From a distance he heard the raucous singing. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’d like to sing like the Cowardly Lion and dance like the Tin Man. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

I sang as if the Blue Fairy from Pinocchio was smiling at me. Louisiana's Way Home 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Here Spring was already busy about them: fronds pierced moss and mould, larches were green-fingered, small flowers were opening in the turf, birds were singing. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

We finished off Susanna by singing “Amazing Grace” at the speed of a dirge. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nathan ran over and sang the first words of the lullaby. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

In return, I transcribe lyrics when I should be studying and slip them into the album covers so we can sing the songs together. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The singing had loosened something inside him, he was breathing easily and his heart no longer pounded. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

It was a beautiful morning when the yucca buds were opening and the mockingbirds were singing on the hill that my uncle Pedro drove up. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Promise? Every song she sings. What clothes she’s wearing. I want to know everything!” Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

“She was singing the last time we saw her. Curled up in a ball on the ground. She said her head hurt.” The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

The radiant fairies raised their arms together and started singing. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

“The creak of wood and the softness of moss and the rustle and whisper of green and green and green,” the Beast sang. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

I got up closer so I could hear what he was singing. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

A woman sings nicely for a time, about “a great tomorrow,” and is encouraging us to “sign up with Outer Space Ways Incorporated” if we “find Earth boring.” Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Grover seemed to be singing his sad song forever, but she thought she could hear now that he wasn’t really sad. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tie your knots, she sang again and again, enchain! — enchain! — enchain me! The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Before the words were out of his mouth, an arrow sang past Doli’s head. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

Their theater friends can sing and dance and all have boyfriends. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Janet sashays over to our table, and she and Mrs. Walton start singing together. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

One evening, I was in my room singing, “The sun’ll come out tomorrow,” when Dad came in for supper. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The thing about the song, though, is that if you are a rugby player and are present when another rugby player begins to sing it, you have to sing along...so, Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Tornait ran over her skins, flitted to her head and shoulders, and sang when she sang. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

As they stood, patiently unraveling coiled tendrils, Dicey began to sing the song about the wide river and the small boat. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

The singing in the courtyard went on for a while, then it went away. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

She sings “La, la, la,” her voice rising up steps like a ladder. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

A whippoorwill sang out over and over again. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z

She was only supposed to feel that smooth base when the tree tips were green and the swallows were awake and singing. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

She would call him Major Tom and they would sing “Space Oddity” by David Bowie together. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

Or when a woman with a baby on her shoulder and a skillet in her hand sang “Turn to my pillow where my sweet-man used to be...how long, how long, how long.” Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t even mind the singing and dancing parts.” We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

The opera that evening — sung, not acted, so as not to oflend the sensibilites of the town — was a Peruvian love story, an entree by Monsieur Rameau. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

And as she told and as she sang, Xan’s step grew slower and slower and slower. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

The singing grew louder as they approached the church. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

“This is your night, Mateo. Seriously. You sang to your dad earlier and stopped when I came in. No one is judging you. You’re holding yourself back and you have to go for it.” They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

He increased the volume and they sang along; there was an exuberance to the song, its rhythmic joyfulness, so free of artifice, that filled the air with lightness. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“Someone’s parents,” he said, “have been singing entirely the wrong sort of songs.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Petra rolled her eyes and sang, “Let me shave your legs tonight, girl. Let me show you how it feels when your man ...” “Your man!” the girls sang. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

The ride down to the zoo took nearly two hours, with Uncle Bill singing loudly and off-key to disco songson the radio. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

Instead, Papa Legba, the keeper of the crossroads, the one who will open the gates for my mother, sings his song. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

“How do you do, Sir?” they would sing. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

In heterophony, there is only one melody, but different variations of it are being sung or played at the same time. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

But no matter what they sang, always they finished off with one of Brooklyn’s own folk songs: “Mother Machree,” “When Irish Eyes Are Smiling,” “Let Me Call You Sweetheart,” or “The Band Played On.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Musical activities, including singing or playing instruments, can increase the self-esteem level of the child. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

“Anyway, they have this song he always sings, ‘How Many Friends.’ Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“You will have to come to it, Mademoiselle. I will give you everything that you like to eat and to drink. We shall sing and laugh and be merry for once.” The Awakening 1899-04-22T00:00:00Z

“Don’t tire me, sir. We’ll sing something about cheeks, roses, and the garden swing.” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

The prisoners saying a chorale, they sing in parts, and it sounds almost as if there were no voices, but an organ far away on the moor. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

I forget, until I drive by the high school on my way back from the burbs, where a thousand spinning, singing Santas live, that there’s a football game tonight. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

It did not sing, but sat mournfully silent, its feathers ruffled and wan. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

“You will have to come to it Mademoiselle. I will give you everything that you like to eat and to drink. We shall sing and laugh and be merry for once.” The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z

It only happened when he was singing or when someone else sang a song that moved him. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

And even though I’m related to the director, I don’t sing well enough to make the Fairview choir. Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

Even the tiresome lessons of singing and reading would be worth doing if only he could run down the street with the other boys. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

My father pulled me in with that remarkable voice -but I haven't sung much since he died. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

He loved singing even though he wasn’t very good, ha. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

If you can sing and dance charmingly, eat daintily, and sew a little, you will be fine ladies and I shall be proud of you. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

Two cantors, one of whom was David’s sister, Shari Preston, stepped forward and sang. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Crazy Horse knew he could not stop them from singing. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

His characters escape from Cuba on rafts of sticks and tires, refuse to harvest grapefruit, dream of singing in a rock and roll band in California. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

So he sings, looking down, recalling and repeating the words, hands light on the harp. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

She wanted a birthday cake with her family, and she wanted Layla to sing “Happy Birthday” in French like she’d done every year since she started learning the language in eighth grade. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

The fruity voice said that their beloved country was being encircled by a horde of filthy Other-neater*—at which the wireless chorus sang: When Other blood spurts from the knife, Then everything is fine. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

I could picture him singing his heart out, strumming the guitar, with Mr. Bowles rocking out behind him on the keyboards. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

“It’s not like that. I’d never let her give up her chance to sing. She’ll go ahead with all her plans. I wouldn’t ever hold her back. Surely you know that, Wheeze.” Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Someone was singing from behind one of the doors, and I heard TVs behind a bunch of others. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Somewhere in my head a chorus of voices sings hallelujah. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

I wish more than anything she were here with me now, holding my hand, singing the song. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

The song its engines sang was a very low organ note. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Edie sang the song quick and cruel, with sharp metallic sounds from her instrument. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Another, Marilyn Hall, earned some college money at an audition in which she sang “Lot’s Wife,” a challenging, highly emotive song from Tony Kushner’s Caroline, or Change. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

It was full of music, singing, and celebration. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I avoid being alone with him, too, because my whole body sings to be near him, because every movement he makes is charged with electricity. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

She says that but her eyes are watery and she’s not singing anymore. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

She looked singularly lovely, not like a film star, but like a woman who had grown a souL She was singing by herself. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

A scratchy Victrola was playing guitars and trumpets; a man sang sad Spanish words. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

The score of this Notre-Dame Mass has four lines of music, each of them representing one of the voices singing. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Everyone sings and claps in time, and at the end of it, I finally see Tony He pushes through the crowd and stands next to me. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

His heart sang every time he heard news of her. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

We sang as we drove to the Long Island Expressway. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

I heard children singing, a familiar voice calling, “Old Man Goose! One! Two! Three!” Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

“I can’t. I don’t know the melody well enough. I sing harmony, remember?” Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

We sing as we shuffle along for the next few miles. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

There was singing somewhere; far away, above him; singing slow and mournful. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

They were singing, searching for meaning in the dust. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

He also says somewhere that ‘the rooks, in the breeding season, attempt sometimes, in the gaiety of their hearts, to sing—but with no great success.’ The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Last year, the fifth grade sang here near the holidays. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Her icy sled jingled over the wind-swept lakes and she sang as she traveled. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even while they played the game, the older little girl started to sing a toneless song, one children sang when they chose sides for games. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

No one knows how they got in, but they live in the mall and sing pretty. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Where did you learn to sing like that, Nathan? You don’t even speak Navajo!” Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

“Oh boy, I’m happy; yes, sir, I’m happy,” he sang, off key. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once a year, the people of the city came together to sing the three great songs of Ember. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

We sang “Hark, the Herald Angels Sing,” and the music made my feelings about Miss Brown thaw. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

It makes me want to keen, sing, clap up thunder, lie down at the foot of a tree and let the worms take whatever of me they can still use. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Gradually more joined in, Stella as well, joined in singing words that hadn’t quite meant as much to her before as they seemed to at this very moment. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

And as Mig went singing down the stairs of the dungeon, there appeared from the shadows a rat wrapped in a cloak of red and wearing a spoon on his head. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

The wind sang on the hilltops and the puff-ball clouds hurried eastward. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

And as he walked and sang the valley grew green with grass. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

“Play note right, but doesn’t sound good! No singing sound,” complained my mother. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

The guests became suddenly aware that they were singing merrily, as if it was easier and more natural than talking. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

“That’s gonna be you one day, Nessy. Your singing is just as good as Vanessa Williams’s. And Miss America’s even got the same name as you. It’s meant to be, baby girl!” Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

And for a few bars the pure sweet tone of the horn and the old man's husky baritone sang a duet in the hot heavy silence. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

I did not join in the singing, and neither did Jaja. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

Then she went to singing a Nigerian grief song learned from her daddy, who was lured onto an illegal slave ship in 1848, when he was only twelve. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

The room was very still except for a boys’ choir singing “Hark the Herald Angels” very softly on the radio. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

But they went anyway, on summer nights after supper, when the crickets smelled the coolness and started singing. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

The singing surrounds me before I can come up from my thoughts. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

People sang and danced and the women ululated as I was led away. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

A night bird was singing from a tree branch, just singing its heart out, urgent and feverish, like it was put there to sing the moon up to the top of the sky. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Baby Kochamma sang with him, her thin, quavering voice thickened with peanut paste. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I snuggled my face into her neck while Mom continued to rock and hold me, still singing her quietly insistent song: No, you're not. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

The bard sang “Iron Lances,” then “The Winter Maid.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

It was weird, but before this, I would never even have dreamed of singing in front of people, let alone a boy I had a crush on. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

She was “interested in pretty much nothing else but singing,” one student recalled, “not taking part in dances or things like that.” The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

He loved when Nate sang shanties—the songs sailors crooned as they did their work. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z

Shadrach sang the last lines over again as if searching for a completion. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Now this is something,” he said to her, holding fast to the tiller as it fairly sang with speed-vibration. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

No sunbathing, no singing, no lovers strolling the ramparts in the evenings—such rules are not written down, but they may as well be. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Lovey started singing it, and before I knew it I was humming along. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

It’s partly my music teacher Ms. Holly’s fault for getting me hooked on it last year when she was trying to get me to sing for our winter recital. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

When the organ played baseball songs, Papa, Mama, and Little Miss Byrd sang along. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

She was in the kitchen the entire morning supervising Chikodili, singing loudly from time to time, being a little too familiar with Chikodili, a little too quick to laugh with her. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

They sang about hearts quivering and pilgrimages ceasing. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

Though day, the crickets called in the grass; my mother’s singing rose from the camp. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Comparison of children’s and adults’ vocal ranges and preferred tessituras in singing familiar songs. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

What she meant was, “Don’t make trouble. Just sing.” Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

When, in Messiah’s famous ‘Hallelujah’ chorus, the choir sing '. . . and He shall reign for ever and ever’, two kings are being celebrated: one in heaven, the other at St James’s Palace. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

And it was so loud and musical sounding, which reminded me to start singing. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Before the divorce, she went to church along with Candice and her dad, but she didn’t sing in the choir or volunteer for the usher board, unlike her father. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Although everyone is singing exactly the same tune, at any particular time different people will be singing different parts of it, so the final effect is of independent parts. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

In the distance, he heard drumming and singing. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

A few minutes later, we hear what sounds like drunken singing. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

She sang an aria from Verdi’s opera Don Carlo along with four spirituals. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

Only a hint, as if sometime in her childhood, people around her had spoken a language that was close to singing. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Sometimes she heard bits of their conversations and voices singing late into the midnight hours. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Not just plays. Ms. Holly says it’s different types of singing and performing. Come on, it’ll be more fun with you.” Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

They ordered seaweed-crusted sandwiches, and fried cheese, and strawberry shortcakes with the singing kind of berries, not the regular kind. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

To the sound of our singing, we made our way from the fields to prepare and enjoy a village feast. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

She was allowed to sing the complete aria. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

However, keep in mind that a child’s vocal apparatus is still developing, and imitating adult singing with scoops, chest voice, or belting is affected singing and not natural. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

Then he taught them a rhyme to sing, if they should by ill-luck fall into any danger or difficulty the next day. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

When I hang up the phone I stand for a moment, holding on to the sound of all those voices singing to me. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Not that she was smiling or jolly or singing. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hearing a bird sing in the rain is on my list of things to make a wish on. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

But he loved listening to music, any music, and he liked to sing. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

I smiled at Danny and he smiled back at me, and we sat there for about half an hour, singing, swaying, and clapping, and I felt light and happy and completely at ease. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

Silly, she said to herself, but nevertheless she sang Kapugen’s song of the Bird Feast. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Let’s sing,” said Sweetie Pie, opening her eyes and sitting up straight. Because of Winn-Dixie 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s a song we sing with babies in the Overland,” said Gregor. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

I sang with my fingers crossed but still I felt like a traitor. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I sing to him, I rock him, I give him a bottle of water, and take his temperature. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Biddy was lying on her fat stomach, wiggling her fingers at a patch of rosemary and singing. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

He was appalled by children’s poor singing quality, and began to create teaching methods to improve it. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

He had thought that men would sing of him for a hundred years and tell tales of his daring. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Hare replied with a lie, but continued to sing about the doings of the clever hare, who was no longer thirsty and had clean fur. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

Then Babe would wade along in the shallow part while we played our flutes and sang. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

As I splashed water on my face, I thought I heard Gramps singing, but when I turned the faucet off there was nothing. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Then he proceeded to sing the song with childish gusto. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

After a while I was singing loudly, swaying back and forth and clapping my hands, and once I saw Reb Saunders looking at me, and his lips curved into a shadow of a smile. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

When she moved her head, I could see a lesion on her neck open and close like a fish mouth singing a country song. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“A, B, C, Vitamin D,” he sang to himself as he worked. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Music and singing played a critical role in inspiring, mobilizing, and giving voice to the Civil Rights movement. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

There was little to entertain the island youth, so we sang. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

He tapped on my door, sang a verse loudly just outside. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

He heard singing: “Walked in the valley, it looked so fine, I asked my Lord was all this mine.” Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

The girls sang: “There’s a Quaker Down in Quaker Town.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

She also sang when she was sad, and I had those memories too. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

After a bit, to keep the children in her truck from crying, Gitl began to sing. to quiet them, then several children’s songs. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

I can’t draw the Union Jack or sing “God Save the King” without thinking about them. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

They fall in abundance, and the people dance and sing praises to the Marked Girl who spoke with the spirit world on their behalf and brought a time of abundance. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

Fern added, “We should sing a song and do a dance.” One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

He grabs the guitar and strums out a tune and, just like that, starts singing. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

The organ lady played “Happy Birthday,” and we all sang, and Sally blew out the candles. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

He sang with his trio and gave his speech. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

In fact, nearly every inn, tavern, and boarding house had some manner of musician strumming, singing, or piping in the background. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I followed the rest of the children into the streets and saw that white and black people were laughing and singing and shouting. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

From the street they could hear children’s voices singing the lesson “I Am a Person of the Middle Nation.” The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

She shivered when she heard that he was singing the last verse of “Molly Malone.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It is the national anthem we sing here,” she snapped. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

She began to sing as she danced around him. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“From the top,” she says, and the class starts singing again. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

I imagine hard, until I can sing in a voice that's strong and happy. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

And she took up her singing where she had left off. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

David rolls onto the stage and announces he’s singing “A Fond Farewell” by Elliott Smith; I don’t know if he’s a Decker or singing for a friend, but it’s beautiful. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Heck, no, I just slap up our Christmas tree in the middle of summer and sing “Deck the Halls” and have a martini on the patio and don’t give it another thought anymore. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

It frightened him, this glee, but he stuck to his habit—singing his song, ringing his bell and holding fast to his rope. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

She also had a crush on a tall, very handsome and popular Nisei boy who sometimes sang and danced in the talent shows. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

I don't feel much like singing or dancing when I think of it, so I step out of the line and look around. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

People walk the paths of the gardens below, and the wind sings anthems in the hedges, and the big old cedars at the entrance to the maze creak. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Virgin martyrs always died singing hymns and giving praise not minding one bit if lions tore big chunks from their sides and gobbled them on the spot. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Even her father had told Jinjoo that it was a good thing she had a pretty face and smart brain, because her singing would drive any potential husbands away. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

"My singer may never sing again now," she teased. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

After mass Titid said, “Let us sing, with true spirit, meaning what we sing.” Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

We take this for a mile or so, and Finch has turned up the music and is singing along. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

“Don’t worry about a thing,” we sang, “’cause every little thing gonna be all right.. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

And then, on cue, I sang like I’d been singing in my head and in whispers for days now. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

And yes, if they have babies one day, those babies will have awesome singing voices, but in the meantime: WHAT? Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

One of the songs Khalid used to sing all the time. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

“That was the worst singing ever,” I say. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

“I sang you a song about a rat.” What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

“That’s not the right answer,” she calls, singing the last word. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

We too soon left, laughing and singing, and rejoined our group. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

His voice boomed through the rows as he worked and even those who despised him couldn’t help but sing along. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

They will come to the deep blue, where the whales sing their sad songs and starving sharks swim for miles in search of prey. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

The day was symbolized for me by the playing of our two national anthems, and the vision of whites singing “Nkosi Sikelel’ iAfrika” and blacks singing “Die Stem,” the old anthem of the republic. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And everybody can sing the last lines together, the ones about the town-o.” Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

For example, Siobhan showed me that you can wet your finger and rub the edge of a thin glass and make a singing noise. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Ann gave herself up to the pious delight that hymn singing had always stirred in her ever since she was a child in the small wooden church down the road from her father’s house. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

When he had been punished the cool green grass and the singing water soothed him. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

She turned to the creature by her side and spoke some of those singing, hooting sounds, moving her arm as she did so. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

She said that he once dressed himself in a suit and tie, got down on one knee, and sang “Three Times a Lady” to her. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

It's the most pristine place I've been to in years—since the children's choir sang for the Dutch queen in that marble and gold-leafed hall. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Before the British occupied the city, Stansbury taunted Patriots by singing “God Save the King,” urging them to join him in the chorus. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

“At least, not in any of the important ways. Tell me, Songbird...do you still sing?” Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

“The more there are, the more the glory. Men will sing of us.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Bloom’s body was infused with good feeling, compassion, love, and as Linda gently stroked his forehead, singing a song in Spanish, he fell asleep. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We will sing ‘Love Divine, All Loves Excelling.’ Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

They sang, drank, laughed, and sang some more. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

Grant the dear boon of life to this most uncommon tiggy, lordly measter, and he shall sing to thee in numbers sweet or teach ’ee how to suck cow’s milk in the pearly dew.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

And when the baldheaded proprietor would pass by, we black children, poor, half-starved, ignorant, victims of racial prejudice, would sing with a proud lilt: A rotten egg Never fries A cheating dog Never thrives. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

The pub was fuller than before: Many voices inside it were now singing the carol that they had heard as they approached the church. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

The whole world is my toilet now, I want to sing. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

And I remembered the song he had sung. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

We end up singing Disney songs in the stairwell. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

The singer wept and swore he would never sing that song again, but the king insisted. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

What I remember from Sunday school at First Presbyterian was kind Mrs. Ness teaching us to sing “Jesus Loves Me,” her silver hair in a bun, a guitar in her lap. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

I liked Sammy Davis Jr. in his sharp black suits, tap-dancing and singing all cool with his hair slick and shiny. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

I had grown up singing some of those songs in church, and I wondered why murderers would be singing them. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

She held a sharp sword in her hands, and she sang to herself as she stood. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

We built a fire and sang campfire songs. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

He started singing his number to the tune of "867-5309," which cracked her right up. park Park tried to remember the first time he saw her. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

Just when I thought I might have to go outside for a deep breath, Abby leaned across and said, “Sometimes I sing ‘Row, Row, Row Your Boat’ in my head. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

And a group of men sang about what a sad Christmas it would be now that their love was away. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

He sang the prayers at his synagogue and never missed a service. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Isn’t there a song like that, a song your people sing?” Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Each of the four singing parts had its own duration-value sequence that started and ended at a different point, creating an overlapping lattice of notes of different lengths. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

The chickadees sang alone, not in a winter group, and the skunks and minks and foxes found food more abundant in the forest than at my tree house. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

She look over at Mr. a little when she sing that. The Color Purple 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yes, I guess it would. The tyke makes her singing, and it is beautiful.” Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Just remember,” Andrea went on, “when you start school in the States next fall, you’ll be in eighth grade. Nobody in the eighth grade is going to be singing ‘Swa- nee River.’” Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Back in New York for the next phase of the contest, she sang “O mio Fernando” again for the judges, along with two English songs she had prepared. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

Every evening, in Pretoria Local, before lights were out, the jail would echo to African prisoners singing freedom songs. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Khrushchev was singing, “Bingo Bango Bongo, I don’t want to leave the Congo!” The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“What does he do in the video, sing?” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Looking at her in her agony the maidens, all sobered now, the dancing over and the singing and the wild wand-waving, said to one another, Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

The master potter Min was singing, which meant that it was a “throwing” day. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

What they knew—all they knew—was the island itself, years of running on the beach, singing by the fire, plucking fruit from the trees and fish from the nets. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

We sang songs, told continued stories, played spelling games and riddles, and had pillow fights. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

They said I was wrong about Cecile and wrong about what we could and could not sing for the talent show. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

This may prove me as parsimonious as my father, but who spends that much money on corny inflatable light-up Santa Clauses and spinning, singing reindeer? Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

"I don't know any because I hardly ever sing, which is probably a good thing, with my voice." Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

“You had a good bus but you left,” sings Farmer. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

The car stood still, then, its wheels singing and whirling. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

He taught me how to sing with my heart. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

As we sat listening to the katydids, singing loud as they came out into the wetness, the moon lit up a layer of fog below us. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Up in the bell tower the pigeons ducked and bobbed at each other and sang their soft couing song. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“She was the one who sang my harmony last night. She had a lovely voice and I was hoping to find her so we could do a little singing.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

With the singing of this song the trip began, tradition was paid its due homage, the rites of odyssey fulfilled. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The pig was the boar who'd killed him, Sansa knew, but in some verses it almost sounded as if he were singing about the queen. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Nathan listened to the song and remembered Pond singing these exact words. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Her hair is crazily curling down past her back, the Spanish she speaks like a song I am learning to sing. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

King believed singing kept alive “a faith, a radiant hope, in the future, particularly in our most trying hours.” While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

I sang the Rabanito song, about a purple radish flower standing tall and proud in the wind. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

This is all well and good, especially because, with the two of them singing, Axel can listen to his own thoughts in the back seat. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Then she sat by the candlelight and sang as she worked the wet clay. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

I went to a voice coach and sang until my throat was raw. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

Uncle Jet turned slightly and saw him singing. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

At first he thought in surprise that people were singing. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

That night they sang to keep their spirits up, and when they grew tired of harangues, discussions, and songs, they settled into little groups to get through the night as best they could. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The only exception being when we are in grave danger and need help. Once she hears you singing my songs, she’ll know that I’m in danger and won’t harm you.” Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Carry him up a mountain and sing the pig lullaby to him? Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

She sang the Miss Teen Dream theme song as she worked. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

“The bride will like that one, I know. Or sing to us of brave young Danny Flint and make us weep.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

This raga is meant to be sung in the evening, and has a mood of devotion. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

Even if different people are singing or playing different parts, it is not necessarily considered counterpoint if the parts are not independent enough, or if one of the parts is very clearly a dominating melody. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

“You picked the hardest thing to go for. They said singing was the most competitive—” “Oh please. That’s not why! It’s because of you-know- what. This stupid school hates me.” Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

“The white man’s Heaven,” sings a Black Muslim minister, “is the black man’s Hell.” The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

Most days Frau Elena works close by, wearing a torn ski jacket she has found, mumbling to herself in French or singing songs from childhood. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

If Penny has a fever, Lidia sits Penny in her lap, singing into her ear. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Ishtar sings as she stalks through the battle. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

And we are horrible singers, but we sing really loud, so Casey and the other football players couldn’t do anything about it. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

And I sang, “‘How many friends have I really got? Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

I swallow and sing softly back, hoping she'll know it's safe to join me. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

“A little fine-tuning to make her sing,” he says over the engine. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

Arthur used to walk round it Guenever was singing and brushing, her low voice fitting the stillness of the candles, when the door opened softly. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Yet, unlike the music itself, the echoes from the hills sang less of fear than of grief. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

Head voice requires placing the sound higher up in the “vocal mask” or the face, as if singing from the eyes. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

“Dreaming is better, dreaming is brighter,” she sang. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

We all played the dart game, and we laughed and sang “I’ll Sex You In.” Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Perhaps he had sung when that other barber played the mandolin. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instead they sang, their lyrics timed perfectly to the rhythm of the bombs. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

Julie always wants the spotlight and tends to sing extremely loudly. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

Isn't he a singer still today?—and they stand, they calm, and with him they sing out against the tottering of their giant. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

And before I could chicken out, I began to sing “Over the Rainbow.” From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Instead of tasting a Domishman’s wife, he sang of tasting a northman’s daughter. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Anyone who could laugh and tell stories and jokes and sing while he was alone among the demons must know what he was doing. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Do you always sing while you count?” a voice said. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

And we sing with the same abandon, not worrying too much if our voices hit the right notes or the right words. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

The woods are still covered in a shallow layer of snow, and though everything is dead and brown, there are birds and squirrels making it move and sing. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

And he Wanted to rise up, singing, singing in that great morning, the morning of his new life. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

I said I certainly had been, and that I had heard her voice singing separately from the others. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

The Zimbabwean proverb, “If you can walk, you can dance; if you can talk, you can sing,” is quite apropos here. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

"And I said, `A coal miner? Why did she want a coal miner if she could've had you?' And he said, `Because when he sings . . . even the birds stop to listen.'" The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

She had many opportunities to sing in public, and as she gained confidence, she began to dream of a career as a singer. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

I wonder how I can die for Ireland if I have to sing and dance for Ireland, too. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

He started to sing along and bob his head for a few seconds. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

“Rex Lawson is a true Nigerian. He does not cleave to his Kalahari tribe; he sings in all our major languages. That’s original—and certainly reason enough to like him,” Miss Adebayo said. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Dill wades back, singing “What a Friend We Have in Jesus” in his high, clear voice. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

The Voice on the earth was now louder and more triumphant; but the voices in the sky, after singing loudly with it for a time, began to get fainter. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

Who would know what I was singing as long as I moved my lips? Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instead they plunged hell-bent into sing, and next time round, all was lost. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

She sings a couple lines from “Put On a Happy Face” as she dances over and group-hugs the three of us. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

The Committee called a mass protest meeting to “defend our democratic right to hear Marian Anderson sing,” and sent out a call for telegrams supporting an Anderson concert. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

I sing my heart out because no one is there to hear me. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

“Listen, Grandpa! The Oompa-Loompas in the boat outside are starting to sing!” Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z

Depending on the level of the class, the switch to singing the song with all of its ostinati can be done all at once or by using a combination of spoken and sung. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

Then his voice turns light again and he is singing the words. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

With their high singing whine constantly in his ears, Salva slapped and waved at them in frustration all night long. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t care if she sings from the top of the Washington Monument,” the president told Ickes, “as long as she sings.” The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

"If you have to sing, can't you sing in Tamil so I can understand?" Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

Pancakes, toast, eggs, fruit: we watch the kids eat happily, sing songs about how proud they are to be Black. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

He wanted to fall into the groove of things, so he sang “This Land Is Your Land” along with his class for glee. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

The lyrics spoke of how singing could make hearts rejoice. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

“Do you remember,” he said, “the thrush that sang to us, that first day, at the edge of the wood?” 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

“Dad, I have something very important to tell you,” she said, in a voice that could not stop singing. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I could hear Alke calling to me, singing the song that connected the land to its people. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

She flipped the tape and pressed Play, and waited for Robert Smith to start singing before she climbed up onto her dad's brown leather couch. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

I hold her, and I sing to her: What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“Yes. Only medicine men and medicine women are able to remember each story. The medicine folk say that the sp’ sing their stories to each other. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

When he sings he marches around the table, Mam cries and the twins howl with her. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

This time when everyone starts singing, I don’t join in. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Then to the accompaniment of the synthetic orchestra the First Solidarity Hymn was sung. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Stella’s nervous. But I’ll be there to sing her to sleep, just like always!” Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

Marian’s aunt Mary sang in the senior choir. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

Then he tilted back his head and began to sing: There is a little beauty In the op’ning of a flower. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Thus the orchestra, instead of merely providing the musical backing for the characters to sing to, was able to express or hint at the meaning of the stage action, even in passages without singing. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Roland Hayes invited her to sing on some of his own programs. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

The speakers crackled loud and scratchy while the Archies sang “Sugar, Sugar.” P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

"Never, I ... his fool, he made cruel japes sometimes, and I . . ." "Someday you must sing for me." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Uhmma begins to sing the song from church, the one that reached impossibly for the sky. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

She was singing a song inside her head: Milk, milk, beautiful milk. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

She sat on the edge of the bed and sang an odd little song to Poppy—something about rock-a-bye baby, in the treetops. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

When Hayes first heard Marian sing, he urged her to start professional studies, but her family had no money for high school, let alone voice lessons. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

She sang it over and over, to a tune of her own. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

The breasted girl with white makeup who sang from Madama Butterfly and got honorable mention. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

The spirits’ hymn grew louder and louder, erupted from inside her, but somewhere beneath it all she heard a voice singing softly. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

So I began to sing in a thin and faltering voice. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Aye, but will they sing of your courage or my folly? A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Like any second she was going to sing gospel. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

Merry and Pippin heard, clear in the cold air, the neighing of war-horses, and the sudden singing of many men. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

What I really wanted was to sing in the voice of Billie Holiday. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

He’d be outside dancing and singing his heart out all day, so whenever Mr. Ray saw him, he would ask Brownie to perform something old-school. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Taisin felt the blood singing in her veins; all of her was surging up to meet Kaede, who pressed her closer. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

He and Amaka sang as we drove; the undulating road made the car sway from side to side, and I imagined that it was dancing. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

It frightens me the way he yells and cries and sings and I wish I could be at home with my three brothers, no, my two brothers, and my mother. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

“Since I was singing that hymn before your father was born, it’s likely I would. Try something snappier.” Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

A ripple of wind, so cold, so sweet, sings back, As ready as the sun rises and sets. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Study after study around the world has shown that singing enables infants to train their brains and memories, to recognise pitch differentiation as a preparation for the full development of spatial awareness. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

It was near about impossible to make out what was going on, because people all around us were singing, dancing, banging their plates, waving their arms back and forth like trees in a hurricane. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not only is she a good whistler, but she can sing and dance too. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’d sometimes talk about Australia or Alaska, but he never took any action, and when we asked Mom, she’d start singing some song about how her get up and go had got up and went. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

The crowd sang “God Bless America” and the military band played. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

Andrea turns the music up a little and says, “This is my song!” and that gets us all singing and listening to music for the rest of the afternoon. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

As I stand at the edge of the shore, I catch glimpses of their flags, the words written across their canoes—some are written in another language, the same language they must be singing in. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

I sat on his lap and sang songs with him, but Luke—who really had no memory of him—would not join in. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

At night die high singing of women’s voices and light laughter floated out of the upper windows and the sweet strumming of lutes struck delicately by the hands of girls. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

Since candles are in short supply, we fit them for only ten minutes, but as long as we sing the song, that doesn’t matter. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

They were just like the von Trapp family, except they didn't wear clothes made from curtains or sing catchy songs about raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

I had the opportunity to sing to Anne Frank’s best friends, Jopie and Lies, but I didn’t. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

He sings the chorus like he’s always been hungry. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

People living nearby would be coaxed out of their midnight sleep by the singing. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

She stood at my shoulder and looked down at me, smiling and singing, and I didn’t know whether to look down at my hands or up at her face, so I did some of each. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

Even in the song we sing when we miss having a mother—and not her but a mother, period—we sing about a mother. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

“O.K., you sing ‘Dixie’ and I’ll sing ‘The Battle Hymn of the Republic.’ The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I thought he was telling me I had to sing, too. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“We shall overcome,” she sings, and everyone who knows the words starts singing too. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

They'd play games, dance, sing, and swim in the lake to keep cool. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

Now every Saturday morning, we put on our latest album and sang along. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fern nodded merrily like she was answering herself or singing. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Stick your head out the window when you sing this, Dad, so the windshields don’t crack,” Ben said. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

We sang the old gospel songs of our people. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

“You won’t be singing that tune the first time the knife breaks your precious skin.” Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the sailors attacked him he begged them as a last favor to let him play and sing, before he died. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

The other bird still circled overhead, still singing, and then she flew down to join him: another dove, but pearl white, and with a crest of dark red feathers. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Tell them I sing was all it said. Sarah, Plain and Tall 1985-04-25T00:00:00Z

The girl put on her fouled makgabe and ran home to her parents, singing: Mother, open the door for me, I am smelling. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

He smiles and closes his eyes while he sings, stretching his arms wide and twirling around. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

Different bands sang different songs: a melody of wind. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He sings with his eyes shut tight, the way I would see old Koreans praying in the front pews of Minister Cho’s huge church, their fearsome bouts of concentration on display, ferociously willing. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

The words came to his lips and he began to sing. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

One girl played a guitar and sang as people dropped dollars into the box at her feet. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

On the bus, kids who knew me sang that sultry song people sing when they’re pretending to strip. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

The council had extended his curfew; it was death to be taken on the streets after the evenfall bells had sung. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

We lay there together, sweating in the sun, listening to the birds make their rapid calls over the drone of the insects, to the singing coming from the farmers from the nearby village. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

"Nonsense, I like their singing," the broad man said doggedly. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

One lonely cricket tried to start singing, but none of its companions joined in, so it stopped to let silence bring night. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

A football boy yelled something derisive, but the people kept singing. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

And now she could not name the color that decorated the wing of the little singing finch. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

I remember the way Halmoni would sing me to sleep, beating the soothing rhythm of a song on the wing of my shoulder blade. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

Hrothgar himself did not boast, but his poets sang his praises all over the land of the Danes, and men came flocking to join his army. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z

She tried to whistle, but nothing happened, so she sang out loud instead, a song her father had made up for her when she was a little baby and which had always made her laugh. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

Or when Manno Charlemagne come on the air, singing one of his songs with the livdy tune and the words about maybe what the government doing to the people, the driver sing along. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Everyone stopped dancing and sang a farewell to the soldiers. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

What to make of this peacock girl marching along swinging her arms and singing into the air? The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z

She led the singing, acted as a critic of literature, wrote the social notes that went weekly to the Salims Journal. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Howard was wheeling all over the grounds, singing out, “What a race! What a horse! It was perfect!” Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Piper started a different song: ‘Happy Trails’, a silly tune her dad used to sing to her whenever they left Oklahoma to return to L.A. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Rymund the Rhymer sang through all the courses, sparing her the need to talk. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“Hello, hello,” he sang, lurching inside and shedding his jacket in the same fashion. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

It is an unlucky time for travelers and for the sick; children are not given their true name during the Fallows, and no Deeds are sung, nor swords nor edge-tools sharpened, nor oaths sworn. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

Birds were dripping from the trees, little birds, singing and flying and pouring over the limbs. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

She kept standing exactly where she always did when Mrs. Chilcoat came in for chorus, and she never sang any fake words. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

He is smiling as he sings, the music getting louder behind him. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

The men stopped but Nathan wanted to keep singing, because it felt like he was learning songs from Pond again. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

It’s one of my favorite songs, and I bet I could sing better than Natalie. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

The first half was instrumental, with only a horn playing the melody, and then a woman started singing along in the second half. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

I'm free to sing as loud as I want, anytime I want. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

She was probably an old, old woman now, still in the same harshness of spirit, singing this song in the tiny house down home which she and Elizabeth had shared so long. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

Bull Sparra raised a kick at Matthias, who dodged nimbly and started to dance and sing with a silly expression on his face. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

When I was a little girl, I would go to the bakery, and the owners—two sisters—would tell me to sing for them. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

To put him to sleep, she sings him the Bengali songs her mother had sung to her. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Her style was rough; her people had heads too big for their bodies, but Jennifer liked the feel of drawing the same way some people enjoyed singing in their showers. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

That evening loud laughter and bursts of singing came from the farmhouse. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

So they climbed out of the gorge and sped along the mesa in a dust cloud, singing fervently and almost joyously together, until suddenly the car hit a confused jackrabbit and Linda burst into tears. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

In spring, the meadows burst into galaxies of yellow-mustard flowers, and robins and thrashers sing in stands of tulip trees and white ash. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

And finally, the bald man joined in, singing our national anthem. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

She flops back on the bed and starts singing: "War, good God now, what is it good for?" You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

"Nonsense, I like their singing," the broad man said doggedly. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Stop! What are you doing? Stop it! Stop singing!” the nagual was screaming. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

With frantic eye, I sought my cradle-songs, the songs of comfort she might sing for me again, dandling me in her arms. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

I didn’t have any idea that the high-pitched noises he made were singing. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

“I’m the golden goose. She’d still be singing in her church choir if it weren’t for me. I made her who she is, and I can find someone else just as easily.” Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

The song that fisherwomen sang to the sad young bride as they braided her hair and prepared her for her wedding to a man she didn’t love. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Believe it or not, your accrued, cultural knowledge, added to a little enthusiasm and singing, is more than enough to be able to incorporate music into a lesson or curriculum. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

He actually sings that last word instead of saying it. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

I leaned close so my lips were brushing her ear, and started singing. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

My fidgeting continued when the congregation sang along with the choir, songs like the ones blasting in Gran’s house and car. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

“Happy birthday to you!” the children sing in English. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

I began to chew a hangnail to suppress my fury, but I stopped when I realized it wouldn’t look like I was singing. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

He always sang it coming up the stairs so that everyone would know he was home. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

I sang that tree’s glory, its solid, unhurried purity, its slow beauty. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

I had been angry the first time he had sung it over for us. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“There will be no disgrace, not if you were taught in Ayortha. What will you sing?” Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

She heard her aunt’s voice singing the “Dayenu” as if from miles away. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The choir was summoned and sang a modern arrangement of “Onward, Christian Soldiers,” with new words pertaining to graduates seeking their place in the world. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

The voices faltered a little, but seeing that Titid was singing loudly, we kept singing, too. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Through the quiet, the singing pulled at her. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

I don't feel like singing, but I realize if I want to eat something more than squirrel stew, it's up to me to earn cash now. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

When he passed the Methodist church, he heard the congregation singing a joyful hymn. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

Her mother appeared, singing and heavily perfumed, her face dry and bright with powder that was one shade too light. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

There was something familiar in the songs, and he remembered old Betonie’s singing; something in his belly stirred faintly; but it was too far away now. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

The choir was already lined up and singing sinners down to the water. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Mason, along with Thomas Hastings, went on to establish the first public school music program in Boston, beginning with the Boston Singing School, which taught children singing under his methodology. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

Off to the east was a football game, and from the same direction came the feeble sound of a hymn being sung in unison, then fading. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

One girl from a working-class family—Katie Brindle — sang in a choir after school. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

We sang the highs and the lows with Michael, whose voice was big and filled with pain like he might know what he was singing about. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

In terms of the song itself, explore the meaning of the music itself apart from the lyrics—sing the melody of the song on a neutral syllable. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

I looked at Andrea to see if she was turning up her nose at such an old-fashioned song, but no, she was grinning and singing along with everyone else. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Adam could hear the singing lilt of his speech and yet could detect no word pronounced in a strange manner except perhaps in sharpened t’s and /’s held high on the tongue. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“We’re going to sing a few folk songs,” he said, picking his banjo. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

She was in charge of leading the work songs for the larboard watch, singing out line after line for the rest of the watch to repeat as they hauled sheets or turned the capstan. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

An incorrect key can take away the child’s ability to sing the song well or sing the song at all. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

Normally her singing, off-key and enthusiastic as it was, made me roll my eyes. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

I put an end to that dolphin singing. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

Others had them sing a happy song about flowers. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I opened my mouth to sing, but nothing came out. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

We listened—well, Nan and I listened while Wynn sang—to classic country music. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

Bull sat with Lucy leaning against his leg and Edward balanced on his right knee and he sang from somewhere deep inside himself. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z

At the sound of the drumming and singing, these dancers stepped in a counterclockwise circle to commemorate the rotation of the earth, their feet pounding the soft earth, their bells jangling. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

He was laughing and talking and telling stories and singing the whole time, all the time it took to pick the last of the beans and pull all those carrots and beets.” Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

“I’ll sing a song that I made up all by myself and when I’m done I get to ask you one question and you have to answer and cross your heart you’ll tell the truth.” Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

He would watch the singing and dancing, cheering and crying, and chalk it all up to theatrics. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Armpit: “I’m gonna take you someplace you never been before ...” They sang the last line together. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

I can’t eat right now, and while I appreciate Baba’s hospitality, I would also like him to hurry up and leave so I can finally sing this song, before I chicken out. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

She had to concentrate hard and sing it many times. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

At first they did not see it, but when it began to sing they saw where it was sitting on a branch, beside the thorns. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

Red silk and blue flesh sang against each other, the colors seeming to vibrate. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Never heard the words, despite the thousands of times I had sung them. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mamá had sung that to us so many times I couldn’t count. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

Joffrey sang for her as they rode, his voice high and sweet and pure. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

We had much in common; both of us were tall for our age, and we shared daydreams—our worship of Johnny Mathis and Nat Cole, and our desire to sing. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

When at last he lifted up his eyes he saw a new Heaven and a new earth; and he heard a new sound of singing, for a sinner had come home. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

Every day, Vuyisile Mini, who years later was hanged by the government for political crimes, led the group in singing freedom songs. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Praise the Lord,” we all sang, including Pa. We meant it in a joking way. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

Birds are settling down for the night, singing lullabies to their young. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

He reached the top of the tank and three shots sang past his head. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

There is Benediction and hymn singing in English, Irish and Latin and best of all the big powerful sermon Redemptorist priests are famous for. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Good night, sweet Prince, and flights of angels sing thee to thy rest . The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The soldier was shouting, “Don’t waste your bullet! I say one vandal one bullet with immediate effect!” while the little boys gathered around him, taunting him, laughing at him, singing praise names for him. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

The men on the wagon began to laugh and shout and sing. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

The condemned Delawares spent the night praying and singing hymns. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

All night the townsfolk danced and sang around the burning fire. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

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

Father sang the song in such a mournful voice that he always made me laugh. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

This Irish song is also meant to gradually speed up in tempo as you sing. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

Then she sang backup while he sang hits from all his albums, but he had her stand right beside him. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

Musical activities such as singing, singing/vocalization, instrument play, movement/dance, musical improvisation, songwriting/composition, and listening to music, are types of musical therapy interventions to assess and help individuals practice identified skills. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

I sang a few more notes, giddy with anticipation, until I came upon a smudged symbol which I did not recognize. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

I think of Locke’s mother and the singing bird in the acorn, of Eldred on his throne, head bowed by his own crown. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The singing went on and on—and then it stopped. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

"Oh—the angel sang it to me," I say nonchalantly. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The more Dad sings to Margaret the less she cries and as the days pass she even begins to laugh. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

A blackbird began to sing, a loud, bright, warning song. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

He could sing a song and strike a chord now and then and really it sounded as though he were singing to music. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

All they had in the world was the nerve to stand in a back yard with cap in hand and sing loudly. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

It came to a head one morning, while they were singing together, alone in the solar. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mama and Doc sang “Happy Birthday” to us and Doc cut one huge slice and put it on a plate between me and Jay. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Soon the sun was dipping low in the sky, and the cicadas were singing. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

And for the first time she seemed to sing her prayers instead of muttering them. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sound of drums and singing and clapping kept our conversation from being overheard. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Without fail, every time I come into Hernando's, he sings my name at the top of his lungs. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

One day, she and Princesse and I were singing it with her in her living room, and I started to cry. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Birds sang in the bushes, a bumblebee droned past, everything was surprising in its normality. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

Part of it was the discoveries—who would have believed that my father sang while tonging? Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

After struggling with the Arabic, it helps me calm down to sing, even if it’s kind of strange to go from Quran to Motown. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

He could have heard us coming last Tuesday the way the prairie grass sang as we whipped through it. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

When he had drunk enough beer, Frank would sing the song his father had sung, in a baritone deeper than his normal voice, the alcohol slurring the words in the darkness of the park. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

This aids in proper and correct on-pitch singing as well as sight reading and ear training. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

“Did you see the Sears Portrait Studio out there?” she asked, then sang, “One of these things is not like the other...” Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Looking at the child, I suddenly became hungry for my country, for its fat bees carrying nectar from apple flowers and for the birds singing in clusters of hazel. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

I was humming to myself, a song my mother used to sing me when I was a girl. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

A moment passes, and then another, and then a woman’s voice sings out, “Welcome to our new home, everybody!” Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

When I finished telling her, she sang an Ayorthaian mourning song. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

Already at the tables, a group that had arrived still earlier was singing “The Star-Spangled Banner” in order that they might use the salt and pepper and ketchup there. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

"He sings that all the time. I told him to stop but he won't. It makes me scared. Make him stop." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The war is over and everyone bursts out singing! Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He made a song for you, and he wants you to sing it? It sounds like he’s super into you.” Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

The derisive smiles soon faded as, pair by pair, the heirs heard their code words sung. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

She starts quietly singing some funny little song, about a mouse running up a clock. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

He could almost understand them . . . not quite, not truly, but almost ... as if they were singing in a language he had once known and somehow forgotten. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

I hope they sang together, as they so often did. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

He went to the spot by the dry bush and started singing, mimicking Dog’s voice. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

They marched in singing freedom songs, to the accompanying cheers of friends and family. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

And as her mother continued to sing her praises, Ashima, unable to resist a sudden and overwhelming urge, stepped into the shoes at her feet. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Then I remembered: “‘Imagination, who can sing your force? The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

The voices of a hundred men and women singing and shouting crashed over me like waves. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Bob Dylan sang about a hard rain that was going to fall, and Shadow wondered if that rain had fallen yet, or if it was something that was still going to happen. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

We ran for hours, Chi-Boy and Miig taking turns carrying Minerva like a child on their backs while she wailed and sang and mewled in cycles. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

I really wanted to sing to them because Anne Frank is my hero and the song would have tied in perfectly, but the thought of telling anyone scared me. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Music filled the car—the Beatles singing the chorus of “All You Need Is Love.” Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

She carried water to the field hands, and listened to their rhythmical singing, watched how the movement of their hands, their bodies, was paced to the rhythm of the song. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong!” he sang out, knocking the boots around. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

“The bards shall sing of our deeds—and of his.” The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

In terms of the voice, both boys and girls should remain singing in their head voice or falsetto. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

So I sang, starting with the couple of Congolese lullabies I could remember and soon transitioning to hip-hop. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

A crowd of a dozen or so others were lined up in two rows on the other side of the fire, singing the weird chant that Mark had been hearing. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

The rally ended as twenty-five thousand voices joined in singing “We Shall Overcome,” changing the words to express the triumphant spirit of the day: “We have overcome today.” Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

The dawn, the sea-dawn and the mastery of ordered flight, were of such intense beauty that the boy was moved to sing. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You sound like an old frog when you sing!” Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

My grandfather used to sing the songs and laugh about how silly they were. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

“I had forgotten, myself. There were birds on that island, singing so prettily, so loudly! Too small to eat. The little birds with white throats, those sweet spring cries. Eyah! My girl, you remember them.” The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

“The house will not always be so clean, the cooking may be a little hasty, and the whining children will sit on my lap and I’ll sing to them while I work.” Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

Was the singing of “The March of the Blossoms” too loud? The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

Lancelot said: “Nothing. I don’t want to sing. Come and sit close to me, Jenny.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But there’s a children’s game they play around here. And in the game they sing, ‘Jake the only son of Solomon.’ Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Everyone starts clapping and singing before I have time to breathe. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

And though I can’t see Daddy’s face behind my back, I sing a prayer on the inside that for once there’s a twinkle in his eyes too. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

“Home sweet home,” Mom sang off-key as the Toyota chugged into the driveway. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

“Don’t make me sing ‘liar, liar, pants on fire.’ The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Most times I’d heard humming before it was just a excuse for not being able to sing or something people’d do if they didn’t know the words to a song. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

She teaches Max to sing the song while I slice the bread and boil the eggs. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

“I sang a solo for our convicts on Alcatraz. I sang ‘Silent Night’ for Al Capone, Machine Gun Kelly, Roy Gardner and the others. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then I practiced singing one of the solo choices Ms. Holly had listed for the winter concert—just for fun. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

She opened her mouth to catch a breath of air, and found herself singing. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We are not singing that song,” I said plainly. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

How alone he must feel, confined to this gigantic space without anyone to talk to, or sing with, or eat with. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

She heard a nun’s voice singing the boat song. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

We all sat around a semicircle of stone steps, singing halfheartedly and watching the bonfire blaze while the Apollo guys strummed their guitars and picked their lyres. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

I heard a shrill, high, singing sound as the bolt that held the right propeller to the frame snapped. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

But soon he’d be singing again, to his lost family, to his god, to everyone they passed on the trail. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

She sang with those inside the castle walls and those without, sang with all the city. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

I stopped in Melbourne to get some gas and thought of Jim Morrison singing about how people are strange. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

The Moon Lady plucked her lute and began her singing tale. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Only during fleeting moments did I allow myself to have fantasies of what it might be like to sing with the chorus or perform in the Thanksgiving program. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Neville either ignored her or couldn’t hear her over the old funk song he was happily singing along to as they cruised down the West Side Highway. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

She sings as she puts away the dishes, stacks the pots and pans beneath the sink, polishes the furniture. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

She helps the mother keep the promise she made in the peekaboo song she once sang to her son. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

Such songs are not sung anymore in public, especially the ones that use words likefree. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

From somewhere above us the O'Jays are singing, telling people all over the world to join hands and start a love train. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

“You were at the rally. You’ve met all my friends and have seen how happy I am here with Nan and Wynn. This place, Hope Springs, this is where I sing.” Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

One struck the dead globe, causing it to sing its strange filamental music of the spheres, fragile and high-pitched above the outside noises. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Across the country, people built bonfires, organized parades, fired guns, shot cannons, and sang patriotic songs. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Toward midnight, coyotes on the western mesa sang their falsetto tunes and were answered. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

They sang without instrumental accompaniment—or, more accurately in their case, without any interference. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

A blackbird was singing on the chestnut tree. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

She did not use the word “I” as she sang. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

He weeps as he sings, the whiskey and the late hour and the watery sound of his own voice taking him back to a place far from this one. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her expression grew a little gentler, and she reached down to smooth my hair, “Always think about what you’re singing, honey.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

They knew all the words and would blast it on the iPod and sing the song out loud. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

“Why do you like DD? Does he sing about philosophy or something?” Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

His eyes never left my face, but I sang softly, carefully, proudly. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I knew it was her owl because it was singing in daylight. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Or play his old guitar and sing happy songs to her and her mother. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

Martin Luther King arrived at Selma’s Brown Chapel on the evening of January 2, 1965, greeted by an exuberant crowd of seven hundred singing, clapping would-be voters. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

Caleb, sturdier than when I saw him last, didn’t stop singing his dog song, which was neither a true howl nor a bark. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

Blithe was the singing of the young girls over their test-tubes, the Predestinators whistled as they worked, and in the Decanting Room what glorious jokes were cracked above the empty bottles! Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

The papers were singing of Riddle’s sportsmanship in starting War Admiral in the race. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

They made him feel like the singing men in spats. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was also learning to breathe despite my asthma so I could keep on singing. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

By 1918 Marian was singing regularly at church, school, and social events. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

She certainly wouldn’t have had the guts to sing show tunes to the snake people under Athens. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

She claps her hands in a rhythm and sings: The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

I just lay there trying to look very ill, but my heart was singing out with all sorts of wonderful songs of praise and joy. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

The rest of the song came to me, and I sang it, quietly, almost whispering it. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

Had anyone, she asked, ever heard of a little dickeybird that dared to sing his charming song without first opening his litde beak wide, wide, wide? Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

“I’ve been told the good old-time Negro sang and danced and was content.” Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I got home I saw that Derek had picked up some fresh videotape because he wanted to tape himself singing. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

We sat for a while around the fire and Dadi sang, her high-pitched voice winding around the air like a butterfly. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

After we emptied our pockets in preparation for the day of the march, someone a little older than I was came forward and we all sang: Oh freedom! While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

They were grouped around a girl at the piano and were singing, “Hello, Central, Give Me No Man’s Land.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

I will sing you that song now, comrades. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

“You...sing,” said I, “with great skill and beauty.” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

The challenge with older children is their desire to vocally imitate the pop singing style. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

He made us sing one of the English songs that Teacher Sarah had taught us as a car drove through the orphanage gate. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

One wonders what he would sound like if he could sing. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

The table falls silent, as the sound—the singing—strengthens and rises. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

‘I don’t like this great big tree. I don’t trust it. Hark at it singing about sleep now! This won’t do at all!’ The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

There is also often a mood associated with a raga, such as a time of day the song should be sung, or a season of the year like monsoon season, hot season, or winter. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

Today, living in America, I sing my new song of joy and hope. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

The smells are richer than here, and before long the moon will rise and my brother will sing to it. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Raucous singing was borne toward them on the night air as they retraced their steps along the lantern-lit path, and leprechauns kept shooting over their heads, cackling and waving their lanterns. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

I see Gram singing and humming as she pours the tea. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

We stare at the ceiling, and Pomp sings songs beneath his breath he learned while herding. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

The Shaper sang things that had never crossed his mind before: comfort, beauty, a wisdom softer, more permanent, than Hrothgar’s. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

She looks back at me, and her mouth moves—one word, sung over and over. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

But someone on a horse was approaching, singing loudly. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Each morning Sibanda would sneak off to his food tree and sing to it about the greediness of his wife and family. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

The thing we do when the world isn’t singing a nice tune to us. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Without turning around she sang out, “Come in.” Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

But what she brought back was familiar, the dried fish even saltier, and she sang, with an amused expression, the song the women sang at the center. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Crickets sing, and water rushes around the rocks. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

“You like to do that, right? Didn’t you sing in front of a huge crowd?” Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

Hear her mother singing, listen to her uncle’s silly stories? Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

"Under the sea, smoke rises in bubbles, and flames bum green and' blue and black," Patchface sang somewhere. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Plus, she's stopped singing completely—unless it's a song for a rehearsal or audition. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

This is more or less how all choral music is laid out to this day: one line of music for each singing part, running alongside each other on the page. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

I looked around at all the people clapping their hands and singing Gwendolyn Brown to heaven. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Forgotten names sang through my head like forgotten scenes in dreams. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

I washed up a little, then moved a discreet distance away and listened to her sing several rather racy songs. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“Okay, this is great, but promise you won’t sing ‘Happy Birthday’!” Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

“All right,” I said as I walked to the door, “Who sang ‘Everybody Was Kung Fu Fighting’?” Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

A little choir of voices in my head was singing, “Hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah!” Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Though the wind blew his way now he held the singing magewind in the sail, and flake-foam shot from the boat’s blunt prow, and she slapped the water as she went. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

Ugwu began to sing an old song he had learned on his father’s farm. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

He sang what the people wanted, ‘Sweet Adeline’ and ‘Down by the Old Mill Stream.’ A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

A singing chipmunk holds an acorn with a candle in it. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

We had been walking in silence through the night until we stopped to listen to the singing of morning birds shattering the silence of the day. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

If you think the four of us huddled together under blankets like the pioneers and told stories and sang old western songs in front of a roaring fire, you’re wrong. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

Baba sings in a fake deep voice as he passes through the family room, making me laugh for the first time since that afternoon. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

Instead, I finish with him as quickly as possible and then go to my room and sing my heart out. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

Everyone clapped, and then other guests followed by singing their favorite songs, including a two-star Russian general who chose a hit from Russian TV. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

The loneliness that was always in the cabin, except when his mother was singing or telling a story about the Lord, was heavier than ever now. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

We make our way through the underside of the tables, with ballads and drinking songs sung above us, screams and whispers in the air, and the soft footfalls of dancers echoing around us like rain. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

On deck the ship’s band was playing “California, Here I Come,” and people were dancing and singing and laughing. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

As Lillian Woodward droned on, most of them whispered—loudly—to each other instead of singing, and their words came to Turner even over the bass. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

They chortled delightedly to themselves while I tried to come up with a different song to sing. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Periodically the club would get together to sing, dance, reminisce, and raise money to help various charities. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

But even singing “You Are My Sunshine” outside his window only resulted in him opening the window and spitting at us. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

Every time the youngest one sang, “Can you remember?” P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

Roberto must have read my mind because he said, “Why don’t you sing a Mexican song?” Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

I would sing a hymn in front of the congregation that Sunday. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Mom immediately started singing along—sounding even better than when she sang to herself in front of the bathroom mirror. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

She went on to say that she wanted all her children to absorb the meaning of the words they sang, not just mouth them, like silly-billy parrots. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

‘Really, one is inclined to wonder what is. Well, all right. We saw a hedgehog covered with roses, singing a song on a box. What happened then?’ Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her song brightened the cold gray day so that a cowbird thought it was spring and began to sing in the old oak tree. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mist hung about the ground, finches were singing in the oak tree beside the house, and there was my mother, her pregnant belly sticking out in front of her. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

They all seemed to be singing to us. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

But now he had these words, these words like drums and singing and magic. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Thousands were there. Joy! That’s what you felt....They had come fifty miles but when you’re marching and singing, it doesn’t faze you how far it is.” Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

Read the letters from home along with singing the new verses of the song. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

With the right music on the radio, I could just see myself singing in front of a huge audience. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Not just a few notes, but whole songs with multiple verses, if you had the patience to sing them and if they liked your voice. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Remembering it later, his wife said, “Alvin was singing in the bath. ‘ In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

Very often the members of the group will sing the same song together. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

She sings “Are You Lonesome Tonight?” and the Abbot sings “The Road to Rasheen” and we still don’t know what his song is about. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Behind the riders, the Methodist church staged a patriotic tableau, and then the children of the Wolf Creek School—minus their star pupil, Chase—marched, adorned with blue sashes and singing “Over There.” Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

She sings like a bird, is cute, and, like Vonetta, cannot resist the lure of applause and attention. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Didn’t you tell me Dale sang? When you were first engaged, Lee, I remember you said how beautiful his voice was.” Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

He carried him back and forth across the room and cried tears of joy as he sang for him. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

It took only seconds for a thunderous percussion of goatskin drums to join the singing, and instinctively Koffi's own heart attuned to their pounding cadence. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

As time dragged on, she sang to pass the hours. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the child who screamed at that moment in the churchyard had cursed, and sung, and been silenced forever before God gave him a sign. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

After all, he was singing, or trying to. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

“A leaf of the singing tree,” she mused. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Voices singing and sighing, rising, straining, then surging, teeming with pleasure that burst syllables into fragments of laughter. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The greatest movie star in history was sweeping the country at that time, a girl younger than Mary Alice named Shirley Temple Shirley could sing and act, and she was a tap-dancing demon. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

"Will you sing it again? You have a nice voice, nicer even than the birds," I say as a crow starts cawing. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

And yet, while she was singing with pleasure and dying with laughter over her own inventions, Aureliano was becoming more and more absorbed and silent, for his passion was self-centered and burning. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

When they’d finished their work, they set off marching along the road through fields of corn to the train station, singing as they went. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

I liked hearing him sing sad songs in his gentle baritone voice. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

The littlun Percival had early crawled into a shelter and stayed there for two days, talking, singing, and crying, till they thought him batty and were faintly amused. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

In the mild air of spring they were singing cheerfully, sweetly, as though to keep her company on the first morning of her life that she, Omakayas, knew the truth of her past. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

Frozen and shrinking, I stand stunned onstage until the orchestra has finished the piece, Marschner coming to my aid and playing the melody I should be singing. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Then, in the evening, Max would whistle or cough, sneeze or sing, letting me know there were no police, and I would pass him food through the weak place in the fence. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

He played the opening notes, and then my mother sang Ella Fitzgerald’s ‘I’m Beginning to See the Light.’ Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

His poor taste in music reached me before he did; the car vibrated from the bass, and Marcus sang loud and proud. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

I act confident as my insides quiver at the idea of recording myself singing my words. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

Gran pursed her lips as Parliament sang “Give Up the Funk.” Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

"I'll try not to be too long. And if any of the fair folk sing their silly songs at you, for heaven's sake, don't throw your crutch at them. They'll only steal it." Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

The kicking increased in tempo, and I thought of Amaka s music, her culturally conscious music that sometimes started off with a calm saxophone and then whirled into lusty singing. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

From now on - around ad iooo - you could write down a tune and someone else could sing it back to you, never having seen it or heard it before. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

They did, and together, we danced and sang along with the song. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

And as I watched Clarisse and Chris singing a stupid campfire song together, holding hands in the darkness, where they thought nobody could see them, I had to smile. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

But each day, the teacher’s voice sang out with hope and each day the negative response was given. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

If you can sing, or dance, or tell jokes, get your act together and get ready to show your stuff. Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He sang sincerely, as though he really believed the words of the song. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

First he just told me to sing, to keep on singing. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

She liked to sing along, especially to blues songs. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

I said every prayer Amma had sung that I could remember. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

I will sing to bring Mama back, even if it’s only for this moment right now, right here. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Miss Violet tapped the baton again, and we started to sing. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

He said I sang like one of God’s own angels. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

He put a hand in his pocket, turned away from her and sang. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sun did not sing as it came over the hill. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

But as I was passing the broken church I heard a solitary singing voice: “Ah, dear God, how can this be That all things wear and waste away!” Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

Even Melisandre’s fire was shivering; the flames huddled down in the ditch, crackling softly as the red priestess sang. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

But if it pointed directly to another child, that was when they fell to their knees and sang Pilate’s song. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

I do not think that they will sing for me. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

Two adult elves, one with a flute and one singing, threaded their way through, the singer occasionally rocking a group of hammocks gently. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes I would close my eyes and pretend it was you singing to us, Mama. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“And tonight is a big night. Lawrence Welk is on TV. All the singing, dancing, and polka music. You’ll love it!” The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

His sister stood on a chair and directed the singing. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, I think you can sing in Spanish.” The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

“It’s a whole new world of pretty. Taylor sang over the walkie- talkie. “ Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

We sang along, pointing as she did with our sharpened pencils, rubber end out. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

There was a kind of raw energy to the music, not like the polished songs she sang, in which every note was carefully planned and orchestrated. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

The birds sang only gray songs and the road wound back and forth in an endless series of climbing curves. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

Then she stooped, the wind singing in her feathers. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

Some Deckers sing along and I’m sure if they were allowed to have lighters in here, they’d whip them out; some are crying, others are smiling with closed eyes, hopefully lost in good memories. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

The headmaster asked the choir students to stand wherever they were in the auditorium and briefly sing something. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

The large-eyed beauty of the women, the singing, the flowers, the bright colors, and the crying, were what he needed now. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

They sang so sweetly their voices enchanted sailors and lured them to their death. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

He hears the voices of the boys in his Kameradschaft back in Zollverein sing, Live faithfully, fight bravely, and die laughing. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

“I wish Jesse were here, singing and telling bad jokes and going on and on about some stupid book he read.” We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

It sang again, lifting its head to the ceiling. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

Then whoever it was started to singing “Ring de bells of mercy. Call de sinner man home.” Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

They walked on and sang as they walked. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

She loved writing and singing songs, but she had been so filled with sadness that she had lost the heart to sing. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

When the corn was mounded up, the best singer among the slaves, the one with the highest, clearest, truest voice, climbed to the top of the stack and led off the singing. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had a rich voice, and being from Alabama, he had a soft way of drawing out his vowels when he sang. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

The musicians kept on playing, and the lady on the stage, when she saw the penguins, sang all the louder to show how angry she was. Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z

And the volume of the singing had gotten louder and louder. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

It was a blues, and I walked along behind him remembering the times that I had heard such singing at home. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Throughout my childhood, he sang me a song about my famous Pashtun namesake. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Louisiana finished singing, and her grandmother said, “It does my heart good to hear you sing, Louisiana. It makes me believe that all will be well.” Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

“I’m up!” sang Ess, sitting up straight, but with her eyes still closed. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

They’re numb to that, too, except for a couple who have dreams of singing backup or opening up a hair shop . Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

And as the sun’s rays peeked out of the horizon, turning the sky into an amethyst haze, the canoe people sang in a language I’d never heard before. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

At nightfall the nuns were exhausted, unable to move, give another order, and still the troop of tireless adolescents was in the courtyard singing school songs out of tune. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

“And don’t be afraid to ‘shoot the outside J,”’ Maya sings. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

From the chickens and the foxes he had gone on to sing of life, friendship, love, and also revolution. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a well-worn tune, one that she had sung before without much consideration. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

“How many nights till frost?” sang the crickets. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

To Kit’s surprise the husking was fun, enlivened by singing and wagers and jokes that seemed uproariously funny. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

Patsy Cline started to sing “Walkin’ after Midnight” on the jukebox again. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

Everyone sang the regular birthday song to me and then my sisters and I sang our version just before the wishing and cake cutting began. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

They are listening, analyzing, visualizing, sequencing, and applying concentrated brainwork to understand what they are singing. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

And then there was whistling and clapping and yipping and singing. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

The lights dimmed and the players went to find their Pepettes so they could put their arms around them for the singing of the Permian alma mater. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Beneath an arch of twining stone leaves, a eunuch sang their coming. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

I chewed on the inside of my lip and tried not to freak out at the thought of singing in Spanish. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

She sang to the ancestors and to the other slaves. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Live faithfully, the boys sing as they troop past the edges of the colony. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

But soon he let his thoughts return to the river, and as he lay there a whippoorwill began to sing on the opposite shore, darkness spread over the land, and Stuart dropped off to sleep. Stuart Little 1945-10-17T00:00:00Z

Before Ellwanger could get very far into his speech, he was drowned out by a large crowd of hostile whites who began singing “Dixie.” Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

All the singing and repeating stuff on those shows is super annoying, but Ford loves it. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

A herald gave a shapely cithern harp to Phemios, whom they compelled to sing—and what a storm he plucked upon the strings for prelude! The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

At sunset he played on the mandolin while she sang. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

She sang for the snake people, for her friends’ safety. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

There was a sudden startling burst of singing—hundreds of male voices crying out fiercely in harsh metallic unison. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

His deputies loomed behind him, but they weren’t singing “Sweet Adeline.” A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

I can even do my homework without distractions, play records, dance, and sing along to my favorite songs. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The godswood there was a garden, bright and airy, where tall redwoods spread dappled shadows across tinkling streams, birds sang from hidden nests, and the air was spicy with the scent of flowers. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

No matter what Stamey was doing—standing in chow lines, cleaning his equipment, writing letters home—he was always singing. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

As I softly sang the song, I thought, Dr. King is free now. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“This morning I talked to Marlena, a woman I know from the weaving shed. She lives in the Fen, and she remembered jo, though she didn’t know her name. She remembered a singing tyke.” Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He sings along, stuff about fighting nations, and guns, and ammunition. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

As my family steps into the dazzling sunshine, I start to sing the happiest song I can think of. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

But it’s entirely different to sing your own song, the one that comes from your heart. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

There's a group of little kids standing in the sunshine, doing hand motions as they sing the Hebrew aleph-bet. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

That was the last sane and clear thought I had before I saw at least a hundred bright lightbulbs and five boys onstage singing that new Sly and the Family Stone song. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

Nate asked, raising his voice up over the singing and knee slapping. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z

She noticed the same two magpies singing to each other from across the same meadow every evening. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

“Looking back,” she remembered, “I see stretching behind me year after year of singing, traveling, packing, unpacking, rehearsing, and studying.” The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

It was a legitimate sound of home, one that would remind the Meecham children of their youth more strongly than the singing bells of ice cream trucks or the cadences of lullabies. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dilsey was singing in the kitchen and I began to cry. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

We look at each other while we’re singing; these aren’t two solos, this is a duet that isn’t taking itself at all seriously. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

The plot of Aristophanes’ satirical play The Frogs of 405 bc, for instance, like the story of Orpheus and Euridice, concerns a life-or- death poetry and singing competition in the Underworld. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Sticky and giddy from their successful trip, they sang made-up Junior Patrol songs, complete with arm motions, all the way back to the boat. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

He heard the quiet singing of Christmas carols. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

I am listening for Aunt Fannie Mae’s laugh and Grandma Matildas singing and the creak of the swing in the backyard that swayed under my favorite tree. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

We heard a little sawing, singing sound as a file began to slice through screen wire. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

Juana sang softly an ancient song that had only three notes and yet endless variety of interval. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

I gathered that the singing part of the rehearsal was over, and before the coach’s dissonant speaking voice could entirely break the spell the children’s singing had cast, I got up and left the church. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

No one sings songs of men who die like that. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

They lived their lives, sang their songs, and died under the changing moon. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Dad comes home from looking for a job he holds Margaret and sings to her: In a shady nook one moonlit night A leprechaun I spied. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

The last words of this man who had sung to life were: “They’re going to shoot them! They’re going to shoot them!” The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

But now after the mutual laughter something disturbed me: Shouldn't there be some way for us to be asked to sing? Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Pond forced himself to sing the final phrases of the fourth song, grunting and groaning the whole time. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

The words of the lullaby rushed to his mouth, and his lips quivered at the chance to sing the song he had put so much effort into learning. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

As we left the Temperant tent, the quartet was singing, in close harmony: . A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

I can play hymns better than anything else, because I used to play them for our Sunday School singing. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

Standing a little apart from the choir, Ivy sang the dark sweetness that Pauline could not name; she sang the death-defying death that Pauline yearned for; she sang of the Stranger who knew . The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

And a sweetness filled John as he heard this voice, and heard the sound of singing: the singing was for him. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

It’s weird, Noise, but almost wordless, cresting the hill in front of us and rolling down, single-minded but talking in legions, like a thousand voices singing the same thing. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

His body was alive, vibrant, singing like an electric wire as he dressed in preparation for the trip to Ravenel. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

But she could not help—as she dug in the dirt, and sang to the worms, and prayed with the mantises—comparing this garden, this field, with her other gardens, with Sean’s garden. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

The distant child had stopped singing now, and it was dead quiet. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

One night of uncertainty, when Pilar Ternera was singing in the courtyard with the soldiers, he asked her to read the future in her cards. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

"Guddat, why are you singing English songs?" says the leader, with an air of superiority. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

Here were two artists, one black and one Puerto Rican, standing beneath a 115-year-old chandelier, bracketed by towering antique portraits of George and Martha Washington, singing about feeling “at home in this nation we’ve made.” Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Clap or tap to the beat of a song for a few measures, tapping louder on the downbeat and lighter on the other beats in the measure, then begin singing. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

"A bit left, a bit left," he sang out. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

“I have a little dreidel, I made it out of clay,” sang Laney, off-key and very loud. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

I sang it again and again, and every time Grandma would allow me to crank her Victrola, that's what I would play. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Then they landed on their branches again and began to sing. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

When we went hunting, he would whistle or sing complicated songs to them and, after a polite pause, they'd always sing back. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Milkman’s feet were singing, the tender skin of the ball louder than the heels. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh, sometimes he reads them poetry. Or he starts talking to them in French. Or singing an aria from an opera. Mr. Brewer has quite a good voice.” The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

He hovers over me and extends his hand for me to sing “The Christmas Song” along with him. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

He recognized the song that sprang forth - the same wistful melody Calypso sang for him on Ogygia about homesickness and longing. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Sitting under the gulmohur tree, I start singing my favorite songs. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

“Arms I sing,” said Turner...after more than a few moments. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

Uncle Bob’s turkey tastes like cardboard and his lemon pound cake looks like Jell-O, but Hospital Santa has everyone singing and all this joy is spoiling my mood. The Crossover 2014-03-18T00:00:00Z

“You should hear her sing,” I continued, trying to fill up the silence. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

Organisms that evolve on a quite different world will doubtless sing its praises too. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

And may I live to tell them and hear them sing. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

On one occasion, 13-04 took me aside and requested that I try to coaIher to sing the songs in private, and record them in my memory. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

"I'm working with the Fashion Minister to make a line of dresses that sing. This is my first attempt." The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

The choir sang two more songs, each better than the one before. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

A gentle slap on the side of my head, a secret pinch, girls circling around me singing, Who stole the cookie from the cookie jar and pointing, as though the song is true, at me. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

That old blues song Pilate sang all the time: “O Sugarman don’t leave me here,” except the children sang, “Solomon don’t leave me here.” Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Somebody was singing something about ‘Hold on my heart’ or something like that. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

She was somewhat notorious for having sung “I’m an Old Cowhand” in a cabaret while wearing only a white cowboy hat, a white swimsuit, and high heels. 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 imagine people bundling up and waiting to hear a band whose every lyric they could sing or enduring a snowy Super Bowl for a team they'd followed since childhood. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

He would make them up as he worked, and he sang them beautifully. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

I sang each of them home when I poured them out. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

They are just singing them one octave higher. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

"Why don't you sing, Kabir? It always helps me forget how stuffy this cell is, so I can sleep better." Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

They sang the whole song through until Dicey spoke the last line. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some bands even welcomed people to sing along into the microphone. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

This whole entire time, Pond had sung only one song! Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Then he started to sing, ever so softly. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

He was just singing for the hell of it, you could tell. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

I'm playing viola less—it's been under the bed for days now—and I'm singing more. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

On the first and last repetition, the melody is played or sung, and soloists improvise during the other repetitions. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

After we shower, we get dressed and sit in the hall to wait for Ty and the morning sing. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

T plays or sings again if necessary, and students also sing. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

I hear a bird sing and find it on a branch. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

Pop Pop says I’ll look like an angel as I sing “Amazing Grace.” Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

The motley conglomeration of joyful, tanked-up ruffians outside laughed until tears came; they continued to imitate animals; they sang songs and gestured obscenely at the livid dog. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I sang through All the little duckies in my head. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Deep stone flues where the water dripped and sang. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

My sister Lillian was in high school and singing with a hillbilly band called The Sierra Stars—jeans, cowboy hats, two guitars, and a tub bass. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

They went up, up, up, trilling dew from their wings, and busily rested, and sang, and sang. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I was just singing,” he said, like this was news to me. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

A few other folks had also stopped singing and were craning their necks to find the source of the only real music in that little church. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

A soul tune was blasting out of an eight-track tape player, and all the black women packed between the peeling wooden benches were singing and dancing to the music. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

And nobody noticed, not the band, not the audience, when this time she really did sing: “Save me, Armpit! A damsel in distress. ” Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

They had to be careful which songs they sang. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was supposed to be singing “I’ve Got You Babe” and “The Beat Goes On.” P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

I stayed outside to sing to Mama Duck. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

She didn’t look quite so queasy, despite the fact that Coach Hedge was still singing his Pokemon song at the helm. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

“That’s enough, young lady. You must sing when I tell you to, and not otherwise.” Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

“As if it were simple as singing. Besides, I don’t know if she would want to hear it. She’s something special What would she want with me?” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

They sang beautifully—no one was more able to appreciate good music than Matt—but they didn’t understand what they were singing. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

At first she invented rhymes about the tundra and sang them to tunes she had learned at school. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Hello, Dad,” she sang, tickling beneath his chin as she circled him. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It makes me feel like I’m not invisible, but not in a bad way like when people sing ‘Happy Birthday’ to you in public and you want to drop through the floor. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

His shoulder sang, and he bit back a yelp as the door flew open. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

She looked up and saw a brightly coloured bird, which sang to her the exact same song that it had sung to the uncles. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

I had a memory of Mom singing along to it while she made breakfast on a lazy weekend morning. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

The bard looked grateful he didn’t have to sing in Elven anymore. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

The wharf began to sing the same song, and then the honeymooners’ headboard sang, too. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was proud that I had participated in the Civil Rights movement, singing freedom songs and marching peacefully with my friends. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

We played and swam and even started to dance and sing. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

She sings in a high, pure voice, carefully pronouncing each word. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘Enter, good guests!’ she said, and as she spoke they knew that it was her clear voice they had heard singing. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

The shadow of a tree fell abruptly across the dew and ghostly birds began to sing among the blue leaves. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

And all I see is this girl who sings this heartbreaking song because she gets it even when the rest of us don’t. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Strangely, no insects sang; all dogs and coyotes were quiet. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Against him, quietly, I unlocked my voice and sang in the forest. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

And they sang: “Oh, Lord, Lord, I want to be ready, I want to be ready. I want to be ready to walk in Jerusalem just like John.” Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

When he got too tired to walk, he sat in a folding chair and played songs on his guitar and sang. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

No chanting no singing no silk banners no bands no trumpets no mother no father no slick-fingered commandant dragging a finger across his back. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

These songs can be varied and repeated, and help children sing accurately. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

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

Daddy, I want to sing and dress up like Miss America. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

I think of Rue, how maybe I could sing a song or something. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Eventually, friends persuaded her to reconsider her decision and sing again. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

Lettie, half asleep, sang, “Once I hit the tracks, my burdens at my back, I hopped that train in the pale moonlight.” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

So I sang the la-la-la part with Fern, making a nice wall around us, to keep that laughing Ankton girl on the outside. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

All of a sudden she stood up and started singing, “Here comes the bride, dog bite her hide.” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Odysseus shrank from killing such a man, taught by the gods to sing divinely, and he spared him for further song. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

In my mind, Kristin Chenoweth will be waiting for us on a staircase at this Port Authority place, probably singing the theme to “New York, New York.” Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Baylor was running the vacuum in the living room and singing “Amazing Grace.” It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

There were no insects singing, there were no catbirds, or orioles, or vireos, or robins. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

When she finished singing, her father had tears in his eyes. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

She sang her the alphabet at tooth-brushing time, and also in bed at night, but the girl just didn’t seem to be getting it. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

“Why aren’t you saying something? Tell me some kind of a story, or perhaps sing us a song. Only don’t forget to turn off the radio.” A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

I have left church early, walked out, after hearing the congregation spontaneously applaud its own singing. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You singing alone?” he asked, seeming a bit excited in spite of his half-spoken warning. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“I didn’t like it. There was nothing in it. Aw, all they did was sing and shout and pray all the time. And it didn’t get ’em nothing. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Cicadas and crickets sang farewell to the sun slipping toward the west. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the edge of his consciousness he could hear Leslie singing along and drowsily wondered why she bothered. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

Older children may have an expanded vocal range, but it is important to remember that the pitches that are most comfortable to sing are in the middle of their range. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

Whole song: Teaching a whole song is exactly what it sounds like…singing the whole song at once and having the students echo the whole song right back. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

As young as they were, it was funny to listen to Vonetta, Fern, and Michael sing about how they’ve been lonely all their lives. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

“You can never trust a con. Nobody came here for singing too loud in church. Do you know what the word conniving means?” Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Meanwhile the harper in the great room sang a song. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We are never going to sing this again,” she told them, trying to explain her reasoning to the surprised youngsters. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

As I was heading out, I heard Nene singing, “Mama, I just killed a man.” Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

This time, I don’t need to sing to distract myself, but I know an extended stay at the cottage will be impossible from the plumbing standpoint alone. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

He comes home late roaring and singing.The twins cry and Mam shushes them and cries a long time herself. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

He constructed elaborate fountains, with grottos containing mechanical singing birds. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

They crowded into her darkened room, throwing open the windows, singing hymns and praying over the grieving woman-child, exorcising the demon of grief and calling Ann back to the world in Jesus’ name. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Rani sings the names again, and I hear longing in her voice. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

There was the music again, the faint singing. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

The women sing Christian hymns as they walk, and some carry guitars, or they carry sacks of charcoal or salt balanced on their heads. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She plays the first notes of the national anthem, and everyone sings as if we are at Fenway, shouting to fill the stadium. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

Then, in a moment, there was silence, only silence, everywhere—the very birds had ceased to sing, and no dogs barked, and no rooster crowed for day. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

He was running on the green turf and singing. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

“I will play as you sing,” Alice said to the gathered women. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

When the farm money is gone he rolls home singing and crying over Ireland and his dead children, mostly about Ireland. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

I knocked again, but she turned up the volume, and the Beatles sang about all the lonely people and wondered where they all came from. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

This is my song, only Halmoni was the one who would rub my back and sing it to me so I could fall asleep. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

The books on the shelf rise up in solid lines of singing color, the world drops out, and its hidden shapes snap forward to meet my eyes. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

A mosquito sings in my ear, and I almost feel grateful for the company. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

“I was singing to myself. Am I to blame if he listens?” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

She’ll stroke my cheek with her cool hands, sing quietly in my ear. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

So he sang—or intoned, with the harp behind him— twisting together like sailors’ ropes the bits and pieces of the best old songs. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

But there was something else, too...a current of magic that Aru could feel singing through her veins. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

I turn up the stereo and let my hair loose and swing it around and clutch an invisible microphone and dance and sing in front of the mirror. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

But before long, the Defender was singing a new tune. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

They danced and sang and there was a partyish air about the gathering. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

But whenever my father sang, all the birds in the area would fall silent and listen. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

They are like a country of dark hills that sing far down under the ground. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

He really needed to hear from someone who survived summer school with his ex-boyfriend, and he promised me he would sing even louder. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

He addressed a few short sung syllables to the boys on the ground, and they both smiled up at him and waved their sticks in the air. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

This is how the house noises sing her to bed. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

“Oct is the Latin root for eight. So the space between low D and high D is one octave. Can you all show me and sing low D to high D?” Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

With that he picked up his lilies, and then with a beckoning wave of his hand went hopping and dancing along the path eastward, still singing loudly and nonsensically. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

“Did you sing the Holy Night one again?” Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

It had come about almost magically, as if the threads had spoken to her, or sung. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

And my mom started singing that ‘you get what you get’ song when I complained. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Sometimes when I couldn’t find any I would watch the Growing Souls Gospel Hour, where they would tell Bible stories for children and sing hymns. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bella was unfazed and, in fact, began to sing the theme from Mr Rogers’ Neighborhood: It’s a beautiful day in the neighborhood, A beautiful day for a neighbor. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The women joined in singing high rounds of praise. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

She hummed the chorus as the vocalist sang it. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The singing was so strong, you’d have sworn a church choir had assembled in the living room. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

“Yes. A little. Not much. She was nice. She had green eyes. She liked to sing.” Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

It was somebody singing about how somebody else was leaving. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

Maybe he’s ignoring my texts because he already met an awesome new girl who can sing and play piano and looks like Anna Kendrick. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

You were shivering and coughing, but you started stringing beads while we sang out, “Bead necklaces, pretty bead necklaces!” The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

One of the things about rugby that's an inescapable tradition is that everyone on the team has to sing, and everyone also gets a nickname. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“That’s where we administered the sodium pentothal. Commonly known as truth serum. You sang like a bird.” Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

“These are our podiums, but no pressure. You don’t have to sing.” The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

Lena Home was now singing within the phonograph. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

It happened gradually, as I kept singing and talking to people at churches. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Later, since it was Sunday, some of the brothers and sisters would come to her, to sing and pray around her bed. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

She never told him that Langston Hughes made her heart sing the way he does mine. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

Part of me wanted to search the audience for her, to find the face of the woman I was singing with. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Someone’s parents have been singing entirely the wrong sort of songs. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

At last they rode over the downs and took the East Road, and then Merry and Pippin rode on to Buckland; and already they were singing again as they went. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

Top branches rubbed together now and then, their Up up ahead that was singing about Napoleon’s army of fifty thousand men climbing up a hillside. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

“To tell the audience I was singing despite a broken ankle would smack of searching for pity, and I was not there for pity that night,” she recalled. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

But I'd played the xylophone okay and sung White or black or yellow or red, Come see Jesus in his shed okay too. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

These were the hours in which she sang a little; breathed however she wanted; and simply kept quiet — more important now than ever, as she had a hunch she might be pregnant. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

The double band drank, the Shaper sang, and then they drank again. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

"And she never sung you the song o' the winter rose?" A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

We sang a song that Mai Thi taught us about bananas—though it could have been about elephants and we wouldn’t have known it, since we only knew two words of Vietnamese. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

The kind where you get to someone’s house and their mom shows you down to the basement, and there’s junk food and Apples to Apples and a bunch of people randomly singing. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

Jam shook her head, not meeting her mother’s eyes, even as she felt Bitter’s worry sing against her skin. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

It was an old hymn they used to sing all the time in the church where I grew up. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Before we reach the deejay, a Turkish girl named Jasmine sings “Because the Night” by Patti Smith and it’s amazing how someone so tiny can demand such attention and ignite this level of excitement. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

The singing is soft and close and tearful. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

We had spent the minutes before the bell rang dancing around it while Holly sang that old song about having a hammer, I’d hammer out danger, I’d hammer out a warning... Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

“Here I am,” he sang loudly, “In the middle of a terrifying wood. Trada-la!” The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

He looked up from his crossword puzzle and sang—to the tune of “Oh! Susanna”—“Oh, Peas-Anna! Don’t you cry for me...” Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Her hands were high above her head, swaying in the air, and she was singing with the rest: Dr it e the devil from my sou/ . A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Beautiful, beautiful money,” sang Ear, looking over his shoulder. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Vonetta and Fern traded off between the high Michael parts while I sang the lower background parts. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

Lately they seemed to be singing more loudly and cheerfully than ever. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Soon she was singing well enough to be entrusted with solos when the junior choir performed at the church’s main Sunday service. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

From somewhere in the branches above me, I hear Rani say sleepily, "You have a nice singing voice, Kabir." Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

He tossed restlessly on the floor, then sprang to his feet, his heart pounding, his ears filled with the sound of singing and shouting. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Every nerve in my body was singing, but I launched my elbow into the chest of the pickup truck driver. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

On the radio, a man with a soft deep voice is singing telling us to have ourselves a merry little . Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

“No. You do not want to hear me sing.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Same as mine but probably sung like a real boy, with friends. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

Ever since Miss Love started playing for preachin’, folks had sung out good, patting their feet and generally getting in shape to shout and amen during the sermon. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

There men, and a few women, lifted their glasses in toasts and singing and let the hours slip away in lively conversation. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

They sang softly, though, so that their music would contribute to the quiet, not destroy it. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

For when he smiled, he looked like the kind of man who would sing to the oysters. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like Hooter, the owl who couldn’t see, or Daisy, the dog who couldn’t hear, Kaira might be a singer who couldn’t sing. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

Just as the theme song from The Big Blue Marble begins, the four of us sing along: The earth's a big blue marble when you see it from out there. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

All we people in there try to touch through the spirit One man I always see swinging machete is leading the service, singing with eyes dosed, calling down the spirit. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

I sang as if my life depended on it. Louisiana's Way Home 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Her dad starts to strum away at his guitar and I hum along before my brain even consciously registers what they’re singing. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

“And you love singing, right? Is that only for you, or do you dream about singing for others?” Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

When I look up to check again, the numbers fade into dancing cats singing about kitty litter. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

It was on such a holiday that Robert Fumulani, the holy father of Malawian reggae music, came to sing at Dowa District Hall, and my father—then twenty-two years old—was determined to go. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

His voice sounds all weird, and he knows it, so he tries to sing. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

There was no sound except from the water and a breeze singing high up in the pine trees. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

It was full of smoke and drinking and singing. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

As he made the fire, he sang a special song, of the sort that cannibals sing, in which he told of how a poor hungry cannibal had found a fat girl in a cave. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

On the day when I estimated it was Mother’s birthday, I sang “Happy Birthday” to her out loud. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

But when she finally spoke, they were warm and soft as when she sang. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Its tremendous chords held all the sorrow and all the strength of the people of the city. sang the hundreds of voices, so powerfully the air seemed to shiver. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Jimmy sang along with Waylon as he took the turn into the plot of land that held their trailer. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Katie sat in the front row and asked him to sing. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Papa Andrew translated her compliment into Krio for us, we all giggled because we thought that we had sung in English. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lauren seemed to compensate by watching TV for hours at a time, housewives and fix-it shows and singing competitions flashing across the screen every time Maya came downstairs for a snack. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

It was the duet which she used to sing with Lancelot, and, when she recognized it, she stopped abruptly. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Daniel’s sisters are always outside on the front porch dancing or singing or playing whenever they go past. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

“O brave new world, O brave new world ...” In his mind the singing words seemed to change their tone. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

It had become a tradition for different crews to sing national songs during meals. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

The singing man stands up from his bucket and braces himself to sing the chorus as loud as he can. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

When she held a well child on her lap and rocked back and forth, she sang. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And now it is sung only at Yule?” Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

But when the singing stops, the dreams fade, and I descend into nightmares. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

As the demonstrators were marched five blocks to jail, singing freedom songs, they were repeatedly jolted by cattle prods. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

Finally he led his team to Joe’s door while he sang in creative German, “We are the world. We are das Welt.” Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

They ate the last of their packed food, and Eunjoo sang songs to their grumpy brothers. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

The boys were on their side of the classroom laughing, and I joined in with the girls on our side, singing “I’ve Got You Babe.” P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

“My whole family loved him. We all loved music, too. My brother and sister and mother sang really well. My dad just sang really loud, loud and happy, though always out of tune.” The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

I led some of the boys in singing hymns, and I always took my turn at burying the dead. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

That day I climbed up into the maple and watched the singing tree, waiting for it to sing. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

“When she sang the song. While the little girl died.” Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

“Everyone. People used to dance and sing and play—now they all quiet. Scared.” Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

She sang “His Eye Is on the Sparrow,” and when I say she sang it, I mean she sang it. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Never sang a song to me, or held my hand. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

The leader of the birds fluffed up his feathers and began to sing a special bird song which was all about how birds enjoyed eating the food of foolish people. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

He was able to see across the bush and he saw Dog, looking up and singing. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

And in the kitchen stands my sister preparing supper and singing. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her promising singing career was all that interested her. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

Out here the sun heated and the wind cooled, and the waves sang their constant song. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

No sooner had they finished the last morsel than Mzizi and the new wife heard the sound of singing coming from their stomachs. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

But play the opening statement just once and then try to sing it back to yourself. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

And you could do the cool jerk while singing it. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

The dark world was rushing by and the wind sang loudly in his ears. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

She was flipping flapjacks over a hot griddle and singing some sort of goofy song. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Don’t let your heart get upset,” I sang to myself. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

And we sang the whole song, from beginning to end, as quietly as if we were praying in church. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

What she needed most was an evening dress to wear at her singing appearances. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

As he drifted into sleep, Stanley softly sang him the song that had been in his family for generations. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

A group of pilots had gotten together around the piano of the bar and were singing their squadron song. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Katie had married Johnny because she liked the way he sang and danced and dressed. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Babies need watching,” said one of the women who’d been singing with the Believers. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

And yet, it came to him that he must move; for there was a light somewhere, and life, and joy, and singing—somewhere, somewhere above him. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

From the kitchen he could hear Louis singing. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Turning to us the principal said: “Before we sing the customary ‘Hip! hip! hurrah!’ Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the days he worked, Papi left the house before dawn and sometimes joked that he woke the roosters to sing the barrio awake. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Having to sing in Spanish was kind of a big detail to overlook. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

Then it seemed to Frodo that she lifted her arms in a final farewell, and far but piercing-clear on the following wind came the sound of her voice singing. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

We all rode back home together, Father singing loudly as he drove. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t even entirely clear if they were singing in English or one of the several languages of Yugoslavia. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

And Dill’s heart sings because he feels that he’s pleased his father and God. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

They kept their voices down, just in case, but they sang eagerly. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

"I'm no cheap jongleur, either, you know. I sing for lords and ladies! One day I'll sing for the king himself!" The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

When the food and drink are all gone, we bring out the karaoke, and there are many people singing all kinds of things. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

Then she closed her eyes, lifted her head, clasped her hands before her, and began to sing. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

They hear pop music, watch singing competition shows on television, have pop idols, and want to sing pop music. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

Children may be tempted to speak or chant the drone part, but it is important that they sing it, maintaining a constant pitch and good tone. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

The words he sings from that song long ago. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Then she sang: “Faith and hope and charity...” Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Perhaps they gave us some kind of resolve as we sang them—and also the courage to face our own death someday, if that’s what was necessary for freedom. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

I put my earbuds back in and raised the volume a little more, letting Stevie Wonder’s singing voice fill my ears. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

She handed him to Hassan and he handed him to me and I sang the prayer of Ayat-ul-kursi in that little boy’s ear. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

The third time Pond sang, Nathan hummed the melody and picked up more words here and there. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Outside her open window a cricket was singing. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

And now she cannot laugh or sing or wonder. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

She sounded as if she were trying to sing though weeping and strangling. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

There seemed to be a million crickets singing around us. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

I pull down my bikini bottom and squat, forcing myself to sing, so I can relax enough to go. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

It was just as marvelous for his mother to be singing as it was for a cricket to chirp familiar songs. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was no longer singing when he came home, if he came home at all. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Lena closed her eyes and began to sing softly. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

We scroll through a bunch of other videos and sing to them until we’re tired and thirsty. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

“Like nothing else. And when you got too big to hold in our arms, we’d pull you close, sing right into your ear, until, well, you just didn’t need the song anymore.” A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

She didn’t come to Chorus, so I sang the soprano part for Miss Violet of the Very Spiky Heels alone at our stand. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

And the people sang in all the ways of the City. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

The soldiers burst into the barracks, and I keep singing. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The sweetness of the fruit, the sunlight, the singing are intense and heady, and the exhilaration sweeps us in. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Only Blanca could get away with this because she had an angelic face that almost made you want to sing Alleluia. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

In the Midwest, as I’ve mentioned, winter is an exercise in waiting—for relief, for a bird to sing, for the first purple crocus to push up through the snow. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

He was there many years, thinking, meditating, singing his strange songs, listening to the birds, learning from peasant women how to heal sickness with grasses and herbs, to write amulets, to drive out evil spirits. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

I love Christmas—the tree with its ornaments, visiting relatives with their houses decorated for the holiday, and carols on the radio, which Mom sings along to as long as Dad’s not in the car. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

Sarah changed the words of the pig lullaby so that they rhymed, and every night she sang it to little Stanley. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

I think of the concert and how I haven’t told her about passing on the chance to sing a solo. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

They did not sing or even speak much for a while, and paid close attention to business. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Somewhere around the boring part where the guy named Rolf and the oldest daughter are singing You are sixteen, going on seventeen, Jack nudged me. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

So, yeah—sometimes I wish I could sing. Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

One that Frank used to sing to Axel. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

“Hi, Zuri!” one of the girls sings after I introduce myself. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

I could go back to the British School, be sensible, and start singing about the king again. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

On a black cast-iron stove there were half a dozen pots steaming and singing. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

My troupe was not some poor batch of mummers, japing at crossroads for pennies, singing for our suppers. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Before I knew it I was tapping my foot like everyone else, pretending to sing along to songs I didn’t even know. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

For the last two hours he had been whirling a pair of dumb-bells in the air—he called them “poises”—and singing to himself a song with no words and no tune. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Limerick City erupts with whistles, horns, sirens, brass bands, people calling and singing, Happy New Year. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

She smiled and, to break the tension, started singing “Dayenu” in her strong, musical voice. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

But it seems there is more to it, more things to be memorized, more songs to be sung, more nickels to be donated, before he can be truly appeased. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

She sighed, then she began to sing the summer song again. Sarah, Plain and Tall 1985-04-25T00:00:00Z

Whenever he saw a rowan-tree he halted a while with his arms stretched out, and sang, and swayed as he sang. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

The vault of daybreak filled itself with heralds, and this is what they sang: You turning world, pouring beneath our pinions. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

She says singing takes too much heart and her heart is too heavy to give to God. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

This was even worse than the nerves I felt when I sang. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

He hung on with the talk and the singing and the memories, and then suddenly, and it not midnight, he tired. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Back to his desk, where he sang “This Land Is Your Land” while the lizard darted out from his rock den to feast on Egyptian clover. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

The moment the sound of raucous singing had hided around the corner, he slipped out of the gate and ran in the opposite direction. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

Then she repeated the last line real slow and soft, except this time she sang, “Yes, sir, it’s my baby...yes, sir, this house is...my baby...now-ow...” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

As Mrs. Taylor and her companions left the Street, she sang quietly to herself, “My Country Tis of Thee,” like a frightened child easing past a graveyard. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Music, especially singing, was deeply important to them all. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Around them animals were stirring: horses stamped, birds began, waking, to sing the dawn in, and here and there across the market meadow, those in the tents were beginning to rise and move. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

Miss Lumley’s jaw quivers in a frightening way when we sing this. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

“You’d better go up in the beech tree and sing that,” said Hazel. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

But her face did not brighten, and later, when we said the rosary, her voice did not rise when she sang. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

Finally, with the sun beginning to decline behind the Olympic flame, a choir of thousands dressed in white rose en masse and began to sing the “Hallelujah Chorus” from Handel’s Messiah. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Legolas lay still, looking up at the sun and sky with steady eyes, and singing softly to himself. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

"So much villainy, it sings a sad song for our age. Did honor die with our fathers?" A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

One or another of the worshippers would stand and begin the singing: A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I could hear Mom in the next room singing while she worked on one of her paintings. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

A black weekly in Richmond, Virginia, sang Durham’s praises even more fervently: Go to Durham...you need the inspiration. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

All at once, everybody was standing and singing the school song, “Hail to the Old Gold, Hail to the Black.” Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Come right in, please; we’ve been expecting you,” sang out two sweet voices in unison. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

The wind sang up in the oak trees on the block and banged the blinds against the side of the house. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Pilate, he didn’t even tell you to sing, Pilate. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Perhaps she, too, sang, All along this Christian journey, I want Jesus to walk with me. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Some students were snickering and pointing at me as they sang the word “black,” but I didn’t care. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I could hear music coming from the truck radio, Sam Cooke singing “Another Saturday Night,” then May calling across the yard to Rosaleen, something about getting the sheets off the clothesline. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Down down down,” he sang, so deeply that the windows rattled. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

The boy with the deep speaking voice actually sings like a girl. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Dad had a fine baritone, with strength and timbre and range, and despite being tanked, he sang that hymn like the roof-raiser it is. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

And Nellie, for the first time since Edward had been with her, did not sing him a lullaby. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z

Kaira, under a single spotlight, seemed especially alone and vulnerable as she half sang, half whispered the very last words. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

For the rest of the ride to Central Park, we did nothing but argue about the Jackson Five until Fern began to sing “Can You Remember” and Vonetta and I joined her. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

It sang “Money Musk,” and “The Red Heifer,” “The Devil’s Dream,” and “Arkansas Traveler.” Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

They saw, they smiled, they sang, they smelled, they moved. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

When we tired of singing, we would pester Grandma to show us her feet. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was “such a sweet person,” so “artistic,” a “terrific” dancer, and she could sing, too. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

He could hear her voice singing in his head. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

Then I switch over to my videos, and it’s a million clips of Ethan singing. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

All through my growing-up years, she kept singing it, one way or the other. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

It isn’t the height that scares me—the height makes me feel alive with energy, every organ and vessel and muscle in my body singing at the same pitch. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

A lock of banshee hair that sang them to sleep whenever the moon was full. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

“As you can see, we are doing our arithmetic lessons while we sing!” Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

The congregants line the banks and sing ‘Amazing Grace” as Dill wades unsteadily into the river, sinking into its mucky bottom as he tries to reach where his father stands, smiling. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

When my machine picked up, you heard the Doors singing "Hello, I love you, won't you tell me your name," followed by the beep. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

Up ahead Jet Stone Boy stared up at the sky, singing to the stars. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

It’s somehow both sweet and wrenching, and the singer sings it like she means it. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

“You'll be asked to sing in our afternoon group, at two p.m., after the creative team takes their lunch.” Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

Four veterans emerged from the crowd, stood in front of the Wall, and sang the Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young song “Find the Cost of Freedom.” Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

Still singing, my sister reaches across the small space between our beds. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

He reaches the singing man, grabs the collar of the old man’s dirty coat, and punches him until his body is limp. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Then I heard my mother singing something about trains and Arkansas. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

She hoped that Blossom would like to sing and that Paul Jones would want to play the fiddle and Little Willie the piano. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Brother Luke was teaching him to sing a carol, because it was near to the Feast of Christmas. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

“Singer,” he called, “come sing us something soothing.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

But the thunderous singing from the choir propped me up and strengthened me to walk back to my seat. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

Down the long length of the wide hall I heard someone unseen skipping down the stairs singing. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

We parade behind her to a row reserved for us in the audience, and the choir heads straight to the risers to sing first. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

That even in the wintertime, the crickets sing us to sleep. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

He changed a few words to fit the tune and the tune to fit the words, and then we both sang it. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

“After it got dark, we told stories and sang around the fire—it was a glorious night with the moon making fairyland of the lake.” The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

The hobbits fell asleep to the sound of the soft singing of Bregalad, that seemed to lament in many tongues the fall of trees that he had loved. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

I preferred movies with dancing in them, singing, ceremonial masks, carved artifacts for making music: feathers, brass buttons, conch shells, drums. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

"I was inviting someone to steal from me, singing about my money." Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

Some wood- pigeons sang drowsily their Take Two Cows Taffy, and, on the other side of the musical water, there was an enormous knight in Mack armour with his tilting helm in position. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

I managed to go the whole practice without singing. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

And I remember a lone, almost ragged guitarist huddled on a side street playing and singing just for himself when he glanced up and instantly recognized the oncoming, striding figure. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Who has that kind of money to dish out based on me singing one little song? Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Next to an alto she sang alto, by a soprano, soprano. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then he started impersonating Frank Sinatra, singing “New York, New York” off- key and doing his lounge-lizard dance. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Dad closes his eyes, nodding with the beat as we sing. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

For months she refused to sing in public. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

The other animals sitting round her took it up, and they sang it three times over—very tunefully, but slowly and mournfully, in a way they had never sung it before. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

From somewhere she heard the sound of a bird singing. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

Having sung his song he would say no more. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

She look over at Mr. a little when she sing that I look over at him too. The Color Purple 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

The bear was gone, the birds were singing, he saw nothing that could hurt him. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

All that day they walked about, in the woods with him, singing, and laughing; for Quickbeam often laughed. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Check whether you yourself are singing correctly and check that the students are singing correctly as well. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

Sam is trying to get her to sing along to the holiday music playing from the speakers, but her mood won’t budge. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

After that, it sang Home Sweet Home and The Old Rustic Bridge by the MOL "Come,” said the Wart, "you can stop that I won’t bite you.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

He sang “The Colors of the Sun” along with his class, and he solved a math problem. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

“And now, before we go to bed, let us sing the school song!” cried Dumbledore. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

“Yes, yes, I recognize that. That must have been the singing I heard in my dream.” The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

By late evening, as we sat in front of the fire, singing Christmas carols, I realized maybe I had my wish. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Beatles sang in their English accents about the sun coming out after the winter. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

But all through the singing that we did that night, no mosquito showed its face. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

It reminds me of hanging out with Rabiya back home, and her pushing me to record myself singing and post it online. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

They laugh and sing and dance and cry and scream and fall down in a weakness and you wonder if they’ll wake up at all and give you the tip. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

The fiddle sang as it had never sung before. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Meg sings like a freaking angel and is one of the strongest actors in the school. Watch Us Rise 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z

“Birds in their little nests agree,” sang Beth, the peacemaker, with such a funny face that both sharp voices softened to a laugh, and the “pecking” ended for that time. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

My hands were still trembling, as if trying to shake out that last bit of adrenaline singing in my blood. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

One of his rangers, a big ugly man, sang a bawdy song as he saddled his garron, his breath steaming in the cold morning air. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

I only spoke German before, though I sang in many other languages. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

They had been singing in the sept all morning, since the first report of enemy sails had reached the castle. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

I gave her a small bucket and sliver of soap and she got to work washing a pair of stockings and singing to herself. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Again the owl sang; Ultima’s spirit bathed me with its strong resolution. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was, he said, teaching them to sing a new song, for which privacy was needed. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

But because she was an African American, she had been denied the right to sing at Constitution Hall, Washington’s largest and finest auditorium. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

That song Vetch sang aloud now as he held the boat westward, going before the cold wind of the winter night that blew at their backs from the vastness of the Open Sea. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

“I actually downloaded The Breakfast Club after that. My mom loves that movie, so she watched it with me. She sang along to the credits. That was embarrassing.” Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

Finally, let the class sing with no support from you. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

“I was thinking the same thing. What song should I sing?” Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

I offer to sing a song for some sausage, but Fabian throws me the butt of one and tells me that’s for not singing. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

“Watch this,” she called, and wiggled her rusty fingers back and forth while singing, “The itsy-bitsy spider went up the waterspout.” Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Later, when Mr. Costa came in to sweep, he listened to the radio sing a mournful song about a lonely truck driver in jail who longed for his eighteen-wheel rig and the open highway. Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z

"Way down in Egypt's land. Tell dat ole Pharaoh to let ma colored folks sing! I'm for the rights of the colored brother to sing!" he shouted belligerently. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

They sang protest songs and listened to community leaders who assured them that after hundreds of years spent wandering in the desert of segregation and oppression, the Promised Land was at last within sight. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

He drinks his pints at South’s pub but never comes home singing songs of Ireland’s long woeful history. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

In 1965, while he was living in Berkeley, California, he began singing songs at the early protest rallies that had sprung up against the war. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

Paul McCartney was mindful of the advice when he sang, “So may I introduce to you, the act you’ve known for all these years: Sergeant Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band!” The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

While we walked, she quietly sang a song she used to sing to me when I was a kid. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Some schoolchildren are singing a song from My Fair Lady, and my hand itches to turn up the volume. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

“You need to learn your letters before you can write. You need to learn the fingerings on the strings before you play and sing.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“My dad loves them. Sometimes he walks around with his shirt off, singing, acting like he’s Roger Daltrey, but he’s so my dad, and he looks like a scrawny lawyer from Boston,” I said. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

They sang so joyfully loud that Ms. Katz from across the hall tapped on their door’s window and motioned for less volume. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

All the while he’d burst into singing just as spontaneously as a bird. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then spinning as they ever did, twirling the distaff and twisting the thread of destiny, they sang, Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

We sang together in Chorus for Miss Violet of the Very Spiky Heels, and when it came time at the end of the day to clean the board, we did that together, too. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

The sky was clear, the birds were singing, and I felt contented after my difficult night just to be lying in the grass, feeling the ladybugs crawl up my ears. Bunnicula 1979-03-01T00:00:00Z

When he got to Hannah, he pointed his finger at her and sang: Pretty girl, with faraway eyes, Why do you look with such surprise? The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s been years since I’ve listened to or thought of that song, but after Gramps left my bedside, I’ve been singing it to myself over and over. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“To quote Cleopatra,” Miss Volker sang out, ‘“The enemy is at the gate.’ Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Her fingers moved over the tiles, drawing deep resonant sounds from within the big box, and she began to sing in a high, sweet voice. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was getting lighter every moment, and the birds had started singing. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

I can see her leaning back against the door, knees under her chin, laughing at something, or singing along with the music. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

It seemed as if the trees whispered the tunes of the songs he had sung. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

The only time she felt at peace was when she was singing. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

Her voice is deep, and she sings a fine baritone in church. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Indigenous women cook and clean and work in fields and take care of children; they don’t sing in the spotlight on TV to thousands of fans. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The kinds of feelings I think you’d squeeze and squash, not be singing about with outstretched arms and showing every tooth you have. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

Pong and Manit both held still and listened, Voices, thousands of them, sang together. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

“I know what you must do, dear—come to one of our meetings. It would lift your heart. We sing.” The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

A moment later, Helene kneels, offering her sword, repeating the vow, her voice singing out across the field as clearly as a bell at dawn. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

The video weaves scenes from both parts of my life as you hear the track and my singing over it. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

He’d turn up the volume, start bopping his head, tapping the steering wheel, and singing along. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

We sang along, even though we didn't know what some of the words meant. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

And unless Harry’s ears were deceiving him, the old radio next to the sink had just announced that coming up was “Witching Hour, with the popular singing sorceress, Celestina Warbeck.” Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

I was walking along singing my lungs out when they came tearing out of the underbrush, wiggling and twisting, and tickled to death to be with me. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sounds of singing came through the open windows of the orphanage. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

I cringe because Rufus caught me singing, but it’s all right, it’s all right. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

I can't hear the song, but I can hear the tone of her voice; and when the singing stopped, she rested her face on my head. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Neil Young sings like a barn collapsing but his music’s epic. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

“I be a fine midwife’s apprentice now. I know about babies and birthing, singing songs and cooking chickens, crying and laughing and reading.” The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes I hear Dadi’s high-pitched singing in the background, her Hindu songs and Kazi’s Muslim prayers, a sweet, rich music together. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“Sir, she never sang these songs to me, in my memory. I was an infant. You are the only one who heard them.” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

“And in truth, could we but—” “Horsewhip!” 03-01 sang out gaily, holding one aloft, and the company silenced itself. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

“I didn’t know white people sang songs like that.” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Mr. Clohessy tries to sing with us, gone, alas, like our youth too soon, but it brings on the cough. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

“For I have read that shepherds like to engage in singing contests.” Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

“With nothing but my good singing voice and your manly bravado?” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

And the singing yellow bird seemed like something that had been hidden in Mrs. Borkowski’s dream suitcase, too. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

When they finished singing, Jack Rabbit Jones took off his shades, walked over to the long, polished oak coffin where Cool Papa Byrd’s body rested, and placed the shades over Cool Papa Byrd’s closed eyes. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

Sometimes, in his calmer moments, he liked to sit on Laila’s lap and have her sing to him. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

“Hey, pitcher, look at me, I’m a monkey in a tree,” I sing. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

And then she still wouldn’t like the book and would want me to sing for her. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Malachy and I sing that song and Mam and Minnie laugh till they cry at the way Malachy takes a deep bow and holds his arms out to Mam at the end. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

There are other fantasies involving magic powers, impossible wealth, and the ability to sing and dance. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

In the spring, the little flowers came out obethently in the meads, and the dew sparkled, and the birds sang. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ged's voice was soft still, but changed, with a deep singing in it, and the words he spoke were not known to them. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

It must have been a refrain; each time she sang it, the audience broke up laughing. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The boy thought she would sing, but the rocker only moved enough to squeak. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It will be sung year on year and age on age that Unferth went down through the burning lake—” he paused to pant “—and gave his life in battle with the world-rim monster.” Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sibanda sang these lines only once or twice when he heard a sound in the leaves above him. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

“Yup. I mean, I sang for the team today and everything.” Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

They had to learn to do dances waving red kerchiefs; they had to sing nonsense syllables. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I turn down the volume and sing along under my breath. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

In the darkness he sang of his leadership, but, too weak to run, turned wearily back to the tent. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Red started singing as they walked off, but he changed the words: “I’m dreaming of a white Central.” The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

One, I got to clap along on the beat for the singing. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

She opens her mouth and sings a little four-note run in a sweet, clear voice. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

“Why?” she asked, her voice singing the monosyllable, almost smiling. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

She would sing about hard times, bad times, and somebody-done-gone-and-left-me times. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

The trees were full of birds singing ahead of him in the sun. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

Needing a break from the repetition of singing in his head the first phrases of the fourth song, he asked, “Nali, what is an N’daa and what happens?” Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

He even sang when he bathed her in the tub full of water scented with Baby’s bath foam. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

“This will be burned, by the tree where the witches dance—” she sang and swiftly put the evil load into the sack. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

This is the time for Ray to sing out too, so that they can find him. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Pa said, “That boy’s trying to sing you a Stevie Wonder tune in a letter.” P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

When I finished singing I opened my eyes. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

Before too long folk were taking initiative to sing out their own verses when the chorus was over. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

A weird, bright courage sang in him as he turned back to Eril-Fane. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

And for a while after that, Hagrid and Slughorn were sitting side by side, arms around each other, singing a slow sad song about a dying wizard called Odo. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

These blinded Moors the Europeans taught to sing about the Europeans’ glorious accomplishments. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

He sang alongside them for a few minutes. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

For every child arrested, two more singing and clapping children ran out of the church and started marching. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“He will sing several of your country’s elfin tunes we are particularly fond of in this house.” The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

He goes to bed, pounds the wall with his fist, sings a woeful song, falls asleep. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Five bus-loads of boys and girls, singing or in a silent embracement, rolled past them over the vitrified highway. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

But when the voice sang out again—and I realized it was coming from the abandoned church—I told myself that a church was an unlikely place for evil spirits to abide. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

It includes many different kinds of music: lullabies and children's singing games, tunes that everyone enjoys singing together or dancing to, songs for celebrations, ceremonies, and holidays. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

Piper could hear Coach Hedge above deck singing “Blow the Man Down,” except he didn’t know the lyrics, so he mostly sang, “Blah-blah-hum-de-dum-dum.” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

She bent him double and put him in her basket, which smelled of weeds and fish, and then she kept walking, swinging the basket and singing, “Nobody knows the troubles I seen.” The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z

It wanted legs to walk and hands to touch and a mouth that could sing. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

When the song reached its peak in sound and passion, a tall, thin man who had been kneeling behind the altar all the while stood up and sang with the audience for a few bars. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

My bow stuttered across the strings; flew; landed; sung to my fingers; and thus, with a final thrust, a final parry, a final stab, I was done. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

I knew the words, but I didn’t sing along. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

“We told you, Ghost, that we would come after you,” sang the women. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

For a boy, Gilbert had a beautiful singing voice and would later record two albums in Blantyre. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

In the distance he heard a dip in the sound of the singing, some startled voices breaking the flow, but then the song rose again, defying the darkness. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

When the chorus came on again, we sang along. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

And at night, after Grandma cooked our dinner and cleaned up too, she sat by the bed, brushing and plaiting Mama’s hair, and singing songs so sweet my eyes filled with water. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

They made their way past beer gardens illuminated by bright strings of electric lights, full of people singing gaily, dancing polkas, and hoisting steins of beer in their direction. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

All the time singing about trains and Arkansas. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I can sing it. I was able to freeze some water today!” Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

He would miss their voices, their bright dark eyes, the rumble of their feet up and down the stairs, their squeals and constant singing. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

She sang: Go away, royal wolf, Go away, do not follow. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then Johnny took her up in his arms and strode up and down the dock patting her back soothingly and singing her a lullaby. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Everybody sings “Happy Birthday,” this group who has known him for only one evening. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

He sang of Odin, the all-father, who was sacrificed to himself as bravely and as nobly as others were sacrificed to him. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

They ran out, as had her mother, and sang the same song that her mother had sung, telling her to go away because she smelled so bad. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

The priest gave him a piece of paper with the words to a hymn on it and asked him to sing. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

While she dined, sweet music breathed around her: a great choir seemed to sing to a harp, but she could only hear, not see, them. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

“This is how he starts every audition. He’s not singing yet. He’s playing his recital piece on the piano.” Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

They walked around the new converts singing, “Before this time another year, I may be gone, In some lonesome graveyard, Oh, Lord, how long?” I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

They just listened to him sing, wept and thought very graphically of their own imminent deaths. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

As I tried to fall asleep, I could hear Grandma rocking back and forth in her chair, singing hymns that must have given her the strength to stay alert all night. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then the departing soldiers stood in a group and sang the song. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the Pollard home, books were always open, old Irish songs sung, jigs danced, long stories spun. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once the candles are all ablaze, the cousins and aunts and children gather around and sing a rousing “Bienvenida a ti,” to the tune of "Happy Birthday." How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Let you think of beetles or honey, sweet baron, and flights of angels sing thee to thy rest” “Nonsense,” exclaimed the Wart. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

In a round, everyone sings the same melody, but they start singing it at different times. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

He sings this cheerfully, but I think it’s a sad song, because although I’ve seen the pictures of the airplanes on the cigarette cards I don’t know how they fly. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

I sing along to help him sink deeper into his sleep. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

That’s why the father in Fiddler on the Roof sings, “If I were a rich man,” not “If I was a rich man.” Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

One of them played the piano--strictly lousy--and the other one sang, and most of the songs were either pretty dirty or in French. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

The voice is primary, and singing songs and speaking and creating poems should be mastered before playing an instrument, which is seen as an activity that extends the body. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

Another: “When I get to this point, I begin to sing hallelujah.” Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

We blow like we are whispering through our mouthpieces, and the singers sing quietly too. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

Peeves wasn’t helping matters; he kept popping up in the crowded corridors singing “Oh, Potter, you rotter . . .” now with a dance routine to match. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

He plays the piano and has an excellent singing voice. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Our Father”—he was singing—“You who took my feet out the mire and clay—” The church moaned, “Amen.” I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tom put his mouth to the crack and began singing into it in a low voice. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

She started off the “Happy Birthday” song but soon was drowned out by the boys, who screamed it rather than sang. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

On and on she went, singing to pass the time, or talking to Mother, Crocodile Guts, and the njuzu. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

This person was singing, and it turned out to be Hare himself. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

And after a performance, when she went back to her hotel room, she would look over the music to see where a certain song, or a passage in a song, could be sung more effectively. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

As we headed up a staircase toward what looked like the main building, I heard a woman singing. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

She borrows opera records from the public library and sings with velvety lungs powerful as morning glories. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

“That money is for—” and before I knew it, they were singing the Jackson Five’s “The Love You Save” but they changed the words so it was all about saving money for Madison Square Garden. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

“Naw. He got up and started singing ‘Nearer My God to Thee.’ The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

She sang with volume and pitch and a heartbreaking wail that echoed through her relatives’ bones, rattling them in the ground under the school itself. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

If they do, does that change the way they sing? As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

He gave orders, sang, whistled, threw remarks at the silent Ralph-remarks that did not need an answer, and therefore could not invite a snub; and still Ralph was silent. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

Dareon, I am told that you sang at many a high lord's table and shared their meat and mead. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

In Cuban son it is not just the melody, whether played on a trumpet or sung, that pushes ahead, but also the bass line. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

“It will be sung,” he whispered, then paused again to get wind. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

Miss Fulton reads in a way that sounds like she’s singing a song. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

The ocean sang and spit; it threw itself on the deck. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

I sing the words until the second stanza, when I can’t remember them. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Francie held it to her ear, it sang of the great sea. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

After he sings, it’s time for me and Suesetta to introduce Mrs. Peck. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

He heard the new ones singing in their own languages— a hundred different tongues, but they understood one another. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

And Milkman memorized all of what they sang. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

In all the years I have listened to my wife sing, I never heard her the way he did at that moment. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

As the drumming and choral singing intensified, they crouched slightly and stepped more quickly, moving together with precision. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

The juke box lit up, and Hank Williams started singing. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Ugwu took the sheets of paper from Mr. Richard and, as he turned to make Baby’s dinner, he sang under his breath. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

She had told him stories, sung him songs, fed him bananas and corn bread and, on the first cold day of the year, hot nut soup. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

A full symphony orchestra was swelling out of the radio; their eldest sister Gwen was slicing onions and singing; their mother was bent broad-beamed and red-faced over an oven. The Dark is Rising 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

Group singing played a major role in society, for emotional expression, entertainment, social cohesion, and so forth. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

I made up lots of songs, and my singing made people happy. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

What if I couldn’t find the nerve to sing? The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

From somewhere behind the house came the sound of singing. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

After Stanchion introduced her, she sang an aria in a voice so clear and pure that I forgot my anxiety for a while and was ensnared by her song. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

We sang Igbo chorus songs from his cassette player. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

“I, uh, was already going to ask you if you could maybe sing the hook for another song I’m working on. I just need to figure out how to record it.” Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

They walked behind the singing Louisiana and the stuttering cart through the strange darkness. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

They knocked together, and a bird sang nearby. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

“Someone’s parents,” he had said, “have been singing entirely the wrong sort of songs.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

But if you listened, really put conscious action into listening, things began to sing. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

Would it not have been better for him had he lived in that world the music sang of? Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

When it came back on-line, he was singing the sixties pop hit “Sugar, Sugar.” Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nathan wiped away the tears on his cheeks and walked to the source of the singing. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

But a poor man—what need had he for poetry or for painting or for music not fit for singing or dancing? East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

She’d told me once that she sang in church, and I believed her—she had a voice that made me think of warm milk and honey. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Even the women at prayer meeting who cried when he sang “In the Sweet By-and-By” never tried to get him to participate in the church activities. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes as they lovingly patched and painted, they listened to Bill’s records or sang, Leslie and Jesse teaching Bill some of Miss Edmunds’ songs and Bill teaching them some he knew. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

He liked to sing songs just for fun. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

People yelled and sang and pounded their fists on the sides of the van as the vehicle crawled out of the courthouse exit. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

As the country became more troubled, my father stopped listening to music, and singing. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

From another part of the apartment came a child's voice singing Humpty Dumpty, awakening humiliating memories of my first Easter program during which I had stood before the church audience and forgotten the words . Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Company’s days were filled with a cheerful shouting and singing and swearing and hammering. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

When they were done, they followed us on the path, singing one of S. E. Rogie’s songs, “Nor look me bad eye, nor weigh me lek dat...” A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

“I’m going to sing something for you,” I say. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

There was dancing and singing, and Winnie’s exuberant grandmother did a special dance for all of us. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

As he strode along, he began to sing, playing the tune on his harp. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

“All of a sudden, I’m just filled up with happiness. Should I sing, Granny?” Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

There was a whole crowd there, holding signs and candles and singing. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

It was a traditionally Hasidic wedding, with the men and women sitting separately and with a lot of dancing and singing. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

They were singing some melody that Pilate was leading. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

But maybe it’s all in my head, because suddenly Abby’s singing along to Wham! like it’s nothing. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

Almost before Major had reached the end, they had begun singing it for themselves. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

When we sang as loud as we could, my mom would pick me up and swing me over her head and I would scream and we’d both near fall with laughing. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

The sun peacefully sailed through the white clouds, birds sang from treetops, the trees danced to the quiet wind. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Toby threw the shifter into park and jumped out, singing the last words of the song loudly into the parking lot. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

They walked past a place where there were many mourners, all sitting under a tree and singing about how sad they were that the chief had died. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

I swing the illuminated blade and hear it sing. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

These were the songs by European classical composers like Giuseppe Verdi and Franz Schubert that she had heard Roland Hayes sing in church, and that she now began to learn. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

A girl wearing a fedora hat is singing “Skinny Love” and strumming her guitar in the dining room. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

But instead I stand there holding on to Finch’s shirt, and he looks down at me and shakes his head, and in a moment he starts singing Dr. Seuss again. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

In the woods, they built hideouts and sang forbidden songs, making up irreverent lyrics for the Hitler Youth songs. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

The daughter standing at the back of the chapel, the mother up front, they sang. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

I watched him now, wet-eyed, the sun hot upon my head, and I felt a wonder at the singing mass. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Far away, just singing. Besides, wolves don’t bother you. You can go back to sleep.” The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

“Lovely thing. I can even sing it if you prefer.” The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

Everywhere she walked the color shouted and sang around her. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

After weeks of robotically studying the birds, Roz knew what each bird would sing, and when they would sing, and eventually, why they would sing. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Our song was easier and snappier to “Happy Birthday” song we sang at parties and in school. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

When it was my turn to sing alone, I closed my eyes and took a deep breath as if I were preparing to jump into the deepest end of a swimming pool. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

She’s busy singing a soft sweet lullaby in what I’m guessing is Italian. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

In one of the cages was a mynah bird that had been blinded to make it sing. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

Where the sun shined all day long, and at night, crickets sang song after song. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Ancient Greek, but just as old—Minoan, maybe, or something like that I could understand what she sang about—moonlight in the olive groves, the colors of the sunrise. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

I looked for the euphonium player and saw a slender black man with his face turned toward the sun, singing through the upturned bells of the horn. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

I always wanted to sing, but I never did because I was too scared. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

Johnny was so excited that he started singing, not caring that it was rather late at night. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Then,” he testified, “I heard my mother singing. She was a-singing for me. She was a-singing low and sweet, right there beside me, like she knew if she just called Him, the Lord would come.” Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

Used to sing too, over the hissing of the iron, sang old Hazara songs about tulip fields. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Matthew’s going to a concert tonight—” Emily was interrupted by whooping even louder than Matthew’s singing. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Her clear, sweet voice rises in joy as she sings of her love. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

They sang their compliments, their abuse, and only Alice confined herself to a thin smile, a closed look, and did not join the comments with one of her own. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Straight back up the hallway, past the kids singing in his old first-grade classroom, past the entrance to the gym, to the stairwell. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Besides the time when the choir sings, Sunday school is my favorite part about church. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Daisy began to sing with the music in a husky, rhythmic whisper, bringing out a meaning in each word that it had never had before and would never have again. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

He sings only one phrase: “How sweet it is!” It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

As they passed the cigarette store, Father began to sing. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

“I was so, so nervous. I had so many lines, and I had all these songs to sing. It was so, so, so, so hard!” Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

The animal noises in the dark forest, the branches snapping and singing, reminded her of their flight, and then of Lovey disappearing into the night. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Her plane crashed this morning and everyone from New York to Mississippi to Seattle is in mourning, singing her songs. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

I tried to get those papery slices of pain to sing for me, but I wasn’t feeling much. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

We are a volley of bullets, sing the newest cadets, we are cannonballs. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

“I could not help the fact that I was a murderer, no more than the poet can help the inspiration to sing.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

On the way home from visiting Robert, I watch the mountains move past me and slowly the mountain song starts coming again more words this time, coming faster than I can sing them. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

It did not help that to pass the time Joe plucked incessantly at a ukulele, singing and whistling the campy tunes that he and his father enjoyed so much. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

“Look at this one. This girl is just singing a Taylor Swift song into a webcam. She has six thousand views, and she isn’t even good,” Rabiya scoffs. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

“Fix anything. Could sense what ailed a car. Good with his hands. And he could sing. Sang the old-timey songs while he worked. Lord, he could sing. You take after him that way, son?” The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

Orpheus Fisher wanted to marry Marian, but she was too busy with her singing career to consider a serious romantic involvement. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

Outside, mockingbirds were singing blithely, and, once in a while, when the songsters took flight, Mariam could see their wings catching the phosphorescent blue of moonlight beaming through the clouds. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

The sound was coming from somewhere in the top of one of those trees, and I thought, instantly, of the singing tree in Bybanks. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

Soraya told me that her mother had wanted to sing at our wedding, only one song, but the general gave her one of his looks and the matter was buried. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

A few verses of “Auld Lang Syne” were sung and some had imbibed enough brandy that much of the event will be “never brought to mind.” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

“Are you here to sing some songs with us?” Because of Winn-Dixie 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

She reaches behind her and pulls out a sliver of sugar cane and hands it to me, and her eyes smile at me, though her lips just keep on singing their tune. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

In the smoky darkness of their hall, that night, the bard sang them the old songs. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

Outside the wind blows in the branches, and the leaves rustle and sing to each other. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Close to a hundred women softly sang with her. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s not over until the fat lady is singing, right?” Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Dad sang along with the song: “Andy would bicycle across town in the rain to bring you candy.” Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

“You are going to sing twice,” Miss Lulu said to me when we arrived at the church. Louisiana's Way Home 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

“You okay?” her dad said, turning to her as the doorbell continued to sing out. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Grandma wiggled her body as she sang along with the chorus. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

Frank sang the blues, and he drank too much. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

Looking at that trestle, I felt like I was being sung to. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Beneath awnings, tourists browse over blue-and-white-striped sweaters and framed watercolors of corsair ships; a father sings as he puts his arm around a daughter. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

I sat at the computer, my eyes closed, elbows against the desk, and listened to a voice singing in a minor key. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

Women came from the nearby villages, and we danced to their singing and clapping. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She sang when she was in the fields or working in the nearby woods. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But oh,” they sang together, “But oh, both day and night, My heart’s delight, Must one day leave foredone All might, all gone.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

And now the world would forget his name too, Sansa realized; there would be no songs sung for him. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

A flitty-looking guy with wavy hair came out and played the piano, and then this new babe, Valencia, came out and sang. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

Uncle Willie sat in the twilight on the front porch mumbling or maybe singing, and smoking a ready-made. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

And now the girl was standing, slinging her bag over one shoulder and marching among the tables, strumming and singing and strutting and twirling. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

To keep themselves warm during the inevitable longueurs, visitors sing songs of peace and harmony in several languages. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

The next day at school when we rose to sing the British national anthem, everyone stared at me, but as soon as I opened my mouth, the class lost interest. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

And they imagined that they were singing to fellow officers fresh from the fray. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then they started singing their own money-saving song, and Fern made up a part about how they had to save the money from me. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

I find myself singing along, singing to her, and she loves it. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

His dad is sitting silent while his mom sings about unconditional love. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

How much are they just crying because it’s what they have to do, the song they have to sing? Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

They burned holes in the air, wrote poems of love, sucked the venom from sores, painted landscapes of gloom, and made metal sing; they dissected fire like newts. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

“There is too much singing and dancing, such lightness as loosens the restraints of virtue,” she complained, her white curls quivering. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Bees and flowers and even singing birds surrounded the house. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Teenie cradled her son, whispering to him, singing to him, telling him stories. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

She always waited by the front door on the last day of school, to sing praise songs in Igbo and hug Jaja and me and caress our report cards in her hands. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

So they nervously prowled the bars and card rooms and dance halls, drinking beer and taking occasional shots of whiskey and singing along with ragtag cowboy bands. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

The mere thought of singing in front of a crowd makes my stomach twist into knots. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

To keep our morale up, we sang with discordant enthusiasm. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

He was still singing—“Not much money, Oh! but honey”—fixing his cufflinks, parting his hair; but then he looked up and saw his sister—“Ain’t we got”—and pianissimo now—“fun”—fell silent. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

She sings of the swinging bodies, how they hang among the branches like unnatural, disturbing fruit. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes this short, straight-backed young girl hummed under her breath, or sang, while she hoed the com or tugged on the reins when a refractory mule refused to budge. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Jane, do you hear that nightingale singing in the wood? Listen!” Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

She could visit her mother on the beach, laughing and singing and dancing. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Rowan, the twins’ dad, was up front, singing loudly along to his favorite disco song. I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z

She sings in a salsa duo with her sister, Thaimi, who is fourteen years older, and spends a great deal of time with family and friends across the Delaware River in New Jersey. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

There would be a decorated Christmas tree on the stage, a Christmas play, carol singing and a gift for each child. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had a shapeless cap on his head, a hoe over his shoulder, and he was singing: Who asked you to be buried alive? The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Besides, he frequently went to Wednesday-night prayer meetings and sang with the sweetest hill voice imaginable “In the Sweet By-and-By.” Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

The pair of bangles was still singing on Mother’s wrist. Rickshaw Girl 2007-02-01T00:00:00Z

Stretching out my arms in farewell, I sang, Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

He laughs a lot, loves to sing, blushes a lot, is a little overweight, and I’ve never seen him in a bad mood. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

I sang too loud again, although not so much as before. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

Nathan sang the Change song again and instead of thinking of water solidifying, he thought of it liquefying and transforming into mist. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

She would wrap her arms around me and sing me to sleep, her voice carrying me to a place where I could forget my misery. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yes, indeed: and not only for her beauty, but for her accomplishments. She was one of the ladies who sang: a gentleman accompanied her on the piano. She and Mr. Rochester sang a duet.” Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

The girls around me are singing louder and louder; they don’t care how good or bad they sound. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

Every morning, after Miss Lumley blows a thin metallic note on her pitch pipe, we stand up to sing “God Save the King.” Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Very soon the moon shone and the nightingale sang over two horses and two human children, all fast asleep. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

Maybe they’ll ask me to sing and my voice will be high and off-key and they’ll laugh about how the musical gene skipped right over me. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

The singing went on for a while, one song after another. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

I am nodding my head and tapping my feet to the rhythm and singing along. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Well, I thought, after dinner we’d go into the living room and sing around the piano. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Somewhere nearby a meadowlark and a redwing blackbird sang their bright, cheery songs. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

The atmosphere made it hard to sing about summertime and cotton and easy living, but Piper kept it up. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

I know I have to sing, but I didn’t expect it to be in the first five minutes. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

“I can remember a song that my mother used to sing. But she still sings it, so perhaps it isn’t a memory after all,” said a girl. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

And them’s just the words, the voices talking and moaning and singing and crying. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

“No. Papa always sings coming up the stairs so we know it’s him.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hope can sing . . . my sister says in wonder as my mother and the rest of the audience start to clap. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

Together we sing the first verse in a low key, just as we’ve practiced. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

None of them knew how quickly as they sat around again that night, as Daddy sang once more about the foxes, as the fire burned and the miracle of the cream happened all over again. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

Cari crossed her arms, but at least she was singing along with everyone else. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Already, though, he was picturing himself walking his bright, clean children up to Pastor Tom during an altar call, sunlight coming through the windows, the choir singing, the whole church looking on. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

They were so elated by their own hospitality, and by all the goodies waiting inside, that they did not take a good look at their guests while they sang. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

The smile drew them closer still, and I sang. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“If Papa were here,” thought Francie, “he’d start to sing, ‘My Wild Irish Rose’” She heard her mother sigh and wondered whether she, too, was thinking.... A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

"He had a fight with a top contender, an Italian kid, and lost. The next day, in the papers, the contender said he won because he sang along with opera." The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

He sings feelingly, but with a rather Saxon accent. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He plays the guitar and sings. Today he played the guitar in church.” Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

Martin singing at Waffle House is entirely, incomprehensibly hilarious. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

All afternoon corny people sing about Colorado, about everything being beautiful about how we've only just begun. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

Softly, privately, she sang to Hagar the very same reassurance she had promised her when she was a little girl. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

One day, as I was working in the church’s back office, I heard singing coming from the sanctuary: Ain’t gonna let nobody turn me around, Turn me around, turn me around. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

A chant started in the crowd, and singing. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

But with the granddaughter, she looked straight ahead and bobbed her head to the music, clapping and singing just like everybody else. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

This time he didn’t sing his song, but he let out a whimper. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

“Caroline sang a different one this year, Mother.” Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The singing faltered, and some of the bearers looked around in doubt and fear. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Closing her eyes, Marian Anderson began to sing, and her thrilling contralto voice carried across the Mall, touching every person who had come to hear her. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

Wishbone stuck his head out the window, his ears flapping like crazy in the wind, while me and Howard sang Bible school songs. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

In Old Goblinish, it was a lament sung by the hero Walgund in the days following the destruction of his city by King Degravaunt of the Elves, when the elfin armies overran the forests. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

Listening to songs on the radio, or hearing a great voice at the opera, or overhearing the woman downstairs singing to herself at an open window, I learn much more. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Me like Beeg Bug,” said Boots with satisfaction, and sang the song again with the roaches. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

At die moment, their choir coach, an enormous woman in tweeds, was advising them to open their mouths wider when they sang. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

Kelly danced around George, singing the name Melissa until George giggled and turned beet red. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

What had it sounded like, she wondered now, the singing sands? A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

The village gathers, and the young men sing songs they’ve made up themselves—songs praising the elders or their families or the cattle. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

That night there came from the farmhouse the sound of loud singing, in which, to everyone’s surprise, the strains of Beasts of England were mixed up. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

This grove has a magnetic pull, beckoning toward a carpet of blue-green mosses where I long to lie on my back and sing into the leaves. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Once the dances were completed, the crowd was to sing “Home Sweet Home.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Some tapes had them singing Christmas carols, singing Michael Jackson, singing the teapot song. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

And afterward we finished off the brandy and sang a little. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

The music had a frantic, tribal rhythm; a chorus of falsettos sang insinuatingly about loving all night long. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

He sang with his whole body, phrasing each verse as naturally as he walked, his voice rising above all the others, blending with that of the lucid horn. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a marching song, one soldiers sang when they returned victorious from battle. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

“So, we’ve got the intro singing number, the evening gown, talent, bathing suit, interview, followed by a final dance number, and then the crowning. It all comes down to the dance number,” Shanti said. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

My mom picked up some extra waitressing shifts, and my dad kept singing for tips. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Then the owl cried; it sang to the million stars that dotted the dark-blue sky, the Virgin’s gown. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once when she came to visit, Mom sang a song about how God lifts people from the garbage and cleans and dresses them. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

“But I can sing and I can read a little to while away the time for your lordship,” he offered, “and I can pen letters for you.” The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

I'm thinking of the piece we'll be singing in music school today, a fun Schumann chorus, and I'm suddenly transported. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

She was disguised as a crazy old bag lady, smiling and singing an Ancient Greek lullaby as her leathery hands gripped Percy’s neck. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

In the sept they sing for the Mother’s mercy but on the walls it’s the Warrior they pray to, and all in silence. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

They continued until they got within a hundred yards or so—the singing was crystal clear and the shadows from the flames circled and flashed in the canopy of branches above them. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

No matter how much we asked, Fern shook her head no, clapped her hands, and sang her song: “I saw something.” One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Memphis Minny get to singing on the radio how lean meat won’t fry, which is about how the love don’t last. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

In his sophomore year, though, his evangelical a cappella singing group, a Christian twist on an old Ivy League tradition, interceded. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

Kira listened to the Singer’s voice as he sang the serene melody of plentiful harvests and celebratory feasting. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Inside the cafés men with their hands gripping the table, or on each other's shoulders, were singing the hard-voiced singing. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

“I used to sing that song when I was a kid.” Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

To sing, which she did beautifully, relieved her gloom immediately. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

We used to sing that kind of song in Auschwitz to remind ourselves of the world outside, where people fell in love, held each other, made plans for the future. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Then the bells rang at noon to welcome her, singing from all comers of the city. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Still in the grave, he and Nettle sang tunelessly for Turner’s benefit. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Before I know it, three more boys is pointing at me and singing that song, too. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

“What sings the princess, what sings?” asked Temp. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Are you trying to trick me into singing for you?” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

As the water struck the children, they sang one word over and over: “Freedom!” While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Later, on his way to town, little Willy sang at the top of his lungs. Stone Fox 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was funny, when he said that afterwards, and I could see her again then, hands clasped, elbows out, sure enough like she was getting ready to sing. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the screen, people were dancing in a long line, with their arms round each other’s shoulders, and singing as they bounced up and down. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

Mama stood scrubbing dishes in the sink, singing to herself. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

When my family came to visit, their arguing and laughing and singing and shouting echoed through the quiet halls. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

The singing continued for a minute at least. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

The following preparations work very well for songs in duple meter if you sing them on the starting pitch that you want the children to come in on. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

Then a tall black man turned his back to Daniels and started singing. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

When I sing, I'm something better than myself Maybe that's why I love it so much, because I get to escape being me and get to forget for a little while. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

Especially a boy who has been singing soprano for Miss Violet of the Very Spiky Heels. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z