The list was endless and with each name my heart beat faster, for it seemed as though many of those listed might have been people that I had known at some point in my life. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

There was no sunrise, and presently rain came beating across the bow from the northeast. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

“Your father’s going to beat you for this!” Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I was the only member of the studio audience dancing a jig. Singleton beat that little fugger like she'd stole something.” An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

I said if I beat him, he had to give me the money for the ticket to Vermont, but if he beat me, I’d take the building manager job instead. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

I guess I’m thinking too hard, cuz Sneaky beats me in game three. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

The dull beat made by that foreign drum carried no message and certainly offered no cause for celebration. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

We didn’t speak but I held Piper’s hand and told her over and over that I loved her through the blood beating in my veins and running down through my hand and into her fingers. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

His chilled wings beat the earth like a drummer’s stick. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

A beat passes, and then: “Can I tell you something?” she says. Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Last time she’d stolen fruit from me, that was exactly what I did, and I got a beating from Mamita as a result. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Clinging to the walls of that slippery shower, I felt a heart beat inside me. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

My heart beats and beats, hard against my chest. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

“Bet she couldn’t beat me in a battle. On God, bruh.” On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

I don’t have to remind you of how people everywhere scoffed at Cassius Clay’s chances of beating Liston. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Indeed, the fact that the bass jumps ahead of the beat is what gives son such a powerful dance feel: it almost pushes your feet to move. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Shackles to prevent a person from absconding, from moving their hands, or to suspend a body in the air for a beating. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

The Captain opened his mouth to protest, but Grandma beat him to it. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I vaguely remember Lara standing in the doorway, the room dark and the outside dark and everything mild and comfortable but sort of spinny, the world pulsing as if from a heavy bass beat. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

"You don't have the killer instinct, Alfred, the coldness to beat a man into the ground when you sense his weakness. I'm not sure I'd want you to have it." The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

My heart is beating into my ears, and it’s so loud, I actually wonder if he can hear it. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

His face is white and he beats on his thighs with his fists. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

I find every imperfection: her wispy hair, her hollow cheeks, her sallow skin, the too-slow beat of her heart. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

Bet she beats all of us three to one. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

His heart stopped beating at 7:22 and 10 seconds. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

We only let him play with us when we were bored and felt like beating somebody. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

She stopped every three or four paces, staring silently at the carved lovers, and the processions of elephants, and the topless female musicians beating on two-sided drums. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

I was only a beat behind; it took me a second, but I suddenly understood what he was trying to say. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

“Now you can get up and start beating on me if you want, ” Peewee said. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sun beats down on the pallbearers as they carry the coffin from the hearse up the hill to the cemetery. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

And believe it or not, the first was getting beat nekkid. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

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

“To die. Do you feel it? I know that it’s not the same for everyone, and that you stop breathing and your heart stops beating, but what does that feel like?” The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

At the next corner a man was beating a small boy brutally in the midst of an immobile crowd of adult spectators who made no effort to intervene. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Later he explained that when a person is beating you you should scream as loud as possible; maybe the whipper will become embarrassed or else some sympathetic soul might come to your rescue. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Partly ruinous it seemed, but already before the night was passed the sound of hurried labour could be heard: beat of hammers, clink of trowels, and the creak of wheels. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

Anyway, they had the sense to leave before the Big Bail, and beat the rush. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

“Do you want his beating on your conscience?” she continued. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

She placed her hand on her chest, letting her heart beat against the stone of Amah’s bracelet. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

Andrew said that someday I would beat the Kid across, I remembered. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m going to call him the Lipless Wonder. All he does is beat up superheroes smaller than him and the only thing he’s afraid of is a cold mirror!” The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

The woman’s eyes went wide, and she beat a hasty retreat. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

If she stuck around, maybe they wouldn’t beat him up. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

She abruptly locked into the beat, bobbing her head, gyrating her hips. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, and that kind of person doesn’t like to get beat by a person of questionable background.” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

“I’m an old man,” panted the captain, “and you’re still young. But then, you always beat me, I remember!” The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Oh, no," he said, "I enjoy my way too much. Besides"–he gave a nod at the photo of his latest supernova and smiled–"I can still beat them sometimes." A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

She smiled warmly at him, and his beating heart slowed down. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

My heart was beating almost loudly enough for someone to hear. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

“Well, if you did this ’cause you wanted to, a good beating will teach you right.” Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The picture blew away like the ashes that had been beaten in the mortar so long ago in the village, the day Vatete died. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Guards rushed to beat out the cinders that clung to the king's clothing. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The Western Market was a great square of beaten earth surrounded by warrens of mud-baked brick, animal pens, whitewashed drinking halls. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

She inched around the chair, coming closer to him, and his heart jumped a beat. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

His heart was beating so loudly, he was sure the Population Police could hear him. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

She smiled again, stepped through in one quick motion, stood, and took off toward a beaten trail. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

I pause for a beat or two, goo-filled hands held out, pondering the issues of trust that have arisen between her and me. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ophie huffed out an annoyed breath, but she was smart enough to know when she was beat. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

The drummer’s hair was a black blur as he beat on the instrument. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

Point to four quarter notes or four icons while the class pats a steady beat. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

She closed her eyes and let her ears fill with wings beating air and early acorns falling onto the soft pad of pine needles. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

It was better than being beaten up, though, and I went downtown with him to the Port Authority bus terminal on 42nd Street. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

I was pretty sure Hercules had fought this thing once, but I couldn’t remember how he’d beaten it. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

I didn’t want to be in the same room with Charlie, but I wasn’t about to leave and let him think he’d beaten me. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Turton says that if you lived to be eighty years old, your heart would beat three billion times. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

The doctors became increasingly worried, and I ended up spending five long months in the hospital while they tried to beat it. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

He beat the dog senseless and wiped the blood from me with his shirt while I clung to him in terror. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

I had been beating myself up trying to come up with a question to ask her. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

He screamed and beat them all to the corner. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

In the school of hard knocks where I had become a Master of Dodging, I had also learned to feign injury, as a way of lessening the severity of a beating. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

Even her own heart beat quieter, and that excited, jumpy feeling in her calmed. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

"Go on, do go on," whispered Aravis, whose heart was beating terribly and who still felt that her father might run into them at any corner. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

Her father nipped that romance by beating up the boy. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Apparently, three or four inmates had chased and beaten two others as they were leaving the gym. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The runaway would be beaten, and salt pickle, lime juice, and bird pepper would be rubbed into his or her open wounds. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

Even if I hadn’t still been recuperating from my appendectomy, I don’t think I would have received a beating for a simple hanging. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

Being grounded had beaten me down and it was as if being a kid had become a Lost World for me. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

The commander asked him whether or not he had been beaten. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The girl marched to the beat of her own drum. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

Finn didn’t want to say it, but he wondered if someone had beaten her up. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

“Beat me, then, beat me,” she sang again and again. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the bell rang for lunch, I raced to my locker, but somehow Ben had beaten me there, and somehow he was talking to Lacey Pemberton. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

I listened to my heart beat, faster, faster, as footsteps came one by one up the stairs. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Daddy drums the mahogany surface of the dining table, making a thump-thump-thump beat. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

“You, uh, you take that back, Luna. I can still beat the stuffing out of you.” The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

You can’t beat nobody down so low till you can rob ’em of they will. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

I think back to earlier years . . . some are triumphant, pumping their fists in the air, beating their chests. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Course, I knew that I would get a beating for talking back if I said that. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He felt in his hunger a deep sense of duty, as powerful as the urge to breathe, as intimate as the beat of his heart. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

I honed my skills until I finally got good enough to beat Aech, repeatedly and consistently. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

“That’s the only reason I shouldn’t get beaten to a pulp, or worse?” Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

They beat the drums and strum the mandolins while their feet tap the ground. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was hard not to dance with that beat pounding out into the smoky club. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

A girl that big, a girl who comes in with her pretty face all beaten and black can’t be falling off the stairs. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

Despite the bruises on the bodies of Kerling and Thiel from their interrogator, who had resorted to beating them to get them to confess, no one complained. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

We ran around the truck, naked and laughing, the rain beating against our bodies. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

“Why, this beats even shorthand! May I hear it say something?” Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

How could he tell her that another woman had taken the beating meant for her, and might well the in her place should some mischance of battle fell Joffrey? A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Everyone here is happy—happy for every breath of air and every pulse of blood and every beat of the heart, happy to be alive and happy that everyone around them is alive too. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

His heart beats faster, this time out of anger. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then anger made Antinoos’ heart beat hard, and, glowering under his brows, he answered: “Now! You think you’ll shuffle off and get away after that impudence? Oh, no you don’t!” The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The rain echoed in the canopy of leaves above and beat against the sword ferns, which twitched under each drop. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

A couple of people wave and call hello, but mostly it’s people shortcutting across the lawns, hurrying to beat the next bell. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

My heart is beating so fast that I'm worried I won't be able to contain my excitement. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

I could feel it going down my throat like a little white round superhero pill on its way to beat up all the bad stuff in me. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

After a beat or two, Maya appeared at the top of the stairs. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

My heart beat like I had run miles. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Thrice was I beaten with rods, once I was stoned, thrice I suffered shipwreck, a night and a day l have been in the deep. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

"What you asked me in the car? If beating up Brandon makes me tough," I reminded him. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t a real big thing until they started terrorizing stores and then they beat up a lot of people and stabbed that one kid. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

I could see all of that as I squatted and shuffled forward, readying my punch, but Aileen beat me to it. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Wilson was hit on the head with a brick, and even as he lay wounded on the ground, they continued to kick and beat him. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I can feel his heart beating, and his cool breath in my face that makes me want to fall asleep. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

It was a song that imitated the measure of beating upon iron, and was a mere lyrical excuse for the introduction of Old Clem’s respected name. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

“We don’t have to beat them,” Joel patiently explained. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Any number of subtle transgressions, from not saying hello when someone greeted you to saying hello to the wrong person, meant a beating. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

They’ve attached a wire to the heart, which rims to a loudspeaker, so you can hear the heart beating throughout the entire room, agonizingly slow, like an old man walking up stairs. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

And so does my heart, just one beat ahead of the song inside. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

She said, “If it rains when the sun is out, it means that the devil’s beating his wife.” Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

“It was an accident. He didn’t really mean to help. How could he possibly know that in this old car there beats a truly Marxist heart?” The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

As the morning dragged on and the sun beat down, my head began to pound. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

They passed a dome-shaped aviary full of black-and-white impundulus, barely mindful to cover their heads as the birds beat their massive wings and sent sparks of lightning into the sky. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Two beats on “know,” two beats on “I’m a” and two beats on the end of “witness.” I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe so I could beat him up, finish him off myself. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

A crowd had gathered to stare at Dany with hard black eyes, their faces like masks of beaten copper. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Now Genie beat his chin against his knee, harder and harder. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

The sun was beating down furiously on us and I was ready to pass out from heat exhaustion. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

I realized then that Jaja had been tapping his feet to the beat of an Igbo song that Aunty Ifeoma and my cousins sang at evening rosary. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

A ritual took place in the dormitory after each beating. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hooper was watching, waiting for him impatiently, and still beating about in the water. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

It made her heart beat faster, made her catch her breath. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Grimacing on the ground, he heard Edwin beating the pieces of driftwood in a hypnotic rhythm. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

In their first of two games on Saturday, the Fugees would face a familiar opponent: Blue Springs Liberty Fire, the team the Fugees had beaten in a 3-2 comeback earlier in the season. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

We arrive at the water port late in the afternoon, but the sun is still hot and beats down on us. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Worsley brought the Docker around, and beat back into the wind to take the Wills in tow. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

Sarah came in to see him—and to hug me—and she was more alarmed at the marks of his beating than at his ribs or his fever. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

She met it unblinking, brows knit, and just when I thought she’d been silent a beat too long, she shook her head and laughed again. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

We treat it the same way old ladies at Christ Temple treat their seats—if somebody ever beat us to our booth, we’d give them a stank-eye powerful enough to smite them on the spot. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Clayton kept a beat and he made the right kind of noise. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

Even the music playing around us sounds cold—synthetic bells, echoes, a background wind, and a deep, thudding, rhythmic beat. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

In "four four time," for example, there are four beats in a measure and a quarter note gets one beat. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

Weanling herds stampede around their paddocks several times a day, running all-out to beat one another. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

He watched himself carefully and in the dim light recorded, “The sensation of fear is accompanied by troubled beating of heart, sweat, trembling of muscles.” Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was used to having him slouching around the pickle factory, and was used to being beaten from time to time. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

So he bust her in the face and beat her up.” Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

He used a good measure of flattery, assuring Riddle that War Admiral would of course beat the stuffing out of Seabiscuit. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Drums, please!” erupts from the jeep’s stereo and the beat on “Summertime” kicks in, and Alex whoops his approval. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

“He beat you!” yelled Ron, and the charm broke, and the defenders of Hogwarts were shouting and screaming again until a second, more powerful bang extinguished their voices once more. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

During the day, we went to the casinos, where Dad said he had a sure-fire system for beating the house. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Her father’s heart, beating there inside of him. Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z

I know, with every beat of my living heart, that this fight has already started. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

His black heart beating wildly, he rushed over to his unconscious daughter and brought her to. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

The train beat on itself and danced on the shiny steel rails mile after mile. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

This helps students internalize the beat and phrases of the song. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

“It took him straight out to the street. He beat me by one spin of the spinner.” Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

You’d think it was a concert the way people react, rapping along and jumping to the beat. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

"And that means it goes so fast you can't even hear the separate beats. It must sound just like a buzz." Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

Even when he beat me up, it was honest. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

Now I personally understood my father and the old mantra—“Either I can beat him or the police.” Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

I was so far up inside the beat that I wasn’t thinking at all — my body just did everything, perfectly, almost by itself. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

I won’t have some man I hardly know trying to beat sense into me. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

But once beaten and broken in battle so that he cannot regroup his troops, there is nothing else to be feared than the ruler’s family. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z

Moonface kicked me and hit me and beat me whenever he could. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

She could feel Taisin’s heart beating in time with her own, and it made her light-headed. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

It could be beaten like copper, and polished like glass; and the Dwarves could make of it a metal, light and yet harder than tempered steel. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

He could have ended the beatings by running away or succumbing to tears, but he refused to do either. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

Emily waited a beat, expecting a punch line or her brother to start laughing and take his words back. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

“A few more beatings and you’ll be uglier than I am, Mormont. Tell me, is there any fight left in you?” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Her heartbeat was light and fast as bird’s wings beating against a cage. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

The rain beat down and the black river roared while Roosevelt shivered under the towering trees. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

I watch him as he pulls his headphones on, my heart beginning to beat faster. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

They have heard stories of bands of young men who will look for them to beat up or murder. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Reverend Price began to speak in his deep, heavy voice, the words booming out like beats on a muffled drum. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

In 6/8, there are six beats in a measure with each eighth note receiving one beat. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

The man listened to the message which the boy brought, but all he did was beat the boy with a stick and send him home. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

Harry hissed, springing up and pulling Dobby back onto the bed — Hedwig had woken up with a particularly loud screech and was beating her wings wildly against the bars of her cage. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

This was real respect, the kind you can’t beat or scare out of people. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

“They treat dogs better than that. They don’t punish criminals, but they beat up these poor folks. Why? Why?” Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

The beat of her heart presses against my back. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

Her heart was beating fast, but she felt strong and purposeful now. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

A real chest beating sends the whole jungle running, as if the sky has broken open, as if men with guns are near. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

Encountering a second black man, who was making his way home with a bag of groceries, they beat him also, fracturing his skull with a brick. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

He lifts his musket, but it is beaten out of his hands by Master Archer. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

Her voice struggled on through the heat, beating against it, moulding its senselessness into forms. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

In truth, the fact that you were in the class likely meant you came from a difficult background, homes where parents fought or took drugs or beat their kids or maybe spoke a foreign language. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“His students loved him. And not only because he wouldn’t beat them with rulers, like other teachers did. They respected him, you see, because he respected them. He was marvelous.” A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

Then come the horns, and my head starts to go with the beat. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

Every time I got it close to the raft, it beat about with such frenzy that I was cowed into letting out some line. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Not anything in the league can beat them.” The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hume took the beat higher and higher until the boys hit forty-four. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

They glided lower, listening with keen ears, and Serafina Pekkala soon made out the beat of a gas engine, muffled by the fog. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Try saying the rhythm syllables and clapping on the 1st, 5th, and 13th beats, and waving on the 9th beat of the cycle. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

And wasn't it this bright boy you selected for beatings and tortures after hours? Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

Thundering hooves beat the frozen ground, faster and faster as the rider whipped the horse. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Even Aaron tried to get in on the act, but he mumbled the words a full beat behind. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I mean...the last time I saw her, her father had just been beaten because he went to see her and her mother.” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

My heart jumped to see him, and my body felt all over again how it was to be crushed against the rough material of his clothes, his heart beating straight through my backbone. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

We heard all kinds of stories about how we were beating back the North Vietnamese. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

If his heart stopped beating, Jonathan wondered, would they stop too? The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

The lights exploded to life in a hullabaloo around the barn and a thumping beat rattled in my bones. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Driven by pain and desolation, that evening I risked additional beatings or worse by sneaking over to my father's barracks. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

I could feel my heart beating in my chest. The Million Dollar Shot 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

William Lombardy, who’d go on to win the World Junior Championship and enter the pantheon as a grandmaster, was six years older than Bobby and at first beat him most of the time. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Jesse had said he loved me but hanged himself, Marcus had claimed to have feelings for me but then beat me up in the showers. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

Five hundred seconds later, his heart was still beating. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

The newly beaten and untied Wilfred was sniffing noisily in the background. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

Once, she even thought she saw its pale church tower in a dark fold of the hills, and her heart beat faster though she knew that it couldn't possibly be Capricorn’s church. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

The bridge had taken a beating from Kronos’s blast and the exploding arrows. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

Most afternoons were spent making up routines to songs we’d listen to over and over until I could hear every beat in my head like a pulse. Monday's Not Coming 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Warmth beat against his face, comforting as a mother’s kisses. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Still, I had come out here for the satisfaction of giving one punch to Jack for all the times he had tormented me—even if it meant getting beaten up in the end. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

A borrowed division occurs whenever the basic meter of a piece is interrupted by some beats that sound like they are "borrowed" from a different meter. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

By the time he was fifteen or sixteen, he was beating me regularly. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You tried her locker, but that was empty. Then you beat up Dr. Kent to see what he knew.” Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

One bully, Micah, made me beat up myself. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

Marty said, “Coke, its great taste, it’s so good that I would beat up a guy if he had one and I really wanted it.” Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

She raised her left hand and waited a beat, and just as the shadow reached her, she smacked her drawing with her right hand. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

What is in fact performed and heard is a more lilting version of this rhythm, the lilt produced by a subtle reapportioning of the beats. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

He slowly put the pick in his back pocket, slowly looked at me, and then proceeded to beat the snot out of me. Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Will he beat me, make a fool of me? Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

He found an ash stick and began to beat the heads off the tall plants of cow parsley. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

Instead, he closes his eyes and drums out a beat on the glass using the tips of his fingers. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

The next day two thousand men, many armed with sharpened sticks, advanced on McArthur’s workers, seized two, and began beating them. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

It’s not like they can beat me up in front of all these people. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

There was no way she could beat him in combat. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

I had just had my first look in the mirror since the beating, and I didn’t think I looked so good either. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

Paper beat rock beat rock, so Bobby Gene got first watch. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

The face that peered back at me seemed to be peering from the grating of a prison cell after a prolonged beating. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

His head thrust into the wind; his arms hugged his form; his mane and tail streamed back; and, without moving—such was Agulen’s skill—his legs beat the ground. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

Her heart beat furiously as she grunt-whined the sound of the puppy begging adoringly for attention. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

At dusk the drums of calamity began; their grave, throbbing rhythm came clearly through the night, throughout the night, each beat, each tattoo, echoing the mighty impotence of our human endeavour. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

I exercised until it doubled, from fifty to one hundred beats per minute, and then I stopped, because I didn’t want to get too hot or sweaty, with no bath or shower on board. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

And just that fact makes my heart beat in a messed-up way. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

Thinking back, she feels her heart starting to beat fast. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

They’re beating us twenty-nine to twenty-eight with less than a minute to go. The Crossover 2014-03-18T00:00:00Z

The procession rolled slowly, the beat of the march measured by drums wrapped in crepe. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

It might have been a new way for her heart to beat. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

"And I'm no lord, no more than I'm a knight. Do I need to beat that into you?" A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

I think about skirting around them to get to class, but then I notice Alex in the middle of all those boys, and I can’t let Bernard beat up on my friend. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

They had beaten him and left him for dead. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

The heart of a canary beats seventeen times in a second. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Some of them obviously had good cards but I knew I had every one of them beat. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

They are beaten by their own fear before the game even begins. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Kathakali Men took off their makeup and went home to beat their wives. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

In a strange way I was almost grateful for the beating, because the sting of the welts took my mind away from the horror that I had witnessed. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

After the dance, Roy Lee tried a couple of times to beat me to the drive-in in English. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

“They’re just high on their horse after beating those Caroline Street kids.” Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then Bull would have beaten me to a pulp and the whole thing would have been over. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

The Italians—four of them veterans of the crew from Livorno that had come within two-tenths of a second of beating California at the 1932 Olympics— also looked like a threat. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

It sways off to the side and hits the earth with a silent, beaten thud. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

It was Lancelot’s horse, and Lancelot was in the cart, beating the cart-horse with his scabbard. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

I beat the steering wheel with my fists until I can see the bruises, and with every mile, I cry harder. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

“If you stop your dogs, I’m going to beat you half to death.” Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m beating you, I’m beating you!” he screamed in between giggles. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

“It’s hard to thank you when I know you’d let Will and his Mercer buddies beat me up if I wasn’t going to help you win tomorrow.” Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

The sun beat down oil our heads as we made our way through the crowd, searching for our friends. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe the other tributes are out there beating one another senseless. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

She was often kicked and once was beaten up. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

I feel suddenly terrified, my hands numb, my heart beating fast— “I thought about going to see Marcus tonight, but I didn’t.” Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Haupt couldn't beat his chest because a nurse was standing nearby, but he did hold his breath. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

Each kid knew just what he would get a beating for. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

The cancer had come back, but the doctors were optimistic she could beat it again. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

Laura is raising her girls American style, reading all the new literature, so she knows she shouldn't have beaten Yoyo that time the girl gave them such a scare. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

“Him, the Frenchman . . . and the Pole . . . They beat me . . One more stab to the heart, one more reason to hate. One less reason to live. “ Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

The pitted iron hardware deep lilac in color, smeltered in some bloomery in Cadiz or Bristol and beaten out on a blackened anvil, good to last three hundred years against the sea. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

His face flushed with annoyance, and taldng off his soft hat he began to beat it impatiently against his leg as he walked. The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I just don’t want to see you beat yourself up.” Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

There it stayed while the rain beat on the walls and the fire sank down and the night wearing slowly along left the old woman nodding beside the hearthpit. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

Instead, he was singing raucously while beating a small drum with his massive hands. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

So I went to the shop that said ©Information and I could feel my heart beating very hard and I could hear a noise like the sea in my ears. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

After his hands slipped loose, his knees hit muddy ruts and there was screaming and the sound of bone crushing, hollow white skull bone beaten to bayonet edges by the jungle rain. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

“I hate to beat Kurtsinger,” Woolf said, “the cleverest jockey I ever competed against.” Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lucas Cader, the only person who could beat him at Monopoly. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

The only way to beat that score would be to play a perfect game. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

In the morning the hounds came back, disinterested, and the men were too tired to beat the banks properly. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

He has sixty-four knights in prison, whom he has captured in single combat, and he spends the time beating them with thorns. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

My heart is beating so hard I hear it throbbing in my ears. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

Her heart beat quick on hearing Harriet’s footstep and voice; so, she supposed, had poor Mrs. Weston felt when she was approaching Randalls. Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z

He had been starting to quite like Cedric — prepared to overlook the fact that he had once beaten him at Quidditch, and was handsome, and popular, and nearly everyone’s favorite champion. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

His tail beat the ground and she gasped. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The bullets beat a sledgehammer tattoo on its cranium, causing instant concussion. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

“A boy who peeks into the cooking pot will beat his wife when he grows up.” The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

I was honestly trying to beat him to death.” Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

One of the new victims revealed that Mrs. Moss beat her for putting a movie in the wrong case and struck her in the face for not sweeping the patio correctly. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

I wondered if everybody else could hear their heart beating. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

For every clever person who goes to the trouble of creating an incentive scheme, there is an army of people, clever and otherwise, who will inevitably spend even more time trying to beat it. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

If you do, you will be beaten and imprisoned. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

I could imagine beating them and beating them and beating them. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

That’s when she started crying again and explained that after two months, the baby’s heart had stopped beating. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

I can beat someone twice my age at arm wrestling. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

He might be tired and beat up, but he was going to be okay. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Though the sun was setting, it was still hot, as if some invisible sun were beating down on me. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

Clayton liked the sounds and the beats, but he missed chords. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

Louder than any beat of even the largest drum, it was followed by a cry of horror. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

For dinner that night Trotter fried chicken so crisp it would crackle when you bit it, and she beat the potatoes into creamy peaks with the electric mixer. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

Ruben’s driving beat moved inside her, shoved her lovingly into motion. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

For his heart was heavily beating, His heart was pounding hard, And his ugly chota features, Were colored the color of lard. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The satisfaction lay largely in beating his competition. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

When she came back at midday and found nothing to eat, she would become furious and beat her son with a hoe, a shovel, anything close at hand. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

"Throw me down and beat me, you dirty little coward!" The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

Sometimes it worked and sometimes, if the baby was old enough to protest, it only got him more soundly beaten. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You poor children,” she said, “does your father beat you?” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

It looked like it was made of beaten gold, complete with delicate roses and a glittering butterfly whose wings reminded Aru of stained glass. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

It’s deep and thumping, and our heads start to bob to the beat automatically. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

“It took the boy several days to recover from the beating I gave him,” said Hanns. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

He never mentioned the beating, apparently never thought of it again. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

So he’d have somebody smaller than him to beat up on? Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t want to beat her on top of everything else. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

By the time I got back I was dead beat. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

Behind them two students struck a gong and beat a drum. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

They held up their empty metal bowls or hubcaps or whatnot and cheerfully beat them like drums. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Naomi laid her forehead against his chest and then turned to press her ear against the steady beating of his heart. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

If the dog is being beaten, you can tell the local ASPCA. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

My heart beat so loudly I couldn’t think. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

A piano tuner works by listening to and timing these beats, rather than by being able to "hear" equal temperament intervals precisely. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

If Soviets were prepared to move on from the atomic to the Super on their own, they might well beat the Americans to the prize. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Cole knew these words guaranteed him a terrible beating the next time he was alone, but still he taunted his father with a smirk. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

The panicky beating of my heart seemed to blur my vision. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jeffrey looked really beat, too, although his black eyes had faded to yellow and his nose had gone back to normal. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

I read the cover page and my heart skips a beat. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

He beat the floorboards with such force that I thought he might break his hand. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

“If Gurgi had not gone seeking help, he would not be here to serve you now. But he is here! Yes, yes, faithful Gurgi returns to beatings and bruisings from the terrifying warrior!” The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

They would test him, match and beat him, probably, on some other ground. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

A highway patrolman found Emma Lee walking down the beach road with half of her clothes on, hysterical, her face beaten past all recognition. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The long ship lay steady on the waves and went gallantly, but the steersman at the long steering-sweep in the stern looked into the rain that beat the sea and saw nothing but the rain. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

“We’ve tried that before. He beat the poor girl something fierce, nearly killed her,” she says, low enough that the tinkerer doesn’t hear. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

As they ran they heard the beat and echo of many hurrying feet behind. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

So I listened to his ideas about choreography, the songs he wanted to mix for the music, which beats were best for which power moves. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

“My dear? Might you observe the beat? You rush.” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

The glass of mead was now knocking quite insistently on the side of Vernon’s head; he attempted to beat it away. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Yet each felt his heart beat a bit faster. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Without thought, I translate the disparate beats into the message they are meant to convey. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

I picked up the cards and shuffled them and laid them out again one by one, in accordance with the strategic rules that he himself had taught me, and beat his score by fifty points. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

I didn’t say this to Radar, though, for fear that he would beat me to death with the black Santa lamp in the living room. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

And I squeezed it tight so I could press down hard, hard enough to feel the snap of hollow bone, the last beat of unsung song. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

The ravens began to scream noisily and fly at the bars, beating at the metal with night-black wings. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

‘We beat them. We Yankees did. God was with us.’ Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Spirit, you couldn’t beat my lady for spirit. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Later we found out that Dad probably would’ve beaten the charges because the Carmichaels had refused to come back to the Keys for a trial. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

And the Duke of Vaal beating his son like an animal. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Then I pick up the broom and start beating the dust out of the rug. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

“And at last Breca beat you, much stronger than you were. He proved his boast against you—for what it may be worth.” Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was still beat up, and hooked to the machines. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

“Turn that down. People’ll think I’m beating you or something. You packed?” All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

If a measure or group of measures has more or fewer beats, the time signature must change. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

“How hard are these things to beat? On a scale of one to we’re-burnt-toast-on-a-greasy-skillet?” asked Seven. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

You move through everything, and your heartbeat becomes a pulse of all things alive, all at once, and the silence between each beat is the stillness of things that exist, but do not live. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

I like the story of David beating the giant, Goliath. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

I tell myself I let her win, but she’s beat me fair and square. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

I was certain that I could beat him in chess in fewer than six moves. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

It was only a few days, hours perhaps, until my heart would stop beating, in truth, and the bees would fly off to haunt someone else. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But he can buy a little extra something and he will be in a better mood and he won’t beat his wife this night,” Aunty Uju said. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

It used to seem that there was the early morning hours when it was cool and then the rest of the day when the sun came on strong and beat down on us. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Soldiers would grab them off the street, beat them, and cut off their beards and side curls, known as payot, just for sport, or what they considered sport. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

On May 22 he tested both boats again, rowing two miles at a racing beat. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

“I want you to close your eyes again. This time, take slow, even breaths. Count each one as a beat, like a rhythm.” Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Great waggons were standing in disorder in a field beaten bare of grass. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

“Do you know how many times I’ve been beaten over the course of my life?” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

That’s where I met the boys who told me we could beat up some of the Jewish boys. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

Like it was his old man’s or somebody’s who he’d beaten up before. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

She beat her fists heavily against the altar. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

His face was bloody where they’d beaten him, and he hung limp, not even trying to stand. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

Three times weekly she took an aerobics class, checking her watch throughout to be sure her heart rate had exceeded one hundred and twenty beats per minute. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I beat the sixth, the seventh, and the eighth graders. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

She’s spitting the rap right into it, not missing a beat, an inflection, a single word. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

Madam will beat you bloody, he’s not your concern, it’s not your place. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was ably defended by George Bizos, who attempted to demonstrate that Winnie had no involvement with either the kidnappings or the beatings. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

As quickly as they could they scrambled off the beaten way and up into the deep heather and bilberry brushwood on the slopes above, until they came to a small patch of thick-growing hazels. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

The sun was beating down, so she didn’t push herself. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

I heard the music and the beats, the chords and the melody. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

I certainly wouldn’t want to race him—I’m sure he would beat me by a mile. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

And she scrambled up, hand over hand, forcing the beating wing aside, and seized the angel’s hair to wrench back his head and bare his throat for the snow leopard’s teeth. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

He never beat anybody up and he wasn’t seen after dark, so they thought he was probably a nice man. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was about to ask the little girl to repeat her name, but the clever child had been watching the other two and beat Penelope to the task. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

And so this simple question about whether or not my dad still makes beats tightened the skin around my bones. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

Rock opens his mouth to say something, but Isaiah Dunn, Superhero beats him to it. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

Lacey sat next to him, because “I should make sure he doesn’t puke or beat himself to death with his beer hand or whatever.” Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

“No, let's beat 'em up,” I said, feeling confident for a moment. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

The creatures of the Stone circled a while croaking, and one by one beat back ponderously inland over the moors. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

Only the steady pounding of rain on the roof is gratifying, sounding as if old Huracan were beating on the building for all the crimes engineered inside. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He had enough trouble to stop a locomotive. ... At equal weights, there’s nothing that wears racing plates that’s a mortal to beat him.” Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“If you were there, we were going to beat them.” Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

They both watched the heavy door swing open and glimpsed the light inside as two girls hurried in to beat the final bell. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

One week later, however, Ron was telling a thrilling tale of kidnap in which he struggled single-handedly against fifty heavily armed merpeople who had to beat him into submission before tying him up. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

We wouldn’t beat DeWitt Clinton’s football team, but the rally was fun. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

It was disarming how he’d disappeared from the corner of the cave only to reappear directly in front of me in the beat of a second. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

He stands there for a long minute until three of the corner dudes come in and my heart skips a beat. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Dad says, “Nothing fancy for me. I’m beat.” Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

She spent her days, her tendril, sap-green days, walking up and down, up and down, her head jerking to the beat of a drummer so distant only she could hear. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

The music playing for him is one of his own tracks: “Deep Blue Apocalypse,” a song with a soul-shaking bass and addictive beat. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

But at this point, my heart is beating so fast and fierce I hardly hear them. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

I asked Rosaleen if she could hear it beating, it was that loud. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

My heart was beating so hard, I thought it would explode. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

“Are you mad? My father already suspects I had something to do with it! If he found out what we did, I’d be dreadfully punished! He’d beat me, for sure!” Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

I sat up straighter, taller, my heart starting to beat so I could hear it in my ears. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

But while Paul’s arms were as thick as my neck, I beat him off the dribble, and twice in a row I got a foot around him and nailed fadeaway jumpers Guzzo couldn’t block. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

However, it is just as likely that she lacked confidence in his ability to beat Octavian on land. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

Under my fingers, my heart is beating like a moth wild in a lamp shade. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The waves beat down on the sand louder at night, breaking even stronger than usual. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

He beat the animal to death with a hammer and threw its limp body out a window. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“George,” Pollard told him, “will probably mess everything up as usual and try to get beaten a nose, but even George isn’t bad enough to beat Seabiscuit in this one.” Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

We had won other games, but beating Hunter in their fine gym felt good. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

She had thought about this conversation many times, like a child anticipating a beating. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Remember what I said about your heart forgetting to beat? Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z

He beat Jack, and the lad is a half-wit. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z

She swept the floor, beat the curtains, aired the house, despite the snow that had started up again. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

“I doubt he felt a thing. He’s beating himself up over something else.” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

I know you lived in a world where black folks were hosed and beaten and jailed and killed while fighting for equal rights, but you still managed to be, like, dignified and everything. Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Beer made the feeling recede and slowed down the beating of his heart. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Because I knew, as the receiver of many beatings, the one thing that doesn’t help is talking back. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

“In the village when we dance, we always beat a drum,” Edwin said. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

Trey, being Trey, bounces his head to a beat only he can hear. Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

But all the while her heart beat in rhythm to the poignant sadness of the song the children sang while walking around in a ring with hands joined. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

They chain us together like thieves and beat us till we bleed. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

He imagined how it must have been to watch, helpless, while his future was beaten to pieces. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Upon the wall hung a stick, wound about with ivy leaves, or rather, with a dark metal cunningly beaten to resemble ivy. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

Whenever he was rapping, I'd make a beat by knocking on the wall, until Doris or Jazz came banging on the bathroom door, telling me to cut it out. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t warm anymore, the bread, but my heart beat faster and my mouth watered at the thought of eating it. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

His heart beat fast and hard against my palm. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

A cluster of birds flew up from the nearby trees, hitting the sky at the same moment I began beating out a faster, more insistent rhythm. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

If you do not, you will be severely beaten. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

She was very lonely that summer, and beaten down. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

My heart beat hard in my chest as I slid into the front seat—the seat where white people always sat. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

It even got as far as the County Jail in Salinas where Gay, who had lived a good life by letting the sheriff beat him at checkers, suddenly grew cocky and never lost another game. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Get your share of food, work hard, stay well, stay as clean as possible, avoid beatings. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

But Kino beat and stamped the enemy until it was only a fragment and a moist place in the dirt. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

Native schooners were beating in from the sea. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every night he beat her with a brass flower vase. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“So what if I never listened to foreign radio broadcasts? They’ll stop beating me if I confess to it, won’t they? ‘Leniency to those who confess, and severity to those who resist.’ Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You are as predictable as you were easy to beat, Artemis.” The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

And there was no way I was going to ask Bodega to beat Victor up. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

Even as you listen to your own heart beating in death's shadow? The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

I don’t want to be carried in a medevac chopper while guys you could be home playing ball with were banging on your chest, trying to get your heart beating again. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

A flock of seabirds pursued her, their wild screams beating at her ears like Dr. Cable’s razor- edged voice. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

I thought they were going to beat me up, but then Dad burst into the room, along with Coach Warner. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

She squealed with delight while he swayed with her for a few beats and then he broke out into some goofy merengue moves, kicking his leg up at the end and shouting “¡Olé!” The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

As if she was determined not to let it beat her. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

This time it was accompanied by the beating of what sounded like a drum. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

“Listen, I just don’t want them to find a reason to beat more people. To kill people.” All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Jeyne’s words seemed to echo in his head, to the beat of the drums two of Abel’s other girls were pounding. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

She needed to beat Jackson back down so she could slip out. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

The average human heart beats seventy times a minute. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Phoebe beat on the door, and her mother suddenly pulled it open. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

Other officers were beaten and held hostage as well. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

It erupts out the front door and to the side of the house, and the older brother, Daniel, beats the absolute Christ out of Gavin. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

The hot February sun beats down on them, causing beads of sweat to collect on their upper lips. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Henry D. told me they beat us last year. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was another pause, and then a marching music began like solemn drums, and above the rolling beats and booms there welled voices singing high and strong. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Marly’s heart was beating fast when Joe appeared at the door. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

At this, the creature set up a loud and piteous whining, rolled his eyes, and beat the ground with his palms. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

“All you did was beat a legless old man by two seconds.” Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z

I could barely sit still, my heart was beating so fast. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

I was being beaten to the ground for being in the wrong place at the wrong time, and not to mention for being the wrong color. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

“Fine,” I say, knowing I can beat her. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

My heart skipped a beat as I sank down to sit on the floor. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Once again she felt the surge of power as the crow’s broad wings beat down against the air; this time it lasted longer for they were going higher than before. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

In this window, right here, in the real city, a woman beats her rugs every Sunday. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

That way the heart would continue to beat and pump out the blood. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

My heart was beating so intensely that I expected it to pop out of my chest. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“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

The flames blazed up beside him, welcome heat beating against his face as he dressed. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

I wanted to grab her by the hair and throw her down the stairs, throw her out a window, beat her face with my fists. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You kids do beat the limit. Who would have ever thought?” Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

By the time they showed it to her and asked for help, it was just a beating heart inside a cage of matted feathers. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

A sound like a sigh went up from all the lands about them; and their hearts beat suddenly again. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

Sick as hell but still beating up guys twice his size. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

Never mind that he was known as a big, bad bully who could beat up anyone, anywhere, anytime—and enjoy it. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

He starts clapping his hands, changing the beat, and I have no clue what he’s up to. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

As my samba music filled the arena, the crowd began to clap in time with the beat. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

No one is calling him a coward anymore, not after he beat up Marcus in the cafeteria. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

A second later, music is piping through my earphones, the familiar beat of his track. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“I did think it was the right thing,” I said, “and you still didn’t answer my question. Would you have left a guy being beat up to go find a teacher?” Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z

The rhythm was very tricky and it took the cricket a few minutes to catch on to it, but once he had it, he never lost the beat. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

A triple meter, for example, will have groups of 3 with a stress on the first beat of the group. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

Westley, still within the confines of the Fire Swamp, sank, beaten, to his knees. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

How awful to be harassed, beaten and humiliated in the street, to not be allowed to work or go to school. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“Now!” cried the Wart With a blood-curdling beat of iron hoofs the mighty equestrians came together. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Pilate neither acknowledged her entrance nor missed a beat. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Henry deigns to give him a perfunctory nod, as if he’s any other random guest, not the person he beat to a Vogue editorial debut in their teens. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

There was a quick beat of hoofs, and even as Grishnákh leaped up and ran, he was ridden down and a spear passed through him. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Was someone going to jump out and call me a race mixer, steal my bike, beat me up? The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Whereas the town knows all about you already and wants to know more and wants to beat you with what it knows till how can you have any of yerself left at all? The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

Cotton, on drums, pounded out a driving, steady beat, and Kaira ripped into the next song. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

At Mr. Das’s workshop we listened to the rain beat steadily on the tin roof. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

With small waves the result was a ceaseless, fist-like beating against the hull, while larger waves made for a tiresome rolling of the boat as it leaned from side to side. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

When there was nothing else to do, and we heard somebody was going to get a beating, we might even go so far as to gather around his door to hear it. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

I guess that Brad’s father didn’t know about his son because when he caught them, Brad’s father started beating Brad. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

Ina sour, foggy flash the whole nightmare came back to me: being followed, the fear, the anger, the rat-faced kid, the beating. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

If the Tigros came on him and just beat him up it would be cool. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

But by some accident of eye and timing he beat his brother at peewee. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

But from above, the sun beat down, and the rocks stayed hot all day. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

“I don’t want them coming over here to beat me up.” American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

It does what it needs to do, one beat after another, until it gets the message that it’s time to stop, which might happen a few minutes from now, and you don’t even know it. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

They will beat us rings in my ears. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

We agreed how weird it was that Tamika now lived in his old house and how sweet it would be for me to finally beat her at the next science fair. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

The drums stopped beating and the cymbals made their final bang. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

She caught me, steadied me, pulled my ears, beat my chest, and I puked the marble. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Under her direction, I spent God knows how long beating biscuit dough with a hatchet on a well-worn tree stump. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

If they saw me, if they heard what I was about to ask, Moonface would beat me to death. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

I imagined the scene inside the gym—circles of kids, hopping up and down to the beat. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

The leader taps the back of each hand to the beat. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

“Next morning we woke up to find they’d rolled us and beat it,” said Hickock. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

While nothing had happened on a similar scale since the Koliyivshchyna rebellion in the 1760s, beatings and extortion weren’t uncommon. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

I felt the warmth inside my stomach, and my heart was beating slowly, but at a heavy rate. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Tommy also found something extra that day and beat me by at least five yards. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

I tap my feet as if to the beat of some fast song, hoping to make time go by faster. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

It clouds up every morning and gets muggy for an hour, but then the sun beats down and dries up everything. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

That was the first time I had ever heard anyone say I was beating myself up, and I wasn't sure what it meant, so I didn't know what to say. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

I’m certain that Mustafa, who’s on the other side of me in the backseat of our minivan, can hear my heart beating through my thick jacket. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

And the sun beat down on the streets of the city and even tiny stones threw shadows on the ground. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Down he came, and before he could get his footing, I cracked the bat over his head. Then I beat him with the stub until there was no life left in him.” Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

Hillari’s orchid shed petals as she beat her fist on Wayne Parr’s chest. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

As the beat got louder, she smelled smoke and heard the flickering of torches on either side. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

The normal temperature of a room was ninety, but as the sun beat down upon the skylights, the temperature rose above a hundred. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

During my wait time, some days the sun beat down on my head and I got a headache. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

My body began to hurt from the beating it had taken from the brush of the river. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Digory’s heart beat wildly; he knew something very solemn was going to be done. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

One of the doormen in the building, with whom Goetz was close, was beaten badly by muggers. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes the pulsing of the drums was all but inaudible, at others they seemed to be beating only just round the corner. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

They say in the wintertime, with water close to freezing, you ain’t got but ten or fifteen minutes before your heart quits beating. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

We found Mr. Govind beating his fists against the wall and moaning, “They have sent jasmine blossoms instead of marigolds! We will be short for the wedding!” Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

They climbed Parnassos’ rugged flank mantled in forest, entering amid high windy folds at noon when Helios beat upon the valley floor and on the winding Ocean whence he came. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

His body shivered like that of a beaten dog. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Nudging her out of the way, his heart beating a bit faster, he positioned himself where she stood. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Two police officers were strolling toward them, a man and a woman on the beat, in their white summer shirtsleeves, with their radios and their batons and their suspicious eyes. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Since beating California, they appeared to have lost all focus. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Frightful clutched the food in her talons and beak, and with deep wing beats was airborne. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

“Me, I didn’t stay long. T. Ray came and got me out, but they wouldn’t let Rosaleen go, and then those men came back and beat her up.” The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I know where there’s a whole case of cigarettes. If you promise not to beat me up, I’ll show you.” Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I thought it was a splendid custom and he gave me fifteen points in a hundred and beat me. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

He kept them hard with exercises, beating out the rhythm with a stick on his wooden leg. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Thoughts of Blue Eyes strutted forward once again, and I beat them back. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

It was as if his getting beaten up were the medicine his mother had needed to shake off the blanket of sorrow that had been suffocating her. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

Long beats passed before he spoke again, his voice only a whisper. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Every man played a different beat and a different tune, but the music meshed together into one big happy sound. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Throughout it all, I cradled the heartbeat beneath me and prayed the pulse wouldn’t beat so hard that it tired and stopped, that I wouldn’t lose Otto, too. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

“All he can do is beat me and send me home.” The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

Everyone in the audience is swaying along too, heads moving left and right, feet tapping with the beat. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

“In a minute, maybe,” he said, snuffing the cool air gratefully, arms up, beating his chest. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

The doctors reported that his heart was still beating, and that he was still alive. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

She flashed a gigantic smile herself and then beat it. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

‘There you go about Ents again; but what they are beats me. Why, it will take weeks before we get all these things sized up!’ The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

He watched his fingers find that easy rhythm, a beat that felt steady. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

The wind had blown off, leaving a loud bright night with wings beating in the trees and a persistent organ sound as the full bellows of the earth blew the frogs full of life. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

Then he beats the dog and swears at it. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

I was even kind of looking forward to it so that I could beat a ticket by showing my badge. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Freedom riders in Montgomery were beaten so severely that an FBI agent said he “couldn’t see their faces through the blood.” Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

The men beating Mark and Alec immediately jumped back from them and knelt down, their faces lowered. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

When I opened his door, Takumi was sitting at his desk, boxy headphones surrounding his entire head, bouncing his head to the beat. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

He stamped to attract his attention and Kehaar sailed across to him with one beat of his wings and a long glide. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

I knew my cousins were getting beaten for things that I’d done, but I wasn’t interested in changing my grandmother’s perspective, because that would mean I’d get beaten, too. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

And then I wondered if Rowdy was one of the guys who just beat me up. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

I feel the heart that beat early in the morning on Saturday and told me I didn’t want to die. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

But already the crow was making off, flying low with slow, heavy wing beats. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

I felt I was beating a rainbow to death. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

He hath two drums now, one of his own making, and one issued by the Army, upon which he beats out the music and signals of the white men, our officers. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

As we step out of the elevator, the music suddenly turns deafening, the beat shaking my body through the floor. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Instead of beating the blade aside, he performed a maneuver I had never before seen, and have not seen since. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

The furnace wind lifted his crimson cloak and beat at his bare face, yet he could not turn away. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

But Chasca quickly abandoned herself to the now rapidly beating drums. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

My heart was still beating fast from the rush of the fire bell. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was something else too: I thought that if I went out and beat these girls, they wouldn’t like me. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

The sun beat down on us, the slack yard a caldron of focused heat. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

He could not identify the sound but he knew the beat. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

She might beat my body down, but my spirit will stand tall. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Pig killing was fascinating, with the screaming and the blood, but it made Jody’s heart beat so fast that it hurt him. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

They ask him to protect them against bandits, who rob and beat them; police, who shake them down; and la migra, the Mexican immigration authorities, who deport them. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

“I feel like some guys jumped me and beat me up,” he told her. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

She flapped her hands at thin air, as though beating off large invisible moths. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

“But I want you to know, if you leave Mister Johnny, then Miss Hilly done won the whole ball game. Then she done beat me, she beat you...” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

She had to follow the other dogs and beat them to the prize! Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

“The Germans may have beaten us to it.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

After a beat, the soldier reaches into his wallet and pulls out a dollar. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tap-tap-tap, his hand beat on the glass as if to hold my attention so he could study me a little longer, tap-tap-tap. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

First it was the one where I told the whole school about his dad beating his mom. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

The excitement of it beat in her blood. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m going to beat sin out of him. I’m going to beat it out.” Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

And Silly had told me that one of the pro-union workers had got beaten up one night. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

I sat there with my heart beating and sweat pouring out of me. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

They had only just finished when the bell rang for the afternoon’s double Potions and they beat the familiar path down to the dungeon classroom that had, for so long, been Snape’s. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

She never asked him why his face looked so beat up. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z

The man stopped with his beating and turned. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

As I was guiding my own tour around all these streets, lovesick with the sight of it, I said to myself wearily: “We are beaten, my eyes!” Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

At the end of the room, the Oompa-Loompas around the giant camera were already beating their tiny drums and beginning to jog up and down to the rhythm. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z

Because numbers are used in music to identify everything from beats to intervals to harmonics to what fingering to use, this naming system is sometimes less confusing. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

When my sore arm hurt, I just beat on the keys harder. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I beat my family and my brothers and sisters and earned my father’s love. You win by being strong. Not sentimental and weak.” The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

But still I would try to picture the exact moment when the beating of my heart would no longer be going on inside my head. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

But his temperature had dropped and his breathing was normal and his heart beat was strong and steady. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

The most influential of these exotic beats came from the dynamic rhythmic hub of Cuba. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

My heart beat faster and my head cleared. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

His heart beat fast as he walked, and his slim, brown hand clutching the rifle was wet with sweat. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

“When my pop got home that night, he beat me so hard, he ruptured my spleen.” We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

Between each beat, a shavepate herald in a shirt of polished copper disks cried for the crowd to part. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The sounds of Farbranch disappear behind us pretty quick and all we can hear are our footsteps beating on the path and my Noise and Manchee’s barking. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

He had a natural mistrust of the inhabitants of other parts of the Shire; and also he was not disposed to be quick friends with anyone who had beaten his master, however long ago. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

He brought me to the director, who beat me with a switch for leaving the orphanage. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

Treebeard was at their head, and some fifty followers were behind him, two abreast, keeping step with their feet and beating time with their hands upon their flanks. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

I put my hands on his chest, feeling his heart beating, strong and steady. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

She beats her hand with the marker, and each tap hits one of her rings. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

The overall effect sounds as if the drummer, formerly the guardian of the steady pulse, has been asked to improvise a solo from the first beat of the piece. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

If you do not abide by this, you will be beaten. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

Two women at the river’s edge were beating clothes against rocks while their children placed twigs and leaves on the water and watched as the current caught them up. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

“I know, Mom,” I tell her, because I don’t want her to beat herself up about it. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

I remembered the expression on his face when he had beaten the field hand. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

Lesser waves dragged at him, trying to tug him back down the sand in their outgoing rush, and the mist parted and closed above him, and later a sleety rain beat on him. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m beat. I just finished opening four dozen ersters out in the backyard,” Santa said in her rocky baritone. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’ve been too sick to work, and the factory sent the police, and when Helena didn’t know where I was, they beat her.” The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Another friend named Mwanza was beaten to death in the pub over a girl. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

Henry dropped the torch and beat at his hair as Luxa went into hysterics. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

I spent a lot of time feeling guilty for living after I lost my family, but now I can’t beat this weird Decker guilt for dying, knowing I’m leaving this crew behind. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Several members of the Life magazine staff were beaten. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The quarters of all the nearby plantations were thoroughly searched and no small number of slaves beaten on principle. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

“I’m going to beat sin out of him. I’m going to beat it out.” Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

I raise my fist to beat on the door when I hear it—the crying. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

I prayed for rain, but the sun kept beating down, turning the puddles into mud. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

We follow signs to this long line and my heart starts to beat a thousand miles a minute and I grip my backpack with both hands to keep from falling over. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

My heart starts beating fast, making it hard to breathe and speak at the same time. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

He felt the little heart beat against his own. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

Arriaga’s Red Cross workers retrieve, on average, ten migrants per month who have fallen or been beaten up by bandits or gangsters. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Even Fig shared our enthusiasm, his tail thumping along with the funky beat. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

Hazel sat choking with nausea and disgust as Kehaar lifted it entire and beat it against a beech root, so that small fragments flew round them. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The time of the first rains arrived, but still Inti beat his golden rays down upon the hard, dry earth. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

The music can suddenly emphasize the weaker beats of the measure, or it can even emphasize notes that are not on the beat at all. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

My heart beat in rhythm with the swaying of shoulders in front of me; out of control. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

But then I kept seeing all those dudes beating poor Needles down, in my mind. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

“Many of the soldiers have always felt this way. It is not because they were beaten.” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

The baker caught her by her hair, and the midwife began shouting about how apprentices with nothing to do but spy needed a beating and more work. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

She waited a beat and added, “I was hoping I’d see you.” Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

“But then again, he’s . . . changed things. Now we know we can survive out there, and that we can beat the Grievers.” The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Eyeing me like I’d just leapt the net and beaten the favorite to death with my racket. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

I told her I knew all about it and that I didnt intend to let my boy get beat up by kids twice his size. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Now you all know how far the Sixers are willing to go to stop us from beating them to the egg,” Aech said. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

This is a very fine boy. 8TH JUROR: Ever since he was five years old his father beat him up regularly. Twelve Angry Men 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now it is not so bad: Mr. Whiskers and I have beat a path to the barn. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

I can feel her heart beating so much more rapidly than mine. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

When all the time I knew that I ought to go beat them to a frazzle for messing up our drinking water. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

When white men beat their men, they cleaned up the blood and went home to receive abuse from the victim. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

He remembered an attempt to tie him to a dresser so he could be beaten with an extension cord. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Sure? How could I be sure? Of course I'm not sure. But it beats doing nothing, right?" Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

And then today it was just me and Hudson and I was beating myself up some more and Hudson tried to kiss me and I pulled away because I’m only into you. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

Arachne had been beaten only once—by Athena herself, and that had taken godly magic and incredible skill in a weaving contest. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

I have no idea where he got that idea of himself When Lynn beat him, I kept my face blank, but inside I was cheering for her. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

We tunneled into the swirling white blackness, listening to the beat of the fan working to defrost the windshield and the odd airy crinkle coming from the bag in the back. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

It was almost noon, and the sun was beating down into the clearing mercilessly. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

She was in her silkworm cocoonery, high on the slope of Mount Olympus in Asia Minor, when her heart, without warning, missed a beat. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

We ate Welsh rarebits and listened to the rain beating down in gusts on the roof. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

“Why wait? I beat you once. How’s that ankle healing up?” The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

Then I noticed something in the backseat of the Prius, and my heart skipped a beat. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

If Uncle Abdullah awoke and found my mother asleep, she would be beaten again. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

Heart beating in his throat, Harry opened his eyes. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

From these memories I made it after many errors and many hours of work, sitting on the floor while Rontu slept nearby and the storms beat upon the roof. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

My palms got all sweaty and my heart beat fast, and I told myself I was just excited. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

On the mundane, factual level, though, this resonant tale is wrong: Nature has always used fire as a mallet to beat landscapes into other forms. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Syncopation — Syncopation occurs when a strong note happens either on a weak beat or off the beat. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

I wonder if the doctor can feel how fast my heart is beating. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

If we did fall, they’d make a really big deal out of it, staggering around laughing, and sometimes calling us names that made our hearts beat fast the rest of the way home. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

Dr. Bright had trained me as a man might train a dumb beast, through repetition, reinforced by beatings. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

The beat and thrum had been awesome, actually. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Asian archaeologists are racing to beat the Japanese record. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

The noise from the music room hammers around us in emphasis, copying the beating of my heart. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

Even so, I felt it unfair of Joan to beat me through the gates. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

I could feel his heart beating, but it beat only twice, very slowly, loud and hollow like the waves on the beach, and then no more. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ivy’s mind was full, and she thought her heart might be trying to beat right out of her chest, but she was still Ivy, questions and wild heart and all. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Benko had achieved the “better” of it and years later would confess: “I am sorry that I beat up Bobby. He was a sick man, even then.” Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Without thinking twice, Clayton took his harp from his pocket, found a spot, and came in with the beat, but not on top of the beat. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

A paternal right was the only right, to my understanding, that a man had to beat a child. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Time beat past them, and Pet simmered in a corner, but Jam ignored it, focusing on Redemption. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

But he had never been so glad to hear it beating. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instead of thinking, I picture a body of water and me on my back floating, still and peaceful, no movement except my heart beating in my chest. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Of course, things can happen in between the beats, too, but the timing for those is also coordinated using the beats; for example, a note might begin at exactly the halfway point between two beats. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

“Because my father was a doctor, we almost never went hungry. The worst that ever happened to me was that beating. I had it easy.” Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

He hadn’t beaten his brothers on family game night once since January. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

I beat bags and skipped rope and grunted and sweated all over the place. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her aunt held her tight and began to beat her on the back with her fists. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

Jackson and two other “Soledad brothers” had been accused of helping beat to death a white correction officer at the California prison on January 16, 1970. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bertha takes both hands and beats on the door so hard it rattles on its hinges. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

It was mid-afternoon and the sun beat down in a brutal way. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

The setting sun made the tranquil surface of the water shimmer like a sheet of beaten copper. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

She splayed her fingers across her heart; she felt the rhythmic beat there, the rise and fall of her lungs beneath. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

It was really comforting to watch two white guys debate why I should or shouldn’t get beat up based entirely on what I could do for them. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

I beat his blade aside and, from long habit, replied with a thrust. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

Or else, into a beat of time, and sideways under their breasts, slips a sorrow they don’t know where from. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

The long list of situational phobias includes the fears of being bound, beaten, locked into an enclosed area, and smeared with human waste. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

“So that he can be invincible,” Pinmei put in, “which usually means impossible to beat.” When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

When I think of the hours I spent training that creep to get ready for his “bar mitzvah,” I could beat myself over the head with something. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

Particularly pleasing was the possibility that Joshua might be so stuck on his classical way of thinking that I would accomplish the unbelievable feat of beating him to the correct interpretation of his own experiments. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

Some in the crowd cheered, while others took cover as if they were afraid of being beaten, too. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

He had a string of bells around one of his ankles and beat time with his foot as he played. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

“Nope. He was our age. He got beat up and robbed so I gave him my sneakers.” They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

“I always ask, because people always ask me if I can speak Japanese. I try to beat them to it.” Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

The odds are, however, that he’s beaten me to it already. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

Washington settled in at a relatively low beat of thirty-two but stayed close. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

“Howdy, mam,” I say, trying not to miss a beat. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

Kyril Montana was panting; his heart beat rapidly, almost fibrillating, and he felt queasy, slightly nauseous. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

We eye each other for another beat before I finally reach out and accept the file. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Meanwhile, the Gestapo beat Helmuth for two days, telling him that they knew he didn’t work alone. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

“I think it would be undignified and too much like a small boy thumbing his nose at the back of a larger boy who has beaten him up,” he said. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

He sat and listened in the dusty road, listened to his heart which beat wearily and sadly and waited for a voice. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

Rowan was never particularly popular, nor was he ever the target of derision before, but now he was cornered and beaten on a regular basis. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

My heart started beating in time with the windshield wipers, only twice as fast. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Two years later, he beat me for threatening my ninth-grade teacher. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

My heart beats in my ear and my hands are ice cold. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Why don’t you think you can beat him easily?” asked Zuckerman gently, pointing out that Spassky was no better than Petrosian, for example. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

At fourteen, the boy on the cover wasn’t much older than they were, but lying in that coffin, beaten beyond recognition, Emmett Till looked more like a monster than a human being. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

The clock on the wall tick-tick-ticks in a brisk, even beat. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

My mom would have beaten me with the toilet brush if I ever let our bathroom get so filthy. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

The trees beat their budding branches at me, the new grass screamed green, the robins howled. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Jem’s football sweater had grown increasingly gorgeous—he was captain of the team, the first year Maycomb beat Abbottsville in thirteen seasons. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

There was no sound but the slow, deep beat of the rotting heart. . . . mother of dragons . . . came a voice, part whisper and part moan . . . dragons . . . dragons . . . dragons . . . other voices echoed in the gloom. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The Malverns'd disappeared behind wings of rain, beating just fields away. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

I could not hear him because of the noise of the crowd and the crackling coals and the beat of my heart in my ears. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

I ran out, breathless, my heart beating fast, chills curling my tailbone. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

None of the boys in the school, not even those taking high school classes, could beat him in a footrace. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

“Yer Noise reveals you, young Todd,” he says, letting go of the girl, who’s so tied up and beaten now she don’t even try to run. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

Her heart beat so hard and so loudly she was scared it would burst out of her chest. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

We’ve only won once, but we won it by beating them. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Hell! Bet I can beat you to the front porch!” The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

He worried about how much information the Gestapo had beaten out of Helmuth. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

The beat went up a notch, to thirty- four, then another notch, to thirty-five. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

I beat the cough out of my system, the best I can, at least, before pushing the man aside with more strength than I’d have bet I had. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

He felt forward with his right hand and found himself touching the man’s chest, where the heart was beating like a bird against the bars of a cage. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like how he used to make beats, and sell instrumental tapes to aspiring rappers and singers in the neighborhood. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

I wasn’t going to die—though as the beating went on, I wanted to. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

Mom calls me into the kitchen after we get home from beating St. Francis. The Crossover 2014-03-18T00:00:00Z

Their hearts were pumping at nearly two hundred beats per minute now. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

The three guests, drowned in the pounding beat of the phonograph, silently studied the rose-colored walls and the floral patterns on the linoleum. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

His heart is beating the same as ever under his skin. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Harvard men were standing amidst the crowds, inciting them to burn, to terrify, to beat, to batter. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

The heron flew up, his great wings beating as fast as my heart, and melted into the dusky sky. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

My parents don’t beat me, but they don’t understand me either. Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

And even though I beat them with my fists, I knew why my dad was sticking close—they were coming back with fire. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

Sometimes he grew so angry that he beat his wife until she could not stand or even cry aloud. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“More fun*” Her heart was beating fast, her vision strangely clear. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

And another, along the same lines, “BAB,” meant “beat Al’s babies.” The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

We beat the rest of the fellas to the movie theater. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wouldn’t want to have the experience of someone beating up on me, though. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He sang of battles and marriages, of funerals and hangings, the whimperings of beaten enemies, of splendid hunts and harvests. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It means we need to concentrate on beating this thing with a positive attitude.” Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

Other people had begun dancing to the steady beat of the many drummers. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

The whole estate seemed to undulate in the throes of the relentless beat. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

In a one-on-one brawl, a Neanderthal would probably have beaten a Sapiens. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

The guards were instantly on the prisoner, beating him until he was unconscious. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

Her tapping speeded up and its beat became erratic and nervous. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

I stand still, my heart pounding to the beat of a death march. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

The kind of beat that sets your toes to tapping. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

It might seem to follow that the economy was a hammer that helped beat down crime. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

Lucy’s heart beat a trifle more audibly to the stethoscope, and her lungs had a perceptible movement. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

There’s pretty much no ethical qualm you can have anymore once you’ve sold out your own people and stood by to watch them get beaten and disappeared. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

It would, of course, be unfair to suggest that all masters were constantly beating the daylights out of all the boys in those days. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

“How in the hell did you beat him on your first try?” Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

She threw herself down, beating the hull of the boat with her fists and howling insults at the lake. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I decide it’s time to stop beating around the bush. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

The devil stops beating his wife, but I beat the dashboard, punching it over and over, numb to the pain of it. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

When a child is on as many heavy-duty chemotherapy drugs as Jeffrey is, the liver takes a beating. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had two things wrong with me that would have gotten me beat up and teased a lot more than I did if it hadn’t been for By. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

But even after a half hour of walking, all that remains of the beating I took are ugly bruises and a dull soreness. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

I expect him to say “Wilderness is best. Nothing beats cooking over an open fire.” Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

It's slowing me down, and I can't afford to be slowed down a single beat, so I wiggle my way out of the straps and let the backpack fall to the ground. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

He wonders if they will beat him, wonders if he can hold up. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

And I went to the laundry yard to help a young slave named Tess to beat and boil the dirt out of a lot of heavy smelly clothes. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

Martin says that the King beating was precisely what one would expect when two parties—both with soaring heartbeats and predatory cardiovascular reactions—encounter each other after a chase. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

A pain so unbearable, a pain that made Derrick’s beating seem like a light tap on the shoulder, started clawing inside me. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

Never mind a hundred enemies; he was disarmed by a single monk and beaten with his own sword. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

The bigger girl was beating her every time, but Bianca didn’t seem to mind. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

The more he recalled, the less sense it made....Voldemort had said nothing about Harry’s wand, nothing about the twin cores, nothing about Gregorovitch making a new and more powerful wand to beat Harry’s.... Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

The rain was beating down so loud now that it was hard to hear Mom’s voice. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“No, I mean really beats her. The kind of beatings they take people to jail for in Arlington.” Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

Calvin was one of the boys who had made a practice of beating me up in grade school every time there was a strike. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

When I was younger, they would lock me up in the closet because they wanted to get high and beat up on each other. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

A fierce woman, she was said to have beat up Papa Dozie once, after he left their sick child and went off to visit his mistress. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Prosper stumbled after him, his heart beating like mad. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

I shuffled up to the boardwalk, beating Ma there. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

He was yelling and squawling like somebody was beating him to death. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

You have to count five beats in every measure instead of four. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

An eerie silence surrounded him, and George’s heart skipped a beat as he realized that the engines had been turned off. I Survived the Sinking of the Titanic, 1912 2010-06-01T00:00:00Z

I took the letter away from her, beating her knuckles on the desk until she let go. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

If you were beaten for any reason and could not work, then you would be killed. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

Dad’s breathing echoed like fists beating against the cold wet wharf stones. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

The butterflies flittered around us, beating their wings gently against the windshield then sitting prettily on the dashboard. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

Time magazine was just one of many media outlets beating the geopolitical drum. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

It was just about noon and the sun was beating down on him. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

Laying down on my stomach, with my heart beating like a trip hammer, I wiggled my way to Rubin’s grave. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jasper Jr. was a vicious punk who wouldn’t think twice about beating up a girl half his size. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

“Your son beats a boy bloody and you leave it at that?” Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

I rock back on my heels as if pushed back by some invisible force, then walk out of the room, my heart beating fast. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

I once saw one of them, a boy of thirteen, beat his father for not making his bed properly. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Look, she had a really bad day. Just bring the tickets over here. I want to get an early start so we can beat the crowds.” Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

He let her beat him to the house. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

For a moment, feeling in his fingertips the quick beating of Nipper’s acorn-size heart, he believed he could fly. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

“He’s normal. There’s nothing wrong with him. Just lazy. I’ll beat it into him until he learns.” Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

She had a large purple bruise on her leg for days but what could I do except stand and watch my wife get beaten? The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

In the camp, when his teacher beat a six-year-old classmate to death for having five grains of corn in her pocket, Shin confessed to the congregation that he “didn’t think much about it.” Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

To beat to death a careless bus driver. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

But even though she could run, she couldn’t run fast enough to beat death. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Klaus’s heart was beating fast, but he felt calm on the outside, as if he had on a layer of invisible armor. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

“He wants you to beat him into the ground,” Sully said. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

Back at Ro Leap, Ma lifts her shirt and shows me the bruises where the man beat her. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

It felt like the beating of his heart. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

“Why does summer always have to end with one of us all beat to hell?” Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

If he captures you, he will beat you too, all naked.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

But she had a sharp tongue and would beat a slave for next to nothin’.” Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

The wind was howling up from the sea, beating the waves against the wharves. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

It sounded like the infernal spawn of a Persian drum beat and a dozen Celtic fiddles. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

“Every loony in New York comes out of the woodwork on nights like this,” the regular beat cop had warned her. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

I got a feeling that in a real fight, the bearer of that shield would be almost impossible to beat. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

Rene says he beat down some history teacher so bad he put dude in a coma. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

His voice, higher-pitched on the phone, warmed her as he told her what had happened on his TV show, how he had just beat a new level on Game Boy. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

But he would not have hesitated to beat me, and heavily. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

“A black man beat a white man to death? Where, in this country?” Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

So, I just stayed on and took a beating from that horse. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

A church organ piped a shoulder-rocking beat, soon followed by Mahalia Jackson’s deep, soulful voice belting “Oh Happy Day.” Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

All the way to Mr. Walsh’s house Nat’s feet seemed to beat out the words: Nine years...nine years...nine years... Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the conducting patterns depend only on the pattern of strong and weak beats. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

Hazel heard its beak hit a pebble in the grass with a sound like a snail shell when a thrush beats it on a stone. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ugly old women, every one of them, but all that praying and scrubbing and beating novices with sticks had left them tough as roots. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“You’re running out of time. Do you really think you can beat them without my plan?” The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

Then they set off, beating the road with their lateral limbs, and urging themselves forward down the slope until they were moving at a terrific pace. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

So bad Big Ma didn’t threaten to beat the daylights out of Vonetta when she got home. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

“You beat me on a couple of those!” Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

She heard the shards of tile, torn branches, and slivers of wood pounding against the stone courtyard like the beating of drums, but nothing touched her. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

It just galled her to think they’d been beaten by a human. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

“I spent a year in the state juvenile facility. I beat someone up. When I got out I couldn’t go back to the academy, so I went to the charter.” The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

I made my remarks brief—but I made them strong: “How can you condemn Portugal and South Africa while our black people in America are being bitten by dogs and beaten with clubs?” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Made me feel heart good to be in Pa’s arms, seeing his joy, feeling his heart beating against my arm. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

My heart’s thumping a million beats and my legs are about to fall off my body but still we run. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

Maybe when you’re very old, surrounded by all who love you and your heart gently stops beating because you’ve had enough living. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

She beat his mother with a razor strap and wouldn’t let her near the baby after that. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Men of Gondor are valiant, and they will never submit; but they may be beaten down. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

When the dance was over the old men cheered and beat their paddle-like drums. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Had our hearts really become so numb that we needed dead bodies in order to feel the beat of compassion in our chests? All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

But Hel’s been as silent as I have, and they’ve given up, instead grunting to one another pointedly when she and I beat each other down on the battlefield. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

“Your daddy didn’t get the life beat out of him for you to go waltzing around the city, inviting them to do the same to you.” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

He didn’t want to beat them that bad, embarrass them like that.” Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The beat knights had gone to perfection, leaving the wont to hold their sieges. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

The prince threw him a smirking glance as Master Peckwit raised the switch and beat the whipping boy like a carpet. The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Some animals from my neighborhood. They’d beat up their own grandmothers for a quarter.” The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

As we headed away, I leaned against Kevin’s sweaty back and waited for the regular thump of her beating to fade. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

A few days after basketball season ended, I e-mailed Rowdy and told him I was sorry that we beat them so bad and that their season went to hell after that. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

He looked like he’d been beat up, but he said he slept like the dead. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

And now Nailer needed to know what—or he’d never escape the shack without a beating. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

Her heart was beating so loudly that if the jelly bean fish didn’t work, the thumping in her chest would. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

But the most important thing is just to beat the other team, because the team that wins the speed round goes to the Winner’s Circle, and the Winner’s Circle is where the big money is. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

There was only my picture book and my mother would beat me if I burned that. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was scared because 1 thought my father was going to hurt me, also because he was beating my mother. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

Rain, the spirit of the place, patiently beat down everything man-made. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

With a swift wing beat she alighted above a transformer on an electric utility pole. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

His heart was beating like a drum, and his voice rose to a frightened squeak. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

He remembered hearing the blood beating hard in his ears, like the rhythm of a clock. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

“The demons are all getting drunk and getting ready for beating up Tang men. The word is out to stay inside.” Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

He refused to believe it when Dustfinger told him they hadn't come with him, he had left them behind in a book along with the thieves who used to beat and kick him. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

But instead I continue looking around, my heart beating faster now. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I put in the sun that beat down on the courtyard and the clouds that gathered before the rains. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

Gang members, housewives, whiskey swillers, beat cops, politicians, and butchers: each had a role to play, an axe to grind, and a deep loyalty to their own in the community that was Packingtown. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

And here I was, my heart skipping beats out of fear that the fairy-tale princess sitting next to me was going to have me put down like a rabid dog. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Once, only once in his whole life, Kingshaw had been beaten up. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

My heart was pounding to beat the band when I saw that it was Sister Redempta. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

Then he knew that it was his own son whose face had so reminded him of something, and his heart beat quickly. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

I drew the dragon and my heart began to beat faster. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

Well beat you yet, it seemed to say. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

“Well, I declare. I declare, Hoyt, don’t you beat all!” she said finally, and then, “Well, I swan. Won’t Mary Toy have a fit!” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

My heart beats at the speed of sound. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

“That story ended up being a hell of a lot better than I thought it would be,” Alaska said, “but I’ve still got you beat.” Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

I am struggling to see him as a man capable of beating a woman, of crushing her skull. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

“So he can beat himself up with the poker?” snorted Harry, kneeling beside the elf. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Tornait flew to the top of the barrel, screaming his alarm cry and beating his wings. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

At a signal from the Warlord, a gang of rats leaped upon Constance and beat her back into unconsciousness with their weapons. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

My heart beat so loud all the time that sometimes I thought I should faint. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

There’s a beat of silence as he stares at the floor. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z

Moss whipped his head toward this vulture, but his mother beat him to the punch. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

I feel the beat of my heart slow down in my chest. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

At school the next day, no mention was made of the beating. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

She flapped her new tail fin once and shot ahead of me, her body undulating and thrusting in time with the machine-gun beat as she swam through the air. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

If you are caught alone on the street, you wiU be beaten and sent home. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

Over further minutes the discrepancy would widen until the two machines were tapping out a rhythmic pattern in the difference between their two beats. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Because of the championship voters’ pronounced bias toward eastern horses in general and War Admiral in particular, Seabiscuit almost certainly could not dethrone the Horse of the Year without beating him on the track. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hale said that Smith had threatened to beat his brains out and that White had told him, “We will have to put you in the hot chair.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Nothing in sight, not a sound except my own loud heart beats. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

He held my hand for an extra beat, staring at me. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

The nights of soft dreaming of her were suddenly locked tight in his chest, and his heart beat fast. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

“If they beat him or anything like that, they could be arrested for child abuse.” The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

The gang of brutes, they beat me insensible, till nearly my whole body turned blue. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

To top things off, in recent weeks his freshmen had begun to beat his varsity in time trials and head-to-head races. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

He’s a Mask and I’m a slave, and thinking of him in this way is so wrong that I wonder for a second if the beating Marcus gave me has muddled my brain. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

“When you get through beating it, leave it out in the sun a while,” she said. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

His heart beat faster and faster as Daisy's white face came up to his own. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

It makes a sharp beat, a rhythmic song: bounce bounce click, bounce bounce click, bounce click click, bounce bounce click. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

The first beat is usually the strongest, and in most music, most of the bars have the same number of beats. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

My heart beat fast, scared and deeply excited. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I guess he was listening to records because he had his arm across the seat and was beating his hand up and down like it was a drum. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

I looked back and my heart skipped a beat. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

But no one yelled at me or called me names or beat me because I hadn’t watched my sisters and brothers. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

“Keep him under observation five days and then make him beat it.” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Without missing a beat, Hideo picks up the glasses, follows his mother into the kitchen, and gently reminds her to put them on. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

They would certainly be subject to arrest, and for black men and women in the South this carried with it the possibility of a savage jailhouse beating. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

This was my first time playing it, and I still beat both of them! Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

The cop on the beat came rushing up. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

One night, across the street from their apartment, Bernard was brutally assaulted and beaten by two white men. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

The government people might have beaten our family, but there were lots more people out there against us. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Meggie’s heart was beating in her throat as they followed him. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

The beat was simple enough, but he didn’t try the slide-hopping. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

From there, it’s a matter of counting, hearing and feeling how the strong vs. weak beats are grouped to create a meter. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

And as bad-—as weird—as the invasion of his mind had been, it beat another date with the Grievers any day. The Maze Runner 2009-10-21T00:00:00Z

“I won’t have this namby-pamby, wishy-washy nonsense about not hitting people who deserve it. A good thrashing is what’s needed in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred. Have you been beaten often?” Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

Dustfinger trickled drop after drop into her mouth until she sat up and feebly beat her wings. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

But when she rounded the corner, she saw that someone else had beaten her to it. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

I hate him even more for beating me. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

James turned a corner by the bucket man, who was still beating his makeshift drums in a frenzy. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

But no sooner had I unlocked one of the cells and turned the corner than a gym porter who shouldn’t have been there tried to beat me to it. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Okay, dancers, let’s try this again, but on the beat this time,” says Miss Jovy, a little panicky. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

All the while Herman E. Calloway and the Thug kept everything moving by making the drums and the giant fiddle pound out a soft steady beat, like someone’s heart turned way up loud. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

He’s almost within reach now, but the water is beating at his back, making it seem impossible that he hasn’t been swept away yet. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

It beats right through that, and stomps through the rest of the day until bass class. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

She loves watching rain beat on people and lightning chase people inside. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

“I hit him. Jumped off the horse, knocked him to the ground, then beat him until he bled.” Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

At first I thought he had come over to beat me up because of the argument I had had with Annie. The Million Dollar Shot 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Look, I’m the first one to say I don’t like Auggie Pullman, but I would never want to see him get beat up or anything! Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

He laughs a few beats before every joke and grimaces before every scary part and, seeing as I’ve never much liked scary movies, I can appreciate the warning. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

The fairy in the jar beat against the glass even harder, but to no avail. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

My heart was beating fast as the tears ran down my face because all of those painful memories that came back. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

“Yeah,” I say, my heart beating loud and guilty in my chest. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

My heart beats so fast and hard that I can hardly breathe, and I wonder if anything will ever get better. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

I did not want to be violent with her, and yet I did not want to be beaten for a wrong I had not committed. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

His white fur seems to flow through the morning mist, and he doesn’t miss a beat. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

Inside my own helplessness I cowered, sure he was going to kill her or hurt her very badly, and the way Mama lay there I believed she was actually ready to be beaten to death. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

I didn’t care how many there were—I would beat them all. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

Hazel slowly picked herself up and headed into the school, her body now feeling as beat up as her heart. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

As raindrops beat against the window, Fadi and his father put together a snack for themselves in the warm comfort of the kitchen. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

Pippin ventured to say after some time, when for a moment the singing paused, and only the beating of hands and feet was heard. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

We’ve all heard of punishment beatings and fines in rebel- held cities for women who fail to dress a certain way. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

It seems that this evening there was an unfortunate incident where a crowd beat to death a young man who resembled Peeta. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Streams of people brushed past us, and with the loud bargaining, the laughter, the arguing, and the honking of cars in the distance, everything felt like it was merging into one beating pulse. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

The background rhythm of the story still beat in the throne room like a pulse. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

And all these birds rose in the air, alarmed and confused by this new anger, beating their black wings, flying just above, waiting for the noise to stop. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

We walk around the twisting trunks, going off the beaten path toward the trilling croaks of more tree frogs. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

“Then he beat up my sixty-year-old grandfather and left him lying there on the ground.” Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Maybe you can. I’m not saying you can’t. But you never know. A bird in the hand. Ninety dollars, Armpit, for just a morning’s work. Hard to beat that.” Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

The best Yummy could do for Pollard was chase his hopelessly beaten mounts down the grandstand rail, hollering and frightening spectators. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’ll tell him he can beat me, punch me, kick me, but I’m not going to give that dog up. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

“That’s why I had to leave. As much as life can suck, it always beats the alternative.” Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

Eric raised his head and achieved a faint ululation by beating on his open mouth. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

As the face was exposed I could see that it was horribly bruised, as though it had been beaten against the floor—indeed it was from the face wounds that the pool of blood originated. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

Men were beaten; some were shot at in jest. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

“I am troubled with dire thoughts, and then my heart beats too fast. You must bleed these ill humors from me, as the village doctor used to do,” she demands. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

A jellyfish, if you watch it long enough, begins to look like a heart beating. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

His heart was beating, almost fluttering, his legs were weak, his palms close to spurting sweat. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“All right, guys. Musician posture: backs straight, chests open, feet on the floor, eyes on me. Let’s take ‘Pirate Medley’ from rehearsal letter B. I want to hear crisp, clear notes and a steady beat. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

I counted the beats, a total of fifty-five, for thirty seconds. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

The boys took turns refereeing, winning, losing, being beaten, twisted and torn, from dropkicks, the flying clothesline, and the ever-impressive flapjack spine crusher. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

I was being chased by the gang that had attacked him, and now I was worried about Frank and whoever it was who had beaten him up. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

She also persuaded a spy sent by the Nationalists in Taiwan to confess—without even beating him, although she said she was perfectly willing to beat those who did not confess. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was as though he were trying to listen to the beat of his own heart. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

As I was preparing for my meeting with the judges, I was informed by a reliable source that a prisoner in the general section had recently been severely beaten by a guard. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Two hours after that he started to think having dinner with Gaily and the Grievers would beat sitting inside that stupid Slammer. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

He finished sixty-ninth, beating more than one thousand adults, and was hooked. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I told him, we can have ten merit scholars at school. But if we beat Permian, we get more publicity.” Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

We were about to beat it too, when this dude with ratty dreads came off the court and asked us did we wanna run. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

"And I want the truth, Ali! No more beating around the bush!" When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

My heart is beating so hard it actually hurts. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

“Well, it probably won’t live. They say the way her mama beat her she lucky to be alive herself.” The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

It beat down on Ned's head, warm as blood and relentless as old guilts. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

"No. Poor kid had enough beatings in his life. I spent the afternoon trying to explain to him why that knife isn't going to do him any good. It was like going ten rounds." The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Dodgers had won, 4 to 3, but Shirley was much too beaten to enjoy the victory. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

The ice thundered and boomed, roaring like drum­ beats across the Arctic. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

War games had deteriorated into “beat up the Fifth.” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

In one early referendum on his rule in the South, Diem’s agents openly intimidated and beat up voters. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Nothing I've endured—the whippings, the scarring, the beatings—none of it matters. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

My heart beat fiercely, making one last go at pushing some blood through my worn-out system. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

The meter of a piece of music is the arrangement of its rhythms in a repetitive pattern of strong and weak beats. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

Jews were randomly beaten and close to one hundred were murdered. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

My heart was beating triple time, but then I waved at her involuntarily, like I was brushing away a bee. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

As we lay there, Katz said, quite brightly, “Hard day today. I’m beat.” A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

My heart was beating really fast, and I was starting to get nervous. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes, you dream of hearing only the beating of your own heart, but this has never been the case. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

Not a grain of gold, not a scrap will I bring that Evil One, let him beat me all he likes. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

Maybe these were two women who lived far enough off the beaten path that there was some strange common ground between them. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

He’d say it was his job as captain to tell Tad to beat a path to safety and let him handle saving the day. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

It was true that when the Freedom Riders rode into town, white men beat them up. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“So far as I can learn,” she said, “what happens is that you beat them, and then you let them off and beg them to go home. Everybody respects your kindness.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Gilgamesh beat him," said Mo. "He tricked him into removing them." City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

He was always picking fights and throwing stones and beating up everybody In fact, he got so tough he used to go around calling the other guys sissies. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

If Artemis Fowl had beaten them, then that was it. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

My heart began to beat like a merry drum and blood started flowing through my veins like cars from a wedding party honking their way through town. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

With no food or water, we walk in silence all through the morning as the sun beats down on us. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Shame filled Turner, and his heart beat against his chest so loudly that he imagined it could be heard above the waves. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

In exasperation Connelly beat out what little brains he had left. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

All the blowings and beatings together sounded wonderful. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

He had been beaten, he whispered to her, and he could hardly walk. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

The Taker rocks his head to the beat, and she plays drums against the steering wheel. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

“I’ve got a question for you,” said Harry, his heart beating rather fast as he looked down at the elf, “and I order you to answer it truthfully. Understand?” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

No one knows for sure if medieval plainchant singing had a pulse or beat of any kind, because there was no way of writing it down. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

His heart beating very fast, Harry stood listening to the chill silence. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

The sound was like the beating of a great slow heart, and the oars moved at every stroke, a hundred men pulling as one. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“I beat up a bunch of Barbies at Toys“R”Us,” he whispered. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

The next time they rounded a corner, Thomas faltered, his heart skipping a beat when he saw movement up ahead. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Most often though, An said, prisoners were beaten, sometimes to death, simply because guards were bored or in a sour mood. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

‘You’ll get information enough, sooner or later. My dear Pippin, no Took ever beat a Brandybuck for inquisitiveness; but is this the time, I ask you?’ The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

The table was littered with disordered papers; rain was beating on the windows. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

The gulls beat up into the air, speckling the shore with their shadows; Sheriff Elwell watched them, and when he turned back, he saw that Reverend Griffin had not moved. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

Something about the scent made her close the door hurriedly, her heart beating hard enough to thump against her ribs. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

She took it and pressed the flat of my palm up against my chest, over my beating heart. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were beating across the rocks with the sound of thunder. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Old men were beaten, women were pulled out into the street by their hair, homes were robbed by our own neighbors. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“Come on, and I’ll show you around,” he said, smiling to beat the band. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

There was something—a faint and faraway click and then a dragging shuffle—so soft as to be almost entirely lost in the distant drone of traffic and the beating of a racing heart. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

"If I still had my legs, I could beat them all." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“Maybe we could beat him to one of the books he’s hunting.” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

The crew staggered like dead men, utterly beaten from their labors, trying to pitch tents so they could crawl in to sleep. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

“Maybe we can beat this. You can be the exception! We can lock you in here.” They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

In compound meters, each beat is divided into thirds. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

"I just wanted to beat him, to shut him up." Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

Ulbrickson told the coxswains of all four boats to go no higher than a beat of twenty-six. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

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

Having children feel the strong beats such as the downbeat, the first beat in a measure, is relatively easy. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

As punishment, Mamita beat me with a eucalyptus stick, but later, when I told Matilde about it, teary and embarrassed, she held my hand and used that same soothing voice. l’ll help you, little sister. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Another scream shattered the silence, much louder than before, and she beat her dark wings so hard that Will and Lyra both felt the wind and staggered. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Instinctively, he gripped the hilt of his hanjari, and a long beat passed before he braced himself to step through the trees. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

He beat his fist against his palm and railed against a bloody, bawdy villain—Claudius, no doubt. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Ms. Gievers asked, “Do you remember putting children into an empty garbage can and beating them while they were in the can?” Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

He told him he’d better hush up that racket before he got his brains beat out. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he was in the camp—depending upon her for all his meals, stealing her food, enduring her beatings—he saw her as competition for survival. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

It’s a preschooler’s pause, several beats longer than any adult would ever wait for an answer. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“More than anything,” I whisper over the frantic beating of my heart. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

I can barely hear any of their words anymore because my heart is beating so loud in my ears. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

The peach fan beat the air like a giant moth. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

Then things get real quiet even though the beat coming from the music in the store switches from mellow bachata to earsplitting salsa. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

They beat it out with flails, he and the woman together. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

This morning, Mama stands on our balcony, beating the rug with a broom. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

They’d have to work to find their voices and not be diminished, to keep themselves from getting beaten down. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

The smith now gloved each horn in a pure foil beaten out of the gold that Nestor gave him— a glory and delight for the goddess’ eves— while Ekhephron and Stratios held the horns. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

I really didn’t want to ask Negra why Victor had beaten her up; I wasn’t their marriage counselor. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

“I’m going to beat it out of you. I’m going to beat it out.” Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

I really didn’t understand why he was beating her but I felt she must have done something dreadfully wrong. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

At one point, she beat Sonny so badly with an extension cord, he ended up in the hospital. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

And he’d hate me even more still if he knew I had seen him on his knees, beaten by a human servant. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The woman did not look up from the dough as she spoke but continued to beat it with a steady, hypnotic rhythm. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her heart beat madly inside her like a trapped bird, feathers flying, wings breaking against the bars, but inside the ring Archer was as still as he had ever been. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

I had seen people beaten on television and in the movies. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

I started humming a fun, funky beat, but my mood remained bleak. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

I closed my eyes in a languorous ecstasy and waited—waited with beating heart. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

He knew, he was certain, that there was hardly any time left in which to beat Voldemort to his goal, or else to attempt to thwart him. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

It's hotter than Hades, and the sun beats down mercilessly. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Jello’s windy voice barked out and, like the beat of drums, the five pups whooped and yipped. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Back in the playoffs, the Carter Cowboys beat Plano East 21-7 with two touchdowns in the fourth quarter. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I merely request that you maintain an easier beat.” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

The simplest thing to do is to find recordings of quality music and play songs with an even, steady beat and have children move, clap, tap, patsch, hit an instrument, or walk to that beat. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

In the silence between them the buzz of insects in the hot summer air seemed to crescendo: thousands of tiny wings beating. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

If I’m very lucky, it will misS, and he ’11 beat me to death with his fists. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Once again both boats beat the previous course record, but Washington beat it by a good deal more, coming in at 15:56.4, a commanding 37 seconds ahead of the mark. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

My spirit was as beat as my body was tired. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

He sat there, in fact, for a mile and a half, then found that he was slowly pulling even with the boys from Annapolis and Berkeley without having asked his men to raise the beat. 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 only hope that James would be satisfied with winning the game, that beating Edward would be enough. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Permian beat Amarillo Tascosa in the first round of the playoffs with ease, 31 — 7. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Moira thinks this is only the beginning. She's got a friend who works the police beat for the local news out there, and she..." How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

When she comes out of the car we will beat her up, make red marks on her white skin, and she will cry and ask us do we want her to pull her pants down. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

Besides, and here Inigo felt deep pain, he wasn’t that great a fencer, not any more, he couldn’t be, hadn’t he just been beaten? The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

“We don’t have time to do any more hunting. If we lose this one, we’re beat.” Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

I could feel my heart beating in my temples. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

All around the main subject the brothers beat. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

I mean, here I was having an actual relationship with a girl, something that happens to normal people, and Rondell was just laying here asleep after beating people up. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

At first, all he was aware of were the heels of the shoes beating rapidly against the floor, and he wondered if Lalo and the afternoon customers in the bar downstairs could hear it. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Miss Love had started playing “All Hail the Power of Jesus’ Name” with a strong marching beat and lots of walking bass. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

They rode the subway out to Coney Island and found that hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers had beaten them there, fleeing the stifling heat of Manhattan even in the middle of the workweek. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

The Bull had never actually thrown him down or beaten him up or anything. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

She began walking toward my tree, and my heart started beating quickly. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

It was like standing on the skin of a drum whilst some great hands beat it without rhythm. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

His mech is flying, his metal blade wings beating so hard that they form a whirlpool in the lake’s water. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Without missing a beat in his Senate duties, he’d have to build and maintain a coast-to-coast campaign operation, develop a policy platform, and also raise an astonishing amount of money. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

I feel his heart beat against my ear. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The moth spooked from his brow and all the others from the wall, to flutter up to the ceiling and beat around the beams. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

The Fugees had managed a win earlier in the season against a team that had beaten the Strikers. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

The snow goose dæmon wheeled and flew down toward the roof, beating his great wings inward to help him slow down, and landed with a clatter on the pantiles below the sill. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

They beat us easily and made a lot of noise about how good they were. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some black men had robbed the store and taken him to the basement and bound him and beaten him up. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Cursing her, they beat her to the ground and sped away. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

My heart beats so hard it marks each second for me, but the rest of me is numb. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Cook sends me into the city with a stack of letters for the courier without so much as a mention of the beating I took. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

“That was great about you beating up six boys yesterday.” The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

The buildings were burning and people got beaten up just because of the color of their skin, their religion, or ethnicity. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Blanca, weaker than her mother although she was taller, younger, and heavier, sighed when she was awake and sobbed while she slept, in an uninterrupted lament that had begun the day of the beating. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

He saw the fields go flying by, and he heard the beat of galloping hoofs. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You’re on fire, lad!” he said, and he got Billy away from the stove and beat out the sparks with his hands. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

The drums beat, signaling the start of the graduation banquet. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

He felt his heart begin to beat rapidly. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

It would be the only glory of a really sucky year if I could beat someone at something. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

His tail beat again and she scrambled to her house, awed by the sensitivity of Amaroq. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the drunken shifting torchlight, they saw Luwin struggling with the direwolf, beating at his muzzle with one hand while the jaws closed on the other. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Stalin’s book showed how diverse minorities could be welded into unity, and I regarded it as a most politically sensitive volume that revealed a new way of looking upon lost and beaten peoples. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

If they beat mine, they would have to hunt harder than they ever had before. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

By the time Ngawang’s heart started beating again, however, a period of approximately ten minutes had passed in which little oxygen had reached his brain. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

I need to run, to fly, beating my wings so hard I can’t hear anything over the pounding of my heart. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

We are not beaten, for as soldiers we are better and more experienced; we are simply crushed and driven back by overwhelming superior forces. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Thunder came from the sky, like a giant drum beating fiercely and fast, forcing its way into her head and chest. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

I stood there wishing he was riding Belle into town and I was standing shoulder up to Pa. I could harness Vernon before he had time to beat Dixie with that swishing tail of his. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

You was favoured, and he was bullied and beat. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

The vulture soared up and away with a single beat of its wings. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Jasón’s father had forbidden Jasón to talk to the Indian, he had beaten him, he had tried in every way to keep Jasón from the Indian. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

In Cuban son, however, the melody is elastic in the other direction: it anticipates the main beat. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Some days he works twelve hours and comes back home looking like someone beat him with a bat. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

A note that said my mother had to go to school to see about my behavior meant a beating. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

Gaines had now not beaten Lee in any of his three seasons—three seasons! Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

In fact, it had grown increasingly insane, with nasty confrontations between picketers and replacement workers, people arrested, beaten, lying in the street in front of delivery trucks. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

A man on a bicycle stopped and wanted to know why Dad was beating that mattress. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

I went back to Pop’s to tell Elizabeth and Bertrand that Francis and I had probably beaten Pauling to the gate and that the answer would revolutionize biology. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

The sewing machine thumps a methodic beat, never ceasing, but only getting stronger and stronger with each stitch. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

He threw it down and beat it into the earth floor with his fist, and Coy- otito screamed with pain in his box. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m not a good dancer, but I like the beat. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

A loud drumming like the beating of many wings against the wooden floor filled the air. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

During the night his mother and his sister had beaten him to death with a hammer in order to rob him and had thrown his body in the river. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

Her heart skipped one beat and then two. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

We let an awkward beat pass, each waiting for the other to initiate a good-bye. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

I could feel them beating and kicking my body. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I didn’t say anything, sir. I just beat the hell out of him.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I glanced at it and my heart skipped a beat. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

He was beaten, deprived of food for five days, and his cafeteria rations were cut in half for three months. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

Ama looked into the darkness farther back in the cave, her heart beating fast. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Likewise, Adele’s 2008 cover of Bob Dylan’s ‘Make You Feel My Love’ ends each line of the first verse on two anticipated beats: ‘blowing in your face ... on your case . . . warm embrace’. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

I think my heart is beating to its rhythm. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

A man is up against a hard game when he must die to beat it. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

Back then the master beat you if you started to learn to read and write. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mother would beat back illness with a broom. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

In Mater’s intensive-care unit I was hooked up to life support to make sure my heart kept beating and my lungs kept breathing. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

More than Mr. Kahn drunkenly lambasting Mrs. Kahn for missing a spiderweb in a dark corner or not beating the rugs properly. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

On August 28, 1955, the two men kidnapped Emmett from his bed, drove him to an isolated area, beat and tortured the boy, and shot him in the head. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

He was tied to a tree, stripped naked, and had been beaten to death. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

She looked at me for a beat and then said, “Squee! Okay.” From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

She even asked Brother Quang to bless the house right after midnight, so I couldn’t beat him to it by touching my big toe to the carpet before dawn. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

Perhaps her husband would beat her, too, to get revenge for his brother’s death. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

As long as he could see another boat out ahead of him, as long as he had something to overcome, someone to beat, the boy was on fire. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

The beat pulses through me and I follow the lead of others, bopping my head and bouncing my shoulders. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

You can’t imagine how often I’ve tried to push away this Anne, which is only half of what is known as Anne—to beat her down, hide her. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Everyone was forced to watch when a prisoner was beaten, whipped, shot, hanged, or torn apart by the dogs. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

He whipped around to see the lady who’d ordered them beaten, and almost burned her with the end of his torch. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

When Gregor’s heart started up again, it beat so hard, he thought it might break through his chest. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

I was weary of being hungry all the time, weary of being beaten all the time: at school, at home and in the streets. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was awake so early the next morning that the birds had hardly beat her to it. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

I know that Erlan could beat me at Spit if he really wanted to, because he can be fast as lightning. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

Rain whipping wood, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, smacking at trees, beating out any sap. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

We play again, and this time my Pistons beat Sneaky’s Knicks. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

But gradually, due largely to threats of dismissal from jobs, the need for money to survive and intimidation and beatings by the police, many black men and women returned to work. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

I sway for a second, my heart beating so hard I can’t feel anything else. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

Metronome markings are given in beats per minute. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

There’s a lot of holes in the walls from a violent boyfriend she had staying with her—he used to beat her pretty bad. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like Matt, beating his chest with bravado and pasting it thick with swamp grass that he called a manly pelt? Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Means me, as a kid, yelling all the time looking for her, searching for a beat. Sunny 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

Then, as I played the pipe and Bear beat his drum, we two cantered forward on our journey. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

My heart beat loudly at the words United States of America. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

It became a chant that beat with the engine. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

If she did any such thing, Weese would beat her bloody. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

I didn’t know if I could beat him in a sword fight. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

“Here—it beats a hard floor. Use one of my blankets tonight. Tomorrow we’ll dry out your sleeping bag.” Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

They’d be up there in my chair, and my shine rag was popping to the beat of all of their records, spinning in my head. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Charles did not tell his father about the beating, and Adam did not, and surely Alice did not, and yet he seemed to know. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Should I be thankful for the lawyers who are working for half their pay to make sure there is justice for the boy whose heart is no longer beating? Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

"Drunk all day and spend all their time beating their poor old mothers." The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

He’d haul us to jail and maybe even have a beating in store for us. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Someone beat up poor Mr. Singh,” she said in a garbled whisper. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

She found an updraft on the side of her mountain and rode it without beating a wing. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

“Does the Merchant Council begin all negotiations with a beating?” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Did someone make a case for mercy that was beaten down by the calls for the deaths of the districts’ children? Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

The cops were on the verge of beating the man up when Jones shouted at them to stop. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

“I’m not laughing because it’s funny. I'm laughing out of relief. I thought you’d been beaten up. I thought this was blood. I’m laughing because it’s only berry juice.” Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

He decided to pour all his energy into beating Hitler in the race for the atomic bomb. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the TV screen, a father was beating two children, wooden punches that hit the air above their heads. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Then the beating of his heart against mine. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

“Maybe we could beat him to one of the books he’s hunting.” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

It was an odd thing with Billy: He could never imagine, even when he shadowboxed, an opponent he could easily beat. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

But sometimes there were public beatings, lashings of soles and palms. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

The beat is in my sneakers, in my hands on the strings, in my voice through the speakers. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

I looked at it for a moment, then pulled the folded page out and spread it on my lap, my heart beating wildly. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

If he came home, he would beat her and me up for sure. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Villagers heard her cries and quickly sounded the drum—not the fast, rhythmic beat for dances or ceremonies, but something slow and serious. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

Someone has written a poem, and a musician has set that poem to music with a beat. Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

And with that he beat the hare again, putting all his strength into the strokes. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

All he did was get drunk and beat her up. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

He has to wake up and beat her up and then when he goes back to sleep she hits him again. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Anyone who beats me to it will easily scoop up my pack and be gone. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

The bartender howled and began beating at the wall of fire with his towel. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

"Remember, Kabir—we chuck hot drinks or hard stones at life when it's trying to beat us down." Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

After keeping the beat going for five minutes or so, I burst into a big solo. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

He could feel her heart beating hard through her chest, either excited or nervous—Luke couldn’t tell. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

I didn't put my hands on her shoulders again or anything because if I had she really would've beat it on me. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

We could meet you in the air, beat you back, keep you from landing, distract you till your fuel ran out and you turned tail until the next wave. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

“The last time someone told me he wouldn’t bother me, he walked in and beat the skin off my back.” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

About this time Old Uncle Alfred would be beating at the air in front of a mirror or skipping rope. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

They had the same aura of quiet power, plus a kind of sadness, like they’d seen their destiny and knew it was only a matter of time before they met a monster they couldn’t beat. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

“I’m just living for the day that Odessa High beats Permian,” said Vickie Gomez, the thought bringing a smile to her usually serious lips. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Whispers that while we were in the cellar a hundred Jews, old men and little boys, had been run all over Przemyśl, right up Mickiewicza Street, German soldiers beating them if they fell. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

‘Well, then, this spoon you finished yesterday afternoon has to be melted down—made over. You beat it to the wrong gauge.’ Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Otherwise,” White Deer reasoned, “you’ll have to take it up with the Sleepers. They’re not about to let anyone go around beating up one of their brothers without their permission. No matter what he’s done.” Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instead I do a nice, loud chest beat, and after a moment the doctor retreats. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

She beat me out on the cheerleading squad! Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

Julius, who had been beating his head and twisting from side to side in his anguish of mind, became perfectly still. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

Jinjoo had been more frightened of that threat than any beating she could have gotten. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

Then my heart starts beating faster as I notice paw prints on the painting from where Mango walked across it. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

In spite of the threat of a beating, hands reached out to grab for anything and everything. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

Her heart was beating painfully hard and she could not trust herself to speak, even though she knew she had to. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

I bite my lip at seeing my brother’s body so badly beaten. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wanted to deliver my speech and he came at me as though he meant to beat it out of me. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

During the night, however, a gale rose, and by morning a drenching rain beat into the cleft. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

Drums had begun to beat, the fire was blazing fiercely, great long orange tongues consuming the fuel and thrusting upwards and sometimes outwards as if to engulf the watchers. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

He scratches the records and the beat starts. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

"And don't be getting lost again, or I swear I'll beat you bloody." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The guy beats the hell out of three guys and now he’s scared? We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

When she put her hands protectively around him she thought she felt his heart beating. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

He said he was going to beat me up, and I brought one of my knives to school. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

The smell of roasting pork on the farm would alert guards, leading to beatings and weeks of half rations, so they ate purloined pork raw. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

The rain beat on the coal silk with more force every minute. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

They rounded up not just thousands but hundreds of thousands of consumers all across North America, and in head-to-head blind taste tests, New Coke beat Pepsi by 6 to 8 percentage points. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

“Your big, interplanetary art contest. You thought you were great, but he beat you.” Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

A love song for the wife, a joyful melody for the kids, all of it backed up by the steady beat of a man marching to make a living. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

I even considered beating Charley to give him some satisfaction too, because Charley is only a little less sinful than I am. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

But everyone I know is either shouting or dancing around like wild or beating up one another. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

"I bet you'll beat everyone at everything when you get out of here." Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

The boy hesitated, weighing his chances of beating me. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I was barely able to touch the floor with my toes, Weylin ripped my clothes off and began to beat me. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

“Not a scratch. And you know what Wood said? He said, ‘I’d rather Cake beat on me than on my little brother.’” As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Marly felt her heart beating hard when she looked out, pressing her face against the cold pane. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

Watching his fiery body rise between the distant mountains, I could feel him in my own beating heart, spreading love throughout my chest and warming my entire being. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

Apps really aren’t my thing, but neither is beating in people’s faces, so I’m already out of my element today. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

My heart starts to beat harder, so I can feel my pulse in my throat. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

She could feel the steady beating of her heart, the rhythmic pulsing of her blood through her veins, and beneath her the dense, solid earth. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was gonna show up and let everybody know they didn’t beat me. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

As an adolescent, he was furious with his mother for beating him, for risking escape, for causing his torture. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

And without a beat or a signal we went from rat-a-tat-tat to the Isley Brothers’ song “It’s Your Thing.” P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

He asked me if I thought he could beat Lynn with this lucky set, and I said no. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

She put down the phone, her heart beating like a snare. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

One mother led her beaten and frightened son to the preacher amid shouts of amen and hallelujah. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

As he replied, Velutha heard his own voice beat back at him as though it had hit a wall. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

A piece in six eight might have six beats in every measure, with an eighth note getting a beat. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

Matthew was simply walking home when a van full of gangsters pulled him into their car, drove him down to the railroad tracks, beat him up and then shot him repeatedly in the head. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

I didn't want him to have to endure more beatings or to be tortured. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

"But she was a tool and spy of my stepmother's. I am very glad they should beat her." The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

My heart seemed to beat in my ears as we slowed to a stop and waited. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

It’s been so long since I’ve heard drums as music that I instinctively try to translate the beats into orders and find myself bewildered when I cannot. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

She struggled against him, until they got tired of beating her and gave her a short break, which she used to invoke the understanding spirits of her grandmother, so that they would help her die. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Down the street we came, my white teacher and me, with all my friends looking at me and a few asking if it meant I was going to get a beating. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

Dove was garrulous, indolent, complaining, and boastful, but it hurt Johnny when the other boys bulbed him and his masters beat him. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

He just kept his eyes on the road, taking bend after bend at a speed that made Elinor's heart beat painfully fast. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Outside, the rain picked up and now beat hard against the window. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Let’s go. We're on our way to beat the hell out of West Charleston.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I called him and he told me, “I just want to tell you something. I’m not a betting man anymore, but if you are, you bet on Cassius to beat Liston, and you will win.” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

I shrugged, my heart beating so hard, I was sure they could see it through my sweater. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

As the newsmen wondered aloud if Man o’ War himself could have beaten Seabiscuit, Howard clattered in. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Within three strokes he knew how tired he was—his whole body felt weak and sore from the beating he’d taken in the rapids. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

When everyone had taken a turn, the coach started over and gave everybody a chance to give it another go to see if they could beat their first time. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

Screams and laughter and what sounded like metal beating on metal.The screams were the most chilling, and he didn’t know if he was prepared to see their source. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

As if in reply, the wind gusted coldly and the rain began to beat down in earnest. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

He also remembered getting beaten with an extension cord when he was taking a bath. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

My heart is beating in time with the song. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

What can beat bricks warming up to the sun? Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was nothing else to do but beat myself up. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

“Immediately. The defenders of Olympus are badly wounded. They will not expect a quick attack. Besides, we know this drakon they cannot beat.” The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

When I get home Prof. Nemur and Dr. Strauss are waiting for me and they give me a beating for writing dirty things in the progress report. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

They slaved fourteen hours a day, from six o’clock in the morning until eight or nine o’clock at night, with starvation-level rations, little sleep, beatings and other forms of torture, and daily executions. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

She was dizzy, and her heart beat so hard it made her tremble. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

The band begins an upbeat song, and the choir marches down the aisles, swaying their arms and clapping to the beat. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

DeShon, eyes closed, not taking off his headphones, bobs his head, slapping his thigh to a beat. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

Each measure has four beats, four quarter notes equals one whole. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

It was like Nala always said on Dog Squad: “Hard work beats talent if talent doesn’t work hard!” Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Dimple took a deep breath as an uneasy pulse beat within her. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Since beats normally get divided into halves and quarters, this is the easiest way for composers to write beats that are divided into thirds. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

“Who with a beating heart in her chest scoffs at a picnic?” she exclaims. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

A group of our colonists have burned the natives’ houses, stolen from their gardens, robbed valuables from their temples, beat the people with clubs, and shot them with muskets. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

“We can’t beat these guys with our talent. We just aren’t good enough. But I think we have bigger hearts. And I think we have a secret weapon.” The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

She was talking to me, trying to console me, but I couldn’t hear her over my own inner monologue beating myself up for doing so badly. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

The memory makes me shiver even as the sun continues to beat down, baking my skin until it hurts. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

“They tried to charge out,” he went on, “but we beat them back. What do you think we should do?” In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

The relentless beating heat was beginning to confuse me and I had a bad moment there before I realized that so far his suspicions hadn't alighted on Tom. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

They endured fire hoses, police dogs, bombings, and beatings by white mobs, as well as by the police. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

One of the Nazis struck him with a club, but instead of taking the beating meekly the prisoner raised his arms and grabbed the stick. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

“You told the sheriff you beat up your own dad?” Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

Perhaps Sula answered them even then, for it began to rain, and the women ran in tiny leaps through the grass for fear their straightened hair would beat them home. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

I lifted the other paddle and added a little beat of my own. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

After 8 beats, they can play a “G” which is the V or dominant of the C scale in order to create another goal. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

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

She would beat Ruth into total silence if I let her. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had Turner cleaning and painting, dragging rugs outside and beating them, opening windows for new air, and bringing light to rooms that hadn’t seen any since the century began. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

My friend Gerald—his dad beats him—he’s got this big scar on his face from when he had to get stitches when his dad knocked him against a radiator. Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

My heart was beating so fast, I could hear it like a drum in my ears. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“They beat her away and chased her up the mountain. They killed her there by your rock. Her cubs must have died there too.” The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

If she failed in any of these backbreaking jobs, she was beaten. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Peeta being tortured—drowned, burned, lacerated, shocked, maimed, beaten—as the Capitol tries to get information about the rebellion that he doesn’t know. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

“We ran and they chased us and we beat them.” The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

The throb pulsed on, insistent, and he saw hundreds of black men and women beating drums with their fingers. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Another one of America’s favorite pastimes, besides baseball, and beating the brains out of—” “Chill,” I ordered. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

That particular dinner, he saw me by the BBQ and told me the Cowboys would beat the Dolphins again next week. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

Edward beat his wings, but it was no use. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z

He tries to beat my blade again, advancing quickly, but I slip my blade beneath his and score an easy touch. Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

She could feel the ferret’s tiny heart beating frantically beneath her fur. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

She didn’t care that she had only a few months to beat the other Champions—she needed sleep. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Adam was discharged in 1885 and started to beat his way home. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Shuttled from one specialist to the next, the girl had been prescribed to shun garlic, consume disproportionate quantities of bitters, meditate, drink green coconut water, and swallow raw duck’s eggs beaten in milk. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

After adding a pinch of salt, I began beating the egg whites. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

“What? What happened? Is he okay? “He’s pretty beat up. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

The soldiers on shore laughed at their fright, and the sailors on board beat them with their whips. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

The beats are so regular, in fact, that they can be timed; for equal temperament they are on the order of a beat per second in the mid range of a piano. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

The younger boys, whose fingers itched to show their skills, grabbed their own small drums and joined the beat. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

She and I can only be, at best, at a standstill—but I need to beat her to get through the door. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Hazel considered this lot briefly, but it beat him. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the end the Mountain and a handful of his best had gained the west bank, but Edmure had thrown his reserve at them, and they had shattered and reeled away bloody and beaten. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

In the end the earth had given way under them and they had fallen down among some rabbits, whom they had fought and beaten. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

He holds a long beat of eye contact with me, until I nod an acceptance. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

Old Familiar rose and fell with each powerful beat of its wings. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

And for a moment—just the slightest beat—I think that, yes, this is the right name for her. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

Rowan wanted to spit at him, but knew it would hurt too much, and might even bring about a second beating. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

“If I got beat up, I would want someone helping me out—to beat them up,” she said. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

“You boys are not going to let a little thing like the cotton market beat you, are you?” The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

This time I turned a queen and beat him. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

At that moment we were not so much in love as we were beat up from loving each other. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

“So do you think it’s your business to beat innocent children and turn them out to starve in the woods, Mr. Zielinski?” The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

He saw the muddy path beaten to black mush by many feet, and Kate’s feet standing far to the side out of the mud. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

The harvests were past, and the grain they beat out upon the threshing floor which was also the dooryard to the house. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

He sat alone on his horse in the night and he could feel the army asleep around him, all those young hearts beating in the dark. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I ran down the list, from the hot sauce to the squatting to the beatings. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

An afternoon breeze had kicked itself into a gusty wind, and the shade on the window tapped out a steady beat that was pleasant and reassuring. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

Shooting that pistol wore Ma right out; when she brung it down she looked more beat than she would working the fields from sunup to sundown on a hot July day. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

My heart beats so fast and loud, it’s like I won’t be able to hear anything else. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

The reasons for the beatings were no comparison. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Standing at the center with Ten Snow, she gracefully bounced to the beat. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

My forehead had developed its own giant pulse and it would not stop beating. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

A similar argument can be used to show that die D beats die A two-thirds of the time. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

We looked at each other for a beat, my mouth going dry. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

At noon, some hours following the announcement of John’s sad fate, Will fell to beating a fellow soldier over whom should receive an extra ladle of bone and broth. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

It is the first time he has looked at his face since he was beaten. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

“No, Ben, I just remembered the words of a great man. ‘I didn’t say anything, sir, I just beat the hell out of him.’” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

My heart is beating so hard in my chest, I know they’ll hear it. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Momma’s beating the hell out of some steaks when we get home. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

He says you cannot beat up somebody in jail and expect to get away with it. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Look at you, like a garbage rat. You hooked all right. But you and me can beat it." The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Without a beat, Kaisha said, “No, unfortunately, it’s not. At least not anymore.” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

“I beat up your brother,” I said out of the blue. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

This is the easiest way to write beats that are evenly divided into three rather than two. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

The predictability and audibility of the beat also allows others to join in. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

They seemed satisfied with that answer, though Officer Reardon kept his eyes on her for a beat too long. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

“And that legless old man can still beat the rest of you by a whole lot more than three seconds, so let’s get to work.” Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t a lie, technically, but my heart beat loudly in my ears. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Bouncing Beat: Another game is to bounce a ball to the beat of a simple song such as “Bounce High.” Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

He opens each letter individually, and my heart begins to beat faster despite itself, even though I already know there won’t be any postcards in the pile. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Fern was beat down enough after seeing that hen’s neck snapped clean while its body did a dying funky-chicken dance. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

“It was normal to beat prisoners,” he said, explaining that his instructors taught him never to smile and to think of inmates as “dogs and pigs.” Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

For all intents and purposes, his beat was the Naked City. heart-rendering. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t care if anybody asked me or not. He beat you fair and square and I’m not going to let you take that away from him.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

We stood in the alley where we shot basketballs through hollowed crates and cracked jokes on the boy whose mother wore him out with a beating in front of his entire fifth-grade class. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

My hand began to shake and my heart beat faster. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

“Oh, my God,” Conor said again, his heart beating nearly out of his chest. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

“You weren’t too sick to beat up my boy. Now fight,” Father said. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

The following week he was on the front page of the Tangerine Times sports section for making kicks of 40 and 45 yards to beat Flagler 6-0. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Proud that I could represent Mrs. Fitzgerald—her brother who was beaten in Selma. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

My heart began to beat faster and faster as I held out my arm. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

More blacks were pulled off streetcars and beaten; even larger mobs of whites roamed the streets, searching for victims. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

“It’s because you’re so beautiful,” he says back, without missing a beat. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

The boy carried on as before, hunting rats, filching his mother’s food, and always enduring her beatings. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

I feel like my heart is tied in a knot that won’t let it beat freely. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

The performers spent their afternoon with young people who’d come from local high schools—budding playwrights, dancers, and rappers kicking around the White House, writing lyrics and dropping beats with their heroes. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

In her head, she calculates how long it would take to halt the train, how long she might be able to keep her heart beating. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

They whipped us and beat us again to herd us into the next room, where showerheads lined the ceiling. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

I was fetched up by terror, and surveyed the street for escape, did this encounter become a beating. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

And when the band was silent the drum corps beat the time on drums with muffled heads. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

But her mouth was dry, and her heart was beating fast. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

And his face became like the face of one of those mean natives the Phantom was always having to beat up. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

My heart beats against my chest like it’s trying to get out. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

My heart’s beating a thousand miles a hour. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

We need to grasp a melody and a drum beat or steady pulse in order to make sense of what we are hearing. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

Lucas is my oldest brother who stopped beating me up a year and a half ago when the United States Army drafted him to beat up Vietcong instead. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

I watch myself drag Gavin Rose into the bush and beat him down to the grass, the dirt, and the fallen tree branches. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

Or if I don’t see nobody getting beat up or nothing. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He felt beaten unmercifully on brow, eyes, nose, lips, chin, on shoulders, on upflailing arms. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

The rockets came like drums, beating in the night. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

Most people are heartless about turtles because a turtle’s heart will beat for hours after he has been cut up and butchered. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her breath came as quick as that creature’s wings had been beating. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

There were no bands, drums, or trumpets, just the beat of the hooves and the footsteps of the officers. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

They saw the huge drums that were used for making thunder, and the Cloud-Men beating them furiously with long hammers. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

A half-seen shape flapped by overhead, pale leathery wings beating at the fog. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

In church when she knelt, in the yard when she beat rugs, beneath the peach tree when she picked fruit, Desdemona’s feminine elaborations escaped the constraints of her drab, confining clothes. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Except for snuffles and peaceful breathings the room is quiet, all but my heart beating so loudly I believe it will wake everybody. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

“I’d offer to beat him up for you, but that didn’t work out so well last time.” Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

Here was this man, a man I always saw as the dude who beat cancer twice, the old guy across the street who ran the neighborhood. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Dazed and unable to rise, the man was dragged away by the kapo, who continued to beat him. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Rigged games are the easiest ones to beat,” said Wednesday, wagging a square finger at Shadow. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

He beat his fellows when he spied his weaknesses in them. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

They emitted a slight, pulsing glow, a single, illuminated heart beating through each one. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

Their mothers examined their shoes for black flakelets which, when discovered, resulted in scalding baths and fatherly beatings. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

In sports, I most like to beat people by plowing them under. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

My injured leg throbs to the beat of my heart, sometimes fast and sometimes slow, sometimes so hard that I think I'm going to pass out. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

As she runs her fingers along my shoulders, I wonder if she can feel how hard my heart is beating. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

The nine freshman boys who had beaten California would go to Poughkeepsie to race for the national championship after all. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

I ask Malik, and suddenly, my heart beats super fast at the idea of lunch alone with him. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

They woke to warblers singing, making melody with a red and black woodpecker that tapped a beat on the trunk of a tree. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Buckbeak slowed down and they found themselves at a stop, unless you counted the fact that they kept rising up and down several feet as the hippogriff beat his wings to remain airborne. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

But my sister got her beat in the curves department. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

My heart beat fast and thick: I heard its throb. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

They beat him until he stopped being Joey. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Brian had finally settled enough to measure it and calculate that it was running about sixty-five beats per minute. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

Ben intercepted a pass intended for Abbott, beat him down court, and laid the ball in. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The drummers started beating their snares again, louder than before. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

In his nervousness he accidentally pressed the shutter on his camera; the whirring noise of the advancing film excited the monkeys, and the one with the stick began to beat Bobby more intently. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

But they beat the British in a fight down in South Carolina. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z

But on the sidewalk, I beat myself up some more. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

“I am the Great Santini,” Bull said, beating one fist against his chest and smiling without confidence. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I am beaten, spit on, pushed, jeered at. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then she stood and walked back, making her face look just like that of an angel, which got my heart beating fast with fear. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

Tom Bolles commenced beating a stranger on the back with his lucky old fedora. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

We’d had a Ping-Pong table for years, but so far, no matter how much my brother or I practiced, we had never come close to beating Milton. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

My heart beat rapidly—from the performance, from running up the hill, from whatever it was I might have just seen. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Her teeth are like sparkling and her eyes are like flashing and my heart is beating like crazy but I know the score. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Volta looked down again, clenching his fists, but Rowan didn’t move because he didn’t expect to get a beating. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Not always from beatings and hunger, the way he had. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

“He had a knife though. You don’t need a knife to give someone a beating.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“I knew I could beat him. And I did.” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Music beat a steady rhythm from a huge stereo on the back porch; the bonfire crackled a short distance away. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

“Your Daddy beats you,” she said, “because he loves you.” Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

Urged on by kids in the stands, Louie put in just enough effort to beat one boy and finish third. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

Enraged, Anastasia paced around the clearing, beating against tree trunks, ripping up shoots, and hurling them into the air. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

I take deep breaths, and I hope I can calm the too-fast beat of my heart. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

I feel my heart beating against my chest. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

“I Spy with my little eye a hero’s heart, a heart that beats not for itself but for all humanity.” Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

“Let’s just see them find a storyteller to beat him.” Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m not going to sit down like the world’s beaten pup anymore. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

He could hear his heart beating and he was breathing fast; something was shaking in his belly. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

He lived with them for three months, finally running away when the farmer woke him with a beating one morning because a raccoon got into the chicken coop. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

There should have been the sound of the wind, there should have been her breath and beating heart, but she could hear absolutely nothing but the whispering of the winter. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

In spite of the panic that goes along with it, there’s something familiar and strangely comforting about hearing your heart beat like that. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

They beat their wings at her face and hair, the stream of them parting around her like a river around a rock. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Well, I’m sure you’d run too if you were always threatened or beat up because you were different. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

My photonic heart beat, pushing my glittering blood through my glowing veins. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

“Can’t no one beat the Brown Bomber,” folks laugh as they pass, like Joe Louis is fighting for all us colored folks. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

During the slow march of summer days I was aware, as one is aware of a drum steadily beating across a lake, of something unspooling itself in the bodies of my campmates. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

And Agent Fiona nearly caused an international incident when, as a Junior Agent, she greatly offended the Origami Hive Mind by insisting that scissors beats paper in a game of rock, paper, scissors. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

Thousands of insects beat the air to a pulpy soup of animal panic. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Warming to her theme, she went on, “We’ll probably get beaten and everything.” The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

A splash, a labored beating of wings, and Zerubabel was in a gull’s beak, its pale, pink shell already crushed, its tiny pincers loosely dangling. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

Every time I close my eyes, I hear the pounding beat and then the ambulance sirens from far away. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

His tiny heart was beating out a message that felt like I promise, I promise, I promise. Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z

All his friends, woken up by this cry, leapt to their feet and ran towards the fence of tree trunks, beating drums and shouting threats at the lion. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

“Word is, they’re saying they can beat us,” Ira added with a look. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had given her something like his beating heart once, because she needed it, and because he knew she would keep it well. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

All he did was beat himself up, he said. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

The storm of sound beat at them, an incantation of hatred. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

Side by side, we hiked through the overgrown meadow off the beaten path. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

No one said a word until they were all outside, the bright morning sun beating down. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

Totally unconcerned about getting stuck, Joe swerved off the beaten path at a good spot, bucking through loose dirt, sand, and muck to where busted trees lay all about. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

For example, a loud orchestral piece, even if it has 60 beats per minute, will not aid the body into a calm state as well as a softer, more soothing piece with a few instruments. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

More of the black things were scuttling out of the dark, their feet beating a quick staccato rhythm against roots and rocks and leaves. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Complete silence fell in the clearing, and all seemed peaceful and quiet in contrast to the wildly beating heart of the desperate, trapped cat. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her heavy wings beat clumsily, and she only just made the turn. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

One beat as high as my neck, and I struggled to remain upon my feet, hitting at the water for balance. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

If they broke a sewing machine, they were not beaten. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

It is the impetus of that shattering phalanx of iron—spread across the battlefront, inescapable, pulverizing, louder than drums, beating the earth. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the syncopation in the third measure, the longest note doesn't even begin on a beat; it begins half-way through the third beat. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

“Must have no balls, let girl beat you.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“Other times just because it feels good. There’s nothing wrong with that, you know—feeling good. You ought to give it a try sometime, maybe give beating up on yourself a rest.” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

We worked for so long with the sun beating down on our skin that my head started to hammer with pain, and it was a mercy when Arul finally said, “Enough. Let’s stop.” The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

The beat we were all making together was so sick. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

There’s a flurry of feathers, the sweet smell of roses, and a beat pulsing through the ground as we march. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

She is not about to be beat by some weirdo hushquiet delinquent who used to be her friend. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

Dum-dum-dum-dum went the drum, the quicker you pulled the faster it beat. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sun beat down on the tent, and the dust found its way through the floorboards of the wagon. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

But you can demolish a kid just as much by beating him in a race as by plowing him under on a football field. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

I realized my heart was beating a little faster. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

In the distance, a faint, ponderous beating of drums called. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

“I felt plenty of joy in my life without having to be beaten to a pulp,” Rowan told him. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

The judicial police, he says, routinely stop trains to rob and beat migrants. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

They seemed accustomed to the devil’s beating on the roof. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

They beat at the teenager’s fingers until he released his grip and slipped beneath the surface with a few small bubbles. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Then the president’s heart began to beat and his lungs sucked in a breath. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

My heart’s beating so fast, it’s almost stuttering. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

All the while, the beat pulsed in her ears. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

The foremen would sometimes beat him and other workers who performed poorly, but not seriously and never to death. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

Charlie Mahan was beaten to death three months after arriving at Pontiac Correctional Center. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

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

“I thought we would beat you easily, and you very nearly beat us. I’m happy to admit my mistake. But do you always fight in pairs?” The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

It was quiet for a beat before Mr. Jacobs continued, pushing past the awkwardness. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Now and again, in the intervals between songs, the whales have been seen to breach, leaping clear out of the sea and landing on their backs, awash in the turbulence of their beating flippers. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

But Nok could see the uncertainty in his eyes, the horror that he was about to get beaten by someone smaller than him in front of everyone he knew. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

“And what if there are some lawless ones? They might not know any better and beat him.” Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

My heart was beating so fast, it took me ages to calm down. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a good chance the Sixers would beat me there. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

If he waited too long, the She Elephant would beat him. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

“His dad...he beats him up. You know, because he’s gay.” I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Mommy beat Helen harder this time, then talked to her for hours. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

It had begun beating like this as soon as he knew that he had got away. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had seen boys and girls younger than this beaten and had done nothing. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

“How is it that these heroes get beat up all the time, and in the next issue, they’re back for more?” Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

I hurried toward her with my mouth suddenly dry and my heart beating out of my chest. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

Curving her arms out, bending her knees, she hopped on one foot and beat time with the other. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

His gaze lingers on me for a beat longer. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

It was like my heart had finally started beating again and now it didn’t want to stop. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

He often beats the little boy with the metal end of a garden hose. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

The squire brought down, and gave Demodokos, the clear-toned harp; and centering on the minstrel magical young dancers formed a circle with a light beat, and stamp of feet. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Their great wings beat inward, slowing them, and their bodies swung downward till they were standing upright in the air, holding their position by the beating of their wings. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I would put it right over her beating heart and listen. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

My heart is beating out of my chest. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

Dad uses Kaylee’s interruption to beat a speedy exit, and then the doorbell rings. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

All I can hear is the sound of the hearts again, shouting and screaming and beating through my ears. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

“They stole our stuff and shoved me into a gutter. But thankfully they didn’t beat me up.” The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

He beat it round the vent to hurt it more. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Somebody else said, “Ever hear bout the time he beat Wildcat Lindsay in a fist fight? Funniest fight you ever seen.” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

The beat of the man's heart, and the noise of his blood as it circulates through his body, grow louder and louder. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

“Anyway, this dude come into the poolroom, and he knowed he was a good pool shot, see? So he hustled this other dude into a pool game for twenty dollars and beat him.” Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

They demanded the release of any migrants apprehended the day before—fifteen in all, some of whom were beaten. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

“I don’t want lots of things I want,” Yossarian replied, and then beat his fist down against the mattress in an outburst of rage and frustration. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

A beat cop from the neighborhood strolls in. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then he turns and my heart skips a beat. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Short and stocky, plain-faced, he seemed a decent lad, sober, sensible, dutiful... but not the sort to make a young girl’s heart beat faster. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Drums began to beat furiously, oars rose and fell, and Black Betha surged forward. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

That the mako was not enjoying the treatment was evident from the way it was twisting and turning and beating its tail and reaching with its mouth. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

"The heart of a mouse," she said, "and that means your heart, is beating at the rate of five hundred times a minute! Isn't that amazing?" The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

The light was a candle which the boy bore in a ringstick of beaten copper. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

The windows gleamed like beaten gold or silver, but now John saw, in the yellow light, how fine dust veiled their doubtful glory. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

By the time the dawn drums beat out, the courtyard is full. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Subdividing a beat by three instead of four naturally makes each of the new smaller beats slightly longer. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Still wailing, the Penitentes rose to their feet, stripped off their upper garments and, with knotted whips, began to beat themselves, blow after blow. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

We beat them, but it didn’t do us much good. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Derek was breathing evenly—short breaths, but even—and his heart was beating regularly. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

Oh, you, I thought, my heart beating fast and shallow. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

I could feel the butterflies in my stomach furiously beating their wings like they wanted out. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

A moth had come in the door and was trying to beat itself to death on the light over the kitchen sink. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

If it rained while the sun was shining, then the Devil was beating his wife. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Lena, I’m really beat out . . .” he began in sweet reasonableness. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

And so began her heady days full of cliche: she felt fully alive, her heart beat faster when he arrived at her door, and she viewed each morning like the unwrapping of a gift. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“Once I talked back, and Papito took me behind the kitchen and beat me with his belt.” When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

It beats under his palm like it’s beating for him. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

The Dancing Fan was still dancing, its rubber feet beating out the same syncopated Persian rhythm I’d been listening to all night, but that wasn’t what woke me. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

His heart was beating hard, and though the light from the match had disappeared, it danced, still, before the rats eyes, even when he closed them. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

She put down a hand to stroke it, and could feel how hard its heart was beating. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

And Xan, the swallow, burst from the thicket and soared over the trees, beating her ancient wings as best she could. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

“A demon. She beat us, too. Not as bad as the man, but bad enough that I ran away.” The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Another beat passed before the old woman spoke again. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

“Sally! ” she cried, willing her heart to slow to only three hundred beats per second. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

Others trying to come back to the city had been beaten, robbed, murdered on the way. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

“I’ll go order a cheese,” he said after a beat, sliding back out of the booth. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Carla leaves and my mom asks if I want to beat her at a game of Honor Pictionary, but I ask for a rain check. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

He laughed at all the times he’d been beaten by his drunken father, or been ignored by his drunken mother. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

I told her about how the police pulled rootworkers out of their homes, beat them, and put them in jail. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

In the cold of winter, the wood frog’s heart freezes and stops, waiting until spring until it thaws and beats again. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

The 0, however, is called an empty beat. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

The muffled drums now beating, now steadily rolling, spread a dead silence upon the air, a prayer tor the unknown soldier. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

His heart beating rapidly with pain, he returned to the hut. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

The rest of the fan club took turns expressing their admiration for my courageous fight, and their hope that Fig would beat this awful cat killer. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

No one, I thought, could get beat down so many times and still come up smiling. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

I reckon you’ll know now that you cant beat me out of a job and get away with it. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

“If these won’t help us beat Zero,” I say, “then nothing will.” Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I typically stretch my legs across the backseat and work on a crossword, but this morning, I can feel the beat thrumming at the base of my spine, almost like it’s inside me. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

Even without the pressure of the space race, even without the mandate to beat the enemy. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

For instance, it was Toby who suggested that they march around the altar, beating their chests and sprinkling their heads with ashes and wailing. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

My heart’s beating really hard, and I realize that I’m swallowing now too. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘But if you want to beat the Old Took,’ said Pippin, ‘I don’t see why we shouldn’t try and beat the Bullroarer.’ The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

It’s a different soundtrack here—a tide of pulse and beat. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

As she beat her fists on the altar, the old woman above her laid hands on her shoulders, crying: “Call on Him, daughter! Call on the Lord!” Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

Instead of emphasising the strong beats as the foot-tappingly predictable swing had done, bebop deliberately resisted, suspending the rigid reiteration of the regular pulse. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Then Mambo had the drum beaten, but the sound disturbed the hearts of the people so much that they crouched on the ground and covered their ears. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

And I feel myself sweating, my heart beating in anger, as I remember their last words to me. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

My heart is beating so hard and loud that I can’t hear anything except the drumming of it, which fills my ears. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

My heart’s about to beat me up inside. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

I return to Phnom Penh on the back of Meng’s bike, my heart beating wildly as I absorb the sights and sounds of the city. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

My heart skipped a beat, and I scrambled to the foot of the bed with the flashlight clutched in both of my shaking hands. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

In the blink of an eye folds of silk are glossy black feathers, large beating wings, and it is impossible to pinpoint the moment when it is fully raven and no longer cloth. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

It’s making my heart beat way too fast. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

When I got there my heart quit beating ’cause when I pulled the door to go in, Ma and Pa were pushing it to go out. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

The sun beat down on them so ferociously that it was easy to imagine the sidewalk cracking open and swallowing them whole. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

I could feel his heart beating as fast as mine. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

“I’d love to see you get beaten by a girl,” she said happily. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

“I was sure we got beat,” he said. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

He couldn't comply with all of the requirements imposed on him, so he was frequently locked in a closet, denied food, and subjected to beatings and other physical abuse. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Sam Westing was dead, but maybe, just once, she could beat him at his own game. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then at last he rose with a snarl, and went before them like a beaten dog. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

My heart beat in my ears, and sweat prickled against my palms, and I kind of hated Mom for scaring me. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Dad closes his eyes, nodding with the beat as we sing. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

It was the only reason I could come up with while he was beating me with his hand. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

At Dudley’s filth birthday party, Aunt Marge had whacked Harry around the shins with her walking stick to stop him from beating Dudley at musical statues. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

My heart is beating fast, but I go up to him anyway. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

He remembered fleeing Constantinople because he had beaten their champion so quickly. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

The pain was solid and constant as the beating of his own heart. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

She beat on her back with her fists. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

One time I called the police: “My momma just beat me! My momma just beat me!” Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wondered what would happen if all of a sudden Phoebe’s heart beat itself out like the rabbit’s, and she fell down and died right there at school. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

The sun beat down as if trying to hammer the countryside into a Celestial bronze shield. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

I beat and beat and beat my chest. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

I, too, rejoiced along with everybody— simply because a black man had finally “beaten to death” a white man. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Acererak beat you at Joust, then you had to fight him. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Soon my mother would smell that smoke and see the fire and come and beat me. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

The kind of guy who beats up Eagle Scouts for fun. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

“Get out of your uniform,” he said, “and get into civilian clothes. They are beating up people who are in military uniform.” Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

At the battle on October 3, Brutus beat Octavian, but Cassius lost to Mark Antony. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

Without thinking, I say, “I’d kill people who beat up their kids.” Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

My heart stopped and then beat triple speed. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

“They beat my Dante all to hell. They cracked some ribs, they punched his face. He has bruises everywhere. They did that to my son.” Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

Then maybe Franklin Posey would let you off with just a beating. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Inside, I could hear a bass beat thumping loud enough to rattle the windowsills. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

Because he believed that, like graffiti, fare- beating could be a signal, a small expression of disorder that invited much more serious crimes. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

A chaos of men and women press against the glass, drumming and beating each window. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

Officer Callahan was temporarily suspended from the police force but was soon allowed to return to his beat. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

I re­member one green sea turtle that hung from the side of the lifeboat for two days, the whole while thrashing about madly, free flippers beating in the air. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z