t bear to live without you. I’m counting the minutes until I see you.” Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Ethyne and Antain moved Luna and her mother into the baby’s room, assuring them that Luken didn’t need his own room, and anyway they couldn’t bear to be parted from him even for a moment. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Hence, after Italy came almost entirely into the hands of the Church and of several republics, those priests and other citizens who were not accustomed to bearing arms began to hire foreigners. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z

Johnny did not care about that, but he could not bear to think of poor old Mr. Lapham turning over in his grave. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The surprising thing was, Omakayas realized later, that although she had no memory of doing so, she had the scissors out of their case and open, the sharp ends pointing at the bear’s heart. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

I dashed past her, up the steps, into my room....There he was, my one-eyed teddy bear, sitting on my pillow. Fourth Grade Rats 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Luke had a heart monitor, but it must not have been on him all the time because I remember using it on my favorite toy: a Teddy Ruxpin bear. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

That, or he went hiking through the woods and either got lost or got eaten by a bear. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

I could hardly bear to look at him. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

The one thing he didn’t do, interestingly enough, was discover the comet that bears his name. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

“I will give you an ointment. He’ll sleep like a mountain bear.” Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

I bend down and arrange the gummy bears into a heart. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

Oddly enough, it was not l'Hôpital who came up with the rule that bears his name. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

The loggers shot the bears and mountain lions for sport. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

“You should get a gummy bear too,” I told her, looking at her test. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

"There's always a bear," declared Dolorous Edd in his usual tone of gloomy resignation. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

But somehow I had ended up in this place called Birmingham, in a room full of machines, with only the green teddy bear at my side. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Even though she had grown up on a farm, where her father had raised livestock for food, she had never been able to bear easily the death of an animal. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Among land animals hunted, wild boar and deer were the commonest prey, followed by mountain goat and bear. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Slowly those knights who had survived began to trickle back in twos and threes, tired men bearing news of loss or rumours of success. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dead, his bones would have served to heighten Grisha power, no different from the shark teeth or bear claws that other Grisha wore. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

To pass the time, everybody was soon discussing how the tall young Greek with the elegant bearing had become enamored of the dark beauty who was never seen anywhere without her carved olivewood box. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

I also loved stories of wolves, bears, and wolverines in North America and Canada, jaguars anacondas and sloths in South America, orangutans, Indian elephants, and tapirs in Asia, and so on. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

A stooping figure bearing a lantern appeared through the door behind the bar. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

I've lost my bearings what with all the wandering around I did yesterday evening, but I try and head back in the general direction of the stream. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

They logged the trees, they killed the deer, bear, and mountain lions, they built their fences high; but the mountain was far greater than any or all of these things. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

In the fire and fury of the summer of 1940, Maddie sat in a tower of iron and concrete taking bearings over the telephone. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

The killer animals, like bear and panther and bobcats, knew this and came to the Licks at the same time. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

The bear on his surcoat, the arms on his shield, the lost lordship he had mentioned. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

A cute present—but presumably the men didn’t feel the need to drop reassuring teddy bears off at other men’s air regiments just before a combat mission! A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

I took a deep breath, got my bearings, and took off running again. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

Some of the boys from the stables were tossing stones to make the bear roar and grumble. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

‘Rather than that I would bear you with me on Snowmane,’ he said. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

“Set the house on fire. Put a skunk in there. A bear. Something. Anything.” Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Drifting on the water, the Corona bearing down on him in the fogbound night, he figured he needed less than thirty seconds to haul himself up his mast. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

The strain broke the tree’s limb, and the four girls plummeted into the water and were borne along by the fast-moving current. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

Still, I bear most of my weight with my left arm and try to push with my feet whenever possible. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

“Seriously, I saw this show once where these people were stranded on an island and there were these other people who were sort of crazy-slash-bad and there was this polar bear creature running around.” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

Hera, furiously angry, turned the maiden into a bear after her son was born. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bowing, the man left the room, only to return a few moments later, bearing a long knife with-a slender saw-tooth blade, a basin of water, a pile of soft cloths, and several flasks. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Old Tallow could bring down a bear with her pack of dogs, her gun, or even the razor-sharp spear that she practiced throwing into the splintered base of a tree. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

When I was small, she’d read stories to me about talking bears and magic wardrobes and take me over to the pond in the park to show me the ducklings. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

He gave her a wink, followed by a bear hug. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

All those traps in the back of the bear wagon made Mary Lou nervous. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

The life that has borne me through these years is still in my hands and my eyes. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

One of our sloth bears became seriously ill with severe hem­orrhagic enteritis after being given fish that had gone putrid by a man who was convinced he was doing a good deed. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Just as the bear had said: the armor was his soul. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

As soon as he was done, Ashish grabbed him in a bear hug and clapped him on the back. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

It must have been the peacock feather, the tattoo borne by members of the Menagerie, the House of Exotics. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

The magewind had borne them for only three days eastward, yet sixteen days they sailed westward to return. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

If he was seen to accept Bolton’s feigned girl as Arya, the northern lords who had gathered to bear witness to the match would have no grounds to question her legitimacy. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

All the lessons with Mother, who danced so effortlessly, had not borne immediate fruit. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

He wore a vest of metal scale armor and a cloak of what appeared to be bear pelt. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

From the way Pa had warned me, I’d always pictured these woods as having so many bears hanging out of the trees that the sunlight would’ve been blocked off from hitting the ground! Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

Well, I took a short cut through the woods, and I nearly ran into a big bear. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

From that moment on, whenever I thought about Danny and the 101st being gone for good, I pushed the idea out of my mind because I couldn’t bear to deal with it. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sammy Cantu assured him the meeting would take place at the preordained time, maybe the agent had simply arrived early in order to look the town over and get his bearings straight. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I jog along, watching for bobcats and beaver—even black bear. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

When they tracked him the next day his tracks went into the canyon near the place which belonged to the bears. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

‘Let us get out on to clean grass! You must help me bear them.’ The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

He is unable to bear the standing and squeezing. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Everyone wanted to see the mother robot riding the mother bear. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Ultimately, of course, Adams himself must bear the responsibility for signing into law the blatantly partisan legislation that has subsequently haunted his historic reputation. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

What darkness had she borne, thousands of feet up, with nothing between her and death but a few inches of rock? An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

The heavy burden I have borne so long now lifts from my soul. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Miranda was not one to bear the pain of going unheard. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Many bear Mr. Barris’s stamps and initials, but there are other diagrams written in different hands that Chandresh does not recognize. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

By doing this, Dimple was effectively saying she couldn’t bear to spend a minute with Rishi. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t bear the thought of Cold Sassy without Grandpa or her, either one. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

“Show some respect. It was a fine bear. A worthy opponent.” The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

One of the bears ventured out too far, curious, and tumbled right out of the tree. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

I would bear it no more but vex him in return. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Her eyes were bright and more beautiful than he could bear. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Nokomis had told her that the bear must be addressed with the greatest respect, as a treasured relative, that the bear had human qualities and nobody quite understood the bear. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

I tried to think of some saying about bears to reply, but remembered only Jack the Rabbit, Jack the Bear . . . who were both long forgotten and now brought a wave of homesickness. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then an old man came out of the meadhall, went to the young king, just clear of the bear, and spoke to him. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I think you love him more than you can bear.” Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

Tall, head forward, eyes fastened on a rock, his arms higher than the pines, his hands holding a melon bigger than the sun, he paused an instant to get his bearing and secure his aim. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

There is a limit, though, to even the pressure that neutrons can bear. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

When the commander sent someone to clear the airfield before an accident occurred, the thing turned out to be a big teddy bear. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Hassan had said in his letter that the pomegranate tree hadn’t borne fruit in years. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

It was, then, only a few minutes after my short encounter with Miss Kenton that I found myself walking down the corridor again on my return journey, this time bearing a tray. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Not the true parent is the woman’s womb that bears the child,” Apollo tells a sympathetic council of jurors. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

He could not bear to look at Fred a second longer than he had to, and after making sure that the body was well hidden, he took off after Ron and Hermione. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

I felt terrible about not returning his texts, but I couldn’t bear any more pity. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

He struggled, trying to kick upwards, but the three of them were too much, bearing down, slugging, stomping .. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

I feel the familiar rattle and jolt, the train slows and I look up, because I have to, because I cannot bear not to, but there is never anything to see any longer. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

He could not bear the thought, and Rab had promised him that in twenty days he might learn to chop. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Joe said it looked like a school for “the six bears”—from the little bears to the big bears. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

At least, that was what the bear sergeant told her the carvings showed. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

“I cannot bear one more night stuck indoors with my husband.” All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

“So bears can make their own souls...” she said. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

Like the beautifully formed polar bears and foxes of the north, she was slightly short-limbed. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is important to bear in mind that these artefacts were made and played five hundred years before the Romans conquered Europe. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

The three knights who had brought them here to bear witness stood behind them. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The brush along the road stirred restively under a new and unexpected population of gray tigers and gray bears. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

Inside was a whole bag of gummy bears. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

The woman wiped her tear and closed her eyes as if she could not bear to see land around her. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

As a man, Malcolm X had the physical bearing and the inner self- confidence of a bom aristocrat. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

She couldn’t bear reading in the papers how the police were rounding up people left and right. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I imagined Laura in the small cabin, and all kinds of bears and creepy things just feet from the front door, waiting to get in. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

“Skip inside,” called the Texan, “and bring your friend, by all means. Have ye seen that bear?” The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

Had she borne the cold, run from soldiers, gone through the frozen sea, and fought the emperor for this? When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

She couldn’t bear it; she put the spyglass in her pocket and began to run down the slope. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

And I popped the gummy bear in my mouth. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

But he didn’t; he could not trust his body and could not bear to disappoint her yet again. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Everything was wet and half-frozen, and while she could bear sodden hair, she couldn’t withstand the agony of wet shoes. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

The people of Bone Gap said Sean looked so much like his father—tall and broad and so strong he could throw a car across a yard—that Didi couldn’t bear it. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

“I named you once, I think,” he said, and then strode to his house and entered, bearing the bird still on his wrist. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

“I miss you too,” he said as he held me in a bear hug. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

“No, I read it in a book about grizzly bears.” An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

And the other girls gathered their tampons, gummi bears, and beauty samples — a smokescreen of female products — and headed back up to the surface. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

Staggering slowly up the glacier beneath my overloaded pack, bearing this ridiculous metal cross, I felt like an odd sort of penitente. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The back of the sea curled up and fanned out, blocking the sky, threatening to bear down on the island. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

While the writing on the front bears his stage name and the theater address, the letter inside greets him with his given name, Hector Bowen. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Cole nodded and told how he had pulled a handful of white hair from the bear that mauled him and then thrown it away. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

Her father scooped Candice up into a bear hug as soon as he stepped out of the truck. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Booth also has left behind clues—among them a business card bearing the name J. Harrison Surratt and a letter from Samuel Arnold, who had been part of the kidnapping plot, that implicates Michael O’Laughlen. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

Musa couldn’t bear the sight of blood any longer. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

And bear and deer wandered miserably down from the high country, seeking food. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Unbearable burdens that the world somehow does bear with a certain grace. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

They fall to the ground with a loud thud and Baba is sitting on the bear’s chest, his fingers digging in its snout. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

He sent Iris to Priam, to order him to go without fear to Achilles to redeem Hector’s body, bearing a rich ransom. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

She’s floating on her back, borne up by her belt and death, staring into that relentless sun. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

I thought he would write Everyone turned out okay, but when he passed the book back, he'd actually written, Everyone was mauled by a bear, it was very sad, let’s go get ice cream. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

The whips had little ball bearings at the end, intensifying the pain and damage. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

Anatole the orphan without descendants!—the bitterest insult that could be borne by a Congolese man. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Just like that, it is too much for me to bear, and I have to back up and sit on one of the benches. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Now they laid Boromir in the middle of the boat that was to bear him away. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

He could not bear the way she stared at him and he lowered his head imperceptibly. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

And to make matters worse, bears have an instinct that drives them to attack when a creature runs away, especially if the creature running away is a mysterious, sparkling monster. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Even if they didn’t find Skeleton Woman and her bones, there could be a bear, or a thousand rats. I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z

There are all manner of more familiar animals as well, cats affectionate and aloof, dogs noble and cowardly, wolves and foxes, eagles and bears. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

The Old Bear sat slumped and silent, as if the burden of speech had grown too heavy for him to bear. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The sun was beginning to bear down on the earth and it was getting hotter by the minute. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

And he followed that fear as a hunter follows the signs, the broad, blunt, clawed tracks of the bear, that may at any moment turn on him from the thickets. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

It would have been a lot easier than reaching through the tangle of roots and branches, trying to bring the vibrasaw to bear against a precise spot. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Brother, sister, you may run, but the day is coming when the King will ask: “What are the tidings that you bear?” Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

She saw a genteel centaur bearing a princess sidesaddle, and such was the atmosphere of magic that they weren’t out of place here. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

She took a coil long enough to reach over one of the branches of a high tree and back down to the ground, and strong enough to bear several times her weight. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Grayson returned at noon, bearing zeps and sodas, and was not allowed to leave until he told Maniac one story about the Minor Leagues. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

I looked at him, his face reddening, as I tried to get my bearings. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

And she was aware that all the other bears were making the comparison too. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

"The only thing those dogs are fit for is a bear baiting," he said angrily. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

She was a tiger, a gazelle, a bear, a falcon. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

They are huge walls of water bearing down on everything in their path at speeds of up to fifty miles an hour. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

He cried out for a while but was afraid only the bear would answer. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

A long high scream of orders, and the force divided itself into two: one to keep off the witches, the bigger part to overcome the bear. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

The bear said, “Ride on me,” and crouched to offer his broad back, and half-clinging, half-falling, she managed to stay on while he took her to a steep hollow, where many bears were assembled. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

“Slower, for the love you bear me. That last jolt sent a knife right through my knee.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Cole started to argue, then remembered the handful of white hair he had pulled off the bear. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

That, most of all, I couldn’t bear to see. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Pi and the bear sniff each other—backsides, mostly. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

One time, they came upon a bear fishing in the river, and Roz whispered, “You know what to do.” The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

High in the oak trees, stuffing themselves with acorns, the tubby young bears moved along the thinnest branches. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

Ama wished she could shut her ears: the gulping, crying, coughing, sobbing, pleading, retching was almost too much to bear. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Two bear cubs burst from the bush and rushed pell-mell, tumbling head over heels straight for her. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

They took up what others could no longer bear. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I can’t bear the idea that we might never come back,” she said softly. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

By his bearing and the proud way he held his head, he must have been a lord. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

He came back from Japan with his mustache thicker and bearing a sword that had been in the family for 300 years—a gift from Aunt Toyo. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

“First, we’ve got to find out where we have docked. Let’s take a bearing on this place.” Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Except for moon-faced Little Lou, who not only kept track of Ralph, but came by every now and then, bearing gifts. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

That seemed to carry some weight, or else to mystify the bear sufficiently to make him pause. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

"I think of you almost as my own daughter. And I know the love you bear for. Joffrey." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The main sewer branched off, and Jemmy had to stop to get his bearings. The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z

Coach Parker gave massive bear hugs to everyone in sight while the Permian team gathered quietly in the center of the field to pray. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

She told me about the time she and Gus went camping and a baby bear got into their cooler and stole their hot dogs. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

When I awoke, all was stillness—the sort of stillness that makes you sit up and take your bearings. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

I regret that I never saw a bear or wolf or followed the padding retreat of a giant hellbender salamander, never shooed away a bobcat or sidestepped a rattlesnake, never flushed a startled boar. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

But now the bear seemed to have pushed her too far. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

One by one we were taken from our cages, held gently but firmly by Dr. Schultz while Julie fastened around each of our necks a narrow ribbon of yellow plastic bearing a number. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

But now I think it is because people can’t bear saying good-bye. Missing May 1992-03-01T00:00:00Z

As Frodo was borne towards them the great pillars rose like towers to meet him. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Many a serving girl had been sent to the dungeon bearing the jailer’s meal only to return white-faced and weeping, hands trembling, teeth chattering, insisting that they would never go back. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

Her skin appears warmer, her hair softly curled, and her hat bears no resemblance to the distinctive silk top hat, but he would know her face anywhere. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

I slowly arrange the remaining halal gummy bears in a circle on the roof in front of me, to contain myself, to bring myself down to earth. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t bear to frighten the trembling animal away. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

Some six helmeted soldiers, armed with broadswords and bearing lanterns, were coming down the street. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

He calculated all times to a tenth of a second, and all distances to the inch, and then he recalculated, as if he could not bear the thought of failing her again. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

But by the time the first musket shot rings out, theIndians are already leaving, creeping away silently on hands and feet like bears. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

Sometimes I would forget lunch, and Rosaleen would come find me, bearing a tomato sandwich. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

About midnight, a black bear came prowling around the margins of the camp, spied the bag, and brought it down by climbing one of the trees and breaking a branch. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

I had continued to proceed swiftly out of the room, returning without undue delay bearing a satisfactory fork. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

My father and I ate without talking, while Manya hovered over us like a protective bear, and afterwards my father went into his study and I walked slowly through the apartment. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

The tree shook with the sudden weight of the robot, and then—thunk thunk!—two pinecones bounced off Roz, and a moment later—thunk thunk!—the same pinecones bounced off the bears below. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Goldsmiths, jewelers, dressmakers, whatever she wanted I found for her, but it was never enough Bear Island is rich in bears and trees, and poor in aught else. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t bear to look behind us at our ragtag family as they shuffled along, Slopper and the twins singing what we pretended was a warrior song to measure out time on the trail. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

“I have the honor to bear this message from the council of masters.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

To the best of my knowledge Charley had never seen a bear, and in his whole history had showed great tolerance for every living thing. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I wish you could have gone, but there is no hope of it this time, so try to bear it cheerfully, and don’t sadden Amy’s pleasure by reproaches or regrets.” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every Muslim present was impressed by the bearing and the obvious genuineness of the striking, handsome pair of prizefighter brothers. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

He could not bear the thought of Buchi growing up to resent him, to lack something that he should have been for her. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

At a bear feast, the bear’s skull was ribboned and set out on a good red cloth, spoken to, honored. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

If this was only a portion of Nico’s pain . . . how could he bear it? Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

That she likes me okay and bears my presence, but who can know for how long? Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Of Númenor he spoke, its glory and its fall, and the return of the Kings of Men to Middle-earth out of the deeps of the Sea, borne upon the wings of storm. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Every few minutes, she would pause to get her bearings and listen for any sounds in the swamp. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

Cole licked his numb lips, but the pain made him stop—he had bitten his tongue when the bear slammed his face into the ground. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

The posters were of things like kittens and monkeys and bears. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

Melissa and Kelly laughed at the playing monkeys, shuddered past the slithering snakes, cooed at the baby grizzly bears, and stared at the tigers’ teeth. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

Then, because she couldn’t bear not knowing what the man was doing, she stopped and fumbled for the spyglass again, and had to stand still while she looked through it. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

The bear’s front paws land heavily, shaking the world. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

There the house lost its aristocratic bearing and the kennels, chicken coops, and servants’ quarters began. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I have lost my Ned, the rock my life was built on, I could not bear to lose the girls as well . A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

She giggled, bent her bear over at the waist, and pretended it was vomiting. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Of course by now the bear has become thoroughly habituated both to human beings and to their food. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

On September the twenty-first they set out together, Frodo on the pony that had borne him all the way from Minas Tirith, and was now called Strider; and Sam on his beloved Bill. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

Her son-in-law, who had heard what had happened, felt he had borne enough disgrace. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

"Got loose, he did! My dancing bear. World famous!" The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z

I knew exactly what was going to happen to my penny through the next two pages and I couldn’t bear to leave it unsaid. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Thankful Peabody’s wedding is to be in December, and I can’t bear it if he isn’t here for that.” The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

Oddly, we couldn't seem to hold our bearing and the rig kept moving from our port side to starboard. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

He laughs and says, in Algonquian, “You grew so much while I was gone. You must have eaten a whole bear!” Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

The prospect of having his blues harp taken was more than he could bear. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

He stood there like a bear, the bat looking like a matchstick in his beefy hands. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

There is no wind to carry, bear, or even refuse to bear, a sound so heavy with regret. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

Still struggling to get my breath back, I wrapped a leg over the branch and tried to get my bearings. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

Now it is important to establish right away that the possibility of a serious bear attack on the Appalachian Trail is remote. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

This desire was only controllable because I remembered someone standing off to the side there, bearing witness to more fury than he had ever seen from me—you. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

“Down home there’s a vile breed of snake called a hoop snake. Not only can it outrun a racehorse, it’s been known to kill a fully grown bear with one bite!” Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

The faded things which we see today bear no relationship to the bright tapestry which made the Justice Room a painted box. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

He stared down the long hallway packed with kids and tried to get his bearings. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

The cabinet also contains an ancient cracked plate commemorating the World’s Fair in St. Louis, Missouri, and a plastic cup bearing the nose and ears of a mouse. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then I dust the shelves in the hunting room, vacuum the bear while he stares at me like I’m a snack. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

I cannot bear to throw out any of my relics. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

‘I will help you bear this burden, as long as it is yours to bear. But we must do something, soon. The Enemy is moving.’ The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Hank tried to explain it when I was in the hospital, but I couldn’t bear to listen. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

He conquered Egypt in 331 BCE and mapped out the plan for a new capital city that would bear his name. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

Voices on the phone, occasionally bearing news of births and weddings, send chills down their spines. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

At the last moment Kit had turned back to Mercy and cried impulsively, “Oh, if only you could go, too, Mercy 1 How can you bear it, always staying behind?” The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

They christened him Aureliano and with his mother's last name, since the law did not permit a person to bear his father's name until he had recognized him. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Forgiveness, then, means choosing to bear the full weight all by yourself. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

It’s a lot like one of those bear hugs I used to get from my great-aunt at Thanksgiving. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

In Meeting House Square she leaned against a tree for an instant to get her bearing. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

But what Kaz Czarnecki intuited, and what the years would bear out, was this: Mary Jackson had the soul of an engineer. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Some were so large they could have borne a man upon their backs. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

In 1852, unable to bear any more pain or persecution, Mantell took his own life. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

Like he could calm a rabid bear with just words. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

“We ought to hurl you from the roof for leaving the way you did,” Harry said, but then he came forward and pulled me into a bear hug. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

“As God is my witness, I got a awful cross to bear. You wanna nice drink?” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

She lay on her bunk thinking of that savage mighty bear, and the careless way he drank his fiery spirit, and the loneliness of him in his dirty lean-to. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

The workers had begun to arrive early that morning, bearing the kettles and plants and equipment, while Jamison was still in Kira’s room describing the events of the day before. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, that’s something to bear in mind if one of them attacks.” The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

Then with a roar and a blur of snow both bears moved at the same moment. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

Because between my father and Prim and the ashes, the place is too painful to bear. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

They smelled earth and vegetation—not what they’d been used to, but bearing some comforting relation to it. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

“I don’t think I could bear it,” said the shoemaker. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

I said I could not bear such words now. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

Ramsay would flay them all when he learned his bride was gone, and what he would do to Grunt and Sour Alyn did not bear thinking about. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Before I could get my bearings, Bud took off at a dead run straight up a ravine, bucking now and then but running, always running. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

As if he was so brokenhearted he couldn’t bear to hold the notes any longer. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

“What do you want to do?” the bear asked. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

But on the seventh day, Tehlu drew near before Encanis could bring his power to bear and the seventh city was saved. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“Not you, bear. You are big and ugly, you will be chained outside.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“I don’t approve of the match, but I’ve made up my mind to bear it, and shall not say a word against it,” said Jo solemnly. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bits of flesh still clung to the bear skull, Jon noted as he joined the line riding past. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Still his sleep had not been without all healing virtue: he was stronger, more able to bear his burden one stage further. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

The bear was reaching into the pen to grab the pig, and the pig was running and squealing. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was the events that would lead up to it that she couldn’t bear to consider. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

The rings of Saturn bear some resemblance to the asteroid belt: trillions of tiny icy moonlets orbiting the planet. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

He could scarcely bear to be parted from her for an hour, but the madwoman had been locked in the Tower for years. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

She stood and raised her hand to the watching bear. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

The cement scrapes my face, and I turn just in time to see a car bearing down on me, like a giant shoe about to crush me. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

Visitors tucked teddy bears and dog tags at the foot of the Wall. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

I slide the bar beneath the bracket, and with all my strength, I bear down with a single swift push. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

Now, when Sass scolded me all day long, I could bear it, for I knew I could whisper my complaints into Chandra’s ear in the evening. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

“I was wrong, I didn’t know. I’m very sorry I was so cross, but I can’t help wishing you’d bear it better, Teddy, dear.” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

The criminalization of infant mortality and the persecution of poor women whose children die have taken on new dimensions in twenty-first-century America, as prisons across the country began to bear witness. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

She aimed her pistol and shot at the bear. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

She tried not to think about Poppy at all; she couldn’t bear it. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

She repeated and her voice shook and quavered: "It was shaped like a bear...." And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

I reached down for the bear and sat him on a limb near Georgie. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

He squealed with delight and ran to the edge of the woods, where he came face to face with a grizzly bear. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

And not in a bear’s voice, either, nor in a gyptian’s. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m not scared of the bear, but I am scared of being alone.” Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

That was a woman’s duty: to marry and bear children. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

She crossed over the dry moat with its cruel iron spikes and made her way up the narrow turnpike stair, but when she reached the door of her bedchamber she could not bear to enter. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Soon, then, knowing us back from the Dark Land, Kirke came freshly adorned for us, with handmaids bearing loaves, roast meats, and ruby-colored wine. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

He freed the bear from the card and set it on the table next to the bird. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Shortly afterwards, Cornflower arrived bearing a tray of breakfast for them both: nutbread, salad, milk and some of Friar Hugo’s special quince pie. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

“Lizzy, I bear you no ill-will for being justified in your advice to me last May, which, considering the event, shows some greatness of mind.” Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z

She couldn’t bear the idea of showing the twins how bad their situation was. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

We got cookies with gummy bears on them. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

I bear Witness that there is no deity but Allah and I bear witness that Muhammad is His Messenger. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

If I hadn’t been stuck to the pump handle, I would’ve thrown myself down the well rather than bear this humiliation. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

“I just couldn’t bear to have you lose the little I had to invest for you,” she says. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Not a word to anyone about the cargo," Hamilton finally said with his eyes bearing down on me. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t bear it if they made me kneel like that. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a plow horse, big and slow and clumsy, but better able to bear his weight than the little garrons the rangers rode. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

If I had stopped the night and bears had gathered to my cooking, I dare not think what would have happened. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

“B is for Basil, assaulted by bears,” I reply, continuing the morbid rhyme we memorized off the poster on my bedroom wall. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

At night he listened to the whistles of passing trains, and one day in the summer of ’32, he couldn’t bear it any longer. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

He gave the chain another jerk and the bear moved closer to him. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

With his shoulders bearing the weight, he was able still to use his walking sticks. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

“Ah! papa—that is what you never have been able to accomplish, and I do not think you ever will. Isabella cannot bear to stay behind her husband.” Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z

I’m told no such bear exists in the area he was sent.” Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

Also, I could no longer bear the pain of meeting with contemptuous stares and oaths from black tennis officials and spectators. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

A robot, by its very nature, cannot bear to fail its function. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

“No good! Ha, ha, bear no good! We got you anyway!” The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

Layla shook a raggedy teddy bear with a rattle in its stomach at Aaron and glanced up at her. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“Signora Mondopoco is gone. Did you visit her? How can you bear it, to see them go?” The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z

Perhaps this was the one sin that he couldn’t bear to admit. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

She couldn’t bear that Cap woke up early to practice tai chi on our front lawn. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

She stayed on her branch long after the bears had gone, enjoying some peace and looking herself over. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

My upper arms bear more worrying marks, dark, oval impressions that look like fingerprints. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

But he would ride for twenty more years, bearing only a single scar from a hoof. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘I can’t bear that dreadful woman accosting me every time I happen to walk by.’ The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

The Buckeye might be built like a bear, but there was something soft in his smile, hypnotizing, and I knew why immediately. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

My hand hurts so much that I cannot bear to put moss on it. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Notebooks, papers, and pencils had spilled everywhere, and Martina was raising herself slowly to her hands and knees, spluttering and shaking her head as she tried to get her bearings. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

The bears were curious, but restrained by their respect for Iorek Byrnison, and his for Lyra, and she put them out of her mind and sank again into the alethiometric trance. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

And Finn had borne the weight of his brother’s clenched fists, his long silences, his unspoken blame. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

“My friends won’t believe me when I tell them I rode across the island on the back of a bear!” The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

“I feel sorry for you, and I love you. Just remember to give me tobacco. I’m the bear spirit woman. I knew your great-grandma and great-grandpa. They live with me now.” The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

Another rag, sprayed with disinfectant, goes into the middle pocket, and a yellow rag bearing wood polish in the right-hand pocket. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

They must sit quietly and listen while Ma read Bible stories to them, or stories about lions and tigers and white bears from Pa’s big green book, The Wonders of the Animal World. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

He waits for her to begin, his expression bearing something that could be construed as very mild interest. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

As for myself, I can hardly bear to look.” Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Then they’ll kill him. He’s not a bear, you see. He’s an outcast. Like me. Degraded, you see. Not entitled to any of the privileges of a bear.” The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

They were not wholly of the American aristocracy but tolerably close, with connections and affluence that endowed Alfred with upper-class tastes and bearing. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

“Even if it was only a stump, you thought it was a bear. You’d have hit him on the head with a club, if he had been a bear, wouldn’t you, Pa?” Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nan had given me one of my daddy’s shirts, but I couldn’t bear to cut it up. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

In a matter of minutes, I would be left standing in the arena all alone, like that toothless bear waiting to be savaged by the dogs. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

Someone who obviously didn't know her too well had given my mother a cheerful stuffed bear with a calico heart stitched to its chest. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

‘But if I read the signs back yonder rightly, the Orcs of the White Hand prevailed, and the whole company is now bound for Isengard. Their present course bears me out.’ The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

He wants to ask the red-faced peddler, with his fingers sticking through the brown cotton gloves, if he can hold the tumbling bear for a minute, but he is afraid. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

In New Hampshire there has not been an unprovoked fatal attack on a human by a bear since 1784. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

“It is because I am afraid that Mordred bears me a grudge, poor boy—and rightly too.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

The room would bear witness to our presence. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

It must’ve been young, because it was small compared to most—no bigger than a grizzly bear. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

“And all day long, my father followed us through the fair, carrying his prize, a large, green teddy bear. He was miserable. He kept saying, ‘Fifty-two? Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

His feet grew numb when he thought of one of those bear’s paws landing squarely on the top of his head, driving him perhaps like a stake through the unpredictable flooring of the office. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

They dodged streetcars and buses, swung wide around each corner, peered out from under the shell from time to time to get their bearings. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

It was like someone was digging a hole in her and dragging out her heart, and she didn’t know if she could bear the pain. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

If this sounds silly, bear in mind that before the development of modern embryological studies, people had no solid evidence that babies are always sired by a single father rather than by many. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He’s fiercer than a mother bear protecting her cubs. In fact, I’d rather get caught by a mother bear than have Lorren see me folding back a page.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Onshore some of the people set about clearing up, but several more came crowding to see Will, curious about this boy and the power he had to command the bear. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

She didn’t like the idea of owing him and couldn’t bear the thought of slipping backward again. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

Woods choke off views and leave you muddled and without bearings. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Max is so startled that she goes from a sneaky ninja to a lumbering bear. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

He stands with his back hunched, his hind legs bearing as much weight as they can. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

He ignored the thistles as the bear sank its teeth into his thigh, lifting him like a rag doll. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

With the bear sniffing him, Prince Brat didn't move a muscle. The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z

It seemed to Lazlo they were looking anywhere but there, as though they couldn’t bear the sight of the thing. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

She can’t bear to see the numbers moving forward, five to six, six to seven, seven to eight. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

I don't like hearing her promise to bear arms on behalf of America, even though there's no chance she'll ever be recruited for the Army. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“You have heard of a certain Frank Churchill, I presume,” he continued—“and know him to be my son, though he does not bear my name.” Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z

They were a mutual admiration society of two, and Glerk could not bear it. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

“Do not keep me from sharing all with you. Evil I share with you is not evil to me. And hear me. Men great of soul can bear the blows of heaven and not flinch.” Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had an air hostess’s heart trapped in a bear’s body. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ugwu could not bear to watch them go; he studied his nails instead. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

He stood at a rise in the road and tried to take his bearings in the twilight. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

And the younger bears, was she talking to them? The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

The lions and tigers in heated cages, the bears asleep, the snakes coiled tightly underground. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Each pinecone bounced off its target with annoying accuracy and whipped the young bears into a frenzy. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

If anyone could bear witness to the long-term impact of persistent action, and also to the strength of the forces opposing change, it was Dorothy Vaughan. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

There was a noise like a strong wind blowing, and on it was borne the sound of hoofs, galloping, galloping, galloping from the East. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

When she sees me, she throws her arms wide enough to hug a bear. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

“Only those women who are not widowed and have borne a male child are privileged to help.” Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

She’d been transformed into a panda bear, and she was thrilled about it. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Not knowing exactly where I was, I looked down out of the mountains to get my bearings. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then John saw the Lord—for a moment only; and the darkness, for a moment only, was filled with a fight he could not bear. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

If the bear had wanted you, his brain said, he would have taken you. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

This latest affront was too much for the students to bear. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’ve wanted to make it since I got here, but I couldn’t bear it if Mom broke it. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

By the morning after the waltz, you see, Desdemona’s forebodings had been borne out. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

There were still wolves in the woods, and grizzly bears that stood ten feet tall. I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z

Whom the whiskers had belonged to initially—what unsavory animal—was a question that Edward could not bear to consider for too long. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z

They cupped the net around him like a kind of hammock so that his body was borne by the webbing. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Eleven empty bottles of brandy and that bear liquid.” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

“Go and bring that boy down to his dinner, tell him it’s all right, and advise him not to put on tragedy airs with his grandfather. I won’t bear it.” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Do you know what his wishes were for the house after he . . .” Joseph couldn’t bear to hear any more. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

“Trouble that we will have to bear, while the fools who gave these orders sit in their comfortable homes in London, and while Captain Newport sails safely back to England.” Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

The bear stirred, restless, irritable, like the young king’s anger removed to the end of a chain. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

But look at old women and bear in mind we are another country. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“My mother,” the Sorrow Eater mumbled, barely noticing the enormous dragon bearing down on her. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

“I suppose in Weep they just go around mauling one another like bear wrestlers.” Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

After so many weeks on the road, the last hour was the hardest to bear. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Telemakhos looked at her and replied: “Our friend here. A man who shares my meat can bear a hand, no matter how far he is from home.” The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t want you to have to bear Uriah’s family alone,” I say softly. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Now just bear with me, listen to the teachings of the Messenger of Allah, The Honorable Elijah Muhammad. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

How she hoped the bear did not smell the bear-killing dogs or the bear claw that swung on a silver hoop from Old Tallow’s earlobe. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

The leprechaun bears live young and lives mostly in forest and woodland areas, though it enjoys attracting Muggle attention and as a consequence features almost as heavily as the fairy in Muggle literature for children. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Our eyes are peeled for bears, lynxes, wayward hunters—any creature that might call the mountains home. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

It is as though formerly we were coins of different provinces; and now we are melted down, and all bear the same stamp. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ophie knocked her shin into a wooden crate full of Christmas ornaments and stumbled into a hatstand before she managed to gain her bearings. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

But before the consul could answer, the door opened and Lyra came in bearing a little branch of pine. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

Stannis would have kept them busy building rafts and fletching arrows, yet even so the waiting would have been a hard thing to bear. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Robin had to keep to the outside wall to allow room for the crutches to spread far enough to bear his weight. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

I did not ask you to handle it,’ he cried, turning sharply and seeing Pippin coming up the steps, slowly, as if he were bearing a great weight. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Fern knew it was almost suppertime but she couldn’t bear to leave. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

Then I’d swoop the barrel up over the bear, squeeze the trigger... This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Instantly, about six house-elves came trotting up behind him, bearing a large silver tray laden with a teapot, cups for Harry, Ron, and Hermione, a milk jug, and a large plate of biscuits. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Along the right side of the bear footprints, the old man painted paw prints in blue, and then yellow, and finally white. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

And it was then that the last of the wax ran molten over Tristran's hand, and the burning became impossible for him to bear, and the last of the flame burned out forever. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

Pa shot the bear, and there was no way of knowing where the pig came from nor whose pig it was. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

She couldn’t bear to think that there were thirty Grisha here. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

I stayed in the shadow of the wings for a minute until I could get my bearings. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

Sewing Mistress approached, bearing a needle, an assortment of colored thread, and a round of white linen marked with a design of flowers. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

Both messengers, crewman and swineherd—reached the outer gate in the same instant, bearing the same news, m and went in side by side to the king’s hall. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

He shook himself like a big bear, hurling off great chunks of mud. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

A polar bear towered above it all, slashing blindly with skillet-sized paws. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

Then, adjusting her mittens in the darkness, she took a bearing on the North Star and started off. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The massive teeth snapped like a bear trap. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

But a Treasury spokesman, Taylor Griffin, said the income tax system is more progressive if the measurement is the share borne by the top 40 percent of Americans rather than the top 0.1 percent. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

They didn’t think they could bear it if anyone found out about the Potters. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

Dad’s e-mail says Those who can’t bear to look a bear in the eye are already dead. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

She couldn’t have been more than four the winter of the bear, but that was now nearly two years past. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

And why hadn’t the bear showed itself again? Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

The idea of her dying alone in the hospital, suffering painful burns, is too much to bear. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Odysseus, who had borne the barren sea, stood in the gateway and surveyed this bounty. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was related to bears, to dinosaurs, to plants, to things that were a million years old. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

If one is continually surviving the worst that life can bring, one eventually ceases to be controlled by a fear of what life can bring; whatever it brings must be borne. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

I made good time for a crippled girl bearing a priceless treasure. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

The bear halted, then reared up to full height for attack, red eyes glinting savagely, neck up-stretched and head weaving from side to side in a menacing, snakelike way. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It was just a regular black bear that hurt you. Probably an ugly one!” Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

Soojin bites the head off a gummy bear and chews it slowly. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

Then the bear turned over a small stone on the floor and told Lyra to find some more stones of the same kind. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

The second match lasted long enough for me to gain my bearings. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Readers accustomed to uncalibrated dates will need to bear this distinction in mind whenever they find me quoting apparently erroneous dates that are older than the ones with which they are familiar. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

The Lord never sends you more than you can bear— That was an ancient Maycomb phrase employed by its fragile ladies who sat up with corpses, supposed to be profoundly comforting to the bereaved. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

He awoke at six and saw the rain, and it seemed as though he couldn’t bear it. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

But now she couldn’t bear to be forced to wear still more oversize and unflattering clothing. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Buildings and featureless shapes flowed by him noiselessly as though borne past immutably on the surface of some rank and timeless ride. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

He was an honest man, and well-off as things were reckoned in Bree; but thirty silver pennies was a sore blow to him, and being cheated by Bill Ferny made it harder to bear. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

At home he would have had the stuffed bear and dog and Pedro el Conejo for company.They didn’t talk, but he could hug them. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He lifted himself as high as he could on his hands, moved one, bearing his weight, slid both legs after slowly, slowly then moved the other hand, and slid forward again. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

Heroes and warriors came in suits of armor, riding brave horses and bearing swords and arrows. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

“Barristan the Old, did you say? Your bear knight was younger, and devoted to you.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Today, most live-born Western infants survive fatal infections as well and reproduce themselves, regardless of their intelligence and the genes they bear. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

In her eyes there was such a deep and penetrating look of loss that Omakayas could not bear to see her at all. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

"Yes," she said, "but please, Ned, for the love you bear me, let Bran remain here at Winterfell. He is only seven." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Again I am to bear witness to this woman’s existence. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘Frank’s a good guy. Or bear. Or bulldog. Or -’ ‘Oh, stop.’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

The man said he saw the boy running out. 8TH JUROR: Well, let’s see if the details bear him out. Twelve Angry Men 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s the last one in line who must bear the burden of knowing: if anyone is to be hurt it will have to be me. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

There are whole lives being lived in this place, sleeping and eating and working, bearing children and raising families and dying. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Maybe if she told them about the bear—about how close her family’d come to moving to the poor farm. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

I stop in the doorway and give that grizzly bear a good long stare. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Klin, who bears a striking resemblance to the actor Martin Short, is half Israeli and half Brazilian, and he speaks with an understandably peculiar accent. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

The idea of irrevocable death without the controlled hand of a scythe was too much to bear for a world that had conquered mortality. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

“I think, my dear Alyosha, that if you want to win that bear’s heart, you should stop expecting it to be happy in a cage.” Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

The messenger was a boy of eight or nine, so bundled up in fur he seemed a bear cub. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The bear had been their undoing, though at the time they had all laughed. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

“In the fish house,” the bear told her, and turned to pad down toward the jetty. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

How far do you stand from die attack on your home, whatever the cause, so that you can bear it? The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Polar bears wrestle with elephants in Australia and penguins teach Zulus how to play bagpipes. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

The off-white walls with the framed photos of Grandfather were narrowing, bearing down on me. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

His mouth held little moisture, but deliberately he dredged up spit from deep in his throat, all the while meeting the bear’s intense gaze with one of his own. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

Roosevelt threw himself into the physical demands of cattle roundups, bronco busting, and buffalo and grizzly bear hunting. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

The oxen were being unharnessed, the carts unloaded, while the Brave Companions clamored for drink and the curious gathered around the caged bear. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Flatnose was following them, lumbering like a bear in a black suit, and at last, the other men left, too. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

“Lord Faa,” said the bear, “yes. Good fighters. Go well.” The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

“You’re glad,” he accused, as though, bearing the news, Theresa had something to do with it. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

The walls were hung with animal pelts: black bear, tiger, and several others I didn’t recognize. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

“She has not borne in her first blooming, who can say she will conceive later? I need sons.” Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

It came within a hair’s breadth of crushing the prow, and with the backwash the boat was borne landward. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

A bear with half a brain would have turned tail and run. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

Tiger, rhinoceros, ostrich, wild boar, brown bear—no matter the beast, you must get its goat. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

And how foolish must one be to be reassured by the information that no bear has killed a human in Vermont or New Hampshire in 200 years? A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

We turned circles trying to get our bearings. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He knows that your father is a cross we must bear.” The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Dear me!—How should I ever have borne it! It would have killed me never to come to Hartfield any more!” Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z

I don’t remember the lions or the bears themselves, just the sense of them that he created. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

This was the work she set herself: to weave through all the dreams of Weep a dread so potent that none could bear to look at the citadel, much less go near it. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

I’ve mussed my hair, dirtied up my face, hidden my purse, and I have a real armband on my coat instead of one that will only bear a glance. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

There were deer, monkeys, even bears—bears!—right there in the concentration camp. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, if you had, you would have seen the bears working at getting into cars as they drove slowly by on the park highway, getting the food the people in the cars had for them.” This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

I go outside and throw my hoodie over my snapback—it’s colder than a polar bear’s butt crack out here. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

So too did the shred bearing “By the time you read this” and “there are things I must explain” underneath. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Right in front of me stands a set of scales like the kind Justice holds up, each small tray bearing a set of dice. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Besides the garbage, I found some car keys that Jimmy said were from a DeSoto, a couple of teddy bears, some watches, a couple of wallets, and a few jackets. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I looked at the bear, at him, in shock. Fourth Grade Rats 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

He looked at both of them, then closed his eyes and quietly said, “I bear witness that there is no god but Allah.” Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

She saw brown bears, too, but they kept their distance. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

“If you ask Him to bear you up,” said Elisha, as though he had read his thoughts, “He won’t never let you fall.” Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

“Poor old Jo! She came in looking as if bears were after her,” said Beth, as she cuddled her sister’s feet with a motherly air. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Nokomis,” said Omakayas, her voice soft and troubled, “I talked to my bear brothers. I listened to them like you told me.” The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

Four decades ago, employers were free to discriminate explicitly on the basis of race; today employers feel free to discriminate against those who bear the prison label—i.e., those labeled criminals by the state. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

“If we cannot bear them, how can they possibly bear themselves?” The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Zion paid for our popcorn, sodas, and gummy bears. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

When first the water closed over him Robin thought he could not bear it. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

Without her still eyes bearing down on me, I did not pour in too much hot water, and the garri turned out firm and smooth. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

Catch-22 required that each censored letter bear the censoring officer’s name. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Will felt his whole being quiver under the blows of the stone hammer in the bear’s fist. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

He didn’t want a wife who would fight him for attention; but he also couldn’t bear the thought of an unhappy marriage. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had to guess your correct age within one year or else you won a teddy bear.” Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

Now what connection under heaven can there be between the golden man hanged so long ago and the sweet little bearing mother? East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

But as far as I’m concerned, a moon is a moon, and they all bear remarking. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Especially when the penguins play the polar bears.” Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

I personally know of several people severely injured by moose and four killed and eaten by bears. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

A mantelpiece bare of ornaments save for an enormous block of white marble shaped like a bear, a piece of modern sculpture in which was inset a clock. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

I threw down my books, ducked his bear hug, and scampered up the mountainside and disappeared into the woods. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Most people would have termed her a splendid woman of her age: and so she was, no doubt, physically speaking; but then there was an expression of almost insupportable haughtiness in her bearing and countenance. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

I don’t know if I can bear the weight of that burden. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

The flashlight beam fell on a teddy bear, a stuffed toy rabbit, fishing rods, a toolbox, piles of books, and a plastic sword that stuck out of a sleeping bag. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

She would not bear the disgrace if she were to fail. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

“Thus do the Augurs' visions bear fruit. The Emperor is dead, and a new power must rise, lest the Empire be destroyed. “ An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

If she stuck to the woods that ran up the center of the island, she could be et by a bear or drowned in a swamp. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bran saw a bear skull and a wolf skull, half a dozen human skulls and near as many giants. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I am astonished at the number of lives I can remember to tell Rhiannon about, and she is amazed that her single life bears as many stories as my multiple one. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

Outside there was a starless blackness as Gandalf, with Pippin beside him bearing a small torch, made his way to their lodging. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

My head pulsed with shame and regret, and I couldn’t bear to meet his eyes. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

She wanted to marry Aron and bear any number of his children, but for the time being she did not speak of it. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Like Park had spent sixteen years acting weak and weird and girlie, and his dad had borne it on his massive shoulders. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

He gives her lotions, a stuffed teddy bear, chocolates. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

In the middle of it there was a green silk canopy borne on four spears by four knights gorgeously apparelled. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then after the baby was born, he couldn’t bear to leave her. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know. I’m not good at math. They’re really yummy. They taste kinda like gummi bears, but with dirt on them.” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

“How has a bear got a daemon? And why him? And how are you so far from him?” The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

“I will not have my rights to bear arms trampled upon!” railed one disgruntled scythe. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Zeus loved her, but when she was about to bear a child he abandoned her, afraid of Hera. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

It involved Queenie getting off her bicycle at every single crossroad—each one wet, windy, and featureless—and climbing a wall or gate or tree to get her bearings. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

Three times between midnight and 3:30 A.M. the bear came to the camp. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

“I can’t bear the thought of my people being slaves,” she admitted. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Someone broke up the gummy bear heart collective I left up here. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

Maybe she just wanted her bike and her book and her teddy bear. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

How can I bear to leave her again? The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Cole showed where he had tried to kill the bear and told how he had been mauled. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

Smyth was also unhappy with Lawrence’s habit of proposing increasingly ambitious projects before his previous ones had borne fruit. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Then she turned and ran into the house, unable to bear his gaze. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

She said it was a bear’s claw, and for many years I thought bears were hairless. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then, with the same regal bearing with which she entered Mechtild’s cottage, she departed, closing the door behind her and leaving in the gloom her lingering scent and the echo of her rustling gown. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

A bear and two wolves set upon him and made to rend him with their fangs. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

Even Clover and Haystack found that they could manage pretty well and boasted that they would bear the warren’s first litters in burrows that they had dug for themselves. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

For a good while we sat and smoked, discussing the matter in its various lights and bearings; I took the opportunity of bringing this diary right up to the moment. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

“The pearls symbolize fertility. The more pearls Your Worship wears, the more healthy children she will bear.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

And once she got her bearings and they’d dealt with Wick, she could see what all this being the shining center of the shadowshapers business was about. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

If chained is where you have been, your arms will always bear marks of the shackles. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Hear my words, and bear witness to my vow," they recited, their voices filling the twilit grove. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

He did not interrupt her until late in the afternoon, when he could no longer bear the echo of the bass drum that was tormenting his head. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

If the potential hazards of the chemosterilants are not constantly borne in mind we could easily find ourselves in even worse trouble than that now created by the insecticides. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

But if I couldn’t use my colors, the world would seem so bland—like vanilla ice cream without the gummy bears on top. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

“Do you think you can bear to stay with us for fifteen years? We can train you to become a warrior.” The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Hell, yes! The bear. Caint you see these patches where he's been clawing at my behind?" Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

The bears were solitary creatures for the most part, and they only came together in times of war or emergency. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

In the evenings I would sit before this television bearing witness to the dispatches from this other world. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

She couldn’t bear to see more disappointment or reproach. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

They crushed her breasts and cut them off but when they rolled her over hot coals it was more than she could bear so she expired, giving praise. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

She showed them a picture of a bear, then came the first Blue’s clue, a little splotch of white and black tattooed with one of Blue’s paw prints. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

In her bearing, she was still a queen. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

The effect was so flattering that Celia could not bear to give it up, and instead kept it for normal wear. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

He half expected to come face-to-face with a grizzly bear, but then he realized how ridiculous that was. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

I blink rapidly, trying to get my bearings—that skinny nurse with the horse face has dropped a tray of food at the end of the hall, and it’s woken me up. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

Had their mother really thought the bear was the devil on earth? Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

Probably because I couldn’t bear the idea that the girl with whom I was virtually smitten might actually be some middle-aged dude named Chuck, with back hair and male-pattern baldness. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Miss Whitlaw had borne her losses with a courage that I had come to expect of her. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You will, I trust, Dr. Seward, do me the justice to bear in mind, later on, that I did what I could to convince you to-night.” Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

I would guess that the latter was the case because the trees did not seem to bear flowers or fruit. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

“How in the ...” I trailed off, trying to clear my head, get my bearings. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

The little house in Barrow became borne as Julie fitted into Nusan’s routine, and summer was upon the land before she knew it. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wonder if she has a stuffed koala bear, too. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

How would she bear the sights that her father was forcing on her? Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

But the pressure from the stewards and the press was too much to bear. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

These four guys come out onstage, and while they don't bear a striking resemblance to the members of Neutral Milk Hotel, I tell myself that, whatever, I've only seen pictures on the web. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

And he shook off his grandfather’s hands with an impatient motion, for though grateful for the sympathy, his man’s pride could not bear a man’s pity. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

I only remember Nancy’s Teddy bear staring at me. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Don’t get away from the lake so far that you can’t see, and if you run into a bear don’t look into his eyes.” The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

The bear sinks its teeth into the fish's flesh because it must; it never terrorizes a deer for a night of fun, just because it can. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

It was the coughing roar of a charging bear. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

With a snarl that expressed hatred, rage, and scorn, the bear reached up with a great claw and unhooked the chain that held his helmet in place. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Only Melisandre kept pace, bearing the great standard of the fiery heart with the crowned stag within. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

She opened her mouth to call the rower back—she couldn’t bear the loss; it would surely cripple her—and at that moment she realized she could hear nothing. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

All bears are agile, cunning, and immensely strong, and they are always hungry. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

The bear dropped him to the ground and pawed at his chest as if raking leaves. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

I could not bear to think about what might have happened to them. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Probably a determined bear could have gotten it down. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

“He bears his soul, he admits his guilt, and he tries to use that to persuade others to do right. “Reggie has had a tremendous impact on people’s thinking about distracted driving.” A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

She couldn’t bear to show weakness, not now. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Nevertheless, Halley had planted a seed that would bear fruit before too long. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

The idea, that by Therese's death I am forgiven, comes over me like the tide, lifting me with its gentle force and bearing me toward a solid shore. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t bear to have yet an­other French speaker guffawing at my name, so when the man on the phone asked, “Can I ’ave your name?” Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

But given their championship, they recognized what seemed an unwarranted demotion and felt more than a little intimidated by their new coach’s bearing. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

I could bear it if he was wrong, but I couldn’t bear other people making fun of him. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

A special messenger brought a sealed envelope to the house with a sheet of paper inside bearing the colonel's delicate hand: Take good care of Papa because he is going to die. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Rowan had one, too—bright green bands bearing the curved blade of a farmer’s scythe above an unblinking eye—the double symbol of the scythehood. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

If so, everyone wanted to bear witness to the coronation. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

For a split second, Luke’s guards were too stunned to do anything except watch the bear twins’ bodies dissolve into smoke. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

It was just as well if the girl learned to bear her own troubles. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

She told them she hadn’t, that she couldn’t bear it. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Dimly lit by a distant streetlight, two flashlights, and a jack-o’-lantern, it was almost too fascinating to bear. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

She knew the bear had followed her home. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

They took a deep draught of the air, and felt that a skip and a few stout strides would bear them wherever they wished. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

“And I have to bear your brother, what he did, the shame of it, his absence.” Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

"It is an old saying: see the bear in his own den before you judge of his conditions." The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

“That’s just what I don’t want, Joe. They would make such a business of it,—such a coarse and common business,—that I couldn’t bear myself.” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

“Jus’ takes a while for me to get my bearings after one of these spells.” Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And foes bear arms to the Doors of Death.” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

“I am leaving!” he announced curtly, with the bearing of a Russian count, informing Fischer and Schmid that he was going to the stage to play the game there. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Someone has to bear the stewardship for the royal legacy, Mum.” Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

A banner vanished suddenly as its bearer was swept under, and soon after the first dead man drifted past their walls, borne along by the current. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Wasn’t fighting with immature boys in the school yard more than enough to bear? P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

It seemed to her that in her external bearing she had succeeded only in deceiving Mrs. Shigemura; inwardly she knew her aspiration for worldly happiness was frighteningly irresistible. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

She would have to continue living by herself and she wondered whether she would be able to bear such loneliness. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

Up and up and up he’d borne her, high above the pyramids and pits, his wings outstretched to catch the warm air rising from the city’s sunbaked bricks. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I go get Mister Johnny’s hunting knife, still in the sheath, from the bear. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

I would write a sonnet describing the petals, white and rose-colored, that fluttered to the ground, borne upon the warming breeze. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

I can’t bear the thought of other scythes gleaning in my absence. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

The silver trumpet, the cockeyed teddy bear with his red and white scarf, the tiny sled packed with tinier toys. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z

I kept replaying the walk to the bus stop, her proud bearing, the men’s stares, their promises, and the nakedness her accessible beauty made me feel. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Hair grew on this story until the bears were wide awake and the ex-boxer was using his deadly left hook to knock all five unconscious. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was the first time in a very long time that Ophie didn’t feel like an annoyance, a burden meant to be borne. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

And if Emeline had come to the building bearing marriage announcements, she surely would have presented one in person. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

To a man of honor like Butler, this was almost more than he could bear. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

The number of bears in the park is not large—estimates range from 400 to 600—but they are a chronic problem because so many of them have lost their fear of humans. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

The helper stepped out from the shadows; he was grunting like a bear. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Before jumping down he took a rapid glance round him to get his bearings. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

Corporal MacIntyre lay on his back under a bed cradle because he could not bear the touch of a sheet on his skin. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t fathom how a bear had gotten into the cage, only that I needed to get away from it, so I pressed myself hard against the bars. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

Moreover, it can bear the closest scrutiny and withstand the test of time. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

If I were a bear, this would be the moment I would choose to lunge. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

How much can men bear to keep together the nation their great-grandfathers had helped to create? Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m evening out the colors in the gummy bear circle, so it’s balanced. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

The thought of continuing my life without my mother was too much to bear. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

The bear sliced it open with a claw and showed Lyra where to find the kidneys. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

But she could also hear bears and lynx growling in the wilderness around her. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

It was a night of confirmation when he felt an almost mystical affinity with every man who had ever borne the motto of semper fidelis. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t bear the thought of sitting idly by some fire, sticking pins into a wax doll while miles away a drug-crazed draccus rolled in the flaming wreckage of some innocent family’s farm. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“He knew you would get them and couldn’t bear to watch.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Ball bearings knock against the insides of the cans. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“I couldn’t bear to go home,” she said. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh,” she said suddenly, “we forgot the bear.” The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

They squished the two gummy bears in love. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

The man’s very look and bearing, so grimly assured, made Bigger feel that he was already lost. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

The newspaper I pick up at the Clipper Mart bears the unexpected news that there are no apartments in Portland. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The cup of ridicule is greater than you can bear,” she said. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Still, the SS-HJ held out until August 21, often bearing the brunt of battle. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

The others gathered round, praising him, but he cut them short, looking round the dark yard as he tried to get his bearings. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Do you see why anything we plant will not bear fruit?” said a woman whose child had died the week before. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

I asked Him to let me bear your burden if I did wrong by you. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

“A bear has eaten some of our precious food.” The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t bear it another second and wished I would die. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

She came up with a teddy bear as careworn as her. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

I cannot bear to look at his hands, they are like wax. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

For an eternity, the bear remained standing over Cole in the chilling rain. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

Behind him followed four of his Unsullied, bearing the dead man on their shoulders. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Shirley could not bear to see the sadness on the Señora’s face and lowered her gaze until it rested on the old woman’s hands. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

“Two little girls entering the Night Bazaar with enchanted objects bearing the marks of Lord Indra and the Dharma Raja? How curious.” Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

When Kermit was fourteen, his father sent him to South Dakota, and Deadwood Sheriff Seth Bullock took Kermit camping, fishing, and bear hunting. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

“It’s supposed to be a Maine black bear, but this was all they had,” he says apologetically. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

“Don’t know a word. I’m very stupid about studying anything, can’t bear French, it’s such a slippery, silly sort of language,” was the brusque reply. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had borne four children and suffered three miscarriages, but her stomach was as hard and flat as her hand. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I also think he couldn’t bear the thought that if he sold it, someone might take it to the junkyard. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

Nevertheless, arbitrarily delineated stages provide a useful shorthand for discussing the diversity of music and of human societies, provided one bears in mind the above caveats. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Let’s think instead of what we have to bear together. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

But she is suffering greatly, and as she’s my servant, my soul would bear the burden of her misfortune. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

The old woman sat silent, bearing the burden of her years. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

He might be a little cold this day without the wadding of the winter garments, but he suddenly could not bear to put them on against his clean flesh. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

A lesser man might have bear afraid to show a smile as frightening as his, yet Dagmer grinned more often and more broadly than Lord Balon ever had. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

In the room there was another deputy—a broad, jowly bear standing next to the door that led to the jail cells. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

Persian children—even Fractional ones—learn their fruit bearing trees at an early age. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

“Lord Asriel. And they got him captive on Svalbard, you see. I think the Gobblers betrayed him and paid the bears to keep him in prison.” The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

“No. I just couldn’t bear it,” said Jane, holding her ear with her hand. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

But bear in mind the trouble most parents have in getting just one child off to school, and multiply it by twelve. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

Since the bear doesn’t mind being filmed and indeed seems indifferent to his audience, pretty generally some fool will come up to it and try to stroke it or feed it a cupcake or something. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

They pursued their new prey the way they had once hunted seals and bears in the frozen north, and they hunted with an implacable appetite. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

It did not make the pain any easier to bear. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Lyddie glared straight into the bear’s eyes, daring him to step forward into the cabin. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

The photograph caught four black bears as they puzzled over a suspended food bag. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

She could bear her own death as long as her friends survived. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

“His case in your diary interest me much, and it had bearing, too, now and again on our case. I should much like to see him, and especial when his mind is disturbed.” Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

You could not trick a bear, but, as Lyra had shown him, Iofur did not want to be a bear, he wanted to be a man; and Iorek was tricking him. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

I closed my eyes, I could not bear to see them thus. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

I asked him what it was, and he said, with a sort of rapture in his voice and bearing:— Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

They strapped the deer’s legs to a long fallen branch and hoisted it up on their shoulders, each taking turns to bear the weight on the way back to Jilin. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

The bear grunted, and settled down to lick the blood off his fur. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

The bears were clearly startled but not remotely alarmed by the flash. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

He thought of the bear, thought of Bigfoot and every monster he had ever seen in every fright movie he had ever watched, and his heart hammered in his throat. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

For though he could have faced torture he couldn't bear being made ridiculous. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

The thought of not getting a final glimpse of him was too much to bear, so I raised my eyes. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

The terrible truth of their helplessness is almost too much to bear. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

It looks like a prehistoric polar bear, except as tall as a skyscraper—and its jaws are open wide, revealing a row of sharp teeth, each one as long as the nearest towering ice structure. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The husky voice was beautiful even when it was barely more than a murmur borne on the wind. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Wolf packs, starving bears just rising from their hibernation. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t bear to add to her problems. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

“You hide in here like a bear in a cave.” The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Since that night among the bodies and the swim from the Reaper’s Barge, he had not been able to bear the feeling of skin against skin. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Veteran turf writer John Lardner printed the information, “but this,” he admitted, “had little or no bearing on the race.” Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

He could not bear to think of her tossed about by rough men, ridden on a rail. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

She would have quailed in the same way if the armored bear had looked at her like that, because there was something not unlike Iorek in Will’s eyes, young as they were. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Once I lived in darkness, but now I bear the flame,” she whispered. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Holly, bearing it as well as he could, growled and scuffled, and Silver cast about for something to occupy his attention. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

I would also tell her about Miss Franny and the bear, and about meeting Gloria Dump and believing for just a minute that she was a witch. Because of Winn-Dixie 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

I had just switched over to catcher from second base—partially because my coach realized I noticed stuff like a shifted stance—and I was still getting my bearings. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

He said, “We were a long way from Svalbard, and the bears were occupied with their own affairs.” The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

A pair of Unsullied went down the steps before them, bearing torches; behind came two Brazen Beasts, one masked as a fish, the other as a hawk. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“Will the Emperor show it at the Colosseum? Will they bait it, like the bears, with dogs?” Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

The waitress is wearing a burgundy Grizzlies football jersey, which has a bear paw clawing down the front of it. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

He wanted Clara to think of nothing but him, and he could not bear for her to have a life outside that did not include him. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

A huge bear of a guy, clad head to toe in leather, swung off the motorcycle. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Easily twice the size of most black bears. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Keeping her eyes on the intruder as though he were a bear, she managed to get her left foot across the sill and straighten herself to a sitting position on the window ledge. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

And no matter how fast Mama ran or how fast I ran, the she bear was going to get there first! Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was her house, after all, and what was one measly man, black or white, compared to a bear? Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

It’s like a bear slipped in through the keyhole. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

People say the rebel leader sleeps in his uniform and olive cap, that his hair and beard are one, like a bear’s, and his eyes are just as fearless. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

The dad was a giant brown bear, they said. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

It was thirty feet or so deep, with a dry floor: an ideal den for a bear or a wolf, but the only creatures living in it for years had been birds and bats. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

But whether he would or not there came into his mind the thought of the woman who had borne them for him. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

When I was younger, he took me to the zoo—all I can remember is the authority in his voice as he told me about the lions and the bears. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

All things in the woods, from insects to fish to bears, were always, always looking for food—it was the great, single driving influence in nature, lo eat. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

Next to me is Craig, gentlemanly in a little bow tie and suit jacket, bearing an earnest expression. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

It’s full of bears and model boats, plus Gat-like piles of books, empty bags of potato chips, cashews crushed underfoot. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

He bit a head off a gummy bear, then sighed. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

There, upon a low black hill, stood the House, its cornerstone bearing the inscription 2005 A.D. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

I would be wiser to be curled up, asleep like a bear, in my cave. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her gray eyes were as steely as ball bearings. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

She takes a faded scrap of paper from her pocket, bearing her name, her real name that he coaxed from her years ago and asked her to write in one of his notebooks. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

He wore long blue pajamas that would have fit a polar bear. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Finally Yossarian was unable to bear it any longer and cleared his throat. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

There were single shoes strewn about, a cane, a woman’s purse lying open, and an orphaned teddy bear. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

The serving girl looks up, her eyes round as saucers as the shambler bears down on her. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

It was for herself, for her own crime which her conscience could no longer bear. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

She always made sure I had my book and Norm the Bear, even though I didn’t need a teddy bear. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

The film ends with a woman who has a nightmare of bearing a mentally defective child. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Who becomes a social pariah and excommunicated from civil society and who trots off to college bears scant relationship to the morality of crimes committed. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

She had reclined too long on satin cushions, letting oxen bear her hither and yon. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

It took me ten full seconds, as we threaded the crowd past the stage, to recognize it as a bear. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

“Not as I can tell. Unless your insides bear a close resemblance to your outsides.” Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

Up she went, expertly negotiating rocky columns and ledges, until she hoisted herself onto the clifftop, where two young bears were waiting. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

‘If we are going to try and get back on to our course, we must cross at once and bear right.’ The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

On the southwest, he found an open gate flanked by a pair of animal skulls on high poles: a bear to one side, a ram to the other. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

There were wolves, he thought, and bears— other things. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was clear he no longer needed the bear. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

“They go on a hiking trip, split up, and a bear kills somebody.” The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

Frank wanted to be back there, if only to stuff a teddy bear down the throat of that slimeball augur. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

“Please stay away!” said the robot to the two bears who were now nipping at her heels. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Behind him the bear was kindling a fire, and Lyra watched, curious despite her sorrow. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Over the next few days Will learned why the bears were making this voyage into Central Asia, so far from their homeland. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

I always thought the story would have been better if the hungry bears had eaten Goldilocks for dinner. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

The problem is not that the clock radio feels underdressed, the problem is that I cannot bear to watch the numbers advance in the heartless way common to this particular model. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

He’d eaten whatever he could scrounge—vending machine gummi bears, stale bagels, even a Jack in the Crack burrito, which was a new personal low. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

“I believed I loved him, but I began to doubt that he would be a worthy husband. And then—I cannot bear to speak of this,” she whispers. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

On the other hand, he then adds judiciously, these tactics could “merely provoke the bear.” A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

I heard her whisper, “But I...I can’t bear for you to think—I mean, what happened wasn’t—I mean, I couldn’t help what happened.” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Lincoln and Washington plus lions and tigers and bears. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

Stripped and shaved, they were left in the middle ward beside the bear pit, free for the use of any man who wanted them. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

But the longer she spent in America, the better she had become at distinguishing, sometimes from looks and gait, but mostly from bearing and demeanor, that fine-grained mark that culture stamps on people. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

And like a bear, he looked ready to take a bite out of me. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

One day he chanced to see a mighty eagle, greater and more splendid than any mortal bird, bearing a maiden to an island not far away. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

“What, you want me to give you a philosophy bingo card for your trip? Like: When you smell honey in the woods, run because the bear can’t be far behind.” Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

“Go,” the Reader had urged, as the captains were bearing her uncle Euron down Nagga’s hill to don his driftwood crown. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Up till then, I’d been ready to tie into that bear myself. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

I stared at a row of dark vials, sealed in red wax, the labels bearing the symbol of a death’s head. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

My mother’s concern was almost too much to bear because it meant I wasn’t hiding my anguish very well. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

But in her heart, she couldn’t bear the thought of returning to her parents. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

By this time, word had spread among the bears, and every part of the combat ground was crowded. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

Rabiya is sprawled over the carpet on my floor, leaning on a giant teddy bear that’s permanently squashed from being used as a pillow for years. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

The trike had barely slowed its roll, and now was bearing down on them with renewed vigor as more shooting erupted at the far side of the yard. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

At last, in the late afternoon, he could bear it no longer. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

“As you say. My Maigaery prefers to be tried by the Faith, so the whole realm can bear witness to her innocence.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The bears seemed not to see the mess, however, and they led the way in through the huge arch, over the icy ground that was filthy with the spatter of the birds. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

She could not bear the thought of losing it all. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

This was more than Nick's pride could bear. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

I could not bear to return to the sordid village, where, besides, no prospect of aid was visible. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

From an engineering standpoint, clay should never be selected as the bearing material for a big earthen monument. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

It’s easy for men to talk—they don’t and never will have to bear the woes that women do! The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

To his mother’s dismay, Jericho came over every Thanksgiving bearing a tin of turnip mash. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

I can’t bear the thought of another friend suffering at their hands. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

You were supposed to be my wife, to bear me children with silver hair and purple eyes, to keep the blood of the dragon pure. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Fifteen years after Independence, in 1975, a group of Senators called the Church Committee took it upon themselves to look into the secret operations that had been brought to bear on the Congo. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

They knew he could always kill bears and panthers with the first shot. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not content with their names, they take descriptive titles also—the Empire State, the Garden State, the Granite State—titles proudly borne and little given to understatement. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

A sofa was draped in a bear skin. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

“My armor is made of sky iron, made for me. A bear’ s armor is his soul, just as your daemon is your soul. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

It is her duty, they say, to marry soldiers and bear sons for the Angkar. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He started walking back toward my house, and when the silence was almost too much to bear, Diego said, “You know that painting you like?” We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

“How do we get a cap on that hair? It will be like squeezing small socks on a bear.” Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

The droughts have dried the hill and the tree hasn’t borne fruit in years, but Sohrab and I still sit under its shade and I read to him from the Shahnamah. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Afterwards, in the living room, the strain was almost too great to be borne. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

Not interested in the older one,” she read, “probably because he doesn't look like a teddy bear anymore” Hornet smiled at Prosper. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

After she leaves, I ask, “Why do you like elephants so much? I mean, they’re not really cuddly like bears.” Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

And then the bears went in for the kill. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

So she curled up in a quiet corner of the combat ground with Pantalaimon as a wolverine to keep her warm, and piled snow over herself as a bear would do, and went to sleep. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

Bailey loses his balance stepping around the prone figure of a polar bear. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Though he had carried himself with a certain chill and proud bearing, his demeanor had been a shield to hide the profound sadness I had only caught a glimpse of that first night. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

He wanted to watch the tournament, the bear baiting, the wrestling, and the racing. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

So bears have learned to associate people with food. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

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

She wore it well, springing lightly along like a huge, tattered bear. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

Behind the musicians walked women bearing Monoma- tapa’s household needs, courtiers who carried his furniture and more soldiers. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Instead of the dominating father figure abusing us for our own good, he was a chain-smoking newjack begging re-porters to “bear with me—I’m a little nervous.” Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The toll collector had a couple of knickknacks littered across the surface: a unicorn with its wings outstretched and a tiny clay bear. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

It was a strange bear, clad in polished armor with the dew on it frozen into frost, and with a plume in his helmet. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

“He bears an uncanny resemblance to you, young one.” Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

The cameras zoomed in on a column of storm bearing down on some Midwest city. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

The mother bear rose to her full height, bared her yellow teeth, and faked a lunge toward him. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I felt safe, like I was camping in a tent in the woods and surrounded by whispering trees and peaceful bears, like the stories Uncle Bill tells about taking Boy Scouts to Bear Mountain. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

If he had lost his temper it would have been easier to bear. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

The lions and tigers in heated cages, the bears asleep, the snakes coiled tightly underground. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lyra rode a strong young bear, and Roger rode another, while Iorek paced tirelessly ahead and a squad armed with a fire hurler followed guarding the rear. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

They ranged from discreet golden lights that dripped twinkles to giant displays of snowmen and teddy bears and multicolored stars. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

Einstein couldn’t bear the notion that God could create a universe in which some things were forever unknowable. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

The water made her belly cramp, but cramps were easier to bear than thirst. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

He signed to one of his guards, and he came forward bearing a bundle swathed in black cloths. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

“Most foolish, ” muttered Gregory as he lifted the cover off the plate, “too foolish to be borne, a world without soup.” The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

That night she was a sad bear; a great sheep in a wool shawl. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m caught up by larger bodies, borne sideways, carried off course. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

That’s not because the bears have signed a treaty, you know. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

As the bear turned toward him again, Cole screamed,“No! No more!” but his words came out as coarse grunts. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

“Not at all—it bears the most gracious message in the world: for the rest, you are not my conscience-keeper, so don’t make yourself uneasy. Here, come in, bonny wanderer!” Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

“Why would I make up something I can’t even bear myself?” Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

Once, because repeating it was too much to bear, I let impatience get the best of me. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

He looked out the window—the same window his mom had watched him from when he had met the bear. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

I see their faces coming toward me bearing that careful rearrangement of the features that’s meant to say, This is none of my business. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

It was not a particularly big bear, but the deed was sufficient to make him famous. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z

At base, though the white brings forth many arguments to justify his viewpoint, one feels the reality is simply that he cannot bear to “lose” to the traditionally servant class. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The master and mistress, and their kin, and one child she had borne were in that house—which she did not enter. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

I approach the panel that bears my name with trepidation, though I’m not sure what I have to fear from seeing my name and my parents’ names carved into bronze. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Since Thanksgiving, Lexie had checked the mail first thing when she came home, and at last, in mid-December, a fat envelope bearing the Yale logo in the corner finally landed in their mailbox. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

It had originally been purchased by a fellow of Christ’s College, Cambridge—its binding bears the college badge. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

His voice broke, and he gave Stella what had to be his twentieth bear hug. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

“That bear used you for a chew toy.” Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

‘He will have none. If he will consent to bear you, bear you he does; and if not, well, no bit, bridle, whip, or thong will tame him. Farewell, Shadowfax! Have patience. Battle is coming.’ The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

Bobcats, bears, red and gray foxes, beaver, skunks, raccoons, flying squirrels, and our friends the salamanders exist in admirable numbers, though you don’t often see them, as most are nocturnal or wary of people. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

They bring us deerskins and bear furs to keep us warm. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

They sent their uneasy warning signals, especially the old bear, who had seen it all and knew when a fighting animal’s time approached. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

The bear still stood there; it wasn’t charging. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

All of them were looking up toward the north where the transport plane would come; the plane bearing the father who had flown off an aircraft carrier in the Mediterranean for a year. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Christ, isolated against a large rock that echoes His shape, is comforted by the angel bearing a golden cup, symbol of the Passion. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Servers hurried here and there bearing goblets, platters, and bowls, dodging the roaming boyars. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

“I’m going to scrape it away, so bear with me.” Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

Cecilia moved round behind Betty to see what everyone else could see—a huge blackened tray recently pulled from the oven bearing a quantity of roast potatoes that still sizzled mildly. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

For a split second, it remained as he left it, paralysed, its fur still bearing the imprint of his hands. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

But on that onerous day, oppressed beyond relief, my own mortality was borne in upon me on sluggish tides of doom. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

What is it with me, that I’m desperate to be alone when he’s here, and when he’s gone I can’t bear it? The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had put up with him until he could no longer bear it. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

To end up on an island with a stupid bear that didn’t have brains enough to run away. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

I drifted at last into uneasy sleep, and dreamt many evil dreams, and in one I saw a shadowy figure with no face creeping into our hut and bearing away the ten ollocks of rice. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

Despite all evidence that Booth is actually dead and is buried in the grave bearing his name, various legends have maintained that he escaped into the South and lived a long life. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

Somehow she couldn’t bear to return to their table while Omer still stood at the end of the aisle. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

He shook his head like a baited bear. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The last time I had bangs Taro told me I looked like a panda bear wearing a wig.” Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Weary and scared, Lyra began to stumble over the harsh and slippery rocks, following the bear, wondering how she could talk her way out of this. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

He was sorry that Bone Gap seemed to be cursed somehow, big losses salted with tiny tragedies almost too insulting to bear. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

I began to understand why some people could not bear the clamour of the sea. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Fishing beneath the teddy bears and fluffy bunnies, George felt for a flat denim bag. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

“How do you hunt a bear without weapons?” Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

They even lost their cattle to disease borne by tsetse flies in the forest. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

It was bringing more force to bear against itself than I could ever hope to muster. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The men held back, fearful; but the bear spoke, to Lyra’s weary amazement, chiding them. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

‘I am proud, Lord of the Mark, to bear your device,’ he said. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

He hadn’t seen any bears—indeed, he had been section hiking the trail for years and had seen a bear only once, briefly, rump end and fleeing, deep in the Maine woods. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Feeling around, he found the lump that was his stuffed bear. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Anything you want. If you see a whale, carve a whale. If you see a Spirit Bear, you can carve a bear. I’ve learned from every animal I’ve carved.” Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

When the younger bear turned around, he saw what she meant. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

That tiny voice was more than the old goose could bear, and she began gliding across the pond and squawking to the robot, “What are you doing with that hungry hatchling? Where are his parents?” The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

“No, but I thought you would never come. I could not bear to wait in the house for you, especially with this rain and wind.” Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

She bears the loss of her son to war. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

If only so you can bear witness to its evil. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t easy tolerating him talking this way to her, to bear his scorn, his ridicule, his insults, his walking past her like she was nothing but a house cat. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

When he looked up and saw the car bearing down on him, despite the desperate clucking from all around, he froze, staring. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Before she could bear to step down from the ladder, George looked up. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

When I was younger, I read a book about grizzly bears. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

He’s stopping to watch the little mechanical toys that the peddler winds up—the tumbling bear, the dog jumping, the seal spinning a ball on its nose. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

Watching even the sorriest of sporting events bears no resemblance to coming upon an accident and hoping to exploit it for your own personal gain. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

Initially the bearing capacity of its ground was “practically an unknown quality,” as one engineer put it. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

If they’d really wanted wilderness, there was plenty of it on the mainland, complete with bears and coyotes and mosquitoes. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

Then girl and daemon looked up at the solitary bear. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

The figure seemed to take its bearings for a few moments, then set off with light, quick strides, its long cloak rustling over the grass. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

“Yes. I’m sure it feels very hard. But you will need to learn to bear up, if you want to be a mother.” The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

She handed me a green teddy bear—which I thought was an odd color for it—and a pink notebook. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

“What have we done that we must be punished? Am I not clean and healthy? Have I not borne a girl so fair, people turn to gaze when she passes?” Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

They carried all they could bear, and then some, including a silent awe for the terrible power of the things they carried. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s nice here,”Tom said, picking up Matt’s treasured teddy bear. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the cage opposite him was an old bear. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

Moments later a man came running down the path; behind him someone followed more slowly, bearing a torch. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Behind the bear, the door of the bar opened a little way and a man put down a large earthenware jar before looking up to peer at them. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

Octavian gave Percy a disgusted look, then threw down his teddy bear and followed the crowd. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

As a result, many fathers are in prison, and those who are “free” bear the prison label. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Leo had trouble getting his bearings, but he guessed that was part of Hazel’s plan. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

The prosecution talked generalities because the frets just didn’t bear out the guilt of these defendants. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

Eventually, when it was clear that she was not a woman for bearing a child, Pitipiti’s husband married another wife. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

This hurts my heart more than I can bear, so I look away, expecting that she’ll take her leave. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

The bear sensed this, too, and paused before he began heating the last piece. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

The thought of turning back after all this labor was more than I could bear. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Scythehood is humanity’s highest calling, and to achieve it should cut one’s soul to the very core, so that no scythe will ever forget the cost of the ring they bear. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Soon they will be large enough to bear my weight. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“Do what you can to bear up, and think how invariably kind and tender you have been to her. I am in bed, not very well.” Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

She grabbed my legs in a bear hug and started tickling the bottoms of my feet. Fourth Grade Rats 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Before they went another mile, they passed a boat bearing two men dressed in work clothes. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

She couldn’t bear hearing high-flown talk she didn’t understand. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Under the direction of an older bear, the human prisoners were building a shelter out of driftwood and scraps of canvas. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

Octavian gripped one of his teddy bears, strangling it with shaking hands. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

She couldn’t bear to sell it, or to see it again. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Perhaps he won’t be able to bear the sight of you. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

I tried to get up but my legs were things of straw, they would not bear me. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

For several seconds, all I could do was lean against the wall and bear it. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

She could not bear to sit there and hear that sentence read aloud. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

Because of it, that place of dunes and rocks is charted now and bears a name; sailors call it Springwater Isle. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

She couldn’t bear to lose David as well. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

I wrap my arms around her in a spontaneous bear hug. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t just that she couldn’t bear losing her boys, although that in itself was a dread large enough to stop her in her tracks. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the fact that the barbs were hurled by a woman, and a poor one, certainly did not make them easier to bear. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Regaining some of his wits, he got his bearings. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

There is one recorded instance of a woman smearing honey on her toddler’s fingers so that the bear would lick it off for the video camera. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

He decided to come bearing sugar, since he knows how badly everyone wants it these days. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

Why a teddy bear choking on a bubble seemed appropriate subject matter, I can’t say. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

So bearing all this in mind, let’s consider a variety of recent gun initiatives to see the impact they may have had on crime in the 1990s. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

I shouted as he appeared before me, is there no God in heaven to bear my burden? Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You keep saying that,” Chubs muttered, sitting back, “and then it’s, Oh, sorry team, let’s huddle together for warmth, while the bears try to break in and eat our food.” The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

He came upon one that was severely damaged, but still sturdy enough to bear the load of the fleeing mob. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

All of which, I figure, is what led up to Little Arliss’s catching the bear. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had discovered that the more he drank the more he thought about Remedios, but he could bear the torture of his recollections better. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

“Half blinded after the successive flashes, I lost my bearings amongst hummocks, bumping shins against all points and stumbling into deep snowdrifts,” said Hurley. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

At roll call, we’d watch as big bloody steaks were fed to the bears. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

Dressed in suit and tie, he would come bearing Eid presents. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

Its blue and orange flag is already flying and the boiler beside it belches steam, bearing cheerful witness to the breakfast within. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

It bears no sign that it was once pierced with an Ottoman dagger. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Levi’s car was well made; the only adjustment it required between heats was “a drop of oil on each wheel bearing.” Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

“The main thing is not to lose our bearings.’ One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Lyra left his side and walked across the combat ground, bare and clear as it was, leaving her little footprints in the snow, and the bears on the far side parted to let her through. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

And no, I won’t mention the fact that Mom has never made any of my costumes, because it really has no bearing on anything at all. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

Pa said the bear was standing up on its hind legs, holding the pig in its paws just as though they were hands. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

They see daughters who will bear grandchildren born without any connecting hope passed from generation to generation. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sun bears’ domain is wood; the parrots’ is wire mesh. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

Then she surprised me, Mr. Stoll, and possibly even herself by grabbing me up in a bear hug. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

But hold that thought, please, and bear it in mind when I tell you that there wasn’t a day in the Appalachian woods when I didn’t give passing thanks for what there was. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Instead, she flew north and farther north, into the fogs and gales around Svalbard, the kingdom of Iorek Byrnison, the armored bear. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Sure enough, a couple of brown bears were lumbering in the meadow a few hundred feet away, their coats gleaming in the starlight. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

I was caught off guard' and the only way I knew to keep my bearings was to talk back. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

I wondered what she did with all those gummy bears if she wasn’t allowed to eat them. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

A representative of Pickett Engineering said that Pickett’s private affairs had no bearing on the direction of the company.’ Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

“Why would I do that? You’re my big bear. You’re my puppy. You did what you did for me. I waited three years for you to come back to me. I love you.” American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

Sometimes it took a while for him to get his bearings, to find his place. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

Since that time, according to an article in the New York Times, bear attacks in North America have increased by 25 percent. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

“There is nothing wrong with her now, she will bear you many sons yet.” Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh yes, old man, take it from me: If we have this little creature we’ll have her father, too. He’ll come like a dancing bear led by a ring in his nose.” Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

They sat on the steps out front, bumped shoulders, and talked more about water bears and boogers and decided that maybe they could be both. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

I firmly believe that every person of color bearing witness to those events felt that God had called Dr. King and each man at the front of that church to do what they were doing. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

The streets were jammed with joyous throngs, and strung overhead were huge banners bearing Milo’s picture. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

All he saw was the battered body of a stoat being borne towards him on what appeared to be a boiling wave of ooze. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Others, like me, thought: knife wound, bear attack. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“So, I see your mentor came bearing gifts. That was nice of her.” Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

I was against the ropes in my battle with fear, and I lost my bearing, my pace count, my control. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Then suddenly, as though he couldn’t bear the suspense any longer, Charlie tore the wrapper right down the middle...and on to his lap, there fell...a light-brown creamy-colored chocolate candy bar. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z

Bigwig realized that he had stumbled, quite unexpectedly, upon what he needed most of all: a strong, sensible friend who would think on her own account and help to bear his burden. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“She had engaged to go as governess to Mrs. Smallridge’s children—a dear friend of Mrs. Elton’s—a neighbour of Maple Grove; and, by the bye, I wonder how Mrs. Elton bears the disappointment?” Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z

“King Iorek,” he began, “my knife is broken—” Then he looked past the bear and said, “No, wait.” The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

“I have to go,” Jessica said, and Olive had hardly begun to say goodbye when her new friend was borne away by the crowd toward a waiting train. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

Z was perched in a tree near the bear bush. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

In early April a long letter arrived in Franz’s post-office box bearing a South Dakota postmark. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

He set out the big bear traps hoping to get a fat bear before they all went into their dens for the winter. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Each dorm had a different collection of banners out front displaying Roman numerals and various animals—eagle, bear, wolf, horse, and something that looked like a hamster. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

What she didn’t tell him was that she couldn’t bear to touch the thing, so she had given the blanket to Sara Jane, a slave who had recently given birth. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

If you spat on each grain of corn that was planted, the corn would grow tall and bear well. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

One night he could not bear it anymore and went to knock on Clara’s bedroom door. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bryan came out of the mist, bearing steaming coffee in a metal cup. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh, Beth, and you didn’t tell me, didn’t let me comfort and help you? How could you shut me out, bear it all alone?” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

Whatever the reason, Cole gazed calmly back up at the bear. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

He glared at Quentin, leaning forward over the table now, looking huge and shapeless as a bear in his swaddling of garments. Absalom, Absalom! 1936-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then sent a long swell running under a norther to bear the prince Odysseus, back from danger, to join the Phaiakians, people of the sea. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

He thought it was more than a man could bear. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

Mr. Freeman moved gracefully, like a big brown bear, and seldom spoke to us. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

As he passes me, he grabs my arm and zooms upward as the bear lunges up for us again. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

She reminds herself of all the other things her mother ships south: Reebok tennis shoes, black sandals, the yellow bear and pink puppy stuffed toys on her bed. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

There would be bears down there, too—bears that had possibly never seen a human. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

But here, the bear had looked at him and had moved on and—this filled his thoughts—the berries were so good. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Percy, Beckendorf chose a heroic death. You bear no blame for that. Kronos’s army will be in disarray. Many were destroyed.” The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

What features of the double helix enabled it to bear the code of life? The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

I could not bear pity and sympathetic looks, even from An Yi. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Men now raised the king, and laying cloaks upon spear-truncheons they made shift to bear him away towards the City; and others lifted Éowyn gently up and bore her after him. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

At first Will thought he was warning Balthamos, but then with a little shock of embarrassment he realized that the bear was agreeing with the angel. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

“Yes, chile, much danger. Swamps and alligators and bears and bugs to start, plus not knowin’ how to get there, plus the fear. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ugwu could not bear to think of the man’s ugly body thrusting into his sister’s. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

While they bludgeoned his dying body, the saint’s dæmon was borne upward by cherubs and offered a spray of palm, the badge of a martyr. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I read, I saw, how the white man never has gone among the non-white peoples bearing the Cross in the true manner and spirit of Christ’s teachings—meek, humble, and Christ-like. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

All you need to bear in mind is that rhetoric is a fuzzy art: these divisions overlap and interpenetrate. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

They approached, and behind them as the bears began to dismantle their fire thrower, the other two ships maneuvered their way to the quayside. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

The only other bear that they had encountered was sleek and fat as butter, complacent and sleepy, his thoughts obviously already running on hibernation, and quite uninterested in strange animals. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Later, when Matt had recovered, he searched for the bear’s ear, but it was gone. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The days and the nights were so cold that the pork in a box and the bear meat hanging in the little shed outside the back door were solidly frozen and did not thaw. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

When little Vladimir finally relinquished her, with assurances that he was ‘desolated to leave so early’, she was ready to rest, and see how her recreant knight had borne his punishment. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

You talk about hungry, there’s nothing like knowing your grub is off somewhere digesting in a bear to make you feel starved to death. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

She shall bear upon my knees, that 1 may also have children by her. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

After a moment the boy appeared next to the bear: fierce-looking, with frowning eyes and a jutting jaw. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

A bird hanging on a grass stem released a happy trill, and Sigurd whipped around completely, bear cloak flapping behind him, as he strode toward them. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

This conviction is somewhat borne out in the restless movement of Texas capital. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sun was shining brightly and the green waves were dashing against the bows, bearing white streams of foam as they curved away. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

They huddled, trembling, to bear witness to the last seconds of Maniac Magee’s life. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Fiona hits the straightaway, her head bobs and she bears down, moving out a lane to pass the girl from Hartwell. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

“So you think it really was a bear?” A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

There was a shake of snow, a clank of metal, and the bear was there. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

If that's what has to happen, watching it would be too much to bear. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

"This is a gift worthy of a great warrior, O blood of my blood, and I am but a woman. Let my lord husband bear these in my stead." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

I tried taking a deep breath to get control of myself, but all that happened was a loud gulp, like in a cartoon when the bear eats the picnic basket whole. Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

A gold glittery star bearing Arletta’s name in looping fuchsia cursive sparkled on the door. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

“Fishy,” he said, handing her the small pearly blue-and-green fish; “raven,” the pewter bird; “bear,” a tiny brown teddy bear. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

If he hadn’t turned around, he might have kept his bearings, but now he’d lost them. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

Santita had beautiful dark eyes, full cheeks, and the bearing of a wise woman, even at sixteen. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

In late April when the mosquitoes, flies, and gnats come out, Kainta shows me how a layer of bear grease mixed with a powder of red puccoon root keeps the bugs away. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

They were circled together near the gate of their enclosure, heads facing out to protect themselves from wolves and bears. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instead of a clearing sky, the white line to the south was the foaming crest of an enormous storm wave bearing down on them. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

For the scent had borne him back to the day when he had lit his little fire under the sunny bank; and for the moment all else between was out of waking memory. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

I cannot bear to think about these things. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I tell you, O Queen,” the messenger said, “I was there and the thing happened thus. Clearly your child has been borne away to the gods.” Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Perhaps he preferred that anyway, she thought; she must seem a little prattling cub, only just past babyhood, in the eyes of an armored bear. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

We would sit around late at night and make up stories about the pictures in the sky: lions, dogs, bears, hunterfolk. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Daniel Boone, who not only wrestled bears but tried to date their sisters, described corners of the southern Appalachians as “so wild and horrid that it is impossible to behold them without terror.” A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Grabbing my sketchbook, I flip to a blank page and write words, bearing down so hard the letters cut into the page. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

A fourth stretcher, no doubt bearing Ron, was already floating at his side. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

He shook his head quickly, eyes shut, as if entreaty were more than he could bear. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

I might as well have been sticking a sword in a teddy bear for all the reaction he showed. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

Lore has it my father once wrestled a black bear in Baluchistan with his bare hands. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“The time has come when we must bear the unbearable.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dearly as she loved Iorek, and strong as her faith was in him, she couldn’t really believe that he would ever beat this giant among giant bears. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

Balder’s horse, fully caparisoned, was ridden to the pyre and sacrificed there, in order that it would be able to bear its master in the world to come. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

Children search for the bear, then run back to “home” when the bear is found. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

She stumbled to one knee and cried out in pain, hoping against hope that her bear would gather her up and help her to her feet. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

When the sun struck them suddenly, flying through windy clouds, the brightness was almost more than Marly could bear. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

The bear turned away along the milky stream and lay down in the water, as if to cool himself. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Charles could not bear to look at the draft right now. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

How could he bear to live in a world without Sarah Ruth? The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z

The wind eddied, bearing smoke from the west. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

He didn’t want to tell Bri what he just realized, that if he left without seeing her get on the van, she’d be one of the gone and he couldn’t bear that. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

He had noticed that they were strong enough to bear Us weight. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I hope that all of you will bear witness to this outrage.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe I should stay home, but I’m not sure I could bear being alone as her for that long without any distractions. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

“Your kingly bearing, your imperious gaze. Your royal regard!” The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

Viciously, with more of a whimper than a sigh, he foot-pushed his top sheet clear of his ankles, as though any kind of coverlet was suddenly too much for his sunburned, debilitated-looking body to bear. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

They scrambled down the path to the stream at its bottom, frantically trying to get their bearings, but they had no idea which direction to turn. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

Her starboard hull plate had been removed, her engine dismantled, and her crankshaft and rod bearings lay exposed. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Promise me that you will never turn against me. I could not bear that. Promise me.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The mother made a guttural sound, deep in her chest, like an angry bear. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

“Witches. There’s one witch lady who wants to talk to you. When we get clear of the cloud, we’ll get our bearings and then we can sit and have a yam.” The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

“Unclean! Unclean! Even the Almighty shuns my polluted flesh! I must bear this mark of shame upon my forehead until the Judgment Day.” Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

They are naked and not conscious of being different from their bear relatives. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Tell me what it is, and I’ll pass the message on,” said the bear. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

As we all climbed into the car, our excitement was so intense we could hardly bear it. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Weiss’s voice came from deep in his throat, as low and foreboding as the grumbling of a bear. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

The Zeppelin banked to the left, and roared away in a wide arc before making again for the group of bears working swiftly beside the apparatus. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

That thought brought her back to the memory of the bear mother. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

Third, a live grouse with its legs tied together; fourth, the soft, tanned pelt of an ant bear. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

As Thomas got his bearings, he realized they were standing in a ten-foot-high stone cylinder. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

When he saw them appear, the same as the other time, when they came to put a stop to the war, he could not bear the cynicism of their praise. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

“Count yourself lucky! What kind of life with an old bear hunter like Tallow? Nobody has ever stayed with Old Tallow. She drives them off. Eyah!” The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

Before the sun set that night, the bear tracks were only shapeless marks in the wet, soft snow. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

One way that high school theater bears some similarity to professional theater, or any kind of show business, is that ticket sales matter. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

A wife is the earth itself, changing hands, bearing scars. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was truly the room of a second grader, complete with teddy bears scattered all over the floor and plastic teacups and teapots toppled here and there. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

There is no more happen­stance, no more “freedom”, involved in the whereabouts of a lizard or a bear or a deer than in the location of a knight on a chessboard. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

It turned out that he was still aloft, borne by the winds toward Nova Zembla, and that he had been unharmed by the cliff-ghasts and had fought off the other witch clan. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

Most of the cats are still missing, as is the bear. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

It reminded him of the bear’s blood on the knife blade beside him. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

"Had no good southron wine up here for a bear's night. I could use me some wine, and a new axe. Mine's lost its bite, can't have that, I got me women to protect." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The implacable black Cadillac powered along, bearing my father, brother, and me out of the war-torn city. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

The right one was cut and swollen big as a bear paw. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z

They went as far as they could to the place where no human could go beyond, and his little footprints were mixed in with bear tracks. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Within minutes of the official start time, we were running hall sprints, doing frog jumps and bear crawls until sweat was pouring from every inch of our bodies. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

“Why did you go to that Goat Rocks place last weekend ... to hunt? Charlie said it wasn’t a good place to hike, because of bears.” Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Wouldn’t you be afraid if two bears were charging toward you? The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

“Forgot to mention it. Slipped your mind, I daresay. He was bearing down on Harry like a great bulldog, all his teeth bared. “ Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

He came back the next day loaded for bear. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

It would have been completely covered with the nailed heads of wolves, bears, stags, and so forth. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Pictures of those lost, flowers, teddy bears, candles flickering in the quiet night. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

To watch another child of theirs suffer was almost more than they could bear. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

I cannot bear their brightness and cover my eyes, which hurt from opening so wide without a blink. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

His mares would bear triplets, his hens laid twice a day, and his hogs fattened with such speed that no one could explain such disorderly fecundity except through the use of black magic. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Roy couldn’t bear the thought of facing his parents through jail bars if he and Mullet Fingers got caught. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was something in her bearing that transcended her soft voice and diminutive stature. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

He was strong as a bear and tall as a mountain tree. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z

He said with irritation, “Open up now, young lady, or bear my wrath.” Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Proud of bearing so beautiful a gift the aged creature carried it to Procne, who was still wearing deep mourning for her sister and whose spirit was as mournful as her garments. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

And he saw through the windows in each of the stairwells how the snow fell hard out of a glowering sky and boiled, borne by the wind. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

This bear had defied him, and he had hated it with every fiber of his existence. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

“Let’s get in the oil drum. I look like a bear in these clothes.” Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The Russians draw nearer each day. Without you...I can’t bear to think what would have happened to me.” Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Approaching Twig when she got stuck on an idea was like approaching a wild bear. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

James had wanted her to stop playing the game, and Emily couldn’t bear the possibility of someone telling her that being forced to stop was for the best. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Clouds bearing thoughts of the Italian Renaissance drifted away. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

"What about the bear? Came to your rescue, did he?" The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z

Cutwater would have a mighty surprise if he caught that bear by the hind leg. The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z

He arrives bearing flowers as though he’s come to court me. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

Half the summer went by quickly after the visit from the bear. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

I felt a special affection for the green teddy bear, since he was by my side that first day; he helped me. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Esteban wanted a son who would bear his name and pass his family name on down the generations. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

She would bear him a son named Epaphus, and live forever after happy and honored. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Finnick and I sit for a long time in silence, watching the knots bloom and vanish, before I can ask, “How do you bear it?” Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

I don’t greatly care for venison or bear or moose or elk except for the livers. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

I can see her, young and small and scared, coming into Saint Grace’s for the first time, clutching that ratty panda bear. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

In spite of what he said, though, she thought, I will stop in Hillsdale for a minute, just for a cup of coffee, because I cannot bear to have my long trip end so soon. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

The thunder god fell to the earth, and the villagers could see that it was a blue pig or bear with horns and fleshy wings. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh, don’t cry, chickadee. Please. I cannot bear it.” Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

“A white-haired man came to the gate bearing this letter, as he said, ‘for the young traveler who had sought aid at the convent.’ Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

It’s one of those inexplicable things, how everything I’ve learned and experienced is brought to bear on the problem. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

The bartender looked as if he was going to ask something more, but the bear lurched toward him suddenly and the man shut the door in alarm. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

Iofur threw him off, and then the two bears were at each other again, throwing up fountains of snow that sprayed in all directions and sometimes made it hard to see who had the advantage. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

He stopped at one point, got his bearings, poked around a bit, then pointed down a slope. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

His shoulders slumped, as if the weight of the great maester's chain around his neck had become too great to bear. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Then I saw that my green teddy bear was gone. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

As I walked down the corridor with Orieus’s javelin poking me in the back, I thought about what Luke had said—that the bear twins together were a match for Tysons strength. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

The tower bells were singing, summoning the city to bear witness to her shame. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

They tumbled into the snow like two drunken bears, kicking and striking at each other, and their cries and curses filled the air. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

And indeed, Omakayas’s voice trembled slightly as the bear made a gurgling sound deep in her throat and bared her long, curved yellowish teeth, so good at ripping and tearing. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

Willit was borne in on a litter, so grievous were his wounds. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

It took her a moment to get her bearings, but she had an incredible view of the entire Night Bazaar. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

She moans and opens her eyes, looks about, and gets her bearings. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

Each time he stabbed the bear, its powerful jaws clamped harder. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

Thankfully there was no one there, but oh—I can hardly bear to think about it. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

“I know the people you are seeking, the child cutters,” the bear said. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

The sentry’s head, bleeding and wet and ash-pale, fell to the ground as he fainted, and his dæmon set about calming and gentling him as the bear stepped away beside Lyra. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

“Will it? Then will you set about it at once, blacksmith?” said the off-hand sergeant, “as it’s on his Majesty’s service. And if my men can bear a hand anywhere, they’ll make themselves useful.” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

To these people, capitalism had failed, and ordinary Americans were bearing the brunt of its collapse. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Her foot edged forward, and then she thought, He’s dead, he’s dead, the sweet old bear, he died a long time ago. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The hare had brought a touch of military efficiency to bear upon the exercise. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

The finished tattoos wouldn’t bear up under any kind of close scrutiny, but hopefully they would do. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

She knew that when she needed the bear she would be able to call on the bear. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

Miss Trotter chuckled and said, “What do you get if you poke a bear with a stick?” Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

“Undoubtedly,” replied Darcy, to whom this remark was chiefly addressed, “there is meanness in all the arts which ladies sometimes condescend to employ for captivation. Whatever bears affinity to cunning is despicable.” Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z

Something nudged her foot, and a strange bear voice said, “Lyra Silvertongue, the king wants you.” The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

When the choir of two-fisted tenors on the record were “proud to bear the title” Colonel Meecham entered the room slapping the swagger stick in a steady, tautological rhythm that seemed ominous, even predatory. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t want you to bear this alone,” I said. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

The woods looked dangerous now, full of coyotes and bears and, soon, humans at war. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

I was well past and around the last house on the village street when I realized that I had lost my bearings. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

We watched the pickup truck depart, then took our bearings. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

And we will bear Faramir, Steward of Gondor, to a place where he can sleep in peace, or die if that be his doom.’ The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

Katie had a flash of comtempt for the weak child she had borne a year ago, when she compared her to this new handsome son. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he calms down, he hugs me and says he thinks I'm the strongest person in the world, as strong as a polar bear. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

She recognizes no one, only a group of bewildered- looking freshmen bearing add-drop forms. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Lyra saw sparks flying up from some of the bears’ armor, and saw them huddle over beneath its protection, before she heard the rattle of the bullets. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

My grandfather sees only the bearing in front of him, his hands removing it, grinding it, and putting it back as another appears. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

I can bear it, so I'm going for a walk. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

That I wasn’t part of every mistake that’s led us to right now, January 17, with all its sins and griefs to bear. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yes it is,” said I, “because I cannot bear that people should say, ‘she throws away her graces and attractions on a mere boor, the lowest in the crowd.’” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

It’s the one you spend all your energy on, it bears the fullness of your thoughts until done, the kind of job that if you mess up you’ve got only one more chance to redeem. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

And pulling Dumbledore’s uninjured arm around his shoulders, Harry guided his headmaster back around the lake, bearing most of his weight. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

And of course it does not mean even that, for there are seas and bays and straits beyond counting that bear names of their own. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

Just instantly go back to the determined, fearless mama bear she was when I was eight? The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

My first thought is that it’s a bear—but then I realize it’s much worse. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Her legs looped and rotated like an acrobat’s, her neck swiveled with extra ball bearings. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was very tall, handsome, of impressive bearing. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

He also eats the gall bladders of bears when he can get them at the Chinese apothecary shop near his apartment. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“There’s one who en’t on Svalbard at all. He’s an outcast bear, and he’s going to come with us.” The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

The fireblackened boulders like the shapes of bears on the starkly wooded slopes. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

Then he wraps me in a bear hug, and it’s actually sort of sweet. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

In 1867, while still serving as secretary of state and still bearing the disfiguring facial scars of the knife attack, he purchased Alaska for the United States. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

The child had bear too young to ride, poor thing. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

I had tried so hard to bear her loss and had swallowed back the tears that had been building up inside me for two seasons. Missing May 1992-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Please don’t separate us,” he said, and he knew he wasn’t supposed to talk, but he couldn’t bear the thought of being away from her. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

The reaction from the bears was pure fury. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Ozone is a form of oxygen in which each molecule bears three atoms of oxygen instead of two. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

The whole animal, resewn and restuffed, had the same shape but a different bearing, the backs and necks straighter, the ears perkier; the eyes shone now with a knowing glint. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

She drew his head towards her and kissed him on the forehead, thinking of him as a faithful old thing—her friendly bear. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

I once saw a picture of a mother bear and her cub. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

Matthias sat forward, trying to get his bearings, clutching his dead arm. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

And then the bear began passing the hat for tips. The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z

Since she’d left him, Cabot had continued harassing her, calling late at night, showing up with flowers or candy or big stuffed bears, sending messages to her through friends and acquaintances. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

The storm broke just as the old man's body was borne in through the door. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

"When I saw that standard, I could not be certain. Whose banner do you bear?" A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The wide mouth began to open and close, and out rumbled a series of gravelly roars, some long, some short, none of them bearing much resemblance to music. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

The two of them whirled upward in the icy currents, took a few moments to get their bearings, and set their course for the valley. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

The pilot either had never seen a fire hurler before, or was underestimating its power, for he flew straight on toward the bears without climbing or turning a fraction to either side. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

Two sailors in a small boat went some distance ahead bearing a long rope fastened to a small anchor. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

And then I saw something on the gate—my bear, just sitting there as if he was waiting for me. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

So let us imagine that a bear does go for us out in the wilds. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

His big hands and huge, shoulders and bushy heard made him look like he lived in the mountains with bears. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

And it seemed to him suddenly that he could not bear to know what had passed between these two and he wished never to know and it was better for him if he did not. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

His lordship sagged into his seat, his shoulders slumped, his legs splayed, his hands resting on the arms of his throne as if the weight of them were too much to bear. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The guard conferred with another bear, who came to speak to her. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

The king's men were clearly looking for the vanished prince, but when a bear poked its head out the door window, the soldiers stepped back and quickly waved the coach on. The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z

They would sometimes wake to find a haunch of venison just inside the door, or bear meat, a fish or two. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

He didn’t know that, but the bear did. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Hazel’s mom drove their car like it was an emotionally unstable bear. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

Now bear that in mind, please, as we consider what a Yellowstone blast would do. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

He fancied himself quite a medicine man and wore at his throat a circle of bear claws. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

I was as much of a man as Olivia could bear at that point. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

He needs only to take the bearings of two more. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

The bear ripped through them as if they were cobwebs. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

Because, oh, my blessed, I love him and cannot bear the thought of losing him to a crazy old woman, even in name only. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

He regarded this wish for the dog’s death as humane, for he could not bear, he told himself, to see anything suffer. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was the cry of a wild animal trying to pry its mangled leg free from the bear trap. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Sticking her toes in her snowshoes, she took a bearing on the constant star. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mama says their skin bears scars different from ours because their skin is a map of all the sorrows in their lives. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Pete shovels back the noodles as fast as he can bear their heat. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

As she watched, a bright flame gushed out, and a team of bears swung into practiced action. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

He’s already worked his way through a bag of popcorn, a box of gummy bears, nachos, a root beer, and a milk shake. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z

We gave the inmates twenty minutes or so to finish their meals, then set back down the gallery wearing latex gloves and bearing huge trash bags. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her moans echoed through the stairwell, and we rushed out of our apartments to calm her at once, bearing palm fans and sugar cubes, and tumblers of refrigerated water to pour on her head. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

He would set his bearings on Sammy’s behind like a pilot would fix his eye on the horizon. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I tried to keep my bearings as best I could, but I was only seven and a half, and didn’t know many street names. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Chandresh’s attention remains only on the man in the grey suit, and it does not once wander to this other man who bears a passing resemblance to his assistant. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

They saw the claw marks where a bear had shredded the bark of a tall birch. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“I couldn’t bear it anymore. I came up here to die or go crazy. Both, I guess. I’m just glad they let me.” The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

But the thought of losing the mechanical man was too much to bear. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t bear the weight of being the reason his life was derailed. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

And at lunch she gave me three red gummy bears. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

It’s something I’ve never seen except in movies—a man clutching himself and grimacing and swaying and breathing in little huffs and bearing his teeth and going “Nurse, nurse, please.” It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

Eventually the mockery became so great that the baboons could no longer bear to be together. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

She had said this before, but it seemed to bear repeating. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

For some reason this caused my chest to fill with more sadness than I could bear, and I wrestled myself free, claiming I needed a drink of water. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Lapham could not have borne the sight of so ‘idle’ a boy. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Balder’s body was brought down the shingle, borne by four gods; eight legs took him past the crowd assembled there. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

The great white bear hadn’t moved at all. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

It was as if the bear were waiting. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

It may not be amiss to mention that a good judge of style could often recognize a knight in armour, even if be was disguised and bearing the vergescu. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Towering cloud banks built on the horizon and then swept inward, bearing steady rain. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

I have no idea how to bear that burden. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

He tested his radio, unwrapped a candy bar, and sat back with his rifle cradled to his chest like a teddy bear. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

I rise on my knees to get my bearings —and then freeze, hot water or not. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

As soon as the bear had said that, the man pointed to the right, indicating some place further off, and spoke quickly. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

I stood in the road and watched until I could bear it no longer. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

Wolves and filthy bears, and all the baser beasts, fall upon the dying. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were borne down by desperate men who wanted only to kill before they were killed. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

The bears took Lyra up a gully in the cliffs, where the fog lay even more thickly than on the shore. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

Certain seeds it will not nurture, certain fruit it will not bear, and when the land kills of its own volition, we acquiesce and say the victim had no right to live. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

She could not bear it if he died, too. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is a bear skull, the remains of a grizzly shot by someone who visited the bus years before McCandless’s tenure. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I saw fat bags of marshmallows and cans of SpaghettiOs and a little plastic bear full of honey. Missing May 1992-03-01T00:00:00Z

A high- pitched noise follows, as when teeth bear down on ice cubes. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Cole searched the trees, but the bear was gone. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

“Now that you’ve seen what I’m really like, can you still bear to look at me?” 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

“A Fflam is always cheerful, but this is too much to bear.” The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

“My daddy bought me that pink teddy bear but I never liked it. I used to beat it up.” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

But the adoptive parents’ advantages had little bearing on the child’s school performance. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

For example, a rock named Yogi received its name because the rock resembled a bear. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Granny first, though hardly able to walk; then Durgan; Kannan with his wife, bearing a few jasmine buds; and Kali, bringing with her a muslin cloth to cover the bier. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

Harry saw Cedric’s wand fly out of his hand as a gigantic spider stepped into the path and began to bear down upon Cedric. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

He would return home bearing gifts for Little Miss Byrd and her mother. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

Scipio reached out—how long his arms had become—and gave Prosper a bear hug. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

Her face bears no trace of what just happened. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

Charles’s anxious concern was almost too much for Lyddie to bear. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

Just in time Lyra tucked her head down, and then Iorek bounded over them, roaring orders to his bears to go left, go right, and crush the enemy between them. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Folk said it was a sport in which a bear, with its teeth broken off deliberately, was chained to a post and set upon by a pack of dogs. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

She watched a video with a starving polar bear last weekend, and the next day she insisted on walking to school. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

And one fine morning---- So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

This bear had been in the circus for a long time. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

Why could Descartes not bear the simple truth, that much of what he knew he had learnt from Beeckman? The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

They stopped only to switch bikes when Dorothy could no longer bear to transport the basket. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

At the same time, Zeitoun couldn’t bear the thought of his family in Syria knowing he was being kept like this. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

That it would turn without crushing its bearings and rotate smoothly and true were engineering hopes supported only by calculations that reflected known qualities of iron and steel. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Servers came in bearing huge pots of steaming food. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

She heard her own echoing cry of “Go!” and felt the terror bearing down, cleavers and meat hooks and the face of her own grandmother—Azareen’s grandmother—twisted in unfamiliar hatred. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

I imagine my father, a portly bear who I have never seen move faster than a brisk walk. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

But his anxieties about class and status were so deep that he could not bear the thought that his own “intelligence” might merely be the by-product of privilege and opportunity. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

“I’ll bear that in mind if I ever get the urge to go in there.” Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

But more than language, and more than money, and more than a house—he knew he needed an axe kick strong enough to cut down a bear. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

What life had made him bear, her lover, this wild, unhappy boy, many another stronger and more virtuous man might not have borne so well. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

There are some features of linguistic change that are worth bearing in mind as we go on. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

I make it a rule never to keep a scrap of paper bearing a woman’s hand, and I never write them at all. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

I knew I could not bear to see the book that meant so much to Sassur sold. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

Beside him the Lady Salmakia was emerging from the shadow, and, ignoring the children completely, she made a curtsy to the bear. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

The resulting long exposure caught a bow-shaped blur, like the ghostly wings of a butterfly, then the bright line of the collar stay as it found its bearing and grew still. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Indeed, Holmesy, however does one bear the pain of overenthusiastic servants?” Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

I stood up, unable to bear it any longer, and looked around my room distractedly. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

"There's hard news, m'lords, and a cmel way to pay you for your meat and mead, but the man as asks the question must bear the answer. Stark's gone." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

In a daze, believing they were finally bearing down on the line, the boys threw their long bodies into each stroke, rowing furiously, flawlessly, and with uncanny elegance. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

The counters are full with makeup, flowers, teddy bears, Vaseline, and energy drinks. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Grendel had wanted to take him for his own, to bear him off to where he belonged, to join the baleful company of the fen; but he, Unferth, had held back through fear. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z

Still the rain fell, and the bear remained. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

She looked at him and then back at the ferocious range, and she said, “Only the bear, I guess.” The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

How the bear cub ever came to prowl close enough for Little Arliss to grab him, I don’t know. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had just untied the last teddy bear when I heard Richie clomping up the stairs. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

“You fought for this, and lost two fingers?” the bear said. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

At last he said, “Very well. Very well. But never—never tell, Dumbledore! This must be between us! Swear it! I cannot bear...especially Potter’s son...I want your word!” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

What he could bear in the waking world he could not by night and he sat awake for fear the dream would return. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

The first thing I think of is one of those metal bear traps that snap on your ankle if you step on it. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

Jacob Riis, the New York journalist who had devoted himself to revealing the squalid housing of America’s poor, came to Chicago bearing counsel of a graver sort. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

“No, this is a dangerous melancholy, and it bears close watching,” he said as he turned his angry gaze upon me. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

I tried to avoid looking at the faces surrounding me; I could not bear the expression of fear and anguish written on them, as they realised that yes, I was leaving. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

One of the bear heads on her waist was now wearing a pair of crooked plastic Alcatraz sunglasses. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

She was dead, frozen solid, but the thought of tanks rolling over her was more than I could bear. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

“You were always the bad one. Making faces at me behind your mother’s back, teasing and tormenting me, stealing my things. Why, you have my bear right now. Give him to me!” The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

He pointed toward the kitchen like he couldn’t bear to look at his mother, much less say her name. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

Then twice in a week there were chits marked “S” and bearing her own special code name—just an alert to let her know she was “operational,” as it were. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

“I came down here for some gummi bears and I got lost.” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

Her bear brothers had vanished, and she felt better. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

And the three horrified adults, as they stood frozen in their tracks, saw what the excited little girl did not see,—a huge, lumbering tractor bearing blindly down upon its appointed track. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

Unable to bear Shay blaming herself, Tally shook her head. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

The girls chuckled at the stuffed wolverine’s frozen smile, the red-tailed hawk caught mid-dive, and the lumbering black bear that charged the window. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

She would go to thrift stores and buy old stuffed animals—faded teddy bears, ratty plush dogs, threadbare rabbits—the cheaper the better. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

As the old man ended his story they reached the simple hut where he lived and there Aeneas spent the night on a couch of leaves with a bear’s skin to cover him. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I cannot bear to think that they should have all this estate. If it was not for the entail, I should not mind it.” Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z

I slip my legs out of bed, nervous about how they will bear my weight and find them strong and steady. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Alyce could not bear to leave her like that, so she put down her baskets of apples and slid into the pit. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Blessedly, their platters of food appeared, borne by a cortege of waiters, directed by the busybody maître d'. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

It was clear that the bears were practiced at witch fighting, for they had moved at once into a defensive formation, and the witches moved just as smoothly into attack. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

“Eat the blubber too,” said the bear, and tore off a piece for her. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

The bear hooked a claw through the handle of the jar and lifted it to his mouth. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

It was a deliberate act, and it was harder to bear because I was the one who had provoked it. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Cross gales he blew, making me lose my bearings, and heaved up seas beyond imagination— huge and foundering seas. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was getting a lesson in the sort of influence a wealthy baron’s firstborn son could bring to bear. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

In the autumn of 1971 a man used to come to our house, bearing confections in his pocket and hopes of ascertaining the life or death of his family. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

“But when the first bear made the first piece of armor, wasn’t that bad, too, in the same way?” The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

It was the brandy bottles and a bottle shaped like a bear, which had held kiimmel, that Miss Van Campen found. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

Beowulf himself just managed to escape, bearing his uncle's body, when all seemed lost. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z

I will not have to kiss him, nor give him my maidenhood, nor bear him children. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“I don’t want to do the pageant anymore. I want to make another hut. That was fun. And I want some gummi bears.” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

“If I can’t bear to give this stuff away, I might as well use it.” Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

The Zebra Room I remember as a kid: it was full of artificial flowers, yellow tulips, red roses, dwarf trees bearing wax apples. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Farther on the fishwives were crying the day’s catch, and a boy was beating time on a drum as a shabby old bear danced in a circle for a ring of river runners. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Now I am ten, learning to embroider circular stitches, to calculate fractions into percentages, to nurse my papaya tree to bear many fruits. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

It felt good to joke, but the bears quickly turned serious. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Sissy at twenty-four had borne eight children, none of whom had lived. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

I take a deep breath, grip the knife handle and bear down as hard as I can. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

A naked sword hung down her back, one of the last to bear Mikken's mark. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“Yes,” said John at last, sounding almost angry, unable to bear his thoughts, unable to bear the silence in which Elisha looked at him. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

To ward off an aggressive black bear, Herrero suggests making a lot of noise, banging pots and pans together, throwing sticks and rocks, and “running at the bear.” A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

‘Théoden gives you leave to enter; but any weapon that you bear, be it only a staff, you must leave on the threshold. The doorwardens will keep them.’ The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

She took to bearing the heaviest of her bags. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nobody on the island ever tossed the bones of a bear aside. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

I did not want anyone else to have to bear the first blow. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Octavian finished it without looking: “An oath to keep with a final breath, and foes bear arms to the Doors of Death. ” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

“Ignore her. She knows one sentence, and she says it day and night. The monotony of her request is too horrible to bear.” Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

Now the she bear was charging across the shallows in the creek. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

She did run, though, and Pantalaimon flew up as a seagull to watch where the bear went and called down to tell her where to follow. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

Then they disappeared for one dizzying moment and I got my bearings. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Silence settles, and in silence they bear coffins. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Both parties later swore to terms of peace set by their arbiter, Athena, daughter of Zeus who bears the stormcloud as a shield— though still she kept the form and voice of Mentor. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

On his dark green surcoat, the bear of House Mormont stood on its hind legs, black and fierce. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

As he opened the window and watched Nipper fly off, he knew something else: He could no longer bear this alone. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

Ares, really a bully at heart and unable to bear what he brought upon unnumbered multitudes of men, fled up to Zeus in Olympus and complained bitterly of Athena’s violence. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Therefore, to use the expressive, if not elegant, language of a schoolgirl, “He was as nervous as a witch and as cross as a bear”. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a house’s job to know everything about the people within him, to track movements and bear witness to the lives lived. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

Snow-covered fir trees grow straight up out of the floor and huge ice sculptures of dancing penguins and laughing polar bears fill up the spaces between the candlelit tables. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

How could I take the bear away from him? The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

Nevertheless, the bear had taken the measure of the task, and in the certainty of his movements the little spies began to see some quality that muffled their scorn. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Then one bear dove at her legs, and the other clawed at her chest. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

We made a game of giving and receiving bear hugs. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

“An’ I’ve packed his teddy bear in case he gets lonely.” Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

A group of American girls of fourteen or fifteen had dressed up as much younger girls—with pigtails and teddy bears, wearing pajamas and kiddie clothes. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

I shook a finger in the ear that had borne the brunt of the noise. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

Now they were bearing down on the squad, and the dactyl Magdalys had picked was flapping its wings like it might be about to take off. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Her pain is for me, but I cannot bear it anymore. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

They find the stone that bears the poet’s name. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

About the size of a baby bear, I guess you’d say. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

But none of the bears were looking up: their attention was all on the earth. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

We start stepping toward it slowly, but Manchee’s kept his trap shut for just about as long as he can bear and barks, “Todd?” The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

Those who have been swept within the criminal justice system know that the way the system actually works bears little resemblance to what happens on television or in movies. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Nettle pulled Roz into a fierce bear hug while Thorn clawed at her legs. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

She put her front paws down on the rock, and, laboriously, pushed herself up into a standing position: a grey wolf bigger than a bear, her coat and muzzle flecked with blood. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

She handed him the bag with the bear claw. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

He couldn’t bear to see their faces darkened with shame. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

Her T.V. is color and big and all her pretty furniture made out of red fur like the teddy bears they give away in carnivals. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I can’t thrash Aunt March, so I suppose I shall have to bear it.” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lloyd returned in a moment, bearing a small package wrapped in twine—the binoculars—and a loaded Spencer repeating carbine. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Puppies, alligators, ducks, bears, you name it—even better than on Snapchat. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

A container of milk in a U.S. supermarket bears only one date: the expiration date. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Some went to and fro bearing cups and pouring drink; others brought food on heaped plates and dishes. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

A grizzly bear’s front claws can be four inches long. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

As he got his bearings, he glanced at a statement Reggie had already written out for the local police. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

The bear ran away into the woods, not hurt at all. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

So many of us bearing fruit, so many of us just planted. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“Look up,” said the bear, as a waft of breeze moved aside the heavy curtain of the fog. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe there was something inviolate about Manderley that made it a place apart; it would not bear discussion. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

He could not bear to look at any of the other bodies, to see who else had died for him. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

He bared his teeth, which were pointed like a bear’s. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

Calming himself with some effort, he said, “Well, no matter. I needn’t dirty my hands clutching your grubby little collars. I’ll summon my Executives to bear you off.” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

“God! he’s beautiful. I hope they take good care of him. Corporal, you may think that he wants to bear arms against the foe, but I think he’s running away from love.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I hear the new one at the Alhambra is first-rate. There’s a love scene on a bearskin rug; they say it’s marvellous. Every hair of the bear reproduced. The most amazing tactual effects.” Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even if he could have borne the disgrace, he’d have lived each day as a fugitive from the Kerch government, a marked man. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Hadn't they fallen into the company of a girl with a trained bear? The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z

"If your warriors would mount these women, let them take them gently and keep them for wives. Give them places in the khalasai and let them bear you sons." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Still, I can’t bear it, to have been erased like that. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

She keeps her eyes focused on it, like she can’t bear to be parted from the hot-pink headphones and her cell phone. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

"The Targaryens called Robert usurper. He seemed to be able to bear the shame. So shall I." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

On the scientific side, apart from the work on gravity, in 1678 Hooke came up with his best-known piece of work, the discovery of the law of elasticity which bears his name. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

For a bear to kill another was rare, though, and when that happened it was usually by accident, or when one bear mistook the signals from another, as in the case of Iorek Byrnison. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

Behind them, the rest of the bears were engaging with the strange cavalry, helped by the Gallivespians, whose stings enraged the horses. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

The claim that the ant is a menace to health and life also bears considerable modification. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Panic swelled inside him once again, almost too much to bear. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

At this point I don’t think I could bear it if she did. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Butler had seen that pose before—on the snouts of starved pit bulls, just before their Russian handlers set them loose on a bear hunt. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

Slave girls scurried through light and shadow, bearing flagons of ale and wine and some iced green drink that smelled of mint. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

In their wool and fur and leather, they looked as big as bears. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

And Wang Lung stood watching them go across the court, his wife and his son, bearing gifts to the head of a great house. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

Sander bore with me and the infinite variations I employed in saying my lines, and my inability to say the name Pedringano properly, until he could bear it no longer. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

“She’s going to be tsarina some day, and she's going to be great at it. That girl’s got the heart of a bear inside her.” Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

Tyler tried to curl Dad’s fingers, to elongate the tendons and prevent the deformity from becoming permanent, but Dad couldn’t bear the pain. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

He had never seen a wolf and the size threw him—not as big as a bear but somehow seeming that large. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some of the women were approaching their golden years, the passage of time and experience etched in their faces and bearing. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Reporting that even a former birdwatcher could now solve DNA was not the way to greet a friend bearing a slight hangover. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

“What for you,” my mother would say, taking my face in her hands, “my last-born, my baby? Four dowries is too much for a man to bear.” Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dad hesitated, and I knew I couldn’t bear to hear him talk about it, not here, not in front of Mikayla and her mom. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

The bear was skin and bones, like a lumpy white rug, lying on green grass with one paw lifted up in a kind of salute. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

He couldn’t bear being left alone for another day. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“There is food,” said the young bear who had woken Lyra. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

He said sharply, “Your son is marked with guilt out of himself—out of himself—almost more than he can bear. Don’t crush him with rejection. Don’t crush him, Adam.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

When his screaming got too pathetic to bear, our grim-faced mother brought in his cage and set it on the floor by the window, where Methuselah continued his loud, random commentary. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

His tongue was hanging out from twixt long yellow and brown teeth that were ’bout the size of bear claws. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

“What I am is afraid of things in the night—wolves and bears and such.” Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Citra sat through the wedding ceremony, but excused herself before the reception and took a publicar back to Scythe Faraday’s house, unable to bear another minute of it. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

As their ritual combat moved toward the second phase, the two bears began to prowl restlessly on the snow, edging forward, swinging their heads. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

I can hardly bear to have him tutor me, and his affection seems forced. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

It puzzled him that the bear would hold its ground. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

Instead, I go back to bed and hug Lucas the bear, and when Mom leaves to take Kaylee to school, I pretend to be asleep. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

She’d borne him what his first two wives had failed to, a son at last. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

She couldn’t bear the thought of any harm coming to him. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

There flowered a White Tree, and that was for Gondor; but Seven Stars were about it, and a high crown above it, the signs of Elendil that no lord had borne for years beyond count. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

Pa said, “Don’t the woe never end? How much is we ’spected to bear? Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

It looked like a cross between a vampire pig and a black bear—an absolutely massive animal with thick, matted fur and teeth that extended below its mouth. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

“Why don’t you put the bears back and go out to play?” she said in a voice that left no room to disagree. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Shall I call the tree tyrannical, since where it stands nothing survives but itself and its high- borne guests ? Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

Soon after, he dreamed of the thing like a bear with no head or face. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

No one could bear the idea of the White City lying empty and desolate. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

His tunic was a dark green, embroidered with the likeness of a black bear standing on two legs. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Though of noble bearing, he wore the garb of an ordinary warrior, with no ornament save a curiously shaped iron brooch at his collar. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

The bear waited calmly as if part of the landscape, like a tree or a boulder, not conceding one inch of space. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

Ishmael kept to the middle of the group, swimming and keeping low, breast- stroking, and tried to think of himself as a dead marine floating harmlessly in Betio’s lagoon, a corpse borne by the current. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Wes slowly rose again, this time making it to his feet, and shuffled along, trying to get his bearings. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

She was buried under my name and bearing my appearance. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

He knew that it had to be borne, however, and got up obethently enough, after giving Cavall a last reluctant pal. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

But today, with the sun bearing down, making the whole landscape shimmer with heat, it was in-human and oppressive. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

“Sometimes I do,” said the Wart, “and sometimes I don’t On the whole I can bear a good deal of learning if it is about natural history.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

He couldn’t bear to watch them trying to understand what couldn’t be understood, or accept what couldn’t be accepted. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Those in the bear clan are often good at healing others. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

I could slip away now, without him noticing me; he wouldn't hear me over the din, But the night air's so sweet, I can't bear returning to that stuffy cage of a room. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

When I couldn’t bear to look at the pictures anymore, I shut the album. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

When she heard the truck come back and Joe and Daddy came in, she couldn’t bear just lying still, so she rushed downstairs. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

I huffed like a bear and shouted in a growly voice, “Wasn’t he delicious, this man? Best one I ever ate!” The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

But his irresponsible behavior was almost impossible to bear. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

Some of the statues were so lovely they took her breath away, others so misshapen and terri-ble that Dany could scarcely bear to look at them. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The Augurey has since enjoyed a vogue as a home weather forecaster, though many find its almost continual moaning during the winter months difficult to bear. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

He could easily back away from this bear and not a single human being on the planet would ever know. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

They were going up into some fairly wild territory, and polar bears are always a danger in the Arctic. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Anyway, why would you want to be that thing? The water bear or whatever. Can't nobody even see it. At least we can see boogers." Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

Until the mother bear made the first move, Omakayas knew she should stay still, or as still as possible, given the terrified jumping of her heart. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

My dad was so overcome with joy and relief that he pulled the man into a bear hug. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

“Oh, we know who you are,” said the sister bear. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

A plane ticket was expensive, but she couldn’t bear the thought of waiting, even an extra few hours. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The nights freeze now; tonight a hard wind bears frozen rain. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

The bear watched and saw what he was doing and why, and understood more fully than Will himself did what the boy had achieved. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

We must also bear in mind that art appreciation is more than enjoyment of aesthetics. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

A snow bear crashed through the brush, huge and skeletal, half its head sloughed away to reveal the skull beneath. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I could not bear the thought of losing my son. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I imagine him resting, because I can’t bear to imagine him at any other time, just as I can’t imagine anything below his collar, above his cuffs. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t even bear the thought of being under the same roof as him. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

In general he was paired with a white ally, but Royal’s quick wits and proud bearing made it clear the color of his skin was no impediment. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

An odd room, full of dolls and waterlogged stuffed bears. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

She sat on the floor and wrapped her arms around Winn-Dixie and rocked him back and forth like he was a big old teddy bear. Because of Winn-Dixie 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

When there was rain and sun in proportion so that the seed would sprout in the land and the stalk bear grain, he did not consider himself poor. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

I try to get my bearings as I stare at the cross section of the map blinking with pods in every direction. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

“Mercy! Perhaps you’d better! I just couldn’t bear to get any more surprises of that kind.” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Afterward your waking mind did not know what to do. It was left with an angry bear.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Nin stared at the thing like it was a bear trap, full of metal teeth. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

One by one, my elder siblings broke with her rules, coming home bearing fruits of their own confusion, which we jokingly called their “revolution.” The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instead, a bullet was placed in the soldier’s mouth, and he bit on that when the pain became hard to bear. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

They were each armed with a sword, knife, and crossbow, and though they’d been alert while their captain passed by, she knew a crossbow wasn’t exactly a light weight to bear for hours on end. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

I finally decided that people believed in an afterlife because they couldn’t bear not to. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

Although there were many limbs, they looked rubbery and not substantial enough to bear any weight, so it had to be a swimmer. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

I feel heavier, like I am bearing a new burden. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

I could not bear their moon faces staring at me again. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

“A bear! Wow. I love bears! Brown or black?” I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

But by the end of the day everybody was smeared with blood like creepy, happy ghouls, and I couldn’t bear to be one of them myself. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even a bear considered him insignificant, licking up his spit as casually as if it were dew. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

We were halfway across when we heard the clobbering of hooves on the pavement and turned to catch a glimpse of the Vitamin Kid bearing down on us. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

I could not bear it, it made me frightened, ill. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Logan with his shovel looked like a black bear doing some clumsy dance on his hind legs. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

“Not now, we got a horde bearing down on us. I reckon we've dawdled long enough.” Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Another favorite described how he inadvertently bedded down beside five hibernating bears in a Canadian cave. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Brilliantly painted red and gold animal dens line two of the four walls, their sides propped open to reveal lions, tigers, panthers, jaguars, bears, chimps, and spider monkeys—even an orangutan. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

They might have frightened her with their big bellying laughter and hot tears and full bear hugs. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

She gave me gummy bears at lunch without me even asking. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

You know the print of every animal moving through the dirt—deer, raccoon, rabbit, bear. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

In the street, near the great yew, they found Duny the bronze-smith's son standing by himself, bearing no hurt, but speechless and stupid like one stunned. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

“You made him what he is! You bear the responsibility.” Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

“We don’t have to bear the guilt of this,” she murmured. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

And I popped the gummy bear in my mouth. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

The one crack in his placid bearing was a persistent stutter. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Great bears, both brown and black, that rose threateningly on their hindquarters. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

None of this is to suggest that those who break the law bear no responsibility for their conduct or exist merely as “products of their environment.” The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

His words were measured and thoughtful, his bearing presidential. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

“Zeppelins,” said the bear’s voice, startling Will, for he hadn’t heard the great creature come near. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Their cloaks were made of skins, the pelts of bear and seal and wolf. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

He was delighted when the lowly U.S. customs officers on the Manhattan dock failed to cringe at his aristocratic bearing and pedigree. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

“Anger. There are ways among bears of turning away our anger with each other, but I was out of my own control. So I killed him and I was justly punished.” The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

“You might have big ears,” said Toulese, “but they’re not attached right to your brain. You don’t bear honey. You smell honey. When there’s honey to smell. Which there isn’t. ” The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

“I can bear my weight upon my feet, though I cannot stand long alone, nor can I straighten. But can I not lean upon the bench?” The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

Like a colossal junkyard, the swamps and back lots of Connecticut flashed past, one broken-down fragment bearing no relation to another. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

She realized that he’d come down in order to bring it to her, and thanked him, and he nodded again and stood bade, away horn her and the hut and away from the bear. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t bear to be around his wormy self after what had happened. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘He doesn’t know what we minds, does he, precious? No, he doesn’t. But Sméagol can bear things. Yes. He’s been through. O yes, right through. It’s the only way.’ The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Eventually, she would bear him at least one child. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

A good part of her life was taken up with bearing and raising. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Pippin suddenly felt that he could not bear it any longer, and without warning let out a shout. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

A long flame shot suddenly into the air, and borne upon it was another piece of parchment. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

I squat, listening behind me for bears, aster leaves rough on the tops of my legs, then bury the toilet paper under sticks and bark and dried bracken. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

I conclude that she wants the latter from me as I bear her lecturing. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

“Plus, you will love the compound. Weapons galore! And gummi bears.” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

Certainly she must have noticed their military bearing, the high polish of their shoes, their vivid neckties. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Of course, the man had been speaking figuratively, but it is rather interesting to see his words borne out so immediately at the literal level. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

One day it was the size of a wolf, the next the size of a cave bear, then the size of a great elk. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

“Off the coast of British Columbia, there is a special black bear called the Spirit Bear. It’s pure white and has pride, dignity, and honor. More than most people.” Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

From each hook hung a carcass: skinned deer and elk, sides of beef, huge sows swinging from the ceiling, headless sheep and goats, even horse and bear. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“I understand metal. Nothing made of iron or steel is a mystery to a bear. But I have never seen a knife like yours, and I would be glad to look at it closely.” The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

It took several seconds for Thomas to get his bearings and see straight. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

The tall girls went out and returned presently, each bearing a tray, with portions of something, I knew not what, arranged thereon, and a pitcher of water and mug in the middle of each tray. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

He liked the big black bear on his surcoat even less. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Already men were labouring to clear a way through the jetsam of battle; and now out from the Gate came some bearing litters. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

It was worn to shreds, but he couldn’t bear to get rid of it. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Did she hope that staying at home would improve her chances of bearing a healthy baby? The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

It was they who dared ride beyond the Wall, sweeping through the haunted forest and the icy mountain heights west of the Shadow Tower, fighting wildlings and giants and monstrous snow bears. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Each brick had been cut with her ulo, the half-moon shaped woman’s knife, so versatile it can trim a baby’s hair, slice a tough bear, or chip an iceberg. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

By said, “second thing you gotta learn is how to keep your balance in a high wind. You gotta be good at this so you don’t get blowed into no polar bear dens.” The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

I cannot bear to see her struggle with simple tasks, so I set my book down and offer to help her. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Her bearing was such that if she had been a year older, I would have been forced to see her as a lady. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z